I can give you a couple of hints for the area around Baltimore and Washington: As well as checking out the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum go see the restoration facility where they actually work on the planes. They have so many planes they will be working on them for years. You can tell the un-restored ones by the oil dripping from the engines
Skip the spy museum and go see the the real spy museum, the NSA museum. They let you play with a real German Enigma machine that is right next to the electro-mechanical computer that cracked it's codes. The NSA is so secretive with their information that I didn't find out until later what was the key that allowed a machine to recognize when it found the right key in an encrypted message. It was because the German message always started with the same format.
For the best collection of railroad engines in the world check out the B&O Railroad museum in Baltimore, just visiting the parking lot you can see, touch, and climb on 15 or 20 historic steam engines
When IP4 was designed it was ridiculous to think every person on earth would have a computer. They got burned as now many people have more than one. To picture the IP6 space; every current IP address has 4 billion X 4 billion IP addresses, for good measure each of those addresses has 4 billion addresses. We won't run out until we want to assign every molocule on earth an address
The real question is, how much will our power consumption go up because of the increased header length
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The number of IP addresses IP6 will allow is truely astronomical, 6.65x10^23 addresses for every square meter of the Earth's surface. More than enough for everyone to have an internet controlled Etch-A-Sketch
The Ethernet spec says that equipment must have isolation from the cable capable of withstanding 1500 volts. One way to do this is to have a transformer between the cable and the rest of the electronics.
Not exactly a single chip but a Rabbit core module is what you want. They are $59 in qty of 1 or $34 in qty of 1000. For about $250 you get everything you need to get started including: a C compiler, an open source TCP/IP stack, protoboard, and programming cable. Check out my on-line Etch-A-Sketch I made using one
If I wanted to study the nuances of licensing agreements, I would have gone to law school. Is there a web site where all these licenses are summarized in English?
What about this problem: I wrote a piece of software that links to a kXML library that is open sourced under the Open Public License, What is that? I wrote the license author and their email bounced, now what do I do?
The Institute for Applied Autonomy has a nice tool to plan paths through Manhattan that will take you past the fewest cameras. I imagine these kinds of tools will spring up in other areas
Or you can get ahead of them like I have. Get a tracking cell phone while it is still optional
You can download a Java App to track your cell phone at www.gadgeteer.org I have a free service running that recieves UDP packets sent by the phone and creates a web page with a link to mapquest showing your current location
To see what is patented you have to look at the claims. The fewer clauses in a claim the more broad the patent. If you come up with a competing invention that does not have any one of the clauses, your invention does not infringe. It seems the key thing they patenting is this clause
the user interface enabling a viewer to adjust the selected rate according to personal preference; and
So you can have everything listed in their claim and as long as the user can't adjust the rate of scrolling, you don't infringe. That seems like a pretty limited (ang obvious) patent
It wasn't too hard to figure out who was responsible
Ivanov was so bold he sometimes sent his résumé -- and even photos -- to prove that he was a serious security consultant. The documents listed his home phone number and detailed his previous experience
I wonder if they could have tracked him down if he didn't send them his contact info
If you are old enough to remember the all mechanical machines where you flipped small levers to vote and pulled a large arm to cast your vote. The votes were mechanically accumulated and would sometimes get stuck yielding results like 2273 votes for one canidate and 999 votes for the other. What can you do then?
Last thursday I was driving home around the Washington, DC beltway when NPR interrupted their broadcast mid-sentence with a tornado warning. A warning is issued when a tornado has been spotted and, if you are in the area, you need to take cover now. I flipped over to one of the clearchannel stations, DC101, just to see how fast they reacted. You guessed it, they never did.
They have a license to use the public's airwaves for the public good. They are in gross violation of that license. Someone needs to organize a campaign to protest the re-newal of a stations liscense, they need to be re-newed every 8 years
The problem with many old, but still copyrighted works, is that it is impossible to track down who if anyone holds the copyright. For example, who has the copyright on old Apple II games. If there were a $1.00 fee every ten years at least we would know who to go to in order to license the work.
In July 1981 a Japanese worker at Kawasaki Heavy Industries was stabbed to death when the arm of an industrial robot he was attempting to repair pinned him against a gear-processing machine when he accidentally brushed against the "on" switch. Sorry I don't know the make and model
If it was published before 1923 it is in the public domain. Otherwise here is a link to a table that has all the other cases. Until Congress extends it again
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I can give you a couple of hints for the area around Baltimore and Washington:
As well as checking out the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum go see the restoration facility where they actually work on the planes. They have so many planes they will be working on them for years. You can tell the un-restored ones by the oil dripping from the engines
Skip the spy museum and go see the the real spy museum, the NSA museum. They let you play with a real German Enigma machine that is right next to the electro-mechanical computer that cracked it's codes. The NSA is so secretive with their information that I didn't find out until later what was the key that allowed a machine to recognize when it found the right key in an encrypted message. It was because the German message always started with the same format.
For the best collection of railroad engines in the world check out the B&O Railroad museum in Baltimore, just visiting the parking lot you can see, touch, and climb on 15 or 20 historic steam engines
2.4Ghz is unlicensed. FCC won't touch it.
Just because 2.4Ghz use is permitted by the FCC does not mean that it is un-regulated.
Put up a 50 watt transmitter and see how long before the FCC touches it.
When IP4 was designed it was ridiculous to think every person on earth would have a computer. They got burned as now many people have more than one. To picture the IP6 space; every current IP address has 4 billion X 4 billion IP addresses, for good measure each of those addresses has 4 billion addresses. We won't run out until we want to assign every molocule on earth an address
The real question is, how much will our power consumption go up because of the increased header length
The number of IP addresses IP6 will allow is truely astronomical, 6.65x10^23 addresses for every square meter of the Earth's surface. More than enough for everyone to have an internet controlled Etch-A-Sketch
The Ethernet spec says that equipment must have isolation from the cable capable of withstanding 1500 volts. One way to do this is to have a transformer between the cable and the rest of the electronics.
Not exactly a single chip but a Rabbit core module is what you want. They are $59 in qty of 1 or $34 in qty of 1000. For about $250 you get everything you need to get started including: a C compiler, an open source TCP/IP stack, protoboard, and programming cable. Check out my on-line Etch-A-Sketch I made using one
If I wanted to study the nuances of licensing agreements, I would have gone to law school. Is there a web site where all these licenses are summarized in English?
What about this problem: I wrote a piece of software that links to a kXML library that is open sourced under the Open Public License, What is that? I wrote the license author and their email bounced, now what do I do?
The Institute for Applied Autonomy has a nice tool to plan paths through Manhattan that will take you past the fewest cameras. I imagine these kinds of tools will spring up in other areas
Or you can get ahead of them like I have. Get a tracking cell phone while it is still optional
www.HowardForums.com is a very active discusion board with catagories for all providers and for all equipment manufacturers
The current favorite data plan is the 29.99 unlimited T-mobile plan, but check for coverage in the area you want to use it
You can download a Java App to track your cell phone at www.gadgeteer.org I have a free service running that recieves UDP packets sent by the phone and creates a web page with a link to mapquest showing your current location
I don't think they are going to raid that any time soon
What have you got something to hide? Track my GPS enabled cell phone in real time 24/7
I wonder if they could have tracked him down if he didn't send them his contact info
here is a link to TI's PDF datasheet only $1.25 in qtys of 1000 for the device side, much cheaper than a wall wart
Here is a true story about someone who almost got arrested for trying to buy a burrito with a $2 bill. A mall security guard actually helped out.
I am that guy
If you hav a Motorola i88s phone with Nextel service you can download an app that updates a web page with your location.
If you are old enough to remember the all mechanical machines where you flipped small levers to vote and pulled a large arm to cast your vote. The votes were mechanically accumulated and would sometimes get stuck yielding results like 2273 votes for one canidate and 999 votes for the other. What can you do then?
They have a license to use the public's airwaves for the public good. They are in gross violation of that license. Someone needs to organize a campaign to protest the re-newal of a stations liscense, they need to be re-newed every 8 years
Whitworth what? Are you from England? The Whitworth thread hasn't been used since WW II
Here is how it got wiped out. The US saves the world, again.
The problem with many old, but still copyrighted works, is that it is impossible to track down who if anyone holds the copyright. For example, who has the copyright on old Apple II games. If there were a $1.00 fee every ten years at least we would know who to go to in order to license the work.
In July 1981 a Japanese worker at Kawasaki Heavy Industries was stabbed to death when the arm of an industrial robot he was attempting to repair pinned him against a gear-processing machine when he accidentally brushed against the "on" switch. Sorry I don't know the make and model
If it was published before 1923 it is in the public domain. Otherwise here is a link to a table that has all the other cases. Until Congress extends it again
Fitehouse has just released their first album, done with Pro Tools, with no record label backing. Labels are dead, they just don't know it yet.