Per mile costs with gasoline at $2.44 a gallon would be 3 cents. I could live with that.
Put it this way, my normal daily round-trip commute is 4.8 miles. This means I'd use only a gallon of fuel every 16.7 days, or a total of 15 gallons of gas a year, just to get back and forth to work. Even with gas at $3.00 a gallon it'd be a whopping $45.00 for the year.
With other travel my total bill would probably be $200 or less. Can't argue much with that.
I agree. I'd rather see pebble bed than the monsters we have now.
For those unaware pebble bed eliminates much of the complexity associated with a nuclear power plant.
The only remaining problem is radioactive waste but our understanding of the world around us is growing by leaps and bounds.
I wouldn't be all that surprised if within the next century or so the human race discovers how to tame radioactivity.
Not to mention that in large part, mainstream VoIP is nothing but a last mile technology. The call still lands on a public switch near you.
In my case I use Vonage. They make the IP connection to PaeTec's switch in my city and from there the call hits the PSTN. I used that very scenario to push the local PUC into forcing Verizon to port my number faster because it was in fact a regulated to regulate port.
I've confirmed all of my suspicions with both Vonage, PaeTec and Verizon folks that I know and sure enough I got it right.
Law enforcement has had the ability to silently tap lines since the advent of digital switching. I recall when a new #5 ESS was installed in a local community a friend gave us a private tour of the facility. You could sit at the console, bring up a phone number and listen in.
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From that I can estimate that it is trivial for the ALGA (Acronym Loving Government Agencies) to listen in on your line. In most cases it takes nothing more in the case of VoIP than finding the wire you pulled from the NID and tapping onto that. The more elegant solution is to mirror your conversations to a line hooked into the local PD. Better yet, record it.
We're living in a police state but the police are by and large clueless.
That these speed cameras have been in use for fifteen years.
I'd be very willing to bet the technology has made its way across the pacific to the United States. So all those who like to juice it a little, keep this article handy.
WRT speed killing people if governments diverted revenue from speeding tickets into road repair I wouldn't have an issue with it. But our legislators divert collected fines to their own pet projects.
Until the governments financial house is in order, I say no to speed cameras. Let the police focus on more egregious behavior like red light running, stop sign running, failure to allow merge, etc. instead of going after easy money. And in the case of red light cameras, no monkeying with yellow light times to drive up revenue.
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Why? Because sometimes unlimited time paper is better than crippled e-versions of documents.
By crippled I mean not being able to print out more than a couple of paragraphs per section, etc. I suspect most will just pay the full price and get the book.
Let me amend that last paragraph. After one cycle of buying the e-version they'll see profit drop off. First off, someone will figure out how to un-cripple it. Of course expect the publisher to employ the might of the DMCA against that but it'll be too little, too late.
It's pretty interesting that evolution seems to be plugging along yet nobody wants to acknowledge that the 'theory' has been proven many times over.
For example, PBS recently had a program whose name escapes me in which they traced back to the plague years and found out the delta 32 variation in genes would protect people from both the plague and HIV. The reason was because both attacked immune cells first.
So a genetic mutation proved beneficial 600 or so years ago and is proving beneficial today. It's probably likely that if you have European ancestry on both sides of your family you have at a minimum one copy of delta 32. Of course only one means the onset of disease is delayed while two copies mean full immunity.
The has been in play for eons. Sickle Cell anemia has its roots in protecting bearers of the gene from malaria of all things.
But Christian Fundamentalists don't want to acknowledge anything that doesn't point to their false beliefs in a supreme being. So they will try to challenge evolution at every opportunity, even pushing forth fake science to do so.
We're in a world where truth is relative. It is up to the individual to discern whethere it is truth for the sake of truth, or truth to serve an agenda.
This one takes elements from the current shuttle for the payload booster, and the Apollo capsules for the crew. By this point we know the rockets and boosters work and most of the kinks have been worked out. We also know the Apollo style capsule is relatively safe so long as you don't have exposed wiring and a high oxygen environment.
I suppose that now that the ISS is pretty much intact, there isn't any need to be able to perform research on the transport vehicle.
For example, Kevin Mitnick wrote a book called "The Art of Intrusion" in which scenarios presented in the NYT article are laid out in much more detail.
When people think about network and data security they tend to focus only on computers and connections. They forget that physical security plays a part in it.
But I think that the animosity between sys admins and developers is accidental.
For example - our developer decided to change the schema on our MySQL master database. This in turn broke replication on one of the slaves and made my day a living hell. I'm still thinking about a fitting punishment.
Just imagine being able to specify your ideal lover right down to breast or penis size, dimensions, etc. One that never tires, complains of headaches, job stresses, etc. Just there for the bang, so to speak.
Sort of reminds me of the robotic prostitutes in the movie AI.
On when you're on, off when you're off. There's something to be said for that.
RF signals at high enough power or close enough proximity have a heating effect on human tissue, particularly aqeuous tissue.
So this isn't surprising.
That's why the only solution is to heat your kidneys instead. Use a wired headset, not those bluetooth jobs. Stop cooking your eyes and brain - particulary in the case of the brain. Can't transplant that as yet. But a kidney can be transplanted so hook that baby to your belt and use the wired headset.
I've purchased many more CD's since P2P came out than before.
That being said, during the last few years of the RIAA's witch hunt I've not downloaded nor have I bought any CD's.
Of the six of us in my group at work we all have decent enough iTunes collections to keep me happy.
Of course if there is something I want it's as easy as MyTunes Redux. But I don't do that. Others in my group do.
Give me reasonably priced tracks on the net and I'll be all for it. I believe Yahoo is now plugging their $5 a month model. So long as they don't put arbitrarily low limits on the number of songs you can download, as well as not putting onerous rights management, it should be succesful.
There was a proposal to tack a $4 or so dollar a month fee onto broadband connections to pay licensing for any music downloaded. That would have been nice.
But right now at a dollar or so a track it isn't feasible. Suppose you download 15 tracks. The cost of the CD is probably $10 to $15 or so. So you're not saving anything and you're using YOUR media to burn it to CD.
Bring that price down to.25 a track, or heaven forbid,.10 a track and you'll see legal downloads zooming.
First, doesn't the UK have something like half a dozen actual channels on their over the air services?
Second - most of the recordings will be commercials and I cannot see spending good money on hard drive to record the drivel that passes for todays commercials. Nor can I support spending money to record programs that aren't daring enough, or that pander to the lowest common denominator of society.
Matter of fact the web has become much more fascinating for me.
Market price for a 160GB drive is what, about $100. That means cost per gig is about 62 cents.
This device is $25 per gig. Too expensive. At $5 per gig I might be more willing to buy. I suspect as time goes on though we'll see the price of solid state drives come down to below the $5 per gig mark.
Since when is an antenna illegal to posess? Seems a certain sheriff needs to refresh his legal studies.
Of course it's always good to have lots of other gear in the car. That's where an amateur radio and general radiotelephone license come into play.
I fondly remember a tax deduction a fellow ham used that was for a tropospheric propagation experiment. The IRS actully let it fly. In reality it was a Yaesu repeater, cans, and antenna.
Most bureaucratic government agencies have absolutely no clue about technology. This included law enforcement and the IRS.
However, if that sherrif actually gets an FCC field agent out there you may have some ehsplainin to do.
I've got a DEC auto-loader unit that's just sitting and collecting dust.
Of course it's promised to the state dept. of education.
But this brings up a very good point. There happens to be loads of data that is unreadable because the technology is seriously obsolete (8" Floppy anyone?) and not in widespread use. The same thing is happening to 9-track tape now. And it won't be long before CD's, DVD's, and ever DAT and DLT are ancient history.
In the past you just upgraded to the newest storage technology. But there are still many, many paper tapes, 9-track tapes etc. out there.
Fortunately there are retro computing groups that lovingly restore ancient hardware. For example: http://www.osfn.org/rcs/
Having formerly dealt with MS IIS servers I've come to embrace the granularity of configuring an Apache server.
Virtual Hosts, Redirects, etc. are easy if you read throught he config file. Granted, it is getting a little long and should be separated into different config area files.
I signed up for Vonage about nine months ago. Over that time I have had four outages, 3 of which weren't a Vonage problem.
Things like broken feed lines, etc. are what doomed me.
But otherwise the service works just fine over Cox IP services.
Don't have young kids so don't need a 5 9's phone service. Don't notice any delay on call audio, etc. But that little sidetone that Vonage puts on the line can get a little annoying.
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First they have to develope a low yield nuclear reactor that will keep the body temp at roughly 96-98 degrees.
Unless you like em' cold like that.
I have both IE and Firefox on my machine. Why? Because I can't access certain sites that are very MS specific with Firefox.
That being said, 95% of the time I use Firefox.
I'd like to see IE go away but it just isn't going to happen anytime soon. But remember, IE was once a marginal and buggy browser too.
Per mile costs with gasoline at $2.44 a gallon would be 3 cents. I could live with that.
Put it this way, my normal daily round-trip commute is 4.8 miles. This means I'd use only a gallon of fuel every 16.7 days, or a total of 15 gallons of gas a year, just to get back and forth to work. Even with gas at $3.00 a gallon it'd be a whopping $45.00 for the year.
With other travel my total bill would probably be $200 or less. Can't argue much with that.
I agree. I'd rather see pebble bed than the monsters we have now.
For those unaware pebble bed eliminates much of the complexity associated with a nuclear power plant. The only remaining problem is radioactive waste but our understanding of the world around us is growing by leaps and bounds.
I wouldn't be all that surprised if within the next century or so the human race discovers how to tame radioactivity.
Not to mention that in large part, mainstream VoIP is nothing but a last mile technology. The call still lands on a public switch near you.
In my case I use Vonage. They make the IP connection to PaeTec's switch in my city and from there the call hits the PSTN. I used that very scenario to push the local PUC into forcing Verizon to port my number faster because it was in fact a regulated to regulate port.
I've confirmed all of my suspicions with both Vonage, PaeTec and Verizon folks that I know and sure enough I got it right.
Law enforcement has had the ability to silently tap lines since the advent of digital switching. I recall when a new #5 ESS was installed in a local community a friend gave us a private tour of the facility. You could sit at the console, bring up a phone number and listen in.
>
From that I can estimate that it is trivial for the ALGA (Acronym Loving Government Agencies) to listen in on your line. In most cases it takes nothing more in the case of VoIP than finding the wire you pulled from the NID and tapping onto that. The more elegant solution is to mirror your conversations to a line hooked into the local PD. Better yet, record it.
We're living in a police state but the police are by and large clueless.
That these speed cameras have been in use for fifteen years.
I'd be very willing to bet the technology has made its way across the pacific to the United States. So all those who like to juice it a little, keep this article handy.
WRT speed killing people if governments diverted revenue from speeding tickets into road repair I wouldn't have an issue with it. But our legislators divert collected fines to their own pet projects.
Until the governments financial house is in order, I say no to speed cameras. Let the police focus on more egregious behavior like red light running, stop sign running, failure to allow merge, etc. instead of going after easy money. And in the case of red light cameras, no monkeying with yellow light times to drive up revenue.
Why? Because sometimes unlimited time paper is better than crippled e-versions of documents.
By crippled I mean not being able to print out more than a couple of paragraphs per section, etc. I suspect most will just pay the full price and get the book.
Let me amend that last paragraph. After one cycle of buying the e-version they'll see profit drop off. First off, someone will figure out how to un-cripple it. Of course expect the publisher to employ the might of the DMCA against that but it'll be too little, too late.
One of Kurzweil's books broached the subject. He said that in the future we'd be able to scan the contents of the human brain.
So we just edged a bit closer to the mark.
But not all of Nigeria's 419 scammers are at all intelligent. http://www.419eater.com/html/hall_of_shame.htm/
It's pretty interesting that evolution seems to be plugging along yet nobody wants to acknowledge that the 'theory' has been proven many times over.
For example, PBS recently had a program whose name escapes me in which they traced back to the plague years and found out the delta 32 variation in genes would protect people from both the plague and HIV. The reason was because both attacked immune cells first.
So a genetic mutation proved beneficial 600 or so years ago and is proving beneficial today. It's probably likely that if you have European ancestry on both sides of your family you have at a minimum one copy of delta 32. Of course only one means the onset of disease is delayed while two copies mean full immunity.
The has been in play for eons. Sickle Cell anemia has its roots in protecting bearers of the gene from malaria of all things.
But Christian Fundamentalists don't want to acknowledge anything that doesn't point to their false beliefs in a supreme being. So they will try to challenge evolution at every opportunity, even pushing forth fake science to do so.
We're in a world where truth is relative. It is up to the individual to discern whethere it is truth for the sake of truth, or truth to serve an agenda.
This one takes elements from the current shuttle for the payload booster, and the Apollo capsules for the crew. By this point we know the rockets and boosters work and most of the kinks have been worked out. We also know the Apollo style capsule is relatively safe so long as you don't have exposed wiring and a high oxygen environment.
I suppose that now that the ISS is pretty much intact, there isn't any need to be able to perform research on the transport vehicle.
For example, Kevin Mitnick wrote a book called "The Art of Intrusion" in which scenarios presented in the NYT article are laid out in much more detail.
When people think about network and data security they tend to focus only on computers and connections. They forget that physical security plays a part in it.
It isn't a joke.
But I think that the animosity between sys admins and developers is accidental.
For example - our developer decided to change the schema on our MySQL master database. This in turn broke replication on one of the slaves and made my day a living hell. I'm still thinking about a fitting punishment.
Just imagine being able to specify your ideal lover right down to breast or penis size, dimensions, etc. One that never tires, complains of headaches, job stresses, etc. Just there for the bang, so to speak.
Sort of reminds me of the robotic prostitutes in the movie AI.
On when you're on, off when you're off. There's something to be said for that.
Why did they use an Alt-Az tracking base when an equitorial tracking setup would have been better. After all, right ascension rules.
RF signals at high enough power or close enough proximity have a heating effect on human tissue, particularly aqeuous tissue.
So this isn't surprising.
That's why the only solution is to heat your kidneys instead. Use a wired headset, not those bluetooth jobs. Stop cooking your eyes and brain - particulary in the case of the brain. Can't transplant that as yet. But a kidney can be transplanted so hook that baby to your belt and use the wired headset.
I've purchased many more CD's since P2P came out than before.
.25 a track, or heaven forbid, .10 a track and you'll see legal downloads zooming.
That being said, during the last few years of the RIAA's witch hunt I've not downloaded nor have I bought any CD's.
Of the six of us in my group at work we all have decent enough iTunes collections to keep me happy.
Of course if there is something I want it's as easy as MyTunes Redux. But I don't do that. Others in my group do.
Give me reasonably priced tracks on the net and I'll be all for it. I believe Yahoo is now plugging their $5 a month model. So long as they don't put arbitrarily low limits on the number of songs you can download, as well as not putting onerous rights management, it should be succesful.
There was a proposal to tack a $4 or so dollar a month fee onto broadband connections to pay licensing for any music downloaded. That would have been nice.
But right now at a dollar or so a track it isn't feasible. Suppose you download 15 tracks. The cost of the CD is probably $10 to $15 or so. So you're not saving anything and you're using YOUR media to burn it to CD.
Bring that price down to
First, doesn't the UK have something like half a dozen actual channels on their over the air services?
Second - most of the recordings will be commercials and I cannot see spending good money on hard drive to record the drivel that passes for todays commercials. Nor can I support spending money to record programs that aren't daring enough, or that pander to the lowest common denominator of society.
Matter of fact the web has become much more fascinating for me.
Market price for a 160GB drive is what, about $100. That means cost per gig is about 62 cents.
This device is $25 per gig. Too expensive. At $5 per gig I might be more willing to buy. I suspect as time goes on though we'll see the price of solid state drives come down to below the $5 per gig mark.
Since when is an antenna illegal to posess? Seems a certain sheriff needs to refresh his legal studies.
Of course it's always good to have lots of other gear in the car. That's where an amateur radio and general radiotelephone license come into play.
I fondly remember a tax deduction a fellow ham used that was for a tropospheric propagation experiment. The IRS actully let it fly. In reality it was a Yaesu repeater, cans, and antenna.
Most bureaucratic government agencies have absolutely no clue about technology. This included law enforcement and the IRS.
However, if that sherrif actually gets an FCC field agent out there you may have some ehsplainin to do.
Just don't shrug as that would be a bad thing. Didn't think I'd ever meet another tech dweeb who has also read Atlas Shrugged.
I've got a DEC auto-loader unit that's just sitting and collecting dust.
Of course it's promised to the state dept. of education.
But this brings up a very good point. There happens to be loads of data that is unreadable because the technology is seriously obsolete (8" Floppy anyone?) and not in widespread use. The same thing is happening to 9-track tape now. And it won't be long before CD's, DVD's, and ever DAT and DLT are ancient history.
In the past you just upgraded to the newest storage technology. But there are still many, many paper tapes, 9-track tapes etc. out there.
Fortunately there are retro computing groups that lovingly restore ancient hardware. For example:
http://www.osfn.org/rcs/
Yes, I thought of that after I'd posted.
How's the meTAL thing going Hank?
Having formerly dealt with MS IIS servers I've come to embrace the granularity of configuring an Apache server.
Virtual Hosts, Redirects, etc. are easy if you read throught he config file. Granted, it is getting a little long and should be separated into different config area files.
I signed up for Vonage about nine months ago. Over that time I have had four outages, 3 of which weren't a Vonage problem.
Things like broken feed lines, etc. are what doomed me.
But otherwise the service works just fine over Cox IP services.
Don't have young kids so don't need a 5 9's phone service. Don't notice any delay on call audio, etc. But that little sidetone that Vonage puts on the line can get a little annoying.