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General Radio Discussion / Internet addresses will run out in about a year

« on: July 30, 2010, 0628 UTC »

Experts predict the world will run out of internet addresses in less than a year, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday.

The internet protocol used by the majority of web users, IPv4, provides for about four billion IP addresses -- the unique 32-digit number used to identify each computer, website or internet-connected device.

There are currently only 232 million IP addresses left -- enough for about 340 days -- thanks to the explosion in smartphones and other web-enabled devices.

"When the IPv4 protocol was developed 30 years ago, it seemed to be a reasonable attempt at providing enough addresses," carrier relations manager at Australian internet service provider (ISP) Internode John Lindsay told the Herald.

"Bearing in mind that at that point personal computers didn't really exist, the idea that mobile phones might want an IP address hadn't occurred to anybody because mobile phones hadn't been invented [and] the idea that air-conditioners and refrigerators might want them was utterly ludicrous."


The solution to the problem is IPv6, which uses a 128-digit address. It would give everyone in the world more than four billion addresses each, but most of the internet industry has so far been reluctant to introduce it.

It would require each device that connects to the internet to be reconfigured or upgraded, with some users even being forced to buy new hardware, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

In the meantime ISPs may force multiple customers to share IP addresses, which may lead to common applications, such as Gmail and iTunes, ceasing to work.

There are also fears a black market of IP addresses may spring up.
http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?t=257668

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WEAK Radio 6930 USB

« on: July 30, 2010, 0534 UTC »

7/30/10
6930 USB
0355z: Just tuned in, caught WEAK Radio ID and Beck "Devil's Haircut".  Faded out mid-song.
0410z: Heard a bit of the preacher warning about fornicators, masturbators and mebbe tail-gaters too, dunno.

Just above the noise so far.  Strong bass in audio when I can hear it.

0450z: Tried outdoors w/ portable, a few peaks above crunchy summer static, lots of fades.  Rock music I couldn't ID, loop of some dude yelling something like "So much f***ing good!"

LEX it is  fornicators, masturbators and REGURGITATERS  !!! 05:30 he is out of the noise here   +20--30 peaks    signal is in and out and roundabout  BELZA BUBBA   i think that is the preachers name    05:33 he is from 0 to bending the needle

R & B BOMBERS 911 05:44  AHH BLUES from WEAK 

06:10 WEAK your signal is using my whole meter   signal drops so does the static    signal comes up you bring the static along for the ride  

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WEAK Radio 6930 USB

« on: July 30, 2010, 0426 UTC »

at first tune in he was full scale on the meter NOW at 04:24 i can barely tell he is there   a few fade ups now and then  nothing major   s5

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Off-the-grid communications

« on: July 28, 2010, 1847 UTC »

Very nice AL !    I have heard some of this somewhere before can't remember where !!   I got to looking in my computer i still had the audio file !!! 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6930u WEAK Radio 0337z 7-28-2010

« on: July 28, 2010, 0535 UTC »

Don't guess anyone heard me on 6925   so i goes and tunes WEAK in again at 05:30  And what do you think i have to do to understand him ?   Thats Right  turn on the  ANTENUATOR !!!!!!      FREAKY STUFF PEGGED METER AGAIN !!!!  weak did you move next door

BTW  s10 with it on !!!

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General Radio Discussion / 'HELLLOOOOOOO......,'

« on: July 27, 2010, 1716 UTC »

DISNEYLAND
Two blondes were going to Disneyland .  They were driving on the Interstate when they saw the sign that said Disneyland LEFT.  They started crying and turned around and went home.
 
FLORIDA OR MOON
Two blondes living in Oklahoma were sitting on a bench talking, and one blonde says to the other, 'Which do you think is farther away... Florida or the moon?'  The other blonde turns and says 'Helloooooooooo, can you see Florida ??'

 
CAR TROUBLE
A blonde pushes her BMW into a gas station. She tells the mechanic it died.  After he works on it for a few minutes, it is idling smoothly.
She says, 'What's the story?'
He replies, 'Just crap in the carburetor'
She asks, 'How often do I have to do that?'

 
SPEEDING TICKET
A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her license.
She replied in a huff, 'I wish you guys would get your act together.
Just yesterday you take away my license and then today you expect me to show it to you!'

 
RIVER WALK
There's this blonde out for a walk. She comes to a river and sees another blonde on the opposite bank 'Yoo-hoo!' she shouts, 'How can I get to the other side?'
The second blonde looks up the river then down the river and shouts back, 'You ARE on the other side.'
AT THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE
A gorgeous young redhead goes into the doctor's office and said that her body hurt wherever she touched it.
'Impossible!' says the doctor.. 'Show me.'
The redhead took her finger, pushed on her left shoulder and screamed, then she pushed her elbow and screamed even more. She pushed her knee and screamed; likewise she pushed her ankle and screamed. Everywhere she touched made her scream.
The doctor said, 'You're not really a redhead, are you?
'Well, no' she said, 'I'm actually a blonde.'
'I thought so,' the doctor said, 'Your finger is broken.'

 
KNITTING
  A highway patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway. Glancing at the car, he was astounded to see that the blonde behind the wheel was knitting!
Realizing that she was oblivious to his flashing lights and siren, the trooper cranked down his window, turned on his bullhorn and yelled, 'PULL OVER!'
'NO!' the blonde yelled back, 'IT'S A SCARF!'

 
BLONDE ON THE SUN
A Russian, an American, and a Blonde were talking one day.
The Russian said, 'We were the first in space!'
The American said, 'We were the first on the moon!'
The Blonde said, 'So what? We're going to be the first on the sun!'  The Russian and the American looked at each other and shook their heads.
'You can't land on the sun, you idiot! You'll burn up!' said the Russian.
To which the Blonde replied, 'We're not stupid, you know. We're going at night!'

 
IN A VACUUM
A blonde was playing Trivial Pursuit one night... It was her turn. She rolled the dice and she landed on Science & Nature. Her question was, 'If you are in a vacuum and someone calls your name, can you hear it?' She thought for a time and then asked, 'Is it on or off?'

 
FINALLY, THE BLONDE JOKE TO END ALL BLONDE JOKES!
A girl was visiting her blonde friend, who had acquired two new dogs, and asked her what their names were. The blonde responded by saying that one was named Rolex and one was named Timex. Her friend said, 'Whoever heard of someone naming dogs like that?'  'HELLLOOOOOOO......,' answered the blonde. 'They're watch dogs'!

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General Radio Discussion / SKI TRIP !!!!

« on: July 27, 2010, 0538 UTC »

Jack decided to go skiing with his buddy, Bob . So they loaded up Jack 's minivan and headed north.

 

After driving for a few hours, they got caught in a terrible blizzard. So they pulled into a nearby farm and asked the attractive lady who answered
the door if they could spend the night.

'I realize it's terrible weather out there and I have this huge house all to myself, but I'm recently widowed,' she explained. 'I'm afraid the neighbors will talk if I let you stay in my house.'

'Don't worry,' Jack said. 'We'll be happy to sleep in the barn. And if the weather breaks, we'll be gone at first light.' The lady agreed, and the two men found their way to the barn and settled in for the night.

 

Come morning, the weather had cleared, and they got on their way. They enjoyed a great weekend of skiing.

But about nine months later, Jack got an unexpected letter from an attorney. It took him a few minutes to figure it out, but he finally determined that it was from the attorney of that attractive widow he had met on the ski weekend.

He dropped in on his friend Bob and asked, ' Bob, do you remember that good-looking widow from the farm we stayed at on our ski holiday up north about 9 months ago?'

'Yes, I do.' Said Bob.

'Did you, er, happen to get up in the middle of the night, go up to the house and pay her a visit?'

'Well, um, yes!,' Bob said, a little embarrassed about being found out, 'I have to admit that I did.'

'And did you happen to give her my name instead of telling her your name?'

Bob 's face turned beet red and he said,'Yeah, look, I'm sorry, buddy. I'm afraid I did.' 'Why do you ask?'

'She just died and left me everything.'

(And you thought the ending would be different, didn't you?... you know you smiled...now keep that smile for the rest of the day!)

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General Radio Discussion / Jimmy Carter and the killer rabbit?

« on: July 27, 2010, 0156 UTC »

What was the deal with Jimmy Carter and the killer rabbit?

Dear Cecil:

What's the straight dope on Jimmy Carter's once being attacked by a killer rabbit? I hear there are actually photos of Carter swinging for his life at this rabbit, but his people refused to release them because "some facts about the president must remain forever wrapped in obscurity." What the hell is going on?

— Donald Lilly, North Hollywood, California

Dear Donald:

Well, right now I'd say it's pretty quiet, which is about what you'd figure, seeing as how the killer rabbit thing happened in 1979. Not that stories about feckless good ol' boy presidents don't have their pertinence these days. Say what you will about Bill Clinton's PR problems, though, Jimmy Carter was in a class by himself. Nice man, but he was one president whose image a couple accusations from bimboes would have probably improved.

The rabbit incident happened on April 20 while Carter was taking a few days off in Plains, Georgia. He was fishing from a canoe in a pond when he spotted the fateful rabbit swimming toward him. It was never precisely determined what the rabbit's problem was. Carter, always trying to look at things from the other guy's point of view, later speculated that it was fleeing a predator. Whatever the case, it was definitely a troubled rabbit. "It was hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared and making straight for the president," a press account said.

The Secret Service having been caught flatfooted — I'll grant you an amphibious rabbit assault is a tough thing to defend against — the president did what he could to protect himself. Initially it was reported that he'd hit the rabbit with his paddle. Realizing this wouldn't play well with the Rabbit Lovers Guild, Carter later clarified that he'd merely splashed water at the rabbit, which then swam off toward shore. A White House photographer, ever alert to history's pivotal moments, snapped a picture of the encounter for posterity.

Good thing, too. Carter's own staff was skeptical when he told the rabbit story back at the White House. Some ventured the opinion that rabbits couldn't swim, didn't attack people, and sure weren't about to take on a sitting president, even if it was Jimmy Carter. Miffed, Jimmy ordered up a print of the aforementioned photo, but this failed to resolve the issue. The picture showed the president with his paddle raised, and there was something in the water, "but you couldn't tell what it was," an anonymous staffer was quoted as saying. The average politician would have said, goddamit, I'm president of the United States and I say it was a rabbit. But Carter wasn't that kind of guy. He ordered a blowup made, establishing at last that his attacker was, well, a bunny, or "swamp rabbit," to use press secretary Jody Powell's somewhat fiercer sounding term.

OK, not one of the shining moments of Carter's career, but so far not a major train wreck, inasmuch as nobody outside the White House knew anything about it. Jody Powell took care of that problem the following August when he told the rabbit story to Associated Press reporter Brooks Jackson over a cup of tea. Powell ought to have known you can't tell anything to reporters in August because there's nothing else to write about and they'll make any fool thing into a front page scandal.

Which is exactly what happened. The Washington Post put the bunny story on page one complete with a cartoon takeoff of the famous "Jaws" movie poster entitled "Paws." The media ran with the story for a week, the worst aspect from Carter's perspective undoubtedly being the columnists, who basically all said, yeah, it's just a rabbit, but it shows you the kind of president we've got here. The administration refused to release the photos, although I seem to recall Reagan's people later found and leaked them. Carter's subsequent drubbing at the polls was a foregone conclusion, hostage crisis or not.

Lesson for life #1: if it moves, kill it. Lesson for life #2: if you can't kill it, for God's sake don't talk about it to the Associated Press.

Rabbit redux

Dear Cecil:

I have a theory that should put to rest this President Carter/killer rabbit thing once and for all. I propose that the president's antagonist was not a rabbit but a nutria (Myocastor coypus). The world's largest rodent, the nutria is semiaquatic with webbed hind feet and is very aggressive. Native to South America and valued for its durable fur, the nutria was introduced into the southern United States in the last century and quickly became a well-established pest species. A partially submerged nutria (a lightning-fast swimmer) would look very similar to a rabbit. Its lack of long, rabbitlike ears could easily be overlooked in the fog of battle.

I hope this serves to partially rehabilitate the much-maligned 39th president.

— Thomas Canaday, San Francisco, California

Cecil replies:

You think being attacked by the "world's largest rodent" is an improvement? Then again, it had to give Carter a taste of what it would be like fending off Alfonse D'Amato.

Incidentally, the nutria isn't the world's largest rodent. The honor, such as it is, goes to the capybara, 110 pounds of pure ugly. Jimmy should count his blessings.

— Cecil Adams

  http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/950/what-was-the-deal-with-jimmy-carter-and-the-killer-rabbit 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WEAK Radio 6935 AM

« on: July 24, 2010, 2203 UTC »

FREAKIN PEGGIN MY METER audio on the way WEAK

22:23 sounded almost like a auctioneer 

+20 to buried needle 

it has gotten a lot better after i recorded this

http://www.mediafire.com/?cxdnyrbqgx4onxt

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6925 USB

« on: July 24, 2010, 0204 UTC »

s7 for a peak and loud

02:20 gettin on up there +20  YEPPERS +20 

THESE EYES  at full scale meter reading     

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6950am UNID 0115z 7-24-2010

« on: July 24, 2010, 0119 UTC »

RADIO RONIN SHORTWAVE  on the FAT MAN   01:20 full scale on my meter and draggin the static along for the ride    01:25 gettin some fades to s9   but at least the static fades with ya       B IDOL  White Wedding

I have seen pictures of the FAT MAN very very nice 

Don't FEAR the REAPER  01:30

sending you some audio RONIN

ID at 01:36   weak modulation on the id's

01:44 you and the static are fighting a hell of a fight  i think the static is winning you are about buried now 

01:49 on top for a bit again with TURN THE PAGE    Thanks RONIN   

01:53 OFF AIR

THANK YOU    RONIN 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WLDJ 6925u

« on: July 22, 2010, 0228 UTC »

OKAY I DONT GET IT! He feels quilty for doing pirate radio? okayyyyyy!!

NOW THATS FUNNY 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WLDJ 6925u

« on: July 22, 2010, 0224 UTC »

He never wanted to do pirate radio? did any one else hear that , WTF

Confirm; heard it; don't believe it ...

He wanted to be....


...a LUMBERJACK!   



Got him at 02:19 on the mic, tryin' to make everyone happy. 

HOW?  also said he wanted someone to talk to !! 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid 6925.2-6926.7 USB

« on: July 21, 2010, 2346 UTC »

GEEZ   LEX     im surprised you heard that much of it   What with the other station  airing on top of me !!!!  no wonder you couldn't hear the ID

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General Radio Discussion / craigs list ad--too funny

« on: July 21, 2010, 2152 UTC »

AN ACTUAL CRAIG'S LIST PERSONALS AD          To the Guy Who Tried to   |
|            Mug Me in Downtown        |
|             Savannah night before     |
|            last.                     |
|                                      |
|            Date: 2009-05-27, 1:43    |
|            a.m.  E.S.T.              |
|                                      |
|            I was the guy wearing the |
|            black Burberry jacket that|
|            you demanded that I hand  |
|            over, shortly after you   |
|            pulled the knife on me and|
|            my girlfriend, threatening|
|            our lives. You also asked |
|            for my girlfriend's purse |
|            and earrings. I can only  |
|            hope that you somehow come|
|            across this rather        |
|            important message.        |
|                                      |
|             First, I'd like to       |
|            apologize for your        |
|            embarrassment; I didn't   |
|            expect you to actually    |
|            crap in your pants when I |
|            drew my pistol after you  |
|            took my jacket. The       |
|            evening was not that cold,|
|            and I was wearing the     |
|            jacket for a reason. My   |
|            girlfriend had just bought|
|            me that Kimber Model      |
|            1911 .45 ACP pistol for my|
|            birthday, and we had      |
|            picked up a shoulder      |
|            holster for it that very  |
|            evening. Obviously you    |
|            agree that it is a very   |
|            intimidating weapon when  |
|            pointed at your head ...  |
|            isn't it?!                |
|             I know it probably wasn't|
|            fun walking back to       |
|            wherever you'd come from  |
|            with that brown sludge in |
|            your pants. I'm sure it   |
|            was even worse walking    |
|            bare-footed since I made  |
|            you leave your shoes, cell|
|            phone, and wallet with me.|
|            [That prevented you from  |
|            calling or running to your|
|            buddies to come help mug  |
|            us again].                |
|                                      |
|             After I called your      |
|            mother or "Momma" as you  |
|            had her listed in your    |
|            cell, I explained the     |
|            entire episode of what    |
|            you'd done. Then I went   |
|            and filled up my gas tank |
|            as well as those of four  |
|            other people in the gas   |
|            station, -- on your credit|
|            card. The guy with the big|
|            motor home took 150       |
|            gallons and was extremely |
|            grateful!                 |
|                                      |
|             I gave your shoes to a   |
|            homeless guy outside      |
|            Vinnie Van Go Go's, along |
|            with all the cash in your |
|            wallet. [That made his    |
|            day!]                     |
|                                      |
|             I then threw your wallet |
|            into the big pink "pimp   |
|            mobile" that was parked at|
|            the curb ... after I broke|
|            the windshield and side   |
|            window and keyed the      |
|            entire driver's side of   |
|            the car.                  |
|                                      |
|             Later, I called a bunch  |
|            of phone sex numbers from |
|            your cell phone. Ma Bell  |
|            just now shut down the    |
|            line, although I only used|
|            the phone for a little    |
|            over a day now, so what 's|
|            going on with that?       |
|            Earlier, I managed to get |
|            in two threatening phone  |
|            calls to the DA's office  |
|            and one to the FBI, while |
|            mentioning President Obama|
|            as my possible target.    |
|                                      |
|             The FBI guy seemed really|
|            intense and we had a nice |
|            long chat (I guess while  |
|            he traced your number     |
|            etc.).                    |
|                                      |
|             In a way, perhaps I      |
|            should apologize for not  |
|            killing you ... but I feel|
|            this type of retribution  |
|            is a far more appropriate |
|            punishment for your       |
|            threatened crime. I wish  |
|            you well as you try to    |
|            sort through some of these|
|            rather immediate pressing |
|            issues, and can only hope |
|            that you have the         |
|            opportunity to reflect    |
|            upon, and perhaps         |
|            reconsider, the career    |
|            path you've chosen to     |
|            pursue in life. Remember, |
|            next time you might not be|
|            so lucky.Have a good day! |
|            Thoughtfully yours,       |
|            Alex                      |
|                                      |
|            P.S. Remember this        |
|            motto ... An armed society|
|            makes for a more civil    |
|            society!                  |
|