The equipment I work with can do about 90 miles. Say 7 dBm transmit, -30 dBm receive. If you use around 0.25 dBm attenuation per kilometer at 1550 nanometers, that'll get you to around 150 km.
This is at 2.5 Gbps.
I don't know if that's a lot or not, but that's around where we max out.
Sometimes I think people such as yourself would stand in line to give up your freedoms if you could. Your post is wrong in several ways.
Neither is this a matter of illegal search and seizure, as the movements of a car can be tracked directly by having a car follow it everywhere. The tracking device does nothing more than make this an automated task.
You cannot follow them onto private property without some type of warrant. It's not the same.
This type of weakening of police powers
It's not weakening anything. It's a clarification of the boundaries. They shouldn't have been able to do it to start with.
By skirting the very edges of the law
Then change the law. Don't legislate from the bench.
Hard to believe that anyone in that type of position working for an ISP could be so careless. If anyone should know better, they should.
I'd be curious to know if the passwords that were lost are ISP-assigned gibberish passwords, or user selected ones.
If they are passwords selected by the users, look out. Too many people use the same passwords for many or all of their accounts.
Companies exist to make money. They'd better be concerned about "that financial stuff."
It's nice if they can pay nice salaries, provide insurance, and pay taxes. Sometimes it's necessary to have good employees and keep the government off your back.
From IBM's Certificate of Incorporation:
Article Two - Purpose and powers
The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized and to exercise powers granted under the Business Corporation Law of the State of New York, provided that the Corporation shall not engage in any act or activity requiring the consent or approval of any state official, department, board, agency, or other body without such consent or approval first being obtained.
Which really doesn't tell you anything, but there's not any mention of existing to try to employ people with nice salaries and insurance.
Then you go with satellite, DSL, FIOS, etc. Calling cable a monopoly is like calling the telcos a monopoly - yes, they own the only twisted pair cable outside my house. But they pissed me off and now I don't do business with them. There are other options.
If this process can be regarded as being Turing complete then we have to regard a cell membrane, or even a simple mix of chemicals as being able to compute. And to be able to compute anything.
I can compute anything, given enough time. Part of my computational process may even involve designing a computer to speed the process and giving it specific instructions on what to do, and then waiting for a result.
Make the person provide copies of reasonable proof of ownership (a receipt) and theft (the police report). When these are provided, brick the Kindle with a message to send it back to Amazon for repair. Send it back to the legitimate owner with a bill for $50 recovery fee.
Then make a TV commercial and buy lots of airtime.
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I wonder if this is related to Verizon's announcement that they will soon be releasing phones running Android?
This is at 2.5 Gbps.
I don't know if that's a lot or not, but that's around where we max out.
I suspect we could learn more if the game used real money rather than monopoly money.
http://improbable.com.nyud.net/ig/winners/#ig2009
Neither is this a matter of illegal search and seizure, as the movements of a car can be tracked directly by having a car follow it everywhere. The tracking device does nothing more than make this an automated task.
You cannot follow them onto private property without some type of warrant. It's not the same.
This type of weakening of police powers
It's not weakening anything. It's a clarification of the boundaries. They shouldn't have been able to do it to start with.
By skirting the very edges of the law
Then change the law. Don't legislate from the bench.
Or OLHCPC
So we could get computers out there into the hands of people who don't know how to use them. The malware writers thank you.
Hard to believe that anyone in that type of position working for an ISP could be so careless. If anyone should know better, they should.
I'd be curious to know if the passwords that were lost are ISP-assigned gibberish passwords, or user selected ones.
If they are passwords selected by the users, look out. Too many people use the same passwords for many or all of their accounts.
...and 36 lives...
wouldn't burn my lap and my balls whenever I have to sit them on my laps.
LAPS? I've heard of multiple chins, but LAPS?
Companies exist to make money. They'd better be concerned about "that financial stuff."
It's nice if they can pay nice salaries, provide insurance, and pay taxes. Sometimes it's necessary to have good employees and keep the government off your back.
From IBM's Certificate of Incorporation:
Article Two - Purpose and powers The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized and to exercise powers granted under the Business Corporation Law of the State of New York, provided that the Corporation shall not engage in any act or activity requiring the consent or approval of any state official, department, board, agency, or other body without such consent or approval first being obtained.
Which really doesn't tell you anything, but there's not any mention of existing to try to employ people with nice salaries and insurance.
That could easily be solve by... well... a Faraday cage.
I don't need even more fingerprints on it.
It would be kind of neat for doing presentations, though.
OK, and how about everyone just pays income tax on the average salary in the US? Make it a lot simpler at tax time...
Seems like blocking all unnecessary flash would yield an improvement, rather than just the advertising related crap.
Then you go with satellite, DSL, FIOS, etc. Calling cable a monopoly is like calling the telcos a monopoly - yes, they own the only twisted pair cable outside my house. But they pissed me off and now I don't do business with them. There are other options.
If this process can be regarded as being Turing complete then we have to regard a cell membrane, or even a simple mix of chemicals as being able to compute. And to be able to compute anything.
I can compute anything, given enough time. Part of my computational process may even involve designing a computer to speed the process and giving it specific instructions on what to do, and then waiting for a result.
It says no modifications to the gasoline engine necessary.
It could just as easily be an Exxon Mobile car. Or a Chevron car.
I guess the point is to try to draw attention to algae fuel extraction technology, but it's a bit misleading.
Make the person provide copies of reasonable proof of ownership (a receipt) and theft (the police report). When these are provided, brick the Kindle with a message to send it back to Amazon for repair. Send it back to the legitimate owner with a bill for $50 recovery fee.
Then make a TV commercial and buy lots of airtime.
Such a tactic probably would encourage recklessness and the cutting of corners.
My Commodore still sits on a pedestal
It's the last machine I could rattle out machine code for.
Pathetic, I know.
But I remain a geek to this day.
" 'Round here, we call her The Decapinator."
That tells me nothing. How many beard seconds is that?
I saw 'charter', 'hate', and 'rights' in the title and thought for sure this would be an article about Charter Communications...
You do not want the kind wars we are capable of having nowadays.