Hand-held radios and cell phones are of very limited usefulness if the supporting infrastructure has been destroyed or badly damaged. A typical municipal radio system depends on high-power base stations and repeaters to connect the operations centers to the people in the field. If that is lost, you are left with a bunch of people who can only communicate with each other if they are in the same neighborhood. How useful would your telephone be if it was limited to connecting to other telephones in your exchange?
As usual, someone can't resist taking a gratuitous swipe at unions. Nobody is going to get rich working for the telephone company. I suppose you would be happier if they were paid minimum wage, or less. I've known plenty of people who have worked for the telephone company, and as a group they are pretty sharp. They are also the people the telephone companies have been laying off for decades, as they try to eliminate as much of their unionized workforce as possible.
You can get fired for poor performance, it just requires more than a manager's whim.
If you think high labor charges imply high wages for the peons who do the work, you don't live in the real world.
Don't ignore the fact that the USA's Department of Justice has the perverse idea that since an accident of technology (circuit-switched telephony) made it possible to monitor telephone calls, that situation should continue, regardless of changes in technology. They now view that capability as a "right", forcing others to build backdoors into their systems. It would be trivial to add strong link encryption, and end-to-end encryption for on-network calls, to modern cellular phone systems. Why don't we have it in the USA? Ask the FCC, DoJ and NSA.
They can keep you off the property by declaring you a trespasser. If the FCC temporary station license specified a location that can't be accessed due to bureaucratic intransigence, you're screwed.
Fsck Hollywood, if they think that I am going to replace perfectly good displays, which weren't cheap, with HDCP-capable displays, just so that I can cater to their paranoia about piracy. These same asshats expect home theatre owners, who've spent thousands of dollars on high-definition video hardware, to dump their current hardware because it doesn't support HDCP.
HD-DVD and BluRay can join DAT, SACD, and DVD-Audio as formats that were killed by greed.
I suspect that it means they will use a locally generated private key to protect vulnerable information. Each box would have a unique key, so cracking one wouldn't compromise them all.
A friend used to collect bad drives. He took the printed circuit boards from the crashed drives and installed them on drives with fried electronics. This only works if you can get a bunch of bad drives that are the same make and model.
If you have the tools and skills, you can replace platters, motors, etc. You can do it without a clean room if your goal is data recovery, not a drive that will last for years.
A large part of the valuation of many stocks is the expectation that revenues and profits will increase over time. Take away that growth, and the stock price will be much lower. If the profits aren't being invested in expansion, they should be returned to the stockholders in the form of dividends, not stashed in the bank.
When I look at stock prices, most of them seem to be overpriced, bid up by investors who have unrealistic expectations of future growth and profits. Everyone expects their horse to be the winner.
I've read about a number of local cases where the thug kidnaps his victim and takes him to a cash machine, forcing the victim to make a withdrawal or be shot. These are the same dead-enders who switched to carjacking when it became too difficult for them to steal unattended cars.
You're using cellular network bandwidth (air-time), which is scarce and expensive. Someone has to pay for it, why not the person who made the choice to connect to the telephone system via a cellular network?
The costs would be immense. A huge amount of software and hardware would have to be modified and reconfigured. There probably aren't enough 3-digit area codes left for all of the cellular phone subscribers. Are you going to memorize all of the new cellular-only area codes?
Most European telephone systems were designed with a different set of principles for billing and numbering, which makes it much easier for them to implement "caller pays".
I was involved in a similar situation when I was a kid. A teenage girl, who was a poor swimmer, somehow swallowed some water and lost consciousness after diving in to the deep end of the pool. When I saw her, she was just suspended above the bottom, neutrally buoyant. The only reason I could see her was that I was swimming in the same area. She really wasn't visible from where the lifeguard was stationed, which was supposed to give the lifeguard a view of the entire pool. I ran and told the lifeguard, who immediately dove in and pulled her out. She quickly responded to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and was OK. I don't blame the lifeguard. Due to the way the pool was designed and where the elevated lifeguard chair was located, the girl was difficult to see.
The problem is when the store refuses to sell anything other than the overpriced bundles, which has happened in the past.
For years, I refused to buy certain brands of automobiles because their dealers used similar methods to boost their profits, and acted like they were doing you a favor by allowing you to buy one of their automobiles at an inflated price.
I looked it up. It was Police Constable John Munden, Cambridgeshire, and the Halifax Building Society. He was prosecuted, convicted, and had the conviction overturned on appeal. See Risks Digest Volume 18: Issue 25.
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If the horse collapses, the solution is to reduce its feed and whip it harder.
Hand-held radios and cell phones are of very limited usefulness if the supporting infrastructure has been destroyed or badly damaged. A typical municipal radio system depends on high-power base stations and repeaters to connect the operations centers to the people in the field. If that is lost, you are left with a bunch of people who can only communicate with each other if they are in the same neighborhood. How useful would your telephone be if it was limited to connecting to other telephones in your exchange?
You can get fired for poor performance, it just requires more than a manager's whim.
If you think high labor charges imply high wages for the peons who do the work, you don't live in the real world.
Don't ignore the fact that the USA's Department of Justice has the perverse idea that since an accident of technology (circuit-switched telephony) made it possible to monitor telephone calls, that situation should continue, regardless of changes in technology. They now view that capability as a "right", forcing others to build backdoors into their systems. It would be trivial to add strong link encryption, and end-to-end encryption for on-network calls, to modern cellular phone systems. Why don't we have it in the USA? Ask the FCC, DoJ and NSA.
Don't the DLLs have to be customized for the video hardware?
They can keep you off the property by declaring you a trespasser. If the FCC temporary station license specified a location that can't be accessed due to bureaucratic intransigence, you're screwed.
HD-DVD and BluRay can join DAT, SACD, and DVD-Audio as formats that were killed by greed.
Didn't think so.
I suspect that it means they will use a locally generated private key to protect vulnerable information. Each box would have a unique key, so cracking one wouldn't compromise them all.
If you have the tools and skills, you can replace platters, motors, etc. You can do it without a clean room if your goal is data recovery, not a drive that will last for years.
When I look at stock prices, most of them seem to be overpriced, bid up by investors who have unrealistic expectations of future growth and profits. Everyone expects their horse to be the winner.
Fusion is easy, turning it into a practical source of energy is hard.
I've read about a number of local cases where the thug kidnaps his victim and takes him to a cash machine, forcing the victim to make a withdrawal or be shot. These are the same dead-enders who switched to carjacking when it became too difficult for them to steal unattended cars.
The USA is a big country, with many telephone companies. Area codes are needed for routing.
Area codes are an integral part of the NANP (North American Numbering Plan)
I don't pay any extra charges if I call a cellular phone from my landline phone.
You're using cellular network bandwidth (air-time), which is scarce and expensive. Someone has to pay for it, why not the person who made the choice to connect to the telephone system via a cellular network?
Most European telephone systems were designed with a different set of principles for billing and numbering, which makes it much easier for them to implement "caller pays".
100 Mb/s is nice, but how much power are they using?
The signal they are looking for is the 327 MHz emission line of deuterium.
You also don't have to worry about receiving a signal.
If you lived in a nomadic society, not being able to keep up with the group would usually be fatal.
I was involved in a similar situation when I was a kid. A teenage girl, who was a poor swimmer, somehow swallowed some water and lost consciousness after diving in to the deep end of the pool. When I saw her, she was just suspended above the bottom, neutrally buoyant. The only reason I could see her was that I was swimming in the same area. She really wasn't visible from where the lifeguard was stationed, which was supposed to give the lifeguard a view of the entire pool. I ran and told the lifeguard, who immediately dove in and pulled her out. She quickly responded to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and was OK. I don't blame the lifeguard. Due to the way the pool was designed and where the elevated lifeguard chair was located, the girl was difficult to see.
For years, I refused to buy certain brands of automobiles because their dealers used similar methods to boost their profits, and acted like they were doing you a favor by allowing you to buy one of their automobiles at an inflated price.
I'm probably the "moron" in front of you. If you don't like my speed, or lack thereof, tough shit. Tell the store manager to hire more cashiers.
I looked it up. It was Police Constable John Munden, Cambridgeshire, and the Halifax Building Society. He was prosecuted, convicted, and had the conviction overturned on appeal. See Risks Digest Volume 18: Issue 25.