Informative my ass if you base it on the source you cite. Do moderators just click on made up stuff because it looks enticing? Sheesh.
Looking at worldwide Facebook users, women 26-34 are just as large a demographic as women 18-25. Yes, women 26-34 are leading by 0.1%, ha ha ha. Yet, men in same age ranges are actually a larger demographic - (26.6+26.4)*51.2 > (25.4+25.3)*48.8. The married part you've just made up -- it's nowhere to be found in the cited source.
OK, it's an issue of terminology, then. I was incorrectly using '+' -- for you (and in the standards) it literally is equivalent to some numerical prefix. Not so from the user perspective, though -- not in most cases. All GSM phones, and many VOIP systems, display + to mean the international prefix, and completely hide the numerical prefix from you. You never deal with a numerical prefix. You press "+" followed by the country code. Also, phone numbers displayed on GSM phones that I've ever seen, are either local or use the + symbol to mean the prefix. Even my interminable NOKIA 1100 on a prepaid network displays all US phone numbers, whether local or not, as +1xxxyyyzzzz.
So, what I meant by '+country' was that you don't need to know that in the U.S. it is 011, in EU it is 00 (I recall when in Sweden it was 009), in Japan it's 010, in Australia 0011, in Russia 810 (other exist), etc. It's a mess, I wish everyone simply used ITU recommended 00.
Same here. If it has a surface one can climb onto, he'll get there. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but by next week you forget about it, but he doesn't. So you find him places and you go "how the heck did you...". 17 months old, no broken bones yet -- none that would be externally visible, at least.
That's what you get if you slap together a proof of concept. Matlab's image processing can run much faster than demonstrated here, even on modest hardware. It's an unfinished hack, yes.
Sorry, that's an oft cited strawman. The critique exists in spite of the critiquer, you know. Sure, GP could have refrained from name-calling, but otherwise I can't but agree. It's a cool proof-of-concept, but it should be merely a first step -- something you throw together from junk in a week or so, just to figure out what you need to build the real thing. It's a step in the right direction, but completely unworthy of slashdot frontpage.
I can't but agree. For crying out loud, one can build a much smoother tracking system using image processing on a Parallax Propeller CPU, and that thing has 2kbytes of RAM per core (cog). Using matlab to run something so simple that has an update rate in low single Hz is a letdown. I'd have expected it at least to run at webcam's framerate. It is lame and unworthy of slashdot's frontpage.
Perhaps I wasn't clear: + is not a stand in for a prefix. It's an actual character that you can enter on a cellphone, or on a VOIP phone. I haven't looked into the standards, but presumably ISDN handles + as well, and surely SS7 does, because that's pretty much what runs over the GSM transport IIRC.
Pray tell, how did you enter + using DTMF? Or was it a digital landline, and if so -- which kind? In the U.S., the standard international prefix is 011.
What is that ITU international dialling you refer to? The +country prefix that works on cellphones? This is available everywhere in the world, U.S. included. As for calling from landlines -- ah, it's some pipe dream. Travel around some and tell me what international dial prefixes have you seen, because I have 5 on my list, and I haven't even tried very hard. Even for pulse dialing there are two offsets worldwide -- one pulse can mean 0 or 1, depending on where you are, and U.S. is not to blame for that one either. Get off your high horse, would you.
For processing such an image for publicity release, it'd be customary to estimate motion vector fields between each pair of consecutively taken images, and apply motion compensation to register the clouds with minimal aberration. They apparently didn't do that.
Protip: in modern systems (legacy PC ain't one), the battery is for the realtime clock, and that's that. EEPROM, what a wonderful invention it is. Lets you store data without a power source. Whoa! And with that EEPROM wiped, your system will refuse to boot. So, there you go.
On a Mac with a firmware password, it'll be a fairly useless thing to do, though... If you reformat, AFAIK it won't boot anymore (is that right?), and before reformatting, it won't boot from any other media but the hard drive (I'm sure of that). Plenty of thieves are silly enough to use the conveniently enabled guest account. That's plenty enough for undercover to check in, with their picture, too.
Dangerous chemicals, wakalixes, same thing. Your body is full of dangerous chemicals. Just inject yourself with some extra insulin and tell me how it goes. It's 100% natural and comes from your own body!
Where it comes to leaded PCB assemblies, you're wholly and saldy misinformed. Non-leaded PCB assemblies have bigger environmental impact due to a confluence of reasons. Any of those reasons by itself is perhaps a minor thing, but when taken together they are quite significant.
Are you stupid, or, well, stupid? Federal law prohibits transfer of prescription drugs. Having a prescription drug covered by insurance and then transferring it is also considered to be insurance fraud in may states. Getting a fluid you'll be injecting into your body from someone who posted an ad on Craiglist -- well, stupid it is, then.
Pedophilia != underage sex, although the apparent mixup seems to place you firmly on U.S. soil. Alas, if you seriously think that it's any less "difficult or impossible to assess accurately for each case" when an adult reports a rape, you've obviously never read up on the subject, case law, etc. If there's only two people in seclusion, it's always he-said-she-said, no matter whether people involved are 14 or 60.
One has to be careful here. The medical definition of pedophilia doesn't reach past the age of puberty. Using this, IMHO the only correct, definition, RMS appears to be batshit insane and I can't disagree here.
Alas, in the U.S., the word pedophilia has been re-appropriated to mean sex with underage persons, where "underage" is 16 or 18 depending on who is being asked. Notice that the notion of local law is completely lost in this re-appropriation, and the usual American view is such that it's their way or prison. Going abroad, where different laws apply, and having sex there is illegal as well (this extraterritorial application of law is batshit insane in itself, but oh well). Given that, RMS seems to hint at the fact that the age of majority for consensual sexual relationships isn't set in stone, and varies quite a bit even in the Western world. In Austria it is, for example, 14 years of age, as long as the person under 16 understands the significance of the act.
You don't need to ground the aluminum foil to a water pipe. What for? All you need to get a phone off the air is a metal can with a tight-fitting, no-paint-along-the-line-of-contact metal lid. Old rectangular Twinnings tea cans with round lids would work without modifications I think. Newer Twinnings cans may need some sanding where the lid contacts the can, I'd think, but I didn't try it so just do it and report back:)
Drywall would be much better, because you can easily mix additives into the plaster that would make it a bulk conductor: very good at dissipating RF energy away as heat. Making it selective would be a tad harder, though, because you'd need more targeted additives to act like distributed antennas with some resistance built in (say thin pieces of graphite "wire").
LOL. That wasn't even close. It has nothing to do with grounding, never mind that at 2GHz, the grounding of the desk drawer is fairly immaterial anyway. Think about the impedance of the grounding wire and of the soil itself. The grounding wire will disrupt the RF field around it, but the fact that it ends in a spike in soil doesn't matter at all -- it'd only be measurable up for a few dozen MHz maybe.
The router is leaking RF energy through all the slots present between the drawer and the metal box the drawers slide. It's also using the ethernet and power cables as antennas. The RF energy confined in the drawer couples into the cables and exits the drawer. Same goes for outside RF: it's picked up by the cables, enters the drawer, gets reradiated into the drawer, and is picked up by the router's antenna. You'd be amazed how good this reradiation effect is. You can get a WiFi device, put it in a metal can with a cover soldered in, and just leave two small holes for power and ethernet wires to poke through. That's enough to make it work wirelessly. I have seen that test myself at an electromagnetic compliance (EMC) training. You can have all the shielding you want, but if you poke antennas through it, it's all for naught.
I agree. Imagine what fun it was to attempt to pull 30 year old straw wallpaper. It was a mat of ~1/32" diameter straw with a fine thread woven into it every few inches, to keep the straws aligned. They obviously did a good job of installing it -- the glue held very well, and somehow didn't think much of being soaked in water for hours. After suffering through removal of perhaps 50ft^2 of it, we decided enough was enough. It was easier to replace the drywall in the room. Hey -- the walls look new, and it was easy to pull some new cable in the wall, too.
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Informative my ass if you base it on the source you cite. Do moderators just click on made up stuff because it looks enticing? Sheesh.
Looking at worldwide Facebook users, women 26-34 are just as large a demographic as women 18-25. Yes, women 26-34 are leading by 0.1%, ha ha ha. Yet, men in same age ranges are actually a larger demographic - (26.6+26.4)*51.2 > (25.4+25.3)*48.8. The married part you've just made up -- it's nowhere to be found in the cited source.
Not only that: the sticker ads would have a novelty factor for a while. People would be thinking "hmm, what's that?".
OK, it's an issue of terminology, then. I was incorrectly using '+' -- for you (and in the standards) it literally is equivalent to some numerical prefix. Not so from the user perspective, though -- not in most cases. All GSM phones, and many VOIP systems, display + to mean the international prefix, and completely hide the numerical prefix from you. You never deal with a numerical prefix. You press "+" followed by the country code. Also, phone numbers displayed on GSM phones that I've ever seen, are either local or use the + symbol to mean the prefix. Even my interminable NOKIA 1100 on a prepaid network displays all US phone numbers, whether local or not, as +1xxxyyyzzzz.
So, what I meant by '+country' was that you don't need to know that in the U.S. it is 011, in EU it is 00 (I recall when in Sweden it was 009), in Japan it's 010, in Australia 0011, in Russia 810 (other exist), etc. It's a mess, I wish everyone simply used ITU recommended 00.
Same here. If it has a surface one can climb onto, he'll get there. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but by next week you forget about it, but he doesn't. So you find him places and you go "how the heck did you...". 17 months old, no broken bones yet -- none that would be externally visible, at least.
That's what you get if you slap together a proof of concept. Matlab's image processing can run much faster than demonstrated here, even on modest hardware. It's an unfinished hack, yes.
Sorry, that's an oft cited strawman. The critique exists in spite of the critiquer, you know. Sure, GP could have refrained from name-calling, but otherwise I can't but agree. It's a cool proof-of-concept, but it should be merely a first step -- something you throw together from junk in a week or so, just to figure out what you need to build the real thing. It's a step in the right direction, but completely unworthy of slashdot frontpage.
I can't but agree. For crying out loud, one can build a much smoother tracking system using image processing on a Parallax Propeller CPU, and that thing has 2kbytes of RAM per core (cog). Using matlab to run something so simple that has an update rate in low single Hz is a letdown. I'd have expected it at least to run at webcam's framerate. It is lame and unworthy of slashdot's frontpage.
Perhaps I wasn't clear: + is not a stand in for a prefix. It's an actual character that you can enter on a cellphone, or on a VOIP phone. I haven't looked into the standards, but presumably ISDN handles + as well, and surely SS7 does, because that's pretty much what runs over the GSM transport IIRC.
Pray tell, how did you enter + using DTMF? Or was it a digital landline, and if so -- which kind? In the U.S., the standard international prefix is 011.
What is that ITU international dialling you refer to? The +country prefix that works on cellphones? This is available everywhere in the world, U.S. included. As for calling from landlines -- ah, it's some pipe dream. Travel around some and tell me what international dial prefixes have you seen, because I have 5 on my list, and I haven't even tried very hard. Even for pulse dialing there are two offsets worldwide -- one pulse can mean 0 or 1, depending on where you are, and U.S. is not to blame for that one either. Get off your high horse, would you.
Thanks, good point.
For processing such an image for publicity release, it'd be customary to estimate motion vector fields between each pair of consecutively taken images, and apply motion compensation to register the clouds with minimal aberration. They apparently didn't do that.
Protip: in modern systems (legacy PC ain't one), the battery is for the realtime clock, and that's that. EEPROM, what a wonderful invention it is. Lets you store data without a power source. Whoa! And with that EEPROM wiped, your system will refuse to boot. So, there you go.
Maybe that he doesn't have a 'home'.
Then there's renters' insurance, you know.
On a Mac with a firmware password, it'll be a fairly useless thing to do, though... If you reformat, AFAIK it won't boot anymore (is that right?), and before reformatting, it won't boot from any other media but the hard drive (I'm sure of that). Plenty of thieves are silly enough to use the conveniently enabled guest account. That's plenty enough for undercover to check in, with their picture, too.
Dangerous chemicals, wakalixes, same thing. Your body is full of dangerous chemicals. Just inject yourself with some extra insulin and tell me how it goes. It's 100% natural and comes from your own body!
Where it comes to leaded PCB assemblies, you're wholly and saldy misinformed. Non-leaded PCB assemblies have bigger environmental impact due to a confluence of reasons. Any of those reasons by itself is perhaps a minor thing, but when taken together they are quite significant.
Are you stupid, or, well, stupid? Federal law prohibits transfer of prescription drugs. Having a prescription drug covered by insurance and then transferring it is also considered to be insurance fraud in may states. Getting a fluid you'll be injecting into your body from someone who posted an ad on Craiglist -- well, stupid it is, then.
Pedophilia != underage sex, although the apparent mixup seems to place you firmly on U.S. soil. Alas, if you seriously think that it's any less "difficult or impossible to assess accurately for each case" when an adult reports a rape, you've obviously never read up on the subject, case law, etc. If there's only two people in seclusion, it's always he-said-she-said, no matter whether people involved are 14 or 60.
One has to be careful here. The medical definition of pedophilia doesn't reach past the age of puberty. Using this, IMHO the only correct, definition, RMS appears to be batshit insane and I can't disagree here.
Alas, in the U.S., the word pedophilia has been re-appropriated to mean sex with underage persons, where "underage" is 16 or 18 depending on who is being asked. Notice that the notion of local law is completely lost in this re-appropriation, and the usual American view is such that it's their way or prison. Going abroad, where different laws apply, and having sex there is illegal as well (this extraterritorial application of law is batshit insane in itself, but oh well). Given that, RMS seems to hint at the fact that the age of majority for consensual sexual relationships isn't set in stone, and varies quite a bit even in the Western world. In Austria it is, for example, 14 years of age, as long as the person under 16 understands the significance of the act.
FDA regulates medical devices, too. Their name is just that: a name. It could be Wakalix Agency for all I care. Your name hanged-upness is silly.
You don't need to ground the aluminum foil to a water pipe. What for? All you need to get a phone off the air is a metal can with a tight-fitting, no-paint-along-the-line-of-contact metal lid. Old rectangular Twinnings tea cans with round lids would work without modifications I think. Newer Twinnings cans may need some sanding where the lid contacts the can, I'd think, but I didn't try it so just do it and report back :)
Drywall would be much better, because you can easily mix additives into the plaster that would make it a bulk conductor: very good at dissipating RF energy away as heat. Making it selective would be a tad harder, though, because you'd need more targeted additives to act like distributed antennas with some resistance built in (say thin pieces of graphite "wire").
LOL. That wasn't even close. It has nothing to do with grounding, never mind that at 2GHz, the grounding of the desk drawer is fairly immaterial anyway. Think about the impedance of the grounding wire and of the soil itself. The grounding wire will disrupt the RF field around it, but the fact that it ends in a spike in soil doesn't matter at all -- it'd only be measurable up for a few dozen MHz maybe.
The router is leaking RF energy through all the slots present between the drawer and the metal box the drawers slide. It's also using the ethernet and power cables as antennas. The RF energy confined in the drawer couples into the cables and exits the drawer. Same goes for outside RF: it's picked up by the cables, enters the drawer, gets reradiated into the drawer, and is picked up by the router's antenna. You'd be amazed how good this reradiation effect is. You can get a WiFi device, put it in a metal can with a cover soldered in, and just leave two small holes for power and ethernet wires to poke through. That's enough to make it work wirelessly. I have seen that test myself at an electromagnetic compliance (EMC) training. You can have all the shielding you want, but if you poke antennas through it, it's all for naught.
Why would it be illegal? You made that up.
I agree. Imagine what fun it was to attempt to pull 30 year old straw wallpaper. It was a mat of ~1/32" diameter straw with a fine thread woven into it every few inches, to keep the straws aligned. They obviously did a good job of installing it -- the glue held very well, and somehow didn't think much of being soaked in water for hours. After suffering through removal of perhaps 50ft^2 of it, we decided enough was enough. It was easier to replace the drywall in the room. Hey -- the walls look new, and it was easy to pull some new cable in the wall, too.