Yes, and you are correct. We could technically use wifi amplifiers to boost our 2.4GHz signal to a (frightening, costly, and horribly impractical) 1500 watts.
However, no encryption is allowed in that case, even HTTPS.
One thing that I have found concerning about this and other articles on this topic is that they make no mention of what actual spectrum is on the chopping block to be reassigned. I understand that to most people it means nothing, but I'm relatively both curious (and a little wary) of what exactly they're giving up for this.
I guess it's the radio amateur in me that's terrified to lose spectrum (of course, it's not like they're going to be wanting any HF...but 10GHz? 1.2GHz? I think that spectrum might seem a lot more, er, succulent.)
Creative multimedia software isn't locked to that operating system......but otherwise you have some very good points (well, other than that whole 'mouse is going away' bit.)
I'm a socialist, which grants me the interesting position of watching everyone jabber their mouths off with the term without ever actually knowing what it means...
In some ways, it is interesting to think that it is technically easier to recover data from this sort of recording (and likewise, other analog systems like magnetic reel-to-reel tape and records) long after the means to recover the data are lost compared to more modern, computerized formats.
I sometimes worry about the 'lasting-ness' of all my JPEG photography compared to my film negatives through this same issue.
ABS is also pretty easy to test at a low speed. Get up to five or ten miles an hour, preferably on something slick, flat, and very large--and slam on the brakes as hard as you can.
If ABS is working, you'll feel your car's ABS controller come to life, pumping the brake pressure for you, modulating back and forth.
If it doesn't work, you skid an extra two feet.
A remarkable number of car manufacturers use pretty nasty obfuscation in their OBDII/CAN systems outside of the basic emissions checks.
I have a Volvo from 1998, and even though you couldn't cut my brakes or shift my transmission electronically, I need an $8000 box and an $8000/year subscription service to actually toy with the full diagnostic system.
Firstly, these two new reactors are joining two others at Plant Vogtle in Georgia. Southern Company is a co-owner in the project, and their web site is a decent resource for learning about it. These have been in planning for years--several years, in fact. It is interesting that they only gain national attention when the President supports loan guarantees, and the idea for these plants has been around for a long time. (There are currently two nuclear plants in Georgia: Vogtle and Hatch.) Southern Company only is funding/owning about 45% of the plant, whereas Georgia, a co-op, and Ogelthorpe Power own the rest of the project.
Despite the excellent gain, I do wish we would build Integral Fast Reactor designs and finally get over pressurized water--then we could stop worrying so much about waste and enriched fuel.
(I am a resident of Georgia.)
For example, if you use the same distance for trying to charge from an amateur radio antenna (for example) at the legal limit of 1.5 kilowatts, you might actually get something.
Tesla completely got it working, it just wasn't viable for the kinds of practical loads it needed to be and it would spray ungodly amounts of RF hash into the atmosphere.
Regardless of that, it is very disappointing to note the risk/benefit or even pure--dare I say it--romanticism of spaceflight. It's been nearly half a century since we went to the Moon, and our technology since then has advanced almost immeasurably.
Yet--has our engineering talent, scientific motivation, and will to discover followed?
Wrong. If you buy a car, you expect to be able to take it to your own mechanic.
Actually, that's another big issue--carmakers have been going toward obscuring service manuals and making the vehicles use code-obfuscated, encrypted, or just plain odd interfaces for diagnostics that require hideously and prohibitively expensive equipment to interface--something biased heavily toward car dealerships, not independent repair shops. (It's also a PITA for the dying breed of home mechanic.)
Obviously, current wasn't flowing.
No current.
No amperage.
The amps only get the chance to kill you if the electricity has the voltage to reach out and grab you.
For a relatively reliable link, one could get a General class ham radio license and operate HF...although antenna and radio can get a wee bit expensive. Additionally, propagation conditions could be quite an issue.
Oops. "They are unlicensed, however when one has twenty-five or so multi-hundred-dollar pack systems that our school theater purchased only about a year ago"->"...one doesn't like having them go obsolete."
They are unlicensed, however when one has twenty-five or so multi-hundred-dollar pack systems that our school theater purchased only about a year ago. And no, to the other replier--they are in no way breaking the law, for they are in the milliwatt range and in proper allocation by the FCC and USDOC. There are very few 'digital' models for spread spectrum, and the analog packs have no reception issues (although they need companding to squeeze enough dynamic range in.) It would be different if this equipment was legacy...but it's brand new.
Yes, there is no "right" to not receive interference (although I do not believe they are precisely part 15) as with licensed spectrum, like the ham bands I and many others use--however I myself have adored the persistence of analog radios to allow the odd excitement of scanning.
As both a sound engineer at a theater and an amateur radio operator, I fear that these devices will not be made to the standards required for such...versatile transmitters and that they will not properly 'check' for signal presence. It's not too much of a problem for ham stuff (stay out of my 440MHz, I'm happy)--but UHF wireless microphones in theaters utilize unused UHF television channels. I don't want to come in one day, turn on all of my Shure receivers, and have to rechannelize all of my microphones which I already set carefully. I don't know if my wariness is justified, however.
It would work better if the prison was new rather than a retrofit (new, one could place grounded metal mesh inside the concrete)...a Faraday cage is an isolator in that it is a shield for RF, so that it would keep two-way radio traffic inside (and away from snoopers, if that is a wish) but one could also install a repeater to combat that if it is a problem...and additionally, I believe that a jammer has a propensity for a RF lawsuit (rather than a nonemitting device--a a tinfoil hat over the jail, per-se.) I'm not an expert either, though.
As a ham radio operator, I do appreciate the laws against jamming, because such broadband devices often cause quite a bit of hash and spillover.
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No, digitalsushi was correct. There are additional privileges with 802.11.
Yes, and you are correct. We could technically use wifi amplifiers to boost our 2.4GHz signal to a (frightening, costly, and horribly impractical) 1500 watts. However, no encryption is allowed in that case, even HTTPS.
One thing that I have found concerning about this and other articles on this topic is that they make no mention of what actual spectrum is on the chopping block to be reassigned. I understand that to most people it means nothing, but I'm relatively both curious (and a little wary) of what exactly they're giving up for this. I guess it's the radio amateur in me that's terrified to lose spectrum (of course, it's not like they're going to be wanting any HF...but 10GHz? 1.2GHz? I think that spectrum might seem a lot more, er, succulent.)
I would like to note that "exchange of ideas over the free internet" is, notably, somewhat idealistic.
At the RF frequencies involved, you're a lot more conductive than at, say, low-voltage DC.
Creative multimedia software isn't locked to that operating system... ...but otherwise you have some very good points (well, other than that whole 'mouse is going away' bit.)
I'm a socialist, which grants me the interesting position of watching everyone jabber their mouths off with the term without ever actually knowing what it means...
In some ways, it is interesting to think that it is technically easier to recover data from this sort of recording (and likewise, other analog systems like magnetic reel-to-reel tape and records) long after the means to recover the data are lost compared to more modern, computerized formats. I sometimes worry about the 'lasting-ness' of all my JPEG photography compared to my film negatives through this same issue.
I think "reliable for emergency calls" "at home" rings of landline, not iPhone.
ABS is also pretty easy to test at a low speed. Get up to five or ten miles an hour, preferably on something slick, flat, and very large--and slam on the brakes as hard as you can. If ABS is working, you'll feel your car's ABS controller come to life, pumping the brake pressure for you, modulating back and forth. If it doesn't work, you skid an extra two feet.
A remarkable number of car manufacturers use pretty nasty obfuscation in their OBDII/CAN systems outside of the basic emissions checks. I have a Volvo from 1998, and even though you couldn't cut my brakes or shift my transmission electronically, I need an $8000 box and an $8000/year subscription service to actually toy with the full diagnostic system.
Post-Ford Volvo drivers, thank you very much...
Firstly, these two new reactors are joining two others at Plant Vogtle in Georgia. Southern Company is a co-owner in the project, and their web site is a decent resource for learning about it. These have been in planning for years--several years, in fact. It is interesting that they only gain national attention when the President supports loan guarantees, and the idea for these plants has been around for a long time. (There are currently two nuclear plants in Georgia: Vogtle and Hatch.) Southern Company only is funding/owning about 45% of the plant, whereas Georgia, a co-op, and Ogelthorpe Power own the rest of the project. Despite the excellent gain, I do wish we would build Integral Fast Reactor designs and finally get over pressurized water--then we could stop worrying so much about waste and enriched fuel. (I am a resident of Georgia.)
For example, if you use the same distance for trying to charge from an amateur radio antenna (for example) at the legal limit of 1.5 kilowatts, you might actually get something.
Tesla completely got it working, it just wasn't viable for the kinds of practical loads it needed to be and it would spray ungodly amounts of RF hash into the atmosphere.
you can't suck radio waves out of the air like that.
Regardless of that, it is very disappointing to note the risk/benefit or even pure--dare I say it--romanticism of spaceflight. It's been nearly half a century since we went to the Moon, and our technology since then has advanced almost immeasurably. Yet--has our engineering talent, scientific motivation, and will to discover followed?
Wrong. If you buy a car, you expect to be able to take it to your own mechanic.
Actually, that's another big issue--carmakers have been going toward obscuring service manuals and making the vehicles use code-obfuscated, encrypted, or just plain odd interfaces for diagnostics that require hideously and prohibitively expensive equipment to interface--something biased heavily toward car dealerships, not independent repair shops. (It's also a PITA for the dying breed of home mechanic.)
Obviously, current wasn't flowing. No current. No amperage. The amps only get the chance to kill you if the electricity has the voltage to reach out and grab you.
For a relatively reliable link, one could get a General class ham radio license and operate HF...although antenna and radio can get a wee bit expensive. Additionally, propagation conditions could be quite an issue.
Oops. "They are unlicensed, however when one has twenty-five or so multi-hundred-dollar pack systems that our school theater purchased only about a year ago"->"...one doesn't like having them go obsolete."
They are unlicensed, however when one has twenty-five or so multi-hundred-dollar pack systems that our school theater purchased only about a year ago. And no, to the other replier--they are in no way breaking the law, for they are in the milliwatt range and in proper allocation by the FCC and USDOC. There are very few 'digital' models for spread spectrum, and the analog packs have no reception issues (although they need companding to squeeze enough dynamic range in.) It would be different if this equipment was legacy...but it's brand new. Yes, there is no "right" to not receive interference (although I do not believe they are precisely part 15) as with licensed spectrum, like the ham bands I and many others use--however I myself have adored the persistence of analog radios to allow the odd excitement of scanning.
As both a sound engineer at a theater and an amateur radio operator, I fear that these devices will not be made to the standards required for such...versatile transmitters and that they will not properly 'check' for signal presence. It's not too much of a problem for ham stuff (stay out of my 440MHz, I'm happy)--but UHF wireless microphones in theaters utilize unused UHF television channels. I don't want to come in one day, turn on all of my Shure receivers, and have to rechannelize all of my microphones which I already set carefully. I don't know if my wariness is justified, however.
It would work better if the prison was new rather than a retrofit (new, one could place grounded metal mesh inside the concrete)...a Faraday cage is an isolator in that it is a shield for RF, so that it would keep two-way radio traffic inside (and away from snoopers, if that is a wish) but one could also install a repeater to combat that if it is a problem...and additionally, I believe that a jammer has a propensity for a RF lawsuit (rather than a nonemitting device--a a tinfoil hat over the jail, per-se.) I'm not an expert either, though. As a ham radio operator, I do appreciate the laws against jamming, because such broadband devices often cause quite a bit of hash and spillover.