Because I happen to own (as in, "paid for with my own damn money") about 400 CDs. I rip them myself, with the highest quality I can, which makes for larger than normal files. I wouldn't WANT anything from (Napster|Gnutella|Usenet) because a) the quality is usually crap, b) the ID3 tags are just plain wrong, and c) I want to OWN my music. I may want to rip it with OGG, I may want to play with my own encoding, whatever.
Now, run along little troll. I'm sure you have some new 5|r1pt to download and run. Perhaps you'll probe my firewall one day, and I'll have the pleasure of getting your ISP to shut you down....
What happened to Nautilus's ability to show the contents of a text file in the file icon?
Additionally, Nautilus needs a better way to edit mimetypes. Ideally, I'd right-click a file, and have the options of:
Setting the mimetype of that file
Setting the mimetype of that extension
Configuring that mimetype
For example, Gnumeric files are identified as gzip files (since a Gnumeric file is a gzip'ed XML file) that happen to end in ".gnumeric". While Nautilus knows about Gnumeric, it does not know to associate *.gnumeric with Gnumeric.
Also, when I first launched Gnumeric, it scanned every file system for trashcan folders. Not good, since I have my server's 40G MP3 directory mounted via NFS...
X is asynchronous. Xlib buffers the commands that are going to X, and sends them en masse when appropriate. Therefor, not only do you NOT get two context switches per operation, you don't even get ONE.
For example, if I draw a line, then draw another line, then a third, Xlib will not only buffer those requests and send them over as one bunch, it will examine the lines to see if the operation can be converted into a single polyline operation.
This also benefits the system in that once X starts working on the commands, it can resolve several things at once, thus increasing the likelihood that the X routines and data will be in the CPU cache. The Windows approach virtually guarantees the graphics libraries will be faulted out of the working set.
What makes X "slow" in most people's experience is the fact that the X servers receive far less optimization than the Windows servers, esp. when dealing with commodity x86 hardware. A proper X server, optimized just as the Windows drivers are optimized, is as fast as Windows, and in cases where the card can perform operations in the background, faster.
It looks to me like running an Alpha with the EM86 software would do better than the Unobtainium right now. This is my question: why run the Itanium when the Alpha
has more software available for it
has a higher clock rate
has more supported hardware
has a higher SPECmark
has been proven in the field
Come on, if you REALLY feel the need for speed, you will be running native code (native Alpha code is available now, native Itanium code isn't), and what you run in emulation will not be your primary app.
I keep seeing people on/. saying "use package foo and bar to watch DVDs under Linux".
People, I feel this is the wrong approach. Until I can use software that has NO legal cloud over its head, I refuse to buy DVDs, DVD players or DVD drives.
One of my machines at home threw a CDROM drive night before last. I went to buy another. I had a simple choice: buy a 50x CDROM drive for $X, or buy a 16x DVD drive for 2*$X. The cost delta meant next to nothing to me - either was an incidental, "do you want fries with that" type of purchase. I waffled briefly over buying the DVD drive, then said to myself, "HELL NO! I am NOT going to give the MPAA any satisfaction on this. I WILL stick to my guns, and wait until the DeCSS is held to be completely legal before I buy a DVD. And if that day never comes, then I will never buy a DVD."
I don't want to come off as an extremist, but this is the BEST way we can make the MPAA change their tune: hit them in the ass pocket. Don't buy their crap. Don't give them money. Encourage your friends to do the same.
This is the problem with Mozilla: rather than a few very well isolated, simple, small modules, it is a big glop of code.
<Warning>OOD ahead</Warning>
IMHO, Mozilla should have had:
A Renderer class, which would have HAD_A:
Transfer object reponsible for getting data (via HTTP objects, FTP objects, etc.)
Image object responsible for rendering images (via GIF objects, PNG objects, JPG objects, AVI objects, FLASH objects, etc.)
Script object responsible for executing scripting languages....
You get the idea. Each top-level type of object (Renderer, Transfer, Image) would look for other objects to implement the different modes (by scanning a directory for DLLs/.so's/whatever). Thus, if I want to add Gopher to Mozilla, I need only make a very simple object that does the Gopher protocol, and drop it into the appropriate directory.
This way, you can split the project into a very large number of very small modules. I can write my Gopher object without worrying about what's going on in the Flash object. I can test my Gopher object with a very simple wrapper that does no rendering, and thus is very amenable to automated testing from day 0. You can get a working HTTP browser before the FTP system is ready. You can get three people working on GIF renders, and pick the one that is best. You can start getting user feedback sooner. THAT'S where the power of the distributed development movement comes in.
(NOTE: just because I would use an OOD approach, does not mean you MUST use C++: I've done OOD in assembler.)
The biggest rule I've learned in my decades of programming is "Break the problem down into smaller problems. Repeat until the pieces are small enough to be solved in a few pages of code. Write the code. Test the code. Repeat until done."
Assumptions:
Probability of a DNA match: 1e-4 (Pmatch)
Probability that a given person is a convicted criminal: say 1e-5 (Pcrook)
Now, assume that only convicted criminals' DNA are placed into the database. Now, to get a false match, you must statisfy both Pmatch and Pcrook, or the odds drop to 1e-9.
On the other hand, if EVERYBODY is in the database, then the odds of a false match are Pmatch, or 1e-4.
Hence, the database is BEST used to track already convicted criminals ONLY.
(You are correct about the English rendition of their moniker...)
A friend of mine gave me a very simple approach to get to leave temporiarily: Answer the door with your phone in your hand.
For a more permanant solution, answer the door with the lower receiver of your AR-15 in one hand, and your cleaning cloth in the other.
I actually did a variant of this once: I lived in an apartment with an exterior landing that was shared with another apartment. In that other apartment lived (as near as I could tell) a large number of jail-bait teenybobbers who thought they were God's gift to the universe. They would
Hang out on the stairs, and not get out of anybody's way
Ask my friends, "Are you over 21? Can you buy beer? Would you buy us a beer?" (to which one of my friends replied, "Yes, but my price would include a live chicken and a weed-whacker")
Play their atrocious music as loudly as possible
(Before anybody makes the obvious comment: I don't mess with jailbait.)
One day, my friends and I had gone shooting at one of their farms, and we had returned to my place to clean the weapons. The teeny's were doing their usual, hanging around being in everybody's way.
Funny, how people get out of your way when you have a rifle over one shoulder, a shotgun in one hand, an ammo can in the other, and have two holsters on your belt.
After the six of us had each made three trips from the cars, and had finally finished carrying the firearms into the apartment, and had started on the reflex weapons (longbows, crossbows, etc.), the teeny's disappeared into their apartment.
Funny, ever since then the aways got out of our way, never bothered my friends or me, and kept their music at a reasonable level....
The trick is not to go overboard. Instead of affixing a brick, find some old lead wheelweights, and put one or two in the envelope. It will be more expensive, and they company will have to get rid of a toxic substance. Enough people do this, and then we can report the bastards to the EPA!.
However, I wonder if this could also be used for holography: freeze the interference pattern into the material, and read it out later, reconstructing the image. In theory, since the material could record the interference pattern in three dimensions rather than two (like a photographic plate), this might allow for more detailed holograms.
There's a small problem with embedding the display elements in the lenses - you need to have optics to cause the light from the display to be less divergent than it would normally be. In other words, you have to make the display elements be optically furthur from the viewer's eye. I have severe myopia (-8 diopters in my good eye), but even I cannot focus closer than about 15 cm without discomfort. You have to make the display look like it's about 1m from the viewer. Hence, you need a display, and some lensing, before dumping the image into a combiner in the main lens.
Now, if they can do this, and make the combiner not have a large impact on the view when the display is not showing anything (so that I don't have to remove the display to see normally), and get a Bluetooth link so that I don't have to have a huge cable running down my neck....
You may not modify, lease, loan, sell, charge for, or create derivative works of the GEML[....]
IT seems somebody doesn't understand the legal meaning of "public domain": that anybody can modify what is in the public domain, without restriction. That is why free software and Open Source Software AREN'T "public domain"!
For some reason, my M16 install decided one day to stop running any plug-ins. Ergo, no Flash (no Thugs on Film! Henious!), no Real Audio (no Car Talk!), and Plugger never worked. Do plug-ins work on M17? Has anyone else seen this on M16?
I've removed the both the Mozilla install and the.mozilla directory several times to try to clean this up, to no avail...
Most ISPs need to put more meat behind their AUPs. Sure, you can get your (throwaway) account terminated. Ooooh, scary...
What if ISPs would put a clause in the contract saying (in legal verbiage),
If you spam, we will disable your account, and charge you our $2000/month spamming violation fee until such time as you terminate the account. Furthermore, if you fail to pay the fee, we will turn the matter over to our collection agency, Guido, "No-Neck", and Psycho Louie the Knife
The reason SCSI is so much more expensive than IDE is simply a question of target market.
IDE is targeted to JethroBoBillyBubbaSixPack who is running HoggingDOS98. He is limited by his crappy OS, and a drive that can disconnect from the bus and call back later when it is done with the operation is not going to do him a damn bit of good. He wants big and cheap. Real speed isn't important to him (although he is impressed by high RPM numbers).
SCSI is targeted at folks building servers, high-end workstations, video editing stations, etc. In other words, people who are spending other people's money (for the most part). They know that being able to do a disconnect and free the bus for something else, being able to to scatter/gather and elevator optimatizations, being able to buffer disk I/O properly, and being able to hang many drives off 1 card are more important.
As a result, SCSI is more expensive because people will pay more.
Spammer sends spam (by relay raping other peoples gear), advertising products that are sold on the Web site
Now, what can we do to end the spam?
Play whack-a-mole on open relays? Nope
Ignore it? Nope
No, you follow the money: the spammer makes his money when morons go to the web site and by the spamware. Kill the web site, kill the cash flow, kill the spammer's business.
Now, places like Media3 will say "But we aren't spamming!" No, but they are giving aid and comfort to the enemy. So, what do you do to get Media3 to close down the spammer?
Follow the money
You make it unprofitable for Media3 to host the spammer. You do this by driving business away from Media3. You do that by blackholing enough of their customers that Media3 says "We are losing money doing this. Let's not do this anymore!"
Rememer Spamford Wallace, the uberspammer? Ageis communications was providing cyberpromotions.com with bandwidth, and by God they weren't going to stop. Then they got blackholed, and many of their customers left. Faced with losing money, they dropped Spamford like a hot rock.
Remember: follow the money. It's always about the money. If somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money.
"If you think we are infringing, here's our legal address. Send the process server over and give us the papers, and we will see you in court. Otherwise, you will immediately and publicly retract what you've said, or we shall bring charges of unfair restraint of trade against you."
Can any of the noted attourneys in the audience comment on this strategy? <Paging Dr. Hawk, Dr. Hawk to the blue courtesy phone >
(and I don't mean some strange version of the TSR game....)
Have they fixed the X Windows system Drag and Drop protocol? I use an external program to do my downloads, and with NS4.7x I could drag a link to the program and start the download. Mozilla M18 won't do this: It copies the data to the X clipboard, but then doesn't notify the target application that it needs to read the clipboard.
Your microwave oven is just a 600 watt transmitter at 2.3 GHz. Normally, the water in food adsorbs the microwave energy, and heats up. (This, by the way, is why the 2.6 GHz ISM band wireless networks are very susceptible to rain fade). Now, if there is nothing in the oven, the energy has no where to go. The technical term for this is "high VSWR", high voltage standing wave ratio (pronouced vis-war like "his car"). The electrical field will build up to a very high level, enough to possibly arc over in the oven. Once that happens, the power will flow along the arc, and most likely damage something. Also, any leaks in the oven will become much worse, and you might get an RF burn if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Finally, even if none of the above happen, the magnetron (the device that makes the RF) will heat up inside, and may burn out or explode.
That said, the odds of this happening if you run your oven for short periods of time (tens of seconds or less) are pretty small.
If you want to help prevent this, place a small quantity of water in the oven. That way, the energy has a place to go (until the water boils away.)
Other "stupid microwave tricks" that I am in no way responsible for you hurting yourself with: Microwave an old florescent tube. Or an incandescent lamp. Light a birthday candle, and microwave it.
Remember, you are on your own if you do this. I didn't tell you to do it. If you get hurt, try to kill yourself so you don't breed.
With respect to the encryption: GSM phones in the US are not allowed by law (actually by regulation, which is slightly different but has the same effect) to enable the encryption system.
Also, GSM signaling protocol is already in use here in the US in the PCS band. It's just not in use in the same frequency band as (say) the UK, and never will be. The UK and Europe have a different set of frequencies allocated to GSM than the US has allocated to cellular, and the frequency bands that the UK uses for GSM are already spoken for here in the US. Additionally, the frequencies above 1GHz that are used for GSM/PCS style services in the UK are different from the frequencies in the US for the same reason. Only if the governments of the world get together and allocate some frequenices world-wide would this be fixed.
I'll know that has happened when I put a pot of hot water on my gas stove and it freezes.
<scene location="some IS dept., some city">
<voice type="hoarse" accent="Italian">
It has come to our attention that some of the software you posess may not have proper licenses. This wounds us deeply, as it shows a lack of respect for us.
However, we will give you a chance to make... amends. You may show us proper respect, in the proper amounts. In return, we shall... overlook... this unfortunate occurance.
It would be most unfortunate, if you fail to make amends. In this business, unfortunate, accidents, happen, accidents we could help, prevent.
I am sure you will do the right thing, for I know you respect me, Don Gates.
</scene>
</voice>
</music>
With apologies to any responsible businessmen or Italians out there.
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Because I happen to own (as in, "paid for with my own damn money") about 400 CDs. I rip them myself, with the highest quality I can, which makes for larger than normal files. I wouldn't WANT anything from (Napster|Gnutella|Usenet) because a) the quality is usually crap, b) the ID3 tags are just plain wrong, and c) I want to OWN my music. I may want to rip it with OGG, I may want to play with my own encoding, whatever.
Now, run along little troll. I'm sure you have some new 5|r1pt to download and run. Perhaps you'll probe my firewall one day, and I'll have the pleasure of getting your ISP to shut you down....
Additionally, Nautilus needs a better way to edit mimetypes. Ideally, I'd right-click a file, and have the options of:
For example, Gnumeric files are identified as gzip files (since a Gnumeric file is a gzip'ed XML file) that happen to end in ".gnumeric". While Nautilus knows about Gnumeric, it does not know to associate *.gnumeric with Gnumeric.
Also, when I first launched Gnumeric, it scanned every file system for trashcan folders. Not good, since I have my server's 40G MP3 directory mounted via NFS...
(now to see if the moderators are sluts or virgins....)
X is asynchronous. Xlib buffers the commands that are going to X, and sends them en masse when appropriate. Therefor, not only do you NOT get two context switches per operation, you don't even get ONE.
For example, if I draw a line, then draw another line, then a third, Xlib will not only buffer those requests and send them over as one bunch, it will examine the lines to see if the operation can be converted into a single polyline operation.
This also benefits the system in that once X starts working on the commands, it can resolve several things at once, thus increasing the likelihood that the X routines and data will be in the CPU cache. The Windows approach virtually guarantees the graphics libraries will be faulted out of the working set.
What makes X "slow" in most people's experience is the fact that the X servers receive far less optimization than the Windows servers, esp. when dealing with commodity x86 hardware. A proper X server, optimized just as the Windows drivers are optimized, is as fast as Windows, and in cases where the card can perform operations in the background, faster.
has more software available for it
has a higher clock rate
has more supported hardware
has a higher SPECmark
has been proven in the field
Come on, if you REALLY feel the need for speed, you will be running native code (native Alpha code is available now, native Itanium code isn't), and what you run in emulation will not be your primary app.
Other than NIH, why is Intel doing this?
(p.s. Rob, why don't you allow <ol type="a">?)
How can Linux video editing software advance, when the core of manipulating DVD, the Content Scrambling System, cannot legally be a part of it?
Yes, I fully support developing MPEG video codecs, non-linear editing software, etc.
I just don't support DVD!
I keep seeing people on /. saying "use package foo and bar to watch DVDs under Linux".
People, I feel this is the wrong approach. Until I can use software that has NO legal cloud over its head, I refuse to buy DVDs, DVD players or DVD drives.
One of my machines at home threw a CDROM drive night before last. I went to buy another. I had a simple choice: buy a 50x CDROM drive for $X, or buy a 16x DVD drive for 2*$X. The cost delta meant next to nothing to me - either was an incidental, "do you want fries with that" type of purchase. I waffled briefly over buying the DVD drive, then said to myself, "HELL NO! I am NOT going to give the MPAA any satisfaction on this. I WILL stick to my guns, and wait until the DeCSS is held to be completely legal before I buy a DVD. And if that day never comes, then I will never buy a DVD."
I don't want to come off as an extremist, but this is the BEST way we can make the MPAA change their tune: hit them in the ass pocket. Don't buy their crap. Don't give them money. Encourage your friends to do the same.
Just say NO!
<Warning>OOD ahead</Warning>
IMHO, Mozilla should have had:
A Renderer class, which would have HAD_A:
You get the idea. Each top-level type of object (Renderer, Transfer, Image) would look for other objects to implement the different modes (by scanning a directory for DLLs/.so's/whatever). Thus, if I want to add Gopher to Mozilla, I need only make a very simple object that does the Gopher protocol, and drop it into the appropriate directory.
This way, you can split the project into a very large number of very small modules. I can write my Gopher object without worrying about what's going on in the Flash object. I can test my Gopher object with a very simple wrapper that does no rendering, and thus is very amenable to automated testing from day 0. You can get a working HTTP browser before the FTP system is ready. You can get three people working on GIF renders, and pick the one that is best. You can start getting user feedback sooner. THAT'S where the power of the distributed development movement comes in.
(NOTE: just because I would use an OOD approach, does not mean you MUST use C++: I've done OOD in assembler.)
The biggest rule I've learned in my decades of programming is "Break the problem down into smaller problems. Repeat until the pieces are small enough to be solved in a few pages of code. Write the code. Test the code. Repeat until done."
There's one other point to make about this:
Assumptions:
Probability of a DNA match: 1e-4 (Pmatch)
Probability that a given person is a convicted criminal: say 1e-5 (Pcrook)
Now, assume that only convicted criminals' DNA are placed into the database. Now, to get a false match, you must statisfy both Pmatch and Pcrook, or the odds drop to 1e-9.
On the other hand, if EVERYBODY is in the database, then the odds of a false match are Pmatch, or 1e-4.
Hence, the database is BEST used to track already convicted criminals ONLY.
A friend of mine gave me a very simple approach to get to leave temporiarily: Answer the door with your phone in your hand.
For a more permanant solution, answer the door with the lower receiver of your AR-15 in one hand, and your cleaning cloth in the other.
I actually did a variant of this once: I lived in an apartment with an exterior landing that was shared with another apartment. In that other apartment lived (as near as I could tell) a large number of jail-bait teenybobbers who thought they were God's gift to the universe. They would
(Before anybody makes the obvious comment: I don't mess with jailbait.)
One day, my friends and I had gone shooting at one of their farms, and we had returned to my place to clean the weapons. The teeny's were doing their usual, hanging around being in everybody's way.
Funny, how people get out of your way when you have a rifle over one shoulder, a shotgun in one hand, an ammo can in the other, and have two holsters on your belt.
After the six of us had each made three trips from the cars, and had finally finished carrying the firearms into the apartment, and had started on the reflex weapons (longbows, crossbows, etc.), the teeny's disappeared into their apartment.
Funny, ever since then the aways got out of our way, never bothered my friends or me, and kept their music at a reasonable level....
The trick is not to go overboard. Instead of affixing a brick, find some old lead wheelweights, and put one or two in the envelope. It will be more expensive, and they company will have to get rid of a toxic substance. Enough people do this, and then we can report the bastards to the EPA!.
Obligatory no log in link
However, I wonder if this could also be used for holography: freeze the interference pattern into the material, and read it out later, reconstructing the image. In theory, since the material could record the interference pattern in three dimensions rather than two (like a photographic plate), this might allow for more detailed holograms.
There's a small problem with embedding the display elements in the lenses - you need to have optics to cause the light from the display to be less divergent than it would normally be. In other words, you have to make the display elements be optically furthur from the viewer's eye. I have severe myopia (-8 diopters in my good eye), but even I cannot focus closer than about 15 cm without discomfort. You have to make the display look like it's about 1m from the viewer. Hence, you need a display, and some lensing, before dumping the image into a combiner in the main lens.
Now, if they can do this, and make the combiner not have a large impact on the view when the display is not showing anything (so that I don't have to remove the display to see normally), and get a Bluetooth link so that I don't have to have a huge cable running down my neck....
IT seems somebody doesn't understand the legal meaning of "public domain": that anybody can modify what is in the public domain, without restriction. That is why free software and Open Source Software AREN'T "public domain"!
ebay announced that they have been contracted to run the next elections in Florida....
For some reason, my M16 install decided one day to stop running any plug-ins. Ergo, no Flash (no Thugs on Film! Henious!), no Real Audio (no Car Talk!), and Plugger never worked. Do plug-ins work on M17? Has anyone else seen this on M16?
.mozilla directory several times to try to clean this up, to no avail...
I've removed the both the Mozilla install and the
What if ISPs would put a clause in the contract saying (in legal verbiage),
As I've said before, "Follow the money"
The reason SCSI is so much more expensive than IDE is simply a question of target market.
IDE is targeted to JethroBoBillyBubbaSixPack who is running HoggingDOS98. He is limited by his crappy OS, and a drive that can disconnect from the bus and call back later when it is done with the operation is not going to do him a damn bit of good. He wants big and cheap. Real speed isn't important to him (although he is impressed by high RPM numbers).
SCSI is targeted at folks building servers, high-end workstations, video editing stations, etc. In other words, people who are spending other people's money (for the most part). They know that being able to do a disconnect and free the bus for something else, being able to to scatter/gather and elevator optimatizations, being able to buffer disk I/O properly, and being able to hang many drives off 1 card are more important.
As a result, SCSI is more expensive because people will pay more.
Here's some other interesting data on Media3:
Spamhaus.org's ranking of spam supporters
Media3's list of active spamhausen
OK, on three, let's have a great big "Awww" for poor widdle Media3.
1....2....3.... BPPPPPPT!
Now, what can we do to end the spam?
No, you follow the money: the spammer makes his money when morons go to the web site and by the spamware. Kill the web site, kill the cash flow, kill the spammer's business.
Now, places like Media3 will say "But we aren't spamming!" No, but they are giving aid and comfort to the enemy. So, what do you do to get Media3 to close down the spammer?
Follow the money
You make it unprofitable for Media3 to host the spammer. You do this by driving business away from Media3. You do that by blackholing enough of their customers that Media3 says "We are losing money doing this. Let's not do this anymore!"
Rememer Spamford Wallace, the uberspammer? Ageis communications was providing cyberpromotions.com with bandwidth, and by God they weren't going to stop. Then they got blackholed, and many of their customers left. Faced with losing money, they dropped Spamford like a hot rock.
Remember: follow the money. It's always about the money. If somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money.
I say, "GO MAPS GO!"
This is a bluff. Do what you do in Poker: CALL.
"If you think we are infringing, here's our legal address. Send the process server over and give us the papers, and we will see you in court. Otherwise, you will immediately and publicly retract what you've said, or we shall bring charges of unfair restraint of trade against you."
Can any of the noted attourneys in the audience comment on this strategy? <Paging Dr. Hawk, Dr. Hawk to the blue courtesy phone >
(and I don't mean some strange version of the TSR game....)
Have they fixed the X Windows system Drag and Drop protocol? I use an external program to do my downloads, and with NS4.7x I could drag a link to the program and start the download. Mozilla M18 won't do this: It copies the data to the X clipboard, but then doesn't notify the target application that it needs to read the clipboard.
Your microwave oven is just a 600 watt transmitter at 2.3 GHz. Normally, the water in food adsorbs the microwave energy, and heats up. (This, by the way, is why the 2.6 GHz ISM band wireless networks are very susceptible to rain fade). Now, if there is nothing in the oven, the energy has no where to go. The technical term for this is "high VSWR", high voltage standing wave ratio (pronouced vis-war like "his car"). The electrical field will build up to a very high level, enough to possibly arc over in the oven. Once that happens, the power will flow along the arc, and most likely damage something. Also, any leaks in the oven will become much worse, and you might get an RF burn if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Finally, even if none of the above happen, the magnetron (the device that makes the RF) will heat up inside, and may burn out or explode.
That said, the odds of this happening if you run your oven for short periods of time (tens of seconds or less) are pretty small.
If you want to help prevent this, place a small quantity of water in the oven. That way, the energy has a place to go (until the water boils away.)
Other "stupid microwave tricks" that I am in no way responsible for you hurting yourself with: Microwave an old florescent tube. Or an incandescent lamp. Light a birthday candle, and microwave it.
Remember, you are on your own if you do this. I didn't tell you to do it. If you get hurt, try to kill yourself so you don't breed.
And lastly, "Short, controlled bursts".
With respect to the encryption: GSM phones in the US are not allowed by law (actually by regulation, which is slightly different but has the same effect) to enable the encryption system.
Also, GSM signaling protocol is already in use here in the US in the PCS band. It's just not in use in the same frequency band as (say) the UK, and never will be. The UK and Europe have a different set of frequencies allocated to GSM than the US has allocated to cellular, and the frequency bands that the UK uses for GSM are already spoken for here in the US. Additionally, the frequencies above 1GHz that are used for GSM/PCS style services in the UK are different from the frequencies in the US for the same reason. Only if the governments of the world get together and allocate some frequenices world-wide would this be fixed.
I'll know that has happened when I put a pot of hot water on my gas stove and it freezes.
<scene location="some IS dept., some city">
<voice type="hoarse" accent="Italian">
It has come to our attention that some of the software you posess may not have proper licenses. This wounds us deeply, as it shows a lack of respect for us.
However, we will give you a chance to make
It would be most unfortunate, if you fail to make amends. In this business, unfortunate, accidents, happen, accidents we could help, prevent.
I am sure you will do the right thing, for I know you respect me, Don Gates.
</scene>
</voice>
</music>
With apologies to any responsible businessmen or Italians out there.