Kind of funny there are NASA headlines, when the biggest news in the Southeastern Virginia NASA commnuity is one of budget cuts in NASA's Earth Science budgets.
Radio stations pay 3 cents per play to cover ALL of their listeners.
And just because someone downloads it doesn't mean they aren't covered by fair use. I've downloaded songs because I didn't feel like looking for the CD I own. It's out in the changer in the car, etc. Fair use.
I don't think Lucent owns Bell Labs. I believe Bell Labs was owned by SAIC and operated under the Telcordia name.
Recent press release:
SAIC SIGNS AGREEMENT TO SELL TELCORDIA TO
PROVIDENCE EQUITY AND WARBURG PINCUS
If SBC does take over AT&T, they need to keep the AT&T name and the deathstar symbol. Please don't adopt a really stupid name, like, say, Verizon. BELL ATLANTIC FOREVER!
I agree about passing the torch. Knight Lightning passed it to Erik B, who I think passed it to the r00t guys, who passed it to Voyager perhaps and then it ended up in who's hands?
There used to be a unit called a celljack. It plugged into the DB-25 connector on a Motorola brick, and then the handset cable plugged into it IIRC.
I remember seeing them in a magazine. I had the idea that you could mount one of those standard desktop touch tone phones in the center console of your car, and be a true player. I'm not sure if it would do pulse dialing. The proposed purpose I guess was to drive either phones on a boat, or run a fax machine or modem from a cell phone.
We actually found a similiar device while dumpster diving, but no documentation is availible nor any info about what phone it hooks to.
I remember doing the exact same thing on Altavista.
The default full install of IRIX on Indy workstations had a webserver that would serve images from the IndyCam perched on the granite Sony monitor in many computer labs and offices. The trick was finding ones that were enabled, or didn't have the little door shut. There were a few that were on.
Okay, so you don't like walmart. You think they harm your community. You want to stage a protest. Here is something you can try.
The barcode scanners for most point of sale systems are configurable via bar codes. That's right, the setup procedure involves scanning special barcodes to set the unit up. If you were to find out what brand units they are (probably Symbol), you could potentially get a PDF version of the manual which includes the configuration barcodes.
If you could organize for friends to all hit various check out lanes near the same time, you should be able to reconfigure the checkout scanners to a different baud rate or UPC format so it will no longer read the standard barcodes. This would make the register unusable. The first thing done would be for all of the people to jump to other registers, which you have already walked by and scanned your reconfiguration tag across, which means they won't work.
It would probably take the service technicians a while to figure out, but once they did they would be able to fix all checkout lanes rapidly.
The fraud of UPC barcodes should be eliminated soon with deployment of RFIDs. Of course, new games might be possible like a huge plasma tv generator in your car... park in front of a walmart, and all RFID scanners constantly ring up a very expensive item.
I actually remember getting a version of Hoobastank's Crawling in the Dark track that included an advertisement. I believe that band rose to fame using mp3/free trading of files for marketing. It was definitly their advertisement that popped up. Neat stuff. Didn't mention mp3.com at the time.
So if someone wants to make money for nothing (heh), go grab your CD collection and start looking for windows media versions of songs you own on Kazaa. If the download speed is really fast, you know you probably have a trojaned file. Install it, claim your losses, extort tons of money from the company. If someone has cheap access to a lawyer, you could potentially make a good amount of money off of the company. The key is finding a way to claim losses.
Alot of novice users are finding it hard to get mp3 versions of songs they own onto portable mp3 devices. A subnotebook computer without a CD-ROM drive but with USB could be the perfect platform.
Woah, I need a copy of that episode! Seriously, I'm going to have to look up the episode number, that is funny.
Ahh, Season 1, episode 5 : EZ Jackster.
This show sounds completely ghetto, with episodes called "She's got game." Sorry, haven't watched Disney in ages even though the local cable provider now makes all subscribers pay for it -- since they wouldn't be able to sustain service on their own as there aren't enough people interested in subscribing.
Internet sales are hurting record stores more than piracy I'm sure. Piracy has always existed.
I'd also like to point out the utter dissapointment in the movie "phone booth"... when the sharp shooter aimed the laser scope at the victim, he could have looked at the beam on his coat and matched it with where the beam goes thru the glass. This would have given him the proper angle to pinpoint the general direction that the sharpshooter was located. Same with when the sharpshooter fired the bullet and shot him.
It isn't my photo, but I have no doubts the picture is real (look at other images in the directory that the picture is in). It is a matter of the beam dissapearing in the clouds and the angle at which he took the picture.
Okay, it would be my guess that someone used a high powered YAG laser or maybe a large DPSS. I seriously doubt this was from a handheld unit.
The beams could make it into the cockpit upon approach I believe.
You have to be an idiot to do such a thing. The "pulsing" factor makes me think it might have been a pulsed YAG system, since many are triggered by flashlamps.
Crazy stuff, and it will make it difficult for those of us into lasers for entertainment.
Don't forget to check out www.linux-laser.org, an opensource linux laser platform. The funny thing is the only major software to use the device so far is for Windows XP.
Green appears the brightest on the human spectrum. Most of these small lasers are DPSS (Diode pumped solid state). If the beam is coherent it is *INDEED* a danger, and nothing scares me more than the thought of hoodlums running around with 600mw "laser pointers".
Lasers for display are regulated by the Center for Disease and Radiological Health. Your not supposed to direct a laser above 5mw up into the sky.
At a long distance, the beam definitly becomes incoherent. Gas lasers are considered better than solid state in regards to beam colimation, and without optics my 2.5' long argon tube beam ends up 1' or more wide at a distance of only 1000 feet or so.
Targeting, no... Someone might manage to cross the planes path, but in order to track a plane I'd iamgine you would need to build a box filled with dirt sitting on innertubes to isolate vibration, then come up with a servo mechanism. I don't think 16 bit DACs would give enough accuracy with glavos.
Weapons targeting systems do not use visible lasers AFAIK. It would be a giveaway if there was a bright green dot on the target and a green line tracing back to the source.
Also, laser light is different then searchlights because the light is polarized. So you can see the beam better from one way versus the other.
Then someone should throw the book at vendors like Matrox who cheated hard working professionals out of their money by selling flawed products and offering a few hundred dollars off of newer products as a fix. (Products that cost over $1000 each).
While the person operating the FTP site is no saint, really the people who downloaded the software are the ones defrauding the vendors of money, assuming there was really a sale there.
Did the software companies report $50 million in losses? No.
They claim that every download or copy is a lost sale, which is total crap. I'm sure many people here on slashdot remember the days of dialing in to the local pirate BBS, downloading crazy expensive business programs, and playing with them for the fun of it. Did I need autocad? No. Was I using autocad for business? No. Was it lost revenue from Autodesk? No. Did I even know what I was doing? No.
I understand the software publishers desire to get paid for their work. Things are much better today, I downloaded a preview of Combustion!! Didn't know what to do with it (like Autocad) but got a glimpse of the real software.
We all knew those people that had the insane software collection. They didn't play the games. They didn't use the applications. They stored it away, stacks and stacks of disks.
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Kind of funny there are NASA headlines, when the biggest news in the Southeastern Virginia NASA commnuity is one of budget cuts in NASA's Earth Science budgets.
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http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-61304sy0feb05,0
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, IRIX, Win2k, then Linux.
Does it come with utilities for third world citizens to develop viruses? What about Microsoft Phishing Scheme Professional?
Radio stations pay 3 cents per play to cover ALL of their listeners. And just because someone downloads it doesn't mean they aren't covered by fair use. I've downloaded songs because I didn't feel like looking for the CD I own. It's out in the changer in the car, etc. Fair use.
I don't think Lucent owns Bell Labs. I believe Bell Labs was owned by SAIC and operated under the Telcordia name.
Recent press release:
SAIC SIGNS AGREEMENT TO SELL TELCORDIA TO PROVIDENCE EQUITY AND WARBURG PINCUS
If SBC does take over AT&T, they need to keep the AT&T name and the deathstar symbol. Please don't adopt a really stupid name, like, say, Verizon. BELL ATLANTIC FOREVER!
I agree about passing the torch. Knight Lightning passed it to Erik B, who I think passed it to the r00t guys, who passed it to Voyager perhaps and then it ended up in who's hands?
Isn't a cracker a white guy? Thus most hackers are crackers?
2600 publishes what people submit. If you have something better than what is currently in the magazines, try submitting an article.
There used to be a unit called a celljack. It plugged into the DB-25 connector on a Motorola brick, and then the handset cable plugged into it IIRC.
I remember seeing them in a magazine. I had the idea that you could mount one of those standard desktop touch tone phones in the center console of your car, and be a true player. I'm not sure if it would do pulse dialing. The proposed purpose I guess was to drive either phones on a boat, or run a fax machine or modem from a cell phone.
We actually found a similiar device while dumpster diving, but no documentation is availible nor any info about what phone it hooks to.
I remember doing the exact same thing on Altavista. The default full install of IRIX on Indy workstations had a webserver that would serve images from the IndyCam perched on the granite Sony monitor in many computer labs and offices. The trick was finding ones that were enabled, or didn't have the little door shut. There were a few that were on.
Okay, so you don't like walmart. You think they harm your community. You want to stage a protest. Here is something you can try.
The barcode scanners for most point of sale systems are configurable via bar codes. That's right, the setup procedure involves scanning special barcodes to set the unit up. If you were to find out what brand units they are (probably Symbol), you could potentially get a PDF version of the manual which includes the configuration barcodes.
If you could organize for friends to all hit various check out lanes near the same time, you should be able to reconfigure the checkout scanners to a different baud rate or UPC format so it will no longer read the standard barcodes. This would make the register unusable. The first thing done would be for all of the people to jump to other registers, which you have already walked by and scanned your reconfiguration tag across, which means they won't work.
It would probably take the service technicians a while to figure out, but once they did they would be able to fix all checkout lanes rapidly.
The fraud of UPC barcodes should be eliminated soon with deployment of RFIDs. Of course, new games might be possible like a huge plasma tv generator in your car... park in front of a walmart, and all RFID scanners constantly ring up a very expensive item.
Ya'll hold back now - ya jamming my frequency.
MP3 also has this capability/feature.
I actually remember getting a version of Hoobastank's Crawling in the Dark track that included an advertisement. I believe that band rose to fame using mp3/free trading of files for marketing. It was definitly their advertisement that popped up. Neat stuff. Didn't mention mp3.com at the time.
So if someone wants to make money for nothing (heh), go grab your CD collection and start looking for windows media versions of songs you own on Kazaa. If the download speed is really fast, you know you probably have a trojaned file. Install it, claim your losses, extort tons of money from the company. If someone has cheap access to a lawyer, you could potentially make a good amount of money off of the company. The key is finding a way to claim losses.
Alot of novice users are finding it hard to get mp3 versions of songs they own onto portable mp3 devices. A subnotebook computer without a CD-ROM drive but with USB could be the perfect platform.
Woah, I need a copy of that episode! Seriously, I'm going to have to look up the episode number, that is funny.
Ahh, Season 1, episode 5 : EZ Jackster.
This show sounds completely ghetto, with episodes called "She's got game." Sorry, haven't watched Disney in ages even though the local cable provider now makes all subscribers pay for it -- since they wouldn't be able to sustain service on their own as there aren't enough people interested in subscribing.
Internet sales are hurting record stores more than piracy I'm sure. Piracy has always existed.
I'd also like to point out the utter dissapointment in the movie "phone booth" ... when the sharp shooter aimed the laser scope at the victim, he could have looked at the beam on his coat and matched it with where the beam goes thru the glass. This would have given him the proper angle to pinpoint the general direction that the sharpshooter was located. Same with when the sharpshooter fired the bullet and shot him.
It isn't my photo, but I have no doubts the picture is real (look at other images in the directory that the picture is in). It is a matter of the beam dissapearing in the clouds and the angle at which he took the picture.
Okay, it would be my guess that someone used a high powered YAG laser or maybe a large DPSS. I seriously doubt this was from a handheld unit.
The beams could make it into the cockpit upon approach I believe.
You have to be an idiot to do such a thing. The "pulsing" factor makes me think it might have been a pulsed YAG system, since many are triggered by flashlamps.
Crazy stuff, and it will make it difficult for those of us into lasers for entertainment.
For a good pic of a YAG on a clear night (this isn't mine):
A flashlamp triggered yag
Argon on foggy night
I have some pics from playing around here:
http://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/lasers/
Don't forget to check out www.linux-laser.org, an opensource linux laser platform. The funny thing is the only major software to use the device so far is for Windows XP.
Green appears the brightest on the human spectrum. Most of these small lasers are DPSS (Diode pumped solid state). If the beam is coherent it is *INDEED* a danger, and nothing scares me more than the thought of hoodlums running around with 600mw "laser pointers".
Lasers for display are regulated by the Center for Disease and Radiological Health. Your not supposed to direct a laser above 5mw up into the sky.
At a long distance, the beam definitly becomes incoherent. Gas lasers are considered better than solid state in regards to beam colimation, and without optics my 2.5' long argon tube beam ends up 1' or more wide at a distance of only 1000 feet or so.
Targeting, no... Someone might manage to cross the planes path, but in order to track a plane I'd iamgine you would need to build a box filled with dirt sitting on innertubes to isolate vibration, then come up with a servo mechanism. I don't think 16 bit DACs would give enough accuracy with glavos.
Weapons targeting systems do not use visible lasers AFAIK. It would be a giveaway if there was a bright green dot on the target and a green line tracing back to the source.
Also, laser light is different then searchlights because the light is polarized. So you can see the beam better from one way versus the other.
Then someone should throw the book at vendors like Matrox who cheated hard working professionals out of their money by selling flawed products and offering a few hundred dollars off of newer products as a fix. (Products that cost over $1000 each).
While the person operating the FTP site is no saint, really the people who downloaded the software are the ones defrauding the vendors of money, assuming there was really a sale there.
Did the software companies report $50 million in losses? No.
They claim that every download or copy is a lost sale, which is total crap. I'm sure many people here on slashdot remember the days of dialing in to the local pirate BBS, downloading crazy expensive business programs, and playing with them for the fun of it. Did I need autocad? No. Was I using autocad for business? No. Was it lost revenue from Autodesk? No. Did I even know what I was doing? No.
I understand the software publishers desire to get paid for their work. Things are much better today, I downloaded a preview of Combustion!! Didn't know what to do with it (like Autocad) but got a glimpse of the real software.
We all knew those people that had the insane software collection. They didn't play the games. They didn't use the applications. They stored it away, stacks and stacks of disks.
We did this for real, not using X10, using FreeBSD, in 1999 and 2000.
Details:
http://www.757.org/main/projects/xmas00/
http://www.757.org/main/projects/xmas99/
No hoax.
It might re-appear next year.
Does everyone in the world get a free Taco if it hits a Taco Bell?
Uncapping of the rate? No. Promiscuous mode is where the terror begins! Sniffing the traffic on the segment is where the real press will begin.
It is rumored Bill's parents had connections with IBM, which led to the contract for MS-DOS. It's all in who you know.
Obviously you haven't seen the chip fabrication category on eBay!
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