FEMA isn't the only user of the HF spectrum. By the time you install notch filters for amateur radio, FEMA, air traffic control, maritime users, the military, and everyone else, there isn't going to be much left for BPL.
BPL is a bad idea that should have been strangled in the cradle. It's a testament to the power of greed that it has gotten as far as it has.
I'd like to see more attention paid to voter fraud. With the current system, felons and non-citizens are able to vote with little chance of detection. Plus there are many people who are registered to vote in more than one place. I've heard people brag about voting twice, once in each place that they are registered in. A growing trend is for political hacks to visit all of the local nursing homes and retirement communities, where they "assist" the residents with filling out absentee ballots.
I don't think it is that simple. What about the old legal puzzle where a person in state A fires his rifle and kills a person in state B? Did the shooter commit a crime in state B and is he subject to their jurisdiction? You can come under a state's legal jurisdiction without having to physically be in that state. There are also state laws with "long arm" provisions that can be used to prosecute out-of-state residents.
Have you ever been in line when the printer runs out of paper? Often the clerk will spend several minutes futzing with it, give up, and ask the manager or senior clerk for assistance. These are people who operate registers as part of their job. What about the election officials at the local polling place?
I recently received a recruitment letter from my county election board. Apparently because I am a registered Republican, an endangered species in this part of the state. The only prerequisites for the job are to be a registered voter and to attend a training session at the board of elections.
I get tons of spam that is written in Chinese, Korean and Russian. From looking at the phone numbers and Internet addresses listed in the ads, these are not from American companies. Much of it is relayed through computers on American broadband ISPs. I'm guessing that there are a lot of virus/worm infected PCs on these networks with backdoors for spammers. Why so many companies in Moscow want to spam me with their ads is a mystery to me.
There are many other closed airfields around the world, mostly military bases. While they might let you land your plane, if you have a real emergency. Don't expect them to be happy about it, and be prepared to have your plane shipped to you in a crate, freight collect.
The protocol extensions that improved kermit's speed were around well before Kermit-95 was released. There was MS-KERMIT for DOS machines, available for many years before Kermit-95 was written.
Kermit's limited popularity can probably be traced to the complexity of the software. Its support for every weird and/or broken piece of telecommunications gear meant that it had lots of options and tunable parameters.
XYZmodem had the advantage of being designed for a specific environment, a transparent, 8-bit clean communications link with low delay and error rate.
It didn't help that many third-party implementations of kermit only supported the original core protocol, without any of the extensions that were added later.
You must have been using an ancient/broken version of kermit. Modern versions of kermit can transfer files almost as fast as zmodem. I've used Kermit-95 to download files to PCs and it's damn fast, assuming the server has a reasonably up-to-date version of kermit.
I suspect it is childhood trauma from attempting to eat the typical American fruitcake. Like so many bits of American cuisine, price and convenience are often considered more important than quality and flavor. Just take a look at the contents of the average American supermarket. Where else can you find so many varieties of processed cheese, imitation cheese, and industrial cheese-like substances. That's not to imply that the natural cheese is much better. This is the land of Wonder Bread and Miracle Whip.
RF paths over water are also susceptible to weird propagation effects, such as tropospheric ducting, and dynamic multipath from waves on the water's surface.
Back when AT&T used microwave relays for long distance telephone calls, they had to design in a very large link margin to get the all-weather reliability that was needed for the telephone system.
Get a good lens, then find a camera body that matches it.
Many camera manufacturers and dealers promote packages with a body and a zoom lens. While they may have improved over the years, zoom lenses are a compromise. I would get a nice 50mm lens as a starting point.
Even in the United States, there are laws and regulations about this sort of thing. The BATF can nail you for building a "destructive device" without a license. Purchasing, storing and using explosives involves federal and state licenses. You need a federal export license to transfer missiles, missile components, or technical data about missiles to a foreign country or foreign national.
You're assuming that the passwords are random. They aren't. Even with rules like a password must include upper-case characters, numerals and punctuation, they are not even close to being random.
Absolutely necessary or nice to have? My county has the Diebold voting machines and there have been no known complaints from voters or the county's election officials. The reaction to the machines has been positive.
The machines may have faults and deficiencies. That doesn't mean that they are worse than the previous system or are a clear and present danger to democracy.
In the past, I've voted in districts that used punched cards and mechanical lever machines. The punched cards are difficult to use for some people and are error prone. Mechanical lever machines have their own set of vulnerabilities and do not generate an audit trail. Even paper ballots can be subverted.
I'd like to see the problems with the Diebold machines, and their software development process, addressed before the next election. That doesn't mean that I am awake all night, worrying about some conspiracy of political operatives and uber-hackers stealing the election.
There are people in Rwanda, survivors of the civil war, who might disagree with you. The mass media was used to incite and implement genocide.
Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Sturmer, was tried at Nuremberg, sentenced to death and executed for the role his "free speech" played in the deaths of millions of people.
He seems to be confused about the difference between the "From:" line and the envelope. You can authenticate the sender's domain (HELO mailserv.bigisp.net) and let the user set the "From:" line to whatever they want.
Maybe I don't understand the problem. I thought Yahoo's new scheme was designed to authenticate the mail server that originated a transaction with a Yahoo mail server, not to authenticate the domain in the "From:" line.
Open source projects attract people who have an interest, and often a talent, for the project. The same can't be said for many corporate projects, where you may be shoveling shit, but you're being paid to shovel shit.
What are they going to do in the future, when people routinely wear computing systems, complete with microphones, video cameras and mass storage? It wont just be some weird guy from MIT in his gargoyle rig.
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BPL is a bad idea that should have been strangled in the cradle. It's a testament to the power of greed that it has gotten as far as it has.
Many high-security areas use biometric devices in addition to traditional methods such as badges, access codes and guards.
I'd like to see more attention paid to voter fraud. With the current system, felons and non-citizens are able to vote with little chance of detection. Plus there are many people who are registered to vote in more than one place. I've heard people brag about voting twice, once in each place that they are registered in. A growing trend is for political hacks to visit all of the local nursing homes and retirement communities, where they "assist" the residents with filling out absentee ballots.
It looks better than the previous scheme, which charged a fixed amount per megabyte of storage.
I don't think it is that simple. What about the old legal puzzle where a person in state A fires his rifle and kills a person in state B? Did the shooter commit a crime in state B and is he subject to their jurisdiction? You can come under a state's legal jurisdiction without having to physically be in that state. There are also state laws with "long arm" provisions that can be used to prosecute out-of-state residents.
I recently received a recruitment letter from my county election board. Apparently because I am a registered Republican, an endangered species in this part of the state. The only prerequisites for the job are to be a registered voter and to attend a training session at the board of elections.
I get tons of spam that is written in Chinese, Korean and Russian. From looking at the phone numbers and Internet addresses listed in the ads, these are not from American companies. Much of it is relayed through computers on American broadband ISPs. I'm guessing that there are a lot of virus/worm infected PCs on these networks with backdoors for spammers. Why so many companies in Moscow want to spam me with their ads is a mystery to me.
There are many other closed airfields around the world, mostly military bases. While they might let you land your plane, if you have a real emergency. Don't expect them to be happy about it, and be prepared to have your plane shipped to you in a crate, freight collect.
Kermit's limited popularity can probably be traced to the complexity of the software. Its support for every weird and/or broken piece of telecommunications gear meant that it had lots of options and tunable parameters.
XYZmodem had the advantage of being designed for a specific environment, a transparent, 8-bit clean communications link with low delay and error rate.
It didn't help that many third-party implementations of kermit only supported the original core protocol, without any of the extensions that were added later.
One demon included free with every thermos.
You must have been using an ancient/broken version of kermit. Modern versions of kermit can transfer files almost as fast as zmodem. I've used Kermit-95 to download files to PCs and it's damn fast, assuming the server has a reasonably up-to-date version of kermit.
I suspect it is childhood trauma from attempting to eat the typical American fruitcake. Like so many bits of American cuisine, price and convenience are often considered more important than quality and flavor. Just take a look at the contents of the average American supermarket. Where else can you find so many varieties of processed cheese, imitation cheese, and industrial cheese-like substances. That's not to imply that the natural cheese is much better. This is the land of Wonder Bread and Miracle Whip.
Back when AT&T used microwave relays for long distance telephone calls, they had to design in a very large link margin to get the all-weather reliability that was needed for the telephone system.
Many camera manufacturers and dealers promote packages with a body and a zoom lens. While they may have improved over the years, zoom lenses are a compromise. I would get a nice 50mm lens as a starting point.
Even in the United States, there are laws and regulations about this sort of thing. The BATF can nail you for building a "destructive device" without a license. Purchasing, storing and using explosives involves federal and state licenses. You need a federal export license to transfer missiles, missile components, or technical data about missiles to a foreign country or foreign national.
Where do you think all of the "missing matter" in the universe is? Forget about dark matter, its fruit cakes!
You're assuming that the passwords are random. They aren't. Even with rules like a password must include upper-case characters, numerals and punctuation, they are not even close to being random.
The machines may have faults and deficiencies. That doesn't mean that they are worse than the previous system or are a clear and present danger to democracy.
In the past, I've voted in districts that used punched cards and mechanical lever machines. The punched cards are difficult to use for some people and are error prone. Mechanical lever machines have their own set of vulnerabilities and do not generate an audit trail. Even paper ballots can be subverted.
I'd like to see the problems with the Diebold machines, and their software development process, addressed before the next election. That doesn't mean that I am awake all night, worrying about some conspiracy of political operatives and uber-hackers stealing the election.
Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Sturmer, was tried at Nuremberg, sentenced to death and executed for the role his "free speech" played in the deaths of millions of people.
In many cases, people don't get a nickel for being 'On Call'. If they don't like it, they can quit.
My pager uses the same frequency band as cell phones (800 MHz). How are you going to jam cell phones without also jamming my pager?
1. HELO domain. Used in "Received:" headers.
2. Envelope FROM. Used by MTA.
3. "From:" header. Used by end-user's mail s/w.
Maybe I don't understand the problem. I thought Yahoo's new scheme was designed to authenticate the mail server that originated a transaction with a Yahoo mail server, not to authenticate the domain in the "From:" line.
Open source projects attract people who have an interest, and often a talent, for the project. The same can't be said for many corporate projects, where you may be shoveling shit, but you're being paid to shovel shit.
What are they going to do in the future, when people routinely wear computing systems, complete with microphones, video cameras and mass storage? It wont just be some weird guy from MIT in his gargoyle rig.