This is simply not true. 1700 to 4700 birds die in the windmill farm in Alameda County near the Altamont Pass. Now, that's a ridiculously vague number, there are hundreds of windmills at that site, and it includes electrocutions, but that is not "infrequently". Enough that NIMBY ecos and politicans have placed a moratorium on commerical wind power in the county.
The state of the art is to make the windmills as large as possible - huge windmills turn more slowly and have economies of scale. Lot sof the Altamont windmills are small and turn quite fast.
> Any signal can be jammed with a sufficiently large/near transmitter.
There used to be a power pole near my house throwing out so much RF that my GPS would not work within 20 or 30 feet of it. That's an impressive amount of noise to show up at GPS frequencies. Although I have not been back to check on it, if it's still broken I'm confident the power pole will eventually catch on fire so PG&E will know to come out and fix it.
As far as I know, I still have to take my ATM card into the bank to change the PIN on it. So something is still encoded on the card, whether it's the PIN itself or another factor used in addition to the PIN to authenticate me.
Assuming I still have to take my card in to change the PIN (I can't seem to find a place to do it online), this could serve as a 2nd line against a server hack. Hopefully.
The Kindle is 600x800 at 167 ppi, that's less than a fax, and you have no control over the font pitch as far as I can tell, so its effective resolution seems much less. I'd guess even a badly printed paperback is at least 300 dpi.
I'm not griping too much, the technology will be available soon. I'm more disinclined to buy a Kindle because of the DRM instead of the display quality.
I've looked over the shoulders of a few people with Kindles on the subway and the screen is just too small for me. I'd rather take the pixels from a dual display and cram them all on a single, continuously-scrollable one.
You mean you boss isn't in your "delete" filter? What kind of BOFH are you anyway?
It really doesn't matter whether the WH read the email anyway. There are two kinds of rules in the Executive - the kind the Preident has to approve and the kind he doesn't. So if this was the kind he had to approve, it's just the equivalent of stiking your fingers in your ears and going "la! la! LA! LA! I can't hear you!" BFD.
Although much of the Mediawiki software is a hideous twitching blob of PHP Hell, the base functionality is fairly simple and run perpetually and scale massively as long as you don't mess with it.
What spoils a lot of projects like this is the constant need for customization. Wikimedia essentially can't be customized (except for plugins obviously, which you install at your own peril) and that is a big reason why it scales so massively.
As for Wikipedia itself, I suspect it is massively weighted in favor of reads. That simplifies circumstances a lot.
There are no crappy jobs in France. If you don't like your work, or your boss, etc, just stop working! I don't think you can get fired for that over there.
In QST, the ARRL's monthly magazine, there is a monthly column explaining the basics of circuits. QST has gradually been simplified over the years to the point where it is an excellent resource for beginners, and the topics cover a lot more than radio.
Make magazine and their website have dozens of resources, etc, etc, etc.
Dozens of shade tree circuit designers sell their wares as kits on the web. There is a kit to do just about anything. Most are designed around PIC, AVR, etc type microcontrollers. Once you kit up with a dev kit for one of those technologies, you can do just about anything.
If you are looking for nicely packaged kits, you're kind of on your own. My projects tend to live in cast off cardboard boxes for a while until the right enclosure comes along. The packaging is always the hard part.
If you sshd is configured stoutly, all this is dependent on the departed coworker spoofing an IP address, which is fairly unlikely. I'm not really losing sleep over their possessing ssh keys as much as I am them installing a back door on one of the myriad hosts they had access to.
Yes, usually it is just easier to hire a hit man to kill the sysadmin. However, it's not legal in ultra-liberal states like California and Massachusetts.
My guess is they will integrate whatever comes after Profiles to address two other limitations that people I know complain about much more:
- 500 limit on your queue - When your queue does get big, it takes forever to load.
I'm also lobbying for an "Autopilot" feature I can turn on and off that will automatically send me recommended movies so I don't have to pick movies unless I want to.
I've ordered equipment I didn't like and had to replace. The ISS doesn't really have such extraordinary environmental requirements as much as the price up screwing up is so much higher. At about $10K per pound, that's about 2000X as expensive as UPS for "shipping and handling".
What they originally proposed for aircraft was the ability to take over and fly it from the ground. It's done all the time with military and civilian drones and remotely piloted vehicles. Most RPVs in Iraq are driven from here in the US.
Of course they catch the RPVs in a big net when they land. But most new airliners can basically land themselves once established on an approach.
Banks records, meh. Simpleminded knee jerk cynicism is not necessary. A casual examination of his disappointing record as a toady for the Bush administration is all that is necessary. He used to think on his own, but now he has to get elected.
I volunteer as a race official at some bike and running races. One of the guys who does the chip timing for some of these races still uses them as data loggers. He has a whole trunk full of spares he picks up at garage sales.
Seem pretty obvious to me. Of course if you are making substantial progress on this, you're going to get something a little more difficult to ridicule than a cease and desist letter from some lawyers.
Paranoid nonsense. There isn't a single signal or modulation that software radio can do that can't be generated by a legal "conventional" radio (that may not be cheap). A software radio just makes it easier to make a radio that can mimic all those modulation schemes previously "hardcoded" in each individual model of radio.
Yes, it's slightly easier to crack cell phone calls, but that is not legal regardless of what kind of radio you use.
It's easier to write your own codecs, and to implement freeware versions of codecs encoded in proprietary chips. That's a big win, plus or minus the usual copyright issues. Some codecs are free, some aren't.
In the US, with Verizon, I get three times as many minutes now for the same rate I paid five or six years ago. So, my rates have gone down. I could lower the actual monthly bill by downgrading my plan, but I choose to make the same payment and use more minutes.
So your point is? Phone service should be free as in beer?
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With WiFi soon to be rolled out, and cheaters using their cell phones all the time anyway, why bother hiding a jammer in the cargo hold?
I'd run it off a laptop, sit in first class, and enjoy the fun!
This is simply not true. 1700 to 4700 birds die in the windmill farm in Alameda County near the Altamont Pass. Now, that's a ridiculously vague number, there are hundreds of windmills at that site, and it includes electrocutions, but that is not "infrequently". Enough that NIMBY ecos and politicans have placed a moratorium on commerical wind power in the county.
The state of the art is to make the windmills as large as possible - huge windmills turn more slowly and have economies of scale. Lot sof the Altamont windmills are small and turn quite fast.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20070111/ai_n17133835
> Any signal can be jammed with a sufficiently large/near transmitter.
There used to be a power pole near my house throwing out so much RF that my GPS would not work within 20 or 30 feet of it. That's an impressive amount of noise to show up at GPS frequencies. Although I have not been back to check on it, if it's still broken I'm confident the power pole will eventually catch on fire so PG&E will know to come out and fix it.
As far as I know, I still have to take my ATM card into the bank to change the PIN on it. So something is still encoded on the card, whether it's the PIN itself or another factor used in addition to the PIN to authenticate me.
Assuming I still have to take my card in to change the PIN (I can't seem to find a place to do it online), this could serve as a 2nd line against a server hack. Hopefully.
The Kindle is 600x800 at 167 ppi, that's less than a fax, and you have no control over the font pitch as far as I can tell, so its effective resolution seems much less. I'd guess even a badly printed paperback is at least 300 dpi.
I'm not griping too much, the technology will be available soon. I'm more disinclined to buy a Kindle because of the DRM instead of the display quality.
The quote the great George Carlin, "What do I care? I have a cell phone that makes pancakes!"
I've looked over the shoulders of a few people with Kindles on the subway and the screen is just too small for me. I'd rather take the pixels from a dual display and cram them all on a single, continuously-scrollable one.
You mean you boss isn't in your "delete" filter? What kind of BOFH are you anyway?
It really doesn't matter whether the WH read the email anyway. There are two kinds of rules in the Executive - the kind the Preident has to approve and the kind he doesn't. So if this was the kind he had to approve, it's just the equivalent of stiking your fingers in your ears and going "la! la! LA! LA! I can't hear you!" BFD.
Although much of the Mediawiki software is a hideous twitching blob of PHP Hell, the base functionality is fairly simple and run perpetually and scale massively as long as you don't mess with it.
What spoils a lot of projects like this is the constant need for customization. Wikimedia essentially can't be customized (except for plugins obviously, which you install at your own peril) and that is a big reason why it scales so massively.
As for Wikipedia itself, I suspect it is massively weighted in favor of reads. That simplifies circumstances a lot.
There are no crappy jobs in France. If you don't like your work, or your boss, etc, just stop working! I don't think you can get fired for that over there.
In QST, the ARRL's monthly magazine, there is a monthly column explaining the basics of circuits. QST has gradually been simplified over the years to the point where it is an excellent resource for beginners, and the topics cover a lot more than radio.
Make magazine and their website have dozens of resources, etc, etc, etc.
Dozens of shade tree circuit designers sell their wares as kits on the web. There is a kit to do just about anything. Most are designed around PIC, AVR, etc type microcontrollers. Once you kit up with a dev kit for one of those technologies, you can do just about anything.
If you are looking for nicely packaged kits, you're kind of on your own. My projects tend to live in cast off cardboard boxes for a while until the right enclosure comes along. The packaging is always the hard part.
If you sshd is configured stoutly, all this is dependent on the departed coworker spoofing an IP address, which is fairly unlikely. I'm not really losing sleep over their possessing ssh keys as much as I am them installing a back door on one of the myriad hosts they had access to.
Yes, usually it is just easier to hire a hit man to kill the sysadmin. However, it's not legal in ultra-liberal states like California and Massachusetts.
My guess is they will integrate whatever comes after Profiles to address two other limitations that people I know complain about much more:
- 500 limit on your queue
- When your queue does get big, it takes forever to load.
I'm also lobbying for an "Autopilot" feature I can turn on and off that will automatically send me recommended movies so I don't have to pick movies unless I want to.
I've ordered equipment I didn't like and had to replace. The ISS doesn't really have such extraordinary environmental requirements as much as the price up screwing up is so much higher. At about $10K per pound, that's about 2000X as expensive as UPS for "shipping and handling".
http://www.futron.com/pdf/resource_center/white_papers/FutronLaunchCostWP.pdf
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Instead of assuming "epic fail" your colleague could have just calibrated his probes AFTER he collected the data and all woudl have been well.
:-)
It's THAT kind of thinking I suspect TFA is bemoaning.
Obviously there are all kinds of reasons what he may not have been able to do that. But he could have at least tried
What they originally proposed for aircraft was the ability to take over and fly it from the ground. It's done all the time with military and civilian drones and remotely piloted vehicles. Most RPVs in Iraq are driven from here in the US.
Of course they catch the RPVs in a big net when they land. But most new airliners can basically land themselves once established on an approach.
Piece of cake.
Banks records, meh. Simpleminded knee jerk cynicism is not necessary. A casual examination of his disappointing record as a toady for the Bush administration is all that is necessary. He used to think on his own, but now he has to get elected.
That could never work. The Tower has to be infinitely high. Although I hear in some flat states they've tried to built it one story tall:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_341.html
I volunteer as a race official at some bike and running races. One of the guys who does the chip timing for some of these races still uses them as data loggers. He has a whole trunk full of spares he picks up at garage sales.
http://reactor1967.fortunecity.com/nuke.html
Seem pretty obvious to me. Of course if you are making substantial progress on this, you're going to get something a little more difficult to ridicule than a cease and desist letter from some lawyers.
Paranoid nonsense. There isn't a single signal or modulation that software radio can do that can't be generated by a legal "conventional" radio (that may not be cheap). A software radio just makes it easier to make a radio that can mimic all those modulation schemes previously "hardcoded" in each individual model of radio.
Yes, it's slightly easier to crack cell phone calls, but that is not legal regardless of what kind of radio you use.
It's easier to write your own codecs, and to implement freeware versions of codecs encoded in proprietary chips. That's a big win, plus or minus the usual copyright issues. Some codecs are free, some aren't.
No more animated GIFs and embedded sounds. All tabs and Flash.
I was surprised Weekly Standard was still around too..
In the US, with Verizon, I get three times as many minutes now for the same rate I paid five or six years ago. So, my rates have gone down. I could lower the actual monthly bill by downgrading my plan, but I choose to make the same payment and use more minutes.
So your point is? Phone service should be free as in beer?