hundreds of thousands of people have been fed, clothed and given medical care by our military
And as a taxpayer and a citizen, why the heck would I care about any of it? If I want to support humanitarian causes, I'll spend my own money directly, knowing that even the highest overhead nonprofits can't shake a stick at military red tape's overheads. Using military for humanitarian purposes is like burning money out in the open. It's not military's job, and it's not a valid use for our tax coffers' contents.
Given your elaboration, it sounds like you can function on very little sleep without accruing sleep deprivation. AFAIK that's very much a genetic rather than learned ability, and it puts you in a very small percentage of the population.
Duh, I mean, come on cowboy, that's for the same reasons not all of us could be cowboys even if there was enough cows for all of us to do cowboy things with (no pun intended). Just because you can do it, doesn't mean everyone else can, or should. I'd say that not understanding that makes TC a bit of an ass. His own ruler only goes so far in measuring others, but he doesn't seem to know it. I'd have thought it's sociable behavior 101...
What the fucking fuck? You can run 3D game engines completely in JavaScript, yet those bozos couldn't be bothered just to emscripten their fucking encryption code to let it run in the browser without using MS-specific technology? Sigh.
Basically you modulate them fully, but they respond with a shallow-modulated optical output. Needs a bit of filtering at the receiving end to correct the roll-off.
As long as you have an open window into a room where IrDA is in use, and are within a couple hundred feet, all you need is a $200 reflector telescope from WalMart and you can receive it using off-the-shelf gear. Been there, done that as a proof of concept. It's not secure unless you run encrypted protocols on top of it.
Yep, it's quite the opposite. If it was limited to working in complete darkness, one could save a little bit of money by getting rid of IR-pass filters that those devices need.
A lot of hardcore engineering data from those space programs is either unavailable to foreigners, or still secret, or lost forever. Seriously. SpaceX can't hire foreigners, for example. India, or any other country, for that matter, can't really get any hard-core reusable engineering data from U.S. space programs, not without going through a drawn-out export licensing process at best.
Last time I checked, NASA wasn't ever in the commercial launch business, LOL. An African country could certainly walk up to any of the commercial launch providers, such as SpaceX, ULA, Roskosmos, etc.
It doesn't work that way. Just because you get decent performance up to 20kHz doesn't mean that suddenly and abruptly the sensitivity drops off a cliff right above 20kHz. Remember: sharp filters are expensive, you won't get one by accident.
LOL, what a bunch of uninformed bullshit. Quality, in audio, generally means distortion. When you've got narrowband signals, typical harmonic distortion is irrelevant in in transmission because the harmonics are way outside of your bandwidth. It is somewhat important in reception, since you've got leakage between frequencies, but that doesn't need much mitigation, typically. Even intermodulation and other kinds of distortion won't matter all that much. It'd take a bit of testing to determine what kind of modulation would get the best S/N ratio, but I presume that BPSK would be easy to deal with as you've got decent ability to detect signal strength to determine if your demodulator output is worth anything.
It really isn't as hard as it sounds. A dedicated engineer (or perhaps two, depending on how many chipsets one wishes to support) could pull it off in a year. Presumably one could leech some driver code from open-source kernels like Linux or FreeBSD.
For an engineer with embedded programming experience, this shouldn't be that big of a deal. The challenge isn't only in coding it up, it is also in looking up and comprehending possibly vast documentation needed to pull it off. The code, presumably, runs in system management mode on x86 machines.
Note that all of this is distinct from a different scenario, in which the big player isn't being anti-competitive at all, but is instead is just much more efficient, and therefore has much lower costs. That sort of "monopolist" can maintain healthy profit margins while pricing goods below what the competition can afford. This, however, is not harmful to consumers, in fact it's good for consumers.
Of course, as we see with Walmart and its ilk, it is very harmful to consumers. Walmart employees are consumers too. For a while now, they haven't been paid a living wage. This is a widespread problem, not even specific to the U.S. or necessarily to big corporations. Labor markets are fucked up in a lot of the developed world. Europe is rolling along pretty much on inertia, just like the U.S. is. Once this inertia runs out, the consumers and the employers will be equally screwed.
They also lose the jobs that were paying them to consume in the first place. Walmart-like corporations, and I'm not necessarily claiming that Amazon qualifies as one just yet, are leveraging the short term social inertia. They literally bleed their customers dry by undercutting their own customers' sources of income. Such changes take time, so the effect is seemingly muted and out of the sphere of comprehension of the executives. The success of big Walmart-like corporations comes with costs that every one of us bears. Costs that are, essentially, deferred expenses for the corporations. The time to pay up will eventually come, when their business starts collapsing due to failure of the very consumers they were so dependent on.
The firewall is not an antivirus proxy. People normally get owned because they pull malware from the network. Said malware may be as "simple" as a PDF or JPEG file that exploits a vulnerability. Firewall doesn't help here.
I don't think that there's any consumer gear, running original firmware (like they all do), older than 3 years that's not completely remotely ownable from the WAN side, via more than one exploit to boot.
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Private security can protect them equally well with much less overhead, I'd have thought.
hundreds of thousands of people have been fed, clothed and given medical care by our military
And as a taxpayer and a citizen, why the heck would I care about any of it? If I want to support humanitarian causes, I'll spend my own money directly, knowing that even the highest overhead nonprofits can't shake a stick at military red tape's overheads. Using military for humanitarian purposes is like burning money out in the open. It's not military's job, and it's not a valid use for our tax coffers' contents.
Given your elaboration, it sounds like you can function on very little sleep without accruing sleep deprivation. AFAIK that's very much a genetic rather than learned ability, and it puts you in a very small percentage of the population.
Duh, I mean, come on cowboy, that's for the same reasons not all of us could be cowboys even if there was enough cows for all of us to do cowboy things with (no pun intended). Just because you can do it, doesn't mean everyone else can, or should. I'd say that not understanding that makes TC a bit of an ass. His own ruler only goes so far in measuring others, but he doesn't seem to know it. I'd have thought it's sociable behavior 101...
Yeah, it's modern because of release dates.
What the fucking fuck? You can run 3D game engines completely in JavaScript, yet those bozos couldn't be bothered just to emscripten their fucking encryption code to let it run in the browser without using MS-specific technology? Sigh.
And let's not forget the clacks towers!
Basically you modulate them fully, but they respond with a shallow-modulated optical output. Needs a bit of filtering at the receiving end to correct the roll-off.
As long as you have an open window into a room where IrDA is in use, and are within a couple hundred feet, all you need is a $200 reflector telescope from WalMart and you can receive it using off-the-shelf gear. Been there, done that as a proof of concept. It's not secure unless you run encrypted protocols on top of it.
Yep, it's quite the opposite. If it was limited to working in complete darkness, one could save a little bit of money by getting rid of IR-pass filters that those devices need.
A lot of hardcore engineering data from those space programs is either unavailable to foreigners, or still secret, or lost forever. Seriously. SpaceX can't hire foreigners, for example. India, or any other country, for that matter, can't really get any hard-core reusable engineering data from U.S. space programs, not without going through a drawn-out export licensing process at best.
Last time I checked, NASA wasn't ever in the commercial launch business, LOL. An African country could certainly walk up to any of the commercial launch providers, such as SpaceX, ULA, Roskosmos, etc.
The 2nd sentence applies to any and all countries. Oh, and you better had some hard numbers for the "better return" claim.
It doesn't work that way. Just because you get decent performance up to 20kHz doesn't mean that suddenly and abruptly the sensitivity drops off a cliff right above 20kHz. Remember: sharp filters are expensive, you won't get one by accident.
LOL, what a bunch of uninformed bullshit. Quality, in audio, generally means distortion. When you've got narrowband signals, typical harmonic distortion is irrelevant in in transmission because the harmonics are way outside of your bandwidth. It is somewhat important in reception, since you've got leakage between frequencies, but that doesn't need much mitigation, typically. Even intermodulation and other kinds of distortion won't matter all that much. It'd take a bit of testing to determine what kind of modulation would get the best S/N ratio, but I presume that BPSK would be easy to deal with as you've got decent ability to detect signal strength to determine if your demodulator output is worth anything.
An air gap merely means that no network or other data cables cross it. It doesn't mean keeping things physically away!
It really isn't as hard as it sounds. A dedicated engineer (or perhaps two, depending on how many chipsets one wishes to support) could pull it off in a year. Presumably one could leech some driver code from open-source kernels like Linux or FreeBSD.
For an engineer with embedded programming experience, this shouldn't be that big of a deal. The challenge isn't only in coding it up, it is also in looking up and comprehending possibly vast documentation needed to pull it off. The code, presumably, runs in system management mode on x86 machines.
So, what's wrong with moving to another state?
While I agree that quick delivery is a nice thing to have, I still wonder: do we really, really need it? Is the cost worth the convenience?
Note that all of this is distinct from a different scenario, in which the big player isn't being anti-competitive at all, but is instead is just much more efficient, and therefore has much lower costs. That sort of "monopolist" can maintain healthy profit margins while pricing goods below what the competition can afford. This, however, is not harmful to consumers, in fact it's good for consumers.
Of course, as we see with Walmart and its ilk, it is very harmful to consumers. Walmart employees are consumers too. For a while now, they haven't been paid a living wage. This is a widespread problem, not even specific to the U.S. or necessarily to big corporations. Labor markets are fucked up in a lot of the developed world. Europe is rolling along pretty much on inertia, just like the U.S. is. Once this inertia runs out, the consumers and the employers will be equally screwed.
They also lose the jobs that were paying them to consume in the first place. Walmart-like corporations, and I'm not necessarily claiming that Amazon qualifies as one just yet, are leveraging the short term social inertia. They literally bleed their customers dry by undercutting their own customers' sources of income. Such changes take time, so the effect is seemingly muted and out of the sphere of comprehension of the executives. The success of big Walmart-like corporations comes with costs that every one of us bears. Costs that are, essentially, deferred expenses for the corporations. The time to pay up will eventually come, when their business starts collapsing due to failure of the very consumers they were so dependent on.
We need more of you :) Kudos.
The firewall is not an antivirus proxy. People normally get owned because they pull malware from the network. Said malware may be as "simple" as a PDF or JPEG file that exploits a vulnerability. Firewall doesn't help here.
I don't think that there's any consumer gear, running original firmware (like they all do), older than 3 years that's not completely remotely ownable from the WAN side, via more than one exploit to boot.
A suborbital mission would do the trick. Maybe Copenhagen Suborbitals could earn money that way in the future?