That audio clip is also taken out of context..

That audio clip is also taken out of context.

Using sarcasm to convey political messages is a path fraught with danger (learned that a long time ago as a topical songwriter). That's especially true at a boring dinner where 90% the people aren't paying close attention.

What if I want to buy a Confederate Battle Flag to desecrate and send to the SC legislature?

We have been maintaining Stratus VOS since 1980, but it hasn't stayed static and it's very much larger than it was in 1980.

Which gets me to my real point. If you aren't going to maintain it, keep the binaries. If you are going to maintain it, it won't be in a vacuum; so, you will need to move the software into new environments.

Yeah, he hired a DJ. And he said he thought the DJ paid the licensing fee. I know that musicians hired to do gigs aren't required to pay BMI, the venue owner is. I would assume that's also true with DJs. The restaurant owner is either clueless (but he's been in business for 25 years) or he's lying through his teeth. He also claimed that he didn't have to pay royalties because he had a license to have music from the city. You are not looking at an even remotely reliable source of information here.

I can tell you as a musician that most restaurant and bar owners are at least 10 times as sleazy as the RIAA or BMI or any other rights organizations have ever been. They will exploit all their employees, including musicians and DJs, every chance they get. They deserve absolutely no sympathy.

That's scarey. Some of the devices you are mentioning get used in large networks (Lantronix term servers, for example). And a lot of them are on home Internets.

It will only work if the destination has a broken IP implementation. IFF the implementation is correct, it's supposed to either forward or drop any IP packets with a destination that isn't configured on the interface. It's never supposed to process them locally. Of course on a POS that you can't change the IP address on, one can't be sure it's actually handling the IP protocol correctly. Which would mean that putting more than one of them on a switch is probably a bad idea.

ICMP uses IP.

You are correct that ARP doesn't use IP.

The LAT protocol doesn't use IP, but nobody uses LAT any more.

There used to be audio distribution protocols that ran in the MAC layer on 100Mb Ethernet, but I believe they switched to running under IP when switches and routers learned how to do vLans and QOS.

Appletalk used to avoid IP, but I believe they switched, too.

Protocols the use IP are routeable; so, they are limited in utility.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherType for a more complete list.

Mucking with the ARP tables won't work, because the IP addresses will be wrong in the packets (unless the IP implementation in the pumps is sorely lacking).

OTOH, using vLans on a cheap managed switch is better than the 16 USB Ethernet adapters the poster suggested.

This won't work if the pumps have a real IP implementation, because the destination IP address in the packets will be wrong and they will get dropped.

Don't fill up pages and pages of Slashdot arguing about which methodology fad is best...

You can get to mid-town from JFK that fast if you pay the cabbie a flat fee that's about 150% of the usual fair in advance. You might want to keep your eyes closed during the ride :-)

Most places running lotteries forbid employees from playing (of at least from accepting the payout).

In fact, the public service ethics laws in most states would automatically forbid accepting the payout as a conflict of interest... Massachusetts' laws do and so do the Federal ethics laws. Many states base their own laws on the Federal laws; so, given the number of states in that multiple state lottery, there have to be a number of ethics laws that could be used to prosecute just on the basis of accepting the payout.

Wait until the first big snow storm when all the driverless cars stop in the middle of the road because it's too slippery and they aren't programmed for anything else.