I agree on the impact of using high gain antennas for sniffing. A wireless port has a short 1/4 or 5/8th wave antenna which usualy has a gain of less than 6 DB because of it's non directional signal.
Every 3 DB gain doubles the power recieved. Every 6 DB increase in antenna gain doubles the distance. (line of sight not over the horizon) A narrow beam dish antenna (old c-band TV dish) can have a gain over 36 DB.
If your 6 DB laptop has a range of 500 feet, the guy with the dish has 30 DB more receiving power and will get the same signal you get but from 16,000 feet. He doesn't have to be in your parking lot to sniff you. He just needs a reasonably clear line of sight. Do not be fooled thinking the range a low non directional antenna provides is all the further your signal travels. It isn't. It gets 6 DB weaker every doubling the distance it travels.
It may become too weak for you, but not for a high gain directional antenna. This gain is why a dish antanna can pick out one of many satelites spaced every 6 degrees in the sky over the equator that is transmitting with 50 watts per transponder 22,000 miles away.
To be "living overseas" you must not spend more than 30 days a year in the US. Otherwise you get taxed as a US resident. I lived on Grand Cayman for 3 years and I had to watch my time in the USA very closely as trade shows, corporate shopping, and vacations quickly add up. I managed to keep below both the income and time limits and legaly paid no State or Fedral income tax. However I did pay a stiff import duty to the Cayman Customs.
Rise in sea level has little to do with salt encroachment. I lived on an island for a while and I learned about a freshwater lens. This is where fresh rainwater falling on the land flushes out saltwater so shallow groundwater is fresh and deep water is salt. A rise in the sea level just raises the height of the fresh water. Serious encroachment occurs when rainwater is kept out of the ground (storm sewers) and the fresh water is removed from the lens by pumping from wells. The missing normal flow of freshwater is replaced by outside water from the ocean which happens to be salty. At the end of a long dry season (in the tropics) my well did start to smell.
Take another look at how fast high tech has grown. 100 years ago the first radio broadcast over 100 miles took place. Since then it has gone from radio telegraph to teletype to voice to TV to Color TV to Stereo FM to Stereo TV to Packet radio to satalite TV to digital direct broadcast TV to Cell radio (phones, GSM and Trunked radio) to digital voice phones to Satalite phones.
Now project forward 10 years. 20 years ago Direct Broadcast Satelite on a small dish for home was thought impossible.
If Ford built a car with a heater that they could disable at anytime.... But if no other cars had heat, then you would take it. Right? The PPV HDTV game will not be in other formats for you to choose another.
The PPV event will be broadcast (scrambled full bandwidth) but only the non-scrambled outputs from the receiver will be in low quality mode, shut off, or display a nag screen saying use the other output to see the show (the scrambled unrecordable output) in HDTV format. To use this output you do need a monitor with a descrambler built in. This is how the sheeple will be convinced to spend the money on the content protected TV's. It will be required (as a feature, not a restriction) to watch the show.
But for the life of me I dont understand why they would want to reduce the grade on the picture? Is this the "Go stand in the corner" punishment from them?
They only degrade or disable the output on the non scrambled outputs so it can't be recorded and herd the sheeple to the protected content enabled TV's. To see the big game in HDTV (which is avaliable) it must be watched on a scrambled content enabled display.
As I said before, this will not be sold to the sheeple as a limitation in a set but as an added feature. It is able to display the PPV fight in HDTV. The VCR or TVIO on the RGBHV output is SOL on this broadcast. You will have to buy both the reciever to recieve HDTV and a scrambled content enabled TV. Expect the cable box to eventualy be built right into the TV as a PPV appliance. Hooking up your old 19 inch computer monitor to the RGBHV output will not show the PPV event. It will get the nag screen instead. (you need to upgrade again) Sheeple will follow the content to the new medium as the unprotected medium goes to infomercials only. (kinda like C-band tv did and people followed the content to DSS subscriptions)
License the Palm OS. Little user training is needed. Much of the workforce is already trained. It has been extensively field tested. It can still use text input with either Grafiti or on screen keyboard user interfaces. I am not sure it upward scales very well. Be sure to disable the IR port, otherwise it'll become the next corporate game terminal.
Who wants a VCR that has one tape (Hard Drive) installed that is not removable. Quick show of hands, Who has a VCR with less than 3 tapes? I personaly have over 300 in my private library. I rewatch the good stuff when "trash and infomercials" are on TV. People will want to pull out recordable media to throw into the vault for later. Anything less is an unaceptable limitation. A digital VCR is OK for an addition to a removable media VCR for time shifting the game or soaps, but it does not replace a VCR.
The computer should be digital only as far as sound goes. Let the digital come out on optics to feed a good decoder/receiver. My MIDI is external and opto coupled. Result - no ground loops or digital noise. Good sound should be this way and not subject to the digital hash inside a PC box.
My High School Physics and Chem teachers were the best. They would do stuff that got your attention. The best demonstrations are the ones where you think you know what happens next only to be shown otherwise. We learned to expect the unexpected. One instance comes to mind was playing with very cold tempratures. You know the usual, dip roses, balloons etc. and smash with a hammer and pound nails with hot dog. To add some learning, the suprise was they used oxygen instead of nitrogen.(search for the web site on lighting a BBQ with liquid oxygen for a large scale demo of the same experiment) A lit cigarette was spectacular but expected. However a stamp size piece of notepaper was the big suprise. Soaking it and dropping on the counter did nothing unusual, but tapping it with a hammer was very impressive. We not only learned about cryo physics, but was introduced to the diesel engine physics. The paper went off like a firecracker!
Yes, they know people will still use their VCR & TV with these. Getting people to give up this to spend lots of money upgrading to a digital *cough*cable subscription*cough* TV that can't work with a $100 VCR is going to be rough. People will want the stuff out of the cable box to be compatible with what they already have. True they will market it as not needing a cable box as it is "Digital Cable Ready" but time shifters will soon find it won't work with the VCR. Most people will put on the brakes on a "DIGITAL CABLE READY VCR" due to the high cost.
I did. I also said "NOT METAL" I have yet to find a plastic conductor with resistance anywhere as low as aluminum. This in the chip industry is death to high speed. IBM, INTEL, and AMD all are going to copper interconnects in CPU's for one reason - SPEED. Plastic conductors are OK for low speed applications such as membrane (mechanical) switches (keyboards & remotes) and connecting to some displays (LCD and other low speed low current displays) but don't expect them in anything high speed. I also don't expect high density with these. There will be no sub micron chips with it.
Last time I checked, most plastics have a large thermal expansion factor. Most modern CPU's have 5 or 6 metal layers of lines to connect things together. Materials are carefully chosen so the silicon, Inter Layer Dielectric, interconnects, and packaging all expand about the same. Can you say thermal cycling and stress crack failure? Actualy I see this technology being useful in something needing less than 3 connect layers that are not metal (limiting speed due to resistance) like an Active LCD or full color LED display. I wonder if they can make color LED's with this stuff. A large bright color display you could roll out on the wall in the confrence room would be neat.
Think of the storage cost. If you stored everything you viewed online in a year, you wouldn't have enough room. This includes all pictures, streaming audio, e-mail including SPAM, FTP, wallpaper, themes, trial software, Software upgrades & updates, ICQ & AIM chat sessions, Movies, Web broadcasts, Napster MP3's... You think a Windows temp swap file is big, make it 7 years long. Then it must be all indexed so the data could be mined to find things like other e-mail boxes or ISP a user uses, including web based. No wonder the ISP's are fleeing. Storing the data is one thing. Digging thru the city dump of data for a diamond is another.
The ISP's are fighing massive bloat that will overwhelm them. Remember not all users receive stuff on a 14.4k baud dial up modem. ISP's will either have to limit bandwidth (Charge per meg) or carry fewer users at a higher price to meet the requirement.
I would use it if moving the mouse during the shutdown didn't crash the computer. Every time I move the mouse as it starts to shut down crashes my computer. I do shut off the boxes when I am not using them however. Having energy star off by default is to reduce service calls for excessive crashing. Having it set to shutdown about the time you finish reading an article is bad as start of shutdown and mouse movement may happen at the same time. It needs fixed before it can be left on by default.
Um, There are two ways power compainies deal with power factor. One is to use a smaller power plant close to the user (city) and advance it's phase so it's current leads the voltage. Phase can be advanced by over exciting a generator (turn up the voltage regulator) so current leads voltage. This reduces the "twist" of an inductive load on a long line (BPA) so the long line has less loss due to increased current from the reactive load. That small plant can run with a light load at high current to provide power factor correction while using little fuel near the city. This has the advantage of being adjustable and auto adjusting which a fixed capacitor is not but has the disadvantage of being less effecient due to high current in the windings. The other power factor correction is add capacitors on line at the substation as mentioned in the parrent post. Capacitive reactance is 180 degrees out of phase with inductive reactance (current leads voltage instead of lagging) giving a power factor near one and reducing VARS (Volt-Amps-Reactive) down near zero. VARS are the volts X Amps that do not equal Watts. However current from reactive current does cause loss in the transmission wire due to resistance which is why it's bad.
If you want to help at home with power factor correction, get a large power filter like those made by Cornell-Doubler. They use large amounts of capacitance in the filters.
It'g good to hear from someone up on issues of power generation and distribution.
Leave the net on. When I'm surfing, the TV is off. When I'm watching TV the computer is off. However the cable box is on 24 X 7. Maybe if everyone shut off the cable box with a power strip when they are not watching TV, that would save more than the aprox 3 hr/day the computer used. Anybody notice cable converters run hot, even when they are "off"? Besides my home theatre uses more power than my computer. The theatre runs with a good size receiver, seprate tuner, VCR, Cable Box, and Laser Disk. Seldom is it just the TV.
I lived in the Cayman Islands. It would be a horible place to spam from. (forged headers may be another thing). The only ISP granted by the government is the telco Cable and Wireless. Dialup is per minute. (CI not US$) There was no Fiber to the island when I lived there 4 years ago. The entire island was on 3 128K sat lines. Long latency and SLOW transfers are the norm. It would take forever to send any good sized spam batch. If you want to check the link speed, surf in. The Telco web site is www.candw.ky The rates are
Base Price
per month
$17 for 10 hours
Cost for
additional
hour
$2.90 per hour
This is great! Microsoft goes to all the trouble to do a State by State study of lost revenue due to piracy and add up the cost. They are quick to point out the loss of TAX income to the state. When another country does tax, they cry foul because taxes may raise the price of something and encourage piracy. Is this a double standard?
Think about it.. It is to test a porn filter, and anything you find gets added to the block list. Ya can't go back to an interesting site. Try surfing with all filters on and think how fun that would be..
If I lived there, I would look into restraint of free trade and monopoly laws and see if any of this is illegal. It does not seem right. Even a grass roots effort from the occupants may get somewhere with picket signs and such at the front gate. As always, include lots of media for best effect.
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Every 3 DB gain doubles the power recieved. Every 6 DB increase in antenna gain doubles the distance. (line of sight not over the horizon) A narrow beam dish antenna (old c-band TV dish) can have a gain over 36 DB.
If your 6 DB laptop has a range of 500 feet, the guy with the dish has 30 DB more receiving power and will get the same signal you get but from 16,000 feet. He doesn't have to be in your parking lot to sniff you. He just needs a reasonably clear line of sight. Do not be fooled thinking the range a low non directional antenna provides is all the further your signal travels. It isn't. It gets 6 DB weaker every doubling the distance it travels.
It may become too weak for you, but not for a high gain directional antenna. This gain is why a dish antanna can pick out one of many satelites spaced every 6 degrees in the sky over the equator that is transmitting with 50 watts per transponder 22,000 miles away.
The ( is not the same charactor as ). Look it up in any ASCII table. That upside down would be (-:
To be "living overseas" you must not spend more than 30 days a year in the US. Otherwise you get taxed as a US resident. I lived on Grand Cayman for 3 years and I had to watch my time in the USA very closely as trade shows, corporate shopping, and vacations quickly add up. I managed to keep below both the income and time limits and legaly paid no State or Fedral income tax. However I did pay a stiff import duty to the Cayman Customs.
Rise in sea level has little to do with salt encroachment. I lived on an island for a while and I learned about a freshwater lens. This is where fresh rainwater falling on the land flushes out saltwater so shallow groundwater is fresh and deep water is salt. A rise in the sea level just raises the height of the fresh water. Serious encroachment occurs when rainwater is kept out of the ground (storm sewers) and the fresh water is removed from the lens by pumping from wells. The missing normal flow of freshwater is replaced by outside water from the ocean which happens to be salty. At the end of a long dry season (in the tropics) my well did start to smell.
Now project forward 10 years. 20 years ago Direct Broadcast Satelite on a small dish for home was thought impossible.
If Ford built a car with a heater that they could disable at anytime.... But if no other cars had heat, then you would take it. Right? The PPV HDTV game will not be in other formats for you to choose another.
The PPV event will be broadcast (scrambled full bandwidth) but only the non-scrambled outputs from the receiver will be in low quality mode, shut off, or display a nag screen saying use the other output to see the show (the scrambled unrecordable output) in HDTV format. To use this output you do need a monitor with a descrambler built in. This is how the sheeple will be convinced to spend the money on the content protected TV's. It will be required (as a feature, not a restriction) to watch the show.
They only degrade or disable the output on the non scrambled outputs so it can't be recorded and herd the sheeple to the protected content enabled TV's. To see the big game in HDTV (which is avaliable) it must be watched on a scrambled content enabled display.
As I said before, this will not be sold to the sheeple as a limitation in a set but as an added feature. It is able to display the PPV fight in HDTV. The VCR or TVIO on the RGBHV output is SOL on this broadcast. You will have to buy both the reciever to recieve HDTV and a scrambled content enabled TV. Expect the cable box to eventualy be built right into the TV as a PPV appliance. Hooking up your old 19 inch computer monitor to the RGBHV output will not show the PPV event. It will get the nag screen instead. (you need to upgrade again) Sheeple will follow the content to the new medium as the unprotected medium goes to infomercials only. (kinda like C-band tv did and people followed the content to DSS subscriptions)
License the Palm OS. Little user training is needed. Much of the workforce is already trained. It has been extensively field tested. It can still use text input with either Grafiti or on screen keyboard user interfaces. I am not sure it upward scales very well. Be sure to disable the IR port, otherwise it'll become the next corporate game terminal.
Quick question, how many of these shows can be recieved off the airwaves (not dish or cable)? Cable and broadcast frequencies have nothing in common.
Who wants a VCR that has one tape (Hard Drive) installed that is not removable. Quick show of hands, Who has a VCR with less than 3 tapes? I personaly have over 300 in my private library. I rewatch the good stuff when "trash and infomercials" are on TV. People will want to pull out recordable media to throw into the vault for later. Anything less is an unaceptable limitation. A digital VCR is OK for an addition to a removable media VCR for time shifting the game or soaps, but it does not replace a VCR.
The computer should be digital only as far as sound goes. Let the digital come out on optics to feed a good decoder/receiver. My MIDI is external and opto coupled. Result - no ground loops or digital noise. Good sound should be this way and not subject to the digital hash inside a PC box.
My High School Physics and Chem teachers were the best. They would do stuff that got your attention. The best demonstrations are the ones where you think you know what happens next only to be shown otherwise. We learned to expect the unexpected. One instance comes to mind was playing with very cold tempratures. You know the usual, dip roses, balloons etc. and smash with a hammer and pound nails with hot dog. To add some learning, the suprise was they used oxygen instead of nitrogen.(search for the web site on lighting a BBQ with liquid oxygen for a large scale demo of the same experiment) A lit cigarette was spectacular but expected. However a stamp size piece of notepaper was the big suprise. Soaking it and dropping on the counter did nothing unusual, but tapping it with a hammer was very impressive. We not only learned about cryo physics, but was introduced to the diesel engine physics. The paper went off like a firecracker!
Yes, they know people will still use their VCR & TV with these. Getting people to give up this to spend lots of money upgrading to a digital *cough*cable subscription*cough* TV that can't work with a $100 VCR is going to be rough. People will want the stuff out of the cable box to be compatible with what they already have. True they will market it as not needing a cable box as it is "Digital Cable Ready" but time shifters will soon find it won't work with the VCR. Most people will put on the brakes on a "DIGITAL CABLE READY VCR" due to the high cost.
I did. I also said "NOT METAL" I have yet to find a plastic conductor with resistance anywhere as low as aluminum. This in the chip industry is death to high speed. IBM, INTEL, and AMD all are going to copper interconnects in CPU's for one reason - SPEED. Plastic conductors are OK for low speed applications such as membrane (mechanical) switches (keyboards & remotes) and connecting to some displays (LCD and other low speed low current displays) but don't expect them in anything high speed. I also don't expect high density with these. There will be no sub micron chips with it.
Last time I checked, most plastics have a large thermal expansion factor. Most modern CPU's have 5 or 6 metal layers of lines to connect things together. Materials are carefully chosen so the silicon, Inter Layer Dielectric, interconnects, and packaging all expand about the same. Can you say thermal cycling and stress crack failure? Actualy I see this technology being useful in something needing less than 3 connect layers that are not metal (limiting speed due to resistance) like an Active LCD or full color LED display. I wonder if they can make color LED's with this stuff. A large bright color display you could roll out on the wall in the confrence room would be neat.
The ISP's are fighing massive bloat that will overwhelm them. Remember not all users receive stuff on a 14.4k baud dial up modem. ISP's will either have to limit bandwidth (Charge per meg) or carry fewer users at a higher price to meet the requirement.
I would use it if moving the mouse during the shutdown didn't crash the computer. Every time I move the mouse as it starts to shut down crashes my computer. I do shut off the boxes when I am not using them however. Having energy star off by default is to reduce service calls for excessive crashing. Having it set to shutdown about the time you finish reading an article is bad as start of shutdown and mouse movement may happen at the same time. It needs fixed before it can be left on by default.
If you want to help at home with power factor correction, get a large power filter like those made by Cornell-Doubler. They use large amounts of capacitance in the filters.
It'g good to hear from someone up on issues of power generation and distribution.
Leave the net on. When I'm surfing, the TV is off. When I'm watching TV the computer is off. However the cable box is on 24 X 7. Maybe if everyone shut off the cable box with a power strip when they are not watching TV, that would save more than the aprox 3 hr/day the computer used. Anybody notice cable converters run hot, even when they are "off"? Besides my home theatre uses more power than my computer. The theatre runs with a good size receiver, seprate tuner, VCR, Cable Box, and Laser Disk. Seldom is it just the TV.
Base Price per month $17 for 10 hours Cost for additional hour $2.90 per hour
This is great! Microsoft goes to all the trouble to do a State by State study of lost revenue due to piracy and add up the cost. They are quick to point out the loss of TAX income to the state. When another country does tax, they cry foul because taxes may raise the price of something and encourage piracy. Is this a double standard?
Think about it.. It is to test a porn filter, and anything you find gets added to the block list. Ya can't go back to an interesting site. Try surfing with all filters on and think how fun that would be..
If I lived there, I would look into restraint of free trade and monopoly laws and see if any of this is illegal. It does not seem right. Even a grass roots effort from the occupants may get somewhere with picket signs and such at the front gate. As always, include lots of media for best effect.
Good point, Then how does he get DSL now that he is stranded on a DIGITAL ISLAND?