Re:Red Hat's up2date, and a size 13EE up the butt.
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You forgot one very basic premise here; it's called PERMISSION to access PRIVATE PROPERTY!
No matter if it is a computer or real estate, the same protections apply all the time. M$ does NOT have any "right" to access your private property without your consent, and they can not deny your rights just because the EULA says so. No person, corporation or even the government has the authority to decide for itself that your rights do not apply. M$ can't arbitrarily trespass and snoop your computer without your specific permission, and to do so IS a criminal act according to private property laws. M$ would have to cross ONTO your property, albeit by proxy, in order for them to "check" your property for "updates" and "compliance", no law or laws can be made by a corporation that grant specific rights to themselves to trespass "covertly" and steal private information for their use.
For M$ to do so willingly would grant them a trip to court for criminal trespass, breaking and entering and also criminal damage to property with the "intent" on industrial espionage(yes, it's still espionage in that M$ IS an "industry".).
M$ could not afford to fight a drawn out battle on several "fronts" that would surely arise if they were "found" snooping and stealing files and data from private property, both corporate and private.
They could not survive a few hundred thousand suits claiming theft, espionage, and trespass.
Really, what else could one call a corporation's snooping and theft of private property and information? What"use"does/would M$ have for information that is not "normally" available to a person or company without having "intimate" knowledge of that person or company/corporation?
If simple, unenforceable EULAs become the norm in the U.S., then that very "agreement" could simply be written on a note and taped to a door by a theif that wants your stereo system...hell, he provided a EULA outlining his intentions, it was "delivered" to you.......Trespass officer? I think NOT! I forwarded my EULA to them, they didn't "object" to it, so I assumed my "right" to enter into the property.
*Reading this message indicates to us that you are in agreement with the planting of our feet far up your behind, and any damages that arise from the application of this EULA, you hereby agree to hold harmless, all persons and actions and also waive any right/s to remedy or redress under this agreement*
Re:A Bridge too far...Can I just jump over it?
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According to what I have learned in the past concerning "licenses" and such; one is bound only to the terms of the license that was originally included and signed, no others are legal or binding as the document/s first agreed to never included information or warnings that any such license could, at will, be changed, modified, rescinded or denied. Based on land contracts and property sales, ONLY the first, original document is legal and binding IF it is signed by both seller AND purchaser, with every clause well defined and retained rights of the seller are previously known to the purchaser BEFORE the "license" or "contract" is signed and/or notarized. Not one legally binding contract or license is one-sided! Two parties MUST sign any and all documents before being legally bound to said contract or license.
Don't laugh, I had a few 1/2 Gig drives for my Toshiba T4800CT that were glass(disks only).
I dismantled one due to controller failure and decided to open the cover and see if the media was clean, but really, i am always curious as to what the platters are made from/with.
This was no exception, but to find out the platters were glass was a bit of a shock!
Maybe they were not true glass, but crystal of some sort, maybe even quartz for all I know about Matsushita's mfg.
Oh man does this story take me back! I don't know how anybody could be involved with computers and NOT remove the cover of at least one hard drive. I did the same thing back in 1985 to an ST-225 MFM drive. That drive ran every day for two years and NEVER had a data failure whatsoever! That darned drive was rock-solid stable and i never lost any program info stored. This is almost like kids that lived near railroads....we all laid pennies on the tracks for the trains to flatten(what fun too!). As long as the drive is somwhat "cared" for during the surgery, the drive will probably last well into two or three CPU upgrades and then some. My ST-225 heads were coated thick with dust during those two years, but never failed to perform like a new, unopened drive. Damn, those ceramic heads ARE cool, and to think that <50 millionths separates the platters from the heads too!
Okay, how much DOES a T1 installation cost an ISP to warrant such high costs to the end user? If every customer on their network pays that amount for a T1 line and they have 100K users, how much does that "service" really cost to implement overall? Is T1 gear THAT expensive? I doubt that. We have DSL service in my area, but not fro out of town customers, the loading and throughput would go down the toilet after a couple of miles, so, T1 is not an option for us, and cable is also not run out this far outside the city limits yet.
So, I am stuck with lousy dialup service for $19.00/month. I signed no contract, no agreement for "unlimited" usage. If I had a legit use for a server, I could run that from the house and nobody would ever notice this at "my" ISP...they are ALL brain dead there. They have "service" from 7AM to 10Pm monday through friday, but call them, and you get voice mail, no live bodies EVER answer the phone at NEWNORTH NETWORK of Rhinelander, WI. Tech support is by a few kids fresh out of high school there, and family members of workers of Citizens Comm. also. They NEVER hire from outside the company, I tried for years to "get in" but since I was not related to any employess there, my resume got "filed" in F-13(trash can) as we call it here. How many/.ers need 3 attempts to connect to their ISP like I do? Errors always pop up on the servers, and I can never establish a good reliable handshake even after initial connection is established! I ping the network and get no reply on any port I choose, and even port 80 is blocked, which is the port NNN uses almost exclusively! Since we have a "few" other ISPs in the area, I stay with NNN due to having our telco service through Citizens, so one bill is easier for me, but not from ease of use, just less paperwork to peruse. We tried the "others", but BFM has too many outages, and Go2America is also unreliable as well. The next ISP wants to bill me in 20 hour "blocks" of "limited" I-net service(bullshit!)for a paltry $15.00/month no less(who thinks this crap up anyhow?). I use 20 hours in less than 2 days, but a month..really? No wonder ISPs are dying, and good to know that too from my take on things that is! Screw the people making you money, you deserve to be out of business fast then. This makes as much sense as a credit check to get cellular service when you own your home...why does anybody need a credit check for a damned cellphone anyway? I am so happy I disconnected my service a long time ago! I had cellular service since 1983, so after all those years of super bills, I finally said to hell with it and dumped my provider and saved good money in the long run too! T1, ADSL, DSL. All names used to steal money with highly touted connect speeds and then getting limited with how much you can D/L from the public network...RIDICULOUS folks, really! No T1 gear is so costly to install and get running as to be worth $50- $100.00/month just to connect at above 56K dialup! Those fees are bogus and a clear format of greed I have ever seen. T1 costing $500 and upwards is NOT a benefit except to the ISP.
Do the math...35,000 user at $69.00/month covers not only the service, but the equipment, technicians and all overhead of operations daily! T1 is the BEST form of RIPOFF for internet access I have ever known, and is NOT worth the money just to D/L U/L faster than 56K dialup.
Hmmm, same problem here, but my dog has decided to bury his "goodies" in the yard, and my "yard" is 5 acres worth of trees and farmland. Now, if I could only entice him with food or possibly a "scooby snack" will I ever get a confession out of him as to exactly where he hid my items! For dogs, it's neural muttworks, and cats have neural catworks. Maybe they both use some form of "hybrid" ethernet perhaps? I know my dog's NOT Novell certified....YET!
EASY!
Take a Motorola "bag" phone, remove the cover and locate pins 20 and 21, short these to each other, and you have a "scanner" of sorts. It is NOW a cell-capable HACK able to receive and transmit by choice, ANY cell frequency from 824 to 869 Mhz. You can turn on/off the TX audio, set TX power from.0001W to 3 watts, and dial in a call in progress using 11xxx where xxx is the channel number of the cell-site. You can use the LCR, ODC and any channel in the system....reuse is a great help here! Oh, just punch 55# to enter the "test" mode. You'll see this (') show up on the display, indicating you are in the TEST mode..punch in the channel:11305 and punch # to activate that channel, then set TX power level, TX audio, RX audio....you name it, you CAN do it! I monitor all cell-sites in my service area, both A and B carriers at the same time!
Actually, i do agree with this statement quite a lot as it does show that it is a matter of "conditioning" of any person as to whter or not they will or will not become a "terrorist". We blame/lay fault at the mideast and their belief structure, and their social and economic makeup, yet take nothing else into account as to precisely WHAT makes a person "become" a terrorist. Technology eases the ability to obtain any other technologies such as better/faster computers, design software and test/emulation hardware for "hacking" the "obscure" devices we in the western world take for granted and never think twice about. The obscure tech. is easily obtained, reverse engineered and then implemented as a base for controllers, timers, and rudimentary navigational systems. We overlook this as we have become too enthralled by the "bigger/faster/better syndrome" and shun older technologies as a "toy" for toys and such. We have forgotten that the simplest 8051 based CPU was/is powerfull enough to guide the Saturn IV rocket/payload to the moon!
If such low-tech can navigate a huge assembly such as that, what's stopping lesser developed nations from using that same core as a foundation for "simple" weapons(think SCUD here)? How much MORE damage could a SCUD do IF it were outfitted with a simple navigation computer? Plenty! Point and shoot has proven the destructive ability of the SCUD, and it's devastation would be greater if it also incorporated even a simple single board computer. Since those are easily bought and shipped worldwide, what is stopping anybody from using that as a nav-aid for ever MORE destructive weapons platforms? Technology enables AND disables us all at the same rate. It's HOW technology is used and designed into equipment that gives rise and fall of technology's wonders and shortcomings. Use defines abilities to some degree, but denying technology can also create negative side effects as well. Money decides who gets what, and when. It's an "evil" that has no equal in a global economy, and any attempts to quell accessibilities to technologies will provide black market sales and acquisition of "illegal" technology hardware. We all know no nation can effectively stop ANY nation from getting their hands on what the U.S. calls "sensitive" computer equipment, it's being shipped to "threat" nations even as I type this, all unchecked and unseen by the feds and who knows who else. Time has proven the inability of the U.S. war machine from even slowing the ingress of drugs onto our shores, and this is an even lesser "threat" to "security" than equipment being obtained by "rogue" nations for nuclear weapons design! As we all become more and more dependant on technology, we also lose the ability to do for ourselves on a more primitive scale(think of making a fire with two sticks now). One day, not far from the current time; we'll all have equal technologies, and with that comes the inability to wage "effective" wars against each other due to the "playing fields" being leveled for all concerned, this SHOULD effectively STOP wars from becoming a reality(hopefully!)!
SCREW YOU! You would slice off your arms and legs for 10 cents worth of government provided "security" and STILL be worse off if you just bought a gun and did the job yourself! I hope YOU are "profiled" as a terrorist by that very system! And should that happen, you can pat yourself on the back for being a stool-pigeon and allowing even yourself to once again, fall into a trap of "security" for freedom's sake; yeah, right, i am safer because I am now profiled against a HUGE database that includes my race, age, height, sex, shoe size, work history, credit history, unemployment periods(SURELY a terrorist would be unemployed!), not to mention THOUSANDS of other, indiscriminate "features" about your personal life and living arangement/s would be shown to anybody wanting to "make sure" you were not a terrorist.
Shit, same old, sad story all over again..."security" while stomping OUR rights and freedoms ever farther into the dirt! MOVE OUT and take THIS NAZI formed government with you! And also, don't forget, your passport photos will also be used AGAINST you for whatever reason they can think of! Flagging, color-coding every traveler for "threats" percieved and real is ABSURD and directly conflicts with the RIGHT TO INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY ABOVE CORPORATE CONCERNS,and government "concerns" even more! Sorry, i am happy I will NEVER buy another airline ticket if this is what I have to endure just to ride on a plane! Besides, since I can pilot my own aircraft, why take big jets and take the reamings they give us/you? I'll bypass that B.S. and carry my gun(loaded of course) on my belt and feel 100% SAFER because I can secure MY personal safety BETTER than ANY cop, anyplace, anytime...GUARANTEED! I trade NO privacy for a nickel's worth of government backed exploitations under a guise of "national security" and "security"...What a crock of B.S. the gov is forcing down your throats, and better still, you FELL FOR THIS DECEPTION, lock, stock and barrel!
I suppose you carry a saint christopher medallion around your neck too, for "security", right?
Go ahead, ask god for his help, you will wait a long time for a response, because there are NO GODS!
The bill of rights makes no demands that speech must have some form of "artistic" content within itself in order to be protected. Speech in whole or in part, is protected, not selective portions deemed "worthy" by, once again, the government.
Read the bill of rights and show me where there is a passage indicating a dire need of "artistic content" for the work to be worthy of "protection". There are none! I keep a copy of the declaration of independancebill of rights in my car, it's a small pamphlet that our government prints for us, and is available from the U.S. government printing "press", free for the asking no less....I strongly suggest you READ it in full, for there is not one line indicating a need of artistic content or meaning for validity or protection from censorship. Never has, never will.
Your comment about artistic content has no doubt been derived from some lawyer, who's own ability to read is severely limited in scope and intent.
The "great documents" were written with the intent and understanding that every person with even a limited educational background would be able to read, comprehend and understand the meaning of the documents presented thus far. Now, we have lawyers tell us what these documents mean, and they have decided for us, what our rights are as well, without or consent(step one to total usurpation).
Hey moron! It is NOT illegal to post information on building a bomb! It is NOT illegal to talk of bomb building! It IS illegal to bomb a place/person or property that is not yours though! You can read, talk, draw and think up nuclear weapons, and that also is LEGAL, but you can't build and USE that nuke against another..THAT is the gist of the topic!
"DO" is far different than "THOUGHT"!
The government wants nor needs either from you, so shut up and go away, or we'll gun you down<ATF>!
Read the atrocities concerning trigger happy cops....THEY are the ones murdering, not me!
Ted Kennedy killed more people with his car than I did with my gun!
You are othing more than a sorry PACIFIST that bends to those who wield the power!
You think not for others, but of your own personal ideas, no matter how skewed they really are!
Information is NOT a crime, nor is it an attempt to collude, conspire or act in any manner that can be classified as an act of dissent or agression, no matter what you might think, your thoughts on this are 100% WRONG and written under the guise of sheer ignorance of the laws and the constitution of the U.S.
Nobody is talking about getting in anybody's face, simply getting the "facts" out no matter how poorly you feel about MY rights, or that of others. My right to carry ANY gun is just that, a RIGHT and NOT a "privlege" doled out by some suit in Wash-out-ton. Your "rights" are bought and sold daily, and YOU pay for it with still MORE "laws" and "regulations" aimed SOLELY at opression and CONTROL, nothing less.
Be informed and READ the laws, AND the constitution, you'd be shocked at what you gave up to have dubya as YOUR "leader"...FOOLS ALL!
This is just another case of allowing the government to be the "only" voice concerning one's rights. Sure, make another excuse by saying he deserved what he got, but if "he" were YOU, would you feel the exact same way? Too bad WE THE PEOPLE have no power to ensure our rights, since we all allowed the current government(with dubya's help)to be the caretaker of our rights, and to dole them out as the government sees fit to do. Tread carefully here folks; what you allow to happen today WILL have serious repurcussions later on, but by that time, it'll be too late to reverse the wheels of injustice so those wheels will certainly run right over you! Some people just don't get it, the constitution and the bill of RIGHTS(not priveledges) grants those rights to the PEOPLE and NOT the federal government. Show me any line where the prints reads *Of, by, and for the government*...not one line; anywhere! Just what state IS the "District of Columbia" located in anyway?
Is the "District of Columbia" really a "puppet-state" of South America?
Posting information about bombs does NOT incite any violence, it is solely the actions of the information USER, and his/her mindset that makes that determination alone, and is wholly disconnected from the information and the poster of said information. Even THIS information is a right of anybody to do, regardless of what you or I feel about it, it is a RIGHT nonetheless!
I hate drunks, so does this mean I have a "right" to persecute and imprison anybody that might like a shot of J.D sometimes? Of course not, even though I despise drunks, this is NOT my right to deny simply because I might object to the abuse of alcohol. Our current form of "government" is a sham, a disgrace and should be rebuilt from the foundation the constitution laid-out for ALL to follow, not just the poor/helpless that we are now! This government is TOO BIG, TOO POWERFUL and TOO TOTALITARIAN to be just, honest and respectable. The U.S.A. IS the laughing stock of the world and we are too damned blind to see it!
Every day we lose more rights and freedoms for "the cause", while the government listens to your lovemaking, wifeswapping and monitors your internet connections, bank accounts and your credit reports, looking, no SNOOPING for those "words" that will turn you into a criminal, terrorist and that ghastly evil ideology; "Anti-American"...Do I smell McCarthyism once again rearing it's nasty head once more?
This villain is not cloaked in a dark cape and wearing a moustache, they are wearing uniforms, carrying automatic weapons and grenades! To fight what army....YOU! It just occurred, to an 18 yr.old kid, it CAN happen to you as well, REGARDLESS of what he did, they still arrived IN FORCE and ARMED FOR WAR! Now THAT scares the S**T out of me if we continue to allow that to go on!
I am certain Amadou Diallo would roll over in his 41 bullet-ridden corpse holding casket if he knew we are still letting big government to trample us into the ground! When the feds come-a-knocking at YOUR door some time in the future...we'll all just smile, wave, and tell you that it's a shame you never took a stand with the rest of us to STOP this form of SOCIAL TERRORISM..Tsk Tsk..!
I did manage to make a dog house today and build a snowman*S*.
Heck, it's only a small hutt; just 31 x 28 inches "square", and two feet high, but the doggie is not big, and she'll never get over 40 pounds either.
What a crock of SHIT our laws and nazi cops are! They even SAID they PURCHASED and DOWNLOADED the E-book "software" from various servers located in this(the U.S.) nation. Well, this surely sounds like CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A CRIME with INTENT added, does it not? If purchasing "illegal" software is, in the very context of the DMCA laws, illegal; then the "act" of the purchase is also ILLEGAL and therefore, VOID by their own admission/s, but I suppose not, because it involves "law" enfARCEMENT", and "may" be used in a kangaroo court of laws of sorts. Oh boy, commit a crime to convict a criminal....WHAT A THEORY!
*HOS* Hooked On Stupidity works for Bush!
I wonder what the site owner of upthefist.com said to warrant visits by 30 heavily armed feds and local NAZI COPS? Now the "act" of speaking one's mind in both cyber and real-world mediums WILL get you "the visit" by TAXPAYER FUNDED MURDERERS!
STOP THE SLAUGHTER-VOTE LAW ENFORCEMENT OUT OF EXISTANCE NOW!
Our national doctrine makes NO allowance for "police forces" or ANY armed force to be running rampant, murdering citizens and kidnapping them for the government!
Vote for HARRY BROWN if YOU value your rights!
I did, but that buddy of clinton got the job(yes, his name will NEVER be capitalized in my rantings, neither will bush's, nor any rights usurping NAZI get any recognition other than MY indictment for murder, and brutality and forced servitude/slavery.
*We will tire, We will falter, and We will fail!*
OUR money gets handed out freely to foreigners, but WE have to repay the government for using OUR MONEY in OUR schools for OUR education so WE can WORK in OUR industries....GO FIGURE!
***TAX REVOLT***TAX REVOLT***TAX REVOLT***
Religion enslaves simple minds everywhere, just like "democracy" enslaved a republic!
I applaud ELCOMSOFT for taking a stand and fighting back! GO DMITRY! GO ELCOMSOFT! FUCK THE DMCA!
First off; let's get HISTORY straight for once! "GOD" is a state of mind, NOT a reality check for truth! Religion KILLED millions in our "human" history, and was invented to CONTROL the populace. Popular "faith" doesn't hold validity above historical references due to the fact that all religion is and has been forced upon us like the media today brainwashes us to buy Intel or Amd, it's nothing more than continued forced thought being pushed by the "righteous" minority and attempting validity by the only fact that religion has been part of humanity for less than 1,000 years(current religion). If "god" were so damn humane, HOW did "it" allow the horrible deaths of so many innocent men, women and children on 9.1.01 then? If "it" is so damn pure, WHY was such an act able to be wrought by so few? All the "stories" in this "bible" are just that; STORIES, nothing more.
"Man" did not have the means, tools or capabilities to construct any vessel of the vast proportions that are reported in this "bible", man was a simple-minded creature of limited intellect and reasoning powers, and what "he" could not reason by logic, to be possible by his current(then) method of thinking, then it MUST have been the work of a "god"...THAT is why they gave names to the water, fire and sun...since they knew not HOW these came to be, they "assumed" such creations were the work of the "gods". Simple minds of the period could NOT reason the mathematics, physics and natural sciences we today manipulate to bring true knowledge and reasoning to our world as we live it today.
If man were as intellectually capable then, as we are today, we surely would have already been to the lunar surface of the moon a thousand years before 1969 arrived, and the model T would have been created 100 years before that. Man has limited knowledge to draw upon, and this is why mental evolution progresses as it does, one small step at a time.
Fire came before the metal axe, and softer bronze and copper tools existed before smelted iron tools. Simple proof of an evolutionary existance, and NOT one that was simply "created" by some thought up "god" so many pray to today.
Religion can NOT hold up under it's own beliefs; if it could, then please, tell me why, if you tell a priest that YOU talked to god, he'll call you crazy, BUT, you CAN pray to him, you just CAN'T talk to him...WHAT?, I can't TALK to "my" "god"?
How absurd that idea is! What REAL good has "god" done for humanity in the last 1,000 years....more killings, diseases, plagues, slavery and genocide?
THAT, is what religion had to "offer" humanity! Even that oft-talked of "cross" is a symbol of TORTURE and barbarism...Hell, they NAILED a man to it, did they not? And now you PRAY to this friggin' symbol of that torture...YOU FOOLS!
I am tired of being force-fed bullshit of some "kind" and "loving" "god". Yeah, and if he were our parents today, he would be sitting in prison with abuse charges made against him for his "kindness" wrought upon humanity with his "hand".
Oh, I just love to hear the mentally challenged spout off about how I "need" to be "saved"..saved, HOW? What methods will be used to effect my "saving"? Do I really need this "saveing" of my "soul"? Please, do tell me some FACTS that prove with 100% concrete validity that this "god" has existed outside of mental thought!
Sorry, you can't "lose" service due to a "cable hacker" butchering his lines; that only adds increased noise ingress if he is downline from the "offender", which, of course, is only for the forward path and NOT the reverse, since the analogy is now backwards; "his" noise ingresses will be seen on your set with the 5 to 42 Mhz. reverse path "backfeeding" in through the tap that serves your residence.
The amount of signal degradation will also depend on how far you are from an LE(line extender) or a trunk amp. The ingress in either the forward or reverse path depends on the level of noise ingress that is present on the lines, and the distance the offending home is from yours, and the true signal level that is available between the two homes.
Run an SLM on the amp's output, then take a reading at your input and output; then do the same to the offender's tap, and finally, take an EOL(end of line) reading at the last, terminated tap. A Wavetek "stealth" meter will give you a very nice picture of C/N, ingress, C/S and since you can tune any specific channel, you can "see" what bandwidth the ingress is taking up on your street's plant. Do a simple walk-out of the plant and note the location of ALL the amps, taps and splitters from your location to the offender's.
Cable IMD/ingress is easy to locate if you use common sense in the approach. Many's the time, the splicers do the initial setup of the forward and reverse paths to take readings and get the node up and running for the "final tweaking" of the node certification/sweepers to ensure the levels are within tolerance, if this is not done properly, the whole node suffers from ingress, intermod, crosstalk and bursting(level spikes).
Cable modems suffer the worst from reverse path noise, that shuts down the bandwidth available and slows total system throughput. I set up thousands of nodes in MN, WI. and Iowa, and the one thing that takes a system down fast is noise and IMD. IMD corrupts data greatly, and the BER drops significantly because of it. Ingress and IMD look like false data packets, and cause falsing to occur, which of course, decreases the valid data that is outgoing and incoming to/from your computer.
The first (CR)Apple was built inside a wooden box! It didn't even have an 80 column display, but later production models could be had with an 80 column card under the "hood", not to mention the memory cards and so on....
The ][ came after the I, then the Lisa and the Apple III, then the ][-C and the Gx and Mac, Mac-II, Mac-SE, SE-30 on over to the IIFX-xx variety, albeit, this is NOT in chronological order, it is an "attempt" to show lineage of the (CR)Apple line. As for being "first"....NO! Recall the Altair and MIPS varieties...care to do binary and flip switches to program...AAHH, the "joys" of owning and using those, plus anything with the S-100 bus architecture!
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I still have an original VECTOR S-100 "PC" with TWO 5-1/4" drives, 128K memory, "video" card, controller card and keyboard. Also how about my two Osbornes? The difference in the two being the first had a ribbon cable connecting the "computer" to the keyboard, and the second, using a coiled cord. Oh, they both had 2, 5-1/4" floppys, PLUS a 300 baud modem for fast BBS access! Now THOSE were the days my friend! Damn, those Osbornes have such a small CRT to view your data, but being monochrome, you had no choice but B/W. I have both versions of the Osbornes, and they are damn near like new, complete with manuals. History should NEVER repeat itself...NEVER!</DIV>
Don't you mean "higher" latency here?
Latency is a "fancy" word for sslloowweerr, NOT faster. It's a matter of pure timing relationship/s over access/write speeds.
*AMD inside,/. fool outside*!
IntelAmd:...What a CPU "might" become some day.
FLASH!***FLASH!***
Xerox and Wurlitzer have merged; they are now going to sell reproductive organs!
Please support a DOS at: 208.155.4.10/208.155.4.12, port 80; New North Network, a "service" of Citizens communications.
SHITTIEST ISP in the northwoods! I called the Wis. branch of the consumer protection agency for the extremely high disconnect rates I was getting(30 a day!).
Dead server/routings active, no data being received, even my pings failed on all ports.
Now, AFTER the C.P.A made "first contact"; BAM!, my connections have been stable, and the disconnects have gone down to just a few!
NNN liked to blame my commercial repeaters on my tower for the "real" reason I was being DC'd so much(sure, and the cop's radar is safe held between his legs too!).
Sorry, < 1mV will NOT cause my internal modems to lock, or disconnect!
I have LESS than.02mV ripple on my lines during all repeater keys, and they are all 30 watts output from the duplexer, and 265 watts ERP at the antennas(10dB collinears, 3 degree electrical downtilt). Proper shielding IS the only answer to maintaining a CLEAN signal path, with no crosstalk or intermod products gaining ingress to the audio and R.F. circuits. Not to mention, all my systems are UHF and not CB grade junk N**tel runs!
Clusters: Of what? Fluid dynamics, thermal mapping? Oh, I know, it'll be used to collect and store data on the mating habits of the South American swamp rat, it's range and migratory patterns if there are any...right?
Beowulf clusters: Costly solution to a '386 problem! Dump that Celeron, get an Athlon 1-Ghz. "box" that has a "real" FPU inside!
*Intel inside, MORON outside*!
(Pssst, I stole that saying!)
Now, will the brains educate the remainder of the world on what it is that we have been doing wrong for the past 30+ years of OUR lives you acne-faced kiddy?
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Have you EVER served in the military?
When did YOU graduate from high-school?
Did your DADDY get you your first job, or did you do that all on our lonesome?
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How long have you been married and paying on a home?
How much are your monthly mortgage payments big man?
Do you have kids to feed and clothe?
How about your "wife"....does she come "free" in your math?
You make DUMB ststements of how "simple" making a MAJOR LIFE MOVE is, yet you have barely exited the DIAPER GANG!
The comment THIS post is for is NOT that to which it is attached, but as a reply and "hopefully" some added "learned" life experience paid for by yes, BLOOD, SWEAT, TEARS and a HELL OF A LOT OF ANGUISH!
Why don't you move to my area, pay MY $1,000.00/month mortgage, feed 3 kids, two cars and two dogs and assorted caged rats and THEN tell me just how "simple" packing up and moving will be, okay big shot?
Oh, and let's NOT forget a combined EDUCATIONAL payment that is STILL over $40,000.00 owed.
Simple, yeah, it sure is, and I am a GOD as well!
Dumb baby boys and girls should never open their mouths and talk about that which they themselves have NEVER lived through in their lives!</DIV>
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You forgot one very basic premise here; it's called PERMISSION to access PRIVATE PROPERTY!
No matter if it is a computer or real estate, the same protections apply all the time. M$ does NOT have any "right" to access your private property without your consent, and they can not deny your rights just because the EULA says so. No person, corporation or even the government has the authority to decide for itself that your rights do not apply. M$ can't arbitrarily trespass and snoop your computer without your specific permission, and to do so IS a criminal act according to private property laws. M$ would have to cross ONTO your property, albeit by proxy, in order for them to "check" your property for "updates" and "compliance", no law or laws can be made by a corporation that grant specific rights to themselves to trespass "covertly" and steal private information for their use.
For M$ to do so willingly would grant them a trip to court for criminal trespass, breaking and entering and also criminal damage to property with the "intent" on industrial espionage(yes, it's still espionage in that M$ IS an "industry".).
M$ could not afford to fight a drawn out battle on several "fronts" that would surely arise if they were "found" snooping and stealing files and data from private property, both corporate and private.
They could not survive a few hundred thousand suits claiming theft, espionage, and trespass.
Really, what else could one call a corporation's snooping and theft of private property and information? What"use"does/would M$ have for information that is not "normally" available to a person or company without having "intimate" knowledge of that person or company/corporation?
If simple, unenforceable EULAs become the norm in the U.S., then that very "agreement" could simply be written on a note and taped to a door by a theif that wants your stereo system...hell, he provided a EULA outlining his intentions, it was "delivered" to you.......Trespass officer? I think NOT! I forwarded my EULA to them, they didn't "object" to it, so I assumed my "right" to enter into the property.
*Reading this message indicates to us that you are in agreement with the planting of our feet far up your behind, and any damages that arise from the application of this EULA, you hereby agree to hold harmless, all persons and actions and also waive any right/s to remedy or redress under this agreement*
According to what I have learned in the past concerning "licenses" and such; one is bound only to the terms of the license that was originally included and signed, no others are legal or binding as the document/s first agreed to never included information or warnings that any such license could, at will, be changed, modified, rescinded or denied. Based on land contracts and property sales, ONLY the first, original document is legal and binding IF it is signed by both seller AND purchaser, with every clause well defined and retained rights of the seller are previously known to the purchaser BEFORE the "license" or "contract" is signed and/or notarized. Not one legally binding contract or license is one-sided! Two parties MUST sign any and all documents before being legally bound to said contract or license.
Don't laugh, I had a few 1/2 Gig drives for my Toshiba T4800CT that were glass(disks only).
I dismantled one due to controller failure and decided to open the cover and see if the media was clean, but really, i am always curious as to what the platters are made from/with.
This was no exception, but to find out the platters were glass was a bit of a shock!
Maybe they were not true glass, but crystal of some sort, maybe even quartz for all I know about Matsushita's mfg.
Oh man does this story take me back! I don't know how anybody could be involved with computers and NOT remove the cover of at least one hard drive. I did the same thing back in 1985 to an ST-225 MFM drive. That drive ran every day for two years and NEVER had a data failure whatsoever! That darned drive was rock-solid stable and i never lost any program info stored. This is almost like kids that lived near railroads....we all laid pennies on the tracks for the trains to flatten(what fun too!). As long as the drive is somwhat "cared" for during the surgery, the drive will probably last well into two or three CPU upgrades and then some. My ST-225 heads were coated thick with dust during those two years, but never failed to perform like a new, unopened drive. Damn, those ceramic heads ARE cool, and to think that <50 millionths separates the platters from the heads too!
Okay, how much DOES a T1 installation cost an ISP to warrant such high costs to the end user? If every customer on their network pays that amount for a T1 line and they have 100K users, how much does that "service" really cost to implement overall? Is T1 gear THAT expensive? I doubt that. We have DSL service in my area, but not fro out of town customers, the loading and throughput would go down the toilet after a couple of miles, so, T1 is not an option for us, and cable is also not run out this far outside the city limits yet. /.ers need 3 attempts to connect to their ISP like I do? Errors always pop up on the servers, and I can never establish a good reliable handshake even after initial connection is established! I ping the network and get no reply on any port I choose, and even port 80 is blocked, which is the port NNN uses almost exclusively! Since we have a "few" other ISPs in the area, I stay with NNN due to having our telco service through Citizens, so one bill is easier for me, but not from ease of use, just less paperwork to peruse. We tried the "others", but BFM has too many outages, and Go2America is also unreliable as well. The next ISP wants to bill me in 20 hour "blocks" of "limited" I-net service(bullshit!)for a paltry $15.00/month no less(who thinks this crap up anyhow?). I use 20 hours in less than 2 days, but a month..really? No wonder ISPs are dying, and good to know that too from my take on things that is! Screw the people making you money, you deserve to be out of business fast then. This makes as much sense as a credit check to get cellular service when you own your home...why does anybody need a credit check for a damned cellphone anyway? I am so happy I disconnected my service a long time ago! I had cellular service since 1983, so after all those years of super bills, I finally said to hell with it and dumped my provider and saved good money in the long run too! T1, ADSL, DSL. All names used to steal money with highly touted connect speeds and then getting limited with how much you can D/L from the public network...RIDICULOUS folks, really! No T1 gear is so costly to install and get running as to be worth $50- $100.00/month just to connect at above 56K dialup! Those fees are bogus and a clear format of greed I have ever seen. T1 costing $500 and upwards is NOT a benefit except to the ISP.
So, I am stuck with lousy dialup service for $19.00/month. I signed no contract, no agreement for "unlimited" usage. If I had a legit use for a server, I could run that from the house and nobody would ever notice this at "my" ISP...they are ALL brain dead there. They have "service" from 7AM to 10Pm monday through friday, but call them, and you get voice mail, no live bodies EVER answer the phone at NEWNORTH NETWORK of Rhinelander, WI. Tech support is by a few kids fresh out of high school there, and family members of workers of Citizens Comm. also. They NEVER hire from outside the company, I tried for years to "get in" but since I was not related to any employess there, my resume got "filed" in F-13(trash can) as we call it here. How many
Do the math...35,000 user at $69.00/month covers not only the service, but the equipment, technicians and all overhead of operations daily! T1 is the BEST form of RIPOFF for internet access I have ever known, and is NOT worth the money just to D/L U/L faster than 56K dialup.
Hmmm, same problem here, but my dog has decided to bury his "goodies" in the yard, and my "yard" is 5 acres worth of trees and farmland. Now, if I could only entice him with food or possibly a "scooby snack" will I ever get a confession out of him as to exactly where he hid my items! For dogs, it's neural muttworks, and cats have neural catworks. Maybe they both use some form of "hybrid" ethernet perhaps? I know my dog's NOT Novell certified....YET!
Lest we forget the attempt on Teddy Roosevelt!
Who's life was saved by his speech!
*Who says being long-winded is bad?*
EASY! .0001W to 3 watts, and dial in a call in progress using 11xxx where xxx is the channel number of the cell-site. You can use the LCR, ODC and any channel in the system....reuse is a great help here! Oh, just punch 55# to enter the "test" mode. You'll see this (') show up on the display, indicating you are in the TEST mode..punch in the channel:11305 and punch # to activate that channel, then set TX power level, TX audio, RX audio....you name it, you CAN do it! I monitor all cell-sites in my service area, both A and B carriers at the same time!
Take a Motorola "bag" phone, remove the cover and locate pins 20 and 21, short these to each other, and you have a "scanner" of sorts. It is NOW a cell-capable HACK able to receive and transmit by choice, ANY cell frequency from 824 to 869 Mhz. You can turn on/off the TX audio, set TX power from
It's the Saturn V rocket/payload...OOPS!
Actually, i do agree with this statement quite a lot as it does show that it is a matter of "conditioning" of any person as to whter or not they will or will not become a "terrorist". We blame/lay fault at the mideast and their belief structure, and their social and economic makeup, yet take nothing else into account as to precisely WHAT makes a person "become" a terrorist. Technology eases the ability to obtain any other technologies such as better/faster computers, design software and test/emulation hardware for "hacking" the "obscure" devices we in the western world take for granted and never think twice about. The obscure tech. is easily obtained, reverse engineered and then implemented as a base for controllers, timers, and rudimentary navigational systems. We overlook this as we have become too enthralled by the "bigger/faster/better syndrome" and shun older technologies as a "toy" for toys and such. We have forgotten that the simplest 8051 based CPU was/is powerfull enough to guide the Saturn IV rocket/payload to the moon!
If such low-tech can navigate a huge assembly such as that, what's stopping lesser developed nations from using that same core as a foundation for "simple" weapons(think SCUD here)? How much MORE damage could a SCUD do IF it were outfitted with a simple navigation computer? Plenty! Point and shoot has proven the destructive ability of the SCUD, and it's devastation would be greater if it also incorporated even a simple single board computer. Since those are easily bought and shipped worldwide, what is stopping anybody from using that as a nav-aid for ever MORE destructive weapons platforms? Technology enables AND disables us all at the same rate. It's HOW technology is used and designed into equipment that gives rise and fall of technology's wonders and shortcomings. Use defines abilities to some degree, but denying technology can also create negative side effects as well. Money decides who gets what, and when. It's an "evil" that has no equal in a global economy, and any attempts to quell accessibilities to technologies will provide black market sales and acquisition of "illegal" technology hardware. We all know no nation can effectively stop ANY nation from getting their hands on what the U.S. calls "sensitive" computer equipment, it's being shipped to "threat" nations even as I type this, all unchecked and unseen by the feds and who knows who else. Time has proven the inability of the U.S. war machine from even slowing the ingress of drugs onto our shores, and this is an even lesser "threat" to "security" than equipment being obtained by "rogue" nations for nuclear weapons design! As we all become more and more dependant on technology, we also lose the ability to do for ourselves on a more primitive scale(think of making a fire with two sticks now). One day, not far from the current time; we'll all have equal technologies, and with that comes the inability to wage "effective" wars against each other due to the "playing fields" being leveled for all concerned, this SHOULD effectively STOP wars from becoming a reality(hopefully!)!
SCREW YOU! You would slice off your arms and legs for 10 cents worth of government provided "security" and STILL be worse off if you just bought a gun and did the job yourself! I hope YOU are "profiled" as a terrorist by that very system! And should that happen, you can pat yourself on the back for being a stool-pigeon and allowing even yourself to once again, fall into a trap of "security" for freedom's sake; yeah, right, i am safer because I am now profiled against a HUGE database that includes my race, age, height, sex, shoe size, work history, credit history, unemployment periods(SURELY a terrorist would be unemployed!), not to mention THOUSANDS of other, indiscriminate "features" about your personal life and living arangement/s would be shown to anybody wanting to "make sure" you were not a terrorist.
Shit, same old, sad story all over again..."security" while stomping OUR rights and freedoms ever farther into the dirt! MOVE OUT and take THIS NAZI formed government with you! And also, don't forget, your passport photos will also be used AGAINST you for whatever reason they can think of! Flagging, color-coding every traveler for "threats" percieved and real is ABSURD and directly conflicts with the RIGHT TO INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY ABOVE CORPORATE CONCERNS,and government "concerns" even more! Sorry, i am happy I will NEVER buy another airline ticket if this is what I have to endure just to ride on a plane! Besides, since I can pilot my own aircraft, why take big jets and take the reamings they give us/you? I'll bypass that B.S. and carry my gun(loaded of course) on my belt and feel 100% SAFER because I can secure MY personal safety BETTER than ANY cop, anyplace, anytime...GUARANTEED! I trade NO privacy for a nickel's worth of government backed exploitations under a guise of "national security" and "security"...What a crock of B.S. the gov is forcing down your throats, and better still, you FELL FOR THIS DECEPTION, lock, stock and barrel!
I suppose you carry a saint christopher medallion around your neck too, for "security", right?
Go ahead, ask god for his help, you will wait a long time for a response, because there are NO GODS!
The bill of rights makes no demands that speech must have some form of "artistic" content within itself in order to be protected. Speech in whole or in part, is protected, not selective portions deemed "worthy" by, once again, the government.
Read the bill of rights and show me where there is a passage indicating a dire need of "artistic content" for the work to be worthy of "protection". There are none! I keep a copy of the declaration of independancebill of rights in my car, it's a small pamphlet that our government prints for us, and is available from the U.S. government printing "press", free for the asking no less....I strongly suggest you READ it in full, for there is not one line indicating a need of artistic content or meaning for validity or protection from censorship. Never has, never will.
Your comment about artistic content has no doubt been derived from some lawyer, who's own ability to read is severely limited in scope and intent.
The "great documents" were written with the intent and understanding that every person with even a limited educational background would be able to read, comprehend and understand the meaning of the documents presented thus far. Now, we have lawyers tell us what these documents mean, and they have decided for us, what our rights are as well, without or consent(step one to total usurpation).
Hey moron! It is NOT illegal to post information on building a bomb! It is NOT illegal to talk of bomb building! It IS illegal to bomb a place/person or property that is not yours though! You can read, talk, draw and think up nuclear weapons, and that also is LEGAL, but you can't build and USE that nuke against another..THAT is the gist of the topic!
"DO" is far different than "THOUGHT"!
The government wants nor needs either from you, so shut up and go away, or we'll gun you down<ATF>!
Read the atrocities concerning trigger happy cops....THEY are the ones murdering, not me!
Ted Kennedy killed more people with his car than I did with my gun!
You are othing more than a sorry PACIFIST that bends to those who wield the power!
You think not for others, but of your own personal ideas, no matter how skewed they really are!
Information is NOT a crime, nor is it an attempt to collude, conspire or act in any manner that can be classified as an act of dissent or agression, no matter what you might think, your thoughts on this are 100% WRONG and written under the guise of sheer ignorance of the laws and the constitution of the U.S.
Nobody is talking about getting in anybody's face, simply getting the "facts" out no matter how poorly you feel about MY rights, or that of others. My right to carry ANY gun is just that, a RIGHT and NOT a "privlege" doled out by some suit in Wash-out-ton. Your "rights" are bought and sold daily, and YOU pay for it with still MORE "laws" and "regulations" aimed SOLELY at opression and CONTROL, nothing less.
Be informed and READ the laws, AND the constitution, you'd be shocked at what you gave up to have dubya as YOUR "leader"...FOOLS ALL!
This is just another case of allowing the government to be the "only" voice concerning one's rights. Sure, make another excuse by saying he deserved what he got, but if "he" were YOU, would you feel the exact same way? Too bad WE THE PEOPLE have no power to ensure our rights, since we all allowed the current government(with dubya's help)to be the caretaker of our rights, and to dole them out as the government sees fit to do. Tread carefully here folks; what you allow to happen today WILL have serious repurcussions later on, but by that time, it'll be too late to reverse the wheels of injustice so those wheels will certainly run right over you! Some people just don't get it, the constitution and the bill of RIGHTS(not priveledges) grants those rights to the PEOPLE and NOT the federal government. Show me any line where the prints reads *Of, by, and for the government*...not one line; anywhere! Just what state IS the "District of Columbia" located in anyway?
Is the "District of Columbia" really a "puppet-state" of South America?
Posting information about bombs does NOT incite any violence, it is solely the actions of the information USER, and his/her mindset that makes that determination alone, and is wholly disconnected from the information and the poster of said information. Even THIS information is a right of anybody to do, regardless of what you or I feel about it, it is a RIGHT nonetheless!
I hate drunks, so does this mean I have a "right" to persecute and imprison anybody that might like a shot of J.D sometimes? Of course not, even though I despise drunks, this is NOT my right to deny simply because I might object to the abuse of alcohol. Our current form of "government" is a sham, a disgrace and should be rebuilt from the foundation the constitution laid-out for ALL to follow, not just the poor/helpless that we are now! This government is TOO BIG, TOO POWERFUL and TOO TOTALITARIAN to be just, honest and respectable. The U.S.A. IS the laughing stock of the world and we are too damned blind to see it!
Every day we lose more rights and freedoms for "the cause", while the government listens to your lovemaking, wifeswapping and monitors your internet connections, bank accounts and your credit reports, looking, no SNOOPING for those "words" that will turn you into a criminal, terrorist and that ghastly evil ideology; "Anti-American"...Do I smell McCarthyism once again rearing it's nasty head once more?
This villain is not cloaked in a dark cape and wearing a moustache, they are wearing uniforms, carrying automatic weapons and grenades! To fight what army....YOU! It just occurred, to an 18 yr.old kid, it CAN happen to you as well, REGARDLESS of what he did, they still arrived IN FORCE and ARMED FOR WAR! Now THAT scares the S**T out of me if we continue to allow that to go on!
I am certain Amadou Diallo would roll over in his 41 bullet-ridden corpse holding casket if he knew we are still letting big government to trample us into the ground! When the feds come-a-knocking at YOUR door some time in the future...we'll all just smile, wave, and tell you that it's a shame you never took a stand with the rest of us to STOP this form of SOCIAL TERRORISM..Tsk Tsk..!
I did manage to make a dog house today and build a snowman*S*.
Heck, it's only a small hutt; just 31 x 28 inches "square", and two feet high, but the doggie is not big, and she'll never get over 40 pounds either.
Don't worry, feel happy!
What a crock of SHIT our laws and nazi cops are! They even SAID they PURCHASED and DOWNLOADED the E-book "software" from various servers located in this(the U.S.) nation. Well, this surely sounds like CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A CRIME with INTENT added, does it not? If purchasing "illegal" software is, in the very context of the DMCA laws, illegal; then the "act" of the purchase is also ILLEGAL and therefore, VOID by their own admission/s, but I suppose not, because it involves "law" enfARCEMENT", and "may" be used in a kangaroo court of laws of sorts. Oh boy, commit a crime to convict a criminal....WHAT A THEORY!
*HOS* Hooked On Stupidity works for Bush!
I wonder what the site owner of upthefist.com said to warrant visits by 30 heavily armed feds and local NAZI COPS? Now the "act" of speaking one's mind in both cyber and real-world mediums WILL get you "the visit" by TAXPAYER FUNDED MURDERERS!
STOP THE SLAUGHTER-VOTE LAW ENFORCEMENT OUT OF EXISTANCE NOW!
Our national doctrine makes NO allowance for "police forces" or ANY armed force to be running rampant, murdering citizens and kidnapping them for the government!
Vote for HARRY BROWN if YOU value your rights!
I did, but that buddy of clinton got the job(yes, his name will NEVER be capitalized in my rantings, neither will bush's, nor any rights usurping NAZI get any recognition other than MY indictment for murder, and brutality and forced servitude/slavery.
*We will tire, We will falter, and We will fail!*
OUR money gets handed out freely to foreigners, but WE have to repay the government for using OUR MONEY in OUR schools for OUR education so WE can WORK in OUR industries....GO FIGURE!
***TAX REVOLT***TAX REVOLT***TAX REVOLT***
Religion enslaves simple minds everywhere, just like "democracy" enslaved a republic!
I applaud ELCOMSOFT for taking a stand and fighting back! GO DMITRY! GO ELCOMSOFT! FUCK THE DMCA!
Okay, I have original DOS 6.22 stored for the next nuclear winter we will have(might need to boot an old 80286 box after that balloon goes up).
I also "might" have a copy or two of DR-DOS someplace in the attic<ugh!>.
Mail me, let me know if you need a COPY of these, okay?
Send your request to my spam mail site: spamandnospam-ka9uce@netscape.net.com.org
Well, they'll probably call it the Pentup.
Amd will name their "next" CPU, the Athlong-long-gone away!
I like that...^^^^!! /. crowd, it's desparately needed for certain!
Thanks for posting something HUMOROUS to the
Thanks again for the post!
First off; let's get HISTORY straight for once! "GOD" is a state of mind, NOT a reality check for truth! Religion KILLED millions in our "human" history, and was invented to CONTROL the populace. Popular "faith" doesn't hold validity above historical references due to the fact that all religion is and has been forced upon us like the media today brainwashes us to buy Intel or Amd, it's nothing more than continued forced thought being pushed by the "righteous" minority and attempting validity by the only fact that religion has been part of humanity for less than 1,000 years(current religion). If "god" were so damn humane, HOW did "it" allow the horrible deaths of so many innocent men, women and children on 9.1.01 then? If "it" is so damn pure, WHY was such an act able to be wrought by so few? All the "stories" in this "bible" are just that; STORIES, nothing more.
"Man" did not have the means, tools or capabilities to construct any vessel of the vast proportions that are reported in this "bible", man was a simple-minded creature of limited intellect and reasoning powers, and what "he" could not reason by logic, to be possible by his current(then) method of thinking, then it MUST have been the work of a "god"...THAT is why they gave names to the water, fire and sun...since they knew not HOW these came to be, they "assumed" such creations were the work of the "gods". Simple minds of the period could NOT reason the mathematics, physics and natural sciences we today manipulate to bring true knowledge and reasoning to our world as we live it today.
If man were as intellectually capable then, as we are today, we surely would have already been to the lunar surface of the moon a thousand years before 1969 arrived, and the model T would have been created 100 years before that. Man has limited knowledge to draw upon, and this is why mental evolution progresses as it does, one small step at a time.
Fire came before the metal axe, and softer bronze and copper tools existed before smelted iron tools. Simple proof of an evolutionary existance, and NOT one that was simply "created" by some thought up "god" so many pray to today.
Religion can NOT hold up under it's own beliefs; if it could, then please, tell me why, if you tell a priest that YOU talked to god, he'll call you crazy, BUT, you CAN pray to him, you just CAN'T talk to him...WHAT?, I can't TALK to "my" "god"?
How absurd that idea is! What REAL good has "god" done for humanity in the last 1,000 years....more killings, diseases, plagues, slavery and genocide?
THAT, is what religion had to "offer" humanity! Even that oft-talked of "cross" is a symbol of TORTURE and barbarism...Hell, they NAILED a man to it, did they not? And now you PRAY to this friggin' symbol of that torture...YOU FOOLS!
I am tired of being force-fed bullshit of some "kind" and "loving" "god". Yeah, and if he were our parents today, he would be sitting in prison with abuse charges made against him for his "kindness" wrought upon humanity with his "hand".
Oh, I just love to hear the mentally challenged spout off about how I "need" to be "saved"..saved, HOW? What methods will be used to effect my "saving"? Do I really need this "saveing" of my "soul"? Please, do tell me some FACTS that prove with 100% concrete validity that this "god" has existed outside of mental thought!
Sorry, you can't "lose" service due to a "cable hacker" butchering his lines; that only adds increased noise ingress if he is downline from the "offender", which, of course, is only for the forward path and NOT the reverse, since the analogy is now backwards; "his" noise ingresses will be seen on your set with the 5 to 42 Mhz. reverse path "backfeeding" in through the tap that serves your residence.
The amount of signal degradation will also depend on how far you are from an LE(line extender) or a trunk amp. The ingress in either the forward or reverse path depends on the level of noise ingress that is present on the lines, and the distance the offending home is from yours, and the true signal level that is available between the two homes.
Run an SLM on the amp's output, then take a reading at your input and output; then do the same to the offender's tap, and finally, take an EOL(end of line) reading at the last, terminated tap. A Wavetek "stealth" meter will give you a very nice picture of C/N, ingress, C/S and since you can tune any specific channel, you can "see" what bandwidth the ingress is taking up on your street's plant. Do a simple walk-out of the plant and note the location of ALL the amps, taps and splitters from your location to the offender's.
Cable IMD/ingress is easy to locate if you use common sense in the approach. Many's the time, the splicers do the initial setup of the forward and reverse paths to take readings and get the node up and running for the "final tweaking" of the node certification/sweepers to ensure the levels are within tolerance, if this is not done properly, the whole node suffers from ingress, intermod, crosstalk and bursting(level spikes).
Cable modems suffer the worst from reverse path noise, that shuts down the bandwidth available and slows total system throughput. I set up thousands of nodes in MN, WI. and Iowa, and the one thing that takes a system down fast is noise and IMD. IMD corrupts data greatly, and the BER drops significantly because of it. Ingress and IMD look like false data packets, and cause falsing to occur, which of course, decreases the valid data that is outgoing and incoming to/from your computer.
The first (CR)Apple was built inside a wooden box! It didn't even have an 80 column display, but later production models could be had with an 80 column card under the "hood", not to mention the memory cards and so on....
The ][ came after the I, then the Lisa and the Apple III, then the ][-C and the Gx and Mac, Mac-II, Mac-SE, SE-30 on over to the IIFX-xx variety, albeit, this is NOT in chronological order, it is an "attempt" to show lineage of the (CR)Apple line. As for being "first"....NO! Recall the Altair and MIPS varieties...care to do binary and flip switches to program...AAHH, the "joys" of owning and using those, plus anything with the S-100 bus architecture!
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I still have an original VECTOR S-100 "PC" with TWO 5-1/4" drives, 128K memory, "video" card, controller card and keyboard. Also how about my two Osbornes? The difference in the two being the first had a ribbon cable connecting the "computer" to the keyboard, and the second, using a coiled cord. Oh, they both had 2, 5-1/4" floppys, PLUS a 300 baud modem for fast BBS access! Now THOSE were the days my friend! Damn, those Osbornes have such a small CRT to view your data, but being monochrome, you had no choice but B/W. I have both versions of the Osbornes, and they are damn near like new, complete with manuals. History should NEVER repeat itself...NEVER!</DIV>
Don't you mean "higher" latency here?
/. fool outside*!
Latency is a "fancy" word for sslloowweerr, NOT faster. It's a matter of pure timing relationship/s over access/write speeds.
*AMD inside,
IntelAmd:...What a CPU "might" become some day.
FLASH!***FLASH!***
Xerox and Wurlitzer have merged; they are now going to sell reproductive organs!
Calling all script kiddies!
.02mV ripple on my lines during all repeater keys, and they are all 30 watts output from the duplexer, and 265 watts ERP at the antennas(10dB collinears, 3 degree electrical downtilt). Proper shielding IS the only answer to maintaining a CLEAN signal path, with no crosstalk or intermod products gaining ingress to the audio and R.F. circuits. Not to mention, all my systems are UHF and not CB grade junk N**tel runs!
Please support a DOS at: 208.155.4.10/208.155.4.12, port 80; New North Network, a "service" of Citizens communications.
SHITTIEST ISP in the northwoods! I called the Wis. branch of the consumer protection agency for the extremely high disconnect rates I was getting(30 a day!).
Dead server/routings active, no data being received, even my pings failed on all ports.
Now, AFTER the C.P.A made "first contact"; BAM!, my connections have been stable, and the disconnects have gone down to just a few!
NNN liked to blame my commercial repeaters on my tower for the "real" reason I was being DC'd so much(sure, and the cop's radar is safe held between his legs too!).
Sorry, < 1mV will NOT cause my internal modems to lock, or disconnect!
I have LESS than
Clusters: Of what? Fluid dynamics, thermal mapping? Oh, I know, it'll be used to collect and store data on the mating habits of the South American swamp rat, it's range and migratory patterns if there are any...right?
Beowulf clusters: Costly solution to a '386 problem! Dump that Celeron, get an Athlon 1-Ghz. "box" that has a "real" FPU inside!
*Intel inside, MORON outside*!
(Pssst, I stole that saying!)
This comment is stolen too.. `ÒvÓ'__|~~~ SMOKIN'!
I agree with you on this 100%!
Now, will the brains educate the remainder of the world on what it is that we have been doing wrong for the past 30+ years of OUR lives you acne-faced kiddy?
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Have you EVER served in the military?
When did YOU graduate from high-school?
Did your DADDY get you your first job, or did you do that all on our lonesome?
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How long have you been married and paying on a home?
How much are your monthly mortgage payments big man?
Do you have kids to feed and clothe?
How about your "wife"....does she come "free" in your math?
You make DUMB ststements of how "simple" making a MAJOR LIFE MOVE is, yet you have barely exited the DIAPER GANG!
The comment THIS post is for is NOT that to which it is attached, but as a reply and "hopefully" some added "learned" life experience paid for by yes, BLOOD, SWEAT, TEARS and a HELL OF A LOT OF ANGUISH!
Why don't you move to my area, pay MY $1,000.00/month mortgage, feed 3 kids, two cars and two dogs and assorted caged rats and THEN tell me just how "simple" packing up and moving will be, okay big shot?
Oh, and let's NOT forget a combined EDUCATIONAL payment that is STILL over $40,000.00 owed.
Simple, yeah, it sure is, and I am a GOD as well!
Dumb baby boys and girls should never open their mouths and talk about that which they themselves have NEVER lived through in their lives!</DIV>