First, for home users of MS-Windows anything, if you are happy with it, enjoy. Now for the nerds, this latest Microsoft offer sounds like combining the reliability of Microsoft software with the user friendly attributes of Unix software. Such a deal!
Go to http://www.grc.com . It will probably give back the IP address of the caller along with an explanation of how anyone can do this. Steve Gibson goes on to say that anonymity is not easy on the Internet, and assuming your messages are anonymous is foolish.
I saw the V-173 on the ground in Connecticut in 1947 during a tour of the Chance Vought factory grounds. My uncle, a Chance-Vought employee, told me of the XF5U-1, which was not on display. The X plane was VTOL. The V-173 had a top airspeed of 500 MPH and a landing speed of 10 MPH. They were remarkable planes, killed by the jet age, just like the article says.
Some years ago I signed up with GTE for unlimited dialup service at 56K. Usenet news was only available through a filtering URL. A few months later they calculated the average hours per user, multiplied it by some factor long forgotten, and started charging extra for anyone that exceeded that amount. They gave ample notice in letters to users. There was no offer to reduce rates for reducing service from no limit to some limit. I was well under their limit, and still had another ISP in less than a week.
Later they became Verizon, offering some kind of deal for ADSL which again did not include unfiltered Usenet news, and had an opening for restricting bandwidth. When I told them they were a terrible ISP and asked for an alternate they directed me to a URL listing ISP's and their rates for Verizon DSL service. It took a lawyer to decipher all the deals, but two sites offered reasonable rates for home users not hosting a site or running a business on the Internet. Both reserved the right to yank service for excessive use. The one I picked offered Usenet news, and has never given me a problem, and I do not abuse the service. I may download an operating system, but only rarely, and have no interest in 24/7 downloads of music, movies, or video. The ISP does offer services for businesses, site hosts, and constant downloaders that are willing to pay for it. He is also happy with cheapskates like me that do not want or need all of the service all of the time.
SCO might succeed in killing Unix as a name by their trademark protection lawsuits, but Unix as the philosophy and basis of computer operating systems will survive. Richard M. Stallman was the most prominent name to notice that trademarks and patents might, and probably would, endanger the free exchange of knowledge that marked the early days of Unix, when Bell essentially gave it to colleges. He started GNU and GPL as projects to cut this coming loss of freedom. The current reaction of corporate America to his projects is a measure of their success. He attacked a very profitable closed and secretive business model, and did it early, before corporate America realized they had been outmaneuvered by a student and hobbyist.
Anyone familiar with history of academics knows that any successful endeavor must have an acceptable philosophy. This has been supplied by Eric S. Raymond. Slashdotters not realizing this point should study the mathematical work of engineer Oliver Heaviside. He developed the right answers for long lines communications and had them published. They were not accepted at first because people could not understand them. Then they were not accepted because there was no rigorous proof of his mathematics. He stood firm on one argument, that his methods worked, and the results were better than those of anyone else. The mathematical proofs finally came, the philosophers were satisfied, and his work is still taught to mathemeticians and engineers.
To borrow from a famous author, tales of the death of Unix are greatly exaggerated. The name might be locked in court cases for years, but the philosophy is very healthy.
Great. All lawyers sent to space would be issued one-way tickets. They are a renewable resource on earth, and it would rid us of waste and residue here. Should they cause a drain on resources in space, termination of their stay will be quick and simple,"Just step this way, please."
Bruce Campbell made several television shows as costar to a female lead. His character was usually a parody, and he always made the female look good, no matter how foolish or hammy he appeared himself. I noticed that he had plenty of these series roles, and was always given high billing. Any man unafraid to make fun of himself and showcase his partner has much to offer.
I differ slightly with Sterno. I buy rechargeable alkaline batteries, AA and AAA, at Radio Shack. They are about 1.5 volts, and power remotes, an "atomic" clock (one that monitors 60KHz from WWV), caller ID, a GPS receiver, and whatever else there is needing these battery sizes. Recharge time with a Radio Shack charger is a few hours, and shelf-stored batteries come up in less than an hour. If a battery goes bad, as checked with a cheap meter, replacement is not a problem. It certainly beats constant shopping for replacement batteries, and does save money.
All Microsoft software has been removed from my computer network and will not be replaced. I can still vote by walking 400 meters to the nearest school and using the voting machines. Any attempt to make those voting machines run with Microsoft software will be met with a lawsuit that will not cost me any money.
When I worked in Korea thirty years ago I learned a great deal about their laws by buying a home. One of the most important laws concerns the name of the individual. A person can use any name they want, but there must be no attempt to conceal their real name. Movie and TV stars all had stage names, but news items always included their real names, in parentheses and written in Chinese characters, right after their stage name. My real name is difficult for a Korean to pronounce, so I used a Korean name for convenience. To comply with the law I had to use a stamp with my Korean name and my usual American signature on all papers. When written up in the news for a charity contribution once, my Korean name was followed by a phonetic spelling of my American name, all to comply with the law. Some comments to this article show a few changes to the law, but the principle is still the same. Your real name must never be concealed, and it is virtually impossible to have it legally changed. Korean married women do not take their husband's name, but retain their own family name.
Alan Ralsky is upset by excessive unsolicited mail. I did not participate, but what cooks his goose soothes my dander. Help him out. Unsolicited mail can be used to heat the home or bury it. Who cares about Alan's objections?
I am retired, and do not fear job loss, or loss of pension. SARS incidence is so low as to be random noise. War was not a reason to fear flying even during the campaign. The US Government operated and airline approved Passenger Harassment System at airports means the airlines and airports can crumble into dust before your eyes. If it cannot be reached by surface transport, it will not be considered for a visit.
The only thing that will save the Americans here is the latest mobile phones are small enough to fit when the Iraqis give them back. Saddam Hussein is not a nice person, and cleaning out his political machine is a good idea. Replacing it with a worse one is not, because we will need to clean out the replacement, also. Governing any country in the Middle East ourselves is guaranteed disaster. Muslims do not take kindly or gently to infidels telling them how they will live and behave. We have opened a can of poisonous worms. These people do not and will not live by our rules, customs, or mores. Any attempt to force our system on them is doomed. The best we can hope for is modest reform and a government that is not openly hostile. So far, we have Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey as allies and examples. With friends like this, we do not need another enemy.
The college might be Space Academy from Star Trek TOS. Captain Kirk started a long career by realizing that one computer problem was insoluble as written. He went into the program and rewrote it, allowing him to solve the problem. He has been emulated by cheaters ever since.
You may be referring to deionized water being used by the oil industry. It is also used in integrated circuit manufacture. It appears normal, but tastes terrible. Degassed water was made as an experiment in the Marine Laboratory at Rockport, Texas before 1954. It was about the consistency of a thin taffy. I know nothing more of the experiment, and the laboratory has been closed for years.
All values of pi used in calculations are approximations. Taking pi to equal 3.14 is pretty crude, but a lot of schools use it. Be a smartass. Use 355/113 as pi. It is still an approximation, but a good one, and will work on the cheapest four-function calculator.
This spammer used to fix pinball machines. Pinball machines are out of favor now. He must know where to find lots of surplus pinballs. I have a very rude suggestion about where he should store them, unlubricated of course.
I worked on a missile tracking ship 1968-1970. It was built on a C-5 cargo hull, about 560 feet overall, and had a very dependable Univac computer mounted in one room. About 1980 I heard from a visitor to the ship that the Univac had been replaced by a much smaller computer bolted to a table. This ship operated all over the world in whatever the weather happened to be, and computers were not a problem. The computer was removed when the ship became a fish reef off of Florida.
It also uses TDMA (time division multiple access), a miserable multiplexing system promoted by ATT that has trouble with high-pitched voices, and it connects to Windows computers only. Save your money. There are better ways to do the same thing with CDMA and GSM. Only the USA loves standards so much that they adopt them in large numbers while ignoring the mutual incompatibility and inconvenience to (l)users.
I did read the article, and they are referring to companies that allow their employees to copy copyrighted songs over the company LAN. I am with the/. community. If they come trying to mess with my home network, two computers behind a firewall, they will be invited to use my guest chairs. Those chairs are sharp pointed iron spikes dipped in dog waste.
Film viewers seem to forget that Count Dooku took part in this fight. His escape was straight from the Fu Manchu character that was also played by Christopher Lee. The count provides a devastating distraction to occupy the hero, Yoda, while he slips away to do more evil. Doctor Loveless in Wild Wild West used similar methods to keep his part from ending in one episode. Writers hate to lose a good villain too early.
Singularity does not know much about hams. A ham is delighted to lug his rig to a mountain location where he can get clear reception and minimum interference, then make contacts with hams worldwide on a backpack radio. The log entries and bragging rights are worth all the effort.
I once stated that an M$ car would stop three times on the way to work and run out of gas in the parking lot. I am indebted to James for pointing out that any attempt to run errands or stop for a cool one would result in a blank windshield. The problem would be fixed in the next model release of the Vaporware Irrelevant, arriving about two years after the promised date.
The man has made calculations and assumptions based on these calculations. I see no mention of measurements. There are meters that will measure radiation field strength, and will let you isolate the sources by frequency. Without measurements, the conclusions are just as valuable as the cries of Chicken Little. The sky is still where we left it.
I live close to Cinemark Legacy in Plano, and will be there for the show. Olathe KS, south of Kansas City, is centrally located for the first 48 states. Alaska and Hawaii residents may have a problem with the movie, but both states have activities that make any movie just another way to spend time. Texas Instruments, my pre-retirement employer, considered the digital projection system an important advance, but did not know if it would sell, remembering Betamax, Cinerama, and 9.5 mm film among other examples. I am glad it succeeded. It looks great.
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First, for home users of MS-Windows anything, if you are happy with it, enjoy. Now for the nerds, this latest Microsoft offer sounds like combining the reliability of Microsoft software with the user friendly attributes of Unix software. Such a deal!
Go to http://www.grc.com . It will probably give back the IP address of the caller along with an explanation of how anyone can do this. Steve Gibson goes on to say that anonymity is not easy on the Internet, and assuming your messages are anonymous is foolish.
I saw the V-173 on the ground in Connecticut in 1947 during a tour of the Chance Vought factory grounds. My uncle, a Chance-Vought employee, told me of the XF5U-1, which was not on display. The X plane was VTOL. The V-173 had a top airspeed of 500 MPH and a landing speed of 10 MPH. They were remarkable planes, killed by the jet age, just like the article says.
Some years ago I signed up with GTE for unlimited dialup service at 56K. Usenet news was only available through a filtering URL. A few months later they calculated the average hours per user, multiplied it by some factor long forgotten, and started charging extra for anyone that exceeded that amount. They gave ample notice in letters to users. There was no offer to reduce rates for reducing service from no limit to some limit. I was well under their limit, and still had another ISP in less than a week.
Later they became Verizon, offering some kind of deal for ADSL which again did not include unfiltered Usenet news, and had an opening for restricting bandwidth. When I told them they were a terrible ISP and asked for an alternate they directed me to a URL listing ISP's and their rates for Verizon DSL service. It took a lawyer to decipher all the deals, but two sites offered reasonable rates for home users not hosting a site or running a business on the Internet. Both reserved the right to yank service for excessive use. The one I picked offered Usenet news, and has never given me a problem, and I do not abuse the service. I may download an operating system, but only rarely, and have no interest in 24/7 downloads of music, movies, or video. The ISP does offer services for businesses, site hosts, and constant downloaders that are willing to pay for it. He is also happy with cheapskates like me that do not want or need all of the service all of the time.
SCO might succeed in killing Unix as a name by their trademark protection lawsuits, but Unix as the philosophy and basis of computer operating systems will survive. Richard M. Stallman was the most prominent name to notice that trademarks and patents might, and probably would, endanger the free exchange of knowledge that marked the early days of Unix, when Bell essentially gave it to colleges. He started GNU and GPL as projects to cut this coming loss of freedom. The current reaction of corporate America to his projects is a measure of their success. He attacked a very profitable closed and secretive business model, and did it early, before corporate America realized they had been outmaneuvered by a student and hobbyist.
Anyone familiar with history of academics knows that any successful endeavor must have an acceptable philosophy. This has been supplied by Eric S. Raymond. Slashdotters not realizing this point should study the mathematical work of engineer Oliver Heaviside. He developed the right answers for long lines communications and had them published. They were not accepted at first because people could not understand them. Then they were not accepted because there was no rigorous proof of his mathematics. He stood firm on one argument, that his methods worked, and the results were better than those of anyone else. The mathematical proofs finally came, the philosophers were satisfied, and his work is still taught to mathemeticians and engineers.
To borrow from a famous author, tales of the death of Unix are greatly exaggerated. The name might be locked in court cases for years, but the philosophy is very healthy.
Great. All lawyers sent to space would be issued one-way tickets. They are a renewable resource on earth, and it would rid us of waste and residue here. Should they cause a drain on resources in space, termination of their stay will be quick and simple,"Just step this way, please."
Bruce Campbell made several television shows as costar to a female lead. His character was usually a parody, and he always made the female look good, no matter how foolish or hammy he appeared himself. I noticed that he had plenty of these series roles, and was always given high billing. Any man unafraid to make fun of himself and showcase his partner has much to offer.
I differ slightly with Sterno. I buy rechargeable alkaline batteries, AA and AAA, at Radio Shack. They are about 1.5 volts, and power remotes, an "atomic" clock (one that monitors 60KHz from WWV), caller ID, a GPS receiver, and whatever else there is needing these battery sizes. Recharge time with a Radio Shack charger is a few hours, and shelf-stored batteries come up in less than an hour. If a battery goes bad, as checked with a cheap meter, replacement is not a problem. It certainly beats constant shopping for replacement batteries, and does save money.
All Microsoft software has been removed from my computer network and will not be replaced. I can still vote by walking 400 meters to the nearest school and using the voting machines. Any attempt to make those voting machines run with Microsoft software will be met with a lawsuit that will not cost me any money.
When I worked in Korea thirty years ago I learned a great deal about their laws by buying a home. One of the most important laws concerns the name of the individual. A person can use any name they want, but there must be no attempt to conceal their real name. Movie and TV stars all had stage names, but news items always included their real names, in parentheses and written in Chinese characters, right after their stage name. My real name is difficult for a Korean to pronounce, so I used a Korean name for convenience. To comply with the law I had to use a stamp with my Korean name and my usual American signature on all papers. When written up in the news for a charity contribution once, my Korean name was followed by a phonetic spelling of my American name, all to comply with the law. Some comments to this article show a few changes to the law, but the principle is still the same. Your real name must never be concealed, and it is virtually impossible to have it legally changed. Korean married women do not take their husband's name, but retain their own family name.
Alan Ralsky is upset by excessive unsolicited mail. I did not participate, but what cooks his goose soothes my dander. Help him out. Unsolicited mail can be used to heat the home or bury it. Who cares about Alan's objections?
I am retired, and do not fear job loss, or loss of pension. SARS incidence is so low as to be random noise. War was not a reason to fear flying even during the campaign. The US Government operated and airline approved Passenger Harassment System at airports means the airlines and airports can crumble into dust before your eyes. If it cannot be reached by surface transport, it will not be considered for a visit.
The only thing that will save the Americans here is the latest mobile phones are small enough to fit when the Iraqis give them back. Saddam Hussein is not a nice person, and cleaning out his political machine is a good idea. Replacing it with a worse one is not, because we will need to clean out the replacement, also. Governing any country in the Middle East ourselves is guaranteed disaster. Muslims do not take kindly or gently to infidels telling them how they will live and behave. We have opened a can of poisonous worms. These people do not and will not live by our rules, customs, or mores. Any attempt to force our system on them is doomed. The best we can hope for is modest reform and a government that is not openly hostile. So far, we have Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey as allies and examples. With friends like this, we do not need another enemy.
The college might be Space Academy from Star Trek TOS. Captain Kirk started a long career by realizing that one computer problem was insoluble as written. He went into the program and rewrote it, allowing him to solve the problem. He has been emulated by cheaters ever since.
You may be referring to deionized water being used by the oil industry. It is also used in integrated circuit manufacture. It appears normal, but tastes terrible. Degassed water was made as an experiment in the Marine Laboratory at Rockport, Texas before 1954. It was about the consistency of a thin taffy. I know nothing more of the experiment, and the laboratory has been closed for years.
All values of pi used in calculations are approximations. Taking pi to equal 3.14 is pretty crude, but a lot of schools use it. Be a smartass. Use 355/113 as pi. It is still an approximation, but a good one, and will work on the cheapest four-function calculator.
This spammer used to fix pinball machines. Pinball machines are out of favor now. He must know where to find lots of surplus pinballs. I have a very rude suggestion about where he should store them, unlubricated of course.
I worked on a missile tracking ship 1968-1970. It was built on a C-5 cargo hull, about 560 feet overall, and had a very dependable Univac computer mounted in one room. About 1980 I heard from a visitor to the ship that the Univac had been replaced by a much smaller computer bolted to a table. This ship operated all over the world in whatever the weather happened to be, and computers were not a problem. The computer was removed when the ship became a fish reef off of Florida.
It also uses TDMA (time division multiple access), a miserable multiplexing system promoted by ATT that has trouble with high-pitched voices, and it connects to Windows computers only. Save your money. There are better ways to do the same thing with CDMA and GSM. Only the USA loves standards so much that they adopt them in large numbers while ignoring the mutual incompatibility and inconvenience to (l)users.
I did read the article, and they are referring to companies that allow their employees to copy copyrighted songs over the company LAN. I am with the /. community. If they come trying to mess with my home network, two computers behind a firewall, they will be invited to use my guest chairs. Those chairs are sharp pointed iron spikes dipped in dog waste.
Film viewers seem to forget that Count Dooku took part in this fight. His escape was straight from the Fu Manchu character that was also played by Christopher Lee. The count provides a devastating distraction to occupy the hero, Yoda, while he slips away to do more evil. Doctor Loveless in Wild Wild West used similar methods to keep his part from ending in one episode. Writers hate to lose a good villain too early.
Singularity does not know much about hams. A ham is delighted to lug his rig to a mountain location where he can get clear reception and minimum interference, then make contacts with hams worldwide on a backpack radio. The log entries and bragging rights are worth all the effort.
I once stated that an M$ car would stop three times on the way to work and run out of gas in the parking lot. I am indebted to James for pointing out that any attempt to run errands or stop for a cool one would result in a blank windshield. The problem would be fixed in the next model release of the Vaporware Irrelevant, arriving about two years after the promised date.
The man has made calculations and assumptions based on these calculations. I see no mention of measurements. There are meters that will measure radiation field strength, and will let you isolate the sources by frequency. Without measurements, the conclusions are just as valuable as the cries of Chicken Little. The sky is still where we left it.
I live close to Cinemark Legacy in Plano, and will be there for the show. Olathe KS, south of Kansas City, is centrally located for the first 48 states. Alaska and Hawaii residents may have a problem with the movie, but both states have activities that make any movie just another way to spend time. Texas Instruments, my pre-retirement employer, considered the digital projection system an important advance, but did not know if it would sell, remembering Betamax, Cinerama, and 9.5 mm film among other examples. I am glad it succeeded. It looks great.