The last few dozen yachts Larry Ellison bought were equipped with advanced torpedo launch systems. I wonder if these two events are related? At the time, this didn't catch my attention, but when I read they were also equipped with laser-guided, gas-engine-powered facial hair trimmers and a 20-year supply of Risperidol, I started to wonder.
It's surprising to me that there is one very large group in the portable email device market that is consistently overlooked: Drug dealers. If there is any group that depends wholly on reliability of their Blackberry devices and could benefit from competition, it would be the miscellaneous crack, heroin, and meth dealers that inhabit our neighborhoods, hallways, and emergency rooms. They provide an invaluable service to congressmen and other miscellaneous lawyers, airline pilots, musicians, school bus drivers, doctors, clergy, SCO executives, Courtney Love, and daycare providers across the country. Their lives are on the line every day, and if there is no reliable wireless email system for these upstanding members of society, the entire industry will fail to thrive and eventually die. WE CAN'T LET THIS HAPPEN! OUR TRADE GAP WITH CHINA WILL SOAR! Without the drug dealers, there would be no DEA! And what do you suppose we would do then?!?! Go NTP go!
So does this mean that if you have this procedure done and you are later caught blatantly picking your nose in public that you can just claim your new nerve cells were homesick? My nerves are fine, but sign me up anyway!
If you want an unreadable hard drive, you can forget about blowfish, twofish, MD5, SHA, and every other cryptographic solution. There is only one way to do it and one number to remember: 1.21 gigawatts.
No, I didn't assume that anything contributes to cancer, which is why I said "...that's what I figure the problem *could* be," and "Whether it's a real or perceived problem, that's another matter entirely." Seems to me like your social conservatism is so powerful that you assumed I was making liberal-style accusations when I was doing no such thing. Just relax. The world isn't out to get you. Put on a Frank Zappa album and lose the guilt. You may live longer; constant worrying is POTENTIALLY not good for your health.
If you want to get picky about it, it looks like you're assuming that cancer is up in the air, which is not always true...
Here's the thing, though: You live hundreds of feet away from high voltage power lines, so most of that radiation is attenuated by the time it gets to you. You get only a small dose, but you get it nearly constantly while you're at your house (or wherever you are that has the high voltage lines nearby). With this device, the power levels are much lower, but you're also much closer and the frequency could be much higher than 60Hz power lines, probably closer to 900 or 2400 MHz. The effective radiation absorption may be higher, even though it may be for a shorter duration. I don't know, but that's what I figure the problem *could* be. Whether it's a real or perceived problem, that's another matter entirely.
Amen! Luckily for non-hams, most hams are thoughtful enough to help their neighbors in an emergency and not just themselves. The more hams we have, the better off we would be in an emergency. It's not that expensive, and it doesn't take that much time to do. Contact the ARRL for more information on how to get your license. Handheld 2m/73cm radios can be bought very inexpensively in many places. Brands include Icom, Yaesu, Kenwood, Radio Shack, Alinco, ADI, and others. Check out eBay, lots of inexpensive radios and batteries to be bought there.
If you're a CNE and you don't know that eDirectory (it hasn't been called NDS for about 4 years now) runs on Linux, Solaris, NetWare, and Windows platforms, I'm going to need your name and company so I can be sure never to hire you.
You're missing the point. Being a behemoth is not the issue. Microsoft motto used to be "A Microsoft on every desktop," but they conveniently changed it because it didn't sound very unmonopolistic during the trial. Penetration is exactly what they need to make more money. No, you don't HAVE to use their products to surf the web, but it sure is much more interesting and flexible if you do use Flash, Shockwave, or Acrobat, isn't it? How much content out there requires one of those products? How much do you think they are willing to pay for it? Beyond that, how much do you think advertisers are willing to pay to reach 90+% of desktops?
You're going to need a trencher to run power to the head stone. Hey, watch out for Aunt Hilda! Maybe solar panels would be better, or figure out a way to generate power from the gases produced by decomposition and contribute to science while you rot.
It's not the FCC, it's the American Radio Relay League that helps hams band together in opposition to these things in Washington and elsewhere. The web site is very informative, if a bit slanted. It seems like there is a large faction of older men who have spent lots of time and money on setting up a system to conduct communications the same way, and they don't want to change anything. To some extent, I understand that. It's important to note, though, that amateur radio was founded on the basis that experimentation and innovation in radio technology could be done by anyone willing to invest a small amount of time to learn the rules and prove they aren't going to destroy anything. Experimentation and innovation are key to the equation, and working around some noise created by BPL should be considered an exciting opportunity to learn something new, not the end of a fun hobby. The technology is out there to do it, and there are plenty of people who love to teach this stuff. Seems to me it's just an adjustment and a small price to pay for the privilege of using bandwidth essentially for free.
TCP is not used for transmitting voice in most applications. Why would you want retransmissions during a conversation? There is no TCP stream, and therefore no "negligible-load" encryption. Do you want to ask about encryption of UDP streams now? Nice try. Come back in a few years when you actually know something about networks.
I've worked with Novell's Identity Manager and DirXML for several years now, as well as their eDirectory and several other directories. They have a lot of good back-end identity technology that's tried and true. The product set is aimed at corporate customers, but the technology is in place and probably viable for much larger-scale implementations. With the next eDirectory release, you can have two trees and IDM drivers on the same server, so you can sync trees without ever hitting the network. Am I the only one that thinks Novell should be preparing to compete in the same space? Or is it not the back-end technology at issue but the human interface? Novell, are you paying attention here?
I don't know if I'd call it "friendly." Let's see here, with pills, all you have to do is pop it in your mouth and swallow. With this one, they have to CUT YOUR CHEST AND NECK OPEN AND ATTACH WIRES TO YOUR NERVES!!! Doesn't sound that friendly to me. Then again, I don't know who your friends are...
You say "...nothing WE'VE done so far has worked," and "If WE finally bring the Internet to its knees..." but earlier you said you didn't want to be involved because you were afraid of getting into trouble, but that you'd look the other way if someone else was to solve the problem with this method. You can't take credit for something and not get into trouble when it goes awry unless you're the former CEO of Enron.
So what you're saying is that you want somebody else to use DOS attacks to bring the whole internet down, then you're going to tell the world that it went down because of spammers and the retaliation which you did not do because you were afraid you would get into trouble is the cause of the outage. Explain to me again how you think this is going to turn the tides against the spammers without causing more damage than the original problem...
Well that's very democratic of you. "I receive too much spam every day, so I vote somebody else fights traffic with more traffic." Thanks for your input. Way to be part of the solution.
C++ is over with already, geez. Slow, cumbersome, and nobody has a compiler for it. You should be switching to Java by now. It's fast, portable, and the JVM is everywhere. The Novell JVM is the fastest. The time of C++ is past. Let the dinosaur turn into oil already and upgrade to the technology that will take us into the 22nd century and beyond. JAVA!
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The last few dozen yachts Larry Ellison bought were equipped with advanced torpedo launch systems. I wonder if these two events are related? At the time, this didn't catch my attention, but when I read they were also equipped with laser-guided, gas-engine-powered facial hair trimmers and a 20-year supply of Risperidol, I started to wonder.
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It's surprising to me that there is one very large group in the portable email device market that is consistently overlooked: Drug dealers. If there is any group that depends wholly on reliability of their Blackberry devices and could benefit from competition, it would be the miscellaneous crack, heroin, and meth dealers that inhabit our neighborhoods, hallways, and emergency rooms. They provide an invaluable service to congressmen and other miscellaneous lawyers, airline pilots, musicians, school bus drivers, doctors, clergy, SCO executives, Courtney Love, and daycare providers across the country. Their lives are on the line every day, and if there is no reliable wireless email system for these upstanding members of society, the entire industry will fail to thrive and eventually die. WE CAN'T LET THIS HAPPEN! OUR TRADE GAP WITH CHINA WILL SOAR! Without the drug dealers, there would be no DEA! And what do you suppose we would do then?!?! Go NTP go!
So does this mean that if you have this procedure done and you are later caught blatantly picking your nose in public that you can just claim your new nerve cells were homesick? My nerves are fine, but sign me up anyway!
Only a few people will probably understand the Trabant reference. Good one! It would need a 2-cycle paper engine to be complete, though.
If you want an unreadable hard drive, you can forget about blowfish, twofish, MD5, SHA, and every other cryptographic solution. There is only one way to do it and one number to remember: 1.21 gigawatts.
If you want to get picky about it, it looks like you're assuming that cancer is up in the air, which is not always true...
Here's the thing, though: You live hundreds of feet away from high voltage power lines, so most of that radiation is attenuated by the time it gets to you. You get only a small dose, but you get it nearly constantly while you're at your house (or wherever you are that has the high voltage lines nearby). With this device, the power levels are much lower, but you're also much closer and the frequency could be much higher than 60Hz power lines, probably closer to 900 or 2400 MHz. The effective radiation absorption may be higher, even though it may be for a shorter duration. I don't know, but that's what I figure the problem *could* be. Whether it's a real or perceived problem, that's another matter entirely.
That's not it, you insensitive clod! It's Lethargic, Impractical Soiree Prognosticator Malfeasance. Duh!
But I'm the CEO of Banyan, you insensitive clod! What about Vines?!?!
Amen! Luckily for non-hams, most hams are thoughtful enough to help their neighbors in an emergency and not just themselves. The more hams we have, the better off we would be in an emergency. It's not that expensive, and it doesn't take that much time to do. Contact the ARRL for more information on how to get your license. Handheld 2m/73cm radios can be bought very inexpensively in many places. Brands include Icom, Yaesu, Kenwood, Radio Shack, Alinco, ADI, and others. Check out eBay, lots of inexpensive radios and batteries to be bought there.
If you're a CNE and you don't know that eDirectory (it hasn't been called NDS for about 4 years now) runs on Linux, Solaris, NetWare, and Windows platforms, I'm going to need your name and company so I can be sure never to hire you.
Did you see the last show at Soldier Field in Chicago? Sad. Very sad. Jerry was practically dead then. The So Many Roads was like a sad message.
You're missing the point. Being a behemoth is not the issue. Microsoft motto used to be "A Microsoft on every desktop," but they conveniently changed it because it didn't sound very unmonopolistic during the trial. Penetration is exactly what they need to make more money. No, you don't HAVE to use their products to surf the web, but it sure is much more interesting and flexible if you do use Flash, Shockwave, or Acrobat, isn't it? How much content out there requires one of those products? How much do you think they are willing to pay for it? Beyond that, how much do you think advertisers are willing to pay to reach 90+% of desktops?
You're going to need a trencher to run power to the head stone. Hey, watch out for Aunt Hilda! Maybe solar panels would be better, or figure out a way to generate power from the gases produced by decomposition and contribute to science while you rot.
He better pray for solitary confinement. Bubba and his posse are all fiercely loyal AOL users and they don't NEED no \/i@GR@ or Ci@li5.
As my mass has gone up, my energy has gone down. What more proof do you need?
It's not the FCC, it's the American Radio Relay League that helps hams band together in opposition to these things in Washington and elsewhere. The web site is very informative, if a bit slanted. It seems like there is a large faction of older men who have spent lots of time and money on setting up a system to conduct communications the same way, and they don't want to change anything. To some extent, I understand that. It's important to note, though, that amateur radio was founded on the basis that experimentation and innovation in radio technology could be done by anyone willing to invest a small amount of time to learn the rules and prove they aren't going to destroy anything. Experimentation and innovation are key to the equation, and working around some noise created by BPL should be considered an exciting opportunity to learn something new, not the end of a fun hobby. The technology is out there to do it, and there are plenty of people who love to teach this stuff. Seems to me it's just an adjustment and a small price to pay for the privilege of using bandwidth essentially for free.
TCP is not used for transmitting voice in most applications. Why would you want retransmissions during a conversation? There is no TCP stream, and therefore no "negligible-load" encryption. Do you want to ask about encryption of UDP streams now? Nice try. Come back in a few years when you actually know something about networks.
Dad, is that you? Let me guess, the dog did it, right?
I've worked with Novell's Identity Manager and DirXML for several years now, as well as their eDirectory and several other directories. They have a lot of good back-end identity technology that's tried and true. The product set is aimed at corporate customers, but the technology is in place and probably viable for much larger-scale implementations. With the next eDirectory release, you can have two trees and IDM drivers on the same server, so you can sync trees without ever hitting the network. Am I the only one that thinks Novell should be preparing to compete in the same space? Or is it not the back-end technology at issue but the human interface? Novell, are you paying attention here?
I don't know if I'd call it "friendly." Let's see here, with pills, all you have to do is pop it in your mouth and swallow. With this one, they have to CUT YOUR CHEST AND NECK OPEN AND ATTACH WIRES TO YOUR NERVES!!! Doesn't sound that friendly to me. Then again, I don't know who your friends are...
You say "...nothing WE'VE done so far has worked," and "If WE finally bring the Internet to its knees..." but earlier you said you didn't want to be involved because you were afraid of getting into trouble, but that you'd look the other way if someone else was to solve the problem with this method. You can't take credit for something and not get into trouble when it goes awry unless you're the former CEO of Enron.
So what you're saying is that you want somebody else to use DOS attacks to bring the whole internet down, then you're going to tell the world that it went down because of spammers and the retaliation which you did not do because you were afraid you would get into trouble is the cause of the outage. Explain to me again how you think this is going to turn the tides against the spammers without causing more damage than the original problem...
Well that's very democratic of you. "I receive too much spam every day, so I vote somebody else fights traffic with more traffic." Thanks for your input. Way to be part of the solution.
C++ is over with already, geez. Slow, cumbersome, and nobody has a compiler for it. You should be switching to Java by now. It's fast, portable, and the JVM is everywhere. The Novell JVM is the fastest. The time of C++ is past. Let the dinosaur turn into oil already and upgrade to the technology that will take us into the 22nd century and beyond. JAVA!