Another reason jamming is a bad idea, other than that it will increase your exposure to RF by a factor of several times, the FCC having you thrown in prison/fining you large sums of money, is: if people do start carying around portable jammers, "ECM", the phone makers will have to start making ECCM phones, such as Spread Spectrum, possibly with other antijam features. Then the amount of power your little annoyance device will have to put out will go up enormously.
How much RF will you soak up when you have a device in your pocket that will have to put out a 50-100 watt RF spike into every 1 khz of a 50-100 MHz wide frequency BAND? Your ass will melt. Besides: you're not soaking up that much RF from other people's mobiles, not compared to what they do, and if I were you I wouldn't worry so much about a few watts from a tower: if you want something RF to cry about, how about that 50+ kHz wide 50 MEGAWATT radio station that you live only a few miles away from, that's blasting you much harder than a tiny little cell phone tower. Sheesh!
I will agree with you, though, if you say a no-phone section ought to be created in resteraunts. You don't just drop your pants and crap on the floor at a restaurant, do you? No, you get up and excuse yourself and go to the bathroom. That's what people should do when the get or have to make a call in a busy social situ. Plus, all CP's should have a silent ringer.
Indeed, if you're in a restaurant, and someone starts gabbing and laughing on a cellphone right at his table, just go over to his table, pull down your pants, and take a shit right on his table, (preferably in his food, or his lap). When he says "hey!" Tell him, that that is what he is doing to your meal by yacking on his phone while you're trying to eat.
Yes, they DO! The one REALLY ANNOYING thing about DVD's is that they generally force the stupid FBI warning and other crap like the logo from the producer on you.
My original solution: Pop the disc in but don't turn the TV on until I see the display indicate either that the menu is up or the movie is playing. If I miss the beginning, the back-chapter button will usually take you to the beginning of the movie, rather than the FBI stuff.:-)
My final solution: I have divested myself of most of my DVD's and CD's. My "watching TV" phase is almost over, soon I will toss my glass-anchor as well. Screw the movie/tv/music industry. They can collectively kiss my ass.
Of course they're concerned with anything that impacts their bottom line. If they don't make huge gobs of money, how ever will they be able to afford the huge amounts of crack they are obviously fond of smoking?
Next they'll say I'm breaking the law by not buying the products advertised. If they want it their way, I'm willing to oblige them... How about this for an idea: all the people who are tired of the broadcast networks', the movie industries' and the recording industries' shit simply stop using them. Don't buy them, don't watch them, don't listen to them.
Throw away (or sell if it's too big an investment) all your recorded media. When enough people do this, these executive cocksuckers will finally dry up and blow away, and what a happy day that will be!!!
Send these people a message. Stop supporting them. If enough people do it, they'll beg you to come back. Most new music is crap anyway, just ripping-off old tunes. Most new movies are crap, same bored tired old story lines, new special effects. Whoopie. As for TV, most TV programs are crap. The quality is so ludicrously subpar that it's pathetic. Why not preemptively reclaim all the time you would have wasted watching some sorry excuse for a TV program, and spend it instead with a book. Then, when you're done reading the book, you can shoove it up a TV executive's asshole! Sounds like a neat idea to me, anyway.
The ass calls PVR users thieves... I guess it would take one to know one!
Shouldn't they stop calling it Final Fantasy? It's becomming obvious that as long as there are honry, pizza-faced, teenage loosers out there with no social skills, Final Fantasy games will continue to be made and sold in an steady stream, unabated...
Then someone in Redmond is incompetent. But we knew that already...
No, they're not. The people in Redmond know very well how to make good software. They have to... or else, how could they manage to consistantly avoid doing it (making good software) by accident?
Remember: When you buy M$, you're supporting terrorism!
If M$ puts somebody through an audit, and this audit is in any way disruptive, (and/or costs the organization money to defend itself), and if M$ doesn't find anything, can the school district or other M$-B$ victim hold M$ liable for compensation of whatever they put them through (overtime for IT psnl to prep for inpection, legal fees, etc)?
"CompuServe started testing Komodo, a Gecko-based client, last year, and is now experimenting with Gecko-base[...]"
CompuServe has indeed become a degenerate, running with a bad crowd, like AO... you know who, and now it's revealed CompuServe has been using Komodo, and has started experimenting with Gecko-basing. How sad. This new generation of software... what's the matter with them these days?
I unrotted your message, and you are wrong. Since I have heard of rot13 many times but never learned what it was, I decided to check it out and used rot13.com to decypher it. Now I know what rot13 is and where I can go to decypher it without having to open some stupid news(haha) reader program... so actually, though your message was worthless, it was not actually a waste of time, like you predickted.
PS, by the way... whose life is more meaningless, someone who only wastes the time to read something insipid, or someone who wastes the time to write something insipid.
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How much RF will you soak up when you have a device in your pocket that will have to put out a 50-100 watt RF spike into every 1 khz of a 50-100 MHz wide frequency BAND? Your ass will melt. Besides: you're not soaking up that much RF from other people's mobiles, not compared to what they do, and if I were you I wouldn't worry so much about a few watts from a tower: if you want something RF to cry about, how about that 50+ kHz wide 50 MEGAWATT radio station that you live only a few miles away from, that's blasting you much harder than a tiny little cell phone tower. Sheesh!
I will agree with you, though, if you say a no-phone section ought to be created in resteraunts. You don't just drop your pants and crap on the floor at a restaurant, do you? No, you get up and excuse yourself and go to the bathroom. That's what people should do when the get or have to make a call in a busy social situ. Plus, all CP's should have a silent ringer.
Indeed, if you're in a restaurant, and someone starts gabbing and laughing on a cellphone right at his table, just go over to his table, pull down your pants, and take a shit right on his table, (preferably in his food, or his lap). When he says "hey!" Tell him, that that is what he is doing to your meal by yacking on his phone while you're trying to eat.
Just a suggestion anyway.
Yes, they DO! The one REALLY ANNOYING thing about DVD's is that they generally force the stupid FBI warning and other crap like the logo from the producer on you.
:-)
My original solution: Pop the disc in but don't turn the TV on until I see the display indicate either that the menu is up or the movie is playing. If I miss the beginning, the back-chapter button will usually take you to the beginning of the movie, rather than the FBI stuff.
My final solution: I have divested myself of most of my DVD's and CD's. My "watching TV" phase is almost over, soon I will toss my glass-anchor as well. Screw the movie/tv/music industry. They can collectively kiss my ass.
~Me.
Of course they're concerned with anything that impacts their bottom line. If they don't make huge gobs of money, how ever will they be able to afford the huge amounts of crack they are obviously fond of smoking?
Next they'll say I'm breaking the law by not buying the products advertised. If they want it their way, I'm willing to oblige them... How about this for an idea: all the people who are tired of the broadcast networks', the movie industries' and the recording industries' shit simply stop using them. Don't buy them, don't watch them, don't listen to them.
Throw away (or sell if it's too big an investment) all your recorded media. When enough people do this, these executive cocksuckers will finally dry up and blow away, and what a happy day that will be!!!
Send these people a message. Stop supporting them. If enough people do it, they'll beg you to come back. Most new music is crap anyway, just ripping-off old tunes. Most new movies are crap, same bored tired old story lines, new special effects. Whoopie. As for TV, most TV programs are crap. The quality is so ludicrously subpar that it's pathetic. Why not preemptively reclaim all the time you would have wasted watching some sorry excuse for a TV program, and spend it instead with a book. Then, when you're done reading the book, you can shoove it up a TV executive's asshole! Sounds like a neat idea to me, anyway.
The ass calls PVR users thieves... I guess it would take one to know one!
Gotta go, I have a book to read!
~^-Me.-^~
UB
Then someone in Redmond is incompetent. But we knew that already...
No, they're not. The people in Redmond know very well how to make good software. They have to... or else, how could they manage to consistantly avoid doing it (making good software) by accident?
Remember: When you buy M$, you're supporting terrorism!
~Me.
CompuServe has indeed become a degenerate, running with a bad crowd, like AO... you know who, and now it's revealed CompuServe has been using Komodo, and has started experimenting with Gecko-basing. How sad. This new generation of software... what's the matter with them these days?
~UB
PS, by the way... whose life is more meaningless, someone who only wastes the time to read something insipid, or someone who wastes the time to write something insipid.
I think that was quite possibly the very worst poetry in the universe. Good thing for me this Lazyboy isn't a PAC (Poetry Appriciation Chair)!!!
~Me.