This reminds me of "selective availability" (I think that's the
correct term) in the GPS stream coming from US DOD orbital platforms.
Sure, the data is jittered. Who sues because only authorized clients (in
that case, US military forces) get unjittered time and position but folks
withou
D'oh!! At first I thought he was asking for backHOE monitoring
tools. Around here we simply bury a short length of fiber and wait a few
minutes until the backhoes sniff it out and start digging sorta like
the way they use pigs to search for truffles.
While I'm not claiming this is the beginning of a trend, last
week a former dialup customer who left ShaysNet for Comcast several
months ago returned to our dialups AND brought along a friend who had
never been one of our customers before but who was fed up with Comcast.
Both
As late as 1973 Dodge Power Wagons (WDX style, at least) still
had the aperture and the crankshaft end coupling for a hand crank. Dunno
about any later models.
David Leonard
ShaysNet
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
Goethe
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Vadim Antonov wrote:
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> There's only thing worse than government full of idiots: government
> full of scared idiots.
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> --vadim
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> On Wed,
