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  1. Re:Floyd does movies on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 1
    Erk! I didn't think to ask at the time of reply.

    Why did you link to More at Amazon and not the others? FWIW I saw The Wall concert and would have linked to it. http://www.amazon.com/Pink-Floyd-Wall-Anniversary- Deluxe/dp/B0006ZE7G2/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-8135703-7 503223?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1187919783&sr=1-1

    It is a very cool if disturbing movie.

    qz

  2. Re:Floyd does movies on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 1

    As a long time (early 70's) PF fan, yes, I am aware of all their past efforts with soundtracks in movies. They have done well with many of them.

    But yeah, my attempt at humor was the Wizard of Oz thing. I viewed it. Fun to watch as the WoOz is one of my favorite movies, as it the DSoTM album but to think they actually used it for the recording is beyond belief.

    qz

  3. Sooo.... on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do you think they can get Pink Floyd for the sound track?

    qz

  4. Re:Build your own networks on Will Internet TV Crash the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Or another country. I could be wrong but I *think* the *ca routers are in Canada?

    traceroute craigslist.com
    traceroute to craigslist.com (66.150.253.241), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
      1 10.0.1.1 (10.0.1.1) 22.291 ms 1.638 ms 3.771 ms
      2 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 24.082 ms 1.962 ms 1.868 ms
      3 bras1-l0.skt2ca.sbcglobal.net (151.164.187.5) 31.73 ms * 22.548 ms
      4 dist1-vlan50.skt2ca.sbcglobal.net (68.120.211.66) 23.247 ms 19.488 ms 20.606 ms
      5 bb2-g1-3-0.skt2ca.sbcglobal.net (68.120.211.228) 20.441 ms 20.123 ms 21.189 ms
      6 151.164.95.235 (151.164.95.235) 26.528 ms 26.26 ms 25.091 ms
      7 te-3-4.car3.losangeles1.level3.net (4.68.110.113) 27.405 ms 27.633 ms 26.697 ms
      8 ae-31-55.ebr1.losangeles1.level3.net (4.68.102.158) 31.472 ms ae-32-56.ebr2.losangeles1.level3.net (4.68.102.190) 33.515 ms ae-31-51.ebr1.losangeles1.level3.net (4.68.102.30) 35.493 ms
      9 ae-78.ebr3.losangeles1.level3.net (4.69.135.14) 27.486 ms 35.326 ms ae-68.ebr3.losangeles1.level3.net (4.69.135.10) 35.201 ms
    10 ae-2.ebr3.sanjose1.level3.net (4.69.132.9) 29.445 ms 32.957 ms 36.197 ms
    11 ae-63-63.csw1.sanjose1.level3.net (4.69.134.226) 31.439 ms 29.504 ms 34.391 ms
    12 ae-62-62.ebr2.sanjose1.level3.net (4.69.134.209) 38.978 ms 39.736 ms ae-72-72.ebr2.sanjose1.level3.net (4.69.134.213) 36.049 ms
    13 ae-4-4.car2.sanfrancisco1.level3.net (4.69.133.157) 30.198 ms 30.304 ms 30.028 ms
    14 internap-ne.car2.sanfrancisco1.level3.net (4.71.44.6) 32.235 ms internap-ne.car2.sanfrancisco1.level3.net (4.78.242.18) 31.369 ms 33.854 ms
    15 border1.ge2-1-bbnet2.sfo002.pnap.net (63.251.63.65) 32.108 ms 32.049 ms 30.915 ms
    16 www.craigslist.org (66.150.253.241) 38.951 ms 30.614 ms 30.29 ms

    That is a LONG way to get about 90 miles.

    qz

  5. Re:This is stupid. on High School Students Forced To Declare A Major · · Score: 1

    If you are doing body work the TIG is the way to go. WAY less heat warpage which makes it much easier to do the bondo work. You save a lot of money in bono. I welded a motorcycle oil tand and the burn on the chrome was so slight we didn't rechrome it. Put on a larger tip and you can weld up to 1/4" steel together. Use the thumb control rather than the foot one. Much easier in awkward positions.

    Stick welding is not only troublesome for sheet metal but damned near impossible.

    Want to weld aluminum heads? TIG, dude. Preheat and go for it. No splatter.

    Want to remove the door handles? TIG the holes. No warpage and no burning holes.

    Yea. I used to be a body man/painter.

    I'm also certified on low hydrogen stick horizontal and vertical. I did my days on MIG with containers and it was great for that and fabrication of tool boxes. Stick was the tool for corner posts of containers.

    There is a tool for every job. One size does not fit all.

    And yeah, I was one of those vocational kids that took two years of welding in HS and made my living at it for around 15 years.

    qz

  6. Re: MP3 Compression on Does Going Digital Mean Missing Music? · · Score: 1
    Bose is built on reflections and echos to fill a room. They were not designed to be studio gear.

    Go ahead and laugh at me but my Bose 901s I still use from the 70s still kick my ass. A good 100 watts tossed into them for the bass and you are golden.

    Adjust the volume for that sweet wall of sound sound and it is hog heaven.

    I won't get into the loss of harmonics with digital here. Stair steps at any sampling rate can't reach analog. It just can't happen.

    But the Bose reflective qualities... 5.1 with two speakers.

    qz

  7. Re:It's about the music... the MUSIC! on Does Going Digital Mean Missing Music? · · Score: 1

    As a collector of live recordings I wish I had mod points for you. The quality may not be the best but the performances can be stunning.

    qz

  8. Re:Stupid solution to the problem on Canadian Theatre Chain Sued for Abusive Search · · Score: 1

    And this would help them with the search how?

    qz

  9. Re:If you let them search you,you LET them search on Canadian Theatre Chain Sued for Abusive Search · · Score: 1
    You're really not even supposed to submit to police searches without warrant or good cause, so whey the hell would you let someone with far far far less authority.

    They have been doing this for eons for concerts. A lady friend asked me how get her camera into a concert. I told her to put it in her bra. She was gifted by nature to pull it off.

    Another friend used to sneak recording devices in concerts under his GFs short skirt taped to her legs. There are some places that are not to be touched by a man or a woman doing the search.

    If you are determined a camera will get in.

    People need to stop thinking everyone has authority over them, seriously you can just leave the premisis.

    Then in my example you just lost $150 bux.

    I realize my example is not the best but management needs to know why you want your money back. Just walking out with a refund is not enough. Management does not see that. The manager needs to know why you are not spending money in their business.

    qz

  10. Re:Thrown Out on Microsoft Paternity Case Settled · · Score: 1

    Probably Byte, gramps.

    I still have some. Circuit Cellar was great. Chaos Manor.

    Yeah, my beard is a bit off color nowadays too.

    qz

  11. Re:Amiga had 320x200 graphics resolution on Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Show me a computer today that has independent rez screens that can be layered (pulled down) on the same display.

    None?

    They chose a video speed bus that killed my eyes until I did a muti-sync monitor.

    I leave it up to the reader to google "amiga video toaster"

    I went to a MacWord show and they were "selling" the VT. Uh... not really. They were selling a front end serial cable connnected software system that connected to an Amiga. They showed it to me after my badgering.

    That was then. This is now. In the day it was hot stuff.

    And even today it is hot. See above about mixing rez on the same screen. It cannot be done today.

    qz

  12. Re:quick summary on Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It · · Score: 1

    I vote for Tandem. I worked on these for lot of years and they were not only a computer but art in the software and hardware. Way ahead of their time and beautiful inside and out.

    And good training. My tape drive training started in the flow of electrons through the power supply. Outstanding.

    SII did a great job on the publishing end. Alas my application for employment was denied because I lived too far away from the core customers and they feared my drive time would burn me out.

    But man! It was a nice machine.

    qz

  13. Re:20 years? $40 billion? on Inside FAA's GPS-Based Air Traffic Control · · Score: 1

    You don't fly much, do you?

    qz

  14. Re:Security of this system ? on Inside FAA's GPS-Based Air Traffic Control · · Score: 1
    There are receiving stations on the ground and each one knows its physical position. False data is eliminated by a common-sense method: if you're saying you're 300 miles away but I'm receiving you right here, you must be making that up. It also allows the system to determine if a target's movement correlates with its reported position data.


    In some ways, it makes it easier to spot anomalies. Anomalous aircraft in the current system are simply ignored.

    Hello. I am Anomalous. So am I. So am I. Oh, so am I. Don't worry about us. We are Anomalous.

    KABOOM!!!

    Sorry.

    qz

  15. Re:Ease The Pain on Inside FAA's GPS-Based Air Traffic Control · · Score: 1
    There's an awful lot of air travel that could be replaced by trains.

    Not after DHS gets hold of it.

    qz

  16. Re:What about.... on Inside FAA's GPS-Based Air Traffic Control · · Score: 1
    From TFA:

    (Some will be kept for backup in case satellite transmissions fail.)

    Some. The keyword is some. Not all. I read that as not many. Only speculation on my part knowing how our govt. works.

    Can you be bothered to educate yourself at least a tiny bit on the topic and RTFA to answer your own questions, or will you just conform to the stereotype of an idiot slashbot?

    Pot. Kettle. Black.

    qz

  17. I went to his site on Worm Claimed For Apple OS X · · Score: 1

    And I'm sorry to say the bell curve flattens even more to the left side.

    How did this make the front page?

    I felt this was worthy of its own post instead of being buried in the comments section. Everyone DIGG this so that the world can see how crazy some of these Apple Fanboys are.

    EVERYONE LIKE ME! I AM TEH COOLEST! I AM TEH... BULLSHITTER!

    Meh!

    qz

  18. Re:Have mDNSresponder run without root privileges on Worm Claimed For Apple OS X · · Score: 1
    1. launchctl is used to unload and load the mDNSResponder daemon.

    I guess I am one of the bazzilions of Mac users who have not upgraded to Tigger. I can't use launchctl.

    my_mac$ ps -ax | grep dns
    2717 std S+ 0:00.02 grep dns
    my_mac$ ps -ax | grep mddns
    my_mac$

    I guess I won't worry about it.

    qz

  19. Re:That's not true... on Worm Claimed For Apple OS X · · Score: 1

    Change that to:

    It's inconceivable!

    There. That is fixed.

    qz

  20. Re:this is why the sea freaks me out on Giant Squid Washed Ashore in Australia · · Score: 1
    Some underwater animals seem to show a large degree of curiosity to humans underwater. Maybe an opportunity to get fed... or perhaps they are wondering "what the HECK is that animal?".

    And allow me to add:

    I bet it tastes like chicken.

    qz

  21. Re:Is there no way to do better? on US Military Leaks its Secrets Online · · Score: 1

    About all I can say is I agree. It is not on the fun list.

    qz

  22. Re:Is there no way to do better? on US Military Leaks its Secrets Online · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Is there any (operating) system out there with some sensible, security-aware data flow tracking? Such as 'when you copy something from a classified document into a non-classified document the non-classified one becomes classified'? Or attaching this kind of security information to files or other objects? I know that this is a major topic of research in computer science, but have never seen it in real use.

    I work in a class environment. I'll try to answer this.

    Why should the OS care? Who is going to build an OS that can determine what is class or not. That is the owner of the datas (data's?) job. The computer does not care. It happily does what it does - manage data. It is not its job to determine what is safe and what is not.

    That is for people to determine. In the end it is people who decide what goes where. I like it this way as there is some accountability and a paper (electronic) trail.

    So you write an app that determines what is class. Oops! The DB is down/not up to date/hosed by a virus. In other words, you is funked.

    Air gap. We have that. Locked ports. We have that. Two man rule. We have that. Can't talk beyond this. Sorry.

    My point is technology can only go so far in protecting stuff. The people doing this stuff only need to think of a few words.

    VPN. SecureID. One time passwords.

    But ftp with no passwords and not even sftp with passwords?

    Fire them all.

    qz

  23. Re:I doubt it. on Music Industry Shaking Down Coffee Shops · · Score: 1

    I have heard many that play original music and it was good. Think about all the bands that did original music (Beatles, Pink Floyd, Camel, Led Zepelin, The Doors, all the bands covered today) and tell me they were not original and good in their day.

    qz

  24. Re:Nothing New (Or Particularly Bad) Here on Music Industry Shaking Down Coffee Shops · · Score: 1
    2. This isn't controversial or surprising. It's not an issue of free speech or fair use, at least as far as public performances in profit-making business establishments are concerned. The EFF and the ACLU, I suspect, wouldn't be interested -- and neither would some random Congressman be shocked to have to pay ASCAP/BMI/SESAC fees, as one comment suggested. Maybe it would be good to allow unlicensed performances of music in business establishments, but that hasn't been the law for a very long time.

    Maybe AAL (as a lawyer) you can explain who gets what percentage of money. Stairway to Heaven gets played 90 times in a year. Check. Sounds of Silence gets played 4 times that year. Check.

    Now who determines how much money goes to each songwriter? Who monitors the times copyrighted songs are played? Heck, does Chevys pay a fee everytime they sing Happy Birthday to someone? Do they pay a blanket fee? What if they go over that fee amount?

    How does the pay back work? I would really like to know how it all works.

    qz

  25. Re:Nothing new here on Music Industry Shaking Down Coffee Shops · · Score: 1
    While ASCAP/BMI can be very heavy-handed, I have to say that it's hardly the worst aspect of IP law. The good part of the arrangement is that a band can perform whatever cover songs they want, and licensing is the club owner's responsibility. And, y'know, if you write a song and somebody else performs it, you ought to get paid.

    I don't disagree with you here but who monitors this? So I play Wish You Were Here one night. Now I owe them the money. But who was there to monitor that song and dish out the money to them? Where does it all go? Do the agencies dish it out fairly to all they represent? That is not fair if one artist gets covered more than another.

    qz