You'll have to do what I did: block all of the 24.* class-A, or if its on your subnet alone, all of the Class-C.
I love IPCHAINS. It's a miracle what it can do. Besides blocking most of @Home, I've also blocked all of.jp, since the whole country is trying to sell me toner. (I have an inkjet)
One other thing springs to mind after reading this: DOCUMENT YOUR CODE! The article says:
Didn't you know? This is actually the results of the 1st Annual Obfuscated Code Contest!!
I have had my cable modem since January from AT&T, in the metro Detroit area. I moved on the 1st of June, about 2 miles down the road. A quick call to AT&T and I was all set, the installation (both times) was quick, professional and courteous. They made no bad comments about my Linux firewall/router I used, both times the installer told me he didn't know how to set it up, but gave me the sheet with my IP information so I could set it up.
About 2 weeks later, I noticed a ComCast van parked on my street, and a techie came to me and asked where my cable access point was. Sure enough, about 30 minutes later, my cable modem stopped working. I called AT&T, and they said they had NO clue why ComCast was there, but it would take a week(!) to send someone out. I also called ComCast to ask what was going on, and they had no clue, after 3 calls and 3 "supervisors." I went outside and noticed that the box was still open, and that my cable line was disconnected. I connected it right back up, and good enough, it worked. When the AT&T tech came that I had called for support from, he drove a ComCast van! So, I suspect this AT&T/ComCast deal is as good as done. Nontheless, shame on ComCast for disconnecting my service and not fessing up.
I live in Troy, and I have AT&T, so they *should* have you. Try signing up via there web site... twice the web site said I was in their area while a phone call told me that I was not serviceable.
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Actually, part of it was budgetary. Quite a few TNG episodes were forced to run on very tight budgets. For example, one episode had Riker pricked with a poisonous plant or something, and then he fell into a coma, and kept on flashing back old memories. He had to have "bad dreams" in order to snap out of it. Anyways, almost the whole show was flashbacks, saving a ton on budget for them.
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An imaginary number is still a "real" number in the sense that it has value. Altough not possible in normal space time, Who Knows what may be possible in subspace, or with a large enough EMF. After all, take a look at all the imaginary numbers running around you in the springs on your car, the B fields generated by your cell phone, etc. The square root of -1 is a legitamate solution that solves true life equations.
Don't forget, it was proven that the earth was flat, and a few of Newton's so-called laws have been proven otherwise. (Albeit in special circumstances.)
Exactly... I think the Federation would have cut Voyager and Janeway some slack if they were stuck 75k light years away to break the speed limit. Hell, I can do it taking my wife to the hospital...
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A temporal corsality (sp?) loop... akin to the one they were stuck in with the Enterprise struck Frasier Crane's (har har) and Rebecca Howe's starship from 75 years before, only to have Data and the number 3 rescue them.
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This is not true exactly. In an episode of TOS, altough I can't remember which, some "alien being" propelled the ship to either warp 11 or warp 12, something I know as faster than warp 10.
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Close...
KE =.5 m*v^2
Too much relativity in a nonrealistic world...
It'd be hard to find someone to sell you IP address blocks nowadays, (I know class A's are close to impossible) so that will be a big factor thats for sure
This is a bit unrelated, but I think interesting: Mercedes-Benz owns an entire class-A block (4.0.0.0) because they thought years ago that every car they built would someday have an IP address.
You know whats even funnier, is how many people I know out there have fancy SBLive! cards with optical TOSlink digital inputs and outputs who insist on copying everything digitally to a Home CD-RW deck, regardless of the fact that they've already lost a lot of fidelity and S/N because of the MP3 format. Or are using Sony Mobile ES car stereos playing crappy MP3 discs.
I tend to disagree about your minidisc comment. I personally have an in-dash MD player, a home minidisc deck, and a portable minidisc player. Granted, I also have a CD changer in my car and at home. Nonetheless, at least in Michigan, MD use has picked up tremenedously, the ease of use, size, and ability to rewrite and move songs and stuff is incredibly convenient. I always laugh when I see people with those gigantic 100-cd wallets in their cars or when they travel, when I can fit 100 MDs into a wallet the size of a franklin planner. It is time for a new, small format. I wish it would be something we already have though, like MD.
As a former Computer Engineering student, I would agree on the aspect that the point is to learn the material. That's what exams are for. However, teaching an engineer to do what engineers do it just as important, if not more important. I can't tell you how many times I've been taught time saving techniques. Why re-write math.h or a stack in the STL if you can use one that's written? This lets the instructor focus on the real topic: solving a problem. In a first-year CD course in C or C++, the prof. might not be able to ask the students to solve the Tower of Hanoi, if they have to spend all of their time coding the stacks instead of developing an algorithm to solve the problem. Just about anyone would argue that knowing how to write code with a smaller O(n) that is quick and efficient to solve a difficult problem is better than knowing how to hand-write code to overload an operator.
Even with only 100A of current, there still is a huge amount of loss in the line. I very recently graduated with my EE in power systems as well. A tour of Detroit Edison not long ago confirmed this.
At 500kV, you have an incredible amount of loss! Assuming a relatively low resistance, say only an ohm, you're losing thousands of watts of power to heat over a lenghthy run. (P=V^2/R) As far as inductance and capicitance goes, this doesn't effect the overall power, ie, it is not parasitic. They change the phase of the current waveform, which IS a problem still, because the line load needs to match the waveform to get the maximum power transfer and the smallest reflection coefficient.
I can't agree more. I currently have a StarTAC via SprintPCS. While I like the small size, I admit that I miss some of the gizmos that my Nokia phone had. Worse, the stupid little antenna on the StarTAC is notorious for getting bent up to all hell through use and falling out. With a phone that small, loosing the antenna makes your phone work about as well as 2 tin cans connected with a string.
I also have had the problem (on many occasions) of my computer not working, (mostly due to Windows ahem) and needed the manual, ie for mobo jumper settings, etc. A real pain in the ass to need to hop on the net when your computer is in 20 pieces. I don't like these 300+k.PDF files, like for my Visor. It takes forever to download on my modem from their website, only to look up some little feature or question. Lately, I've taken the time to actually print out some manuals, but also scan some paper ones in for online reference. Heck, I still have a 100+ page manual to Renegade BBS.
Heh, sounds a lot like a certain EECS 303 course I am taking!:P
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Based on my experience, they aren't worried about that type of cheating. The U of Michigan engineering school requires that all professors and teaching assistants leave the room during an exam, and we are on the honor system. The theory behind that is the teachers add too much pressure by wandering around the room as we take a test.
Besides laptop IR ports, there was once a case in the second electrical engineering class I took where someone used the lab experience of creating an AM mod/demod, connected it up to an IR LED, and attemted to cheat with another student. They were caught because we noticed that they each had small in-ear headphones on, and the two kept on saying things under coughs. Good idea, but stupid people.
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You'll have to do what I did: block all of the 24.* class-A, or if its on your subnet alone, all of the Class-C. I love IPCHAINS. It's a miracle what it can do. Besides blocking most of @Home, I've also blocked all of .jp, since the whole country is trying to sell me toner. (I have an inkjet)
gosh darn Alchoholics Anonymous took away my liquor.
Omniweb is a good idea.. but I got so sick of X10 ads that I blocked an entire Class-C subnet from X10 using ipchains.
One other thing springs to mind after reading this: DOCUMENT YOUR CODE! The article says: Didn't you know? This is actually the results of the 1st Annual Obfuscated Code Contest!!
I have had my cable modem since January from AT&T, in the metro Detroit area. I moved on the 1st of June, about 2 miles down the road. A quick call to AT&T and I was all set, the installation (both times) was quick, professional and courteous. They made no bad comments about my Linux firewall/router I used, both times the installer told me he didn't know how to set it up, but gave me the sheet with my IP information so I could set it up. About 2 weeks later, I noticed a ComCast van parked on my street, and a techie came to me and asked where my cable access point was. Sure enough, about 30 minutes later, my cable modem stopped working. I called AT&T, and they said they had NO clue why ComCast was there, but it would take a week(!) to send someone out. I also called ComCast to ask what was going on, and they had no clue, after 3 calls and 3 "supervisors." I went outside and noticed that the box was still open, and that my cable line was disconnected. I connected it right back up, and good enough, it worked. When the AT&T tech came that I had called for support from, he drove a ComCast van! So, I suspect this AT&T/ComCast deal is as good as done. Nontheless, shame on ComCast for disconnecting my service and not fessing up.
I live in Troy, and I have AT&T, so they *should* have you. Try signing up via there web site... twice the web site said I was in their area while a phone call told me that I was not serviceable.
Actually, part of it was budgetary. Quite a few TNG episodes were forced to run on very tight budgets. For example, one episode had Riker pricked with a poisonous plant or something, and then he fell into a coma, and kept on flashing back old memories. He had to have "bad dreams" in order to snap out of it. Anyways, almost the whole show was flashbacks, saving a ton on budget for them.
An imaginary number is still a "real" number in the sense that it has value. Altough not possible in normal space time, Who Knows what may be possible in subspace, or with a large enough EMF. After all, take a look at all the imaginary numbers running around you in the springs on your car, the B fields generated by your cell phone, etc. The square root of -1 is a legitamate solution that solves true life equations. Don't forget, it was proven that the earth was flat, and a few of Newton's so-called laws have been proven otherwise. (Albeit in special circumstances.)
Exactly... I think the Federation would have cut Voyager and Janeway some slack if they were stuck 75k light years away to break the speed limit. Hell, I can do it taking my wife to the hospital...
A temporal corsality (sp?) loop... akin to the one they were stuck in with the Enterprise struck Frasier Crane's (har har) and Rebecca Howe's starship from 75 years before, only to have Data and the number 3 rescue them.
This is not true exactly. In an episode of TOS, altough I can't remember which, some "alien being" propelled the ship to either warp 11 or warp 12, something I know as faster than warp 10.
Close... KE = .5 m*v^2
Too much relativity in a nonrealistic world...
I think Win95 made a BIG difference... although for me, I had a copy of Trumpet Winsock around for a long time before I had Windows 95!
It's gnomes, not elves... Sorry, but I couldn't resist. I'm way too big of an SP fan to let it slip.
It'd be hard to find someone to sell you IP address blocks nowadays, (I know class A's are close to impossible) so that will be a big factor thats for sure This is a bit unrelated, but I think interesting: Mercedes-Benz owns an entire class-A block (4.0.0.0) because they thought years ago that every car they built would someday have an IP address.
I don't think that is true... I've used several different NICs on my cablemodem with no problems.
You know whats even funnier, is how many people I know out there have fancy SBLive! cards with optical TOSlink digital inputs and outputs who insist on copying everything digitally to a Home CD-RW deck, regardless of the fact that they've already lost a lot of fidelity and S/N because of the MP3 format. Or are using Sony Mobile ES car stereos playing crappy MP3 discs.
I tend to disagree about your minidisc comment. I personally have an in-dash MD player, a home minidisc deck, and a portable minidisc player. Granted, I also have a CD changer in my car and at home. Nonetheless, at least in Michigan, MD use has picked up tremenedously, the ease of use, size, and ability to rewrite and move songs and stuff is incredibly convenient. I always laugh when I see people with those gigantic 100-cd wallets in their cars or when they travel, when I can fit 100 MDs into a wallet the size of a franklin planner. It is time for a new, small format. I wish it would be something we already have though, like MD.
As a former Computer Engineering student, I would agree on the aspect that the point is to learn the material. That's what exams are for. However, teaching an engineer to do what engineers do it just as important, if not more important. I can't tell you how many times I've been taught time saving techniques. Why re-write math.h or a stack in the STL if you can use one that's written? This lets the instructor focus on the real topic: solving a problem. In a first-year CD course in C or C++, the prof. might not be able to ask the students to solve the Tower of Hanoi, if they have to spend all of their time coding the stacks instead of developing an algorithm to solve the problem. Just about anyone would argue that knowing how to write code with a smaller O(n) that is quick and efficient to solve a difficult problem is better than knowing how to hand-write code to overload an operator.
Even with only 100A of current, there still is a huge amount of loss in the line. I very recently graduated with my EE in power systems as well. A tour of Detroit Edison not long ago confirmed this.
At 500kV, you have an incredible amount of loss! Assuming a relatively low resistance, say only an ohm, you're losing thousands of watts of power to heat over a lenghthy run. (P=V^2/R) As far as inductance and capicitance goes, this doesn't effect the overall power, ie, it is not parasitic. They change the phase of the current waveform, which IS a problem still, because the line load needs to match the waveform to get the maximum power transfer and the smallest reflection coefficient.
I can't agree more. I currently have a StarTAC via SprintPCS. While I like the small size, I admit that I miss some of the gizmos that my Nokia phone had. Worse, the stupid little antenna on the StarTAC is notorious for getting bent up to all hell through use and falling out. With a phone that small, loosing the antenna makes your phone work about as well as 2 tin cans connected with a string.
I also have had the problem (on many occasions) of my computer not working, (mostly due to Windows ahem) and needed the manual, ie for mobo jumper settings, etc. A real pain in the ass to need to hop on the net when your computer is in 20 pieces. I don't like these 300+k .PDF files, like for my Visor. It takes forever to download on my modem from their website, only to look up some little feature or question. Lately, I've taken the time to actually print out some manuals, but also scan some paper ones in for online reference. Heck, I still have a 100+ page manual to Renegade BBS.
Heh, sounds a lot like a certain EECS 303 course I am taking! :P
Based on my experience, they aren't worried about that type of cheating. The U of Michigan engineering school requires that all professors and teaching assistants leave the room during an exam, and we are on the honor system. The theory behind that is the teachers add too much pressure by wandering around the room as we take a test.
Besides laptop IR ports, there was once a case in the second electrical engineering class I took where someone used the lab experience of creating an AM mod/demod, connected it up to an IR LED, and attemted to cheat with another student. They were caught because we noticed that they each had small in-ear headphones on, and the two kept on saying things under coughs. Good idea, but stupid people.