no, it's a box the size of a walkman that runs off its own power supply - the string goes rig-amp-SWR meter-antenna in my setup. Without the amp the kit runs 6W and has a range of about 1200 yards. I think the firestick might be a bit duff tho...
(take it from someone who [still] owns a Cybernet Delta 1): the 934 rigs are notorious bleed boxes. Even with a 1.1 SWR (as close to perfect antenna balance as you'll ever get) you can bleed out over 600kHz each way with a 50W amp. The issue was that the equipment was overpowered and undercooled for what was being asked of it (30 miles on an average day?), the bleed induced by the linear amplifiers cooking themselves very quickly. With anything less than perfect SWR you'll bleed out even further into neighbouring bands.
FWIW, GSM900 was never widely adopted in the UK, distributors instead preferring GSM1800. The 934 crowd never got their bandwidth back to this day.
Thing is, GSM never even touched 934. GSM900 uses 890–915 MHz to send information from the mobile station to the base station (uplink) and 935–960 MHz for the other direction (downlink), providing 124 RF channels (channel numbers 1 to 124) spaced at 200 kHz. Duplex spacing of 45 MHz is used. Guard bands 100 kHz wide are placed at either end of the range of frequencies.
wonder if that's why the move is being made (albeit slowly and still with a lot of hoops to jump) to put certain prescription drugs, for example salbutamol 100 and co-codamol 12.8/500, over-the-counter?
In this way the NHS are offsetting the cost of such drugs by forcing patients who find themselves in some kind of emergency (out and about and lost his/her inhaler?) to pony up the cash for a replacement - as you can't whip out an exemption certificate and get them. Been there, worn the T-shirt.
yes, I pulled a number out of my arse, but you get the point I was trying to make (such as evidenced by your complete lack of an attempt to argue against the rest of my post. Thank you).
*s/state/private contractor on behalf of one or more utility companies.
**+and there's no recourse to get it removed and a standard meter put in because it's deemed "progress". And anything which "progresses" energy delivery and monitoring can be nothing else but a good thing. Right?
apart from the fact that they use the obsoleted GSM900 bandwidth (channels, even) to build their mesh network via neighbourhood hubs and landlines, that said wireless links are two way, which means that not only is information passed back and forth between meters and hubs, so are instructions (such as kill switch). This presents a problem as anyone with a 934MHz transceiver (rare in the UK since they're now illegal to operate, have been since the block was reallocated to GSM) can simply key on CH1 and potentially kill grid power to any property so equipped, for miles, as the strength of the signal will overwhelm the meter... for those with access to a 934, try keying CH1 next to a GSM900 cellphone.
the Principality of Sealand, I think he means. This is a manmade structure 7nm off the coast of Suffolk which has been privately occupied pretty much since it was abandoned by the British military (it was originally an early warning station and anti-aircraft platform).
Digital throttle, all controls within reach without having to let go of the stick. OK, it's only 3 buttons aside from the throttle, but hey, if you want uber stickage, then you'd have to let go of the stick for throttle and six programmable buttons, on top of the eight way hat and six more buttons on the stick on a Cyborg Evo. Still probably the best budget stick there is, tho.
There again, there's the gear with the foot pedals. I've seen pedals with pressure sensitive multiswitching, as well as reverse switching, sticks with side throttles (great for pro flight sims), I've even got a convertible steering wheel/flight yoke that comes with... a 4-button stick and three pedals... stuff so complicated you could map keystrokes and never touch the keyboard again.
that's only 268 million tries (assuming 28-bit entropy). Entirely possible with only one Pentium-class core. In fact, my forensic box, for several years, was a Pentium Pro with two processors - huge overkill but it gave me a very quick system with which I could recover data - if it still worked I'd still be using it. The average Windows password fell before that in way less than two minutes.
Wasn't this story eventually revealed to be the result of a Hotmail database intrusion rather than a phishing expedition? Which would confirm the suspicions of many; that Hotmail does or did store user passwords in plaintext or weakly encrypted form.
Bruteforcing databases does not require webforms, it requires direct access to the database (usually through some sort of SQL injection exploit), beyond which point you don't even need an open browser.
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no, it's a box the size of a walkman that runs off its own power supply - the string goes rig-amp-SWR meter-antenna in my setup. Without the amp the kit runs 6W and has a range of about 1200 yards. I think the firestick might be a bit duff tho...
One of the worlds newest phones uses *GSM*??
While we sufficiently technically advanced to not require hill beacons for communication are in the middle of deploying 4G...
Ignorance is not an excuse under the Law.
(take it from someone who [still] owns a Cybernet Delta 1): the 934 rigs are notorious bleed boxes. Even with a 1.1 SWR (as close to perfect antenna balance as you'll ever get) you can bleed out over 600kHz each way with a 50W amp. The issue was that the equipment was overpowered and undercooled for what was being asked of it (30 miles on an average day?), the bleed induced by the linear amplifiers cooking themselves very quickly. With anything less than perfect SWR you'll bleed out even further into neighbouring bands.
FWIW, GSM900 was never widely adopted in the UK, distributors instead preferring GSM1800. The 934 crowd never got their bandwidth back to this day.
Thing is, GSM never even touched 934. GSM900 uses 890–915 MHz to send information from the mobile station to the base station (uplink) and 935–960 MHz for the other direction (downlink), providing 124 RF channels (channel numbers 1 to 124) spaced at 200 kHz. Duplex spacing of 45 MHz is used. Guard bands 100 kHz wide are placed at either end of the range of frequencies.
wonder if that's why the move is being made (albeit slowly and still with a lot of hoops to jump) to put certain prescription drugs, for example salbutamol 100 and co-codamol 12.8/500, over-the-counter?
In this way the NHS are offsetting the cost of such drugs by forcing patients who find themselves in some kind of emergency (out and about and lost his/her inhaler?) to pony up the cash for a replacement - as you can't whip out an exemption certificate and get them. Been there, worn the T-shirt.
yes, I pulled a number out of my arse, but you get the point I was trying to make (such as evidenced by your complete lack of an attempt to argue against the rest of my post. Thank you).
Wasn't Gandhi shot?
Great. Look where pacifism got him.
And John Lennon. Jean Jaurès. To name a couple more.
I'm sure there's a very long list somewhere.
*s/state/private contractor on behalf of one or more utility companies.
**+and there's no recourse to get it removed and a standard meter put in because it's deemed "progress". And anything which "progresses" energy delivery and monitoring can be nothing else but a good thing. Right?
Right??
apart from the fact that they use the obsoleted GSM900 bandwidth (channels, even) to build their mesh network via neighbourhood hubs and landlines, that said wireless links are two way, which means that not only is information passed back and forth between meters and hubs, so are instructions (such as kill switch). This presents a problem as anyone with a 934MHz transceiver (rare in the UK since they're now illegal to operate, have been since the block was reallocated to GSM) can simply key on CH1 and potentially kill grid power to any property so equipped, for miles, as the strength of the signal will overwhelm the meter... for those with access to a 934, try keying CH1 next to a GSM900 cellphone.
the Principality of Sealand, I think he means. This is a manmade structure 7nm off the coast of Suffolk which has been privately occupied pretty much since it was abandoned by the British military (it was originally an early warning station and anti-aircraft platform).
Digital throttle, all controls within reach without having to let go of the stick. OK, it's only 3 buttons aside from the throttle, but hey, if you want uber stickage, then you'd have to let go of the stick for throttle and six programmable buttons, on top of the eight way hat and six more buttons on the stick on a Cyborg Evo. Still probably the best budget stick there is, tho.
There again, there's the gear with the foot pedals. I've seen pedals with pressure sensitive multiswitching, as well as reverse switching, sticks with side throttles (great for pro flight sims), I've even got a convertible steering wheel/flight yoke that comes with... a 4-button stick and three pedals... stuff so complicated you could map keystrokes and never touch the keyboard again.
so I can't use this as a passphrase on a microsoft service: "Thanks a lot you shit-brained, fuck-faced, ball breaking, duck fucking pain in the ass."?
I hate to interrupt your bullshit, but the quintessential source of information on the English language begs to differ.
OK, so my password must be the same as my AIM username?
that is just feakin' hilarious!
that's only 268 million tries (assuming 28-bit entropy). Entirely possible with only one Pentium-class core. In fact, my forensic box, for several years, was a Pentium Pro with two processors - huge overkill but it gave me a very quick system with which I could recover data - if it still worked I'd still be using it. The average Windows password fell before that in way less than two minutes.
I don't see what's ambiguous about "all printable characters". Maybe I'm missing something.
If it were me, I would specify "every character in the Unicode space".
Jobbed.
If your website does not accept Unicode input on your forms, your website is broken.
Slashdot, I'm looking directly at YOU.
Wasn't this story eventually revealed to be the result of a Hotmail database intrusion rather than a phishing expedition? Which would confirm the suspicions of many; that Hotmail does or did store user passwords in plaintext or weakly encrypted form.
I hate to interrupt your bullshit with fully citable facts, but the OED says 171,476 in current use and 47,156 obsolete or deprecated.
such speed would require a die-speed interconnect.
You got one?
Are there any Hotmail staff on hand to field this one??
Bruteforcing databases does not require webforms, it requires direct access to the database (usually through some sort of SQL injection exploit), beyond which point you don't even need an open browser.
My mp3 player, all my external hard drives, my phone and even my camera use the SAME ONE CONNECTOR. I have ONE CABLE that does it ALL.
WHY do Apple have such trouble sourcing sockets that seem to grow like fucking WEEDS all over China!?
but... the amount of water remains the *same*. Only its *state* has changed.
According to this the Pentalobe is an Apple invention. I'm not gonna go do a patent search, I'll leave that to some other genius.