Please note that the use and distribution of non-qualified products is a violation of the Bluetooth License Agreement. As neither of these products have been qualified using Linux it is illegal to make them available for public use.
The products haven't been "qualified" so why is everyone bitching and moaning. Instead wasting time and resources crying foul, why not take that same effort and qualify them. I'm sure if MS went and used some source code without posting INSERT_LICENSE_SCHEMA_HERE the community would cry foul, why is it a dual edged sword. Funny thing is people can comment on the "evil corporation" (myself included), but being this is a hardware, why not qualify it and shut up the skeptics instead of rambling on like crybabies.
One of the things I "WISH" the Linux community would do is focus on audio and video more. Currently I use Strata Pro Studio for 3D, and for audio I use a slew of tools (Resound, Rebirth, FruityLoops, Digitools) and unfortunately I have to stay stuck in a Windows world for this. There was a time when I thought QNX would do well with this considering the things they do for NASA and Motorola but I was wrong. I think one of the biggest issues with this from my perspective is, there is not enough demand for it. The majority of us hardcore *nix (I used both Linux distros, Solaris, and BSD I don't discriminate) users tend to be in a hardcore computing field (system administration, networking, programming, etc) as opposed to the "artsy" world. If there were similar programs to the ones I used, I know I would pay for them, heck I pay for them painfully knowing my Windows machines' will be crapping out now as is. So why wouldn't I dish out for a better solution
This just reminded me of Genetic warfare amongst other things...
THE HAZARDS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENTAL GENE MODIFICATION
...Attempts at developmental gene modification will certainly be subject to experimental error, but this is not the only source of potentially unfavorable consequences. Certain genes undergo a process of "imprinting" during development, in which the version of the gene inherited from the father or the mother is blocked from contributing to the individual's biological constitution. This phenomenon is part of a wider group of processes known as "allelic interaction" or "paramutation," in which the expression of one version, or "allele," of a gene is influenced by another allele. These phenomena are poorly understood, but it is clear that they are essential to healthy development. Failure of a certain gene to be correctly imprinted, for example, leads to Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, which is characterized by organ overgrowth and several different childhood cancers. Simply inserting a desired gene into the embryo in place of an undesired one does not ensure that allelic interaction will proceed appropriately, and experience with farm animal embryo manipulation suggests that it is readily disrupted and results in malformations.
It's rather scary to allow certain things from happening at least in my opinion. I'm all for stem cell research, just about anything to better man, but I don't see how attempting to create life from scratch is something worthwhile. Especially with all of the cons associated with it. What would happen on a worst case (Resident Evil) scenario. Its possible no one would be able to handle certain situations. Why bother putting us there. How does creating a "species" help us again?
With all of the balances and checks in this world (food chain on down), something like this has the capability of going completely wrong
Something I wrote a while back... (follow the links)
Joe Dogooder is not a criminal, in fact Joe is your average, well do-gooder. Pays his taxes, supports his family, visits his community church, where mind you, he's visited since his days as an altar boy.
Normally Joe wakes up around 5:00am in hopes of making some decaffeinated coffee, followed by a quick glimpse at the New York Times Online, while his television is tuned to the news. Today however, Joe woke up at 5:30am - and although he won't be late, he decided not to watch television. Instead he is going to work early in order to catch up with some work.
After his shower, getting dressed, kissing his family goodbye he grabs his trusted cellphone, and heads for his car. "Welcome to OnStar" flares for a quick second before he turns the service off. He'd know his way to work driving blindfolded, he's been there plenty of times. After stopping for some coffee and paying with his credit card at the local 7Eleven at 6:15am, he makes a right on Main Street leading to the turnpike. Joe always has money on his EZ-Pass, and although it has been hacked in the past, his information is now safe. He continues to work and breezes right through the toll-booths it is now 6:21am and he's right on time.
Getting off at the Broadway exit, Joe is running pretty early, 6:41am. Pulling into the Shell gas station at 6:45am, he fills up his car and swipes his credit card again through the machine so he doesn't have to walk an extra 20 feet to pay the cashier. Stops at the local Megasupershopper
store and buys some chewing gum, a soda, and some shaving cream. Back in his car, he finally pulls into the corporate garage at 7:00am, swipes his identification card, and continues on his way. This is pretty much a daily routine for Joe, and millions like him.
So who is this average Joe and why should you care? Joe is noone really important, what's important is that you understand how Joe's movements were tracked and how dangerous can be at some point. TiVo recently shoved their foot in their mouths when they announced that Janet Jackson's breast of mass destruction was the most rewound video capture. Meaning? Watch a TiVo, they'll know it, what time, what it was, and who did it - you do after all have your information attached to it.
Joe also decided to check the news via the New York Times, and he
had to sign into his account in order to do so, meaning his information was gathered there too. What time he logged in, and from where. Sure he could have registered with false information, after all it's free, but unless he decided to manually change his IP address somehow - whether via proxy or other means - the New York Times has his information. This is not to say in any way the New York Times is selling your information or using it against you, I don't know their policies, I'm simply trying to make you aware of the signs of the 'Times'
We can also average out a time where Joe starts his car every single day for as long as we'd like using his OnStar information, we can determine a definitive pattern of his daily life with ease. What about the chewing gum?, simple, RFID tags gave us that info. Now this may not be a big deal considering Joe Dogooder is an upstanding citizen so he would have nothing to hide. John Cheatman is an altogether different story.
John has been having an affair on his wife of 30 years, and he happens to be a millionaire. Wonder what he'd do if someone threw together a video portrait of his weekly (T
But what does Ho Chi Minh city have to do with this alerting system. Anyhow, good idea, bad idea. There are always points, counterpoints. Before someone trolls along about privacy rights bear in mind CALEA, DCS1000, ECHELON, CAPPS, and TIA. Nothing will really stop them from doing what they want to do, and quite frankly I think I would see pandemonium in the street before I would hear my cellphone ringing.
This message is from the center for disease control. We are now watching you leave 1 Main Street and are walking into a Bird Flu contaminated area. Please stand by while we do nothing more than warn you and run your everyday minutes with a false positive warning based on terrorist threats
A convenient summary of the audiogram is the pure-tone average (PTA) of the cardinal speech frequencies (500, 1000, 2000, 3000 Hz). As the PTA increases, the hearing ability decreases. Normal hearing for speech is observed for people with PTAs of 25 dB or less. At a PTA of around 40 dB in both ears, most people are functionally handicapped and benefit from amplification. Severe to profound losses range from PTAs of 75 dB and greater. At this level, hearing aids provide limited benefit and consideration of cochlear implants is generally given.
An accurate assessment of hearing includes laterality (one or both ears affected), degree of threshold loss (PTA), and best ability to understand speech (either with hearing aids or loud presentation levels). Other factors include the rapidity of loss onset/progression (people often adapt to slowly progressive losses more than sudden losses), associated symptoms such as tinnitus, hyperacusis and recruitment (intolerance to loud sounds), and type of treatment options (surgery, hearing aids, aural rehabilitation, speech reading, assistive listening devices).
Hearing loss may be estimated in terms of societal burden, effect on the person, and treatment needs. For purposes of estimating the societal burden of hearing loss, age-specific rates of self (or family) report are essential. For estimating the impact of hearing loss on the person, a PTA of 25 dB generally requires adaptive listening strategies. Active treatment is generally required at PTA of 40 dB or greater in both ears. Deafness is generally applied to people with severe bilateral loss (PTA > 75 dB). Because modern cochlear implants are helpful to people with severe losses of relatively short duration (10 years), duration of hearing loss has become another important factor in describing hearing loss.
Landström reports that exposure to infrasound (6-16 Hz) has an impact on fatigue and wakefulness even with exposures as short as 20 minutes. [1] However, Slarve and Johnson report no long-term impact from exposure to infrasound at levels up to 144 dB. [2]
1. U. Landström, "Noise and Fatigue in Working Environments," Environment International 16, 471476 (1990).
2. R. N. Slarve and D. L. Johnson, "Human Whole-Body Exposure to Infrasound," Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, 428431 (April 1975)
I'm unsure about the age significances though. Elder people tend to lose their hearing quite frequently. Maybe they can pick up other frequencies. Who knows maybe Grandpa did pick up Aliens' conversations.
"military's intent to use every possible thought-influencing technology. This technology is largely classified but there are leaks, like this article. We involuntary test subjects can tell you from first hand experience that far more invasive devices now exist." Welcome to... Silent Sound...
Currently we are using Covad after a horrendous experience with Packet8 whose Virtual Office product line is nothing worse than your worse thought. I have 8 offices spread through the US and wondered about setting up Asterisk even went as far as having them quote out a prebuilt drop in system. The problem with this became the cumbersome syntaxing of Asterisk. I don't mind, nor does my coworker but it is not a feasible system unless you have experienced engineers in those offices when a problem arises. Sure you could talk about KVMOIP to manage issues but sooner or later you will need someone to touch that machine.
Anyhow, experiences with Asterisk: echo, cancellation issues and all that fun stuff. For example if you're using a Digium card you will need to up it to about 256 taps. A tap represents 1 sample, and @ 8kHz (which is what all of Asterisk's echo cancellers default to) each tap represents 0.125ms. Asterisk default of 128taps will therefore handle echo paths of up to 16ms, supposedly good for most things. You may get better results with fewer taps cause training time is shorter and the canceller will adapt faster. Conversely, if you're having problems with echo on long-distance phone calls, you may need to up this to 256 taps. BUT... Asterisk only lets you set 32, 64, 128 or 256 taps. Using a different number of taps will cause Asterisk to revert to 128 taps without warning. So if you can't get echo out @ 256 you're going to have a handful of daily complaints on echo using Asterisk...
Outside of that funkily chopped and pasted information, physical phones. What kind of switches, your speed, and all other even funner (is that a word funner) things come into play. Will you have an allocated connection for phones? Sure you would not want to have the lines on the same lines as your Internet data lines. Think of the costs behind that. Phones physically, I'm not impressed with too many VoIP phones. Right now I have Cisco 7960's and 7940's, and those supposedly are top of the line which still don't impress me much.
Outside of sounding like a troll, can there ever be a market for a "Video Game" awards show on television. Difference between watching say a music award show, television award shows, etc., is there are physical presences on the show. I don't forsee Duke Nuke Em, Samus, or anyone else making a special appearance. It seems a show like this is geared towards hard core gamers and teenie boppers. So 1) teenie boppers depend on adult revenue often to purchase games. This means its unlikely if I were a sponsor I would look to a bunch of kids with no money. For a show like this, I can't see parents sitting to watch this so any commercial representation of a product would be wasted timeslots. Might seem fun but I can't see the economics involved with showing a "Video Game" awards show. Whomever produced this could have likely saved money, and in fact made more money broadcasting this online. Just my two cents.
This hasn't been projected to those who are nervous nor scared. Those types of people have been spoon fed crapaganda about stem cell by what you labeled "rich people". Its those same rich people often in positions of power that have the right to shoot it down. I'm sure if they took a different stance, they could get those nervous and scared people on board with the program but, you will rarely see that happen as most of the powers that be tend to sway the way of what's popular at the moment. "Oh you will vote for me if I believe in INSERT_DEITY_HERE? Well I'll tell you what that deity just happens to be one of my favorites, and he/she/it just happened to tell me them stem cells are evil. I'm opposed to stem cells. Vote John G. Bloke!"
You should have also taken the time to mention that rich bastid bringing his mistresses to these hotels only to one day bring his wife... "See honey just how you like it..." Seriously though, In a way its a nice idea but too much gadgetry and technology is started to churn out more couch potatoes than thinkers in my opinion. To think this time last year I was explaining a conceptual tcp based attack to a freaking compsec PhD who couldn't understand basic network analysis (not kidding either)... Amazing.
So the government is allowing space flights with a license or something. I wonder what NASA is going to say about this cutting into their 600million per flight Space Shuttle racket they've got going on. NASA needn't worry though they've got a moonbeam coming which means (skits In Living Color classic) mo money mo money mo money. Since when does the United States control airspace anyway? I mean I know they'll blow you out of the sky if you launch anything, maybe even label you al Qaeda or something.
You know, if government really focused on penalizing the bottom end product creator for spam, I'm sure it'd be minimized drastically. For example Viagra, made by Pfizer, if they penalized Pfizer for spam and not controlling the methods of their advertising, I'm sure many companies would think twice about their methods to deliver content.
Sure it would need some tweaking, but to go after Joe Blow unsuspecting user who's machine is probably loaded with trojans is moronic. Even a good enough trial lawyer for the most blatant spammer could probably convince a jury that the culprits machine was infected if they tried. It's obvious CAN-SPAM and other moronic laws aren't working so why not take it to the next level?
I run a website called politrix of which is my own Sun machine. I recently received the following email and am confused of what to do
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2004 12:43:28 -0800 (PST) From: root <root! @ politrix.org> To: root! @ politrix.org Subject: Your Account
Your account has been suspended due to massive amounts of spam and Mountain Dew spillage on your machine. If you do not open this zip file and click on the password protected zip file you generated, you will suspend your own account.
Act now this is not a joke of virus! It is as real as Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Sincerely, Me root! @ politrix.org
U.S. and Canada: (800) 555-1212 Outside the U.S. and Canada: +1 (212) 555-1212
Can someone please link a book on common sense so I can buy it to figure out why I am suspending my own account. Please hurry! Currently I am writing to this poor man in Africa who's promising me a couple of cool millions, so when I become rich, I will reward you handsomely.
I don't see what the bitching is about. Is it "that" wrong to brand the homeless like cattle, use orphans for lab rats, during these times? During these times when al Qaeda... WHOA! THERE IS A TERRORIST ALERT. Sorry false post. Again, is there anything wrong with Big Brother coming for their fair share? Sheesh there is no conspiracy here, big brother only wants your share of the pie. Run along now, go play with Orkut. Everything is fine, there is nothing to fear.
I wonder if somewhere down the line MS will turn around and lock up users into only opening files made under a certain language something a-la DVD "scheme" (yea dual use term that word scheme). So user Wong in China creates files in China to send to his brother Ming in America. Will user Wong also have to buy an addon somewhere in the future?
NANOG this past week has had to deal with "h4r 3y3 j4m an 3fnet p4ck3tm0nk3y" bs. What I don't understand is how some people download and install something without checking exactly what it is. Look at the spyware situation: "Click here for a free weather clock" It should be obvious that there is no such thing as free. Everything has some form of price. What I find most alarming, is that most corporations - Symantec, Network Associates, and the major Windows based antivirus makers including Microsoft who has not got there act togeter - unleash errata of mass destruction. "Buy this patch/firewall/antivirus foo foo foo product to protect you now!" Why not release some Macromedia Flash like tutorial along with their products to educate users about the dangers of downloading unnecessary 'tools/products/virtuagirls/etc' and how to protect themselves from these thing... I'm willing to bet if some company did something like this, most of these annoyances would drop big time
One time I got to work and checked our local geek account (where we all joke, pass notes, etc.) and I read this email forwarded by the technical support "Hi I'm writing to know if everything is alright with the system. I'm not getting anymore spam so I wanted to know if there's a problem." I kid you not, the end user was wondering why, they weren't receiving spam. It's difficult to filter too much, because what do you do when someone is constantly complaining about not receive a business proposal coming via way of zip. What happens if by mere coincidence it was flagged as spam, or a virus. That's the problem with filtering, personally I think education is a better resolve, but that's just me.
It's been done. What I don't understand is, why most Antivirus software does not scan after installing update by default. It would also be nice if Microsoft were to take the time to make some form of "Joe Average" tutorial explaining to their users why they become infected, often leaving up to sysadmins, network engineers, etc., who deal with the users often taking on the role of "Microsoft Antivirus Engineer". I would be curious to see some statistics on how much money is lost (real hard facts) from business such as Internet Service Providers, and other vendors who have to waste time explaining to people what is going on, what is a spoof, and why it's pretty much delegated to 99.999999% of the times, Microsoft.
MS should spend some money doing some quick media for the not-so-clueful to explain why management@whitehouse.gov wants them to open foo.zip. Sure people should be more aware, but that's not going to happen to avgjoe, and sally homemaker who spends a total of 2 hours a week on a machine to answer an email from her son in college.
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Please note that the use and distribution of non-qualified products is a violation of the Bluetooth License Agreement. As neither of these products have been qualified using Linux it is illegal to make them available for public use. The products haven't been "qualified" so why is everyone bitching and moaning. Instead wasting time and resources crying foul, why not take that same effort and qualify them. I'm sure if MS went and used some source code without posting INSERT_LICENSE_SCHEMA_HERE the community would cry foul, why is it a dual edged sword. Funny thing is people can comment on the "evil corporation" (myself included), but being this is a hardware, why not qualify it and shut up the skeptics instead of rambling on like crybabies.
One of the things I "WISH" the Linux community would do is focus on audio and video more. Currently I use Strata Pro Studio for 3D, and for audio I use a slew of tools (Resound, Rebirth, FruityLoops, Digitools) and unfortunately I have to stay stuck in a Windows world for this. There was a time when I thought QNX would do well with this considering the things they do for NASA and Motorola but I was wrong. I think one of the biggest issues with this from my perspective is, there is not enough demand for it. The majority of us hardcore *nix (I used both Linux distros, Solaris, and BSD I don't discriminate) users tend to be in a hardcore computing field (system administration, networking, programming, etc) as opposed to the "artsy" world. If there were similar programs to the ones I used, I know I would pay for them, heck I pay for them painfully knowing my Windows machines' will be crapping out now as is. So why wouldn't I dish out for a better solution
THE HAZARDS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENTAL GENE MODIFICATION
Read the full document here...
It's rather scary to allow certain things from happening at least in my opinion. I'm all for stem cell research, just about anything to better man, but I don't see how attempting to create life from scratch is something worthwhile. Especially with all of the cons associated with it. What would happen on a worst case (Resident Evil) scenario. Its possible no one would be able to handle certain situations. Why bother putting us there. How does creating a "species" help us again?
With all of the balances and checks in this world (food chain on down), something like this has the capability of going completely wrong
Joe Dogooder is not a criminal, in fact Joe is your average, well do-gooder. Pays his taxes, supports his family, visits his community church, where mind you, he's visited since his days as an altar boy. Normally Joe wakes up around 5:00am in hopes of making some decaffeinated coffee, followed by a quick glimpse at the New York Times Online, while his television is tuned to the news. Today however, Joe woke up at 5:30am - and although he won't be late, he decided not to watch television. Instead he is going to work early in order to catch up with some work.
After his shower, getting dressed, kissing his family goodbye he grabs his trusted cellphone, and heads for his car. "Welcome to OnStar" flares for a quick second before he turns the service off. He'd know his way to work driving blindfolded, he's been there plenty of times. After stopping for some coffee and paying with his credit card at the local 7Eleven at 6:15am, he makes a right on Main Street leading to the turnpike. Joe always has money on his EZ-Pass, and although it has been hacked in the past, his information is now safe. He continues to work and breezes right through the toll-booths it is now 6:21am and he's right on time.
Getting off at the Broadway exit, Joe is running pretty early, 6:41am. Pulling into the Shell gas station at 6:45am, he fills up his car and swipes his credit card again through the machine so he doesn't have to walk an extra 20 feet to pay the cashier. Stops at the local Megasupershopper store and buys some chewing gum, a soda, and some shaving cream. Back in his car, he finally pulls into the corporate garage at 7:00am, swipes his identification card, and continues on his way. This is pretty much a daily routine for Joe, and millions like him.
So who is this average Joe and why should you care? Joe is noone really important, what's important is that you understand how Joe's movements were tracked and how dangerous can be at some point. TiVo recently shoved their foot in their mouths when they announced that Janet Jackson's breast of mass destruction was the most rewound video capture. Meaning? Watch a TiVo, they'll know it, what time, what it was, and who did it - you do after all have your information attached to it.
Joe also decided to check the news via the New York Times, and he had to sign into his account in order to do so, meaning his information was gathered there too. What time he logged in, and from where. Sure he could have registered with false information, after all it's free, but unless he decided to manually change his IP address somehow - whether via proxy or other means - the New York Times has his information. This is not to say in any way the New York Times is selling your information or using it against you, I don't know their policies, I'm simply trying to make you aware of the signs of the 'Times'
We can also average out a time where Joe starts his car every single day for as long as we'd like using his OnStar information, we can determine a definitive pattern of his daily life with ease. What about the chewing gum?, simple, RFID tags gave us that info. Now this may not be a big deal considering Joe Dogooder is an upstanding citizen so he would have nothing to hide. John Cheatman is an altogether different story.
John has been having an affair on his wife of 30 years, and he happens to be a millionaire. Wonder what he'd do if someone threw together a video portrait of his weekly (T
But what does Ho Chi Minh city have to do with this alerting system. Anyhow, good idea, bad idea. There are always points, counterpoints. Before someone trolls along about privacy rights bear in mind CALEA, DCS1000, ECHELON, CAPPS, and TIA. Nothing will really stop them from doing what they want to do, and quite frankly I think I would see pandemonium in the street before I would hear my cellphone ringing.
This message is from the center for disease control. We are now watching you leave 1 Main Street and are walking into a Bird Flu contaminated area. Please stand by while we do nothing more than warn you and run your everyday minutes with a false positive warning based on terrorist threats
Yet again...
A convenient summary of the audiogram is the pure-tone average (PTA) of the cardinal speech frequencies (500, 1000, 2000, 3000 Hz). As the PTA increases, the hearing ability decreases. Normal hearing for speech is observed for people with PTAs of 25 dB or less. At a PTA of around 40 dB in both ears, most people are functionally handicapped and benefit from amplification. Severe to profound losses range from PTAs of 75 dB and greater. At this level, hearing aids provide limited benefit and consideration of cochlear implants is generally given.
An accurate assessment of hearing includes laterality (one or both ears affected), degree of threshold loss (PTA), and best ability to understand speech (either with hearing aids or loud presentation levels). Other factors include the rapidity of loss onset/progression (people often adapt to slowly progressive losses more than sudden losses), associated symptoms such as tinnitus, hyperacusis and recruitment (intolerance to loud sounds), and type of treatment options (surgery, hearing aids, aural rehabilitation, speech reading, assistive listening devices).
Hearing loss may be estimated in terms of societal burden, effect on the person, and treatment needs. For purposes of estimating the societal burden of hearing loss, age-specific rates of self (or family) report are essential. For estimating the impact of hearing loss on the person, a PTA of 25 dB generally requires adaptive listening strategies. Active treatment is generally required at PTA of 40 dB or greater in both ears. Deafness is generally applied to people with severe bilateral loss (PTA > 75 dB). Because modern cochlear implants are helpful to people with severe losses of relatively short duration (10 years), duration of hearing loss has become another important factor in describing hearing loss.
www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/hearing.asp
Severe to profound losses range from PTAs of 75 dB and greater. At this level, hearing aids provide limited benefit and consideration of cochlear implants is generally given. Statistics about Hearing Disorders, Ear Infections, and Deafness
1. U. Landström, "Noise and Fatigue in Working Environments," Environment International 16, 471476 (1990).
2. R. N. Slarve and D. L. Johnson, "Human Whole-Body Exposure to Infrasound," Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, 428431 (April 1975)
I'm unsure about the age significances though. Elder people tend to lose their hearing quite frequently. Maybe they can pick up other frequencies. Who knows maybe Grandpa did pick up Aliens' conversations.
"military's intent to use every possible thought-influencing technology. This technology is largely classified but there are leaks, like this article. We involuntary test subjects can tell you from first hand experience that far more invasive devices now exist." Welcome to ... Silent Sound...
Currently we are using Covad after a horrendous experience with Packet8 whose Virtual Office product line is nothing worse than your worse thought. I have 8 offices spread through the US and wondered about setting up Asterisk even went as far as having them quote out a prebuilt drop in system. The problem with this became the cumbersome syntaxing of Asterisk. I don't mind, nor does my coworker but it is not a feasible system unless you have experienced engineers in those offices when a problem arises. Sure you could talk about KVMOIP to manage issues but sooner or later you will need someone to touch that machine. Anyhow, experiences with Asterisk: echo, cancellation issues and all that fun stuff. For example if you're using a Digium card you will need to up it to about 256 taps. A tap represents 1 sample, and @ 8kHz (which is what all of Asterisk's echo cancellers default to) each tap represents 0.125ms. Asterisk default of 128taps will therefore handle echo paths of up to 16ms, supposedly good for most things. You may get better results with fewer taps cause training time is shorter and the canceller will adapt faster. Conversely, if you're having problems with echo on long-distance phone calls, you may need to up this to 256 taps. BUT... Asterisk only lets you set 32, 64, 128 or 256 taps. Using a different number of taps will cause Asterisk to revert to 128 taps without warning. So if you can't get echo out @ 256 you're going to have a handful of daily complaints on echo using Asterisk... Outside of that funkily chopped and pasted information, physical phones. What kind of switches, your speed, and all other even funner (is that a word funner) things come into play. Will you have an allocated connection for phones? Sure you would not want to have the lines on the same lines as your Internet data lines. Think of the costs behind that. Phones physically, I'm not impressed with too many VoIP phones. Right now I have Cisco 7960's and 7940's, and those supposedly are top of the line which still don't impress me much.
Outside of sounding like a troll, can there ever be a market for a "Video Game" awards show on television. Difference between watching say a music award show, television award shows, etc., is there are physical presences on the show. I don't forsee Duke Nuke Em, Samus, or anyone else making a special appearance. It seems a show like this is geared towards hard core gamers and teenie boppers. So 1) teenie boppers depend on adult revenue often to purchase games. This means its unlikely if I were a sponsor I would look to a bunch of kids with no money. For a show like this, I can't see parents sitting to watch this so any commercial representation of a product would be wasted timeslots. Might seem fun but I can't see the economics involved with showing a "Video Game" awards show. Whomever produced this could have likely saved money, and in fact made more money broadcasting this online. Just my two cents.
lynx -dump "http://tinyurl.com/bsu7d" |sed -n '106p' |sed 's/est/ its/g;s/z/s/'|awk '{print $5,$7,$4}'
This hasn't been projected to those who are nervous nor scared. Those types of people have been spoon fed crapaganda about stem cell by what you labeled "rich people". Its those same rich people often in positions of power that have the right to shoot it down. I'm sure if they took a different stance, they could get those nervous and scared people on board with the program but, you will rarely see that happen as most of the powers that be tend to sway the way of what's popular at the moment. "Oh you will vote for me if I believe in INSERT_DEITY_HERE? Well I'll tell you what that deity just happens to be one of my favorites, and he/she/it just happened to tell me them stem cells are evil. I'm opposed to stem cells. Vote John G. Bloke!"
You should have also taken the time to mention that rich bastid bringing his mistresses to these hotels only to one day bring his wife... "See honey just how you like it..." Seriously though, In a way its a nice idea but too much gadgetry and technology is started to churn out more couch potatoes than thinkers in my opinion. To think this time last year I was explaining a conceptual tcp based attack to a freaking compsec PhD who couldn't understand basic network analysis (not kidding either)... Amazing.
So the government is allowing space flights with a license or something. I wonder what NASA is going to say about this cutting into their 600million per flight Space Shuttle racket they've got going on. NASA needn't worry though they've got a moonbeam coming which means (skits In Living Color classic) mo money mo money mo money. Since when does the United States control airspace anyway? I mean I know they'll blow you out of the sky if you launch anything, maybe even label you al Qaeda or something.
You know, if government really focused on penalizing the bottom end product creator for spam, I'm sure it'd be minimized drastically. For example Viagra, made by Pfizer, if they penalized Pfizer for spam and not controlling the methods of their advertising, I'm sure many companies would think twice about their methods to deliver content.
Sure it would need some tweaking, but to go after Joe Blow unsuspecting user who's machine is probably loaded with trojans is moronic. Even a good enough trial lawyer for the most blatant spammer could probably convince a jury that the culprits machine was infected if they tried. It's obvious CAN-SPAM and other moronic laws aren't working so why not take it to the next level?
Pentagon Plane Crash of 2000
I run a website called politrix of which is my own Sun machine. I recently received the following email and am confused of what to doCan someone please link a book on common sense so I can buy it to figure out why I am suspending my own account. Please hurry! Currently I am writing to this poor man in Africa who's promising me a couple of cool millions, so when I become rich, I will reward you handsomely.
I don't see what the bitching is about. Is it "that" wrong to brand the homeless like cattle, use orphans for lab rats, during these times? During these times when al Qaeda... WHOA! THERE IS A TERRORIST ALERT. Sorry false post. Again, is there anything wrong with Big Brother coming for their fair share? Sheesh there is no conspiracy here, big brother only wants your share of the pie. Run along now, go play with Orkut. Everything is fine, there is nothing to fear.
I blame it on Carrot Top and his annoying 1-800-CALL-ATT commercials. Heartless bastard
You mean that Paris Hilton action figure is a fraud!. People auctioning off their life, and those imginary girlfriends are frauds! I for one am shocked. And awed too
been there done that
I wonder if somewhere down the line MS will turn around and lock up users into only opening files made under a certain language something a-la DVD "scheme" (yea dual use term that word scheme). So user Wong in China creates files in China to send to his brother Ming in America. Will user Wong also have to buy an addon somewhere in the future?
NANOG this past week has had to deal with "h4r 3y3 j4m an 3fnet p4ck3tm0nk3y" bs. What I don't understand is how some people download and install something without checking exactly what it is. Look at the spyware situation: "Click here for a free weather clock" It should be obvious that there is no such thing as free. Everything has some form of price. What I find most alarming, is that most corporations - Symantec, Network Associates, and the major Windows based antivirus makers including Microsoft who has not got there act togeter - unleash errata of mass destruction. "Buy this patch/firewall/antivirus foo foo foo product to protect you now!" Why not release some Macromedia Flash like tutorial along with their products to educate users about the dangers of downloading unnecessary 'tools/products/virtuagirls/etc' and how to protect themselves from these thing... I'm willing to bet if some company did something like this, most of these annoyances would drop big time
One time I got to work and checked our local geek account (where we all joke, pass notes, etc.) and I read this email forwarded by the technical support "Hi I'm writing to know if everything is alright with the system. I'm not getting anymore spam so I wanted to know if there's a problem." I kid you not, the end user was wondering why, they weren't receiving spam. It's difficult to filter too much, because what do you do when someone is constantly complaining about not receive a business proposal coming via way of zip. What happens if by mere coincidence it was flagged as spam, or a virus. That's the problem with filtering, personally I think education is a better resolve, but that's just me.
It's been done. What I don't understand is, why most Antivirus software does not scan after installing update by default. It would also be nice if Microsoft were to take the time to make some form of "Joe Average" tutorial explaining to their users why they become infected, often leaving up to sysadmins, network engineers, etc., who deal with the users often taking on the role of "Microsoft Antivirus Engineer". I would be curious to see some statistics on how much money is lost (real hard facts) from business such as Internet Service Providers, and other vendors who have to waste time explaining to people what is going on, what is a spoof, and why it's pretty much delegated to 99.999999% of the times, Microsoft.
MS should spend some money doing some quick media for the not-so-clueful to explain why management@whitehouse.gov wants them to open foo.zip. Sure people should be more aware, but that's not going to happen to avgjoe, and sally homemaker who spends a total of 2 hours a week on a machine to answer an email from her son in college.