I love Good Eats, but some of the episodes would be better with more information and a little less drama and humor. The first episode I watched was the banana show where he is in a "jungle". Not enough information gained compared to the annoying theater I had to get thru. I never watched another episode until several years later when someone suggested the show to me.
I don't know about convicting them in the media, but I do know that DAs in the USA can be real scum. One of my former clients is a law firm that provides legal defense for poor people on death row. They discovered (and proved) that the police and DA knew the accused could not have committed the murder because he was caught on a security camera miles away. He could not have physically been present near the time of the victim's death. They hid the evidence and continued to try the case. The accused had an extensive criminal record. I guess the DA figured the accused was guilty of something, even if it was not the crime he was accused of. A few months after this their state funding was cut by 50%.
I am pro death penalty but provided technical consulting services to them at a discount. Why? Because EVERYONE deserves the best defense they can get -- especially ones facing the death penalty.
I get to keep my brand new 32" analog TV pretty much forever. The switch from analog (NTSC) to digital (ATSC) won't affect me. Why? I have satellite TV. It spits out an analog signal and will continue to do so. There is no reason why the cable TV companies can't provide a free box to convert their digital channels to analog.
That is odd. I never signed a contract when I got married. If I was still married would I be arrested for not signing the "marriage contract"?
Just because something is illegal does not mean it is wrong. Just because it is wrong does not make it illegal. For example, it is illegal in the USA state of Georgia to have oral sex with your wife. At least it was in 1989 when James David Moseley went to prison for 17 months for going down on his wife. It was consensual. http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/sodomy.html
I have an open relationship. Each of us get to play with most anyone we want to. There are a few rules, but not many. In my world there isn't a lot of difference between "lying" and "cheating" in a relationship. They are both a violation of trust.
I don't have a lot of sympathy for a guy that is on match.com trying to "find someone the side", but only because he is trying to hide it. To me that is also a violation of trust.
I'd work on getting the bots shutdown, but I can't seem to find any information in actually FINDING the damn things. We don't have the budget hire a full time person to handle infected machines. If we could find the machines then we might be able to do something about them. As it is we filter out all outgoing SMTP.
I'm sure the parent post knows this, but apparently many people here don't.
A T-1 is a point to point service. A T-1 gets voice/data from point A to point B. A T-1 is never "oversubscribed" because a T-1 has dedicated bandwidth between the two ends of the T-1.
If you are using a T-1 for internet access the T-1 is STILL a point to point service and is never "oversubscribed". WHAT you run over the T-1 can vary. Channelized Voice, Data, PRI voice, etc.
Once the data leaves your T-1 at your ISP then your data is no longer on the T-1 and might have to share the ISPs upstream bandwidth with many other people.
What is going to happen to our economy if we get to the point where you can build devices and even vehicles using some sort of nano replicator? Will we just tell the companies that make the designs to go fuck themselves, if they thing they should get any return on the design of a new ferrari, space ship, media player, etc.?
If they charge US$168,000 for the design of a Ferrari F430 Coupe (price from a google.com search for an actual F340) for my nanoreplicator then, yes, I will pirate the plans. If they charged that price then it would be obvious that they are trying to increase their profits in an age where it costs them less and less to produce the product.
If they charge a reasonable price for the design then I would not pirate the plans.
The record companies are trying to keep the prices of their products high (higher in some cases) as their costs go down. Granted, the pressing, shipping, and stocking of physical CDs are a small part of the cost of a CD, but their costs are not going UP when they do not have to do any of those things and simply sell the track on iTunes.
I don't generally buy music and I don't generally pirate music. I also don't pirate TV shows. If, for some reason, my TiVo did not catch the show when it was playing then I buy the episode from iTunes if I can. If I can't, well that show will rerun eventually and TiVo will catch it then.
I went to parts of Europe about 2 years ago. Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Spain. Not once did someone, when finding out I was from the USA, express any envy. Mostly they expressed sympathy for me (maybe even some pity) and sadness that I lived in a country that had such terrible leader and government. Not once did I get the impression that anyone thought the USA govt represented the people of the USA. One thing people did find sort of funny is that GWB closes his speeches with "God Bless America". The people I talked to seemed to feel more strongly about the separation of Church and State than many people in the USA. There are many great things about the USA, but the current govt is not one of them. I hope a future govt will be.
I would say that the extra 64K-64(?) bytes you could access in real mode on 286 and higher processors would be my fave bug. Quarterdeck discovered it and used it to their advantage in their DESQview product. Microsoft, of course, stole the idea and created himem.sys.
As I understand it, antibiotics don't actually kill anything. They prevent the bacteria from reproducing and the body's immune system then kills the bacteria. BTW, do bacteria die of "old age"? i.e. if they can't reproduce and the immune system does not kill them (because someone doesn't have much of an immune system) will the bacteria eventually die off anyway?
Google already pays for the bandwidth it uses -- they pay their ISP. I pay my ISP for the bandwidth I use. Now if my ISP starts charging Google for bandwidth then I expect the ISP to stop charging me for bandwidth.
This whole "Net Neutrality" thing would be a non-issue if a law was passed that prevented ISPs from charging more than one entity (company or individual) for bandwidth.
Charge me or charge the content provider, but not both.
So so so wait... Microsoft gives Universal a chunk of change every time a Zune is sold, THEN Universal prevents certain songs from utilizing the only significant gimmick the Zune has?
It's nice to see Microsoft get screwed for once, rather than Microsoft screwing someone else.
About 3 years ago I had a client that signed a lease for office space. The lease included a section that specifically prohibited them from installing their own communications lines.
I don't know if that could be enforced, but it was in there.
Put an address tag on it and a solid lock. I know many people who travel and a few have had issues with their luggage, but if they had proper identifying info on it, they got it... just a few days late.
Apparently you don't fly in the USA. The TSA will remove any lock on your luggage when they open it up to inspect it.
I never thought the "singularity" will be caused by AI. I always thought the singularity that Vernor Vinge refers to in Marooned in Realtime is similar to the "group mind" referred to by Spider Robinson in Time Pressure. Both are the man/machine interface evolving to the point that, by using machines, a form of direct mind to mind telepathy is created. We are already seeing the seeds of this in various brain/machine interface research. When the brain/machine interface finally gets to the point that the machine is just an extension of the mind, technological progress will happen faster then we can imagine. Hopefully that technology will also allow us to have a form of group mind. This will allow social progress happen at a similar pace.
I live on a mountian, 30 miles from the nearest city. I would love to be able to backhaul my internet service via wireless to an ISP in that city. I've read about the lower 700Mhz range (licensed) as well as others. It seems that the licenses are expensive and the hardware is expensive. I would love to be able to get the equipment and licenses for under $1,000 (heck under $2,000 would even be OK) to get a 1Mbit link to the ISP. Any pointers to sites on the net that can help educate this RF newbie about this stuff and PRACTICAL things you can do?
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I love Good Eats, but some of the episodes would be better with more information and a little less drama and humor. The first episode I watched was the banana show where he is in a "jungle". Not enough information gained compared to the annoying theater I had to get thru. I never watched another episode until several years later when someone suggested the show to me.
I don't build my career on it, I just helped out one of my many customers.
The phone companies were right. The fact that people can't setup routers and PCs in a secure way is the reason we (still) have spam and botnets.
I don't know about convicting them in the media, but I do know that DAs in the USA can be real scum. One of my former clients is a law firm that provides legal defense for poor people on death row. They discovered (and proved) that the police and DA knew the accused could not have committed the murder because he was caught on a security camera miles away. He could not have physically been present near the time of the victim's death. They hid the evidence and continued to try the case. The accused had an extensive criminal record. I guess the DA figured the accused was guilty of something, even if it was not the crime he was accused of. A few months after this their state funding was cut by 50%. I am pro death penalty but provided technical consulting services to them at a discount. Why? Because EVERYONE deserves the best defense they can get -- especially ones facing the death penalty.
Fortunately, there is 100% cell coverage by all carriers everywhere.
I get to keep my brand new 32" analog TV pretty much forever. The switch from analog (NTSC) to digital (ATSC) won't affect me. Why? I have satellite TV. It spits out an analog signal and will continue to do so. There is no reason why the cable TV companies can't provide a free box to convert their digital channels to analog.
That is odd. I never signed a contract when I got married. If I was still married would I be arrested for not signing the "marriage contract"?
Just because something is illegal does not mean it is wrong. Just because it is wrong does not make it illegal. For example, it is illegal in the USA state of Georgia to have oral sex with your wife. At least it was in 1989 when James David Moseley went to prison for 17 months for going down on his wife. It was consensual. http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/sodomy.html
I have an open relationship. Each of us get to play with most anyone we want to. There are a few rules, but not many. In my world there isn't a lot of difference between "lying" and "cheating" in a relationship. They are both a violation of trust.
I don't have a lot of sympathy for a guy that is on match.com trying to "find someone the side", but only because he is trying to hide it. To me that is also a violation of trust.
I'd work on getting the bots shutdown, but I can't seem to find any information in actually FINDING the damn things. We don't have the budget hire a full time person to handle infected machines. If we could find the machines then we might be able to do something about them. As it is we filter out all outgoing SMTP.
I'm sure the parent post knows this, but apparently many people here don't.
A T-1 is a point to point service. A T-1 gets voice/data from point A to point B. A T-1 is never "oversubscribed" because a T-1 has dedicated bandwidth between the two ends of the T-1.
If you are using a T-1 for internet access the T-1 is STILL a point to point service and is never "oversubscribed". WHAT you run over the T-1 can vary. Channelized Voice, Data, PRI voice, etc.
Once the data leaves your T-1 at your ISP then your data is no longer on the T-1 and might have to share the ISPs upstream bandwidth with many other people.
What is going to happen to our economy if we get to the point where you can build devices and even vehicles using some sort of nano replicator? Will we just tell the companies that make the designs to go fuck themselves, if they thing they should get any return on the design of a new ferrari, space ship, media player, etc.?
If they charge US$168,000 for the design of a Ferrari F430 Coupe (price from a google.com search for an actual F340) for my nanoreplicator then, yes, I will pirate the plans. If they charged that price then it would be obvious that they are trying to increase their profits in an age where it costs them less and less to produce the product.
If they charge a reasonable price for the design then I would not pirate the plans. The record companies are trying to keep the prices of their products high (higher in some cases) as their costs go down. Granted, the pressing, shipping, and stocking of physical CDs are a small part of the cost of a CD, but their costs are not going UP when they do not have to do any of those things and simply sell the track on iTunes.
I don't generally buy music and I don't generally pirate music. I also don't pirate TV shows. If, for some reason, my TiVo did not catch the show when it was playing then I buy the episode from iTunes if I can. If I can't, well that show will rerun eventually and TiVo will catch it then.
I went to parts of Europe about 2 years ago. Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Spain. Not once did someone, when finding out I was from the USA, express any envy. Mostly they expressed sympathy for me (maybe even some pity) and sadness that I lived in a country that had such terrible leader and government. Not once did I get the impression that anyone thought the USA govt represented the people of the USA. One thing people did find sort of funny is that GWB closes his speeches with "God Bless America". The people I talked to seemed to feel more strongly about the separation of Church and State than many people in the USA. There are many great things about the USA, but the current govt is not one of them. I hope a future govt will be.
I would say that the extra 64K-64(?) bytes you could access in real mode on 286 and higher processors would be my fave bug. Quarterdeck discovered it and used it to their advantage in their DESQview product. Microsoft, of course, stole the idea and created himem.sys.
As I understand it, antibiotics don't actually kill anything. They prevent the bacteria from reproducing and the body's immune system then kills the bacteria. BTW, do bacteria die of "old age"? i.e. if they can't reproduce and the immune system does not kill them (because someone doesn't have much of an immune system) will the bacteria eventually die off anyway?
So there are no Icy BMs? That's good news! (The idea was stolen from a book by Spider Robinson, I think)
How does this affect...well..every other phone company in the USA? I'm pretty sure "The New AT&T" as well as SBC have big pockets to fight this.
For what job is WeatherBug the right tool for?
Odd, I thought Jesus was a Jew. I suppose they didn't call themselves that during that time.
Well not anymore. They used to burn you at the stake, go on crusades, and generally kill anyone that was not christian.
Google already pays for the bandwidth it uses -- they pay their ISP. I pay my ISP for the bandwidth I use. Now if my ISP starts charging Google for bandwidth then I expect the ISP to stop charging me for bandwidth.
This whole "Net Neutrality" thing would be a non-issue if a law was passed that prevented ISPs from charging more than one entity (company or individual) for bandwidth.
Charge me or charge the content provider, but not both.
So so so wait... Microsoft gives Universal a chunk of change every time a Zune is sold, THEN Universal prevents certain songs from utilizing the only significant gimmick the Zune has?
It's nice to see Microsoft get screwed for once, rather than Microsoft screwing someone else.
I believe you can get those numbers from any Cell/Wireless/whatever provider's marketing department.
About 3 years ago I had a client that signed a lease for office space. The lease included a section that specifically prohibited them from installing their own communications lines. I don't know if that could be enforced, but it was in there.
Put an address tag on it and a solid lock. I know many people who travel and a few have had issues with their luggage, but if they had proper identifying info on it, they got it... just a few days late.
Apparently you don't fly in the USA. The TSA will remove any lock on your luggage when they open it up to inspect it.
I never thought the "singularity" will be caused by AI. I always thought the singularity that Vernor Vinge refers to in Marooned in Realtime is similar to the "group mind" referred to by Spider Robinson in Time Pressure. Both are the man/machine interface evolving to the point that, by using machines, a form of direct mind to mind telepathy is created. We are already seeing the seeds of this in various brain/machine interface research. When the brain/machine interface finally gets to the point that the machine is just an extension of the mind, technological progress will happen faster then we can imagine. Hopefully that technology will also allow us to have a form of group mind. This will allow social progress happen at a similar pace.
I live on a mountian, 30 miles from the nearest city. I would love to be able to backhaul my internet service via wireless to an ISP in that city. I've read about the lower 700Mhz range (licensed) as well as others. It seems that the licenses are expensive and the hardware is expensive. I would love to be able to get the equipment and licenses for under $1,000 (heck under $2,000 would even be OK) to get a 1Mbit link to the ISP. Any pointers to sites on the net that can help educate this RF newbie about this stuff and PRACTICAL things you can do?