That doesn't require anything special from the dongle. If the radio station in question is using RDS, it may not even require a query to a remote service. Either way it's a software issue for the host PC, not the dongle.
Assuming this has a 20mm diameter turbine, at 500KRPM it will have an angular velocity of 130 meters/second at the outside edge. While this is enough velocity to put your eye out if it was too close to a turbine disintegration, it would be trivially easy to make a suitable scatter shield.
A business could fund unbiased research in the hope of being able to gain some insight into the most profitable direction for them to go. Unfortunately, nobody seems to have that much forsight these days. No matter how much you spin things, eventually reality will have its way with you (but most people just figure that it will be their succesor's problem).
Also, the square-cube law is seriously working in favor of these tiny things. I doubt that they are being stressed to anywhere near the point of disinegration.
Well according to another article the turbine is 4mm in diameter, so google says.5 * 4mm * pi * 20000 is about 125.6 meters. 125 meters per second is about the velocity of a low end bb gun. Given my adolecent expirimentation in terminal ballistics, a similar low end bb gun will barely penetrate both sides of a soda can. It should be a simple matter to provide the engine with a scatter shield stronger than a soda can.
If true, that's some mind bending logic. Shouldn't Alaskans want better than to simply reduce their tax deficit? Who cares if you have less money flowing out of the state if it's just going to be spent on something stupid?
I'd rather just pay less taxes. It would benefit me lot more than a silly numbers game.
Sure. You can't get around human nature, there will always be a few bad apples. But you can avoid having the local mafia claiming they have the right to force you to pay protection money or imprison you.
I didn't mean 'eventualy' in the sense of someone who had been previously wronged getting revenge on the bully. I meant that if someone persists in initating force against people, sooner or later they will try it with someone who isn't going to roll over for them.
Yeah, I know. I just can't let it go when someone tries to manipulate a debate by redfining the terms instead of using the strength of their arguments.
No, but you do need it if you don't wan't to eventually have your ass handed to you by people who don't appreciate bullies. I guess that'll happen sooner or later even if you do have authority.
Talk about sloppy thinking. Anarchy and society are not mutually exclusive. It doesn't mean that people are no longer constrained by their own moral, ethics, or drive toward self preservation. It doesn't mean that people are no longer able to form voluntary contracts or cooperative groups.
It doesn't mean there are no rules.
It means there is no one with the 'authority' to initiate force against anyone. It means no coercion without consent.
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How would the ability to record have anything to do with the dongle's firmware? The dongle just streams the audio data to the PC, where it's recorded.
Not to mention that the right to record broadcasts has been pretty well established in court.
That doesn't require anything special from the dongle. If the radio station in question is using RDS, it may not even require a query to a remote service. Either way it's a software issue for the host PC, not the dongle.
This works without an internet connection.
This works with radio stations that don't webcast.
That thing is huge.
came in to work and gave us one of these a couple months ago.
MAD Magazine scooped the Onion by 25 years.. jpg
http://www.craphound.com/images/madprescientrazor
I don't know which wikipedia article you read but this one says a standard velocity .22 long rifle load is has a 2.6 gram bullet @ 330 m/s. The website of a popluar manufacturer of .22 long rifle ammunition bears out these numbers.
I seriously doubt that any turbine fragment in this scenario would mass that much or have a density anywhere near that of lead.
In the interest of full disclosure I found an error in my math. The angular velocity on a 20mm turbine @ 500KRPM should be 260 m/s.
Assuming this has a 20mm diameter turbine, at 500KRPM it will have an angular velocity of 130 meters/second at the outside edge. While this is enough velocity to put your eye out if it was too close to a turbine disintegration, it would be trivially easy to make a suitable scatter shield.
A business could fund unbiased research in the hope of being able to gain some insight into the most profitable direction for them to go. Unfortunately, nobody seems to have that much forsight these days.
No matter how much you spin things, eventually reality will have its way with you (but most people just figure that it will be their succesor's problem).
I don't know were you got this idea but it is wrong.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FSWithNF
That's the combination to my luggage!
On the other hand this has an angular velocity only 1/10th of a large scale gas turbine and has square-cube law working in it's favor for strength.
Also, the square-cube law is seriously working in favor of these tiny things. I doubt that they are being stressed to anywhere near the point of disinegration.
Are they still handing out little bottles of ethanol on flights?
Well according to another article the turbine is 4mm in diameter, so google says .5 * 4mm * pi * 20000 is about 125.6 meters. 125 meters per second is about the velocity of a low end bb gun. Given my adolecent expirimentation in terminal ballistics, a similar low end bb gun will barely penetrate both sides of a soda can. It should be a simple matter to provide the engine with a scatter shield stronger than a soda can.
Well it's all there for you - get to work.
Mine seems pretty accurate, as long as I ask for the square root of 1,4,9,16,25,36,49, etc...
If true, that's some mind bending logic. Shouldn't Alaskans want better than to simply reduce their tax deficit? Who cares if you have less money flowing out of the state if it's just going to be spent on something stupid?
I'd rather just pay less taxes. It would benefit me lot more than a silly numbers game.
Sure. You can't get around human nature, there will always be a few bad apples. But you can avoid having the local mafia claiming they have the right to force you to pay protection money or imprison you.
I didn't mean 'eventualy' in the sense of someone who had been previously wronged getting revenge on the bully. I meant that if someone persists in initating force against people, sooner or later they will try it with someone who isn't going to roll over for them.
The natural right to self defense.
Yeah, I know. I just can't let it go when someone tries to manipulate a debate by redfining the terms instead of using the strength of their arguments.
No, but you do need it if you don't wan't to eventually have your ass handed to you by people who don't appreciate bullies. I guess that'll happen sooner or later even if you do have authority.
Talk about sloppy thinking. Anarchy and society are not mutually exclusive. It doesn't mean that people are no longer constrained by their own moral, ethics, or drive toward self preservation. It doesn't mean that people are no longer able to form voluntary contracts or cooperative groups.
It doesn't mean there are no rules.
It means there is no one with the 'authority' to initiate force against anyone. It means no coercion without consent.
People this bent on controling the actions of others aren't likely to be anarchists.
And remember people, anarchy!=chaos or disorder.