He will stay close to them just as long as they are useful to him and no longer. I think this a case where the cynical MS lobbyists have met their match.
Have you ever heard of Achilles from the Enders Game universe by Orson Scott Card?
Find any place that does silk screen shirt printing. Seeing as how you work for lockheed, n the DC area, look in Fairfax City, Fairfax County, VA. (I think you have an office near there). Near the Ice Arena off of Picket Rd. in (with 100 yards, same side of the road.) If none of the guys are in the DC/ mVA/MD area, find one locally. Silk Screen printings are the best so make sure that is the kind they do. Setup costs a little bit, but if you order 20 shirts it should be less that $20 a shirt. I have had to had shirts made before, and they do good work. Add a picture to the back if you want, the printings are fairly detailed. Actually, check around with your secretaries/PR/HR people or whoever does company events/promotions. They might have needed to have had some made and will know where to get them from.
The Pentagon Papers contained information that stated that the soldiers in Vietnam were fighting 'on the front lines' as it was, instead of just being in there for 'training of the local army' as was being publicized.
Basic difference is that the papers said the soldiers were in direct combat and not just there as teachers, as the US public had been told be several administrations going back to LB Johnson who got the US into the war originally. However, the main reason (as I understand it) was the the military did not want one specific section of the papers being released that contained information on troop positions (or something like that) and, had it been released, would have gotten many peopled killed. This specific section was not actually leaked, but was feared to have been. That said, I do agree with those falling under the illegal/immoral clause you state.
Static IPs are generaly bought for services that require them. In my case, I run a webserver (for myself and anyone who finds it) that contains image galleries. A dynamic IP with no-ip does me fine. If someone wanted their own proper domain like yourname.com, they would need a static IP to point to. Generally, if someone is on a cable modem doing this they are running a business line. Others, who aren't running a business, may want it for other reasons. I know that if I was gaming and my IP changed I would be pissed (if it happened a lot) cause I would loose the server connection. This is why most places change your IP when you reboot/reconect or at most once a week, and not every few hours.
Oh, one thing, with Centurytel, you're expensive compared to my local cable prices. 5mb down, 0.75mb up, $40/month with basic cable subscription with Cox.
If centurytel is changing the IP more than once a day/reboot, they are doing it for the extra $20 a month. If your IP is changed without the computer restarting, that requires a bit of work n their end. (maybe not much, but some) Whena computer reboots is the optimal point to change IPs from the lazyness point of view, and that only happens if you really need to. At most businesses with DHCP networks, the computer will not change IPs unless the network card is replaced or the OS is re-installed, even after several months and reboots later.
Good point on the $5 for 'modern music'. I'm to used to thinking of low production runs of the 'classical music' that I generally listen to. More people to be payed, more equipment, concert hall and so on. Yet it is still cheaper than Britney.
Kazaa downloads from multiple people at once. Assuming that both sides don't change IPs at the same time, they will re-handshake with a change in IP and resume downloading where it left off. (They do have download resume and downloading from multiple people at the same time). No positive as I stopped using Kazaa years ago.
We both think the same for BitTorrent, the handshaking should be similar to the one above for kazaa. Plus, the tracker having a (more or less) fixed IP helps.
One thing on no-ip, in case you haven't seen it yet, they have a free program in there somewhere called "DUC" (no joke) that will automatically update their servers when you IP changes. That's what you need for the non-static IPs. It's under downloads.
This is where 200 years of case law (aka precendent) come into effect. There is no law or requirement that states explicitly a subpoena be signed by a judge.
Amendment 4:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This has been taken to mean (over the past 200 years) that a Judge signed order must be presented. The basic difference between a clerk and judge signed subpoena (as I understand it) is this. Clerk: You go into the courthouse, pay the clerk $20 and have him sign/notarize the order. Judge: Goto judge, show him evidence/probable cause, he signs the order. It is much harder to get a judge to sign than a clerk.
But by the time I got home his IP address had already changed. It appears that his ISP (centurynet) changes his IP address every 2 hours. That would sure make it a lot harder to use P2P for sharing your own stuff, running a game server, a webcam, and all the other cool stuff you get broadband for.
It won't kill most apps like BitTorrent (i'm sure) or Kazaa (i think). As for Sharing stuff, use no-ip.com for that and a webcam. For a game server, that I don't know about as I know nothing about setting them up. Though, with Cox Cable modems, my IP hasn't changed in 3 months.
I am currently trying to get the music industry to sign a code of conduct too! In a nutshell, it says that the music industry will supply us with quality music (down with Britney!) at a resonable price ($5 a cd anyone?) and fair use rights (cd mixes for my *cough* girlfriend!). I'm having trouble getting them to sign. Please advise...
I call bullshit. Everyone knows/. members don't have girlfriends!;)
Now for the real end, that would be nice. $5 a cd might be a bit cheap for some stuff though, maybe more in the range of $8-$12 for most, with $15 for the really popular stuff. Though one thing I would like to see is good quality incerts. You know, things that give you lyrics on paper? Maybe some percs that come with the CD other than a plain sheet of paper that lists the song titles, lengths and nothing else. Hell, even records used to come with lyrics. Would love to see better quality music though. "Video killed the radio star!"
The citywide wireless network is necessary to improve government communications by linking every city building, police car and housing inspector to the city's databases, city officials say.
I read this as thinking radios and such. Even if it is only data transfers, I can see them moving the license plate checks (when someone gets pulled over, the cops generally run the plates) onto this thing. I get the fealing that some other stuff might as well. Same problems still apply. Sorry on the VoIP, I missread that.
More than likely this wireless will be more equivalent to Dial-up accounts. Mainly due to pingtimes and low transfer speeds at week signal strengths. You aren't going to game or download massive ammounts off of this system.
I personally find your comment to be distressing and pessimistic. I feel that the overall goal of having open Cable TV capabilities for all people (and the hardware to do so) has the potential to help people live more productive lives, by aiding in information acquisition and use.
I personally find your comment to be distressing and pessimistic. I feel that the overall goal of having open Longdistance Telephone capabilities for all people (and the hardware to do so) has the potential to help people live more productive lives, by aiding in information acquisition and use.
I personally find your comment to be distressing and pessimistic. I feel that the overall goal of having open Newspaper/Magazine capabilities for all people (and the hardware to do so) has the potential to help people live more productive lives, by aiding in information acquisition and use.
I personally find your comment to be distressing and pessimistic. I feel that the overall goal of having open Cell Phone capabilities for all people (and the hardware to do so) has the potential to help people live more productive lives, by aiding in information acquisition and use.
I sugest you look at how they design TV tower antennas (assuming you aren't a broadcast engineer). They use multiple high gain patch pannel antenas to transmit in their coverage area. This also cuts down on the ammount of electricity they use as they do not broadcast up out of the atmosphere and only down to earth in their reception area.
FTA: No tax money would be used for the Minneapolis wireless network, which would be paid for, built, owned and operated by the winning bidder on the city's proposal. That is a markedly different approach than in Philadelphia, where the city will own and operate a new Wi-Fi network.
From You: Kudos to the government for charging monthly for access. Charge the people that use it instead of taxing everyone for a handful of geeks to use it.
The one reason I am not against this implementation. Had they made it free, I would have been pissed. One thing I am concerned about though, how is this network (if it is using standard 802.11 a/b/g equipment), going to be affected by personal wirless hubs/routers? That should degrade/jam performance. They also are talking about replacing police radios (if I understood that correctly) with VoIP radios on this network. Wouldn't that be open to jamming (as in even more so than cellphones) and interference from other WAPs? Or are they going to ban the use of all non-city WAPs?
Do what governments do. Grind the HDs to dust (metalic and otherwise). Then store the dust. My recomendation is to melt the grindings down and turn them into paperweights for the office. No chance of a lawsuit if, for some reason, an HD doesn't get wiped.
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Having just finished up my CompE a year ago, I remember the intro courses we had. Two others and I (that were the gurus of the year) would sit at the computers surfing the internet or playing games. Same during our engineering C class. Although I think we usually finished our assignments in class and, if there was a printer in there, would have handed them into the proffesor at that point.
We didn't have any people who failed to know how to use a computer (most, if not all already had one), but people in some of the other schools in the remedial computer classes did. (Mainly business majors) The musica majors we knew sometimes came to us for help to ask what Excel command did what they needed. They had some really dumb hwk assignments. As is no one would ever need to know how to do this.
The idea that software has to be "dumbed down" until even the most clueless person can use it without ever having to check the manual/online help/whatever seems good at first glance
This was back in the days of dos, before I was even a teenager. My parents would first try to understand the program, read the manual and all that. If they got stuck and couldn't figure it out, they would call me in.
Compared to most they are power users and taught me how to use a computer, so they aren't weak users. Hell, my mom was the one that upgraded the computer to include a CD-Rom way back in 92.
I think the best test might be to see what kids do with blocks and what happens when you give them some toy with gears in it that is broken and see if/how they go about trying to fix it. I think mechanical/spacial aptitude might apply to this here. Not positive though.
The Washington DC area metro system recently went to electronic cards for paying for using their parking garages. The all of a suddent realized that low paid workers that have large ammounts of money passing through their hands on a daily basis are a bad risk in terms of theft of said money.
Comment maid by other people: "No shit, Sherlock." and "Duh!"
Easier way to drive them nuts.
Create an application that creates a file containing completely random information. (I've done this before, it's easy and doesn't compress well). Set up a program to automatically send these files to a friend who then creates a new one and sends it back. Automate and repeat 24 hours a day on a broadband connection. Should rack up the TB real quick.
In Argentina, they now have to log the content of the connections, not just the information on the connections themselves. Basic difference between recording (A) visited website (B) and recording (A) visited website (B) and here is the webpages he downloaded (the pages themselves have to be saved, not just the URLs). A difference of several orders of magnitude in information.
Even being an EE I could not answere that as Intel probably keeps that a closely guarded secret. That said, the main delay time in an Intel and AMD chip today is not the transistors, but the propogation time due to RC (resistance capacitance) in the signal path over long distances (relative to the chip size). Given that, they _may_ be able to double the Ghz, but that is all until they solve those problems. If they had a room temerature super conductor they could put in there, it would be easier to say.
Comparing the US Dollar to the Chinese Yuan is not a good idea as the Chinese Government has tied the exchange rate of the Yuan to that of the dollar at 10:1. If they floated their currency on the market like nearly everyone else does, it may actually go to about 3:1 and the purchasing parity would equalise. As is, the exchange rate is designed to be very protectionist to keep exports high and imports low.
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He will stay close to them just as long as they are useful to him and no longer. I think this a case where the cynical MS lobbyists have met their match.
Have you ever heard of Achilles from the Enders Game universe by Orson Scott Card?
Find any place that does silk screen shirt printing. Seeing as how you work for lockheed, n the DC area, look in Fairfax City, Fairfax County, VA. (I think you have an office near there). Near the Ice Arena off of Picket Rd. in (with 100 yards, same side of the road.) If none of the guys are in the DC/ mVA/MD area, find one locally. Silk Screen printings are the best so make sure that is the kind they do. Setup costs a little bit, but if you order 20 shirts it should be less that $20 a shirt. I have had to had shirts made before, and they do good work. Add a picture to the back if you want, the printings are fairly detailed. Actually, check around with your secretaries/PR/HR people or whoever does company events/promotions. They might have needed to have had some made and will know where to get them from.
The Pentagon Papers contained information that stated that the soldiers in Vietnam were fighting 'on the front lines' as it was, instead of just being in there for 'training of the local army' as was being publicized.
Basic difference is that the papers said the soldiers were in direct combat and not just there as teachers, as the US public had been told be several administrations going back to LB Johnson who got the US into the war originally. However, the main reason (as I understand it) was the the military did not want one specific section of the papers being released that contained information on troop positions (or something like that) and, had it been released, would have gotten many peopled killed. This specific section was not actually leaked, but was feared to have been. That said, I do agree with those falling under the illegal/immoral clause you state.
Static IPs are generaly bought for services that require them. In my case, I run a webserver (for myself and anyone who finds it) that contains image galleries. A dynamic IP with no-ip does me fine. If someone wanted their own proper domain like yourname.com, they would need a static IP to point to. Generally, if someone is on a cable modem doing this they are running a business line. Others, who aren't running a business, may want it for other reasons. I know that if I was gaming and my IP changed I would be pissed (if it happened a lot) cause I would loose the server connection. This is why most places change your IP when you reboot/reconect or at most once a week, and not every few hours.
Oh, one thing, with Centurytel, you're expensive compared to my local cable prices. 5mb down, 0.75mb up, $40/month with basic cable subscription with Cox.
If centurytel is changing the IP more than once a day/reboot, they are doing it for the extra $20 a month. If your IP is changed without the computer restarting, that requires a bit of work n their end. (maybe not much, but some) Whena computer reboots is the optimal point to change IPs from the lazyness point of view, and that only happens if you really need to. At most businesses with DHCP networks, the computer will not change IPs unless the network card is replaced or the OS is re-installed, even after several months and reboots later.
Good point on the $5 for 'modern music'. I'm to used to thinking of low production runs of the 'classical music' that I generally listen to. More people to be payed, more equipment, concert hall and so on. Yet it is still cheaper than Britney.
Kazaa downloads from multiple people at once. Assuming that both sides don't change IPs at the same time, they will re-handshake with a change in IP and resume downloading where it left off. (They do have download resume and downloading from multiple people at the same time). No positive as I stopped using Kazaa years ago.
We both think the same for BitTorrent, the handshaking should be similar to the one above for kazaa. Plus, the tracker having a (more or less) fixed IP helps.
One thing on no-ip, in case you haven't seen it yet, they have a free program in there somewhere called "DUC" (no joke) that will automatically update their servers when you IP changes. That's what you need for the non-static IPs. It's under downloads.
This is where 200 years of case law (aka precendent) come into effect. There is no law or requirement that states explicitly a subpoena be signed by a judge.
Amendment 4:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This has been taken to mean (over the past 200 years) that a Judge signed order must be presented. The basic difference between a clerk and judge signed subpoena (as I understand it) is this. Clerk: You go into the courthouse, pay the clerk $20 and have him sign/notarize the order. Judge: Goto judge, show him evidence/probable cause, he signs the order. It is much harder to get a judge to sign than a clerk.
But by the time I got home his IP address had already changed. It appears that his ISP (centurynet) changes his IP address every 2 hours. That would sure make it a lot harder to use P2P for sharing your own stuff, running a game server, a webcam, and all the other cool stuff you get broadband for.
It won't kill most apps like BitTorrent (i'm sure) or Kazaa (i think). As for Sharing stuff, use no-ip.com for that and a webcam. For a game server, that I don't know about as I know nothing about setting them up. Though, with Cox Cable modems, my IP hasn't changed in 3 months.
I am currently trying to get the music industry to sign a code of conduct too! In a nutshell, it says that the music industry will supply us with quality music (down with Britney!) at a resonable price ($5 a cd anyone?) and fair use rights (cd mixes for my *cough* girlfriend!). I'm having trouble getting them to sign. Please advise...
/. members don't have girlfriends! ;)
I call bullshit. Everyone knows
Now for the real end, that would be nice. $5 a cd might be a bit cheap for some stuff though, maybe more in the range of $8-$12 for most, with $15 for the really popular stuff. Though one thing I would like to see is good quality incerts. You know, things that give you lyrics on paper? Maybe some percs that come with the CD other than a plain sheet of paper that lists the song titles, lengths and nothing else. Hell, even records used to come with lyrics. Would love to see better quality music though. "Video killed the radio star!"
We *require* a subpoena signed by a *judge* not a clerk, before we turn over any information.
Just for my notes, how do you know when it is signed by a judge vs. a clerk? Does it say so on there or what?
The citywide wireless network is necessary to improve government communications by linking every city building, police car and housing inspector to the city's databases, city officials say.
I read this as thinking radios and such. Even if it is only data transfers, I can see them moving the license plate checks (when someone gets pulled over, the cops generally run the plates) onto this thing. I get the fealing that some other stuff might as well. Same problems still apply. Sorry on the VoIP, I missread that.
More than likely this wireless will be more equivalent to Dial-up accounts. Mainly due to pingtimes and low transfer speeds at week signal strengths. You aren't going to game or download massive ammounts off of this system.
The Demolition Man
Lets replace a word here shall we?
I personally find your comment to be distressing and pessimistic. I feel that the overall goal of having open Cable TV capabilities for all people (and the hardware to do so) has the potential to help people live more productive lives, by aiding in information acquisition and use.
I personally find your comment to be distressing and pessimistic. I feel that the overall goal of having open Longdistance Telephone capabilities for all people (and the hardware to do so) has the potential to help people live more productive lives, by aiding in information acquisition and use.
I personally find your comment to be distressing and pessimistic. I feel that the overall goal of having open Newspaper/Magazine capabilities for all people (and the hardware to do so) has the potential to help people live more productive lives, by aiding in information acquisition and use. I personally find your comment to be distressing and pessimistic. I feel that the overall goal of having open Cell Phone capabilities for all people (and the hardware to do so) has the potential to help people live more productive lives, by aiding in information acquisition and use.
I sugest you look at how they design TV tower antennas (assuming you aren't a broadcast engineer). They use multiple high gain patch pannel antenas to transmit in their coverage area. This also cuts down on the ammount of electricity they use as they do not broadcast up out of the atmosphere and only down to earth in their reception area.
FTA: No tax money would be used for the Minneapolis wireless network, which would be paid for, built, owned and operated by the winning bidder on the city's proposal. That is a markedly different approach than in Philadelphia, where the city will own and operate a new Wi-Fi network.
From You:
Kudos to the government for charging monthly for access. Charge the people that use it instead of taxing everyone for a handful of geeks to use it.
The one reason I am not against this implementation. Had they made it free, I would have been pissed. One thing I am concerned about though, how is this network (if it is using standard 802.11 a/b/g equipment), going to be affected by personal wirless hubs/routers? That should degrade/jam performance. They also are talking about replacing police radios (if I understood that correctly) with VoIP radios on this network. Wouldn't that be open to jamming (as in even more so than cellphones) and interference from other WAPs? Or are they going to ban the use of all non-city WAPs?
Do what governments do. Grind the HDs to dust (metalic and otherwise). Then store the dust. My recomendation is to melt the grindings down and turn them into paperweights for the office. No chance of a lawsuit if, for some reason, an HD doesn't get wiped.
Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Sound familiar?
Having just finished up my CompE a year ago, I remember the intro courses we had. Two others and I (that were the gurus of the year) would sit at the computers surfing the internet or playing games. Same during our engineering C class. Although I think we usually finished our assignments in class and, if there was a printer in there, would have handed them into the proffesor at that point.
We didn't have any people who failed to know how to use a computer (most, if not all already had one), but people in some of the other schools in the remedial computer classes did. (Mainly business majors) The musica majors we knew sometimes came to us for help to ask what Excel command did what they needed. They had some really dumb hwk assignments. As is no one would ever need to know how to do this.
The idea that software has to be "dumbed down" until even the most clueless person can use it without ever having to check the manual/online help/whatever seems good at first glance
This was back in the days of dos, before I was even a teenager. My parents would first try to understand the program, read the manual and all that. If they got stuck and couldn't figure it out, they would call me in.
Compared to most they are power users and taught me how to use a computer, so they aren't weak users. Hell, my mom was the one that upgraded the computer to include a CD-Rom way back in 92.
I think the best test might be to see what kids do with blocks and what happens when you give them some toy with gears in it that is broken and see if/how they go about trying to fix it. I think mechanical/spacial aptitude might apply to this here. Not positive though.
The Washington DC area metro system recently went to electronic cards for paying for using their parking garages. The all of a suddent realized that low paid workers that have large ammounts of money passing through their hands on a daily basis are a bad risk in terms of theft of said money.
Comment maid by other people: "No shit, Sherlock." and "Duh!"
Easier way to drive them nuts. Create an application that creates a file containing completely random information. (I've done this before, it's easy and doesn't compress well). Set up a program to automatically send these files to a friend who then creates a new one and sends it back. Automate and repeat 24 hours a day on a broadband connection. Should rack up the TB real quick.
In Argentina, they now have to log the content of the connections, not just the information on the connections themselves. Basic difference between recording (A) visited website (B) and recording (A) visited website (B) and here is the webpages he downloaded (the pages themselves have to be saved, not just the URLs). A difference of several orders of magnitude in information.
Even being an EE I could not answere that as Intel probably keeps that a closely guarded secret. That said, the main delay time in an Intel and AMD chip today is not the transistors, but the propogation time due to RC (resistance capacitance) in the signal path over long distances (relative to the chip size). Given that, they _may_ be able to double the Ghz, but that is all until they solve those problems. If they had a room temerature super conductor they could put in there, it would be easier to say.
Comparing the US Dollar to the Chinese Yuan is not a good idea as the Chinese Government has tied the exchange rate of the Yuan to that of the dollar at 10:1. If they floated their currency on the market like nearly everyone else does, it may actually go to about 3:1 and the purchasing parity would equalise. As is, the exchange rate is designed to be very protectionist to keep exports high and imports low.