As a teenage ham radio operator, I took the Motorola microprocessor course at Chapman college in 1978 because the teacher was my friend, N5BO. I learned how to code in 6800 machine language and, eventually also assembler. Fast forward to high school's PDP-11/45 and then afterwards, the PDP-11/44 at the Weisman Institute in Rehovot, Israel for the summer and Los Alamos National Laboratory's photochemistry division's Data General Iron.
The trick was that back then the state of the art of computer programming was so rudimentary that anybody could learn. On top of that, since computers were all designed by electrical engineering majors, all the documentation was written by and for people with such an education and I, having been a ham radio operator since age 13 was one of them, it was very comfortable sliding into programing.
Nobody got hurt. If the commercial aircraft had been damaged, they didn't admit it. You would think that with the degree to which they're desperately trying to control all drone flights, they'd want to boast about any possible extent to which the plane was damaged, so I assume it wasn't. No problem. The entire thing is completely blown out of all proportion.
The fact is, even a giant DJI Phantom Pro 3 or 4 is no larger nor any more dangerous than a large bird of pray and those are regularly sucked through jet engines for the entire time such technology has existed. And yet we don't hear about any mitigation efforts. Why? Because there is NO DANGER.
What there probably IS a danger of on the other hand, is that many sociopathic monsters in government and business continue to want to show their ugly faces in public, even as they are proven to behave as the monsters they are in their public policy decisions and they are probably justifiably worried that one of these days, one of the millions of people they are actively hurting with their greedy decision making will get angry enough to fly a drone up their big noses with explosives to express their discontent. THAT's why we're getting all these dumb drone rules here in the USA. Not because they're actually dangerous to any normal people.
WRONG! I'm legally blind and I can't wait to be able to get into a driverless car with my seeing eye dog and cruise to the store at 25 mph instead of spending 3 hours walking there! Just $30k?! Shuddup and take my money!
There are millions of old people who can be put into them when they can't see the DMV eye test anymore, too.
Begin-Stupid-Rant I really hate it when a person writes about themselves in the first person plural. For some reason, it just irritates me. How many of you [the poster] are there? If only one, please write like it. It feels like you rubbed my fur the wrong way when you wrote that. End-Stupid-Rant
Now they'll have more opportunities to stage events designed to freighten congress into giving more budget to this fake "cyberwarfare" stuff they're hawking.
Yet Another False Flag operation. Has everyone seen the newly leaked emails alleging that the United States is actually responsible for the chemical weapons attack precisely to justify this invasion? See this and this and this and this and this and this and this.
Now that everyone knows that the NSA is (and apparently, has for some time been) wiretapping every phone on the country, I guess this is how lobbyists and legislators and business persons intend to communicate privately with one another.
The fact that they've already been lying about this, that they've expressed specific interest in prosecuting the whistleblower and that they are now saying it's completely innocent totally ruins their creditability. The notion that this capability exists and yet is not used unscrupulously strains credulity. Does anybody believe that -even if the NSA itself only uses this data responsibly- its use will remain responsible given the kind of psychopathic crap coming out of washington these days?
Just as Obama assures us that "during his administration" Americans won't be indefinitely detained under the NDAA, obviously, whoever forced him to sign that law and request that section be placed into it in the first place anticipates it being used in the (near?) future. This person or group obviously is also responsible for the legally questionable practices outlined here and I don't believe for a second that the expected use has anything whatsoever to do with a so-called fantasy "war on terror". Clearly, those responsible for these policies are preparing to violently take over this country and enslave or kill many of its inhabitants. It is the only logical conclusion from their actions.
If I understand correctly, this whole episode began because a local politician visited you in your home and he had the expectation (for whatever reason) that you would pay him USD $30,000 as some kind of protection money for his campaign and your expectation was that politicians are supposed to work for people and not the other way around. Is this a reasonable characterization? If so, how do you think such a large missmatch in expectations came about? Do you think you were overly naive? Or is the political environment in Belize changing? I can easily believe that this might be the normal expected way that people do business down there based on other things I've heard, but I really have no idea. Now that you've had time to reflect, what would you say was responsible for the conflict in the first place?
Since the people of the Palestinian Territories have been given camcorders to record atrocities committed by the Israeli Defense Forces, perhaps this is really aimed at preventing dissemination of videos of Israelis shooting at unarmed Palestinians (including children).
Or maybe the video from the Afghan Wedding Massacre was the catalyst? Just a thought.
"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath,
no man manages his affairs as well as a tree." - George Bernard Shaw
Well, obviously, the White House ordered these attacks. They've been trying to delay the opening of the Iranian Oil Bourse for years and now that it is finally almost here, and their plans to invade Iran are dwindling, this is all they can do. And sadly, I'm sure it will work, too. That's how they prop up the US Dollar -- For the past 50 years, there have been only 2places in the entire world where one can legally buy oil and both require US Dollars. Now, that will remain the case for another year. Of course, Russia is working on it, too as well as Venezuela, but they're a long way off and lots can go wrong between now and then. Maybe another military invasion?:o(
1. A physical device that you own because you bought it AND 2. A set of software whose license you have agreed to abide by (during setup) AND 3. A 'handset' or device which is attached to an international wireless carrier's network, for which you clicked an ADDITIONAL license agreement.
While it is true that if you bought it, you own it, that speaks nothing about whether AT&T (or anybody else) will allow it to work on their network, hacked or otherwise.
While it is true that you could argue that the merchandiseability laws make the software EULA provisions preventing you from hacking for use with alternate carriers null and void (DMCA exemption), that does not imply that those carriers will accept on their service a device which does not conform to some specific specifications required for public wireless connections, as must exist in some countries. This, of course, will also be null and void if the device has been modified from its original configuration.
I -perhaps foolishly- assume that officials at Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia Systems are NOT IDIOTS. (Criminals, perhaps, but not idiots).
That they succeeded in lobbying to get legislation making it ILLEGAL for you and I to even LOOK AT the source code practically SCREAMS to me that they INTEND MALFEASANCE.
That they even ARGUED with us, let alone that we had to FIGHT for a paper ballot (and didn't even win in most jurisdictions) should tell us that these people KNOW THEY ARE IN STEAL ELECTIONS.
There is NO WAY an intelligent official at any of these companies can't know that all the work they have done and CONTINUE TO DO to PREVENT these machines from being completely OPEN to scrutiny makes a PERFECTLY OBVIOUS circumstantial case that they want to hack elections.
So -to me- they have proven themselves to be either CORRUPT CRIMINALS or COMPLETE IDIOTS. I don't know which.
..also, I'd love to get into
(1) J2ME/MIDP development on Mac OS X
(2) hardware modifications to mobile phones (simple mods! Like hooking up a digital voice recorder to a small microcontroller and a phone to make it automatically call me. or hooking up an RS-2332 GPS to a phone to make a portable location transponder. The trouble is (and the reason we'd need a magazine) the companies that supply this stuff won't just give it out to mere persons like me. Hopefully the magazine can get through that first tough layer of salesworms so we can actually get interesting chips and prototyping boards like in the olden days before DirectTV starting suing anybody who owned a souldering iron.
Because I'm mostly blind, I'm very picky about clutter in my space. So my bedroom and computer room conventionally have lots of free space and beautiful empty surfaces.
This is achieved by the procurement of multiple drawer wooden Lingerie Cabinets. These are tall stately looking affairs with lots of medium sized wooden drawers (to avoid unwanted extra magnetism) stacked up as tall as me.
I assign each drawer to a particular variety of item and all of its associated cables, adapters and gizmos. For me, that means these are the drawers:
GPS receivers
GMS Mobile phone and stuff
CDMA moible phone and stuff
Digital still camera and associated stuff
Digital Camcorder and associated stuff
VHF/UHF portable Ham Radio gear
UHF GFRS portables
HF CW portable Ham Radio gear
Titanium Powerbook and extra batteries and Wifi stuff
IPod and adapters and cables
USB Cables and Ethernet cables
Serial Cables and breakout boxes
(Never used anymore- I should get rid of these!)
Extra wireless video cameras not currently in use 'n stuff
Portable CD Player and portable cassette player
(Never used anymore- I should get rid of these!)
On the top of each cabinet are a bunch of battery chargers with batteries always trickle-charging or being swapped around regularly. Yea, I know they'll last longer if I keep'em empty, but I want to be able to use the stuff, eh?
Since we already have idiotic drug seizure laws in the USA, why not apply the same principal? If you catch someone spamming, you get to take a certain percentage of their assets for yourself! That'd stop those damn spammers! Send Spam; Go broke! A bit harsh, but it works for me. I don't want to waste any more time or taxpayer's money on these slime.
Clearly, they have now learned enough of the horrors of so called, "Business Process Patents" that now they are patenting idiotic business practices which they never intend to implement as a public service so no other sleazy company can do so, thus saving us all therefrom.
I suppose I could be missremembering, but don't these services share the same spectrum as WIFI? I seem to recall some talk a few months back that WIFI would have to go to make room for Satelitte Radio. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but if that's the case, I hope they all die fast. P2P wireless internet is a much higher social priority in my book.
If you get either an iMac or a G4 Cube or a Powerbook, you can run MacOS X which comes with full FreeBSD stuff. Not quite ready for prime time, but depending on your needs (Java, TCL, Perl?) it might work just fine and is perfectly quiet.
Okay. Flame away!
That telephone number didn't work for me. Try calling the main office and ask (politely!) for their "Public Affairs Department".
from here, I found
Main Office Address:
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
Motion Picture Association (MPA)
15503 Ventura Blvd.
Encino, California 91436
(818) 995-6600
Slashdot Mirror
Then what would be the incentive to discover them in the first place?
As a teenage ham radio operator, I took the Motorola microprocessor course at Chapman college in 1978 because the teacher was my friend, N5BO. I learned how to code in 6800 machine language and, eventually also assembler. Fast forward to high school's PDP-11/45 and then afterwards, the PDP-11/44 at the Weisman Institute in Rehovot, Israel for the summer and Los Alamos National Laboratory's photochemistry division's Data General Iron.
The trick was that back then the state of the art of computer programming was so rudimentary that anybody could learn. On top of that, since computers were all designed by electrical engineering majors, all the documentation was written by and for people with such an education and I, having been a ham radio operator since age 13 was one of them, it was very comfortable sliding into programing.
Nobody got hurt. If the commercial aircraft had been damaged, they didn't admit it. You would think that with the degree to which they're desperately trying to control all drone flights, they'd want to boast about any possible extent to which the plane was damaged, so I assume it wasn't. No problem. The entire thing is completely blown out of all proportion.
The fact is, even a giant DJI Phantom Pro 3 or 4 is no larger nor any more dangerous than a large bird of pray and those are regularly sucked through jet engines for the entire time such technology has existed. And yet we don't hear about any mitigation efforts. Why? Because there is NO DANGER.
What there probably IS a danger of on the other hand, is that many sociopathic monsters in government and business continue to want to show their ugly faces in public, even as they are proven to behave as the monsters they are in their public policy decisions and they are probably justifiably worried that one of these days, one of the millions of people they are actively hurting with their greedy decision making will get angry enough to fly a drone up their big noses with explosives to express their discontent. THAT's why we're getting all these dumb drone rules here in the USA. Not because they're actually dangerous to any normal people.
> it's a product without customers
WRONG! I'm legally blind and I can't wait to be able to get into a driverless car with my seeing eye dog and cruise to the store at 25 mph instead of spending 3 hours walking there! Just $30k?! Shuddup and take my money!
There are millions of old people who can be put into them when they can't see the DMV eye test anymore, too.
Begin-Stupid-Rant
I really hate it when a person writes about themselves in the first person plural. For some reason, it just irritates me. How many of you [the poster] are there? If only one, please write like it. It feels like you rubbed my fur the wrong way when you wrote that.
End-Stupid-Rant
Now they'll have more opportunities to stage events designed to freighten congress into giving more budget to this fake "cyberwarfare" stuff they're hawking.
Yet Another False Flag operation. Has everyone seen the newly leaked emails alleging that the United States is actually responsible for the chemical weapons attack precisely to justify this invasion? See this and this and this and this and this and this and this.
Now that everyone knows that the NSA is (and apparently, has for some time been) wiretapping every phone on the country, I guess this is how lobbyists and legislators and business persons intend to communicate privately with one another.
They were probably just broke and got solicited by undercover FBI goons to make a "terrorist" plot.
The fact that they've already been lying about this, that they've expressed specific interest in prosecuting the whistleblower and that they are now saying it's completely innocent totally ruins their creditability. The notion that this capability exists and yet is not used unscrupulously strains credulity. Does anybody believe that -even if the NSA itself only uses this data responsibly- its use will remain responsible given the kind of psychopathic crap coming out of washington these days?
Just as Obama assures us that "during his administration" Americans won't be indefinitely detained under the NDAA, obviously, whoever forced him to sign that law and request that section be placed into it in the first place anticipates it being used in the (near?) future. This person or group obviously is also responsible for the legally questionable practices outlined here and I don't believe for a second that the expected use has anything whatsoever to do with a so-called fantasy "war on terror". Clearly, those responsible for these policies are preparing to violently take over this country and enslave or kill many of its inhabitants. It is the only logical conclusion from their actions.
If I understand correctly, this whole episode began because a local politician visited you in your home and he had the expectation (for whatever reason) that you would pay him USD $30,000 as some kind of protection money for his campaign and your expectation was that politicians are supposed to work for people and not the other way around. Is this a reasonable characterization? If so, how do you think such a large missmatch in expectations came about? Do you think you were overly naive? Or is the political environment in Belize changing? I can easily believe that this might be the normal expected way that people do business down there based on other things I've heard, but I really have no idea. Now that you've had time to reflect, what would you say was responsible for the conflict in the first place?
Since the people of the Palestinian Territories have been given camcorders to record atrocities committed by the Israeli Defense Forces, perhaps this is really aimed at preventing dissemination of videos of Israelis shooting at unarmed Palestinians (including children).
Or maybe the video from the Afghan Wedding Massacre was the catalyst? Just a thought.
"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath,
no man manages his affairs as well as a tree." - George Bernard Shaw
Well, obviously, the White House ordered these attacks. They've been trying to delay the opening of the Iranian Oil Bourse for years and now that it is finally almost here, and their plans to invade Iran are dwindling, this is all they can do. And sadly, I'm sure it will work, too. That's how they prop up the US Dollar -- For the past 50 years, there have been only 2 places in the entire world where one can legally buy oil and both require US Dollars. Now, that will remain the case for another year. Of course, Russia is working on it, too as well as Venezuela, but they're a long way off and lots can go wrong between now and then. Maybe another military invasion? :o(
Here is the problem:
The iPhone is THREE things:
1. A physical device that you own because you bought it AND
2. A set of software whose license you have agreed to abide by (during setup) AND
3. A 'handset' or device which is attached to an international wireless carrier's network, for which you clicked an ADDITIONAL license agreement.
While it is true that if you bought it, you own it, that speaks nothing about whether AT&T (or anybody else) will allow it to work on their network, hacked or otherwise.
While it is true that you could argue that the merchandiseability laws make the software EULA provisions preventing you from hacking for use with alternate carriers null and void (DMCA exemption), that does not imply that those carriers will accept on their service a device which does not conform to some specific specifications required for public wireless connections, as must exist in some countries. This, of course, will also be null and void if the device has been modified from its original configuration.
So, no - it is still murky.
EXACTLY.
I -perhaps foolishly- assume that officials at Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia Systems are NOT IDIOTS. (Criminals, perhaps, but not idiots).
That they succeeded in lobbying to get legislation making it ILLEGAL for you and I to even LOOK AT the source code practically SCREAMS to me that they INTEND MALFEASANCE .
That they even ARGUED with us, let alone that we had to FIGHT for a paper ballot (and didn't even win in most jurisdictions) should tell us that these people KNOW THEY ARE IN STEAL ELECTIONS.
There is NO WAY an intelligent official at any of these companies can't know that all the work they have done and CONTINUE TO DO to PREVENT these machines from being completely OPEN to scrutiny makes a PERFECTLY OBVIOUS circumstantial case that they want to hack elections.
So -to me- they have proven themselves to be either CORRUPT CRIMINALS or COMPLETE IDIOTS. I don't know which.
..also, I'd love to get into
(1) J2ME/MIDP development on Mac OS X
(2) hardware modifications to mobile phones (simple mods! Like hooking up a digital voice recorder to a small microcontroller and a phone to make it automatically call me. or hooking up an RS-2332 GPS to a phone to make a portable location transponder. The trouble is (and the reason we'd need a magazine) the companies that supply this stuff won't just give it out to mere persons like me. Hopefully the magazine can get through that first tough layer of salesworms so we can actually get interesting chips and prototyping boards like in the olden days before DirectTV starting suing anybody who owned a souldering iron.
Shouldn't Michael Jackson charge them for his picture?
Because I'm mostly blind, I'm very picky about clutter in my space. So my bedroom and computer room conventionally have lots of free space and beautiful empty surfaces.
This is achieved by the procurement of multiple drawer wooden Lingerie Cabinets. These are tall stately looking affairs with lots of medium sized wooden drawers (to avoid unwanted extra magnetism) stacked up as tall as me.
I assign each drawer to a particular variety of item and all of its associated cables, adapters and gizmos. For me, that means these are the drawers:
On the top of each cabinet are a bunch of battery chargers with batteries always trickle-charging or being swapped around regularly. Yea, I know they'll last longer if I keep'em empty, but I want to be able to use the stuff, eh?
Actually, I think it is much more likely that they are trying to keep the filthy stinking RIAA off their backs.
Since we already have idiotic drug seizure laws in the USA, why not apply the same principal? If you catch someone spamming, you get to take a certain percentage of their assets for yourself! That'd stop those damn spammers! Send Spam; Go broke! A bit harsh, but it works for me. I don't want to waste any more time or taxpayer's money on these slime.
Clearly, they have now learned enough of the horrors of so called, "Business Process Patents" that now they are patenting idiotic business practices which they never intend to implement as a public service so no other sleazy company can do so, thus saving us all therefrom.
..right?
er..
I suppose I could be missremembering, but don't these services share the same spectrum as WIFI? I seem to recall some talk a few months back that WIFI would have to go to make room for Satelitte Radio. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but if that's the case, I hope they all die fast. P2P wireless internet is a much higher social priority in my book.
Perhaps a new word can wend it's way into our collective vocabularies? :o)
If you get either an iMac or a G4 Cube or a Powerbook, you can run MacOS X which comes with full FreeBSD stuff. Not quite ready for prime time, but depending on your needs (Java, TCL, Perl?) it might work just fine and is perfectly quiet. Okay. Flame away!
That telephone number didn't work for me. Try calling the main office and ask (politely!) for their "Public Affairs Department". from here, I found Main Office Address: Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Motion Picture Association (MPA) 15503 Ventura Blvd. Encino, California 91436 (818) 995-6600