Right now I'm one broke mofo. I pity the fool that tries to steal my ID. Now you have all my financial information that is relevant. Go for it. One way to protect against ID theft is to be cause the ID thief more harm by using your ID.
Why didn't you build your own APRS gateway? Even an old scanner would have done the trick (and don't tell me you don't have something laying around that will pickup VHF.) Where I live you can hardly use APRS because there are too many beacons on, esp. during drive-time. That's why my ham club (tribalhams.net) is going D-Star with the GPS mods.
Anyway Lumpy, hope to hear you on the air sometime. Send me an email with your call and maybe we can sched something.
People aren't that altruistic. I mean, they're spending this huge amount of money to send this handful of people off into space.
Yeah, in the US we're spending huge amounts of money to send more than a handful of people back to Allah. Do you think we have the money to spread democracy to the stars after that program?
There are still ham radio guys pounding out Morse code on CW shortwave. ( http://www.eham.net/articles/20840 ) I wouldn't bet that all old forms of communication will die out completely.'
Oh, one other thing. When installing you need root password. It's "moblin". I spent 10 minutes trying to find out what it was. Damn! Now I'm going to have to change it.
I'm starting to think of a new underground project: Marry that license plate making site with LCD photo frames, just for visits to Target.
Anyway, thanks for the anecdotes in your OP, they brought a smile to may face... I have a few friends that are GLBT/WTF and have been with them for some moments like those.
It's all ok as long as the AdCams don't try to figure out what type of porn I like to watch (and if they do, and get it right, this former altarboy is going to spend the rest of his life hiding under a bed.)
Keep the Ranger, you can haul firewood in it. My '89 has 284,000 miles on it and is running strong. If you haven't been there, rangerstation.com is a good resource.
How much firewood can it haul? My 283,000mi Ranger gets about 18-20mpg and it's the only vehicle that we have or can afford right now. What would you have me trade it for?
"Any idea how big the FCC fine is for transmitting on a licensed band without a license?
Common is $10,000.
Do they send you to PMITA prison?"
Doubt it for just that, and if they did it wouldn't be a PMITA prison but a Federal Prison Camp where there are no cells but dorms instead. Like being in an armed service without weekend passes and you don't have to salute the guards.
Any idea if they have the time and money to spend sniffing for transmissions that don't step on people who have the slightest way to know they are being stepped on and hence will never report it?:)
No, they don't have the time or money unless you interfere with someone that has paid for their license and you are causing them harm (i.e.: costing a business money or hampering public safety.)
I did change the font on my SX-64 (luggable with a 4" screen) so that I could tell the difference between 0, 8, and 6. I had to burn a new character EPROM. But yeah, it was a strange way to plot pixels.
I remember writing a straight through 128 byte bit of machine code on the c64 to plot a pixel. That damn thing still took forever to draw Mandelbrots, but it did set the pixel quick once it figured it out!
And by law you must get the ship master's permission to use ham radio on a ship. Close reading of Part 97 will show that this is ever true for ferry boats in Puget Sound and your 2m HT.
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No, he's one of those ham radio nerds. I bet it wasn't really a scanner but an MARSed ham HT.
flashy:/home/joe>perl -e 'print scalar localtime(3151592653),"\n"'
Sun Oct 8 03:55:57 1933
AC: Fox news says you can hack a computer wirelessly. I believe a trusted news source way more than a nerd like you.
Isn't 'Fair and Balanced' a router setting?
Right now I'm one broke mofo. I pity the fool that tries to steal my ID. Now you have all my financial information that is relevant. Go for it. One way to protect against ID theft is to be cause the ID thief more harm by using your ID.
Scott:
I use to have one.. a fun little rig.
-Joe
Here in the Puget Sound area the digipeaters are so busy that APRS gets hard to use. Now our club is putting up a D-Star system.
fb om 73 de w7com k (and those kids think they invented txtspeak!)
Why didn't you build your own APRS gateway? Even an old scanner would have done the trick (and don't tell me you don't have something laying around that will pickup VHF.) Where I live you can hardly use APRS because there are too many beacons on, esp. during drive-time. That's why my ham club (tribalhams.net) is going D-Star with the GPS mods.
Anyway Lumpy, hope to hear you on the air sometime. Send me an email with your call and maybe we can sched something.
73 om,
Joe w7com
How about not sending troops to where they get shot at?
People aren't that altruistic. I mean, they're spending this huge amount of money to send this handful of people off into space.
Yeah, in the US we're spending huge amounts of money to send more than a handful of people back to Allah. Do you think we have the money to spread democracy to the stars after that program?
I just blew off mod points on this topic to make a rather inane point and you come along with something actually insightful. Damn you!
There are still ham radio guys pounding out Morse code on CW shortwave. ( http://www.eham.net/articles/20840 ) I wouldn't bet that all old forms of communication will die out completely.'
thx om en 73 de w7com k
Oh, one other thing. When installing you need root password. It's "moblin". I spent 10 minutes trying to find out what it was.
Damn! Now I'm going to have to change it.
Wonderful post. If you were here, I'd buy you a drink. I'd friend you but /. only allows me know 200 users... that's like only 20 a year.
I'm starting to think of a new underground project: Marry that license plate making site with LCD photo frames, just for visits to Target.
Anyway, thanks for the anecdotes in your OP, they brought a smile to may face... I have a few friends that are GLBT/WTF and have been with them for some moments like those.
It's all ok as long as the AdCams don't try to figure out what type of porn I like to watch (and if they do, and get it right, this former altarboy is going to spend the rest of his life hiding under a bed.)
I would think that a married slashdotter would be above-average.
Knifing is greener.
Keep the Ranger, you can haul firewood in it. My '89 has 284,000 miles on it and is running strong. If you haven't been there, rangerstation.com is a good resource.
Show me a real-world working PRT system. Then go read monorails.org
How much firewood can it haul? My 283,000mi Ranger gets about 18-20mpg and it's the only vehicle that we have or can afford right now. What would you have me trade it for?
"Any idea how big the FCC fine is for transmitting on a licensed band without a license?
Common is $10,000.
Do they send you to PMITA prison?"
Doubt it for just that, and if they did it wouldn't be a PMITA prison but a Federal Prison Camp where there are no cells but dorms instead. Like being in an armed service without weekend passes and you don't have to salute the guards.
Any idea if they have the time and money to spend sniffing for transmissions that don't step on people who have the slightest way to know they are being stepped on and hence will never report it? :)
No, they don't have the time or money unless you interfere with someone that has paid for their license and you are causing them harm (i.e.: costing a business money or hampering public safety.)
Never describe YOURSELF as witty. Leave it to others to make that call.
I did change the font on my SX-64 (luggable with a 4" screen) so that I could tell the difference between 0, 8, and 6. I had to burn a new character EPROM. But yeah, it was a strange way to plot pixels.
I remember writing a straight through 128 byte bit of machine code on the c64 to plot a pixel. That damn thing still took forever to draw Mandelbrots, but it did set the pixel quick once it figured it out!
And by law you must get the ship master's permission to use ham radio on a ship. Close reading of Part 97 will show that this is ever true for ferry boats in Puget Sound and your 2m HT.
Hmm.. time to store some GasFETs in a safe place.
73 de w7com