Why not have them build their own crystal AM radio, totally old-school style? Wind their own coils, use a piece of wood for the base and another for the coil form (piece of hardwood dowel?). You can still find 1N34 or 1N60 germanium diodes to use as the detector, and just about any ceramic disc 0.01uF capacitor for the filter. Most expensive parts would be the 365pF variable capacitor and a crystal headphone; magnet wire of an appropriate gauge would be relatively cheap per unit, coming off a single spool. Antenna can be just another length of the same magnet wire, or if you have some bare solid wire around, so much the better. As the object of lesson(s) in basic electronics, it's still a goldmine, you can teach them about tuned circuits, modulation methods, etc.
I think it's pretty obvious what Pandora is angling at here, they're attacking the obvious double-standard. Problem is that if it goes the other way, then that's pretty much the last nail in the coffin of broadcast radio; it's already only a marginally profitable business to be in anymore, and having to pay more royalties will kill most of them off for good.
No kidding. Yet another way to track people's whereabouts. What is this, a way to close the gap when there's no GPS reception? Are we going to have to take the battery out of our phones when we're not actively using them? Perhaps install a hardware switch on the phone to disconnect the microphone? WTF?
I wish I had an intelligent comment to make on a story like this.. but this, and things like it, piss me off so much that I get virutally incoherent. China has NO concept of human rights.
This sounds like an awesome development in the area of personal security alright -- especially for looking at porn in your cubicle at work. Your boss or co-worker peers over the wall to try to catch you? No problem, it blurs the screen!
Brilliant. So that when the dumbass online company's lack of security results in someone stealing what they're storing, some asshole indentity theif can steal everything you've got all in one fell swoop. Or better yet, they go out of business and you lose your data anyway. Or better yet: they don't care about your privacy and mine your data for data they can sell. Hogwash, stuff and nonsense. You're better off using removable drives, backing up to them, and storing them in a safe deposit box, or at least in a closet somewhere.
"Patent" my ass. What I would like to send them is a bag of burning dog shit on their front porch for even suggesting such an idea! It seems that every day we really are coming closer and closer to the insane world of the movie Idiocracy; these bastards want to put fucking advertisements on bloody everything! Them, them, fuck them!
Mainstream Hollywood ran out of original ideas for movies quite some time ago. When? When they started turning to old, bad TV sitcoms and video games for movie ideas. This one? Got to be bottom of the barrel. I loved playing Asteroids and all, but this is NOT movie plot material! What's worse? It'll probably have the living SHIT marketed out of it, and they'll push for an Imax 3D release of it. I'm going to go puke now..
Oh I dunno about it being useless. I'm a cyclist, and I ride a motorcycle, and of course I also drive. I ride my bicycle at night on a fairly regular basis, and while I have a very bright conventional taillight and headlight (helmet mounted), I know that even when it's flashing, the taillight isn't really visible enough. I'd have to see it for myself (instead of relying on the picture in the article), but I think that something projecting onto the ground like that would be attention-getting. Or not. As I said, I'd have to see it for myself first. The price would have to be right, too.
I suppose they're going to make us pay for these specialized GPS receivers out of our own pockets? Require professional installation? What about my motorcycle, are they going to insist I fuck that up by putting their piece of crap on it too? Fuck this bullshit. Won't vote for it, and if they try to jam it down our throats, I won't co-operate with it either. For fuck's sake, just increase the damned gasoline tax instead you idiots! NOBODY is going to go for this except the damned politicians and the bastards who want a police state!
Even if they mandate that the software somehow be made "uninstallable", determined people will hack around it or hack it out completely in no time anyway.
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Screw CSI, give 'em to Abby on NCIS. XD
Hear, hear! Didn't like it in the first place! I too will stick to my nice, PRINTED books, thank you very much!
Said it before, I'll say it again: I will NOT consent to tracking devices of ANY sort installed on ANY vehicle I own. Period. They can kiss my ass.
Buy used CDs instead whenever possible, and if you really want to support the bands themselves, send the the difference in cash.
Why not have them build their own crystal AM radio, totally old-school style? Wind their own coils, use a piece of wood for the base and another for the coil form (piece of hardwood dowel?). You can still find 1N34 or 1N60 germanium diodes to use as the detector, and just about any ceramic disc 0.01uF capacitor for the filter. Most expensive parts would be the 365pF variable capacitor and a crystal headphone; magnet wire of an appropriate gauge would be relatively cheap per unit, coming off a single spool. Antenna can be just another length of the same magnet wire, or if you have some bare solid wire around, so much the better. As the object of lesson(s) in basic electronics, it's still a goldmine, you can teach them about tuned circuits, modulation methods, etc.
I think it's pretty obvious what Pandora is angling at here, they're attacking the obvious double-standard. Problem is that if it goes the other way, then that's pretty much the last nail in the coffin of broadcast radio; it's already only a marginally profitable business to be in anymore, and having to pay more royalties will kill most of them off for good.
Why are we installing 'vital' equipment on something we're going to let burn up in the atmosphere?
If you're tweeting when you poop, then I'd say you should go talk to your doctor about a referral to a proctologist.
No kidding. Yet another way to track people's whereabouts. What is this, a way to close the gap when there's no GPS reception? Are we going to have to take the battery out of our phones when we're not actively using them? Perhaps install a hardware switch on the phone to disconnect the microphone? WTF?
I wish I had an intelligent comment to make on a story like this.. but this, and things like it, piss me off so much that I get virutally incoherent. China has NO concept of human rights.
..and wants their Star Wars program back. Is there any chance that something like this would work, or has Gates finally cracked?
"Fear" being the operative word in all these conversations. We're becoming a world ruled by fear, and it's BULLSHIT.
This sounds like an awesome development in the area of personal security alright -- especially for looking at porn in your cubicle at work. Your boss or co-worker peers over the wall to try to catch you? No problem, it blurs the screen!
They can "ban" something all they want, manufacturers will still make them because people will still want them and will find a way to get them.
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The chicken or the sex?
get backups online for $5/month
Brilliant. So that when the dumbass online company's lack of security results in someone stealing what they're storing, some asshole indentity theif can steal everything you've got all in one fell swoop. Or better yet, they go out of business and you lose your data anyway. Or better yet: they don't care about your privacy and mine your data for data they can sell. Hogwash, stuff and nonsense. You're better off using removable drives, backing up to them, and storing them in a safe deposit box, or at least in a closet somewhere.
"Patent" my ass. What I would like to send them is a bag of burning dog shit on their front porch for even suggesting such an idea! It seems that every day we really are coming closer and closer to the insane world of the movie Idiocracy; these bastards want to put fucking advertisements on bloody everything! Them, them, fuck them!
Mainstream Hollywood ran out of original ideas for movies quite some time ago. When? When they started turning to old, bad TV sitcoms and video games for movie ideas. This one? Got to be bottom of the barrel. I loved playing Asteroids and all, but this is NOT movie plot material! What's worse? It'll probably have the living SHIT marketed out of it, and they'll push for an Imax 3D release of it. I'm going to go puke now..
Oh I dunno about it being useless. I'm a cyclist, and I ride a motorcycle, and of course I also drive. I ride my bicycle at night on a fairly regular basis, and while I have a very bright conventional taillight and headlight (helmet mounted), I know that even when it's flashing, the taillight isn't really visible enough. I'd have to see it for myself (instead of relying on the picture in the article), but I think that something projecting onto the ground like that would be attention-getting. Or not. As I said, I'd have to see it for myself first. The price would have to be right, too.
I, for one, welcome our self-replicating nanotechnological robotic Martian overlords!
I suppose they're going to make us pay for these specialized GPS receivers out of our own pockets? Require professional installation? What about my motorcycle, are they going to insist I fuck that up by putting their piece of crap on it too? Fuck this bullshit. Won't vote for it, and if they try to jam it down our throats, I won't co-operate with it either. For fuck's sake, just increase the damned gasoline tax instead you idiots! NOBODY is going to go for this except the damned politicians and the bastards who want a police state!
Personally I'm holding out for the initial release of the MILFS2 filesystem. XD
Even if they mandate that the software somehow be made "uninstallable", determined people will hack around it or hack it out completely in no time anyway.
Go back to 4chan, /b/tard troll.
I've been following this, and I'm taking it to be a pissing match between Amazon and the Government, amirite?