I'm guessing there will be a Gish Gallop somewhere: Ham will throw a ton of arguments at once, each taking only a few sentences to make and many minutes to counter. It's a sneaky debate tactic, but effective.
Could be, actually. Cut them up and you're looking at a higher cross-section to mass ratio, which hastens the process of very, very slowly falling down from wispy atmospheric drag. But you couldn't do it from the ground - too far, too much air in the way. Perhaps a 'junk hunter' sat could work.
Perhaps true, but a better conductor would have another practical advantage in motor design. You could use higher currents without producing so much heat things start to melt. More powerful motors result.
I have visions of a electric wheelchair with a 'turbo boost' button.
It will. The business approach is obvious: First you set the price ridiculously high, to extract as much money as possible from those who must have their domain at any cost - businesses with trademarks to protect, mostly. But there are only so many of those, so once sales dry up you gradually lower the price to broaden the market. That way everyone pays exactly as much as they can be made to pay, maximising revenue.
One of the major uses for all that cheap, subsidised corn is animal feed - effectively subsidising meat production indirectly. So this isn't just regular pork: It's pork to make pork.
Aside from the last mile, the phone network went cell swiched long, long ago. Cell switched, not packet switched - lower latency that way. Things like ATM and ATM-over-SONET. Not an IP address in sight.
Quite possibly, actually. In order to avoid legal issues (mostly being falsely accused of any crimes committed from their hotspot), many businesses don't run their own. They instead pay a specialist to administer it, handle legal defense and deal with the hassle of authenticating users (typically via a captive portal) to prevent abuse. Hundreds of shops and restaurants might run APs in a city, but only a couple of companies actually administer them all. So it's plausible that CSEC could have arrangements with them.
But traveling without a mobile phone could itsself be taken as a sign of suspicion. It's abnormal behavior, and might be expected of someone trying to avoid tracking.
MAC addresses are six bytes long. Even minus the multicasts, that's still a lot of combinations. The solution is obvious: 1. Client generates random MAC for the session, connects, starts doing stuff. 2. Client listens for a couple of minutes for a matching MAC. If found, goto 1.
A collision is possible, yes, if the previous user of that address happens to be quiet at the time. But it's also very unlikely, and can be resolved by simply reconnecting. No modification to the network hardware is required, nor to other clients.
I once used an IRC client on a terminal connected via a not-very-well-configured serial line. The 'idiot, you just downed the network interface over SSH' port. Thus I am one of the few people to have done the 'embarassing backspace reveal' in recent years.
Electric motors aren't getting more efficient until someone finds a better room-temperature conductor than copper. Ideally a superconductor. There's no fundamental law that says such a thing couldn't exist, but so far it has eluded all efforts to find one.
Google have the advantage of some of the most experienced researchers in the field, and a ridiculous amount of hardware capability. Also, they can afford to throw tons of money at long-shot ideas, knowing that only a few will pan out.
n *can* run at 5GHz. Not all adapters or access points support it. Not helped by many retailers having no idea what frequency means and not even all manufacturers advertising it - if you've got a 5GHz N network, you can have quite a lot of fun trying to buy a device you are sure actually operates in the 5GHz band. Likewise, buy a plain old consumer access point, and chances are it'll be only 2.4GHz. The higher frequency components are more expensive.
There are good reasons. That is not one of them. Lightning protection isn't hard.
A more realistic reason is that many people just don't have the option of running cabling through an existing property - people who rent. Some businesses too, espicially those set up in listed historic buildings. It's hard enough putting electric light in those - it often has to be done via adhesive cable attachments to avoid having to make any structural modifications.
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I'm guessing there will be a Gish Gallop somewhere: Ham will throw a ton of arguments at once, each taking only a few sentences to make and many minutes to counter. It's a sneaky debate tactic, but effective.
Could be, actually. Cut them up and you're looking at a higher cross-section to mass ratio, which hastens the process of very, very slowly falling down from wispy atmospheric drag. But you couldn't do it from the ground - too far, too much air in the way. Perhaps a 'junk hunter' sat could work.
'Death Shark?'
Lets keep them in one place, nice and tidy.
Perhaps true, but a better conductor would have another practical advantage in motor design. You could use higher currents without producing so much heat things start to melt. More powerful motors result.
I have visions of a electric wheelchair with a 'turbo boost' button.
It will. The business approach is obvious: First you set the price ridiculously high, to extract as much money as possible from those who must have their domain at any cost - businesses with trademarks to protect, mostly. But there are only so many of those, so once sales dry up you gradually lower the price to broaden the market. That way everyone pays exactly as much as they can be made to pay, maximising revenue.
That's the idea, anyway. In practice .com became such a buzzword everyone wanted one.
One of the major uses for all that cheap, subsidised corn is animal feed - effectively subsidising meat production indirectly. So this isn't just regular pork: It's pork to make pork.
There really isn't. It's too specialised. They might find a couple of tests to run there, but not enough to come close to covering costs.
Aside from the last mile, the phone network went cell swiched long, long ago. Cell switched, not packet switched - lower latency that way. Things like ATM and ATM-over-SONET. Not an IP address in sight.
Physical destruction is something you do to put on a show for the boss's boss's boss.
Quite possibly, actually. In order to avoid legal issues (mostly being falsely accused of any crimes committed from their hotspot), many businesses don't run their own. They instead pay a specialist to administer it, handle legal defense and deal with the hassle of authenticating users (typically via a captive portal) to prevent abuse. Hundreds of shops and restaurants might run APs in a city, but only a couple of companies actually administer them all. So it's plausible that CSEC could have arrangements with them.
But traveling without a mobile phone could itsself be taken as a sign of suspicion. It's abnormal behavior, and might be expected of someone trying to avoid tracking.
Statistically.
MAC addresses are six bytes long. Even minus the multicasts, that's still a lot of combinations. The solution is obvious:
1. Client generates random MAC for the session, connects, starts doing stuff.
2. Client listens for a couple of minutes for a matching MAC. If found, goto 1.
A collision is possible, yes, if the previous user of that address happens to be quiet at the time. But it's also very unlikely, and can be resolved by simply reconnecting. No modification to the network hardware is required, nor to other clients.
I once used an IRC client on a terminal connected via a not-very-well-configured serial line. The 'idiot, you just downed the network interface over SSH' port. Thus I am one of the few people to have done the 'embarassing backspace reveal' in recent years.
Everyone thought I was just joking with it.
America has the best government money can buy.
Electric motors aren't getting more efficient until someone finds a better room-temperature conductor than copper. Ideally a superconductor. There's no fundamental law that says such a thing couldn't exist, but so far it has eluded all efforts to find one.
Google have the advantage of some of the most experienced researchers in the field, and a ridiculous amount of hardware capability. Also, they can afford to throw tons of money at long-shot ideas, knowing that only a few will pan out.
And when the people start to hate you, you can write a column comparing them to the Nazis.
But they are cheap.
All the options are crappy. We just have to make do with picking the least-crappy.
And yet the default MTU is still stuck at a size chosen to be optimal on a 10base2 segment.
n *can* run at 5GHz. Not all adapters or access points support it. Not helped by many retailers having no idea what frequency means and not even all manufacturers advertising it - if you've got a 5GHz N network, you can have quite a lot of fun trying to buy a device you are sure actually operates in the 5GHz band. Likewise, buy a plain old consumer access point, and chances are it'll be only 2.4GHz. The higher frequency components are more expensive.
There are good reasons. That is not one of them. Lightning protection isn't hard.
A more realistic reason is that many people just don't have the option of running cabling through an existing property - people who rent. Some businesses too, espicially those set up in listed historic buildings. It's hard enough putting electric light in those - it often has to be done via adhesive cable attachments to avoid having to make any structural modifications.