vehicles with built-in 802.11p could serve as nodes in mesh networks..." "This is the next big challenge for the RIAA," said Schultz.
We experimented with this last year using Java and 802.11b. It worked and it's not rocket science.
It's interesting as a vehicle application but 'way future' as far as implementation goes.
With all the cheap WiFi gear out there the FUN would be in implementing the described network functions at home. It's also practical in wifi dense urban settings.
EV-DO is fastest. For $80/month, all you can eat, it's gonna beat the hell out of a low quality dialup connection.
If you've some friends to make hops to one who has a decent DSL or cable connection, you may want to go by wire. High speed point to point modems are cheap surplus these days. 5kM range is about it for twisted pair. So you buy a dry pair to a buds house , set up a repeater, buy another dry pair from his house to bud with cable or DSL, and you're out some $20-40/month for higher speed.
I know plenty of democrats who go to church every Sunday, or Saturday. I know plentyb of non-democrats who only set foot in a church as the lesser of two evils. Wrath or Wife OR spending a half a day at a wedding.
But I guess I don't 'believe' that life on earth is so simply described by
Computer as appliance will eventually lead to, as it has with all appliances, a huge reduction in both specialized workers and people who become motivated to understand how a thing works.
How many people these days understand how NTSC color encoding works while retaining compatibility with black and white sets? I suspect there are fewer than three/. readers capable of a cogent, concise explanation, without reference materials. How many know how to rebraid the end of aworn buggy whip?
When understanding is no longer necessary, people, for the most part and even if capable, don't bother. The result? Perhaps a slowdown in software innovation. Perhaps an increase in other pursuits where understanding is required to get anything interesting done.
One thing that has always puzzled me is why Microsoft has not verticall segmented windows. It'a a common practice with hardware. Remember all the different model typewriters IBM used to market, or HP and the range of printers.
I used to sell computers back in the 80's. I'd ask the cstomer. What do you want to do with your computer? The usual answer was, "Oh, just some basic word processing". So I'd sell the adequate hardware and software to do that.
These days I bet the most common answer is. Word processing, internet, photography, and taxes. Entry level windows, if it did all these things, economically, would sell like hotcakes. Wordpad and notepad are not quite enough and office is way too much for most people. Why doesn't Microsoft have a cokkection of office products. Home office, law office, accountants office, presenters office, Super office(does it all).
They should also split by processor. 32 bit vs 64 bit and not one product for all.
The models for splitting products by functionality and performance to maximize overall profit are well known, yet MS seems to have ignored to opportunity to apply this to software.
IMO they are a decade late and billions short with their entry level windows...
Fix your browser to work with bittorrent, audio formats (stream and static), text to speech, and pod loading. Plug-ins or built-in. A Scheduling utility a must.
knoppix run live with open office and browser defaulting to your web site. Include info with offer of fee(unmentioned) based training. Or better yet with offer of small fee based classroom type course and URL and phone number. Large type, printed right on the CD.
Back in the day the KGB beamed microwaves at the US embassy to power bugs for spying. The simplest bug I know of is antenna, half wave rectifier, carbon microphone. As the load varies (carbon mike changes resistance with sound pressure) the amplitude of a harmonic is modulated and radiated by the same antenna.
Sirius representing all internet radio Apple representing all podcast sites RIAA representing The MAN
Radio programming is usually block or random format. A sirius channel that plays randon selections from a particular genre is a hybrid afforded by owning many channels. genre is blocked, selections are random.
The killer podcast site for Apple would allow users to select. 1)programs such as news or 'shows' from block formatted stations, shifted to desired positions in the users ipod. 2)plays in weighted ratios from genre blocked channels.
For example.
My ideal radio station might be a mix of raggae, 60's rock, 70's rock, punk, classical, and fresh indie music with news at noon. With the podcast site removing the complexity of time shifting and selection I can be my own radio program director. Say I want my music in ratio 3:2:5:1:3:1 from the list above. Furthermore I might prefer nterleaved to linear play. It's easy to program if the site is set up as programming grids. For sirius the grid might have one axis labeled channel and one labeled genre. I might first select the genres and the assign ratios. For the block content it's 3-D grid. Source(station), day of week, time with block programs identifier in the selecion box. I might pick a block of bluegrass music topical to trains from WRFG in Atlanta (if the program director has figured out how to interface his station to apples site).
The above is not detail. I've actually bee working on this project for some time, sans Apple and Sirius and will be HAPPY for them to beat it out in court with RIAA rather than lil-ole-me...
Life evolves to fill holes in ecology. The time scales are seldom conceivable in human terms, because they are long relative to human attention span in some cases and lifetime in others. However, in the end life always evolves to fill holes in the ecology. It's the holes that come and go. Wrap your mind around this like you did the concept of holes in electronics;-)
Just because some particular life has evolved away (become extinct) doesn't mean that it can't come back given the right conditions. It might come back in a little bit different form. Fossil records don't show continuity of existance, only evolving form. How the hell do we puny humans know, in our quick as a wink relative to evolution of life time, that this is NOT a natural process in evolution?
Come on all you natural philosphers. What do you say?
Do the math and you'll find that waiting for airport security, in terms of cumulative wasted 'life time' exceeds, by orders of magnitude the 'life time' lost to all plane crashes, let alone the small number of 'terrorist induced' crashes.
I say social sensitivity be damned! The cost of all this time waste far exceeds the cost of delaying a small number of profiled passengers.
It may turn out to be the sort of friend who gets you hooked on grak (google-crack) and make you pay for it with personal information.
Free searching? Sure, but we need your SSN. Free searching? Sure, just fill out this survey. Free searching? Sure, BTW we pulled your credit report. Free searching? Only if you allow your ISP to reveal the IP you are using....
I'm not anti-corporate, but would like to see a distributed index-search-archive FOSS competitor, right down to the advert marketing with funds returned co-op fashion to the hosting participants. Sort of a SETI at home meets bit-torrent with statistical spreading based error anticipation and participants coming on and off line. (RAID on steroids). Rambling here because I've done diddly squat as far as research;-)
What's google got that could not be done with a global network devoting some disk space, processor ticks, and bandwidth?
"If we don't do a deal, our current business plan is just fine," Karmazin said.
Consumer choice. New ipod with satrad OR satrad with player and option to buy tunes through satrad?
Apples choice. Next generation ipod with compelling feature. Repackage same old with enhancements to player like better fidelity, more formats,... Which will sell more ipods, rpods, or irpods?
Serius and XM choice. Device and market from scratch or build on hottest thing since sliced bread?
Cost of entry and ROI with Apple will not preclude roll-your-own for satrad guys, unless Jobs is smart enough and they are dumb enough to sign a no-compete, but this leaves the other player on the satrad side with options so it will never happen. It(Serius) isn't that crazy.
What would 'already own an ipod' folks buy? Add on? New Ipod with radio? Something with ipod functionality and style and satrad function from satrad company?
What about you 'don't have an ipod' folks? Ipod and add on?
What if the satrad guys OR Apple built price into subscription fee, like a cell phone with 2 year contract?
Periodic billing costs a lot, the satrad guys have it in place. Would tying satrad capable ipod into a pay by the month deal boost the heck out of satrad ipod sales?
I'd love to be a fly on the wall and hear these guys negotiating. So much so that I'd be willing to pay the price of a shuffle to hear it in real time! How about it Steve and Kaz? Revenue for yakking!
and representative of the mindset that would grab a quick 'MacSolution' rather than understand the problems associated with thoughtless operation of any compledx machine, Macs included.
It's a good article for getting some attention for ones blog though...
A good article would have addressed specific problems, the complexity of the solutions to those problems, and user responsibilities rather than railing against the fact of life that other than in the context of nookie, one size does not truly fit all.
I used to live in a remote village in the Pacific. When someone needed a new house, everyone in the village came together and built a new house. It was not an 'innovative' new house but one of the same efficient models which exploited available resources and had been modified over millenia to be comfortabl ein the climate. An 'evolved house', if you like. Sure, we never built a bamboo Eiffel Tower. No for lack of ability. Just no need.
"One problem with the services model is that it is based on the idea that you are giving customers crap--because if you give them software that works, what is the point of service?" McVoy says.
McVoy is playing at post-modern deconstructionism with his choice and use of the word 'service'. Why should service of FOSS software be something you don't want to pay for, like getting your crappy lawnmower serviced because of poor design leading to fatigue cracks in the push bar rather than service in the sense of say a waiter taking care of your individual needs.
The latter source of service is lacking in some commercial products from such fine companies as IBM, Sun, HP, Novell, Apple, Microsoft, cisco, etc while they all have their share of service requirements in the sense of correcting product flaws. Some more than others;-). In this sense are their products any less CRAP than FOSS stuff?
No, the service model is a simple 'revenue shift'. People create FOSS to suit their needs or some perceived need in the market place. Rather than investing heavily up-front, they hope to collect the rewards on the back end through service. That the model works is evident in the market.
Neither model is best for all products. This is why we have both commercial and FOSS products in the market. Just because something as specialized as bitkeeper makes a better business in one context while Linux does in another does not make either chosen model BAD!
It happens in life and the software business that folks are too quick to get caught up in the 'either-or' dichotomy and forget there is often room for both and something else/new as well...
In a conventional war you want to take out CCC infrastructure. No communications, no instructions, no control and the military s at a loss as to how to act
Terrorism exploits communications infrastructure. It relies on a relatively low cost 'attack' generating 'terror' which would be hampered by crippling this infrastructure. The attack could be as simple as starting a rumor in the middle of flu season.
Attacks on the credibility of news sources may already be in progress, Goodbye Dan, and cost little. Imagine a rail tank car full of "witch hazel" overturning in Yonkers. Just as news of the cleanup is moving from lead to fill, a little but of poisonous gas is released. Not much, just enough to make a few people really sick. This information is then fed into the internet blog space rumor mill making things look like a government coverup. From the governments point of view, a number of similar events over the course of a few months is a serious attack on it's credibility. Don't go all, "bush lied" on me now. That's totally different. Foreign policy, by it's very nature, can't be transparent. See Machievelli's 'The Prince'.
Attacks on the economy will never be through direct attacks on communications. It'd too difficult for a small group to have significant impact. Petroleum pipelines, electric grid, water supply, levees after a majot rainfall event, are all much easier targets because of their node dependencies and relatvely low cost of 'taking out' a node.
Submitted this as an ask slashdot but figured might get some input here, in case it's another editors REJECT!
Senor_Programmer writes "I'm always getting these wild and crazy ideas but I'm both lazy and wanting to implement well. So, have come a begging all you/. wizards of internet communications for the scoop on the good stuff.
Here is what I want to to.
I want to set up a combination podcasting and blogging site.
weblog > text to speech > podcast
I'm looking for FOSS suggestions-recommendations to employ in this silly endeavour. Stuff I can glue together with scripts.
What do you say?
1)Blog. Personal and some friends but don't want to be tied down if it gets popular. 2)Text to speech. Something with tailorable voices would be nice. 3)Podcasting, see '1'.
Once running would also like to have a go at a speech to text input for the blog. It's a natural once the text to speech part is there becase it makes training easy. Shoud be trainable for multiple users so that once a user is identified or identifies himself the past training results are available. So, suggestions for speech to text would be nice too. With speech to text and picture phones, it's possible to update the thing easily on the go, once the speech to text is trained.
If anyone wants to play with me on this project, speak up."
It seems to be nothing more than a forum in which only the owner is allowed to start a new headlined thread. A/. where only one person can submit and moderate.
Or am I just getting curmudgeony with age?
Perhaps making one would get me fame and fortune?
They seem to be the hot new thing.
Adding an old DECtalker for text to speech and coupling to podcast(which I do grok and can't understand why it's not being exploited in many ways that it could be) would be kind of fun.
OK, you tell me what makes a blog something that will make people say, 'well isn't that special' and I'll do a BLOG meets PODCAST site.
Could start it off with a RANT about the idiots at home depot telling me that I couldn't buy vermiculite because it is used in making BOMBS and then calling the security guard... One of a million good stories waiting to be told.
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vehicles with built-in 802.11p could serve as nodes in mesh networks..."
"This is the next big challenge for the RIAA," said Schultz.
We experimented with this last year using Java and 802.11b. It worked and it's not rocket science.
It's interesting as a vehicle application but 'way future' as far as implementation goes.
With all the cheap WiFi gear out there the FUN would be in implementing the described network functions at home. It's also practical in wifi dense urban settings.
application I've, just this morning been reading the USPTO's 'consolidated patent rules. [PDF document].
Thought it might interest folks discussing parent subject matter WRT USA patents.
EV-DO is fastest.
For $80/month, all you can eat, it's gonna beat the hell out of a low quality dialup connection.
If you've some friends to make hops to one who has a decent DSL or cable connection, you may want to go by wire. High speed point to point modems are cheap surplus these days. 5kM range is about it for twisted pair. So you buy a dry pair to a buds house , set up a repeater, buy another dry pair from his house to bud with cable or DSL, and you're out some $20-40/month for higher speed.
Take a look at used laptop with a broken screen if you want a small, inexpensive, wintel box. WTB on craiglist.org should generate some leads.
I know plenty of democrats who go to church every Sunday, or Saturday. I know plentyb of non-democrats who only set foot in a church as the lesser of two evils. Wrath or Wife OR spending a half a day at a wedding.
...
But I guess I don't 'believe' that life on earth is so simply described by
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march of the appliance.
/. readers capable of a cogent, concise explanation, without reference materials.
Computer as appliance will eventually lead to, as it has with all appliances, a huge reduction in both specialized workers and people who become motivated to understand how a thing works.
How many people these days understand how NTSC color encoding works while retaining compatibility with black and white sets? I suspect there are fewer than three
How many know how to rebraid the end of aworn buggy whip?
When understanding is no longer necessary, people, for the most part and even if capable, don't bother. The result? Perhaps a slowdown in software innovation. Perhaps an increase in other pursuits where understanding is required to get anything interesting done.
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create a user
employ his address
delete the user
no user = no spam
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One thing that has always puzzled me is why Microsoft has not verticall segmented windows. It'a a common practice with hardware. Remember all the different model typewriters IBM used to market, or HP and the range of printers.
I used to sell computers back in the 80's. I'd ask the cstomer. What do you want to do with your computer? The usual answer was, "Oh, just some basic word processing". So I'd sell the adequate hardware and software to do that.
These days I bet the most common answer is.
Word processing, internet, photography, and taxes.
Entry level windows, if it did all these things, economically, would sell like hotcakes. Wordpad and notepad are not quite enough and office is way too much for most people. Why doesn't Microsoft have a cokkection of office products. Home office, law office, accountants office, presenters office, Super office(does it all).
They should also split by processor. 32 bit vs 64 bit and not one product for all.
The models for splitting products by functionality and performance to maximize overall profit are well known, yet MS seems to have ignored to opportunity to apply this to software.
IMO they are a decade late and billions short with their entry level windows...
Fix your browser to work with bittorrent, audio formats (stream and static), text to speech, and pod loading. Plug-ins or built-in. A Scheduling utility a must.
There are what, some 20-30 million ipods in use?
Apple might want to help with a few bux.
knoppix run live with open office and browser defaulting to your web site. Include info with offer of fee(unmentioned) based training. Or better yet with offer of small fee based classroom type course and URL and phone number.
Large type, printed right on the CD.
Back in the day the KGB beamed microwaves at the US embassy to power bugs for spying.
The simplest bug I know of is antenna, half wave rectifier, carbon microphone. As the load varies (carbon mike changes resistance with sound pressure) the amplitude of a harmonic is modulated and radiated by the same antenna.
damn, Ms Spell deserted me again!
is all the obvious stuff begging for some science that is ignored!
Sirius representing all internet radio
Apple representing all podcast sites
RIAA representing The MAN
Radio programming is usually block or random format.
A sirius channel that plays randon selections from a particular genre is a hybrid afforded by owning many channels. genre is blocked, selections are random.
The killer podcast site for Apple would allow users to select.
1)programs such as news or 'shows' from block formatted stations, shifted to desired positions in the users ipod.
2)plays in weighted ratios from genre blocked channels.
For example.
My ideal radio station might be a mix of raggae, 60's rock, 70's rock, punk, classical, and fresh indie music with news at noon. With the podcast site removing the complexity of time shifting and selection I can be my own radio program director.
Say I want my music in ratio 3:2:5:1:3:1 from the list above. Furthermore I might prefer nterleaved to linear play.
It's easy to program if the site is set up as programming grids. For sirius the grid might have one axis labeled channel and one labeled genre. I might first select the genres and the assign ratios. For the block content it's 3-D grid. Source(station), day of week, time with block programs identifier in the selecion box. I might pick a block of bluegrass music topical to trains from WRFG in Atlanta (if the program director has figured out how to interface his station to apples site).
The above is not detail. I've actually bee working on this project for some time, sans Apple and Sirius and will be HAPPY for them to beat it out in court with RIAA rather than lil-ole-me...
Now you know why Turing requires a "telepathy proof room", for his test.
Life evolves to fill holes in ecology. ;-)
The time scales are seldom conceivable in human terms, because they are long relative to human attention span in some cases and lifetime in others. However, in the end life always evolves to fill holes in the ecology. It's the holes that come and go. Wrap your mind around this like you did the concept of holes in electronics
Just because some particular life has evolved away (become extinct) doesn't mean that it can't come back given the right conditions. It might come back in a little bit different form. Fossil records don't show continuity of existance, only evolving form. How the hell do we puny humans know, in our quick as a wink relative to evolution of life time, that this is NOT a natural process in evolution?
Come on all you natural philosphers. What do you say?
Do the math and you'll find that waiting for airport security, in terms of cumulative wasted 'life time' exceeds, by orders of magnitude the 'life time' lost to all plane crashes, let alone the small number of 'terrorist induced' crashes.
I say social sensitivity be damned! The cost of all this time waste far exceeds the cost of delaying a small number of profiled passengers.
Quit wasting MY TIME!
It's the way one does business with the govt.
;-)
Google is a business first and your friend 2nd.
It may turn out to be the sort of friend who gets you hooked on grak (google-crack) and make you pay for it with personal information.
Free searching? Sure, but we need your SSN. Free searching? Sure, just fill out this survey. Free searching? Sure, BTW we pulled your credit report. Free searching? Only if you allow your ISP to reveal the IP you are using....
I'm not anti-corporate, but would like to see a distributed index-search-archive FOSS competitor, right down to the advert marketing with funds returned co-op fashion to the hosting participants. Sort of a SETI at home meets bit-torrent with statistical spreading based error anticipation and participants coming on and off line. (RAID on steroids). Rambling here because I've done diddly squat as far as research
What's google got that could not be done with a global network devoting some disk space, processor ticks, and bandwidth?
apple.
...
"If we don't do a deal, our current business plan is just fine," Karmazin said.
Consumer choice.
New ipod with satrad
OR
satrad with player and option to buy tunes through satrad?
Apples choice.
Next generation ipod with compelling feature. Repackage same old with enhancements to player like better fidelity, more formats,
Which will sell more ipods, rpods, or irpods?
Serius and XM choice.
Device and market from scratch or build on hottest thing since sliced bread?
Cost of entry and ROI with Apple will not preclude roll-your-own for satrad guys, unless Jobs is smart enough and they are dumb enough to sign a no-compete, but this leaves the other player on the satrad side with options so it will never happen. It(Serius) isn't that crazy.
What would 'already own an ipod' folks buy?
Add on?
New Ipod with radio?
Something with ipod functionality and style and satrad function from satrad company?
What about you 'don't have an ipod' folks?
Ipod and add on?
What if the satrad guys OR Apple built price into subscription fee, like a cell phone with 2 year contract?
Periodic billing costs a lot, the satrad guys have it in place. Would tying satrad capable ipod into a pay by the month deal boost the heck out of satrad ipod sales?
I'd love to be a fly on the wall and hear these guys negotiating. So much so that I'd be willing to pay the price of a shuffle to hear it in real time! How about it Steve and Kaz? Revenue for yakking!
To kill of those puny girlybrain cells and make more room for the big strong hebrain cells to grow.
Yes, it's really a 12 step program.
and representative of the mindset that would grab a quick 'MacSolution' rather than understand the problems associated with thoughtless operation of any compledx machine, Macs included.
It's a good article for getting some attention for ones blog though...
A good article would have addressed specific problems, the complexity of the solutions to those problems, and user responsibilities rather than railing against the fact of life that other than in the context of nookie, one size does not truly fit all.
I used to live in a remote village in the Pacific. When someone needed a new house, everyone in the village came together and built a new house. It was not an 'innovative' new house but one of the same efficient models which exploited available resources and had been modified over millenia to be comfortabl ein the climate. An 'evolved house', if you like. Sure, we never built a bamboo Eiffel Tower. No for lack of ability. Just no need.
;-). In this sense are their products any less CRAP than FOSS stuff?
"One problem with the services model is that it is based on the idea that you are giving customers crap--because if you give them software that works, what is the point of service?" McVoy says.
McVoy is playing at post-modern deconstructionism with his choice and use of the word 'service'. Why should service of FOSS software be something you don't want to pay for, like getting your crappy lawnmower serviced because of poor design leading to fatigue cracks in the push bar rather than service in the sense of say a waiter taking care of your individual needs.
The latter source of service is lacking in some commercial products from such fine companies as IBM, Sun, HP, Novell, Apple, Microsoft, cisco, etc while they all have their share of service requirements in the sense of correcting product flaws. Some more than others
No, the service model is a simple 'revenue shift'. People create FOSS to suit their needs or some perceived need in the market place. Rather than investing heavily up-front, they hope to collect the rewards on the back end through service. That the model works is evident in the market.
Neither model is best for all products. This is why we have both commercial and FOSS products in the market. Just because something as specialized as bitkeeper makes a better business in one context while Linux does in another does not make either chosen model BAD!
It happens in life and the software business that folks are too quick to get caught up in the 'either-or' dichotomy and forget there is often room for both and something else/new as well...
In a conventional war you want to take out CCC infrastructure. No communications, no instructions, no control and the military s at a loss as to how to act
Terrorism exploits communications infrastructure. It relies on a relatively low cost 'attack' generating 'terror' which would be hampered by crippling this infrastructure. The attack could be as simple as starting a rumor in the middle of flu season.
Attacks on the credibility of news sources may already be in progress, Goodbye Dan, and cost little. Imagine a rail tank car full of "witch hazel" overturning in Yonkers. Just as news of the cleanup is moving from lead to fill, a little but of poisonous gas is released. Not much, just enough to make a few people really sick. This information is then fed into the internet blog space rumor mill making things look like a government coverup. From the governments point of view, a number of similar events over the course of a few months is a serious attack on it's credibility. Don't go all, "bush lied" on me now. That's totally different. Foreign policy, by it's very nature, can't be transparent. See Machievelli's 'The Prince'.
Attacks on the economy will never be through direct attacks on communications. It'd too difficult for a small group to have significant impact. Petroleum pipelines, electric grid, water supply, levees after a majot rainfall event, are all much easier targets because of their node dependencies and relatvely low cost of 'taking out' a node.
Submitted this as an ask slashdot but figured might get some input here, in case it's another editors REJECT!
/. wizards of internet communications for the scoop on the good stuff.
Senor_Programmer writes "I'm always getting these wild and crazy ideas but I'm both lazy and wanting to implement well. So, have come a begging all you
Here is what I want to to.
I want to set up a combination podcasting and blogging site.
weblog > text to speech > podcast
I'm looking for FOSS suggestions-recommendations to employ in this silly endeavour. Stuff I can glue together with scripts.
What do you say?
1)Blog. Personal and some friends but don't want to be tied down if it gets popular.
2)Text to speech. Something with tailorable voices would be nice.
3)Podcasting, see '1'.
Once running would also like to have a go at a speech to text input for the blog. It's a natural once the text to speech part is there becase it makes training easy. Shoud be trainable for multiple users so that once a user is identified or identifies himself the past training results are available. So, suggestions for speech to text would be nice too. With speech to text and picture phones, it's possible to update the thing easily on the go, once the speech to text is trained.
If anyone wants to play with me on this project, speak up."
Can someone please explain?
/. where only one person can submit and moderate.
It seems to be nothing more than a forum in which only the owner is allowed to start a new headlined thread. A
Or am I just getting curmudgeony with age?
Perhaps making one would get me fame and fortune?
They seem to be the hot new thing.
Adding an old DECtalker for text to speech and coupling to podcast(which I do grok and can't understand why it's not being exploited in many ways that it could be) would be kind of fun.
OK, you tell me what makes a blog something that will make people say, 'well isn't that special' and I'll do a BLOG meets PODCAST site.
Could start it off with a RANT about the idiots at home depot telling me that I couldn't buy vermiculite because it is used in making BOMBS and then calling the security guard... One of a million good stories waiting to be told.