Slashdot will be on the DOE Forbidden list as soon as somebody reports it to the DOE as some kind of Sick Twisted SEX Sado-Masochistic web site, because all they ever talk about is pouring steaming Hot Grits down Natalie Portmans Pants!
So just who is NetPD anyways???? Nobody can find ANY trace of these guys on the net, leading to the conclusion that this is a bogus "made-up" company.
Also, the math does not jibe with reality (300,000+ users in one weekend? All with Metallica MP3 files? Not likely) Is this just some cheap publicity stunt, or did somebody just make up a bunch of names to harass Napster?
I work at a DOE installation also. Their lawyers are VERY highly paid, and unfortunately, they have the Supreme Court on their side. You don't own those computers, they do. They can (and DO) do anything they want.
As a side note, our local DOE folks also monitor your web surfing, and log ALL your page requests. They also block any https:// connections, as well requests to sites on their "Evil waste of time" list, and they grep through their logs once a week searching for "keywords" ( sexy, pussy, xxx, porn, pr0n, etc). You basically have no rights to privacy since it is their equipment, not yours.
As a side note, we all just got email saying that all of our phone calls were logged, and that we could be expecting visits from our management about some of the more questionable phone calls. (In other words, more than a few local calls a day, and any long distance calls.)
As a side note, all businesses have these rights, but most choose not to exercise them.
Deal with it, or leave. The labs ARE NOT, WILL NOT, CAN NOT be part of the real world.
Maybe I'm showing my age here, but does anyone else remember "Packets from Mars"?
martian: n. A packet sent on a TCP/IP network with a source address of the test loopback interface [127.0.0.1]. This means that it will come back labeled with a source address that is clearly not of this earth. "The domain server is getting lots of packets from Mars. Does that gateway have a martian filter?" Compare Christmas tree packet, Godzillagram.
Well, the point is that this is a "Mid-Level" entry kit. True Robotics Knowldege is, in fact, quite difficult to attain. But the hardest part is getting over that first hump in the learning curve. And this kit is going to help a lot of people get over that hump. Once you've made something simple, then you can decide to go on, or to not go on in the hobby/career.
If you allready can solder and program in C and read circuit diagrams, then by all means, get a Motorola chip and start hacking. This kit is NOT for you! But if you are semi-clueless about robotics, then this is probably a good kit.
1. You do not want to buy music that you haven't heard. If you try asking the people who work at the record store they will probably let you listen to the record once (or maybe even twice) before buying the record. So that's not a big problem.
Really? What record store do you shop at? We have three chain stores that sell CDs where I live. Two of them only have a "Store only" CD player. You think that they'll let me play an entire CD of my "Esoteric" music to the entire store? NOT! The other store actually has a "Listening Post", but it's just preprogrammed, so you can only listen to the CDs that they want you to listen to.
In other words, you live in a different universe than mine!;-)
Oh, you're right of course. It's just that those first umpteen posts were so bad....
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That's probably a troll, but I'll bite anyways...
Gold is used in the Semiconductor industry... It's those little wires to connect chips to pins.
Gold is used as a plating on pins, in order to reduce corrosion (And loss of signal/power) on pins also.
Gold is pretty. Ask my wife. As long as gold is pretty, it will be used for jewelry.
BTW: The USA (and other countries) don't use the gold standard anymore. Haven't for years. Gold is only used as a method of storing "value" by people who are willing to trade it for cash to other people who believe it holds value.
There are so many things wrong with this idea that it's not even funny. Is this a stable operating system? Not!!!. Excuse me Sarge, I have to reboot the system before we can call in artillery support on those troops attacking us. Cell Phones? Quick, how fast can you triangulate on a radio signal? One second? Maybe two? Why not just send those troops in with spotlights to make it even easier for the other side to call in artillery on their positions. And how much does all this stuff weigh? Don't these poor ground pounders have enough to carry around? And the good old bug-a-boo, EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse). Just detonate any kind of nuke (even a cheap dirty one) over the battlefield, and all these wonderful tech-toys are now just a pile of junk! Somebody get these guys on the clue train....
As a side note: US West (Who sucks BTW) has a service where for just a "few dollars more", they will "block" anonymous phone calls to your number. This service, of course, pre-supposes that you are allready paying for Caller ID.
As a side note, in November1999 (The only month I can remember details from), 4 of the top 5 selling console games were from Nintendo. They were Donkey Kong, + 3 Poke'mon games.
For all of 1999, 7 of the top 10 games were Nintendo (DK64 + Poke'mon + Super Smash Brothers) From www.gamedaily.com
Off-hand, I'd say that Nintendo is doing very well for itself. Don't ever underestimate the power of hordes of screaming children.
We want Poke'mon!!!! We want Poke'mon!!!! We want Poke'mon!!!!
And, you just KNOW that as soon as it's released, three dozen geeks will start working on porting Linux to it, and two weeks later, distributed.net will have clients for it!
That's funny, cause I work down the hill at Sandia, and our stupid filter logs everything, so they'd do a reverse name lookup, and I'd still get busted for looking at dirty pictures on Governement computers!
Even at 4 billion, AND having some type of router/pseudo-router at each house, we will still run out of addresses. There are currently (approximately, of course) 6,060,884,438 people in the world. ( http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw , which means that some 2 billion people don't get their own IP address.;-)
It gets even worse when you realize all those companies that have 1 or more computers (IP Addresses) per employee. I guess all of them get to play games with their firewalls too!
The points he makes about IPV6 are extremely valid. We've been talking about running the Net to everything in the house, and the current IP protocol just can't handle it. 4,162,314,256 (254^4) addresses just is NOT enough. The only question is when will the current implementation fall apart due to scaling factors?
We've been hearing for years (At least since 1993) that we will run out of addresses in 2 years. Somebody always manages to come up with a work around, but at some point, we will run out of workarounds. It sounds like (finally) somebody is taking the bull by the horns and making it happen.
But, to be fair, many of those sites were made before the toxicity levels of those chemicals and their effects upon the enivronment were well known.
(Much less having waste levels mandated by law, which is what really drives most companies clean-up efforts.)
(Side-Side note: Even if you know X is bad, if you do something about, and it is not mandated by law, then your stockholders will hang you out to dry for wasting their dividends!)
What have we gotten from NASA? Tang, Microwave ovens, pacemakers, Protective paints to better resist weathering, weather Satelites, and (My personal favorite) Cordless tools! and the list goes on and on and on.
Point taken, I was just reacting to un-supported claims. OTOH, It's really surprising the things folks are finding that cause cancer that are avoidable. (For instance, Sex. Follow the link, it's interesting reading.)
When will cool stuff like this filter down to the average US citizen, and how much longer after that will it take to get it to (Fill in this spot with the current name of your favorite third world country.)
As a side note, those neato thermometers are just now making their way into Mexico and Central America. I suspect that it'll take another 20 years before that NASA Tricorder makes it to the nice hospitals in Belize, much less to the really poor folks down there.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot will be on the DOE Forbidden list as soon as somebody reports it to the DOE as some kind of Sick Twisted SEX Sado-Masochistic web site, because all they ever talk about is pouring steaming Hot Grits down Natalie Portmans Pants!
So just who is NetPD anyways???? Nobody can find ANY trace of these guys on the net, leading to the conclusion that this is a bogus "made-up" company.
Also, the math does not jibe with reality (300,000+ users in one weekend? All with Metallica MP3 files? Not likely) Is this just some cheap publicity stunt, or did somebody just make up a bunch of names to harass Napster?
For reference, the standard disclaimer for a National Lab's web site can be found at Sandia National Labs Web Disclaimer
I work at a DOE installation also. Their lawyers are VERY highly paid, and unfortunately, they have the Supreme Court on their side. You don't own those computers, they do. They can (and DO) do anything they want.
As a side note, our local DOE folks also monitor your web surfing, and log ALL your page requests. They also block any https:// connections, as well requests to sites on their "Evil waste of time" list, and they grep through their logs once a week searching for "keywords" ( sexy, pussy, xxx, porn, pr0n, etc). You basically have no rights to privacy since it is their equipment, not yours.
As a side note, we all just got email saying that all of our phone calls were logged, and that we could be expecting visits from our management about some of the more questionable phone calls. (In other words, more than a few local calls a day, and any long distance calls.)
As a side note, all businesses have these rights, but most choose not to exercise them.
Deal with it, or leave. The labs ARE NOT,
WILL NOT,
CAN NOT
be part of the real world.
So, where are these guys then? Is this some silly ruse by Metallica?
Maybe I'm showing my age here, but does anyone else remember "Packets from Mars"?
martian: n. A packet sent on a TCP/IP network with a source address of the test loopback interface [127.0.0.1]. This means that it will come back labeled with a source address that is clearly not of this earth. "The domain server is getting lots of packets from Mars. Does that gateway have a martian filter?" Compare Christmas tree packet, Godzillagram.
jargon/m/martian.html
From The Jargon file (4.2)
If you allready can solder and program in C and read circuit diagrams, then by all means, get a Motorola chip and start hacking. This kit is NOT for you! But if you are semi-clueless about robotics, then this is probably a good kit.
BTW: My robotics credintials are at My Home Page
1. You do not want to buy music that you haven't heard. If you try asking the people who work at the record store they will probably let you listen to the record once (or maybe even twice) before buying the record. So that's not a big problem.
;-)
Really? What record store do you shop at? We have three chain stores that sell CDs where I live. Two of them only have a "Store only" CD player. You think that they'll let me play an entire CD of my "Esoteric" music to the entire store? NOT! The other store actually has a "Listening Post", but it's just preprogrammed, so you can only listen to the CDs that they want you to listen to.
In other words, you live in a different universe than mine!
For everyone who can't/won't do a google search themselves. ;-)
n um=10&lc=www&btnG=Google+Search BR> www.arnold.af.mil/aedc/systems/60- 933.htm
/coldwar.htm
/search?q=%2BSpiral+%2Bspacecraft&num=10&lc=www .html
Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL)
www.google.com/search?q =Air+Force+MOL+&num=10&lc=www
www.airspacemag.com/ ASM/Mag/Index/1998/JJ/Contents.html
www.farhills.org/s/lees/space/air force.htm
Dyna Soar
www.google.com/search?q=dynasoar&lc= www
www.google.com/search?q=dyna+soar+%2Bsmithsonian&
www.nasm.edu/galle ries/gal114/SpaceRace/sec500/sec540.htm
www.hq.nasa.gov/offi ce/pao/History/Timeline/1961-4.html
Blue Gemini
www.google.com/search?q=Bl ue+Gemini&num=10&lc=www
student.uq.edu.au/~s373901/land
www.hq.nasa.gov/office/ pao/History/SP-4203/ch6-2.htm
LK Lander
www.google.com/search? q=%2BLK+%2BLander&num=10&lc=www
www.interaxs.net/pub/spacey/lk1.htm
www.ninfinger.org/~sven/mode ls/sovietsp/lk.html
Spiral
www.google.com
www.mcs.net/~rusaerog/spiral/spiral
General Spacecraft info
www.rocketry.com/mwade/spaceflt.htm Encyclopedia Astronautica
Oh, you're right of course. It's just that those first umpteen posts were so bad....
That's probably a troll, but I'll bite anyways...
Gold is used in the Semiconductor industry... It's those little wires to connect chips to pins.
Gold is used as a plating on pins, in order to reduce corrosion (And loss of signal/power) on pins also.
Gold is pretty. Ask my wife. As long as gold is pretty, it will be used for jewelry.
BTW: The USA (and other countries) don't use the gold standard anymore. Haven't for years. Gold is only used as a method of storing "value" by people who are willing to trade it for cash to other people who believe it holds value.
There are so many things wrong with this idea that it's not even funny. Is this a stable operating system? Not!!!. Excuse me Sarge, I have to reboot the system before we can call in artillery support on those troops attacking us. Cell Phones? Quick, how fast can you triangulate on a radio signal? One second? Maybe two? Why not just send those troops in with spotlights to make it even easier for the other side to call in artillery on their positions. And how much does all this stuff weigh? Don't these poor ground pounders have enough to carry around? And the good old bug-a-boo, EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse). Just detonate any kind of nuke (even a cheap dirty one) over the battlefield, and all these wonderful tech-toys are now just a pile of junk! Somebody get these guys on the clue train....
As a side note: US West (Who sucks BTW) has a service where for just a "few dollars more", they will "block" anonymous phone calls to your number. This service, of course, pre-supposes that you are allready paying for Caller ID.
Nintendo's poor showing?????
As a side note, in November1999 (The only month I can remember details from), 4 of the top 5 selling console games were from Nintendo. They were Donkey Kong, + 3 Poke'mon games.
For all of 1999, 7 of the top 10 games were Nintendo (DK64 + Poke'mon + Super Smash Brothers) From www.gamedaily.com
Off-hand, I'd say that Nintendo is doing very well for itself. Don't ever underestimate the power of hordes of screaming children.
We want Poke'mon!!!!
We want Poke'mon!!!!
We want Poke'mon!!!!
And, you just KNOW that as soon as it's released, three dozen geeks will start working on porting Linux to it, and two weeks later, distributed.net will have clients for it!
CSG_Surferdude
Didn't I see that in a movie? You forgot about the sliding steel security shutters on all the windows!
Demon Seed, 1977. (Julie Christie!) CSG_SurferDude
That's funny, cause I work down the hill at Sandia, and our stupid filter logs everything, so they'd do a reverse name lookup, and I'd still get busted for looking at dirty pictures on Governement computers!
CSG_SurferDude
CSG_SurferDude
It gets even worse when you realize all those companies that have 1 or more computers (IP Addresses) per employee. I guess all of them get to play games with their firewalls too!
CSG_SurferDude
The points he makes about IPV6 are extremely valid. We've been talking about running the Net to everything in the house, and the current IP protocol just can't handle it. 4,162,314,256 (254^4) addresses just is NOT enough. The only question is when will the current implementation fall apart due to scaling factors?
We've been hearing for years (At least since 1993) that we will run out of addresses in 2 years. Somebody always manages to come up with a work around, but at some point, we will run out of workarounds. It sounds like (finally) somebody is taking the bull by the horns and making it happen.
CSG_SurferDude
But, to be fair, many of those sites were made before the toxicity levels of those chemicals and their effects upon the enivronment were well known.
(Much less having waste levels mandated by law, which is what really drives most companies clean-up efforts.)
(Side-Side note: Even if you know X is bad, if you do something about, and it is not mandated by law, then your stockholders will hang you out to dry for wasting their dividends!)
CSG_SurferDude
Dang, wouldn't you know, I just found this page too. from the AIP
CSG_SurferDude
Gee, I'm just a posting fool today...
What have we gotten from NASA? Tang, Microwave ovens, pacemakers, Protective paints to better resist weathering, weather Satelites, and (My personal favorite) Cordless tools! and the list goes on and on and on.
For a quick list, check out spacepupnew.pdf .
CSG_SurferDude
Point taken, I was just reacting to un-supported claims. OTOH, It's really surprising the things folks are finding that cause cancer that are avoidable. (For instance, Sex. Follow the link, it's interesting reading.)
CSG_SurferDude
Who owns NASA tech? We (US Citizens) do! If you want to license some NASA Tech, check out: http://nctn.hq.nasa.gov/technology/index.html.
CSG_SurferDude
When will cool stuff like this filter down to the average US citizen, and how much longer after that will it take to get it to (Fill in this spot with the current name of your favorite third world country.)
As a side note, those neato thermometers are just now making their way into Mexico and Central America. I suspect that it'll take another 20 years before that NASA Tricorder makes it to the nice hospitals in Belize, much less to the really poor folks down there.
CSG_SurferDude