Hmm. This is like the old military joke, "Everyone wanting to volunteer for this mission, take a step forward...", and everyone but one poor schmuck takes a step backward.

This sort of seems to cancel most of the good intentions of NN. Or at least it leaves a loophole wide enough to drive at truck through.

Ring doorbells, and probably others as well have a GREAT solution for sneaky Ninja stealth package deliverers - their motion detection features are excellent for detecting clandestine drop-offs and alerting you of the fact.

This is especially useful if you're in a high traffic or crime area, you'll know the moment it was dropped off. And the moment it was stolen, if you didn't get to it in time! :) Plus, if you're lucky, a video of the thief's face.

Otherwise, there are security drop-off lockers like olde tyme Milk Boxes, you can have them deliver the items into them and the lid locks closed. Presumably, it's bolted to the porch or too big and heavy to carry off, I don't know for sure as I don't own one.

Actually there is. When you sign up with an ISP, you enter a contract for internet service. AFAIK you have to be 18+ in order to legally be able to agree to a contract.

IANAL, but I believe this is true in all states in the USA.

This was a great series full of era-appropriate computer and IT in-jokes and adult humor, definitely not a kids show.

Absolutely groundbreaking ray-tracing/rendering graphics used at the time, state of the art for it's day.

And who could forget Tony Jay as Megabyte?

Not all of it is.

Basic PC client/server programs will let you set up a local LAN server for free. They start charging when it comes to some popular clients, like ones for Android, iPhone and Roku cost $$. There is also a DVR service that gets guide data if you have an OTA tuner for local TV channels like I do, and that is not free either.

They do have a one-time "Plex Pass" (used to be $99.00 when I got mine) which gives you all access to all of the Plex services for a one-time flat fee. What I don't understand is how that is sustainable - it looks like sort of a pyramid or ponzi scheme, but not quite - somehow depending on new signups to pay for things, which is great as long as there is momentum of gaining new users.

I believe Emby is doing something similar now, also charging a one-time flat fee for access to all features for life. They are doing the same thing and requiring it for DVR service and some high-end smartphone and TV clients like Plex is doing.

LOL that was the operational model for Cable TV. You pay ONCE, a monthly fee for NO FUCKING ADS. Period. Well, we all know how that shitshow turned out!

It turned out the fucks were SO greedy they insisted on their monthly fee, THEN they turned around and started cramming ads down our throats TOO. Because we had no choice at that point, and they were relying on the fact that you can't or won't stop them if you wanted your entertainment fix, they ran roughshod over us and we have the situation we have today with them double-dipping at the punchbowl.

I have no compunction about turning off and evading advertising to the best of my technical ability. At age 61, those assholes have collectively broken their promises and social contracts repeatedly and collectively they have wasted at least 2-3 years of my life without any shame. I would have GLADLY paid probably thousands of dollars to avoid all of that - IF they kept their promises.

FUCK THEM, THEY AIN'T TAKING ANY MORE! I have paid MORE than my dues over the 40+ years I have been a "consumer" (sucker) of their entertainment "product" (shit). I don't feel they "owe" me anything, but I also don't feel as though I need to keep financing their greed. I have paid "up front", but with my time instead of my money, like their model intended.

Basically, the fuckers outsourced PRISM and all the other shit that Snowden exposed.

That figures.

I realize that's an issue, as nothing has a floppy anymore, but that's not a problem; the images I'm referring are already completely installed from the original media - no original discs (CD or floppies) are required at all. The image is a virtual hard disk image, usually a several GB large file or files that comprise a VMDK, which is a virtual disk image that's used by VirtualBox or VMWare Players.

Those are two good free VM's out there that will boot up the OS image you downloaded directly from the hard disk of your current modern host machine. It's very easy to get it set up and going - pretty much just download the OS image, unzip or copy to a working directory somewhere, and create a new VM that points to that new image as it's bootable C: hard disk. That's pretty much it!

OS's that old (and newer ones as well) can be found out there in places like Archive.org and the like.

You can probably find a complete, clean install of '95 or '98 in the VM format of your choice, already preinstalled and ready to run.

Look around some more, they are out there.

Watching the Geniuses rolling around on the floor and making mooing sounds after you run toward them and clothesline them at full speed should be hilarious! Engaged in their phones deeply, they should be less aware than most sleeping cows, and thus ripe for the picking!

I was thinking more like "Some Butt-Fucker".

I KNOW the rules, I've been a ham for over 40 years now. YOU need to review your ability to read and understand posts in context and not misquote them. My initial post was quite correct which you misinterpreted, drew an incorrect conclusion about what I was saying, then you starting quoting bits of Part 97 to me after taking what I said out of context - or perhaps simply misunderstanding it.

You know what, let's NOT review my posts, what I said was proper and true. Instead, let's review why you can't seem to understand either my initial post or the clarification that I posted especially just for you. Maybe you are attempting to deliberately misquote me or take me out of context? Sounds like a troll move to me.

What also feels like trolling is when people nit-pick and micro-analyze every sentence typed in an attempt to create a giant gish gallop. What I said was correct, and you then proceeded to misinterpret it and take up an argument with me about your misinterpretations.

The stupid was yours, my friend, and it seems you are the one doubling down on it. You misinterpreted or misunderstood what I said then decided to fuck with me over it. Fuck you. I made no mistake other than trying to be helpful to an audience of asshole trolls who who would rather attack the messenger than learn something.

I am done with the likes of you here.

I will admit it has been a few years since I last read Part 97, but short duration test transmissions are (or were) definitely one of the exceptions. Some use that exception to net their radio to a repeater by zero-beating or monitoring with a 2nd receiver.

Local hams retransmitting news I specifically said was NOT an exception. Please read my post better. I do know this stuff, I used to be a net control for a large multi-site repeater in a large city so I am speaking from many years of experience.

I am aware of the 10 minute rule and that is usually the interval (or less) that the repeater automatically ID's itself during such a transmission session. Thirty minutes was the average length of the news program, not the ID interval. The evening's transmission would typically involve three four breaks during the session to ID if it was not going through a repeater, and the person transmitting the news program has to ID _their_ transmission. That's why I said "pause". Jesus, you really need to read more carefully before you gleefully rip people a new asshole. Your nitpicks are bullshit, and you should have known it.

And a downmod for posting true information? Fuck right the hell off all of you, this was my first few posts in many months and I can see the level of professionalism and expertise has gone right in the shitter. This will be the last time I try to post some fucking helpful information.

Blow Me.
 

That situation sucks, and I had not heard of the malfeasance of the ARDC with that IP block, but face it, this is a fart in the wind as far as the totality of Amateur Radio is concerned. It's a very small facet in a much larger stone, ham radio as a whole. The IP space reserved was mostly used for Packet Radio and that is almost totally dead excepting a small contingent that still uses it for GPRS, but that's about it. Packet activity in the large city I live near is at zero usage except for the couple times a year the bicyclists use GPRS during races and events.

The other 99% of ham radio could make good use of the archiving services not for recording everyday transmissions about medical ailments and hemorrhoid creams, but more interesting things such as technical nets and on-the-air news programs such as NewsLine or the Amateur Radio Newsline, CQ Digest, and quite a few others. They each have their own program archives, I'm sure, but they would be likely fodder for this new collection, logically.

My bottom line is don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, I suppose. There are many subdivisions of Ham radio, there is something worthwhile and positive in it for nearly everyone, no matter what your experience level or technical skills are. With a very few exceptions and a couple of miscreant bad apples, it's generally a very affirming hobby, one you can choose your level of involvement with, to a great extent. It is what you (and I) make it.

There are a few exceptions to that rule, mostly having to do with the ARRL _broadcasting_ Morse code practice sessions over-the-air. They are specifically called out in Part 97, but are very rare IRL.

Even local hams re-transmitting news programs, etc. have to pause during a half-hour screed for station ID by giving their call sign and pausing for any emergency break-in traffic.

Basically, one-way transmissions are illegal with the few exceptions for code practice and radio tuning over-the-air (generally a bad idea). You still are legally required to ID at the end of your (short) series of one-way transmissions.