On the other hand, I'm quite sure they will only want to know if you were speeding when you crashed.
Which reminds me of a thing I saw looking at GPS data from a tracker fitted to one of the local council vehicles as he broke the speed limit on a busy motorway in atrocious weather, and crashed destroying the car.
The speed limit on that stretch was 50mph, and there were a couple of sharply-curving offramps. You could see his GPS log go 60, 60, 60, 60, 55, 55, 55, 50, 50, 50, 40, 15, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0...
50mph on an offramp with a 30 limit, in heavy rain after two weeks of dry weather? Yeah. You're not getting a company car again for a while.
I have to say, it reminds me of the comment an ex-Signals guy doing his amateur radio licence at the local club made, along the lines of "a map with a bullethole in it is a map that's still mostly accurate, but a laptop with a bullethole in it is really just too big to be a useful paperweight"
Well I guess the worst case would be until the end of the shift, when you need to sign it back in.
It's not a case of revoking keys, it's a case of sending a command to the radio to stun or kill it. The former will just render it inoperative until it's reset remotely, the latter will wipe all its programming including frequencies, keys and so on - and it takes seconds to do once you find the radio is missing. The vehicle-mounted radios are frequently configured to go into stun if they have been disconnected from the battery (which is more of a ballache than you'd suspect, in practice).
If you're going to steal it a day or two before, you're going to want to steal a battery charger for it as well, which may prove more difficult.
Just how many lives do you think have been claimed by things like land-speed records? Is that tragic? How many by Arctic expeditions just to say they set foot on the pole? How many by people trying to climb Everest for charity? All *completely* avoidable - so long as we don't want to try to do anything like that.
Here's a car analogy to make it clearer.
You could avoid dying in a horrible fiery accident by never driving your car. However, your car is mostly not on fire, so driving it is usually relatively safe.
If I tell you "Don't drive the car, it has a split fuel hose that is pishing diesel all over the hot turbocharger and it will likely go on fire", and you drive the car, and the split hose pishes diesel all over the hot bits and it explodes and you die a hideous deaith in a horrible fiery accident, then that was an avoidable accident similar to the ones we're talking about here. This is an accident that would not normally occur, were the car to be operated within normal parameters (ie. not pishing diesel over the hot engine).
It's used in the US, where they are 20 years behind the rest of the world in mobile phones.
Come on, America, at least move onto GSM. Now that it's all being ripped out and replaced with 3G there's a lot of GSM hardware on the second-hand market. It's not even expensive.
Make things easy on yourselves. Take that giant leap into the year 2000.
That's exactly it - if you have a vehicle insured and you're over 24 - or maybe 25 now - you can drive any similar class of vehicle covered by your licence. I have my own car insured, so I can drive anyone else's vehicle if I have their permission to do so (if I stole a car I would not be insured to drive it). I couldn't drive a bus or heavy goods vehicle because they would be classed as commercial, but I could drive my neighbour's 7.5 tonne horsebox since my licence covers that class of vehicle.
In contrast my work van is insured so that any employee of the company can drive it, and anyone else specifically listed on the insurance for that vehicle.
Two issues with that - no, not all police cars have that, only *some* of the traffic cars. All the cars have an MDT that a police officer can use to look up a car that they spot, though.
Also, is there some sort of problem with the police pulling over stolen, uninsured or unroadworthy vehicles? I've always thought that was a pretty good idea, and there's often a correlation between driving an illegal vehicle and other crime.
Have you ever tried to deal with Americans? The standard of literacy among them is just terrifying. I have had to teach American exchange students doing degree-level courses what amounts to high school English, because they were functionally illiterate.
That's right. They could barely write a single paragraph without lapsing into "txtspk" or using language skills more appropriate for primary school age children. Writing an entire essay in formal continuous prose was utterly beyond them.
I did notice that the lack of literacy was more pronounced among students from traditionally religious right-wing backgrounds, but I suppose that's because that group does not traditionally value learning.
Oh, I'm painfully aware that computer equipment throws off all sorts of hash, well up into the hundreds of MHz range. I can hear my ADSL modem a good quarter of a mile away on 145.6875MHz - in the house its emissions are strong enough to blot out the local repeater.
I don't believe it's possible to recover the encryption key by listening to these pulses. There's so much else going on, and it's not like each little wave is labelled "this is part of the encryption key".
One of the great things about being Scottish is that I can wear a kilt to any wedding, and a lot of other things where "white tie" would just look stupid.
The service manual explains how to fit a 2kB or 8kB RAM chip and jumper it to suit. Many people did just that, or even a stack of such chips to make 16k.
Equally, though, your faith in the non-existence of God has just as much substance as pixies at the bottom of the garden.
You can't prove it, therefore you are a religious crazy with your own airy-fairy set of unprovable beliefs.
I don't think you can prove the existence or non-existence of God either way, but I can't prove it either. The only rational position to take is one of extreme agnosticism, and leave the God-botherers and the Dawkins-botherers to enjoy their own little world of faith.
It depends what you're trying to achieve. These days you might well be using SDR for this, because it's easier to do all the filtering and processing digitally and then bang the quadrature output through an upconverter.
For simple FM or AM broadcast, you could do it "all analogue" easily. For SSB - which I will admit is more geared to communications than broadcast - you are far better using SDR at least for your exciter. Crystal filters and phasing-type generators are a pain in the arse to construct and require carefully matched components. To do it in SDR it's a Hilbert transform, multiply with the rotating vector to shift it to your IF, and then apply an FIR filter to lop off the bits you don't want. Simple.
The burden of proof falls upon those making the claim, not the other way around.
You're making the claim that God does not exist. That should be easy enough to prove, shouldn't it?
If you can't *prove* that God does not exist, you're just another religious wacko with no plausible backing to your beliefs. But, you're perfectly within your right to your faith;-)
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There's no such thing as nuclear waste. There's just stuff you haven't configured your *other* fast breeder reactor to burn, yet.
On the other hand, I'm quite sure they will only want to know if you were speeding when you crashed.
Which reminds me of a thing I saw looking at GPS data from a tracker fitted to one of the local council vehicles as he broke the speed limit on a busy motorway in atrocious weather, and crashed destroying the car.
The speed limit on that stretch was 50mph, and there were a couple of sharply-curving offramps. You could see his GPS log go 60, 60, 60, 60, 55, 55, 55, 50, 50, 50, 40, 15, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0...
50mph on an offramp with a 30 limit, in heavy rain after two weeks of dry weather? Yeah. You're not getting a company car again for a while.
I have to say, it reminds me of the comment an ex-Signals guy doing his amateur radio licence at the local club made, along the lines of "a map with a bullethole in it is a map that's still mostly accurate, but a laptop with a bullethole in it is really just too big to be a useful paperweight"
It is if you spray it on a nice hot turbocharger. Petrol boils off and blows away far too quickly to be much of a risk.
Now what *is* really nasty, is brake fluid. Sticky, not very volatile, worryingly low flashpoint...
Well I guess the worst case would be until the end of the shift, when you need to sign it back in.
It's not a case of revoking keys, it's a case of sending a command to the radio to stun or kill it. The former will just render it inoperative until it's reset remotely, the latter will wipe all its programming including frequencies, keys and so on - and it takes seconds to do once you find the radio is missing. The vehicle-mounted radios are frequently configured to go into stun if they have been disconnected from the battery (which is more of a ballache than you'd suspect, in practice).
If you're going to steal it a day or two before, you're going to want to steal a battery charger for it as well, which may prove more difficult.
Just how many lives do you think have been claimed by things like land-speed records? Is that tragic? How many by Arctic expeditions just to say they set foot on the pole? How many by people trying to climb Everest for charity? All *completely* avoidable - so long as we don't want to try to do anything like that.
Here's a car analogy to make it clearer.
You could avoid dying in a horrible fiery accident by never driving your car. However, your car is mostly not on fire, so driving it is usually relatively safe.
If I tell you "Don't drive the car, it has a split fuel hose that is pishing diesel all over the hot turbocharger and it will likely go on fire", and you drive the car, and the split hose pishes diesel all over the hot bits and it explodes and you die a hideous deaith in a horrible fiery accident, then that was an avoidable accident similar to the ones we're talking about here. This is an accident that would not normally occur, were the car to be operated within normal parameters (ie. not pishing diesel over the hot engine).
Yes, and within minutes of it being reported stolen it's a brick.
Do you think no-one has thought of this before?
Okay, and *how* will they be able to listen in to the encrypted digital radio?
Do they have some magic radio decrypter?
So, what you're really saying is, "I'm unhappy with my life because I've never known what creativity feels like"?
It's used in the US, where they are 20 years behind the rest of the world in mobile phones.
Come on, America, at least move onto GSM. Now that it's all being ripped out and replaced with 3G there's a lot of GSM hardware on the second-hand market. It's not even expensive.
Make things easy on yourselves. Take that giant leap into the year 2000.
That's exactly it - if you have a vehicle insured and you're over 24 - or maybe 25 now - you can drive any similar class of vehicle covered by your licence. I have my own car insured, so I can drive anyone else's vehicle if I have their permission to do so (if I stole a car I would not be insured to drive it). I couldn't drive a bus or heavy goods vehicle because they would be classed as commercial, but I could drive my neighbour's 7.5 tonne horsebox since my licence covers that class of vehicle.
In contrast my work van is insured so that any employee of the company can drive it, and anyone else specifically listed on the insurance for that vehicle.
Two issues with that - no, not all police cars have that, only *some* of the traffic cars. All the cars have an MDT that a police officer can use to look up a car that they spot, though.
Also, is there some sort of problem with the police pulling over stolen, uninsured or unroadworthy vehicles? I've always thought that was a pretty good idea, and there's often a correlation between driving an illegal vehicle and other crime.
Have you ever tried to deal with Americans? The standard of literacy among them is just terrifying. I have had to teach American exchange students doing degree-level courses what amounts to high school English, because they were functionally illiterate.
That's right. They could barely write a single paragraph without lapsing into "txtspk" or using language skills more appropriate for primary school age children. Writing an entire essay in formal continuous prose was utterly beyond them.
I did notice that the lack of literacy was more pronounced among students from traditionally religious right-wing backgrounds, but I suppose that's because that group does not traditionally value learning.
One kilogram of mass converted directly to energy would last about 40 minutes.
(Picks up a bag of sugar, eyes it thoughtfully)
40 minutes, eh? That's still pretty cool...
Oh, I'm painfully aware that computer equipment throws off all sorts of hash, well up into the hundreds of MHz range. I can hear my ADSL modem a good quarter of a mile away on 145.6875MHz - in the house its emissions are strong enough to blot out the local repeater.
I don't believe it's possible to recover the encryption key by listening to these pulses. There's so much else going on, and it's not like each little wave is labelled "this is part of the encryption key".
I'll believe it when I see it. Even then, I'll only believe it when I see it working outside a perfectly shielded Faraday cage, more than once.
Good - because with ACTA you could take down UMG's website over this...
As opposed to go to the doctor, get a prescription, go to the pharmacy, pick up your drugs?
Why would I want to pay for them?
One of the great things about being Scottish is that I can wear a kilt to any wedding, and a lot of other things where "white tie" would just look stupid.
The service manual explains how to fit a 2kB or 8kB RAM chip and jumper it to suit. Many people did just that, or even a stack of such chips to make 16k.
And why would you want to buy them without a prescription? That seems pretty silly, really.
... they've pissed off a Southern Man and a Republican, in a position of political power.
Yeah. I can't see this ending well whichever way you slice it.
Equally, though, your faith in the non-existence of God has just as much substance as pixies at the bottom of the garden.
You can't prove it, therefore you are a religious crazy with your own airy-fairy set of unprovable beliefs.
I don't think you can prove the existence or non-existence of God either way, but I can't prove it either. The only rational position to take is one of extreme agnosticism, and leave the God-botherers and the Dawkins-botherers to enjoy their own little world of faith.
It depends what you're trying to achieve. These days you might well be using SDR for this, because it's easier to do all the filtering and processing digitally and then bang the quadrature output through an upconverter.
For simple FM or AM broadcast, you could do it "all analogue" easily. For SSB - which I will admit is more geared to communications than broadcast - you are far better using SDR at least for your exciter. Crystal filters and phasing-type generators are a pain in the arse to construct and require carefully matched components. To do it in SDR it's a Hilbert transform, multiply with the rotating vector to shift it to your IF, and then apply an FIR filter to lop off the bits you don't want. Simple.
The burden of proof falls upon those making the claim, not the other way around.
You're making the claim that God does not exist. That should be easy enough to prove, shouldn't it?
If you can't *prove* that God does not exist, you're just another religious wacko with no plausible backing to your beliefs. But, you're perfectly within your right to your faith ;-)