The choice is not between testing and no testing. The choice is between real tests and simulated tests. The reason that the USA agreed to halt underground testing was that it was confident that it could maintain the safety and reliability of existing nuclear weapons by using computer simulations to model the effects of component aging and replacement.
The FCC, with congressional authorization (All Channel Receiver Act), mandated the inclusion of UHF tuners in TV sets and also mandated performance requirements for tuner sensitivity and selectivity.
FDA regulation of when, and under what circumstances people should take drugs, and what drugs they should be permitted to take. Needing a doctor's prescription adds insult to injury.
I have to disagree with you. If large numbers of people abuse/misuse antibiotic drugs, it produces a public health risk. Even with the current rules, it's a major problem. I don't want to die from an antibiotic resistant infection because of other people's poor judgement in the selection and use of drugs.
The Russians used a clever technique to convert text into numbers before encrypting with the OTP.
They used a table like this:
..0123456789 ..ETAOINSH
8 BCDFGJKLMP
9 QRUVWXYZ/.
The common letters in the first line are encoded as the single digits 0..7. The less common letters are encoded as the double digits 80..99.
This has two advantages. It provides some compression of the text and it eliminates any simple one-to-one correspondence between letters and pairs of digits.
There are many companies that would have severe problems if they lost their Internet connections. Many business processes have been automated in recent years. The forms, procedures, people and knowledge associated with the old processes may not exist anymore. The computers and software that supported the old processes may now be sitting in a landfill. In some cases, the core operations of the company may depend on a functioning Internet.
For more information, see the 419 Coalition website. This is a huge problem in Nigeria. There is massive corruption in the Nigerian government and judicial system. It has also hurt legitimate Nigerian businesses.
IBM has already had a taste of Microsoft's wrath. Microsoft came very close to forcing IBM to pay full retail price for the Windows 95 licenses that IBM needed to ship a competitive PC. That would have been a huge cost disadvantage for IBM. Microsoft was pissed off about IBM shipping PCs with OS/2 and Lotus SmartSuite, a competitor to Microsoft Office. From published reports, the OEM contract negotiations were very nasty. Microsoft's attitude was that IBM was not a "team player" if they bundled any software that Microsoft viewed as a threat to their own products.
That isn't the way that the FCC works, and I'm glad for it. If your device has out-of-band emissions that interfere with another service, you have a responsibility to take corrective action or stop using the device. It doesn't matter if your use is more "important" than someone elses.
If you don't know how to build a case with proper RF shielding, don't do it. If your computer causes interference to legitimate users of the RF spectrum, you can be ordered not to use it.
How would you like it if every motorist in your neighborhood removed the muffler and pollution controls from their cars, because it looked kewl?
That's the risk you take if you use unlicensed spectrum. If it works, great, if it doesn't, tough shit. Any ISP that bets their business on the use of unlicensed spectrum deserves to lose.
The ISM (Industrial, Scientific, Medical) bands (900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 5.8 GHz) are the toxic waste dumps of the RF spectrum. Anyone can use them. There is no protection from interference.
IBM has the right idea. In some (all?) of their laptops, the main board and hard drive have passwords that can't be disabled or bypassed without major surgery. If you forget the password, tough, the subassembly must be replaced. If this was more common, laptops would be less attractive to thieves.
Although it is currently in the realm of science fiction, what if the Pakistani kid had a cheap notepad computer with enough internal storage for a large library of books. When I say cheap, think of four-function calculator cheap. It would run off a solar cell embedded in the case. It would have a built-in RF modem to receive data broadcasts.
This already happens with low-end consumer products. Many different models of calculators are internally identical. The manufacturer differentiates the models by using different keyboards and cases with a common logic board. The same thing is done with digital watches.
It may be a fine point but the range safety officer at a launch complex does not "blow up" the rocket. The range safety systems on rockets are thrust termination systems, designed to terminate powered flight. The goal is to shut down the engines, not to blow up the rocket into many small pieces. This usually involves shaped charges that open the casings of solid fuel rocket motors and the fuel and oxidizer tanks of liquid fuel rocket motors. The desired end result is that the rocket falls in a ballistic trajectory into a safe impact area and does not endanger people on the ground. The range safety officer has an "impact predictor" display that shows where the rocket would land if all of the engines failed at the same time. His job is to push the big red button if there is a risk that the rocket could stray from its predicted trajectory. It may look like they "blew up" the rocket, but that isn't what happened.
This appears to be just another indication that the formerly monolithic telecommunications system in the USA is continuing its slow collapse into anarchy. The system has been jettisoning its research, engineering and operations expertise for decades. The former Bell companies are following the example of American rail and steel companies, milk the system for cash and let the infrastructure rot in place.
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The choice is not between testing and no testing. The choice is between real tests and simulated tests. The reason that the USA agreed to halt underground testing was that it was confident that it could maintain the safety and reliability of existing nuclear weapons by using computer simulations to model the effects of component aging and replacement.
The FCC, with congressional authorization (All Channel Receiver Act), mandated the inclusion of UHF tuners in TV sets and also mandated performance requirements for tuner sensitivity and selectivity.
I have to disagree with you. If large numbers of people abuse/misuse antibiotic drugs, it produces a public health risk. Even with the current rules, it's a major problem. I don't want to die from an antibiotic resistant infection because of other people's poor judgement in the selection and use of drugs.
They used a table like this:
8 BCDFGJKLMP
9 QRUVWXYZ/.
The common letters in the first line are encoded as the single digits 0..7. The less common letters are encoded as the double digits 80..99.
This has two advantages. It provides some compression of the text and it eliminates any simple one-to-one correspondence between letters and pairs of digits.
Example:
SLASHDOT
S = 6
L = 87
A = 2
S = 6
H = 7
D = 82
O = 3
T = 1
6 87 2 6 7 82 3 1
68726 78231
If I was a terrorist, I would hijack a 747 cargo plane. Lots of potential for causing damage and no passengers to deal with.
There are many companies that would have severe problems if they lost their Internet connections. Many business processes have been automated in recent years. The forms, procedures, people and knowledge associated with the old processes may not exist anymore. The computers and software that supported the old processes may now be sitting in a landfill. In some cases, the core operations of the company may depend on a functioning Internet.
Your posts are full of technical errors and bullshit. Do you have an amateur radio license? Have you ever operated on packet radio?
100 mW into a 15 dBi antenna produces an ERP of 3.16 W. This is an increase of approx. 32 times the ERP of an isotropic antenna.
You just whip out your $60,000 spectrum analyzer. What's the problem?
For more information, see the 419 Coalition website. This is a huge problem in Nigeria. There is massive corruption in the Nigerian government and judicial system. It has also hurt legitimate Nigerian businesses.
IBM has already had a taste of Microsoft's wrath. Microsoft came very close to forcing IBM to pay full retail price for the Windows 95 licenses that IBM needed to ship a competitive PC. That would have been a huge cost disadvantage for IBM. Microsoft was pissed off about IBM shipping PCs with OS/2 and Lotus SmartSuite, a competitor to Microsoft Office. From published reports, the OEM contract negotiations were very nasty. Microsoft's attitude was that IBM was not a "team player" if they bundled any software that Microsoft viewed as a threat to their own products.
This is slashdot, don't confuse us with the facts!
There are Israeli sports teams in European leagues.
You can't copyright facts. There was a court case about whether or not a phone book could be copyrighted, the court said no.
That isn't the way that the FCC works, and I'm glad for it. If your device has out-of-band emissions that interfere with another service, you have a responsibility to take corrective action or stop using the device. It doesn't matter if your use is more "important" than someone elses.
Sniffing glue will kill brain cells, but you already know that.
One reason to see a film early in its run is the quality of the print. The print degrades with each showing due to scratches, wear and breakage.
I can change them for you. Where did I put that cheese grater...
How would you like it if every motorist in your neighborhood removed the muffler and pollution controls from their cars, because it looked kewl?
Running a microwave oven with no load (food or water) can damage the magnetron.
The ISM (Industrial, Scientific, Medical) bands (900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 5.8 GHz) are the toxic waste dumps of the RF spectrum. Anyone can use them. There is no protection from interference.
IBM has the right idea. In some (all?) of their laptops, the main board and hard drive have passwords that can't be disabled or bypassed without major surgery. If you forget the password, tough, the subassembly must be replaced. If this was more common, laptops would be less attractive to thieves.
Although it is currently in the realm of science fiction, what if the Pakistani kid had a cheap notepad computer with enough internal storage for a large library of books. When I say cheap, think of four-function calculator cheap. It would run off a solar cell embedded in the case. It would have a built-in RF modem to receive data broadcasts.
This already happens with low-end consumer products. Many different models of calculators are internally identical. The manufacturer differentiates the models by using different keyboards and cases with a common logic board. The same thing is done with digital watches.
It may be a fine point but the range safety officer at a launch complex does not "blow up" the rocket. The range safety systems on rockets are thrust termination systems, designed to terminate powered flight. The goal is to shut down the engines, not to blow up the rocket into many small pieces. This usually involves shaped charges that open the casings of solid fuel rocket motors and the fuel and oxidizer tanks of liquid fuel rocket motors. The desired end result is that the rocket falls in a ballistic trajectory into a safe impact area and does not endanger people on the ground. The range safety officer has an "impact predictor" display that shows where the rocket would land if all of the engines failed at the same time. His job is to push the big red button if there is a risk that the rocket could stray from its predicted trajectory. It may look like they "blew up" the rocket, but that isn't what happened.
This appears to be just another indication that the formerly monolithic telecommunications system in the USA is continuing its slow collapse into anarchy. The system has been jettisoning its research, engineering and operations expertise for decades. The former Bell companies are following the example of American rail and steel companies, milk the system for cash and let the infrastructure rot in place.