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You lefties are confused. If you would just leave services like deliveries to the private sector, you wouldn't have our tax dollars that prop up the USPS subsidizing Chinese delivery. Private business would fix the price or go out of business.
No confusion on this side of the education divide; USPS gets NO taxpayer funding. NONE. It's all paid for by postage.
website which hosts links to about 150 (as I write this) individually owned receivers all over the world. Can be better reception from different locations.
Letter mail is OCRed to facilitate automated sorting. That orange barcode on the back of your mail links to the database record
of the mailpiece destination. It's how the postal system sorts all that mail so quickly, with so few people. I've long suspected
that the data got used in other ways, but it's primary purpose is to move the mail.
Murder via internet (and a lot more), committed by someone who is dead. "Daemon" by Daniel Suarez. Interesting read. There is also a sequel, "Freedom".
Actually the Edison bulbs are used in brooders to provide warmth (as well as light) for newly hatched chicks. There are usually unforeseen uses for items then they were designed for. I still miss the pumice
that used to be in Comet cleanser. Worked well to clean PC boards before applying resist to etch circuit boards.
A modification to the law that such 'heat bulbs' cannot emit light would probably be the next step to prevent wasted energy (i.e. people still using them for lighting).
OTOH, his military source violated US laws and was well aware of what s/he was doing and should be prosecuted. Civil disobedience is not without it's risks. If we were in a real war this information leak would have resulted in a date with a firing squad.
Not if you're part of the right wing war machine. Remember Valerie Plame? Releasing the name of an undercover agent during a time of war is treason. Punishable by death. There wasn't even a tap on the shoulder for Dick Cheney.
It may in fact be a ham that is legally operating in the 2.4GHz band. Hams are licensed users of this spectrum, and have priority. They could be causing the interference (if in fact they are),
and if so you just have to live with it, if it can't be resolved. Hams are also protected from interference (by law) from the unlicensed users of the spectrum.
And by the way, end users increasing the power output of a WiFi transmitter is not a good idea. It can cause interference on nearby spectrum, and increased noise levels in the band, which can defeat the purpose of the increase in the first place. This is not something that should be hacked.
Too bad; I learned on VM/CMS. Can't beat having your own virtual machine.
Didn't have to deal with JCL and the MVS stuff. Only system I liked as much as Amiga OS.
Customers loved VM, so of course the suits tried to kill it and champion MVS. Meh.
Yeah, yeah you responding to this post; get off my lawn!
Wow! Take a deep breath. The OP was using sarcasm to make his point. Although I can understand your reaction, because of the flood of corporate BS, err... doublespeak, we have been subjected to for years.
Your points are valid, and we're not all dupes of the corporations and their bribed congress critters.
Perhaps it's time to press for a Bill of Responsibilities to accompany the Bill of Rights. Things like:
When the pursuit of profit conflicts with the good of the country, it will be considered treason.
I have other thoughts along this line, but I think this is enough to illustrate what I mean and what we the people need.
Flat paper speakers. Yawn. This is old news decades ago. You can do this in your living room. I did decades ago. Interleave aluminum foil and the pages of a newspaper. Your making a capacitor. Connect the separate sheets of aluminum to the final audio amplifier in a tube amplifier. One connection to ground, the other to the anode of the final amplifier tube.
And yes, there be high voltage here.
You now have a talking newspaper.
Slashdot is supposed to be a nerd site, why are the vast majority here unaware of this?
I see many recommendations. Let me suggest the tool to use and explore the math. APL. Powerful, easy to use, and very successfully taught to high school students.
The book, 'APL; An Interactive Approach' is a good starting point. There are many others.
There are free for personal use versions of APL available. Any questions, drop by:
comp.lang.apl
W backed the prescription drug medicare benefit, right along with Kennedy and Clinton. That added hundreds of billions of unfunded liabilities all by itself.
And how much of that is due to making it a crime for the government to negotiate prices for the overpriced prescription drugs? I watched the vote on CSPAN, waiting HOURS to see the result. I gave up and went to bed when there was just one uncommitted vote. At that time the bill wouldn't have passed; but the Republicans didn't close the vote until they had 'persuaded' several representatives to change their vote and join the dark side. So, how much of the deficit is due to 'pork bribery'?
The words "matter of national security" should carry a bit of weight.
This would be the case if the phrase (and it's cousin - Executive Privilege) were not used so frequently and so obviously to hide illegal/unethical actions on the part of members of the current (and former) administrations.
--
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:32(King James Version).
You shall know the truth and it shall make you mad. -Aldous Huxley
And if the people were mad, it would lead to execution for treason.
So what is the consequence of lying about a "matter of national security" when the alternative is execution?
Actually, the posted review link, shows that there are 9 available. One (or is it 2?) less than yesterday. Perhaps one of our Slashdot tribe has purchased a copy. Mine sits on the shelf with the rest of my Amiga library.
Ralph Babel's Amiga Guru Book is however almost (really?) impossible to obtain. I've wanted a copy of that one for awhile.
My car vibrates depending on road conditions and engine RPM,
Would this not be "vibration for tactile feadback"? it's 15years old, so I bet it's prior art....
Nope, that would be Boeing with their "stick shaker"
feedback to indicate that the aircraft is loosing lift and is about to stall. Was (I think) first implemented on the B-52.
APL not only had no outside influences, it inturn influenced nothing else. In fact to program it, you needed a special keyboard.
Not true. APL influenced A, A+, J, and K. In fact J was written by Ken Iverson (the original author of APL). Although, some consider these dialects of APL.
Iverson passed away October 19, 2004 at age 83. So long Ken, and thanks for all the APL.
A special keyboard is not needed, however special keycaps were helpful. At least until you know where the glyphs are mapped. And there are two APL keymappings you can use; standard and unified, selected by CTRL-N and CTRL-O.
Check out APL. It's syntax is very simple, and the language very powerful. I don't know why anyone would use C or its derivitives after being exposed to APL. There is even a free version of APL available for x86 Linux: APLX from MicroAPL. Download it from their website.
http://www.microapl.co.uk/apl/aplx_downloads.html
Being an employee of an RBOC, the reason that a lot of the fiber infastructure is not used and why it is not being deployed in the FCC's ridiculous rules on UNE/P. Once regulatory relief comes, RBOC's will be more willing to invest in their infastructure.
Once their shills in congress/FCC guarantee a monopoly we'll get fiber to the home.
As it stands today, why would they build a network only to have to lease it to a competitor for a loss?
They never leased to anyone but themselves for a loss. They had to lease at wholesale rates to competition when they wanted to charge retail (single user) rates.
A lot of RBOC's are looking at rolling out Fiber to the Prem (home) but want to ensure regulatory relief before they spend the billions to do it.
I'm curious, would they be willing to use municipally owned/installed fiber? One where they have to compete on a level playing field and charge reasonable rates? Or would they oppose local government investing in a public infrastructure?
Let's see, three RF caps placed hot to hot, and each hot leg to ground/neutral. Although it won't address the radiated interference, it will remove the interference on the power lines at your house. And will create standing waves on the power lines. If enough people in the town "filter interference" from their lines, it should help reduce the problem; and the demand for such a wretched "service". Perhaps a technical solution can eliminate this busi^H^H^H^H
problem.
Guess we'll all need kilowatts now to cut through the interference; too bad BPL modems will suffer as a result.
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You lefties are confused. If you would just leave services like deliveries to the private sector, you wouldn't have our tax dollars that prop up the USPS subsidizing Chinese delivery. Private business would fix the price or go out of business.
No confusion on this side of the education divide; USPS gets NO taxpayer funding. NONE. It's all paid for by postage.
http://SDR.hu
website which hosts links to about 150 (as I write this) individually owned receivers all over the world. Can be better reception from different locations.
Letter mail is OCRed to facilitate automated sorting. That orange barcode on the back of your mail links to the database record of the mailpiece destination. It's how the postal system sorts all that mail so quickly, with so few people. I've long suspected that the data got used in other ways, but it's primary purpose is to move the mail.
Nope. "Daemon" was copyright 2009. Which you should have checked before posting.
Murder via internet (and a lot more), committed by someone who is dead. "Daemon" by Daniel Suarez. Interesting read. There is also a sequel, "Freedom".
Actually the Edison bulbs are used in brooders to provide warmth (as well as light) for newly hatched chicks. There are usually unforeseen uses for items then they were designed for. I still miss the pumice that used to be in Comet cleanser. Worked well to clean PC boards before applying resist to etch circuit boards.
A modification to the law that such 'heat bulbs' cannot emit light would probably be the next step to prevent wasted energy (i.e. people still using them for lighting).
OTOH, his military source violated US laws and was well aware of what s/he was doing and should be prosecuted. Civil disobedience is not without it's risks. If we were in a real war this information leak would have resulted in a date with a firing squad.
Not if you're part of the right wing war machine. Remember Valerie Plame? Releasing the name of an undercover agent during a time of war is treason. Punishable by death. There wasn't even a tap on the shoulder for Dick Cheney.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/23/report-cheney-admits-cruc_n_153157.html
It may in fact be a ham that is legally operating in the 2.4GHz band. Hams are licensed users of this spectrum, and have priority. They could be causing the interference (if in fact they are), and if so you just have to live with it, if it can't be resolved. Hams are also protected from interference (by law) from the unlicensed users of the spectrum.
And by the way, end users increasing the power output of a WiFi transmitter is not a good idea. It can cause interference on nearby spectrum, and increased noise levels in the band, which can defeat the purpose of the increase in the first place. This is not something that should be hacked.
we have trouble with our RF gun (laser scans bar codes, then prints price labels, runs off of 802.11whatever).
Sounds like a cheap, poorly designed product. No shielding, or bypassing of stray RF. A plastic case rather than metal?
Too bad; I learned on VM/CMS. Can't beat having your own virtual machine. Didn't have to deal with JCL and the MVS stuff. Only system I liked as much as Amiga OS. Customers loved VM, so of course the suits tried to kill it and champion MVS. Meh.
Yeah, yeah you responding to this post; get off my lawn!
HCP9010W
Wow! Take a deep breath. The OP was using sarcasm to make his point. Although I can understand your reaction, because of the flood of corporate BS, err... doublespeak, we have been subjected to for years.
Your points are valid, and we're not all dupes of the corporations and their bribed congress critters.
Perhaps it's time to press for a Bill of Responsibilities to accompany the Bill of Rights. Things like:
When the pursuit of profit conflicts with the good of the country, it will be considered treason.
I have other thoughts along this line, but I think this is enough to illustrate what I mean and what we the people need.
Flat paper speakers. Yawn. This is old news decades ago. You can do this in your living room. I did decades ago. Interleave aluminum foil and the pages of a newspaper. Your making a capacitor. Connect the separate sheets of aluminum to the final audio amplifier in a tube amplifier. One connection to ground, the other to the anode of the final amplifier tube. And yes, there be high voltage here. You now have a talking newspaper. Slashdot is supposed to be a nerd site, why are the vast majority here unaware of this?
I see many recommendations. Let me suggest the tool to use and explore the math. APL. Powerful, easy to use, and very successfully taught to high school students.
The book, 'APL; An Interactive Approach' is a good starting point. There are many others. There are free for personal use versions of APL available.
Any questions, drop by:
comp.lang.apl
Not exactly what you asked for, but read the article by experimental physicist Dr Beau Webber.
http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/v233/webber.htm
Then decide for yourself. I've already made my choice.
W backed the prescription drug medicare benefit, right along with Kennedy and Clinton. That added hundreds of billions of unfunded liabilities all by itself.
And how much of that is due to making it a crime for the government to negotiate prices for the overpriced prescription drugs? I watched the vote on CSPAN, waiting HOURS to see the result. I gave up and went to bed when there was just one uncommitted vote. At that time the bill wouldn't have passed; but the Republicans didn't close the vote until they had 'persuaded' several representatives to change their vote and join the dark side. So, how much of the deficit is due to 'pork bribery'?
--
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:32(King James Version).
You shall know the truth and it shall make you mad. -Aldous Huxley
And if the people were mad, it would lead to execution for treason. So what is the consequence of lying about a "matter of national security" when the alternative is execution?
Actually, the posted review link, shows that there are 9 available. One (or is it 2?) less than yesterday. Perhaps one of our Slashdot tribe has purchased a copy. Mine sits on the shelf with the rest of my Amiga library.
Ralph Babel's Amiga Guru Book is however almost (really?) impossible to obtain. I've wanted a copy of that one for awhile.
See: http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0201577577/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt/104-4713685-0897556?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 for a review. BTW, that's Amiga User Interface Style Guide, but the principles aren't OS specific. Emphasis on general interface principles.
My car vibrates depending on road conditions and engine RPM, Would this not be "vibration for tactile feadback"? it's 15years old, so I bet it's prior art....
Nope, that would be Boeing with their "stick shaker" feedback to indicate that the aircraft is loosing lift and is about to stall. Was (I think) first implemented on the B-52.
Iverson passed away October 19, 2004 at age 83. So long Ken, and thanks for all the APL.
Err... Make that October 22, 2004. It's late, time for bed.
APL not only had no outside influences, it inturn influenced nothing else. In fact to program it, you needed a special keyboard.
Not true. APL influenced A, A+, J, and K. In fact J was written by Ken Iverson (the original author of APL). Although, some consider these dialects of APL.
Iverson passed away October 19, 2004 at age 83. So long Ken, and thanks for all the APL.
A special keyboard is not needed, however special keycaps were helpful. At least until you know where the glyphs are mapped. And there are two APL keymappings you can use; standard and unified, selected by CTRL-N and CTRL-O.
Check out APL. It's syntax is very simple, and the language very powerful. I don't know why anyone would use C or its derivitives after being exposed to APL. There is even a free version of APL available for x86 Linux: APLX from MicroAPL. Download it from their website. http://www.microapl.co.uk/apl/aplx_downloads.html
Being an employee of an RBOC, the reason that a lot of the fiber infastructure is not used and why it is not being deployed in the FCC's ridiculous rules on UNE/P. Once regulatory relief comes, RBOC's will be more willing to invest in their infastructure.
Once their shills in congress/FCC guarantee a monopoly we'll get fiber to the home.
As it stands today, why would they build a network only to have to lease it to a competitor for a loss?
They never leased to anyone but themselves for a loss. They had to lease at wholesale rates to competition when they wanted to charge retail (single user) rates.
A lot of RBOC's are looking at rolling out Fiber to the Prem (home) but want to ensure regulatory relief before they spend the billions to do it.
I'm curious, would they be willing to use municipally owned/installed fiber? One where they have to compete on a level playing field and charge reasonable rates? Or would they oppose local government investing in a public infrastructure?
Let's see, three RF caps placed hot to hot, and each hot leg to ground/neutral. Although it won't address the radiated interference, it will remove the interference on the power lines at your house. And will create standing waves on the power lines. If enough people in the town "filter interference" from their lines, it should help reduce the problem; and the demand for such a wretched "service". Perhaps a technical solution can eliminate this busi^H^H^H^H problem.
Guess we'll all need kilowatts now to cut through the interference; too bad BPL modems will suffer as a result.
73, wa2rkn
We really need a -1, Doesn't Know Ass from Hole In Ground moderation option...
AKA... Shouldn't play golf.