If you live in the U.S., this type of meat is named "organic" and already on the shelves.
Hell, I would be glad to buy such a product and pay more for them.
You can do that already -- unless you object to the use of antibiotics on animals with an infection. Even organic labelling allows that. It's the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics that is prohibited.
What they are doing is finding you in another person's email (which they voluntarily submitted to LinkedIn), recognizing your address(es), and then suggesting to you that you know this person who has your email address in the contacts they uploaded.
Point is, PAjamian's comment went way over your head. If X=168, there was nothing wrong with the configuration. If you had trouble with it, that might be explained by this sequence of comments.
All four dismissals occurred in the Northern District of Illinois.' I don't see how Prenda thinks this is going to make one lick of difference to an already angry Judge."
Prenda believes the California judge does not have the power to compel out-of-state Prenda "employees" to appear. I would bet a dollar that one of the Prenda guilty parties lives either in Illinois, or the 7th Circuit federal jurisdiction. If they don't dismiss cases in jurisdictions where they live, and things unfold as they have in California, they could face arrest.
I've been thinking that I might like to own a retina Macbook. My reasons are: the good screen, the BSD-based OS, a professionally-made desktop environment.
What is this "iOS-ification" of the Mac you write about? Is Apple making changes to close the platform to non-Xcode development?
I don't make micropayments. I appreciate games which make it clear when a player has purchased an item. "You were killed by custom sniper rifle." I think to myself, they paid 30 cents to be superior.
I do sometimes pay per-month fees, if the game itself is good. I think this is justified for MMO games, due to server and bandwidth requirements.
For games such as the sims, I buy the expansions but would not pay for continuous on-line DRM.
It feels so good to play this way, it makes the pay-to-excel games actually more fun. The challenge becomes to counter-snipe the guy with the 30 cent rifle, unless you get a chance to blow up a 50 cent air ship.
You are absolutely correct. Those who would be forced to relocate rather than resign might have a good case in civil court. I hope they put together a class-action lawsuit immediately.
When a person resigns, they are not eligible for unemployment insurance. What Yahoo is proposing is a restructuring of their work-force, a "lay-off." Unless they are offering a superior severance package, the ethical thing to do is lay these employees off, so they can collect the unemployment insurance they deserve.
None of them are resigning by choice, and if the alternative is that they will be fired for cause, Yahoo should be deeply ashamed of their new CEO.
You would think that Microsoft could comprehend that repeating their same monopolistic practices might land them in the same hot water. But I guess not. So can we please get the FTC and the DoJ involved in this matter? In the last two years, Microsoft has stooped to some extreme measures in an effort to surpress Linux. At least this time, we can rest easy knowing that they only have Steve, not Bill, and have been headed toward oblivion for a long time.
By posting to Slashdot, you've guaranteed that either they will put up, or slink away in shame. Well done, really. I'm pleased to see all that shame-on-you-lawyers posts on Slashdot lately.
Exercise for the student: that SmartNet system carries all of information needed to locate every cop car in town, whether they know it or not. Plot 'em with Google Maps in real time!
Sorry, this is incorrect, as far as I know. You might be thinking of various "automatic vehicle location systems" (AVLS), or perhaps there is a smartnet feature I'm not aware of. Our local police and fire use a disjoint AVLS solution from the smartnet. The police AVLS is in the clear, but requires pinging the car, causing a chime in the car. The fire AVLS is always transmitting. There is good reason not to encrypt the police AVLS -- it is only queried during emergencies and at those times it is critical that the request get through. The countermeasure for the lack of encryption is the in-car chime.
If, as you say, you write your own software, then "linux support" is pretty irrelevant
By "linux support," what I mean is either a working USB driver for it, or a data sheet if there's no USB driver. The bladeRF is open hardware, with even the schematic available and all chips having public data sheets. A device that does not support linux would be a device with no programming information and no driver. I imagine they exist, but maybe I am wrong and there is no such device in the existing market of devices made by hams.
I can't help but notice that I didn't claim there was one.:) You do know what a "straw man" is, right?
You claimed this device wasn't as good as the devices which already exist. That is why my argument is not a "straw man" but a "prove that." I actually have an application for this device, but you claimed that the device was not as good as others already available but intended for the Ham market. As it turns out, the device is a better deal for my application than anything out there.
Are you having a bad day? My sympathies, if so. You seem to be grasping at the idea I'm your adversary. I'm not. I'm just some guy on the Interwebz.
The only negativity I've read toward this project has uniformly been from Hams. From that group, there has been a generally dismissive tone of, "sniff, it doesn't go down to kilohertz..." As a group, you seem to be anti-anything that isn't for Ham applications.
The negative comment you posted is your fault. Yes, it was modded up by dummies, but you posted it. Why do people need to see your negative opinion as the first post? That was pretty lame, in my book. You're not just some guy on the Interwebz when you top-post a fund-raising article with a disparaging comment, you're a negative nancy with some say in the outcome.
BTW, of course "tap" for "trap" was a typo, as you can read in my post there are several other occurences of the word "trap" spelled correctly. Your suggestion that I might have been regurgitating your typo, as if I wouldn't know a "tap" from a "trap", is again an occassion where you are tripping over ego.
I can't help but notice that you weren't able to come up with an example of a better SDR for my application. "cuteSDR" doesn't seem relevant because I write all my own code to control the radio, demodulate (FSK/NFM) the signals, correct the parity-checked bits so the CRC matches, decode the content, etc. It's really irrelevant, because I asked you to name a piece of SDR receiver hardware which fits my bill and is cheaper than $400. I am all ears on that subject, but I don't need any pointers to software. I was asking you to substantiate your pooping on this project by providing an example of an SDR device that would be better for the fun I am having, not the fun you are having. You seemed to gloss over that for some reason.
So what's at 850-869 mhz of $400 worth of interest to you?
Public agencies trunked radio, with whom I am cooperating on a proprietary application. Sorry I can't say more than that, but the signal of interest is Motorola SmartNet in my case. The application sprang from having fun monitoring it, and observing the potential for an improvement to their system.
Re your success with FM, your dongle may have an FM broadcast band trap. Or your antenna system might be doing it for you.
No, none of the dongles have FM broadcast band traps, and the antennas are directly connected 800Mhz 1/4 wavelength dipoles. These are both purchased and home-built antennas, I have several of these dongles. I think you missed the part where I can easily pick up very weak and distant 120MHz signals (yes, using the 800Mhz antennas) which use the same front-end filter as broadcast FM, when we are talking about e4000-based dongles. The FM station nearby is so powerful that I owned several devices (telephones, computer speakers) which I've had to replace because the station was audible on their output. And yet, I can hear airplanes that are 50 miles out in the 120 MHz... I realize the 800MHz antenna is slightly antenuating the 95MHz FM signal, but it's also attenuating the 120MHz air band.
RF is somewhat tricky unless you're pretty knowledgable.
At this point, don't trip over your ego. I'm knowledgable enough to be sure there is no front-end filter of any sort reducing the FM broadcast stations. I understand there is a culture around talking up the trickiness of RF, but let's get past that for the sake of reality.
Dynamic range is one of the key specs we look at.
So, surely an expert amateur radio operator such as yourself will realize that 8 bits gives 50dB dynamic range? Which of course is awful. Yet this overload problem doesn't seem to be real.
That's aside from what happens if there's an RF front end in there, filter(s), a mixer, etc., which quite often, there is.
Are you aware the e4000 data sheet is "out there" on the web? Between the antenna and the A/D, I've got: an ESD diode with 6pF capacitance, the e4000 front-end filter and LNA, the e4000 mixer, 5 more amp stages, decoupling caps, then the A/D, then, the single worst part, a "mystery" (undocumented without NDA) FIR with 20 taps. Why you would imagine that a $20 dongle could arrive with an FM broadcast tap is beyond me. The dongles aren't even shielded, and I can easily pick up the FM broadcast with a shielded 50-ohm resistor connected across the antenna input...
I'll give you that it is likely that the FM station is always contributing to my noise floor, but, realistically, the noise floor of the e4000-based devices is already horrible, with an 8-11dB noise figure, lots of birdies around the multiples of 28MHz and 5/3 of that. If any signal were going to swamp the dongles, I would expect that to be 480MHz USB emanations -- in particular because there is no way to attenuate them via adjusting the front-end LNA gain -- the signal appears to intrude after that stage. Yet I can receive at 450MHz just fine, and that is in the same front-end filter band as 480MHz.
International shortwave broadcasts, both analog and digital. You know, news about other than the Kardashians. AM radio broadcasts (US and elsewhere, depending on your antenna systems.) Longwave broadcasts.
It's true those are all present, but "interesting" is in the ear of the listener. None of those qualify as "interesting" in my book.
Aero beacons.
You mean like VOR? Those are up in the low 100MHz, of course...
Military and utility monitoring
Army ground is 40.5 MHz, again 40.5 > 30. Are there other military signals (we'll get to ELF in a minute)? What utility signals are below 30 MHz? I see them in the 400s around here.
Solar flare monitoring.
Ok this is a little interesting, I'll give you this one.
Monitoring ultrasonics, such as bats and insects.
Ummmmm. Those little buggers use radios?
Submarine communications.
These are on ELF, I'll give you that. But they are encrypted, of course, and they are also immune to traffic analysis. What is fun about monitoring them? Plesae don't tell me these are in the clear...
Time stations.
What is interesting or useful about this, especially given the GPS timebase being globally available?
Citizens band.
One person's interesting is another person's ridiculous, I suppose.
R/c device monitoring.
You mean 27MHz R/C? The servo signal seems particularly boring, unless you are operating the R/C device, in which case you can look at it.
All of these are somewhat interesting, I'll give you that.
HF is where the fun is, I assure you.
I'm having more fun at higher frequencies, I assure you. I think 1090 MHz is more interesting than anything you mentioned. 121.5 is worthy of note. The 450s and 850s (public safety and government) are pretty interesting to most people. Other people enjoy trying to figure out SCADA traffic in the 400's.
My complaint with your Score-5 first post is that you are pooping on a great project because your personal interests don't align. You're a ham. You think that is interesting. Good for you. As a ham, you also have a certain "authority" with some people. That authority is misused or misplaced when you dismiss a good project on the basis of having made an engineering decision that fits the interests of others, but not yours. I am very interested in getting access to the 2.4GHz wi-fi spectrum at the level of the signal. But my interests are more in software, software security, and things like that. So this particular SDR example from RFSPACE is of pretty much zero interest to me.
Ok, I am looking for an 858 MHz software defined receiver with at least 19 MHz spectrum bandwidth, and 8-bit samples work just fine for me at present. What's the most cost-effective solution for me at present? I only run Linux, so exclusively Windows support will be unacceptable.
I couldn't care less about Ham bands, but 450 MHz and 120 MHz would be "nice to have," as well as 1090 MHz. But I only need 850Mhz - 869MHz.
This bladeRF looks perfect for me.
By the way, I live a few blocks from a commercial FM station and use the RTL-based dongles at present. I don't have any problems with overload, even when tuning 120 MHz (same band in the e4000 LNA). I don't think the dongles really have the problems you stated. They do have a lot of problems (particularly birdies, and a high noise figure), but the concern about overload is urban legend.
Slashdot Mirror
http://wh.gov/hrbB
Let's turn our swords into plowshares and grab all those patents for the public domain.
GOES-R looks really cool.
Here is a trailer/teaser video about it, excellent production values. It could be titled: "GOES-R : Into Fog"
The page that has links to all these videos is at a special U.S. government website about GOES-R
This is a much longer video which details all of the instruments.
Finally, you may enjoy this video on the overall NOAA project and system, and how GOES-R fits into that system. Of note in this video is the statement that currently three (3) GOES satellites provide redundant coverage of the U.S.
At the moment, GOES-15 is the west coast satellite, at longitude 135 West. GOES-13 was imaging from 75W. GOES-14 is presently located at 105W.
Hell, I would be glad to buy such a product and pay more for them.
You can do that already -- unless you object to the use of antibiotics on animals with an infection. Even organic labelling allows that. It's the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics that is prohibited.
What they are doing is finding you in another person's email (which they voluntarily submitted to LinkedIn), recognizing your address(es), and then suggesting to you that you know this person who has your email address in the contacts they uploaded.
as your procedures for responding are also being tested
Bravo!
Such a good point you've made.
Point is, PAjamian's comment went way over your head. If X=168, there was nothing wrong with the configuration. If you had trouble with it, that might be explained by this sequence of comments.
All four dismissals occurred in the Northern District of Illinois.' I don't see how Prenda thinks this is going to make one lick of difference to an already angry Judge."
Prenda believes the California judge does not have the power to compel out-of-state Prenda "employees" to appear. I would bet a dollar that one of the Prenda guilty parties lives either in Illinois, or the 7th Circuit federal jurisdiction. If they don't dismiss cases in jurisdictions where they live, and things unfold as they have in California, they could face arrest.
I've been thinking that I might like to own a retina Macbook. My reasons are: the good screen, the BSD-based OS, a professionally-made desktop environment.
What is this "iOS-ification" of the Mac you write about? Is Apple making changes to close the platform to non-Xcode development?
Tell me more.
I don't make micropayments. I appreciate games which make it clear when a player has purchased an item. "You were killed by custom sniper rifle." I think to myself, they paid 30 cents to be superior.
I do sometimes pay per-month fees, if the game itself is good. I think this is justified for MMO games, due to server and bandwidth requirements.
For games such as the sims, I buy the expansions but would not pay for continuous on-line DRM.
It feels so good to play this way, it makes the pay-to-excel games actually more fun. The challenge becomes to counter-snipe the guy with the 30 cent rifle, unless you get a chance to blow up a 50 cent air ship.
The check-for-life feature is 15-20 years old.
You are absolutely correct. Those who would be forced to relocate rather than resign might have a good case in civil court. I hope they put together a class-action lawsuit immediately.
When a person resigns, they are not eligible for unemployment insurance. What Yahoo is proposing is a restructuring of their work-force, a "lay-off." Unless they are offering a superior severance package, the ethical thing to do is lay these employees off, so they can collect the unemployment insurance they deserve.
None of them are resigning by choice, and if the alternative is that they will be fired for cause, Yahoo should be deeply ashamed of their new CEO.
This is why the only Like buttons I see are hosted on the web site I am viewing:
/etc/hosts
$ cat
[...]
127.0.0.30 outbrain.com
127.0.0.30 facebook.com
Here is a product that is used for keeping people away from industrial machines:
http://newtonlabs.com/machviz_quadcam.html
You would think that Microsoft could comprehend that repeating their same monopolistic practices might land them in the same hot water. But I guess not. So can we please get the FTC and the DoJ involved in this matter? In the last two years, Microsoft has stooped to some extreme measures in an effort to surpress Linux. At least this time, we can rest easy knowing that they only have Steve, not Bill, and have been headed toward oblivion for a long time.
By posting to Slashdot, you've guaranteed that either they will put up, or slink away in shame. Well done, really. I'm pleased to see all that shame-on-you-lawyers posts on Slashdot lately.
Exercise for the student: that SmartNet system carries all of information needed to locate every cop car in town, whether they know it or not. Plot 'em with Google Maps in real time!
Sorry, this is incorrect, as far as I know. You might be thinking of various "automatic vehicle location systems" (AVLS), or perhaps there is a smartnet feature I'm not aware of. Our local police and fire use a disjoint AVLS solution from the smartnet. The police AVLS is in the clear, but requires pinging the car, causing a chime in the car. The fire AVLS is always transmitting. There is good reason not to encrypt the police AVLS -- it is only queried during emergencies and at those times it is critical that the request get through. The countermeasure for the lack of encryption is the in-car chime.
Mmmpf. HF is where all the fun is. :)
Savoring the "accuracy" now... Mmmmpf. Somewhat tasteless in that regard.
If, as you say, you write your own software, then "linux support" is pretty irrelevant
By "linux support," what I mean is either a working USB driver for it, or a data sheet if there's no USB driver. The bladeRF is open hardware, with even the schematic available and all chips having public data sheets. A device that does not support linux would be a device with no programming information and no driver. I imagine they exist, but maybe I am wrong and there is no such device in the existing market of devices made by hams.
I can't help but notice that I didn't claim there was one. :) You do know what a "straw man" is, right?
You claimed this device wasn't as good as the devices which already exist. That is why my argument is not a "straw man" but a "prove that." I actually have an application for this device, but you claimed that the device was not as good as others already available but intended for the Ham market. As it turns out, the device is a better deal for my application than anything out there.
Are you having a bad day? My sympathies, if so. You seem to be grasping at the idea I'm your adversary. I'm not. I'm just some guy on the Interwebz.
The only negativity I've read toward this project has uniformly been from Hams. From that group, there has been a generally dismissive tone of, "sniff, it doesn't go down to kilohertz..." As a group, you seem to be anti-anything that isn't for Ham applications.
The negative comment you posted is your fault. Yes, it was modded up by dummies, but you posted it. Why do people need to see your negative opinion as the first post? That was pretty lame, in my book. You're not just some guy on the Interwebz when you top-post a fund-raising article with a disparaging comment, you're a negative nancy with some say in the outcome.
BTW, of course "tap" for "trap" was a typo, as you can read in my post there are several other occurences of the word "trap" spelled correctly. Your suggestion that I might have been regurgitating your typo, as if I wouldn't know a "tap" from a "trap", is again an occassion where you are tripping over ego.
Yup, I'm looking at eight 10gig Ethernet cables.
WUT? Have you considered, oh, I dunno, PCI Express x16? They do make extension cables for that, to get outside the chassis.
So what's at 850-869 mhz of $400 worth of interest to you?
Public agencies trunked radio, with whom I am cooperating on a proprietary application. Sorry I can't say more than that, but the signal of interest is Motorola SmartNet in my case. The application sprang from having fun monitoring it, and observing the potential for an improvement to their system.
Re your success with FM, your dongle may have an FM broadcast band trap. Or your antenna system might be doing it for you.
No, none of the dongles have FM broadcast band traps, and the antennas are directly connected 800Mhz 1/4 wavelength dipoles. These are both purchased and home-built antennas, I have several of these dongles. I think you missed the part where I can easily pick up very weak and distant 120MHz signals (yes, using the 800Mhz antennas) which use the same front-end filter as broadcast FM, when we are talking about e4000-based dongles. The FM station nearby is so powerful that I owned several devices (telephones, computer speakers) which I've had to replace because the station was audible on their output. And yet, I can hear airplanes that are 50 miles out in the 120 MHz... I realize the 800MHz antenna is slightly antenuating the 95MHz FM signal, but it's also attenuating the 120MHz air band.
RF is somewhat tricky unless you're pretty knowledgable.
At this point, don't trip over your ego. I'm knowledgable enough to be sure there is no front-end filter of any sort reducing the FM broadcast stations. I understand there is a culture around talking up the trickiness of RF, but let's get past that for the sake of reality.
Dynamic range is one of the key specs we look at.
So, surely an expert amateur radio operator such as yourself will realize that 8 bits gives 50dB dynamic range? Which of course is awful. Yet this overload problem doesn't seem to be real.
That's aside from what happens if there's an RF front end in there, filter(s), a mixer, etc., which quite often, there is.
Are you aware the e4000 data sheet is "out there" on the web? Between the antenna and the A/D, I've got: an ESD diode with 6pF capacitance, the e4000 front-end filter and LNA, the e4000 mixer, 5 more amp stages, decoupling caps, then the A/D, then, the single worst part, a "mystery" (undocumented without NDA) FIR with 20 taps. Why you would imagine that a $20 dongle could arrive with an FM broadcast tap is beyond me. The dongles aren't even shielded, and I can easily pick up the FM broadcast with a shielded 50-ohm resistor connected across the antenna input...
I'll give you that it is likely that the FM station is always contributing to my noise floor, but, realistically, the noise floor of the e4000-based devices is already horrible, with an 8-11dB noise figure, lots of birdies around the multiples of 28MHz and 5/3 of that. If any signal were going to swamp the dongles, I would expect that to be 480MHz USB emanations -- in particular because there is no way to attenuate them via adjusting the front-end LNA gain -- the signal appears to intrude after that stage. Yet I can receive at 450MHz just fine, and that is in the same front-end filter band as 480MHz.
International shortwave broadcasts, both analog and digital. You know, news about other than the Kardashians. AM radio broadcasts (US and elsewhere, depending on your antenna systems.) Longwave broadcasts.
It's true those are all present, but "interesting" is in the ear of the listener. None of those qualify as "interesting" in my book.
Aero beacons.
You mean like VOR? Those are up in the low 100MHz, of course...
Military and utility monitoring
Army ground is 40.5 MHz, again 40.5 > 30. Are there other military signals (we'll get to ELF in a minute)? What utility signals are below 30 MHz? I see them in the 400s around here.
Solar flare monitoring.
Ok this is a little interesting, I'll give you this one.
Monitoring ultrasonics, such as bats and insects.
Ummmmm. Those little buggers use radios?
Submarine communications.
These are on ELF, I'll give you that. But they are encrypted, of course, and they are also immune to traffic analysis. What is fun about monitoring them? Plesae don't tell me these are in the clear...
Time stations.
What is interesting or useful about this, especially given the GPS timebase being globally available?
Citizens band.
One person's interesting is another person's ridiculous, I suppose.
R/c device monitoring.
You mean 27MHz R/C? The servo signal seems particularly boring, unless you are operating the R/C device, in which case you can look at it.
Coast guard. Commercial marine communications. Weather reports (teletype, naxtex, FAX WX maps, greyscale satellite images.)
All of these are somewhat interesting, I'll give you that.
HF is where the fun is, I assure you.
I'm having more fun at higher frequencies, I assure you. I think 1090 MHz is more interesting than anything you mentioned. 121.5 is worthy of note. The 450s and 850s (public safety and government) are pretty interesting to most people. Other people enjoy trying to figure out SCADA traffic in the 400's.
My complaint with your Score-5 first post is that you are pooping on a great project because your personal interests don't align. You're a ham. You think that is interesting. Good for you. As a ham, you also have a certain "authority" with some people. That authority is misused or misplaced when you dismiss a good project on the basis of having made an engineering decision that fits the interests of others, but not yours. I am very interested in getting access to the 2.4GHz wi-fi spectrum at the level of the signal. But my interests are more in software, software security, and things like that. So this particular SDR example from RFSPACE is of pretty much zero interest to me.
Ok, I am looking for an 858 MHz software defined receiver with at least 19 MHz spectrum bandwidth, and 8-bit samples work just fine for me at present. What's the most cost-effective solution for me at present? I only run Linux, so exclusively Windows support will be unacceptable.
I couldn't care less about Ham bands, but 450 MHz and 120 MHz would be "nice to have," as well as 1090 MHz. But I only need 850Mhz - 869MHz.
This bladeRF looks perfect for me.
By the way, I live a few blocks from a commercial FM station and use the RTL-based dongles at present. I don't have any problems with overload, even when tuning 120 MHz (same band in the e4000 LNA). I don't think the dongles really have the problems you stated. They do have a lot of problems (particularly birdies, and a high noise figure), but the concern about overload is urban legend.
The hardware samples the whole 0.0001-30 MHz band using a high performance
LOL. What is the use of that for a non-Ham?
Your involvement with this might be the reason you didn't do enough research on whether bladeRF is HF-capable.