More than enough to mess with the cars on the road beside you, people on the sidewalks, and in some places it can interfere with the homes. Even if it has a 'range' of about 10m, that's it's effective range of jamming, there is no magical sudden stop for radio waves, it just gets weaker but can still interfere. Here's a bizarre bit of info, the centrifuge devices they use at my local bloodbank get messed up by cell signals. They don't know why, and I haven't found an explanation for it, but it does happen, that's why they ban cell phones there. And remember, that jammer is stronger than a cell phone signal, if one was used on the road just outside, it could really screw things up.
I'd love to use an emp generator on that douchebag music hater that drives by at 3am with his car vibrating so loudly you can't even guess what the beat is much less the 'music' he's blasting. I can get the parts for a one-shot device, and place it in range of where his car will be. But I don't because there will be a lot of collateral damage, much of which I can't predict before hand.
Shutting down the scum and douches, great. Getting anyone else in your blanket attack, you're worse than they are. So tell you what, next time someone is too loud on their phone, find where you left your dick, show a slight amount of courage, and tell them "Hey loudmouth, show a little consideration to the other people here and keep it down!". If you can do that instead of being a weaselly coward, make sure you do it loud enough so that not only can he hear ot, but whomever he is talking to can as well. (It's a much bigger deterrent if the person on the other end knows he's being a jerk than if he does himself.)
Grammar is a lost mystical art. Is English better? For me, ABSOLUTELY! Whether I like it or not, English is the only language I am fluent in, and guess what, everyone I know and have met can also converse in English fluently. Isn't that bloody convenient? Now if this was in China I wouldn't expect that, but it isn't.:)
Torrents are simply a type of data transfer protocol, and as such are perfectly 100% legal, period. What you transfer using torrents may or may not be legal.
Same way with FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, and so many others. Basically the internet is made of transfer protocols for many purposes, some for even the same basic uses.
Why are torrents so popular with people? That's so bloody easy I'm shocked that even the politicians don't know. BECAUSE IT WORKS REALLY WELL.
Does any well know commercial software use it? Yes, probably the most well known is World Of Warcraft. They use it for their updates.
Why would a company use it? It works really well! Ok, just a bit more detail, it uses a peer swarm, so that anyone that has a part of the file, can share it with anyone else that wants that same file. It's kind of like a teacher passing out papers in the classroom, where the teacher hands papers to the first person in each row, and they hand it papers to the person behind them, and they to the ones behind them, and so on until everyone has the paper. Takes a lot less time than if the teacher handed one to each person individually. Does anyone here remember when ID released Quake (or maybe it was one of the sequels, I get them mixed up.) online? So many people were trying to get the file, the server was unusable. Took me a bit over 3 days to get my download from them. If they'd have been using torrents, the server wouldn't have been totally flooded, and most people would have been playing later that day, if not sooner.
If someone still doesn't understand due to my poor explanations, just hit bittorrent.com or utorrent.com since I'm sure they have much better explanations.
Why am I bothering to explain/rant about this? Because once again someone mentions the whole 'illegal' scam. I know arkane1234 is well aware of the legality of torrents, but so many people out there aren't, and they tend to jump on things like that. I was just trying to defuse a big bundle of ugly before it might have gotten started. To those that already know this, why are you still reading my post?:)
Did it happen? Yes Is it public record? Yes Is the owner of the campsite trying to hide the facts? Yes Is he doing it out of respect for the hundreds dead and wounded in a tragic accident? No Is he doing it for monetary reasons? Yes
If he didn't want the human bbq to 'taint' his reopening of the campground after this event, he should have picked a different location. I doubt he could have sold the place though, few people would want to buy someplace where those kinds of horrors have occurred.
What he's trying to do is censorship or elimination of history for purposes of commercial gain. I don't care how you slice it, that just isn't ethical.
Maybe he should try to embrace it, and have ghost hunter conventions there, or really spooky Halloween events. I don't know, but trying to deny the past is not the way to go about it.
It accepts input spoken in a normal conversational tone of voice
Understands normal grammar
Allows English input when English is selected as the default language
Runs on multiple versions of istuff (iphone3, iphone 4, ipod, ipad, etc)
Can anyone else add to this list? After all, if they think any touchpad with features like rectangular shape, black coloration, rounded corners, bevels edges, and edge to edge displays is violating their ipad, where do you think they'll draw the line on software?
Should I mention the time I ran into an actual FBI agent in a store getting 'print samples' from various laser and dot matrix printers? He was really upset when I pointed out that they don't have physical type like a typewriter, instead they are all electronic fonts that can be changed on the whim of the user or software. He got even more upset when I pointed out that all the inks and toners came from a handful of factories, and with refils, it might not even be the same one that was originally used. He was one very unhappy agent after that.
Yeah, but in some places this will only convince the bombsquad to blow up your car to 'neutralize' the device, and then charge you all attendant costs. Especially in Boston. It's much cheaper to buy a new car, and either send that one to the scrapyard or donate it to charity. Please note, if you really think it's a bomb, donating it to charity is definitely and act of EVIL, and usually illegal as well.:)
It just struck me. This means they don't know either where the owner of that vehicle works or lives, otherwise they'd have an address to go to for retrieval purposes.
WTH! Were they just sticking them on random cars in a McDonalds or something?
Maybe if they put a bounty on them, $50 dollars no questions asked, or $500 if it's still in working condition.
Hmmm, maybe the working condition bounty should be higher, I know a lot of people that would think $450 they don't yet have is a small price for showing scum exactly what they think of them. Remember, not only is this an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, it is also a declaration of war by the instigator (personal war, not literal war), and an insinuation that you are a vile criminal. Let's just say people don't like being insulted like that and without a large cash mollification, your expensive tracking toy will quickly become random junk.
How many of those were on ex-girlfriends vehicles?
How many were stuck on rusty pickups at the local truckstop in the hopes it would magically be a bandito of some kind? (If you don't do the proper investigation and don't have probable cause, then anything you do is either fishing for clues or making wishes to the magic instant case fairy.)
And how many agents do they have? For that matter, do you really think we have THREE THOUSAND terrorists in our country? Or how about this, 3000 THAT WE KNOW ABOUT?
Neither do I. So who the hell are they tracking, and why? That's a lot of law enforcement abuse of powers there, probably 3000 cases of it. Want to guess how many decades that would take to go through court if you tried to prosecute all of them? (Yeah, we have a lot of courts around the country, but those cases would be clustered in just a few.)
3000 is a small percentage of the total populace, it however is not a small quantity of abuses of power.
Should pay? Ok, probably, that's the whole idea behind stocks, the incentive to get people to buy them, but it sure doesn't seem to be what's driving the market now. If people were buying stocks for dividends, why would anyone buy stocks from a company that has had a policy to NOT pay quarterly dividends since 1995 ?
And of course the original idea of stocks was to invest in the stocks you thought were good, make money off the dividends. Of course these days, the dividends tend to be so low vs the price of the stock, you'd take something insane like a century to get your initial costs back.
Since it's causing instabilities, it's a poorly written piece of malware. The standard generic symptom of being infected by malware is there are no apparent symptoms. It's just that when people start having problems is when they start looking, but you can bet they were infected LONG before they had those unrelated problems. Obviously that doesn't apply to this one, since it's new and it does cause problems. And yes, you can find others that have recognizable symptoms, but most don't.
Wonder how long until Mac users start claiming the don't have malware again. (Will it be Months, Weeks, Days, or Hours...):)
No offense meant to Mac users, but find a way to escape the reality distortion field if you are still in it.
Exactly! Fake info to all their fields. Of course, someone will scream PIRATE if they notice the fakes, but I've seen a ton of people working with stuff that's not pirated (ore even piratable) that only put in fake info if it's something that serves no other pupose than 'identifying' them.
Go through any registration database for a product that doesn't give something useful or desirable to the user for registering. If you do, you will find tons of entries Like Guy Anyman, 1234 My Street, Yourtown USA 98765 These people aren't doing it to avoid prosecution, they are doing it because they are pissed at the company demanding personal information for no reason (in their opinion) other than greed or nosiness.
On the other hand, the ones that do that when dealing with a paid service over the phone (or web) are complete morons and paranoid douche-bags. There are legal issues with that, but I think you'd want to talk to a lawyer to sort those out.
Of course, this will result in a large quantity of 'fluff' papers that were simply written to make their quota. You will even have some academics who will only do fluff since that's what their bosses are demanding. As to real work, it's rather rare that you can publish on a regular schedule like that for the simple fact that you don't have the facts. A large number of research projects may take years to progress to the point where you have publishable material for two basic reasons. First, you don't want to give the competing teams a leg up on the same project, unless you agree to a collaboration before hand. Yes, academics have been known to steal, incorporate, or be inspired by someone elses work, and the first to publish wins. (Articles that duplicate the same work are rarely published unless they can add something new and either important or interesting. Rule of thumb, there is no second place.) Second, the publishers have standards. "What? How dare they!" Yes, that's right, you have to submit something that is complete, and sometimes more than complete. On RARE occasion they will allow something that is filled with question marks, but only when it's something that is fundamentally important and needs the attention of that field. An example of that would be the Neutrino issue that came up recently. The team that found it has no real answers, and it's completely confounded them. Their paper was a plea for help to the scientific community to either find out what what wrong, to find what weird circumstances allowed for apparent FTL travel of neutrinos, or get ready to toss your old physics books in the trash and write new ones.
If you only look at quantity, you end up with a large pile of junk.
Of course, even without looking up the specific programs and things, you know there's something hinky with that claim. After all, Arpanet was running for a very long time before 1978, and it's purpose was to allow the government, military, and universities to communicate (non-audio, aka text) and share data in adverse situations. Do you really think they had that network in place for more than a decade without some means of fulfilling their basic and primary purpose? (Next thing you know, someone will start claiming they invented automobile tires right after Henry Ford died...)
Many politicians don't understand and tend to be against science, especially when it's inconvenient for them. They foolishly think that opinions can change reality. Though it is true that lately the Republicans have brought the anti-science rhetoric to a new achievement in ignorance and stupidity.
Santorum himself is one of the biggest of the ignorant loudmouths on the Republican side at this time. The only place he is not anti-science is some alternate fantasy land, and I really wish he'd either go back there, or at least honestly pass a grade school science class and leave his religious beliefs both out of politics and science as it has no place in either.
Let's hope this fool goes back to whatever toilet he crawled out of, and soon.
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More than enough to mess with the cars on the road beside you, people on the sidewalks, and in some places it can interfere with the homes. Even if it has a 'range' of about 10m, that's it's effective range of jamming, there is no magical sudden stop for radio waves, it just gets weaker but can still interfere.
Here's a bizarre bit of info, the centrifuge devices they use at my local bloodbank get messed up by cell signals. They don't know why, and I haven't found an explanation for it, but it does happen, that's why they ban cell phones there. And remember, that jammer is stronger than a cell phone signal, if one was used on the road just outside, it could really screw things up.
I'd love to use an emp generator on that douchebag music hater that drives by at 3am with his car vibrating so loudly you can't even guess what the beat is much less the 'music' he's blasting. I can get the parts for a one-shot device, and place it in range of where his car will be. But I don't because there will be a lot of collateral damage, much of which I can't predict before hand.
Shutting down the scum and douches, great. Getting anyone else in your blanket attack, you're worse than they are.
So tell you what, next time someone is too loud on their phone, find where you left your dick, show a slight amount of courage, and tell them "Hey loudmouth, show a little consideration to the other people here and keep it down!". If you can do that instead of being a weaselly coward, make sure you do it loud enough so that not only can he hear ot, but whomever he is talking to can as well. (It's a much bigger deterrent if the person on the other end knows he's being a jerk than if he does himself.)
Grammar is a lost mystical art. :)
Is English better? For me, ABSOLUTELY!
Whether I like it or not, English is the only language I am fluent in, and guess what, everyone I know and have met can also converse in English fluently. Isn't that bloody convenient?
Now if this was in China I wouldn't expect that, but it isn't.
Here's a link to the page with the audio if that's what interests you the most.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17243105
Torrents are simply a type of data transfer protocol, and as such are perfectly 100% legal, period.
:)
What you transfer using torrents may or may not be legal.
Same way with FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, and so many others. Basically the internet is made of transfer protocols for many purposes, some for even the same basic uses.
Why are torrents so popular with people? That's so bloody easy I'm shocked that even the politicians don't know. BECAUSE IT WORKS REALLY WELL.
Does any well know commercial software use it? Yes, probably the most well known is World Of Warcraft. They use it for their updates.
Why would a company use it? It works really well! Ok, just a bit more detail, it uses a peer swarm, so that anyone that has a part of the file, can share it with anyone else that wants that same file. It's kind of like a teacher passing out papers in the classroom, where the teacher hands papers to the first person in each row, and they hand it papers to the person behind them, and they to the ones behind them, and so on until everyone has the paper. Takes a lot less time than if the teacher handed one to each person individually.
Does anyone here remember when ID released Quake (or maybe it was one of the sequels, I get them mixed up.) online? So many people were trying to get the file, the server was unusable. Took me a bit over 3 days to get my download from them. If they'd have been using torrents, the server wouldn't have been totally flooded, and most people would have been playing later that day, if not sooner.
If someone still doesn't understand due to my poor explanations, just hit bittorrent.com or utorrent.com since I'm sure they have much better explanations.
Why am I bothering to explain/rant about this? Because once again someone mentions the whole 'illegal' scam. I know arkane1234 is well aware of the legality of torrents, but so many people out there aren't, and they tend to jump on things like that. I was just trying to defuse a big bundle of ugly before it might have gotten started. To those that already know this, why are you still reading my post?
Did it happen? Yes
Is it public record? Yes
Is the owner of the campsite trying to hide the facts? Yes
Is he doing it out of respect for the hundreds dead and wounded in a tragic accident? No
Is he doing it for monetary reasons? Yes
If he didn't want the human bbq to 'taint' his reopening of the campground after this event, he should have picked a different location.
I doubt he could have sold the place though, few people would want to buy someplace where those kinds of horrors have occurred.
What he's trying to do is censorship or elimination of history for purposes of commercial gain. I don't care how you slice it, that just isn't ethical.
Maybe he should try to embrace it, and have ghost hunter conventions there, or really spooky Halloween events. I don't know, but trying to deny the past is not the way to go about it.
Apple probably thinks it's to similar if:
It accepts input spoken in a normal conversational tone of voice
Understands normal grammar
Allows English input when English is selected as the default language
Runs on multiple versions of istuff (iphone3, iphone 4, ipod, ipad, etc)
Can anyone else add to this list? After all, if they think any touchpad with features like rectangular shape, black coloration, rounded corners, bevels edges, and edge to edge displays is violating their ipad, where do you think they'll draw the line on software?
I bet that will finally be enough of a reason for certain countries to get off their asses and develop anti-drone defense systems.
Agreed.
Should I mention the time I ran into an actual FBI agent in a store getting 'print samples' from various laser and dot matrix printers?
He was really upset when I pointed out that they don't have physical type like a typewriter, instead they are all electronic fonts that can be changed on the whim of the user or software.
He got even more upset when I pointed out that all the inks and toners came from a handful of factories, and with refils, it might not even be the same one that was originally used.
He was one very unhappy agent after that.
Wow, you mean they have flashlight batteries that never go dead?!?! I need like 20 of those things! :)
Lowjack services.
Does this mean I can call the FBI for a jump when by battery goes dead?
Yeah, but in some places this will only convince the bombsquad to blow up your car to 'neutralize' the device, and then charge you all attendant costs. Especially in Boston. It's much cheaper to buy a new car, and either send that one to the scrapyard or donate it to charity. Please note, if you really think it's a bomb, donating it to charity is definitely and act of EVIL, and usually illegal as well. :)
It just struck me. This means they don't know either where the owner of that vehicle works or lives, otherwise they'd have an address to go to for retrieval purposes.
WTH! Were they just sticking them on random cars in a McDonalds or something?
Maybe if they put a bounty on them, $50 dollars no questions asked, or $500 if it's still in working condition.
Hmmm, maybe the working condition bounty should be higher, I know a lot of people that would think $450 they don't yet have is a small price for showing scum exactly what they think of them. Remember, not only is this an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, it is also a declaration of war by the instigator (personal war, not literal war), and an insinuation that you are a vile criminal. Let's just say people don't like being insulted like that and without a large cash mollification, your expensive tracking toy will quickly become random junk.
There are even places that promote such things that will send you a copy for free if you are to stupid to google it.
How many of those were on ex-girlfriends vehicles?
How many were stuck on rusty pickups at the local truckstop in the hopes it would magically be a bandito of some kind?
(If you don't do the proper investigation and don't have probable cause, then anything you do is either fishing for clues or making wishes to the magic instant case fairy.)
And how many agents do they have? For that matter, do you really think we have THREE THOUSAND terrorists in our country? Or how about this, 3000 THAT WE KNOW ABOUT?
Neither do I. So who the hell are they tracking, and why? That's a lot of law enforcement abuse of powers there, probably 3000 cases of it. Want to guess how many decades that would take to go through court if you tried to prosecute all of them? (Yeah, we have a lot of courts around the country, but those cases would be clustered in just a few.)
3000 is a small percentage of the total populace, it however is not a small quantity of abuses of power.
Should pay? Ok, probably, that's the whole idea behind stocks, the incentive to get people to buy them, but it sure doesn't seem to be what's driving the market now.
If people were buying stocks for dividends, why would anyone buy stocks from a company that has had a policy to NOT pay quarterly dividends since 1995 ?
Personally, I think they're all nuts.
And of course the original idea of stocks was to invest in the stocks you thought were good, make money off the dividends.
Of course these days, the dividends tend to be so low vs the price of the stock, you'd take something insane like a century to get your initial costs back.
Since it's causing instabilities, it's a poorly written piece of malware.
:)
The standard generic symptom of being infected by malware is there are no apparent symptoms. It's just that when people start having problems is when they start looking, but you can bet they were infected LONG before they had those unrelated problems. Obviously that doesn't apply to this one, since it's new and it does cause problems. And yes, you can find others that have recognizable symptoms, but most don't.
Wonder how long until Mac users start claiming the don't have malware again. (Will it be Months, Weeks, Days, or Hours...)
No offense meant to Mac users, but find a way to escape the reality distortion field if you are still in it.
Kind of like PCAnywhere for the ipad.
(Or whatever your favorite remote computing software is.)
Exactly! Fake info to all their fields. Of course, someone will scream PIRATE if they notice the fakes, but I've seen a ton of people working with stuff that's not pirated (ore even piratable) that only put in fake info if it's something that serves no other pupose than 'identifying' them.
Go through any registration database for a product that doesn't give something useful or desirable to the user for registering. If you do, you will find tons of entries Like Guy Anyman, 1234 My Street, Yourtown USA 98765
These people aren't doing it to avoid prosecution, they are doing it because they are pissed at the company demanding personal information for no reason (in their opinion) other than greed or nosiness.
On the other hand, the ones that do that when dealing with a paid service over the phone (or web) are complete morons and paranoid douche-bags. There are legal issues with that, but I think you'd want to talk to a lawyer to sort those out.
Of course, this will result in a large quantity of 'fluff' papers that were simply written to make their quota. You will even have some academics who will only do fluff since that's what their bosses are demanding. As to real work, it's rather rare that you can publish on a regular schedule like that for the simple fact that you don't have the facts.
A large number of research projects may take years to progress to the point where you have publishable material for two basic reasons.
First, you don't want to give the competing teams a leg up on the same project, unless you agree to a collaboration before hand. Yes, academics have been known to steal, incorporate, or be inspired by someone elses work, and the first to publish wins. (Articles that duplicate the same work are rarely published unless they can add something new and either important or interesting. Rule of thumb, there is no second place.)
Second, the publishers have standards. "What? How dare they!" Yes, that's right, you have to submit something that is complete, and sometimes more than complete. On RARE occasion they will allow something that is filled with question marks, but only when it's something that is fundamentally important and needs the attention of that field. An example of that would be the Neutrino issue that came up recently. The team that found it has no real answers, and it's completely confounded them. Their paper was a plea for help to the scientific community to either find out what what wrong, to find what weird circumstances allowed for apparent FTL travel of neutrinos, or get ready to toss your old physics books in the trash and write new ones.
If you only look at quantity, you end up with a large pile of junk.
Of course, even without looking up the specific programs and things, you know there's something hinky with that claim. After all, Arpanet was running for a very long time before 1978, and it's purpose was to allow the government, military, and universities to communicate (non-audio, aka text) and share data in adverse situations. Do you really think they had that network in place for more than a decade without some means of fulfilling their basic and primary purpose?
(Next thing you know, someone will start claiming they invented automobile tires right after Henry Ford died...)
Many politicians don't understand and tend to be against science, especially when it's inconvenient for them. They foolishly think that opinions can change reality. Though it is true that lately the Republicans have brought the anti-science rhetoric to a new achievement in ignorance and stupidity.
Santorum himself is one of the biggest of the ignorant loudmouths on the Republican side at this time. The only place he is not anti-science is some alternate fantasy land, and I really wish he'd either go back there, or at least honestly pass a grade school science class and leave his religious beliefs both out of politics and science as it has no place in either.
Let's hope this fool goes back to whatever toilet he crawled out of, and soon.