This high school doesn't stand a chance. Other than state lotteries and tribal casinos, frequency negotiations are about as corrupt as it gets.
The FCC hasn't been a useful tool of airwave management for a long time, evidenced by their refusal to allow cell/wifi devices on planes. Now there's wifi capability on some planes, but only through the carrier... and do you think that those carriers have figured out some way to isolate that signal that regular industry hasn't? No, it's just that there is money involved, and noone has put forward an ample attack for consumers.
Planning commissions are almost as bad, but at least there's an appearance of more public deliberation for those.
Good luck to that HS, but the chances are slim. My bet is that they'll be left scratching their heads, saying "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
Nice review. I can envision this being very useful for my company's business travellers, due to the space considerations specifically. As well, anyone that works in corporate IT knows that users have a tendency to stockpile their mail, regardless of it's use - this would be a very handy device to store.pst files (or even.nsf files.)
Thanks to BlueSmoke for the useful info, I'll see if I can pick one of these up and eval it for wider usage.
If you end up being able to replicate the smell of a good wine by mixing a couple of chemicals together (like you would with toner), I'm sure that many wineries would like the recipe. After all, they could cut costs by just using some non-toxic additive to their wine as well, right?
No - this would be a handy companion to an emailed "flaming bag of dogshit" pic, but for items with a high quality aroma, I wouldn't hold your breath.
We did a review of Vonage a while back on Techfocus - it was/.'ed at the time, but I'm not finding the link now. Anyhow, here's the link to the review. It's been a bit since it was posted, but the fundamentals remain!
Competition is always good. My main issue with Netscape is simply that it's not promoted like it should be... it's the same issue I have with people buying fast cars, driving in the fast lane, and going 55.
Not that Netscape's necessarily a Ferrari, but it's no Yugo, either.
36.6 seems a bit generous. There's nothing more humbling than a 9600 baud connection.
In all seriousness though, I agree - education is a good step. However, if they've already been dinged, education isn't going to work... but a disconnection will.
Even if Comcast goes forth with this, it's just a drop in the bucket. Maintaining an open database of websites known to propogate spam, then blacklisting them would do more.
Of course, that'd require *real* work and verification, as those sites move all the time. Still, it's possible.
The point is, this is lipstick on a pig. No amount of port blocking is going to stop dumbass users from being turned into zombies, short of pulling the plug or blocking their access to a database of known-to-be-harmful sites.
Here's an idea: how about disabling it like they are considering, and then putting them on a probationary term? They'd be able to continue with Comcast, but their traffic would have to be filtered through the blacklist for, say three months?
I know it's not popular to talk about censoring sites, but it's wasteful in terms of productivity and economics to have to clean up after these zombies all the time. Perhaps the "denial of service" should be applied to those infected, say after two incidents?
Just thoughts. I applaud Comcast for thinking about it, but can't help but shake my head as to the likely effectiveness.
Actually, if you ever see him interviewed, he wishes people would stop talking about Star Trek.
Understood. Yet he still keeps taking the parts - have you seen the Priceline ad where he meets up again with Shatner?
That's the thing - he feels totally trapped by the Kirk role. He wishes that a) he could do something else and b) people would want to talk about anything else he's done. It's not fair to him to suggest he's "milking" his role as Kirk, I think he almost wishes he'd never taken it.
True, again. Nonetheless, he's got the ability to do other roles if he wants them. I'd suggest that while externally he may want to do other things, internally he thinks that he *can't* do other things. Think of Mel Gibson - the guy played so many cop-type roles, then he played in "Payback." Denzel Washington, same thing (though Washington's fallen into the "I've been victimized" role lately).
Point is, we all have some essence of free will - and while we may be remembered for some things more than others, that doesn't change the fact that we can choose to do other things. The fact that one thing is easier than others doesn't lock us into the easier choice - it just means we're not willing to take the next step.
I'd like to see Shatner try.
Just as a footnote, the last Star Trek movie I enjoyed was "Wrath of Khan." Mod me down if necessary:)
I don't think Shatner's been much good at anything since his wife died. Frankly, I don't blame him... if my wife died, I'd probably be a bit aimless as well.
All of that said, Shatner's milked the Star Trek thing long enough. Milking a role 10 years after a show ends might be ok for awhile, but the original Star Trek has been gone for a LONG time. The Johnny Carson show was as good as Star Trek, but you don't see Carson showing up everytime someone opens the curtains.
He's had a full life - he should stop embarrassing himself. There's nothing unique about a 1-role actor. He's a nice guy, but really... bury the role, and try something else.
I had that a while back - after a significant amount of time, a technician came out to the house. It turned out that a line filter was a bit corroded on the outside of the house, and a quick replacement fixed it.
After reading several cable installer manuals, I found that a lot of cable installers will staple the coax too close to the rain gutters, and the ensuing rain tends to saturate the filter. Asking the cable installer to staple (or place hook-snaps) near-flush against the eaves usually reduces the likelihood.
Sounds like Dutch webhosts are the most likely now to be the hosts for copyrighted mp3 sites, provided the mp3 files are held elsewhere. After all, if a website's having to change it's DNS every few weeks as it is booted from one host to the other, it makes sense to just host in a safe haven.
Still, downloading Mp3's via links sounds so inefficient!
It stands to reason that these TechTV folks are developing stun guns as negotiation tools for two of those 80 jobs in LA. I'd bet they'd do nearly anything if they could use it on a few G4 execs...
"The angle of the pitcher is monitored and calculated within our code at a rate much greater than an individual could ever pour a beverage out of a pitcher, thus the speed and concurrency is sufficient."
Clearly these folks haven't ever seen a beer pitcher fly out at about 360 degrees from a drunken frat boy's hand.
Easy there, sport. For the record, I'm on no crusade against "the man". However, the day I put that many expletives into three paragraphs over a story on Slashdot, I'm putting a request into Facilities to move my cube at least 30 more feet from the soda machine.
That's right - solve the problem with legislation. Hey, it fixed the spam problem, didn't it? Music piracy - fixed through the DMCA.
No - the only thing that'll sideline something like this will be vandalism.
Also, the last time I went down 880 near Hayward, I recall seeing one of these things. Wasn't distracting to me at all - perhaps because I was paying attention to what I was supposed to be doing: driving.
Point is - people should be paying attention to the road. Those that are distracted enough by signs to get into accidents... natural selection, perhaps?
You're correct - it wasn't isolated to Sun overall. However, they were about the only company still spending like mad on infrastructure projects at that particular time, while essentially the rest of the valley put things on hold. At *that* time, Wall Street was very peeved about all the waste going on, and wanted companies to spend the bare minimum.
I didn't even bring up (until now) the multiple buildings on McCarthy Ranch road that they built either. Most of them are still empty - brand new, never occupied. The land was bought when prices were at a premium, now sq. ft pricing on a lease is flat in the area.
Thus, having lived and worked in the area, I have to disagree with your presumption that everyone was doing it. Whereas it's picking up again now, Sun was one of the very few to still be spending like drunken sailors at that point... and now, while other companies are strengthening again and beginning to spend, Sun's probably a year away from stopping the bleeding.
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This high school doesn't stand a chance. Other than state lotteries and tribal casinos, frequency negotiations are about as corrupt as it gets.
The FCC hasn't been a useful tool of airwave management for a long time, evidenced by their refusal to allow cell/wifi devices on planes. Now there's wifi capability on some planes, but only through the carrier... and do you think that those carriers have figured out some way to isolate that signal that regular industry hasn't? No, it's just that there is money involved, and noone has put forward an ample attack for consumers.
Planning commissions are almost as bad, but at least there's an appearance of more public deliberation for those.
Good luck to that HS, but the chances are slim. My bet is that they'll be left scratching their heads, saying "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
Nice review. I can envision this being very useful for my company's business travellers, due to the space considerations specifically. As well, anyone that works in corporate IT knows that users have a tendency to stockpile their mail, regardless of it's use - this would be a very handy device to store .pst files (or even .nsf files.)
Thanks to BlueSmoke for the useful info, I'll see if I can pick one of these up and eval it for wider usage.
If you end up being able to replicate the smell of a good wine by mixing a couple of chemicals together (like you would with toner), I'm sure that many wineries would like the recipe. After all, they could cut costs by just using some non-toxic additive to their wine as well, right?
No - this would be a handy companion to an emailed "flaming bag of dogshit" pic, but for items with a high quality aroma, I wouldn't hold your breath.
We did a review of Vonage a while back on Techfocus - it was /.'ed at the time, but I'm not finding the link now. Anyhow, here's the link to the review. It's been a bit since it was posted, but the fundamentals remain!
With Netscape, you get AOL shortcuts on your desktop.
Wait, you said advantage?
Competition is always good. My main issue with Netscape is simply that it's not promoted like it should be... it's the same issue I have with people buying fast cars, driving in the fast lane, and going 55.
Not that Netscape's necessarily a Ferrari, but it's no Yugo, either.
Is there Linux support for it?
36.6 seems a bit generous. There's nothing more humbling than a 9600 baud connection.
In all seriousness though, I agree - education is a good step. However, if they've already been dinged, education isn't going to work... but a disconnection will.
Even if Comcast goes forth with this, it's just a drop in the bucket. Maintaining an open database of websites known to propogate spam, then blacklisting them would do more.
Of course, that'd require *real* work and verification, as those sites move all the time. Still, it's possible.
The point is, this is lipstick on a pig. No amount of port blocking is going to stop dumbass users from being turned into zombies, short of pulling the plug or blocking their access to a database of known-to-be-harmful sites.
Here's an idea: how about disabling it like they are considering, and then putting them on a probationary term? They'd be able to continue with Comcast, but their traffic would have to be filtered through the blacklist for, say three months?
I know it's not popular to talk about censoring sites, but it's wasteful in terms of productivity and economics to have to clean up after these zombies all the time. Perhaps the "denial of service" should be applied to those infected, say after two incidents?
Just thoughts. I applaud Comcast for thinking about it, but can't help but shake my head as to the likely effectiveness.
Edit - "have you seen the Priceline ad where he meets up again with Shatner?"
Should say Nimoy.
Actually, if you ever see him interviewed, he wishes people would stop talking about Star Trek.
:)
Understood. Yet he still keeps taking the parts - have you seen the Priceline ad where he meets up again with Shatner?
That's the thing - he feels totally trapped by the Kirk role. He wishes that a) he could do something else and b) people would want to talk about anything else he's done. It's not fair to him to suggest he's "milking" his role as Kirk, I think he almost wishes he'd never taken it.
True, again. Nonetheless, he's got the ability to do other roles if he wants them. I'd suggest that while externally he may want to do other things, internally he thinks that he *can't* do other things. Think of Mel Gibson - the guy played so many cop-type roles, then he played in "Payback." Denzel Washington, same thing (though Washington's fallen into the "I've been victimized" role lately).
Point is, we all have some essence of free will - and while we may be remembered for some things more than others, that doesn't change the fact that we can choose to do other things. The fact that one thing is easier than others doesn't lock us into the easier choice - it just means we're not willing to take the next step.
I'd like to see Shatner try.
Just as a footnote, the last Star Trek movie I enjoyed was "Wrath of Khan." Mod me down if necessary
I don't think Shatner's been much good at anything since his wife died. Frankly, I don't blame him... if my wife died, I'd probably be a bit aimless as well.
All of that said, Shatner's milked the Star Trek thing long enough. Milking a role 10 years after a show ends might be ok for awhile, but the original Star Trek has been gone for a LONG time. The Johnny Carson show was as good as Star Trek, but you don't see Carson showing up everytime someone opens the curtains.
He's had a full life - he should stop embarrassing himself. There's nothing unique about a 1-role actor. He's a nice guy, but really... bury the role, and try something else.
I had that a while back - after a significant amount of time, a technician came out to the house. It turned out that a line filter was a bit corroded on the outside of the house, and a quick replacement fixed it.
After reading several cable installer manuals, I found that a lot of cable installers will staple the coax too close to the rain gutters, and the ensuing rain tends to saturate the filter. Asking the cable installer to staple (or place hook-snaps) near-flush against the eaves usually reduces the likelihood.
Sounds like Dutch webhosts are the most likely now to be the hosts for copyrighted mp3 sites, provided the mp3 files are held elsewhere. After all, if a website's having to change it's DNS every few weeks as it is booted from one host to the other, it makes sense to just host in a safe haven.
Still, downloading Mp3's via links sounds so inefficient!
It stands to reason that these TechTV folks are developing stun guns as negotiation tools for two of those 80 jobs in LA. I'd bet they'd do nearly anything if they could use it on a few G4 execs...
If this test was done by an overclocker, you wouldn't have any stinkin' batteries - you'd have a flux capacitor powering it.
These guys are amateurs.
They may be good at making burners, but their web developer needs to be thrown a good beating.
Perhaps though, that's the problem. Maybe they locked him in a closet 5-6 years ago, and are too cheap to buy him new training materials?
"The angle of the pitcher is monitored and calculated within our code at a rate much greater than an individual could ever pour a beverage out of a pitcher, thus the speed and concurrency is sufficient."
Clearly these folks haven't ever seen a beer pitcher fly out at about 360 degrees from a drunken frat boy's hand.
Easy there, sport. For the record, I'm on no crusade against "the man". However, the day I put that many expletives into three paragraphs over a story on Slashdot, I'm putting a request into Facilities to move my cube at least 30 more feet from the soda machine.
Before you get into bed with a company, first check to see if it has an Adam's apple. If so, choose an alternative.
Actually, it wasn't an idiot Senator that started the "digital pearl harbor" - it was an idiot at the National Security Council, Richard Clarke.
The sooner the free hosts go out of business, the faster Googlebots will crawl.
What if you took a picture of a McDonalds?
Hell, you could be lost for days.
That's right - solve the problem with legislation. Hey, it fixed the spam problem, didn't it? Music piracy - fixed through the DMCA.
No - the only thing that'll sideline something like this will be vandalism.
Also, the last time I went down 880 near Hayward, I recall seeing one of these things. Wasn't distracting to me at all - perhaps because I was paying attention to what I was supposed to be doing: driving.
Point is - people should be paying attention to the road. Those that are distracted enough by signs to get into accidents... natural selection, perhaps?
You're correct - it wasn't isolated to Sun overall. However, they were about the only company still spending like mad on infrastructure projects at that particular time, while essentially the rest of the valley put things on hold. At *that* time, Wall Street was very peeved about all the waste going on, and wanted companies to spend the bare minimum.
I didn't even bring up (until now) the multiple buildings on McCarthy Ranch road that they built either. Most of them are still empty - brand new, never occupied. The land was bought when prices were at a premium, now sq. ft pricing on a lease is flat in the area.
Thus, having lived and worked in the area, I have to disagree with your presumption that everyone was doing it. Whereas it's picking up again now, Sun was one of the very few to still be spending like drunken sailors at that point... and now, while other companies are strengthening again and beginning to spend, Sun's probably a year away from stopping the bleeding.