A thread in the Slashdot article The 700MHz Question drifted into a discussion between me and rcw-home/rcw-work on using multiple antennas to synthesyze multiple patterns. This allows a particular hunk of bandwidth to be reused to generate several full-bandwidth links simultaneously - either between a base station and several remote stations or even between the base station and a single remote station that itself has multiple antennas.

The thread is beginning to horzon out on my user info history. So this journal entry is a new venue for its continuation after rcw-*'s most recent post.

I'll respond to that after he posts here to indicate that he's also making the move.

I just finished listening to a podcast from Quirks & Quarks about a new prosthetic limb. It seems this limb will actually use jet fuel as a primary power source. This is meant to give it the power it needs to function as a regular limb without too much extra weight. During an interesting discussion on using jet fuel for tasks requiring dexterity the inventor (or one of them, anyway) mentioned a couple times about using it to change light bulbs. In case you're wondering about exhaust and waste heat, they also covered that. In the center of the arm it gets as hot as 450 degrees C, but that heat mostly dissipates by the time it gets to the exterior. The exhaust is warm steam (not too hot, however) that comes out of the elbow.

A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, has ruled that an RIAA defendant's counterclaim against the record companies for conspiracy to use unlicensed investigators, access private computer records without permission, and commit extortion, may move forward. The Court also sustained claims for violations of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as well as a claim under Florida law for deceptive and unfair trade practices. The decision (pdf) by Judge Richard A. Lazzara in UMG v. DelCid rejected, in its entirety, the RIAA's assertion of "Noerr Pennington" immunity, since that defense does not apply to "sham litigations", and Ms. Del Cid alleges that the RIAA's cases are "sham".

Several weeks ago it was discovered that a California federal judge, in rejecting an RIAA application for default judgment, had dismissed the RIAA's standard complaint for failure to state a claim, calling it "conclusory" "boilerplate" "speculation" in Interscope v. Rodriguez. In the wake of that decision, a Queens, New York, woman being sued in Brooklyn federal court, Rae J Schwartz, has told the Court that she is making a motion to dismiss the complaint in her case, Elektra v. Schwartz. This is the first post-Interscope challenge to the RIAA's boilerplate, of which we are aware. This is the same case in which the RIAA had sent a letter to the Judge falsely indicating that AOL had "confirmed that defendant owned an internet access account through which copyrighted sound recordings were downloaded and distributed". Ms. Schwartz suffers from Multiple Sclerosis and has never engaged in file sharing, but the RIAA has pressed the case against her.

I'm sick of hearing people defend illegal activities as being civil disobedience. True civil disobedience means willing to go to jail for your actions. A modern-day example of this is spending 3 days in jail rather than pay 50 cents for a toll that you've already paid for. The world needs all types of heroes, and this man is one of those.

1st, Saturday:
to Deesport and back (about 9.1 Km), to downtown, met Milla and then went to Milla's through Lauttasaari. 35 Km tot RSS (add 5 Km to matkamittari).
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2nd, Sunday:
about 8.5 Km Tandem, and then home from Milla - 16 Km RSS
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5th, wednesday:
To work and back on KHS. Home to Laurinolli, then Laurinolli to Milla, then back home. 36 Km on RSS
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6th, thursday:
To work, to Otaniemi, then back to work. Then back to home. About 30 Km KHS. Then to Leppävaara and back home on RSS, 12.5 Km
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7th, Friday: to work, to Otaniemi and then home. Maybe 25 Km HKS
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8th, Saturday:
To Milla, to Tapanila (Jäkäläntie 15P), to home, to Myyrmänni and back and then to huoltoasema and a bit around... 71 Km RSS
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9th, Sunday:
Milla and back, about 32 Km RSS
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A few days ago it was reported that, in view of the RIAA's one-month delay in paying the $68,685.00 attorneys fee award in Capitol v. Foster, and its lawyers' failure to respond to Ms. Foster's lawyer's email, Ms. Foster filed a motion for entry of judgment so that she could go ahead with judgment enforcement proceedings. In response to that motion the RIAA submitted a statement that it had no objection to entry of judgment, and intimated that it thought there would be an automatic stay on enforcement of the judgment, and that it would ultimately file an appeal. After seeing that, Ms. Foster's lawyer has filed a motion for the Court to require the RIAA to post $210,000 in security to cover the past and future attorneys fees and costs which are expected to be incurred.

Can it be that the RIAA, or the "Big 4" record companies it represents, are short on funds? It turns out that despite the Judge's order, entered a month ago, telling them to pay Debbie Foster $68,685.23 in attorneys fees, in Capitol v. Foster, they have failed to make payment, and Ms. Foster has now had to ask the Court to enter Judgment, so that she can commence "post judgment collection proceedings". According to Ms. Foster's motion papers (pdf), her attorneys received no response to their email inquiry about payment. Perhaps the RIAA should ask their lawyers for a loan.

UMG Recordings, part of the Universal music group, one of the "Big 4" record companies, has brought suit against an eBay reseller of Promo CD's (pdf), in UMB v. Augusto, in California. The defendant, whose legal team includes the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is fighting back (pdf), claiming that his sales of the CD's are lawful under the "first sale" doctrine under Section 109 of the Copyright Act (17 USC 109), and counterclaiming against UMG for sending out false notices under the DMCA (Copyright Act Section 512).

10th of August 2007 (circa):

New 3/32" chain (the Chinese one) on the KHS.
New 1/8" chain (KMC 410) - The odometer was 880 Km.

6th.
Monday, came back from holidays and did a Milla and back on RSS, 32 Km.
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7th
Milla and back, 32 Km RSS.
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8th
Deesport and back, then Milla and back, 42 Km tot, RSS.
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9th, thursday.
Went to work on new singlespeed (KHS Nomad steel MTB frame)
Then fooled around a bit around the local park, about 10 Km. Total about 20 Km KHS.
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10th, Friday.
To Milla and back, modified RSS (new, pink 42T chainring, new rear (V) brakes. NEW 1/8" CHAIN. 32 Km RSS.
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11th, Saturday.
To center and back, 22 Km RSS.
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12th, Sunday.
To Milla and back, 32 Km KHS. (NEW 3/32" CHAIN.)
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18th, Saturday.
Since last time, the KHS went some 150 miles, including at least one trip to Milla on Friday 17th. Today I went to Kauniainen (singlespeed bike shop) and back - 22 Km.
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During these days I mostly used the RSS.
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22nd, wednesday.
Did some 25 Km on the KHS (to and from work, to and from K-rauta, some cycling around).
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23rd, thursday.
Work, OP in Pitäjänmäki and back home. Then to Milla and back. About 45 Km KHS.
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24th, friday.
Work and back, Milla and back - about 41 Km RSS.
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25th, saturday.
Milla and back, martinkyläntie 39 ("factory outlet") and back, 42 Km so far, RSS.
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26th, sunday.
To Milla, 12 Km by tandem, and back - 32 Km RSS. Total of 44 Km.
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27th, monday.
To work, to TKK (Otaniemi) back to work, back home - 29 Km, RSS.
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28th, tuesday.
To work and back, to Prisma and back, about 17 Km tot KHS.
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29th, wednesday.
To work and back, to Regina and back. 29 Km tot KHS.
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30th, thursday.
Work and back, through Deesport while returning. About 11 Km KHS.
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31st, friday.
work and back, then to K-rauta in oulunkylä and back, some 28 Km KHS.

Not only did I score my first "first post", I managed to do it on an article containing the words "Microsoft", "Linux", and "ODF"! Some days, I even manage to impress myself. :)

Someone introduced me to this gem a while back, and I'm in a sharing mood, so, I give you The True Story of Idaho. I'd also like to point out that, per the text on the bottom, this was initially posted to rec.humor.d on December 14th, 1992. (Of course, global warming skeptics were already out in full force at this point - although most of them were still denying the very existence of global warming and not just whether it was natural or anthropogenic.)

July the 2nd:
In the morning (around 11 AM) went to Partco (Teuvo Pakkalan tie 9) and back. It rained. 7 Km.
Then went to workplace, grocery shop and home - 9.2 km.
Then in the afternoon (left at 20:00) went to Saanatunturintie 1 o and back. Apparently that's about 37 Km. About 53 Km total, RSS.
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July the 3rd:
To workplace and back, 9.2 Km. To Slaven's and back, 19.5 Km. To Milla's and back (in Olari), about 32.5 Km. About 61 Km tot. RSS
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July the 4th:
To Milla's and back, 32.5 Km, RSS
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5th:
To Otaniemi, confirm participation in studies, passed by Sello, back home, 22 Km. To Valimotie 21 to measure pressure. 8.5 Km To Bikeplanet, 9.5 Km. To Mirja, and back, 33 Km. There we did almost 8 Km on tandem. Total 73 Km RSS, 8 Km tandem.
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7th (saturday):
To bikeplanet, then to Kauppaveljet, then back home in terrible rainy weather. Maybe 18 Km, RSS
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9th (monday), 12:30, To B-keskus and back, alubike, about 17 Km.
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12th (thursday), to Vanhakaupunki (Tekniikan museo), then to Regina, then home. Then to Katja in Kapteeninkatu 5 and back home late at night. 67 Km RSS.
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13th, (friday), Leaving at 14:25 to Milla in Olari (16 Km) then to the Baha'i center (21 Km) then home via grocery store (9 Km). Tot. 46 Km RSS.
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14th, saturday: went to Bikeplanet and back, 7 Km, then to Milla's, did about 10 Km on tandem, and then back home. About 40 Km RSS.
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15th, Sunday: around noon went to Länsiportti, was raining but still did my personal record of 24.09 Km/h. On the way back, in the night, I did almost 25 Km/h! 32 Km RSS.
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19th, Thursday: To work, to deesport (sold Mt. Lodge), to home and then to Länsiportti and back. 52 Km RSS.
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20th, Friday: To Länsiportti, then 8 Km with tandem, then back (late at night). 32 Km alubike, 8 Km tandem.
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21st, Saturday: To Länsiportti and back (late at night again), 32 Km, RSS.
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22nd, Sunday; Länsiportti again, 32 Km alubike.
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23rd, Monday: to work and back, fooled around with RSS a bit. 14 Km.
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24th: Tuesday: to work and back, passed by Deesport on alubike (about 13 Km). Then länsiportti and back 32 Km RSS. There did tandem 8 Km. Tot 53 Km
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25th, Wednesday: To work, then afternoon to Länsiportti and there went on tandem about 10 Km, and then back home. 34 Km tot. RSS.
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26th, Thursday: to work, to Länsiportti and back home. Was almost killed by bus on Kehä I, while it was turing right. 34 Km tot. RSS.
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My 2005 Civic Hybrid has already paid for itself. By that, I mean that the additional cost of buying the hybrid vs. a similarly equipped Civic has already been recouped - sort of. By "sort of", I mean that according to the Kelley Blue Book value, my hybrid is worth $1600 more than a similarly equipped non-hybrid. Add that to the $400 I got back from Uncle Sam, and the approximately $400 less in gas that we've paid (based on actual driving mpg and about 18k miles, ymmv), and we've passed the approximately $2200 extra we paid for the privilege of owning a hybrid. Accuse me of contributing to the "smug" content in the air if you must, but I'll admit to being pleased with myself. :)

Just for the record, the decision was not made primarily for financial reasons, so the fact that it has already "paid off" is just icing on the cake.

For those wondering why I bought the Civic Hybrid (as opposed to the Prius, for example), it really had to do with my familiarity and satisfaction with the Civic. Our last car was a 1995 Civic that had about 140k miles on her (IIRC), and had at least another 140k miles in her if she hadn't been hit by a semi. Yes, I was driving at the time - at approximately 70 mph. For those who think bigger cars are safer, I suspect that in this case I would have been far more likely to have been injured if I had been in an SUV, for example. As it was, my wife and I walked away (or were towed away) without a scratch on us. That strongly contributed to us buying another Civic.