More NUCLEAR BULLSHIT. In reality, the radioactive fallout from a nuke blast decays in a few weeks. The fear and ignorance about nuclear energy, mostly propaganda promulgated by the excessively fearmongering, lying 'no nuke' crowd, is astounding, expecially when facts are readily available for anyone who want to look into the matter and find the truth.
You people REALLY need to get a counter and measure things, instead of brainlessly parroting stuff from equally brainless entertainers on a political power trip that you see on the boob toob who don't know what they're blabbing about in the first place.
if u really did this you would fry the motherboard without a doubt.
Yes, they can and do throw lightning bolts like that - you can see the one in the garage striking the door and something hanging down.
For a second I thought someone had actually made something in the true spirit of the Tesla radio patent and powered a pc using energy from a resonant coupled rf coil - that is, one coil is powered from the wall socket in the usual manner, maybe w/o the dramatic lightning. A few yards (or further) away another resonant coil is setup and power is drawn from that, somehow rectified and regulated down to +12 and 5 volts dc. I really don't know how much power can be 'transported' for how much distance with something like that - but just last night I was playing with a small version of something similar: a simple coil/variable cap (resonant at from 80 to 150Mhz - it was from a one tube FM superregen rcvr experiment) and a grid dipper a couple of inches away. Anyway, with a 'scope on the 'receiver' coil/cap at resonance you can pickup about 3 - 5 volts peak-peak. Again, don't know how much current/power is available but the voltage resonance rise can be amazing to see. YOu can also pickup a volt or so from a tank ckt tuned to a nearby AM station.
't be cool to have a board with a bit of radioactive alpha source and a counter to make genuine random numbers. Like this, or, ha, here's one (3rd from the top) that proposes using disk drive air turbulance to generate random numbers!
Just had to get this in: in fact, yes, most murderers are Msft users. Yes, it's a completely misleading statement, but is no different than lots of political and "war on drug" propaganda. Canabis prohibitionists constantly make the same false argument that "most all heroine addicts started out on canabis", ergo banish canabis. Fact is, canabis is a lot less dangerous to health than the legal drug alcohol. Period. I've got the 'peripheral neuropathy' (numbness on foot bottoms) to prove it, and nobody ever had any such problem from canabis. It's just total stupidity.
Welcome to the Corporate Plutocracy. Just watch the TV and do what the nice newsman says.
She said many poll workers did not wait for the full six-minute activation procedure to occur and then became nervous and uncertain.
What, are they trying to boot WinXP on 75Mhz Pentinum I's ??
`They say they are having technical problems, but no one is taking responsibility for them. And they are treating us like we are morons.''
Sounds suspiciously like Msft to me. Let's all chant the EULA together now: "The VENDOR of SOFTWARE PRODUCT makes no warranty for it's fitness for use, and is not to be held liable for ANY damages due to defects in PRODUCT, either directly or consequential, so nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah. But we're DARNED SURE going to make sure you pay for each and every copy in use. PERIOD. You have no choice in the matter. You have already agreed to these conditions when you were born."
while black triangles indicate networks protected with WEP -- "wireless equivalent privacy" -- encryption.
I know it's a wireless technology, but WEP is (in theory at least) wired equivalent privacy - that is, it's supposed to be about as good and private as cat5, arrrrrg!
One's immediate reaction to such a theory is why hasn't one of these 'oceanic blowtorches' been spotted before, at least by satellite, passing observers, etc?
Don't think it's too far out a theory tho - there's an article in Scientific American about some lakes in Africa that will suddenly belch forth large amounts carbon dioxide, killing people and livestock in the area. It just builds up at the bottom over a long time, then some trigger releases it catastrophically.
there will be horrific cyber disastersthe system collapses.
You mean like Y2K???? Pfft, predictions of the electronic apocalypse / armeggedon always amuse me. In 5-7 year there will probably STILL be people using Windows 98SE, vendors are STILL selling them, Msft is STILL making them available because it STILL brings in cash.
She is expected to make her decision in both cases within the next several months.
That's legalese for "will make an announcement by May, 2003 concerning another delaying tactic by Msft while they continue to abuse their monopoly position".
It's like when RCA infringed on the Armstrong patent on FM - when Armstrong sued, RCA's batallion of legal begals tied up the case so thoroughly, so that RCA could go blissfully ahead making zillions in Television, that the inventor of FM could only go broke and commit suicide.
I don't want him to grow up in a world that is less free.
Unfortunately freedom declines as population grows - when you have a family on a farm with the nearest enighbor 5 miles away you can pretty much do as you please, if you screw up something, it doesn't hurt anybody but yourself and family. When you're crowded into a tight city neighborhood with a family 20 ft away you are very restricted in what you can do, how much noise you can make, what times you can do what, where you're children can play, what they can play at, what buildings you can put up, etc., all regulated by local ordinances.
As population density grows, freedom of mobility decreases (Private property! Keep Off!). Similary, as more people become dependant upon intellectual 'property' freedom of information decreases, so expect mandatory copy controls and policing on electronics devices.
Physical access isn't necessarily owned - with proper encryption and the passphrase nowhere but in my neurons they can still be locked out, but for a small bribe I could be convienced to reveal the secret to the executives outrageous incomes and my lousy salary.
I know it's an unpleasant, thankless, unpopular job, but I'll volunteer to give up my personal time and make the necessary commitments it takes to be the anonymous recepient of the million dollar grant. Just PayPal the funds to my hotmail account, mayadharme@hotmail.com. You're quite welcome, and rest assured, this generous donation will go a long way to restoring sanity to the patent, copyright and IP situation in these turbulent times.
Do they have the "Sorry Atari" ad? Gawd I *hated* that one;) - How about the one where the kid goes off the college on a train, then comes back all sad because he didn't have a C64:))
No - TeSLa patented a device to transmit ENERGY - he wanted to light light bulbs w/o wires using coupled resonant RF tank coils (Take that, Edison!). Marconi was the 1st to make and install useful wireless telegraphs and built a big business, altho he infringed on Tesla's patent in doing so. The patent office didn't catch the prior art and it was overturned by the Supreme court in the 1940's.
SEE the actual Tesla patent here and note that it says ENERGY, not INFORMATION.
The next thing is: warcoptering, maybe warballooning. See, with wardriving you're limited to highways, war flying you pass over a target and only get a few seconds connectivity. But with warcoptering you can hover over a target and send out your entire spam payload. Drawback is that BigCorp with boobs for it mgmt might get suspicious of a 'Copter thupping overhead for a half hour. A balloon is pretty much at the mercy of the wind, but warzeppelening might have some possibilities, or warderigibeling.
Me too! I was just breezing thru when this protest in bold caught my attn. - had to scroll up and read the header agn - Hmmmm! A potentially useful tool to fight Software that Sucks.
has nothing to do with superior technology or 'consumer choice' but a well funded team of corporate lawyers (Msfts chief counsel alone receives over $70 mil/year) and a big FUD machine. I say lawyers because of the question of deals: can Msft now retaliate by NOT selling Windows licenses to HP, effectively crippling their PC sales? I don't think they can even begin to get away with that, altho that's always been the 'club' waved over all the small screwdriver shops, the terms and conditions of being a Msft reseller (and being treated like a vassel tributary state). Such a big chunk of Msft revenues come from OEM, retail and other 'channel partner' sales that they're fighting to keep it, as revealed in this licensing expose' re: the dreaded 'nekkid PC' and volume lics.
Anyway, as we've gone from few households with PC's to almost everyone has one (and enough consumers found the last one sucked so bad they're not going to upgrade ever year, no, they'd rather spend the dough on new shoes, thanks anyway), and that saturated market just can't demand enough to keep prices high in face of all the supply, lets now watch the big, hungry sharks circle and kill each other off.
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You can probably tell from my post that those Anger Mgmt Seminars are really paying off :))
won't be seeing daylight for a generation or two.
More NUCLEAR BULLSHIT. In reality, the radioactive fallout from a nuke blast decays in a few weeks. The fear and ignorance about nuclear energy, mostly propaganda promulgated by the excessively fearmongering, lying 'no nuke' crowd, is astounding, expecially when facts are readily available for anyone who want to look into the matter and find the truth.
You people REALLY need to get a counter and measure things, instead of brainlessly parroting stuff from equally brainless entertainers on a political power trip that you see on the boob toob who don't know what they're blabbing about in the first place.
if u really did this you would fry the motherboard without a doubt.
Yes, they can and do throw lightning bolts like that - you can see the one in the garage striking the door and something hanging down.
For a second I thought someone had actually made something in the true spirit of the Tesla radio patent and powered a pc using energy from a resonant coupled rf coil - that is, one coil is powered from the wall socket in the usual manner, maybe w/o the dramatic lightning. A few yards (or further) away another resonant coil is setup and power is drawn from that, somehow rectified and regulated down to +12 and 5 volts dc. I really don't know how much power can be 'transported' for how much distance with something like that - but just last night I was playing with a small version of something similar: a simple coil/variable cap (resonant at from 80 to 150Mhz - it was from a one tube FM superregen rcvr experiment) and a grid dipper a couple of inches away. Anyway, with a 'scope on the 'receiver' coil/cap at resonance you can pickup about 3 - 5 volts peak-peak. Again, don't know how much current/power is available but the voltage resonance rise can be amazing to see. YOu can also pickup a volt or so from a tank ckt tuned to a nearby AM station.
Damn straight - and here is one of their most dasterdly inventions to date for making people 'pay per play', hrmph. The nerve of those people.
't be cool to have a board with a bit of radioactive alpha source and a counter to make genuine random numbers. Like this, or, ha, here's one (3rd from the top) that proposes using disk drive air turbulance to generate random numbers!
Just had to get this in: in fact, yes, most murderers are Msft users. Yes, it's a completely misleading statement, but is no different than lots of political and "war on drug" propaganda. Canabis prohibitionists constantly make the same false argument that "most all heroine addicts started out on canabis", ergo banish canabis. Fact is, canabis is a lot less dangerous to health than the legal drug alcohol. Period. I've got the 'peripheral neuropathy' (numbness on foot bottoms) to prove it, and nobody ever had any such problem from canabis. It's just total stupidity.
Welcome to the Corporate Plutocracy. Just watch the TV and do what the nice newsman says.
She said many poll workers did not wait for the full six-minute activation procedure to occur and then became nervous and uncertain.
What, are they trying to boot WinXP on 75Mhz Pentinum I's ??
`They say they are having technical problems, but no one is taking responsibility for them. And they are treating us like we are morons.''
Sounds suspiciously like Msft to me. Let's all chant the EULA together now: "The VENDOR of SOFTWARE PRODUCT makes no warranty for it's fitness for use, and is not to be held liable for ANY damages due to defects in PRODUCT, either directly or consequential, so nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah. But we're DARNED SURE going to make sure you pay for each and every copy in use. PERIOD. You have no choice in the matter. You have already agreed to these conditions when you were born."
while black triangles indicate networks protected with WEP -- "wireless equivalent privacy" -- encryption.
I know it's a wireless technology, but WEP is (in theory at least) wired equivalent privacy - that is, it's supposed to be about as good and private as cat5, arrrrrg!
One's immediate reaction to such a theory is why hasn't one of these 'oceanic blowtorches' been spotted before, at least by satellite, passing observers, etc?
Don't think it's too far out a theory tho - there's an article in Scientific American about some lakes in Africa that will suddenly belch forth large amounts carbon dioxide, killing people and livestock in the area. It just builds up at the bottom over a long time, then some trigger releases it catastrophically.
there will be horrific cyber disasters the system collapses.
You mean like Y2K???? Pfft, predictions of the electronic apocalypse / armeggedon always amuse me. In 5-7 year there will probably STILL be people using Windows 98SE, vendors are STILL selling them, Msft is STILL making them available because it STILL brings in cash.
She is expected to make her decision in both cases within the next several months.
That's legalese for "will make an announcement by May, 2003 concerning another delaying tactic by Msft while they continue to abuse their monopoly position".
It's like when RCA infringed on the Armstrong patent on FM - when Armstrong sued, RCA's batallion of legal begals tied up the case so thoroughly, so that RCA could go blissfully ahead making zillions in Television, that the inventor of FM could only go broke and commit suicide.
I don't want him to grow up in a world that is less free.
Unfortunately freedom declines as population grows - when you have a family on a farm with the nearest enighbor 5 miles away you can pretty much do as you please, if you screw up something, it doesn't hurt anybody but yourself and family. When you're crowded into a tight city neighborhood with a family 20 ft away you are very restricted in what you can do, how much noise you can make, what times you can do what, where you're children can play, what they can play at, what buildings you can put up, etc., all regulated by local ordinances.
As population density grows, freedom of mobility decreases (Private property! Keep Off!). Similary, as more people become dependant upon intellectual 'property' freedom of information decreases, so expect mandatory copy controls and policing on electronics devices.
Just facing the facts in the brave new world.
Physical access isn't necessarily owned - with proper encryption and the passphrase nowhere but in my neurons they can still be locked out, but for a small bribe I could be convienced to reveal the secret to the executives outrageous incomes and my lousy salary.
I know it's an unpleasant, thankless, unpopular job, but I'll volunteer to give up my personal time and make the necessary commitments it takes to be the anonymous recepient of the million dollar grant. Just PayPal the funds to my hotmail account, mayadharme@hotmail.com. You're quite welcome, and rest assured, this generous donation will go a long way to restoring sanity to the patent, copyright and IP situation in these turbulent times.
Edison is supposed to have said "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" - today it's 1% inspiration and 99% legalese and marketing.
Do they have the "Sorry Atari" ad? Gawd I *hated* that one ;) - How about the one where the kid goes off the college on a train, then comes back all sad because he didn't have a C64 :))
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is a federal judge deciding what to do about the Msft case.
How about the creator of the MCP? (I mean the Msft Certified Professional).
No - TeSLa patented a device to transmit ENERGY - he wanted to light light bulbs w/o wires using coupled resonant RF tank coils (Take that, Edison!). Marconi was the 1st to make and install useful wireless telegraphs and built a big business, altho he infringed on Tesla's patent in doing so. The patent office didn't catch the prior art and it was overturned by the Supreme court in the 1940's.
SEE the actual Tesla patent here and note that it says ENERGY, not INFORMATION.
I've been using preview release 1 for months now and I find Netscape 7 to be very loving, kind and affectionate.
{smootch} I love you too, Netscape.
The next thing is: warcoptering, maybe warballooning. See, with wardriving you're limited to highways, war flying you pass over a target and only get a few seconds connectivity. But with warcoptering you can hover over a target and send out your entire spam payload. Drawback is that BigCorp with boobs for it mgmt might get suspicious of a 'Copter thupping overhead for a half hour. A balloon is pretty much at the mercy of the wind, but warzeppelening might have some possibilities, or warderigibeling.
FWIW, 'war' is 'Wireless Access Reconnisance'.
Me too! I was just breezing thru when this protest in bold caught my attn. - had to scroll up and read the header agn - Hmmmm! A potentially useful tool to fight Software that Sucks.
Put your cd rips in you medical records!! That way the RIAA can't hack them w/o breaking a law.
has nothing to do with superior technology or 'consumer choice' but a well funded team of corporate lawyers (Msfts chief counsel alone receives over $70 mil/year) and a big FUD machine. I say lawyers because of the question of deals: can Msft now retaliate by NOT selling Windows licenses to HP, effectively crippling their PC sales? I don't think they can even begin to get away with that, altho that's always been the 'club' waved over all the small screwdriver shops, the terms and conditions of being a Msft reseller (and being treated like a vassel tributary state). Such a big chunk of Msft revenues come from OEM, retail and other 'channel partner' sales that they're fighting to keep it, as revealed in this licensing expose' re: the dreaded 'nekkid PC' and volume lics.
Anyway, as we've gone from few households with PC's to almost everyone has one (and enough consumers found the last one sucked so bad they're not going to upgrade ever year, no, they'd rather spend the dough on new shoes, thanks anyway), and that saturated market just can't demand enough to keep prices high in face of all the supply, lets now watch the big, hungry sharks circle and kill each other off.