For the love of all that is holy... why are we no longer allowed to know what we are hovering and what we are loading? What a lovely "addition" and quite "progressive"... i'm all for progress, but come on people....
We still have to bend over, take it, and say thank you to our local (well, heck... AT&T) phone companies for the PRIVILEGE of having 8megabit/s downstream.... Competition anyone? or are we just such mindless sheep that "it's good enough, 'cause my granddaddy only had the pony express"
Empirical testing with wireless CELLULAR networks can be very tricky; A few things that you will need to keep in mind is that for testing, you want to make sure your transceiver setup is perfectly reproducable; Same card, same ANTENNA, same position of antenna. When performing your testing, your signal strength will depend on several factors: Distance from the site, antenna type/gain, and specifically what sector/node on the site you happen to be on. while driving in a straight line, you may find that you approach steep nulls near the border of a cells sector boundary. Alot depends on the ability of your particular card to handle the handoff between sectors/sites.
Your latency measurements will also vary according to the individual usage of the sector/site that you are currently on, and additionally vary with time and also variable bandwidth allocation to the sites from the main switch.
There are quite a few test sets and software suited that are commercially available and are tailored for this use, and are used heavily by the mobile data/cellular industry in their drive testing and coverage verification methodologies.
Ah, yes, but now, at least in the Great state of Mecklenburg (Charlotte...) they are again attempting to get the cameras re-instated... Their grand plan this time is to get around that pesky constitutionality issue by giving ALL of the money to the school system, and making the school system pay the fees back to the red-light camera company. But, hey, we're going to close schools, and cut teaching positions too.
The homeowner didn't exactly invite the police by calling the fire department, but the docterine of Exigent Circumstances govern this. When you call the fire department for a response, and your home or property is involved, the Fire Department becomes the owner of the involved property until such time as the last member of the department releases the property back to the owner. While it under the control of the Fire Authorities, they have the right to call any additional resources they deem necessary. While I am not in any way trying to blame this on the homeowner, it would have probably much simplified his situation if he had merely mentioned the fact that he had a basement chemistry lab. As a fire officer myself, if I was checking a structure for any additional hazards from an incident and came upon something like what was described, I certainly would be cautious. Had the owner mentioned what might be found, I would be considerably less concerned.
The age that we live in that has Methamphetamine labs being found in homes, hotel rooms, and car trunks has made all responders to emergency incidents much more skiddish about things that may have been commonplace years ago.
Again, I'm not attempting to place blame on the owner, but providing another point of view from someone who might have made a like decision to call other authorities.
The ban affects shipments of non-rechargeable lithium batteries, such as those made by Energizer Holdings Inc. and Procter & Gamble Co.'s Duracell brand.
So this does not appear to affect RECHARGABLE Batteries... Once again, out great save-us-from-ourselves administration making rules so difficult to understand that we cant help us help ourselves to not hurt ourselves, so that they will have to help us not hurt us... I think...
The arguement here is, however that if you use a system that filters, have it filter contene EQUALLY - this would be the equivilent of having your library NOT stock playboy WHILE stocking hustler. This is the problem. If the software is not willing to do this, then this is where it becomes more of s politic-steering program, rather than parental/content control.
Alot of the shortened words used in netspeak, and the like have their origination in Radio. In morse code, words were shortened to increase the rate at which they could/can be sent. Rather then sending 4 characters for the word 'your' (-.-- ---..-.-.) most operators simply sent 'ur' (..-.-.) - which on that particular phrase saves 50% of the amount needed to send the word. Another example being to send the character 'u' for the word 'you'. Other Abvr.s (Called prosigns) are also used to signify complete words and phrases like (.-.-.) for 'End of Message', (...-.-) for End of transmission, and many more (Morse Code Prosigns & Operating Aids.
Just a little bit more history on the subject - really makes one think where alot of the language originated..
Though I am not surprised that '1337' speak has entered into the standard vocabulary of school-children, but my major fear is that there will not be any way for it to be corrected. It seems that now teachers are being penalized for teaching correct grammar and sometimes seldom-used words. To this, I will give the example of the word 'Niggardly'. In Wilmington County (North Carolina) a Elementary teacher was reprimanded by the School, and the County for using the word in a class to describe someone of a thrifty nature, when a child complained that it 'Sounded' like a racial slur. (Story Here). Don't get me wrong, I'm not standing in the way of linguistic development, but the school systems need to give teachers a chance to help the Students learn their errors, and not penalize them (Instructors) for attempting to further that knowledge. If we prohibit the Instructors from instructing, then where will we be in the coming years?
Well, for one thing, I do not beleive that there was a mandate for a seperation in church and state. The constitution states that the Government Shall not create a state religion, but does not say there shall be No religion. This is the principle of the United States - Freedom OF Religion, not Freedom FROM religion. Perhaps it is time for a small relaity check on the 9th Circuit sort, and the Supreme Court for that matter
As to their last comment on their goals: To get to the point that they dont't set off anyones alarms - For some reason, I would be more comfortable if my alarms DID go off, rather than a company possibly looking for something on my system (Or any one else's for that matter) and me not knowing about it. As has been said before, it soulds like they are just Grown-Up Script-Kiddies.
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For the love of all that is holy... why are we no longer allowed to know what we are hovering and what we are loading?
What a lovely "addition" and quite "progressive"... i'm all for progress, but come on people....
--ToO
We still have to bend over, take it, and say thank you to our local (well, heck... AT&T) phone companies for the PRIVILEGE of having 8megabit/s downstream....
Competition anyone? or are we just such mindless sheep that "it's good enough, 'cause my granddaddy only had the pony express"
Argh....
Empirical testing with wireless CELLULAR networks can be very tricky; A few things that you will need to keep in mind is that for testing, you want to make sure your transceiver setup is perfectly reproducable; Same card, same ANTENNA, same position of antenna. When performing your testing, your signal strength will depend on several factors: Distance from the site, antenna type/gain, and specifically what sector/node on the site you happen to be on. while driving in a straight line, you may find that you approach steep nulls near the border of a cells sector boundary. Alot depends on the ability of your particular card to handle the handoff between sectors/sites.
Your latency measurements will also vary according to the individual usage of the sector/site that you are currently on, and additionally vary with time and also variable bandwidth allocation to the sites from the main switch.
There are quite a few test sets and software suited that are commercially available and are tailored for this use, and are used heavily by the mobile data/cellular industry in their drive testing and coverage verification methodologies.
Good luck to you on your testing.
--ToO
Ah, yes, but now, at least in the Great state of Mecklenburg (Charlotte...) they are again attempting to get the cameras re-instated... Their grand plan this time is to get around that pesky constitutionality issue by giving ALL of the money to the school system, and making the school system pay the fees back to the red-light camera company. But, hey, we're going to close schools, and cut teaching positions too.
--ToO
The homeowner didn't exactly invite the police by calling the fire department, but the docterine of
Exigent Circumstances govern this. When you call the fire department for a response, and your home or property is involved, the Fire Department becomes the owner of the involved property until such time as the last member of the department releases the property back to the owner. While it under the control of the Fire Authorities, they have the right to call any additional resources they deem necessary. While I am not in any way trying to blame this on the homeowner, it would have probably much simplified his situation if he had merely mentioned the fact that he had a basement chemistry lab. As a fire officer myself, if I was checking a structure for any additional hazards from an incident and came upon something like what was described, I certainly would be cautious. Had the owner mentioned what might be found, I would be considerably less concerned.
The age that we live in that has Methamphetamine labs being found in homes, hotel rooms, and car trunks has made all responders to emergency incidents much more skiddish about things that may have been commonplace years ago.
Again, I'm not attempting to place blame on the owner, but providing another point of view from someone who might have made a like decision to call other authorities.
So this does not appear to affect RECHARGABLE Batteries... Once again, out great save-us-from-ourselves administration making rules so difficult to understand that we cant help us help ourselves to not hurt ourselves, so that they will have to help us not hurt us... I think...
The arguement here is, however that if you use a system that filters, have it filter contene EQUALLY - this would be the equivilent of having your library NOT stock playboy WHILE stocking hustler. This is the problem. If the software is not willing to do this, then this is where it becomes more of s politic-steering program, rather than parental/content control.
Alot of the shortened words used in netspeak, and the like have their origination in Radio. In morse code, words were shortened to increase the rate at which they could/can be sent. Rather then sending 4 characters for the word 'your' (-.-- --- ..- .-.) most operators simply sent 'ur' (..- .-.) - which on that particular phrase saves 50% of the amount needed to send the word. Another example being to send the character 'u' for the word 'you'. Other Abvr.s (Called prosigns) are also used to signify complete words and phrases like (.-.-.) for 'End of Message', (...-.-) for End of transmission, and many more (Morse Code Prosigns & Operating Aids.
Just a little bit more history on the subject - really makes one think where alot of the language
originated..
--Tucker Sizemore
W8EMX
Though I am not surprised that '1337' speak has entered into the standard vocabulary of school-children, but my major fear is that there will not be any way for it to be corrected. It seems that now teachers are being penalized for teaching correct grammar and sometimes seldom-used words.
To this, I will give the example of the word 'Niggardly'. In Wilmington County (North Carolina) a Elementary teacher was reprimanded by the School, and the County for using the word in a class to describe someone of a thrifty nature, when a child complained that it 'Sounded' like a racial slur. (Story Here).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not standing in the way of linguistic development, but the school systems need to give teachers a chance to help the Students learn their errors, and not penalize them (Instructors) for attempting to further that knowledge. If we prohibit the Instructors from instructing, then where will we be in the coming years?
--TS
Well, for one thing, I do not beleive that there was a mandate for a seperation in church and state. The constitution states that the Government Shall not create a state religion, but does not say there shall be No religion. This is the principle of the United States - Freedom OF Religion, not Freedom FROM religion. Perhaps it is time for a small relaity check on the 9th Circuit sort, and the Supreme Court for that matter
Just my 2 cents worth...
TheOddOne
As to their last comment on their goals: To get to the point that they dont't set off anyones alarms - For some reason, I would be more comfortable if my alarms DID go off, rather than a company possibly looking for something on my system (Or any one else's for that matter) and me not knowing about it. As has been said before, it soulds like they are just Grown-Up Script-Kiddies.