Posts by Dillon Pyron 852 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Feb 2007
My AP is about six inches above my head and about two feet away. My 2.4 GHz phone (Siemens 2420, which doesn't interfere with my AP) is about 2 feet from my head. Do I have any side effects? Well, if I cradle the handset instead of putting the caller on speaker phone, yes, I may get a stress headache.
Then again, I refuse to be a victim.
Dillon in Tejas, who is a life member in an organization that preaches that.
With the huge uptake of big screen TVs, why would anyone want to watch content on a 2 inch screen? In low def? With dodgy audio? I guess it could happen, but I'm not putting any real money on it taking off like the "experts" say it will.
I got my CS degree in 1978. AI was "just around the corner" according to the "experts". That's some corner.
BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSD), Linux, Windows, HP-UX, Solaris, etc all say that they are not certified for "mission critical" use. The OSes used are carefully tested for such use. It's just that you can't test for every eventuality. And some piece of hardware broke.
Now Congress has to get their fingers in it with "oh, maybe hackers were involved". I don't know of many SCADA systems that are hooked to "the net". And those that are segregate control from observation functions.
Any chance someone will post this on Bittorrent? I've never used it before but this might be a start. Or do you think BBC America will carry it? Or will BBC post it on their webiste (do the stream anything?) As you might guess, I just have to see it. You see, I'm a beneficiary of the psychiatric/psychological system.
SEASAT was supposed to provide us with remarkable images of the sea bed. The first satellite when off line within moments of it's first image. These were overseen by the US Navy. The rumor has always been that the first thing they saw were submarines.
There never were anymore satellites of this configuration launched.
Publicly.
Now these supposed A and B students are finding out just how hard college really is. And taking space from those who truly earned their grades.
As a TA in 1979, a foreign exchange student actually offered me $500 to raise his grade to a D! I reported him to the dean, who took it to the next level and so on. By the end of the day, he had been expelled and immigration was notified of his new status. He was deported back to Iran, those being the days when "students" were causing the Sha all sorts of problems, and this one had apparently been very active in the US (hence his Fs).
I was also offered some T&A for an A. Ethics sucks, sometimes.
Windows is the default for me, but only because I can't get a blank laptop (and it has to be an AMD, I own too much stock to go otherwise). So if I have to pay $200 for the OS, I may as well run it. But the white boxes are all Linux, and the Windows box has OpenOffice.org and other Open Source software running on it. I use photo995 to avoid blowing $1000 to buy CS when all I need to do is edit photos. I avoid paying for software when there are free alternatives around.
Yes, it was the Census Bureau.
Now a proposal in Texas will collect names, addresses, DL numbers, birth dates and social security numbers in order to get a pre-paid phone. That's a disaster waiting to happen. Of course, all that information will be public records.
And I'm typically handing it to some minimum wage clerk at the neighborhood 7-Eleven.
is a tragedy waiting to happen. Use the right plugin in Firefox and that problem goes away. Stay away from root and the problem goes further away.
Too many applications, in all the OSes, seem to require elevated privileges to install or even run. So we just crank 'em up. Vista makes a mighty swing at this, but too many people are going to get fed up with all the "are you sure?" and just turn themselves on all the way.
There was a "high value"* investment service, that I can't name because of NDA, that issued its own certificate. They said that was okay, they just told their customers to accept it. So I issued my own certificate, hacked the site (Code Red days) and did some phishing, back before it was popular.
They bought a certificate from Verisign.
* high value - net worth in excess of $10M
One would think that with games like that, they would have teams to do "wet work".
OTOH, they better have a team of lawyers, because this is going to get very nasty. Is Valve located in the US or have servers in the US? They may well be in violation of California laws, as well as those of other states.
dillon in Tejas, recipient of three letters from CA companies.
Of course it'll be COTS. It'll cost an arm and a leg out the *** because it'll be somewhere in the 750 W range. And that UPS you just bought? I wonder if it's wave shaping will work with it.
All sorts of questions that need to be answered.
Oh yeah, in many homes in the US, the power brought in is 240V, which is then split to 120V. Which means you have two independent circuits. Appliances like driers, stoves and oven solve that problem, assuming you don't have gas driers, stoves and ovens.
And McDonalds and Pizza Hut and all sorts of greasy foods. But no weights, basketball courts or handball courts.
Let them come out of prison as fat blobs with high cholesterol. That's a good way to protect the public.
Okay, I'm not from the UK, but I suspect many would agree with me.
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