Big it is. If you ever find yourself there standing next to a huge pile of shovels it is time to run for your life. The real work begins when the cement arrives!
Some ~20 years ago we visited the Tidbinbilla tracking station near Canberra, Australia. At that time they had a small snack-bar outside and not too far from the main entrance. Black Cat comes to mind as the name of the snack-bar but it was a long time ago! The snack bar had the usual foods and a customer-use microwave oven for warming them.
Before using the oven I glanced inside, looking particularly at the roof of the oven. I was not at all surprised to see the oven roof was rusted out and had a gaping hole the size of my palm where there should have been a perforated grating as an RF shield. I knew that oven well - We had one exactly like it and it too had also rusted out in the roof and been repaired under warranty.
The absurdity of a largely unshielded 650 watt microwave source operating in close proximity to super sensitive space tracking equipment was not lost on me and as soon as we returned home to Melbourne I telephoned the site and finally spoke to someone technical that realised the gravity of the situation. They never called me back, which was disappointing, but I can guess the Sharp oven hit the garbage pile the same day.
For the benefit of those that seek more detail, the oven was a Sharp model R8320 microwave/convection oven and was a popular model of the period. The cooking cavity was stainless steel except for the roof. Why that was made of mild steel is anyone's guess but it must have cost Sharp a pretty penny to replace those cavities
Perytons are just bursts, this oven could have caused minutes long tracking equipment wipe-outs.
But the clumsy method of shipping it to Virginia and then on to final destination seems to indicate this was only an occasional occurrence. If there were lots of them they would have been altered/enhanced on Cisco premises before final packaging.
Yeah but, it will be the mini Hell-fire missile for that dangerous speeding driver that will feature big time in major unintended co-lateral damage! Crispies on the free-way anyone?
An easy solution would be to simply accept it as inevitable. As this impending Pharma disaster is going to equally affect people at every level of society we might as well look on it as the world-wide population control that we had to have. Karma on steroids if you like. It really is about time we had a clean sweep...
Me? I am buying into companies that specialize in mouth hygiene products of all types. It is a near certainty that all future diplomacy and major corporate policy will be discussed in close head to-head meetings in the centre of huge rooms in order to prevent espionage. Bad breath will be a career-ending certainty... Note that head-to-head is exactly the way that head-lice are transmitted to others so expect to be able identify major decision-makers either by their constant head scratching or by their permanently shaved heads.
That given the size of many apartment blocks these days there is the nagging thought that it might be kinder to everyone concerned to just not look for these massively destructive objects until we have an absolutely foolproof way of deflecting them sufficiently to provide a significant engineering challenge for future generations. I sweep dirt under the mat too!
Although cute, this 'idea' is irrelevant. Even if you made the case that you weren't contravening the letter of the request, you could still be charged with obstruction of justice, should your behaviour alter the conduct of the subject(s) under scrutiny.
Fight fire with fire. Set an industry cut-off date to blackball all specialists, technicians and contractors working in these agencies from future employment in the wider commercial IT world. This will quickly remove many thousands of specialists from the surveillance field and eventually bleed it dry. The same technique will work equally well in all countries that have abusive governments...
"I see this getting far worse, not better. Much much worse."
There has not been much discussion about DNA databases lately. To think that these would not get into the hands of various government authorities is to believe in the tooth fairy. From government to Insurance companies is a short trip on the old boys network and then the fun starts for Joe Citizen...
Nobody said it better than Winston Churchill...
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
First they 'investigate' you with all your colleagues. Then they reduce your security clearance. Next is work on lots of committees that actually do nothing. Finally they farm you out to a huge government contractor with a big title and nothing of any consequence to do. If you don't get the message then, they are quite prepared to dig up Senator Joseph McCarthy to look into your political allegiances. Resistance is futile!
I think it is the splayed feet and a tendency to walk/roll rather like an Orang-outang.
His continuous threats to dismantle our nascent National Broadband optical fibre Network may also have something to do with it
I think we should upset the u.s.a.
If the whole world stopped using capital letters when referring to the u.s.a. - the u.s. - uncle sam etcetera, then the fools who are allowing the united states to bob and curtsy and pass legislation to the entertainment industry and other powerful lobbies may just get the idea that the rest of the world is kicking back.
While the 'File Savers' of the world are praying for a huge capacity removable disks that have no chemical fade-out over time, the music and film industries are quaking in their boots at the very thought of such a disk.
It hasn't happened yet but you know, just as I know, that it will!
Let Germany do as it likes. The only sure thing in all this is that the weight of lawyers feeding at the trough will drag the whole world-wide patent systems down. It is only a matter of time!
OTOH, a single Mylar balloon over a major city on a still clear night would allow hundreds to thousands of laser propagated channels at very serious speeds. ----- Think of it as an extension of Ham radio when conditions had to be right for a QSO. It would certainly make a a real fun evening entertainment of collecting a few hundred BR Movies just for the sheer hell of it!
Besides, anybody with half an eye on the future would know that geostationary Data Centres would have no cooling problems and no power problems.
O.K. There would be some transit time issues but these could be worked around by classifying data and it's likely access requirements.
Come on guys. We don't need this crud here. Put it into space where we can easily nudge it into the sun for clean decommissioning.
And there are no known guaranteed safe levels of R.F. exposure. Brain tumours from R.F. take up to 20+ years to develop and then can kill as surely as the kind that grow quickly. My advice.............. Fergeddaboutit. Not in a pink fit would I buy into a situation that had a continuous R.F. signal from a cell phone relay.
First you need to be able to point to a first-world country that has successfully introduced a three-strikes policy. You will not be able to. The whole idea is so flawed that any sensible JP or Judge will simply refuse to authorise a disconnection. Any judicial disconnections will instantly highlight the unintended consequence of this silly idea re. work commitments/other family members and be pilloried in the press. After that comes the interesting business of sorting out just how to give the innocent parties at that address their full rights while nailing an extremely wicked and intransigent file-sharer to his well deserved crucifix;( . . . . . . Get a grip N.Z.---- This idea will work exactly as well as the equally idiotic U.S. alcohol prohibition laws!
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FBI flatfoots have essentially ensured that all future up-market mobile phones will be essentially closed to all shades of law enforcement.
But then, if quantum computing lives up to it's promises..........
One wood chipper pass and then fed to chickens.
Untraceable.
Big it is. If you ever find yourself there standing next to a huge pile of shovels it is time to run for your life. The real work begins when the cement arrives!
It would take much of the drama out of executions too, and provide an economical way of putting back into the food chain.
Older than that perhaps.
Some ~20 years ago we visited the Tidbinbilla tracking station near Canberra, Australia. At that time they had a small snack-bar outside and not too far from the main entrance. Black Cat comes to mind as the name of the snack-bar but it was a long time ago! The snack bar had the usual foods and a customer-use microwave oven for warming them.
Before using the oven I glanced inside, looking particularly at the roof of the oven. I was not at all surprised to see the oven roof was rusted out and had a gaping hole the size of my palm where there should have been a perforated grating as an RF shield. I knew that oven well - We had one exactly like it and it too had also rusted out in the roof and been repaired under warranty.
The absurdity of a largely unshielded 650 watt microwave source operating in close proximity to super sensitive space tracking equipment was not lost on me and as soon as we returned home to Melbourne I telephoned the site and finally spoke to someone technical that realised the gravity of the situation. They never called me back, which was disappointing, but I can guess the Sharp oven hit the garbage pile the same day.
For the benefit of those that seek more detail, the oven was a Sharp model R8320 microwave/convection oven and was a popular model of the period. The cooking cavity was stainless steel except for the roof. Why that was made of mild steel is anyone's guess but it must have cost Sharp a pretty penny to replace those cavities
Perytons are just bursts, this oven could have caused minutes long tracking equipment wipe-outs.
But there are many roads to explore and many ways to seek out room temperature superconductivity.
As with many other discoveries, the stubborn and dedicated researcher will sooner or later find the answer.
We should never be cutting back on research. It is definitely a situation where more is always better than less.
But the clumsy method of shipping it to Virginia and then on to final destination seems to indicate this was only an occasional occurrence. If there were lots of them they would have been altered/enhanced on Cisco premises before final packaging.
Yeah but, it will be the mini Hell-fire missile for that dangerous speeding driver that will feature big time in major unintended co-lateral damage! Crispies on the free-way anyone?
If you lie down with dogs - you get fleas!
An easy solution would be to simply accept it as inevitable. As this impending Pharma disaster is going to equally affect people at every level of society we might as well look on it as the world-wide population control that we had to have. Karma on steroids if you like. It really is about time we had a clean sweep...
Me? I am buying into companies that specialize in mouth hygiene products of all types. It is a near certainty that all future diplomacy and major corporate policy will be discussed in close head to-head meetings in the centre of huge rooms in order to prevent espionage. Bad breath will be a career-ending certainty... Note that head-to-head is exactly the way that head-lice are transmitted to others so expect to be able identify major decision-makers either by their constant head scratching or by their permanently shaved heads.
That given the size of many apartment blocks these days there is the nagging thought that it might be kinder to everyone concerned to just not look for these massively destructive objects until we have an absolutely foolproof way of deflecting them sufficiently to provide a significant engineering challenge for future generations. I sweep dirt under the mat too!
Although cute, this 'idea' is irrelevant. Even if you made the case that you weren't contravening the letter of the request, you could still be charged with obstruction of justice, should your behaviour alter the conduct of the subject(s) under scrutiny.
Fight fire with fire. Set an industry cut-off date to blackball all specialists, technicians and contractors working in these agencies from future employment in the wider commercial IT world. This will quickly remove many thousands of specialists from the surveillance field and eventually bleed it dry. The same technique will work equally well in all countries that have abusive governments...
"I see this getting far worse, not better. Much much worse." There has not been much discussion about DNA databases lately. To think that these would not get into the hands of various government authorities is to believe in the tooth fairy. From government to Insurance companies is a short trip on the old boys network and then the fun starts for Joe Citizen...
Nobody said it better than Winston Churchill... "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Guilty or not, there is plenty of "threat" in all this for Congress to double the budget of the Department of Homeland Security...
First they 'investigate' you with all your colleagues. Then they reduce your security clearance. Next is work on lots of committees that actually do nothing. Finally they farm you out to a huge government contractor with a big title and nothing of any consequence to do. If you don't get the message then, they are quite prepared to dig up Senator Joseph McCarthy to look into your political allegiances. Resistance is futile!
I think it is the splayed feet and a tendency to walk/roll rather like an Orang-outang. His continuous threats to dismantle our nascent National Broadband optical fibre Network may also have something to do with it
I think we should upset the u.s.a. If the whole world stopped using capital letters when referring to the u.s.a. - the u.s. - uncle sam etcetera, then the fools who are allowing the united states to bob and curtsy and pass legislation to the entertainment industry and other powerful lobbies may just get the idea that the rest of the world is kicking back.
Yes indeed.
While the 'File Savers' of the world are praying for a huge capacity removable disks that have no chemical fade-out over time, the music and film industries are quaking in their boots at the very thought of such a disk.
It hasn't happened yet but you know, just as I know, that it will!
Let Germany do as it likes. The only sure thing in all this is that the weight of lawyers feeding at the trough will drag the whole world-wide patent systems down. It is only a matter of time!
OTOH, a single Mylar balloon over a major city on a still clear night would allow hundreds to thousands of laser propagated channels at very serious speeds. ----- Think of it as an extension of Ham radio when conditions had to be right for a QSO. It would certainly make a a real fun evening entertainment of collecting a few hundred BR Movies just for the sheer hell of it!
Besides, anybody with half an eye on the future would know that geostationary Data Centres would have no cooling problems and no power problems. O.K. There would be some transit time issues but these could be worked around by classifying data and it's likely access requirements. Come on guys. We don't need this crud here. Put it into space where we can easily nudge it into the sun for clean decommissioning.
And there are no known guaranteed safe levels of R.F. exposure. Brain tumours from R.F. take up to 20+ years to develop and then can kill as surely as the kind that grow quickly. My advice.............. Fergeddaboutit. Not in a pink fit would I buy into a situation that had a continuous R.F. signal from a cell phone relay.
First you need to be able to point to a first-world country that has successfully introduced a three-strikes policy. You will not be able to. The whole idea is so flawed that any sensible JP or Judge will simply refuse to authorise a disconnection. Any judicial disconnections will instantly highlight the unintended consequence of this silly idea re. work commitments/other family members and be pilloried in the press. After that comes the interesting business of sorting out just how to give the innocent parties at that address their full rights while nailing an extremely wicked and intransigent file-sharer to his well deserved crucifix ;( . . . . . . Get a grip N.Z.---- This idea will work exactly as well as the equally idiotic U.S. alcohol prohibition laws!