Of course. Standard protocol. That way when some alien armada finds a probe and follows it home, their ships all have the rootkit, and can be pwned with an old Mac laptop.
Kind of a shame that it'll be destroyed in a few weeks. Perhaps someone should make a Best Of Earth CDs compilation album and send it with the next launch that's going somewhere less terminal?
BTW, it'll probably reenter over ocean (since there's so much of it), but without thrusters or control, it'll burn where and when it's good and ready.
One thing I should have mentioned is that for most of the area of line of sight, unless it passes right overhead, it's not going to get very high up in the local sky. Any buildings or hills could still block the signal.
I don't suppose anyone has made a sat tracking plug-in for Google Earth?
Not far away at all. It's only around 200 miles out. The problem is that it only has a line of sight (VHF radio) on a small area of the Earth as it orbits. And the orbit is fairly predictable until it starts to decay.
How's that going work in the daytime? (And Weather Underground says you've got clouds.) When I said it passed over close, I didn't mean quite that close... Well, if you see it, give it a wave back for me.
When it's passing over, it's not that far away. Even with a few watts transmission, a reasonable receiver or scanner and antenna on 145.990 MHz FM and the right time would have been enough. (They figured a handheld would be fine when it's right overhead.) It's not radio astronomy science after all.
No, but apparently it had one of those "Hello from planet Earth!" CDs. I'm not sure why.:^P
Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, AMSAT Vice President of Human Spaceflight, and ARISS Chairman, says SuitSat's payload will also include a CD containing hundreds of school pictures, artwork, poems, and student signatures from schools all over the world--Japan/Asia, Europe, Russia, Canada, US, South America and Africa.
Maybe the RIAA thought it had pirated MP3 files and shot it down?
Really? I thought that 300 bps AX.25 was being used on HF. I haven't had much to do with amateur radio and packet since university in Montreal, where I was fortunate enough to know a few of the packet innovators. It seems to me that a portable HF QRP setup and simple computer/PDA (maybe one of those $100 laptops for the third world) would be enough to handle a lot of health and welfare traffic to/from a disaster area.
Here's the page for the IAU: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams which explains how to submit discoveries. (IAU = International Astronomical Union.) They seem to have gone to email mainly, and yes, spam is a problem. Text only messages please! (Submit CCD images seperately.) And you probably want to stick to the format developed for telegrams.
The BBS owner would run the software and the virus would attach itself to lots of other software, any time they repacked it for their chosen archive format...
I think you mean each time they inserted an advertisement for their BBS into every archive that passed through. It wasn't uncommon to download zips with ads for several different boards.
Great, bring down the amateur radiogram network with a di-dah-dah-dit di-dit dah-dit dah-dah-dit of doom!
Do they gateway any of the radiogram traffic into amateur packet? So long as everything was working properly, that would seem to be the best way to route and move them in bulk.
That's only because they can't do it for free. Look at those services that provide relay operators for the deaf to make voice calls for them that scammers abuse the hell out of.
Rider Qualifications: Ad in California newspaper read: "Wanted. Young, skinny, wiry fellows. Not over 18. Must be expert riders. Willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred." Most riders were around 20. Youngest was 11. Oldest was mid-40s. Not many were orphans. Usually weighed around 120 pounds.
Obviously all their potential riders became bicycle couriers instead and they had to close down.
It used to be that the telegram was the official stamp for announcing discoveries. It didn't matter if you'd been studing some speck and talking about it on the phone for years if someone else sent out the telegram first that he'd discovered comet Waldo.
So how do they do it officially now? By email would seem to have the danger that some punk astro-spammers will take credit for everything by sending out email with slight variations "have discovered comet at....", "have dis-c0vered comet at....", "have d1scov3red komet at....", "have d1scov3red komet V1agr4 at...."
the closer you are to North Pole, the more types of snow you are exposed to (snow behaves somewhat differently depending on the temperature), the more words you know.
Unfortunately, you can't use most of those words without being vulgar. Oh look, it's started to ####### ####### frizzle again!
"I can call singularity educators the most
putrid name on Earth and claim they eat
cow-dung ambrosia, but the lying ass
bastards will not even object - for they
know I am right and that any debate will
indict them for the evil they perpetuate
against the students and future humanity."
Oh wait, I tuned in to Doctor Gene Ray, Cubic and Wisest Human, by mistake...
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If they can't figure out what the disc is and how to read it, then they're not t337 enough to talk to us.
Of course. Standard protocol. That way when some alien armada finds a probe and follows it home, their ships all have the rootkit, and can be pwned with an old Mac laptop.
BTW, it'll probably reenter over ocean (since there's so much of it), but without thrusters or control, it'll burn where and when it's good and ready.
No. He did the eye-glow and voice thing, and said "Bring me another Tau'ri host body. This one is scratched!"
That's why they call it "Bling-bling" these days.
I thought he was born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia? (Buried with donkey, funky Tut!)
I don't suppose anyone has made a sat tracking plug-in for Google Earth?
Not far away at all. It's only around 200 miles out. The problem is that it only has a line of sight (VHF radio) on a small area of the Earth as it orbits. And the orbit is fairly predictable until it starts to decay.
How's that going work in the daytime? (And Weather Underground says you've got clouds.) When I said it passed over close, I didn't mean quite that close... Well, if you see it, give it a wave back for me.
When it's passing over, it's not that far away. Even with a few watts transmission, a reasonable receiver or scanner and antenna on 145.990 MHz FM and the right time would have been enough. (They figured a handheld would be fine when it's right overhead.) It's not radio astronomy science after all.
Well, I wouldn't know. My BBS software ran on Coherent and was immune to viruses. :)
Really? I thought that 300 bps AX.25 was being used on HF. I haven't had much to do with amateur radio and packet since university in Montreal, where I was fortunate enough to know a few of the packet innovators. It seems to me that a portable HF QRP setup and simple computer/PDA (maybe one of those $100 laptops for the third world) would be enough to handle a lot of health and welfare traffic to/from a disaster area.
Here's the page for the IAU: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams which explains how to submit discoveries. (IAU = International Astronomical Union.) They seem to have gone to email mainly, and yes, spam is a problem. Text only messages please! (Submit CCD images seperately.) And you probably want to stick to the format developed for telegrams.
Not unlike Slashdot where certain text will cause all readers to post "All your base", "Soviet Russia", "..only old people", "3. Profit!" comments.
I think you mean each time they inserted an advertisement for their BBS into every archive that passed through. It wasn't uncommon to download zips with ads for several different boards.
Do they gateway any of the radiogram traffic into amateur packet? So long as everything was working properly, that would seem to be the best way to route and move them in bulk.
That's only because they can't do it for free. Look at those services that provide relay operators for the deaf to make voice calls for them that scammers abuse the hell out of.
Bad comedians will no longer be able to telegraph joke punchlines!
So how do I format a traceroute telegram?
So how do they do it officially now? By email would seem to have the danger that some punk astro-spammers will take credit for everything by sending out email with slight variations "have discovered comet at .. ..", "have dis-c0vered comet at .. ..", "have d1scov3red komet at .. ..", "have d1scov3red komet V1agr4 at .. .."
Unfortunately, you can't use most of those words without being vulgar. Oh look, it's started to ####### ####### frizzle again!