Progress in any field depends on the number of "i" units needed to obtain the next level of innovation. An exponential growth in the energy needed for the next level means that we soon reach a level where progress stops or slows until a means is created to reduce the requirements by a large factor. At this point rapid growth can continue. If we find that means our current level of technology could be at the 1880 point in the innovation curve.
High-end car units (Kenwood) with intergrated GPS (Garmin), video, digial music, IPOD intergration, Bluetooth, SAT radio, traffic data and AM/FM are a must have system for my cars now. Who needs a hand-held device when your car has everything.
I once had to copy Nixdorf data-entry files to 360K single sided 8" floppies for General Dynamics in San Diego. So I wrote a FORTRAN program to reprogram the floppy controller to write the data in raw mode to 128 byte sectors to emulate a card punch. The floppy drives were connected to the serial port on the I/O controller (Harris H-series) So to make it work we would drop the data-entray tape in the harris tape reader and mount it, insert a blank floppy in the monster driver, start my program to begin reading the tape and keep swapping new floppies as they filled up with data. Why they needed the data in the archaic format I will never know.
Yes, but even in the 70s they had the tech to build in at least some sort of encoding required before the channel would be opened for you even if it was just some sort of DTMF. Sure , people would still be able to hack it but they'd require extra equipment that perhaps wouldn't be available off the shelf in truck stops.
Why waste the time snooping and cracking passwords when you could do things the old fashioned way. A red hot framing nail up the sysadmins uretha works every time.
Obama will have no secrets or real privacy anyway. Every step, utterance or communication will be recorded. Even in the private residence he is still almost a prisoner. So if he gets a little joy thinking he's getting out of the maze (he won't) by using the Blackberry, more power to the poor sap.
AP/UPI/TAS transmitted the news via HF rtty links long ago. To receive up to date news for the crew the Radiomen on the ship would connect a TTY normally used for classifed traffic to a RTTY demodulator. The problem was that per "RED/BLACK" (page 90 on the NSA doc), the TTY was RED and the RTTY demod was BLACK. It was totally forbidden to interconnect the systems and patch panels had to be so many feet apart and in separate rooms. Only a NSA approved crypto device could be used in the middle.
So every shop would make a 20foot long patch cable for the connection. Our approved patch cords were only about 2 feet. Every NSA audit they had to hid this cable or be hit for a major violation. Everbody knew it was happening but looked the other way because the CO of the ship wanted his news.
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You think it's fun listening to some euro jackass telling his bitches to get work because he needs a new gold tooth?
He kicked the Mega sharks ass so I'm sure a little CO2 will be easy for him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LpjxWF7C6E
Progress in any field depends on the number of "i" units needed to obtain the next level of innovation. An exponential growth in the energy needed for the next level means that we soon reach a level where progress stops or slows until a means is created to reduce the requirements by a large factor. At this point rapid growth can continue.
If we find that means our current level of technology could be at the 1880 point in the innovation curve.
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/benjacoby/2008/03/11/s-curves.jpg
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High-end car units (Kenwood) with intergrated GPS (Garmin), video, digial music, IPOD intergration, Bluetooth, SAT radio, traffic data and AM/FM are a must have system for my cars now. Who needs a hand-held device when your car has everything.
http://www.kenwoodusa.com/Car_Entertainment/eXcelon/Mobile_Video_n_Navigation/DNX9140
I just throw my empty Hamms cans out the window anyway.
Look here. http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/
I once had to copy Nixdorf data-entry files to 360K single sided 8" floppies for General Dynamics in San Diego. So I wrote a FORTRAN program to reprogram the floppy controller to write the data in raw mode to 128 byte sectors to emulate a card punch. The floppy drives were connected to the serial port on the I/O controller (Harris H-series) So to make it work we would drop the data-entray tape in the harris tape reader and mount it, insert a blank floppy in the monster driver, start my program to begin reading the tape and keep swapping new floppies as they filled up with data. Why they needed the data in the archaic format I will never know.
HD PVR-1212 http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HD-PVR
and dumped in the woods.
http://www.kptv.com/slideshow/news/19444624/detail.html
I had the same "fun" with the Atari ST long ago.
http://cd.textfiles.com/806atari/501-600/577/AMULTI13.FLD/AMULTI.DOC
First thing was to copy over my BBS news server and database from a Convergent Technologies MiniFrame to a big shiny 486 linux server. http://www.textfiles.com/bbs/BBSLISTS/bbucket9201s.txt
http://nukeitfromorbit.com/
Yes, but even in the 70s they had the tech to build in at least some sort of encoding required before the channel would be opened for you even if it was just some sort of DTMF. Sure , people would still be able to hack it but they'd require extra equipment that perhaps wouldn't be available off the shelf in truck stops.
I still have equipment running SunOS on a SPARCstation-5. These things just never die.
Ban black people for being harder to cool.
Why waste the time snooping and cracking passwords when you could do things the old fashioned way. A red hot framing nail up the sysadmins uretha works every time.
Quote from the "Jack Bauer diaries"
"They can take my FTL starship from my cold dead hands."
Founding member 148,000BC
Stupid Fraking Ending.
Erm, what? The USS New Orleans only had 2600 deficiencies when inspected: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_Orleans_(LPD-18). Learn to read your own links.
It sounds bad but these old girls are hard to put down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reu_0uULP58
This is the cover story, but what *really* happened?
Another Chinese ship was in the way. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/03/20/vosot.navy.ship.china.usnavy?iref=videosearch
Looking for work?
http://en.ganji.com/jobs/part-time/3-25-19020-1-PART-TIME-JOBS-AVAIALBLE-AT-www-homejobsinuk-com.html
Disregard that, I cook socks. It's "Bunnell", not "Burnell".
More info on wackypedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunnell
Don't forget his "evil" Oregon sidekick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._Jensen
No aux in? Use a FM modulator. http://www.crutchfield.com/p_615TRANC/DLO-TransCast-FM.html?tp=1287
or cassette to aux input device. http://www.crutchfield.com/p_170CD330/Maxell-CD-330.html?tp=121
Obama will have no secrets or real privacy anyway. Every step, utterance or communication will be recorded. Even in the private residence he is still almost a prisoner. So if he gets a little joy thinking he's getting out of the maze (he won't) by using the Blackberry, more power to the poor sap.
Boo Fucking Hoo. If you are calling from the middle-east, Damn right your call is monitored.
AP/UPI/TAS transmitted the news via HF rtty links long ago. To receive up to date news for the crew the Radiomen on the ship would connect a TTY normally used for classifed traffic to a RTTY demodulator. The problem was that per "RED/BLACK" (page 90 on the NSA doc), the TTY was RED and the RTTY demod was BLACK. It was totally forbidden to interconnect the systems and patch panels had to be so many feet apart and in separate rooms. Only a NSA approved crypto device could be used in the middle.
So every shop would make a 20foot long patch cable for the connection. Our approved patch cords were only about 2 feet. Every NSA audit they had to hid this cable or be hit for a major violation. Everbody knew it was happening but looked the other way because the CO of the ship wanted his news.
http://www.virhistory.com/navy/rtty-demod.htm