Uh... you're talking L-Band - there is no L-Band in space.
Not exactly - those are the block IF frequencies, after conversion by the LNB, not the uplink/downlink frequencies. The uplink/downlink frequencies are...well, good luck routing them back and forth to your satellite modem;)
Satmex-5 - it's there, but it's new. DirecPC only added it within the last month or two, IIRC.
And it's a DVB signal coming back at you, containing encapsulated IP traffic, you're right - the authentication will be a problem. Be interesting to see the results...
Guys, any idea what position the DirecPC satellite is in?
I believe they use two satellites. Galaxy-11 is at 91W (3 transponders - 1410, 1370, and 990 MHz), and Satmex-5 is at 116.8W (1 transponder - 1250 MHz).
If you hack it (good luck), post back and let us all know;)
And in case you managed to miss the Britney Superbowl ad, or don't have a Tivo to lovingly watch it over and over again, you can just go read the Yahoo article about Tivo and the Pepsi ads and watch a fucking dancing Britney/Pepsi ad right there.
It's a goddamn conspiracy - I can't get away from that cow. Fuck Britney, and fuck Pepsi - the only way I'll ever buy that swill from now on is if I need it to remove oil spots from my driveway.
Can you tell I'm sick of having her no-talent ass shoved in my face? Call me in ten years when she's doing a spread for Playboy, and then she'll finally have something worth watching - until then, get her the hell out of my face....
The excitement of the LinuxWorld Expo simply cannot be expressed in words.
Yeah, that must be why I've seen all those folks walking around and pissing their pants - it's too exciting for words.
How about a little perspective here? I know this is Slashdot, but slow down, take a deep breath, and try to keep the breathless prose under wraps. You'll use it all up, and there won't be any left for the next Jon Katz article.
I can see where Dell might not provide software/OS assistance if you change it from the pre-installed OS, but the warranty on the system itself is still good no matter what you install on it.
I agree - HP tried the same thing a few years ago with me that this Dell rep did with the original poster. No warranty unless the original OS was on the machine. I bitched long enough to get them to clarify that they wouldn't do any tech support for any other OS (fair enough), but they'd still always honor the warranty for any hardware failures.
It's very much a flamebait statement, and had I the points, I would moderate it as such. Mickey's critically short on facts, in virtually every single thing he's posted.
His objection to tribunals flies in the face of legal precedent - scroll down a bit to my other post and check out Ex Parte Quirin. In it, the Court notes that Congress already gave the Executive the power to create military tribunals, and therefore, no further permission is required from Congress.
His objection to the lack of a formal declaration of war betrays a startling ignorance of the history of the war-making powers of the executive branch - see this article (scroll down to the sixth paragraph to see what I mean)
His objection to Bush "deciding which american citizens will be protected by the constitution" betrays a surprising ignorance of the text of Bush's Executive Order, the text of which explicitly limits its application to non-citizens.
Trashed our system of justice by authorizing secret trials, using secret evidence, and even allowing secret executinos. The "evidence"will not be avaiable for the accused to refute, with no opportunity for the accused to appeal. In doing so he has invoked the divine right of kings, not even asking for congress's approval
Kind of hard to square your characterization of what's been done with the fact that he's acting with the blessing of the Supreme Court when authorizing military tribunals. Ex Parte Quirin, for your bedtime reading tonight.
100,000 combatant soldiers. Guess what? Soldiers die in wars.
How can this be hypocritical? Please, get a dictionary.
I've got one, thanks. It's ludicrously hypocritical because in one breath you complain that we "allowed" the gassing of Kurds, thus implying that we had a responsibility to intervene to prevent it. And then in the next breath you complain about deaths among the troops arrayed against us to resist our intervention. Make up your mind - are we supposed to intervene or not?
Jesus H. Christ on a pogostick - what the hell were you watching that in school for? IIRC, half the goddamn movie was Daryl Hannah being thrown down and poked by some caveman - your teacher musta been doing a lot of fast-forwarding.
Actually, here's a better distinction. Child pornography can safely be banned because the production of child pornography necessarily entails the abuse of, and harm to, children. Racist speech does not require harm to racial, ethnic, or religious minorities as a precondition of its being produced. That's the difference.
So when US courts shut down ICraveTV a couple of years ago, they had no right to do so?
No, they did - you've just forgotten the details of the case;)
ICrave's major problem in the US courts was that the folks who owned and ran ICrave were residing and operating in the US - Pittsburgh, IIRC - which very much puts them under the jurisdiction of US courts. Bad news for them, and not a smart move if they were hoping to put themselves beyond the reach of American courts...
It's a spoof, don't worry. Although if you want an actual fundamentalist take on Monsters, Inc., get it here. Truthfully, the guy seemed to like it and not really have a problem with it.
And then you can check out their review of...let's see - how about South Park if you want some fire and brimstone;)
And if that parody is the most revolting thing you've ever seen, that's only because you haven't seen the real thing yet...
Normally I'd agree with you, but that's because in many cases, vendors seem to tune their drivers for the benchmarks at the expense of everything else - Q3A scores go up, but real-world performance suffers. If they've figured out some way to boost Q3A performance without having some performance trade-off somewhere (and they aren't spending so much time on Quake tweaking that their drivers lag in other areas), then I say it's fair game....
Yeah, that's what I need - a car that, after I trade it in for a newer model, it follows me around for a month or two and tells all my friends what an asshole I am. Yeah, sign me up for that...
Congress people are allocated large funds to send mail to their constituants.
Actually, just to make one minor correction, Congressfolks are not allocated large funds to send mail - unless you count an infinite amount as large;)
The practice is known as "franking", and it's one of the most treasured porky privileges of sitting Congressmen. They don't need funds for mailings to constituents, because mailings to constituents are all free.
One would hope, to be sure. But I have a sneaking suspicion that so long as your paper convincingly blathers about such things, you can split infinitives, shift tenses, mangle conjugations, and dangle participles to your heart's content. Just write your paper about how grammar is a form of ontological oppression by the power elites, or some such load of shit, and it's a sure-fire "A" paper.
That someone must have gone to college a while ago. These days, English professors are mostly too busy blathering about the "ontology" of this, or the "dialectics" of that, or the "deconstruction" of some other thing to worry about old-fashioned stuff like grammar...
Fine, except that after 9/11, you have to assume that that's going to happen no matter what. Frankly, I'll take the 1% chance of survival that Buford and his piece give me over the 0% chance that the hijackers are going to give me.
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Welp, there ya go - always good to get a first hand account.
You didn't say how the accuracy was, though. Decent?
I saw this somewhere else, too. Three possibilities, as I see it:
It's a coincidence - the two are unrelated;
It's a relative - Middle Eastern names can sometimes be confusingly similar to outsiders;
It's two different guys, but the second one grabbed the passport/ID of the dead first guy for reasons of his own....
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IIRC, though, the reason nobody uses Glasers is because they turned out to be wickedly inaccurate and had a habit of fragmenting prematurely, either in the barrel or in flight, thus having no more effect upon a target than pretty much pissing him off.
That's what I seem to recall, anyway - I suppose I could be thinking of something else.
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Watch the RAMBUS litigation machine swing into overdrive, now that they can't even pretend to make things...
Not exactly - those are the block IF frequencies, after conversion by the LNB, not the uplink/downlink frequencies. The uplink/downlink frequencies are...well, good luck routing them back and forth to your satellite modem ;)
Satmex-5 - it's there, but it's new. DirecPC only added it within the last month or two, IIRC.
And it's a DVB signal coming back at you, containing encapsulated IP traffic, you're right - the authentication will be a problem. Be interesting to see the results...
I believe they use two satellites. Galaxy-11 is at 91W (3 transponders - 1410, 1370, and 990 MHz), and Satmex-5 is at 116.8W (1 transponder - 1250 MHz).
If you hack it (good luck), post back and let us all know ;)
It's a goddamn conspiracy - I can't get away from that cow. Fuck Britney, and fuck Pepsi - the only way I'll ever buy that swill from now on is if I need it to remove oil spots from my driveway.
Can you tell I'm sick of having her no-talent ass shoved in my face? Call me in ten years when she's doing a spread for Playboy, and then she'll finally have something worth watching - until then, get her the hell out of my face....
Yeah, that must be why I've seen all those folks walking around and pissing their pants - it's too exciting for words.
How about a little perspective here? I know this is Slashdot, but slow down, take a deep breath, and try to keep the breathless prose under wraps. You'll use it all up, and there won't be any left for the next Jon Katz article.
I agree - HP tried the same thing a few years ago with me that this Dell rep did with the original poster. No warranty unless the original OS was on the machine. I bitched long enough to get them to clarify that they wouldn't do any tech support for any other OS (fair enough), but they'd still always honor the warranty for any hardware failures.
It's very much a flamebait statement, and had I the points, I would moderate it as such. Mickey's critically short on facts, in virtually every single thing he's posted.
His objection to tribunals flies in the face of legal precedent - scroll down a bit to my other post and check out Ex Parte Quirin. In it, the Court notes that Congress already gave the Executive the power to create military tribunals, and therefore, no further permission is required from Congress.
His objection to the lack of a formal declaration of war betrays a startling ignorance of the history of the war-making powers of the executive branch - see this article (scroll down to the sixth paragraph to see what I mean)
His objection to Bush "deciding which american citizens will be protected by the constitution" betrays a surprising ignorance of the text of Bush's Executive Order, the text of which explicitly limits its application to non-citizens.
And so forth.
Trashed our system of justice by authorizing secret trials, using secret evidence, and even allowing secret executinos. The "evidence"will not be avaiable for the accused to refute, with no opportunity for the accused to appeal. In doing so he has invoked the divine right of kings, not even asking for congress's approval
Kind of hard to square your characterization of what's been done with the fact that he's acting with the blessing of the Supreme Court when authorizing military tribunals. Ex Parte Quirin , for your bedtime reading tonight.
100,000 combatant soldiers. Guess what? Soldiers die in wars.
How can this be hypocritical? Please, get a dictionary.
I've got one, thanks. It's ludicrously hypocritical because in one breath you complain that we "allowed" the gassing of Kurds, thus implying that we had a responsibility to intervene to prevent it. And then in the next breath you complain about deaths among the troops arrayed against us to resist our intervention. Make up your mind - are we supposed to intervene or not?
The USA killed more than 100.000 people in Iraq
Anti-US bullshit. Feel free to cite a reliable source for that number.
after allowing the gassing of Kurds
Hypocritical anti-US bullshit. Make up your fucking mind - are we supposed to be involved in Iraq or not?
I heard from a guy who was poking around Toys "R" Us on his way home from work last week, looking into systems for Christmas. His report:
;)
Number of kids and adults crowded around the GameCube demo: 6
Number of people lining up to see the X-Box demo: 0
Jesus H. Christ on a pogostick - what the hell were you watching that in school for? IIRC, half the goddamn movie was Daryl Hannah being thrown down and poked by some caveman - your teacher musta been doing a lot of fast-forwarding.
Actually, here's a better distinction. Child pornography can safely be banned because the production of child pornography necessarily entails the abuse of, and harm to, children. Racist speech does not require harm to racial, ethnic, or religious minorities as a precondition of its being produced. That's the difference.
So when US courts shut down ICraveTV a couple of years ago, they had no right to do so?
;)
No, they did - you've just forgotten the details of the case
ICrave's major problem in the US courts was that the folks who owned and ran ICrave were residing and operating in the US - Pittsburgh, IIRC - which very much puts them under the jurisdiction of US courts. Bad news for them, and not a smart move if they were hoping to put themselves beyond the reach of American courts...
Ahh. Now where do I go about getting a pornograph?
It's a spoof, don't worry. Although if you want an actual fundamentalist take on Monsters, Inc., get it here. Truthfully, the guy seemed to like it and not really have a problem with it.
;)
And then you can check out their review of...let's see - how about South Park if you want some fire and brimstone
And if that parody is the most revolting thing you've ever seen, that's only because you haven't seen the real thing yet...
Normally I'd agree with you, but that's because in many cases, vendors seem to tune their drivers for the benchmarks at the expense of everything else - Q3A scores go up, but real-world performance suffers. If they've figured out some way to boost Q3A performance without having some performance trade-off somewhere (and they aren't spending so much time on Quake tweaking that their drivers lag in other areas), then I say it's fair game....
Yeah, that's what I need - a car that, after I trade it in for a newer model, it follows me around for a month or two and tells all my friends what an asshole I am. Yeah, sign me up for that...
Congress people are allocated large funds to send mail to their constituants.
;)
Actually, just to make one minor correction, Congressfolks are not allocated large funds to send mail - unless you count an infinite amount as large
The practice is known as "franking", and it's one of the most treasured porky privileges of sitting Congressmen. They don't need funds for mailings to constituents, because mailings to constituents are all free.
One would hope, to be sure. But I have a sneaking suspicion that so long as your paper convincingly blathers about such things, you can split infinitives, shift tenses, mangle conjugations, and dangle participles to your heart's content. Just write your paper about how grammar is a form of ontological oppression by the power elites, or some such load of shit, and it's a sure-fire "A" paper.
That someone must have gone to college a while ago. These days, English professors are mostly too busy blathering about the "ontology" of this, or the "dialectics" of that, or the "deconstruction" of some other thing to worry about old-fashioned stuff like grammar...
Fine, except that after 9/11, you have to assume that that's going to happen no matter what. Frankly, I'll take the 1% chance of survival that Buford and his piece give me over the 0% chance that the hijackers are going to give me.
Welp, there ya go - always good to get a first hand account.
You didn't say how the accuracy was, though. Decent?
It's a coincidence - the two are unrelated;
It's a relative - Middle Eastern names can sometimes be confusingly similar to outsiders;
It's two different guys, but the second one grabbed the passport/ID of the dead first guy for reasons of his own....
IIRC, though, the reason nobody uses Glasers is because they turned out to be wickedly inaccurate and had a habit of fragmenting prematurely, either in the barrel or in flight, thus having no more effect upon a target than pretty much pissing him off.
That's what I seem to recall, anyway - I suppose I could be thinking of something else.