About six months ago in London a guy sued his credit card company for declining a charge he made. He said the decline caused him to lose face at a business dinner and since he had available funds it was wrong.
Why not just fix the machine? Isn't their a simple fix that could be sent to their machine, run, thus clearning things up for them. Didn't someone try this?
Does google's policy of "ranking" the sites that have hits favor the "big guys" over more specific smaller traffic websites? That is, would a story on a site like CNN get a higher ranking in google on a keyword "Gulf War" than say a site (gulfwarveterans.com) that deals 100% with the Gulf War? Do you think you are leading to the commercialization of the web (i.e. the big power players) over smaller sites?
One reason the EU might be more advanced is because of the widespread use of mobile phones and the belief (one day) that a mobile device will be your main Internet connection. With per-minute or per-bit charges, getting spammed is going to end up costing people some serious coin if spam continues to grow out of control.
I think this is a point a number of US politicians need to understand. With some of the charges proposed for 3G in the US ($2 a mb in some places) the end user could end up paying for a lot of crap e-mail.
I've used MI2G.com who has offices in London and the US. They've been very busy post-9/11 doing some 'hush-hush' type work, but they have a new security audit matrix that they are using with a number of government agencies that is getting pretty good reviews. They also build out secure systems for banks and financial hosues. I think they also have an office in India.
The leader of the Northern Alliance is belived to have been killed over the weekend in an ambush. He was charismatic and able hold various factions together. Needless to say, his troops (which control 5% of Afghanistan) are pretty upset.
1) DC Special Operations Police Channel is streamed at http://www.penguinradio.com/
2) This is a posting from the DC Police Scanner mailing list (qth.net). Very interesting on air cover over DC.
---
FW:------
--
All,
These are my own observations based only on my hand notes taken at the time.
I started listening to the events around 1030 EDT. The Trade Towers and the
Pentagon had already been attacked. By that time there was not a peep of
civil air traffic in the area. One of the first things I heard was Andrews
tower announcing on their VHF & UHF freqs that their airspace was closed and
that all intruders would be shot down. That certainly put an exclamation
point on what I was to hear for the rest of the day.
Throughout the day the Regan National controller (125.65) was the overall
controlling authority for the DC area. He authorized all departures and
entries into the Class B airspace. That role still remains as of 2200 EDT.
As of 2100 EDT Andrews is starting to return to normal with Airevacs and some
helos and VIP jets starting to fly in.
Fighters:
By 1030 there were two flights of DC ANG F-16s (Wild & Caps) up in Combat
Air Patrol (CAP). At that time there were news reports of another, missing
airliner, so I assume the F-16s were up protecting the DC area from that
possibility. Soon these F-16s were joined by three more F-16s from Langley,
North Dakota ANG aircraft normally deployed to Langley in an air defense
mode. The DC ANG flight leader assumed the role as CAP commander trying to
keep all the aircraft straight. DC ANG F-16s assumed control the airspace
below 23,000 ft and the Langley F-16s and alter, F-15s took the airspace
above that.
After about an hour, two Langley F-15s (First) joined the CAP and took up
position high above the area. They were also joined by some F-18s up from
Oceana. This caused some problems as far as refueling was concerned. The
KC-10s, who had the drogue capability, were ready to RTB and were out of
fuel. One of the KC-10s (Team 23) took it upon himself to set up to refuel
his aircraft from the available KC-135 (Tazz) so that he would be in a
position to refuel both the boom aircraft (F-16s & F-15s) and the drogue guys
(F-18s).
In the early afternoon, a flight of two VA ANG F-16s (Fury) came up to the DC
area to join the CAP group. The CAP commander later sent them back to the
Richmond area because there were too many aircraft in the DC area. After
about 30 minutes the VA ANG guys decided to end their CAP around Richmond and
RTB'ed to Harry Byrd International.
Tankers:
By 1030 there were two McGuire KC-10s (Team 23 & 24) up in the area. I'm not
sure if they were already in the general area when the events unfolded or
they were scrambled from McGuire. They started refueling the DC & Langley
F-16s so they could stay in the area. For awhile, in the morning, Team 23
also assumed the role of an AWACS giving target and vectoring information to
the CAP fighters. Team 23 eventually recovered at Andrews and refueled and
went back up in the late PM (1740). What a crew. They deserve a medal.
They've been up there since at least 1030 this morning.
Around the same time as the McGuire tankers were noted, two KC-135s from the
Maine ANG (Maine 85 & 86) were also in the area working with the McGuire
tankers. I believe that these guys had been up off the East Coast and were
diverted to the area to support operations.
Later in the morning and in the early afternoon two OH ANG KC-135s (Tazz &
Flop) and two PA ANG KC-135s (Steel) also joined the support crowd.
AWACS:
About an hour after I started listening, an AWACS (Bandsaw Kilo) was noted
off the MD/VA coast and started taking control of the airspace. However, the
DC ANG CAP commander continued to control the immediate airspace around
downtown DC. Later in the afternoon he was joined by another AWACS
(Chalice). I'm assuming that these aircraft were deployed from Langley or
possibly Seymour-Johnson. Bandsaw and Chalice were both in the area until
quite late in the evening.
Helos:
They were so many medevac helos trying to get into the Pentagon area to
extricate the wounded that I couldn't keep track of all of them.
Interspersed among the medevacs were several 1st Helo Sqdn (Mussels) getting
into the Pentagon area to take out some of the military VIPs (JCS).
There were also a couple of US Navy helos (HU-720) and another ) that came up
to Andrews from Norfolk. I'm assuming that these were carrying VIPs from
CincLant. News reports said that the area of the Pentagon that was struck by
the plane housed mostly USN & Marine offices.
Late in the PM there were several Nighthawk helos operating back & forth
between MCAF Quantico and Andrews. I'm assuming that they were shuttling
military VIPs.
NCS:
Huntress assumed NCS role sometime in the late morning and set up on 255.8,
228.9 & 234.6. Huntress assumed responsibility for designating targets and
releasing fighters to prosecute these targets.
The DC ANG F-16s and Langley F-15s as well as the AWACS and tankers have
been up continuously, -all day. They are still up and it's 2200 EDT. They
must be bushed.
These crews certainly have shown a very high level of professionalism and
devotion to duty. I for one am glad they are up there looking over us. Those
of you who support our military you can be VERY PROUD of their actions on
this day.
Isn't there a treaty on nuclear powered space propulsion? I know there is a test-ban on explosions in space, but I thought there was also something saying you couldn't have nuke propulsion in space as well.
I understand what you are saying about the "pass the buck issues." In my own case, where DSL was down for 21 days, Bell Atlantic tried twice to blame the outage on my ISP provider, only for me to yell at them "YOU ARE MY ISP!" I switched to Bell Atlantic ISP (eventhough it blows) simply because with a new technology like DSL, and the constant breakdowns, I didn't have time for the pass the buck situation that existed.
As soon as this tech irons out some of the kinks and I don't lose my connection every week or so, I'll flip to a third party ISP as I feel you get a better response from smaller providers.
At least that's what they've been telling us at recent trade shows and in conversations we've had with them. They said we can expect, at the very least, a UNIX version about the same time that a Mac version of the most recent player is released (I think player 6? only runs on Windows, not Mac--can't remember for sure).
I have seen other solutions, however. At the CES show in Vegas, I saw a Cirrus Maverick chip on a board with another small chip that handled the Windows Media decoding. Cirrus released the chip for Windows, but a 3rd party vendor modified it for LINUX. One way around the LINUX problem I guess.
Nonetheless, I'm still going to support both formats in my Linuxradio.
PenguinRadio is working on a similar device (also LINUX based), along with a car and portable appliance that works with a new constellation of satellites from Ellipso that provide broadband access.
It's a very interesting time to be involved in Internet Radio
The majority of Hill offices run Microsoft Outlook (I worked there for quite awhile). In the TO: field, you can select from almost all House offices, leadership, and committee staff.
Personally, I don't buy it. You have to go out of your way to e-mail the entire House e-mail list. While there are only 440 members (5 delegates) there are thousands of staffers. It's not like there is one button that says "everyone" that you hit by accident (if that was the case, this wouldn't have been the first time).
By default, you are set to your own office, but many users change that to a personal e-mail listing). I think the "mistake" was a cover up for a real spam.
Anyway, the House system has a pretty good firewall against the outside, but once you are on the inside, it is, well, "possible" to get into a bunch of systems around the Hill. The encryption isn't that tough and with a dictionary, you can do wonders.
The passwords on a lot of Hill offices are a joke. At one time, I had nearly 300 user ID's w/ passwords onto the old HIS system (they shut it down due to Y2K). With a staff turnover of something like 40% a year (yes, it's that high) system security often falls by the wayside. Amazing how many Intern accounts have passwords of "Intern" "Intern2" "Monica" etc.
Despite claims that the Rio and Nomad violate their new patent, Audiohighway seems to have no problem selling these devices on their web site. They even have a "win a Rio" contest running.
This is a tough patent to enforce. They'll probably come after every guy who ever built an Mp3 player.
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About six months ago in London a guy sued his credit card company for declining a charge he made. He said the decline caused him to lose face at a business dinner and since he had available funds it was wrong.
Porbably won't get very far either.
Why not just fix the machine? Isn't their a simple fix that could be sent to their machine, run, thus clearning things up for them. Didn't someone try this?
Does google's policy of "ranking" the sites that have hits favor the "big guys" over more specific smaller traffic websites? That is, would a story on a site like CNN get a higher ranking in google on a keyword "Gulf War" than say a site (gulfwarveterans.com) that deals 100% with the Gulf War? Do you think you are leading to the commercialization of the web (i.e. the big power players) over smaller sites?
One reason the EU might be more advanced is because of the widespread use of mobile phones and the belief (one day) that a mobile device will be your main Internet connection. With per-minute or per-bit charges, getting spammed is going to end up costing people some serious coin if spam continues to grow out of control.
I think this is a point a number of US politicians need to understand. With some of the charges proposed for 3G in the US ($2 a mb in some places) the end user could end up paying for a lot of crap e-mail.
I've used MI2G.com who has offices in London and the US. They've been very busy post-9/11 doing some 'hush-hush' type work, but they have a new security audit matrix that they are using with a number of government agencies that is getting pretty good reviews. They also build out secure systems for banks and financial hosues. I think they also have an office in India.
e-mail me if you want some more info on them.
It sure looks that way if you check out the pictures...
The leader of the Northern Alliance is belived to have been killed over the weekend in an ambush. He was charismatic and able hold various factions together. Needless to say, his troops (which control 5% of Afghanistan) are pretty upset.
There was one earlier. I made a link at http://www.penguinradio.com/nontraditional/scanner s/
1) DC Special Operations Police Channel is streamed at http://www.penguinradio.com/
2) This is a posting from the DC Police Scanner mailing list (qth.net). Very interesting on air cover over DC.
---
FW:------
--
All,
These are my own observations based only on my hand notes taken at the time.
I started listening to the events around 1030 EDT. The Trade Towers and the
Pentagon had already been attacked. By that time there was not a peep of
civil air traffic in the area. One of the first things I heard was Andrews
tower announcing on their VHF & UHF freqs that their airspace was closed and
that all intruders would be shot down. That certainly put an exclamation
point on what I was to hear for the rest of the day.
Throughout the day the Regan National controller (125.65) was the overall
controlling authority for the DC area. He authorized all departures and
entries into the Class B airspace. That role still remains as of 2200 EDT.
As of 2100 EDT Andrews is starting to return to normal with Airevacs and some
helos and VIP jets starting to fly in.
Fighters:
By 1030 there were two flights of DC ANG F-16s (Wild & Caps) up in Combat
Air Patrol (CAP). At that time there were news reports of another, missing
airliner, so I assume the F-16s were up protecting the DC area from that
possibility. Soon these F-16s were joined by three more F-16s from Langley,
North Dakota ANG aircraft normally deployed to Langley in an air defense
mode. The DC ANG flight leader assumed the role as CAP commander trying to
keep all the aircraft straight. DC ANG F-16s assumed control the airspace
below 23,000 ft and the Langley F-16s and alter, F-15s took the airspace
above that.
After about an hour, two Langley F-15s (First) joined the CAP and took up
position high above the area. They were also joined by some F-18s up from
Oceana. This caused some problems as far as refueling was concerned. The
KC-10s, who had the drogue capability, were ready to RTB and were out of
fuel. One of the KC-10s (Team 23) took it upon himself to set up to refuel
his aircraft from the available KC-135 (Tazz) so that he would be in a
position to refuel both the boom aircraft (F-16s & F-15s) and the drogue guys
(F-18s).
In the early afternoon, a flight of two VA ANG F-16s (Fury) came up to the DC
area to join the CAP group. The CAP commander later sent them back to the
Richmond area because there were too many aircraft in the DC area. After
about 30 minutes the VA ANG guys decided to end their CAP around Richmond and
RTB'ed to Harry Byrd International.
Tankers:
By 1030 there were two McGuire KC-10s (Team 23 & 24) up in the area. I'm not
sure if they were already in the general area when the events unfolded or
they were scrambled from McGuire. They started refueling the DC & Langley
F-16s so they could stay in the area. For awhile, in the morning, Team 23
also assumed the role of an AWACS giving target and vectoring information to
the CAP fighters. Team 23 eventually recovered at Andrews and refueled and
went back up in the late PM (1740). What a crew. They deserve a medal.
They've been up there since at least 1030 this morning.
Around the same time as the McGuire tankers were noted, two KC-135s from the
Maine ANG (Maine 85 & 86) were also in the area working with the McGuire
tankers. I believe that these guys had been up off the East Coast and were
diverted to the area to support operations.
Later in the morning and in the early afternoon two OH ANG KC-135s (Tazz &
Flop) and two PA ANG KC-135s (Steel) also joined the support crowd.
AWACS:
About an hour after I started listening, an AWACS (Bandsaw Kilo) was noted
off the MD/VA coast and started taking control of the airspace. However, the
DC ANG CAP commander continued to control the immediate airspace around
downtown DC. Later in the afternoon he was joined by another AWACS
(Chalice). I'm assuming that these aircraft were deployed from Langley or
possibly Seymour-Johnson. Bandsaw and Chalice were both in the area until
quite late in the evening.
Helos:
They were so many medevac helos trying to get into the Pentagon area to
extricate the wounded that I couldn't keep track of all of them.
Interspersed among the medevacs were several 1st Helo Sqdn (Mussels) getting
into the Pentagon area to take out some of the military VIPs (JCS).
There were also a couple of US Navy helos (HU-720) and another ) that came up
to Andrews from Norfolk. I'm assuming that these were carrying VIPs from
CincLant. News reports said that the area of the Pentagon that was struck by
the plane housed mostly USN & Marine offices.
Late in the PM there were several Nighthawk helos operating back & forth
between MCAF Quantico and Andrews. I'm assuming that they were shuttling
military VIPs.
NCS:
Huntress assumed NCS role sometime in the late morning and set up on 255.8,
228.9 & 234.6. Huntress assumed responsibility for designating targets and
releasing fighters to prosecute these targets.
The DC ANG F-16s and Langley F-15s as well as the AWACS and tankers have
been up continuously, -all day. They are still up and it's 2200 EDT. They
must be bushed.
These crews certainly have shown a very high level of professionalism and
devotion to duty. I for one am glad they are up there looking over us. Those
of you who support our military you can be VERY PROUD of their actions on
this day.
http://www.penguinradio.com/ has live streams of the DC Police Special Operations channel. This is a shoutcast MP3 feed.
Thanks for the link to the picture. I now know where the idea for Thunderbird 2 was developed.
Isn't there a treaty on nuclear powered space propulsion? I know there is a test-ban on explosions in space, but I thought there was also something saying you couldn't have nuke propulsion in space as well.
As soon as this tech irons out some of the kinks and I don't lose my connection every week or so, I'll flip to a third party ISP as I feel you get a better response from smaller providers.
At least that's what they've been telling us at recent trade shows and in conversations we've had with them. They said we can expect, at the very least, a UNIX version about the same time that a Mac version of the most recent player is released (I think player 6? only runs on Windows, not Mac--can't remember for sure).
I have seen other solutions, however. At the CES show in Vegas, I saw a Cirrus Maverick chip on a board with another small chip that handled the Windows Media decoding. Cirrus released the chip for Windows, but a 3rd party vendor modified it for LINUX. One way around the LINUX problem I guess.
Nonetheless, I'm still going to support both formats in my Linuxradio.
It's a very interesting time to be involved in Internet Radio
The majority of Hill offices run Microsoft Outlook (I worked there for quite awhile). In the TO: field, you can select from almost all House offices, leadership, and committee staff.
Personally, I don't buy it. You have to go out of your way to e-mail the entire House e-mail list. While there are only 440 members (5 delegates) there are thousands of staffers. It's not like there is one button that says "everyone" that you hit by accident (if that was the case, this wouldn't have been the first time).
By default, you are set to your own office, but many users change that to a personal e-mail listing). I think the "mistake" was a cover up for a real spam.
Anyway, the House system has a pretty good firewall against the outside, but once you are on the inside, it is, well, "possible" to get into a bunch of systems around the Hill. The encryption isn't that tough and with a dictionary, you can do wonders.
The passwords on a lot of Hill offices are a joke. At one time, I had nearly 300 user ID's w/ passwords onto the old HIS system (they shut it down due to Y2K). With a staff turnover of something like 40% a year (yes, it's that high) system security often falls by the wayside. Amazing how many Intern accounts have passwords of "Intern" "Intern2" "Monica" etc.
Despite claims that the Rio and Nomad violate their new patent, Audiohighway seems to have no problem selling these devices on their web site. They even have a "win a Rio" contest running.
This is a tough patent to enforce. They'll probably come after every guy who ever built an Mp3 player.
Bring on the battle!
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