Re: Are TS555's really supposed to suck this much?

You would. It doesn't make the 555 any less obsolete, and the endorsement comes from the least impressive individual to post here regularly, but you has can't afford to reject any support, no matter how embarrassing.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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You had the brilliant idea of painting a unique signal on the inside of each conductor. The telephone companies had earlier had the equally brilliant idea of painting an unique colour code on the insulation around the connector.

A slightly more brilliant idea would have been to send different binary sequences down each conductor, which would have allowed you to identify the individual conductors a little faster, given the same bandwidth.

It is - in fact - an equally obvious idea, and should have been explicity covered in your claims, which are narrow enough to make the patent very easy to get around.

Since this archive also records your genius and the genius of any number of other equally talented egomaniacs, the chance that anybody would bother searching it strikes me as remote.

What's obscure about the periodic table? You can't get through a chemical education without finding that you've committed most of it to memory.

Life's too short to got to the trouble of demolishing what is already obviously nonsense.

Rubbish. It was a conspiracy of tax evaders, who flattered people like Tom Payne and Ben Franklin into constructing a persuasive - if irrelevant - ideology about freedom and representation (not to mention motherhood and apple pie). Since the revolution, the people who own the country have run the country to their own advantage - read some Chomsky for a clear picture of how this works for foreign policy - and have been emminently successful at fooling enough of the people (clearly including you) for enough of the time.

Less of a Morlock than you are. Trade unions and their associated political parties aren't anything like perfect, but they do level the playing field to an appreciable extent; which is precisely why your "owners" are terrified of trade unions and go to great lengths to equate "socialism" with "communism", carefully suppressing the point that communists saw socialists as dangerous rivals who had to be suppressed.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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All hilarious. If everyone thought as you do, everyone would be similarly unemployed.

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The ADE651 bomb detector?

The story has been picked up by more respectable news sources, so I guess we can believe that basic facts, incredible as they may seem. I've heard of audiofools, but securityfools is a new (if not unexpected) catagory.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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If you knew a little more about politics, you'd be aware that my attitudes are perfectly middle-of-the-road in Europe and Australia. You'd like them to be totally wrong, but your only evidence for this is that you don't like them.

Totally bizarre. But you have still managed to invent it, and will shortly be criticising me for expecting you to believe facts adduced without supporting evidence.

It isn't a political alliance, merely you taking Jim at his own evaluation as an admirable expert, and expressing solidarity with him in the hope that some of the prestge that he thinks attaches to his creations will rub off on you. Jim poses as an alpha-male, and you are acting as one of his camp-followers.

Why do you think I call him Jim-out-of-touch-with-reality-Thompson?

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

More on it:

-- amazing that people manage to pull off this sort of scam; the guy presently going to jail probably won't get more than few years, and perhaps figures it's worth it for the tens of millions of dollars he's made

---Joel

BTW, you might need a GOOD microscope, too!

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Greed is the root of all eBay.

BS > Why do you think I call him Jim-out BS > -of-touch-with-reality-Thompson? BS > Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Sloman, In the USA you would be considered to be "kook left" even by the mainstream left.

I am not entirely convinced that you are not one of our US kook misfits who is so disaffected that they wish they lived near Amsterdam.

Many of our US pot smoking burnout misfits dream of living in or near the drug Mecca of Amsterdam.

I still wonder if you're not just one of those kooks claiming your fantasy on-line. (Possibly using a remailer located there)

Your past intense excitement regarding US HEALTH CARE seemed to support this nagging suspicion.

Your animus toward Jim also fits this outside hypothesis. Such disaffected misfits generally resent all other views and WISH that they could elevate the popularity of their own.

Coincidentally, Ultraliberals within the US seem to have severely overestimated the popularity of their proposals.

US citizens have TRILLIONS of indications as to which views are "out-of-touch-with-reality" and the backlash is only beginning.

It seems that the Fabian Society and their "gradual socialism" might have hit a snag.

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Being bereft of humor, you obviously missed the humorous reference being
applied to the incongruity of stealing power from the power company, not
to the method and the fallacy surrounding it.

As a matter of fact, when I asked him if he knew why it would be
impossible to steal it that way, he responded with an answer pertaining
to the legality of it, not to the physics involved, which you were also
in the dark about, cheater.

JF

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You, being bereft of humor, wouldn't, but of course I would, since it's
funny and it brands you with those qualities which you find least
desirable, obsolescence and lack of viability.

His actual answer

"Because the federales would get you?"

doesn't strike me as being a serious response about the legality of the action, but rather as a continuation of the joke.

In fact you were in enough doubt about physics involved to set up your fatuous "experiment".

Once again you have been projecting your own inadequacies, trying to conceal the fact that you made a fool of yourself by claiming that someone else - me in this instance - had revealed a comparable lack of insight, and presenting your own fumbling around as if it was some kind of lecture demonstration.

It's funny, but irritating.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Well, not quite equally as brilliant since it took a lot less time to
buzz out a mile-long cable using my widget than it did with two guys
buzzing out the cable using two walkie-talkies, a continuity tester, and
a short.

And much, much, less time if one of the guys was color blind.

The US academics that my wife and I socilaise with from time to time would presumably be close to your idea of US mainstream left, and they don't seem to regard me as any kind of kook.

Nijmegen is about as far from Amsterdam as you can get in the Netherlands - have a look at a map sometime - and while we do have contact with American expatriates, they are all successful and respectable academics who don't seem to be in the least interested in taking advantage of the local "coffee shops" where you can buy and consume canabis, if you fancy it.

No. I'm an Australian. I was exposed to canabis when I was much younger, and it never did anything for me except to make me feel distinctly lethargic the following morning, so I was never tempted to repeat the experience.

It's not excitement about US health care per se, but irritation at the fatuous nonensense that out right-wing nitwits post on the subject. Listening to them you'd never know that US heath care costs half as much again per head as the most expensive of the other national systems while failing to deliver universal health care or competitive national average life expectancies or perinatal mortality.

I don't resent Jim's views. I just think that they a largely disconnected from reality and driven by particularly peurile ideological prejudice.

Or under-estimated the capacity of the US health insurance industry to fund geurilla propaganda aimed at preserving their grotesque extravagances.

The Democrats have been slow to recognise the nature of the US health nsurance industy response, but they too have their own propagandists - as you say, the backlash is only just beginning, though I doubt if you meant the backlash agains the lying propaganda.

The people who think they own your country are fighting a vigorous rear-guard action against more nearly universal health care. Whether their efforts are potent enough to constitute "a snag" remains to be seen.

The employing class in the US has a long history of getting away with spending less than their European equivalents on keeping their working class healthy and educated, but it costs them - appreciable chunks of the US "working class" aren't healthy enough or educated enough to be much use as workers.

This has been fine for as long as you have been able to export the work to China, but this hasn't done a thing for your long-standing negative trade balance.

One euro now buys $1.40716. A few years ago, it wouldn't buy a single dollar. Despite this substantial devaluation, you are still running pretty much the same huge trade deficit.

It may be too early to start talking about failed states, but your current situation isn't sustainable.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Unless you are aware of the implications presented to the remainder of the system, you cannot state what outcome any given methodology would incur.

Different methods pose differing issues with the continued use of the conductor for its originally prescribed utility.

It isn't about bandwidth.

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You're an idiot. That item has nothing to do with what I make.

Every bird, boat, ship, and ground station relies on my hardware, and will for the next 30 years. If the world shifts by then, so will the hardware, but for now, that is what every allied force in the world uses.

Said the idiot that cannot even spell the word "category".

Let google be your spell checker, SloTard. TRY to type "catagory" into google, and it will suggest the right spelling and your idiocy level to you.

On the reality side of things, I did make a high precision HV supply for a *proper* bomb and drug sniffer maker at one time, some years back (6-7).