My definition of terrorism has something to do with actual violence against civilians.
What, like bulldozing people's homes, often without giving them the chance to retrieve any posessions? Attacking schools with helicopter gunships when the children are outside playing? Herding people into ghettos and forcing them into makeshift camps?
[THIS IS MEANT TO BE IN ITALICS]In reality, there's a bit of white noise (don't know what causes it, might be artificial),[THIS IS MEANT TO BE THE END OF ITALICS]
Radios have a noise gate that is sensitive to signal level. In the absence of signal, it mutes the speaker. Radios in aircraft use AM for various reasons related to what happens if two people talk at the same time (you can hear both, unlike FM), and AM has generally quieter "no signal" background noise than FM which has that loud rushing noise you get when you tune your stereo between stations.
More sophisticated radio systems use a thing called CTCSS with "reverse burst" to send a low-frequency to tell the other radio to unmute, with a little burst of the same tone out of phase for a moment when you let go the transmit button. This tells the other radio to mute quickly before the signal drops, and hides those "KSSHT!" clicks.
SLASHDOT JANITORS: you still haven't fixed the broken <i> tags. Get back to work, you're not done fixing the stuff you wrecked yet.
With Arduino, you are left with IDE that lets you do ONLY the basics.
The IDE just wraps avr-gcc and friends, though. So if you find the clever boilerplate that hides a lot of the messy set-up-the-chip code from you starts to trip you up, you can use whatever else you like. There's a project called arscons that gives you an SConstruct file to build your Arduino projects using the standard Arduino libraries if you don't want the Java-based IDE but you want sketch compatibility.
As for "only the basics", I've implemented four-operator FM synthesis, and two-op synthesis with sample playback just using the normal Arduino IDE and a Duemilenove.
That is true, but you'd have at most a couple of kilobytes of information - and it wouldn't have been mapped as bad if it wasn't hard to read. You could make a pretty good case in court that if it had to be read repeatedly and assembled up from multiple passes then it could have been doctored to say *anything*.
Overkill. Back in the olden days when ones and zeros were literally written as up and down flips of magnetic domains, you could look at the "edges" of each track and make an educated guess at what had been written last. Since hard drives use a far more complicated encoding scheme similar to QAM as used for digital TV, you've got no idea what the bit was. If you imagine that a bit was an analogue value from 0 to 7, you can't tell if it was a 4 last time or a slightly faint 6, or a strong 2. It's gone, properly gone.
I would take the disks and write a single pass of/dev/zero to them. Assuming the drives were built this century, you've not a hope in hell of recovering anything from that.
That was my first thought. I live in East Dunbartonshire. Even considering how much cheaper 3G is in the UK, I don't think I could cope with the bandwidth bill.
Most small cars top out around 120mph and there appears to be no push to go faster. But, just you tell that to my Ariel Atom V8. Oh wait, that's around 15 times the price.
Anything that looks like Pink Floyd is removed. That's the only band that Grooveshark admins fear.
That's because Pink Floyd have their own air force. They bought RAF Mildenhall in the 1980s. Although it's techically a US Air Force base, it's privately funded by a shadowy organisation headed up by Dave Gilmour.
You can do 9600bps on a normal 25kHz channel. If you've got more room to play (say, up around 1.3GHz) you can crank that up to 38.4kbps or possibly more, using the same hardware. The trick is having radios that are truly frequency modulated with a maximally flat phase and frequency response.
This doesn't even count going to "interesting" modes like QAM where you need radios more sophisticated than an old ex-taxi radio.
Oh okay, I'm sorry - we've obviously been talking at cross-purposes.
Just to be clear, over here you are responsible for your vehicle. If you've taken reasonable care to secure it (locked it and taken the keys with you) and someone steals it, well, you did what you could. If you leave it with the keys in the ignition and someone steals it and then ploughs a bunch of schoolchildren at a bus stop, then you must take some of the blame for leaving your car insecure. Most people are not (despite all evidence to the contrary) total dickheads and won't help themselves to your car when they've had a few drinks at a party, but if they did you'd be somewhat responsible for leaving the keys lying around and not actually stopping them taking it.
Well, don't give your car keys to drunk people. How hard a concept is this for you to grasp? Maybe if you regularly have people round who drink too much then "borrow" cars, you should keep your keys somewhere safe. Otherwise, you haven't really got a lot to worry about.
The first scenario is a mistake that anyone could make.
The mistake is to drive after drinking *at all*. If you're going to drive, don't drink. If you're going to drink, don't drive. All this pish about "oh 0.08% BAC makes you less impaired than being a bit tired" is a lot of bloody nonsense. If you're so tired that your driving is impaired don't drive. It's not a hard concept to grasp - if your concentration or reaction time is impaired, leave the car alone.
Well, if they lose their job they don't need to drive to work, do they? If they're on unemployment benefit they can't afford to drive anyway, so logically that stops them from drink-driving.
Do you expect me to be sympathetic? They chose to drive drunk, so they get to live with what happens when you drive drunk. If that means they lose their licence, their job, their car and their house, tough shit. They shouldn't have driven drunk, then.
Yeah, I'm sure the unreasonable/cruel/unusual punishments bit
I don't see how that would apply. You do not have the right to drive - it is a privilege. If you abuse that privilege, you don't get to drive any more.
What, you don't think that your actions should have any consequences?
I don't really see a problem with this. If you drive drunk, you are probably an unacceptable risk for an insurance company. Here in the UK, many people convicted of drink-driving find that after their ban has expired they still cannot drive, because no insurance company will touch them.
There are no Jaywalking laws in the UK, but if you step onto the road it is your responsibility not to get hit - it is not the responsibility of the car to stop.
No, pedestrians have the right of way. If you hit a pedestrian with your car, it's entirely your fault.
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You could have i-Hysteria 2.4TDi - it's a bit slower off the line but it's just about as fast and costs about half as much to run.
No, I think you mean "cyberhysteriahysteria"
My definition of terrorism has something to do with actual violence against civilians.
What, like bulldozing people's homes, often without giving them the chance to retrieve any posessions? Attacking schools with helicopter gunships when the children are outside playing? Herding people into ghettos and forcing them into makeshift camps?
Make the Israelis play nice first.
[THIS IS MEANT TO BE IN ITALICS]In reality, there's a bit of white noise (don't know what causes it, might be artificial),[THIS IS MEANT TO BE THE END OF ITALICS]
Radios have a noise gate that is sensitive to signal level. In the absence of signal, it mutes the speaker. Radios in aircraft use AM for various reasons related to what happens if two people talk at the same time (you can hear both, unlike FM), and AM has generally quieter "no signal" background noise than FM which has that loud rushing noise you get when you tune your stereo between stations.
More sophisticated radio systems use a thing called CTCSS with "reverse burst" to send a low-frequency to tell the other radio to unmute, with a little burst of the same tone out of phase for a moment when you let go the transmit button. This tells the other radio to mute quickly before the signal drops, and hides those "KSSHT!" clicks.
SLASHDOT JANITORS: you still haven't fixed the broken <i> tags. Get back to work, you're not done fixing the stuff you wrecked yet.
... does that mean we can *finally* start classing the Israelis as terrorists and maybe even "liberate" them?
With Arduino, you are left with IDE that lets you do ONLY the basics.
The IDE just wraps avr-gcc and friends, though. So if you find the clever boilerplate that hides a lot of the messy set-up-the-chip code from you starts to trip you up, you can use whatever else you like. There's a project called arscons that gives you an SConstruct file to build your Arduino projects using the standard Arduino libraries if you don't want the Java-based IDE but you want sketch compatibility.
As for "only the basics", I've implemented four-operator FM synthesis, and two-op synthesis with sample playback just using the normal Arduino IDE and a Duemilenove.
That is true, but you'd have at most a couple of kilobytes of information - and it wouldn't have been mapped as bad if it wasn't hard to read. You could make a pretty good case in court that if it had to be read repeatedly and assembled up from multiple passes then it could have been doctored to say *anything*.
Overkill. Back in the olden days when ones and zeros were literally written as up and down flips of magnetic domains, you could look at the "edges" of each track and make an educated guess at what had been written last. Since hard drives use a far more complicated encoding scheme similar to QAM as used for digital TV, you've got no idea what the bit was. If you imagine that a bit was an analogue value from 0 to 7, you can't tell if it was a 4 last time or a slightly faint 6, or a strong 2. It's gone, properly gone.
I would take the disks and write a single pass of /dev/zero to them. Assuming the drives were built this century, you've not a hope in hell of recovering anything from that.
That was my first thought. I live in East Dunbartonshire. Even considering how much cheaper 3G is in the UK, I don't think I could cope with the bandwidth bill.
But you could do better than that without touching satellites, using terrestrial HF.
Yes indeed. There's fair use, there's blatant copyright violation, and then there's just taking the piss. This falls squarely into the latter camp.
Maybe if the **AA concentrated on things like this instead of taking 9-year-olds and 90-year-olds to court, we'd take them more seriously.
Most small cars top out around 120mph and there appears to be no push to go faster. But, just you tell that to my Ariel Atom V8. Oh wait, that's around 15 times the price.
Anything that looks like Pink Floyd is removed. That's the only band that Grooveshark admins fear.
That's because Pink Floyd have their own air force. They bought RAF Mildenhall in the 1980s. Although it's techically a US Air Force base, it's privately funded by a shadowy organisation headed up by Dave Gilmour.
You can do 9600bps on a normal 25kHz channel. If you've got more room to play (say, up around 1.3GHz) you can crank that up to 38.4kbps or possibly more, using the same hardware. The trick is having radios that are truly frequency modulated with a maximally flat phase and frequency response.
This doesn't even count going to "interesting" modes like QAM where you need radios more sophisticated than an old ex-taxi radio.
Oh okay, I'm sorry - we've obviously been talking at cross-purposes.
Just to be clear, over here you are responsible for your vehicle. If you've taken reasonable care to secure it (locked it and taken the keys with you) and someone steals it, well, you did what you could. If you leave it with the keys in the ignition and someone steals it and then ploughs a bunch of schoolchildren at a bus stop, then you must take some of the blame for leaving your car insecure. Most people are not (despite all evidence to the contrary) total dickheads and won't help themselves to your car when they've had a few drinks at a party, but if they did you'd be somewhat responsible for leaving the keys lying around and not actually stopping them taking it.
Well, don't give your car keys to drunk people. How hard a concept is this for you to grasp? Maybe if you regularly have people round who drink too much then "borrow" cars, you should keep your keys somewhere safe. Otherwise, you haven't really got a lot to worry about.
If you leave your keys lying around, that's pretty much what they'll tell you.
If it's your vehicle, it's your responsibility to keep drunk people from trying to drive it. The situation isn't really any different there.
The first scenario is a mistake that anyone could make.
The mistake is to drive after drinking *at all*. If you're going to drive, don't drink. If you're going to drink, don't drive. All this pish about "oh 0.08% BAC makes you less impaired than being a bit tired" is a lot of bloody nonsense. If you're so tired that your driving is impaired don't drive. It's not a hard concept to grasp - if your concentration or reaction time is impaired, leave the car alone.
They're not "denied coverage", it's just priced well out of their reach. Tough shit, shouldn't have driven drunk.
Well, if they lose their job they don't need to drive to work, do they? If they're on unemployment benefit they can't afford to drive anyway, so logically that stops them from drink-driving.
Do you expect me to be sympathetic? They chose to drive drunk, so they get to live with what happens when you drive drunk. If that means they lose their licence, their job, their car and their house, tough shit. They shouldn't have driven drunk, then.
Yeah, I'm sure the unreasonable/cruel/unusual punishments bit
I don't see how that would apply. You do not have the right to drive - it is a privilege. If you abuse that privilege, you don't get to drive any more.
What, you don't think that your actions should have any consequences?
I don't really see a problem with this. If you drive drunk, you are probably an unacceptable risk for an insurance company. Here in the UK, many people convicted of drink-driving find that after their ban has expired they still cannot drive, because no insurance company will touch them.
There are no Jaywalking laws in the UK, but if you step onto the road it is your responsibility not to get hit - it is not the responsibility of the car to stop.
No, pedestrians have the right of way. If you hit a pedestrian with your car, it's entirely your fault.