I don't know what the hell to think about Obama anymore. The guy we elected was smart, charismatic, capable, articulate; he ran a brilliant campaign that took out the heavily favored Hilary Clinton. He came across as a man with the intelligence, principles, and pragmatism to fix the nations problems... or at least not fuck it up as catastrophically as George W. Bush did. So where the hell did that guy go?
Same guy... what you saw was an act, and millions of people fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Now, since he's in his second term and Congress is unlikely to grow the cojones to impeach him, he simply doesn't care.
Just a thought - why would we trust your thoughts regarding the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) when you can't even get the acronym right?
So, who charges $20K for programming software? CPS for the latest and greatest APX7000 portable is $265 for a 3-year subscription and runs on your favorite WinXP, Win7, or Win8 machine. The USB interface cable is sub-$100.
And, by the way, several Motorola radios are capable of front-panel programming, to include the entire APX line (mobile and portable), the XTS2500/5000, etc.
Quite correct. Bunker C (type 6 fuel oil) is a thick black sludge similar in consistency to molasses and must be preheated above 200 degrees F before it becomes combustible.
If you're going to have to pull it out and preheat it prior to burning, may as well load it on another ship and do something useful with it.
For clarity, I'm not seeing a mesh network here. A mesh network is defined as a "swarm" or "cloud" of clients, where each client talks to multiple other clients to transfer data from the client to some endpoint. Typically, these networks are "self healing", where they gain and lose connections to other clients as those clients move in and out of range.
With the gear I'm seeing here, this is a typical linked repeater system. A subscriber (mobile or portable radio) talks to a repeater. His voice is (typically) repeated locally, but also retransmitted down the linked system to be broadcast elsewhere. There are quite a few amateur radio examples out there - check out Armadillo Intertie and Cactus Intertie. Disclaimer: I'm a member of Armadillo, which is affiliated with Cactus. We use 440MHz UHF repeaters, with backhaul links on 420MHz, 900MHz, microwave, and via the Internet. There are many other linked systems out there - MOTOTRBO systems that link using IP Site Connect, other conventional/analog systems, etc.
If mesh is your thing, google HSMM-MESH. This is a self-healing, fault-tolerant, amateur radio mesh networking system using off the shelf WRT54s (did you know 2.4GHz was actually an amateur radio band?) and some custom firmware to provide link-state routing, etc. Pretty cool stuff.
I'm seeing:
Kenwood TKR-750/850
Kenwood TKR-720/820
Motorola XPR8300
Motorola CM200 pair (presumably using a RICK)
Also an Icom rack-mount something or other (sorry, I don't do Icom)
As far as RF conditioning, I'm seeing:
Simple fiberglass sticks with radials (such as a Comet GP-3)
A couple Stationmasters
UHF yagis
DB-408/420s
The subscribers they show include two Kenwood business-class radios, a Moto HT1250 and MTS2000, and the FRS crap. Antennas appear to be UHF.
However, the duplexers are all sized to be VHF. If they're UHF, they're designed for some seriously high power output.
I'm thinking simple analog repeaters (the XPR is an oddball, but maybe they're just using it in analog mode) and analog links, like many wide-area amateur repeater systems. These systems would be relatively easy to set up, and would provide what they'd want with a minimum of fuss. Delivering traffic to some radios while bypassing others could be accomplished using MDC, FleetSync, etc.
Considering the geographic area, I'd also not be surprised if we're looking at pieces from multiple systems. They may have basic UHF conventional stuff in places, MOTOTRBO in others.
As far as OpenSky - as powerful as they are, I don't think the Zetas have whats necessary to successfully deploy OpenSky (don't tase... err, slaughter my family... bro!) - that technology hasn't been invented yet!
As a side note, I'd hate to live under this regime, but I'd have a blast playing with this system if I had access to it. What Sesame Street quotes would set off the filter, etc.
Right up until you were "detained" indefinitely (at what I'm sure would be a first-class Chinese prison) for "suspicious activity".
One of the key components to any fire department is mutual aid - we help each other out. We do similar things with external entities. I need high voltage cut off? I call the power company. I know of no specialized "high voltage" unit or response team in any FD anywhere in the world, save for some industrial fire departments working at large power generation facilities.
We will strip a meter out of a box as a last resort, but we prefer letting the power company handle it. They're trained for it, they have the equipment (which they know how to inspect properly), etc. If we have an electrical hazard, we make a risk/reward decision and try to work around it. If the structure is fully involved and we either know everyone has been evacuated (per the homeowner) or we see that the conditions are not compatible with life, then we won't take a big chance. If we know there are three kids trapped in a bedroom, we'll work around the hazard as best we can to effect the rescue. Firefighting is a series of these decisions - is the amount of potential "good" worth a given amount of peril to my life and the lives of my crew?
Now, think about a crunched-up car, especially a little microbox like a Prius. The guys who work on HV for a living don't have "suits" - they have proper clothing, long insulating gloves, insulating boots, etc., along with tools that do their best to keep them away from the high voltage where possible. Ever tried a set of lineman's gloves on? You can forget any fine motor control. Now, think about what happens when you have no fine motor control and you need to mount an effective rescue on a car that's been crunched badly, while people sit inside bleeding to death. As it is, we are issued additional equipment for vehicle extrication and wildland firefighting (dual certified gear) - jumpsuit, gloves, lightweight helmet. The typical structural firefighting PPE is simply too big and bulky, and it impairs movement to the point that working with hand tools, rescue tools, etc. becomes very difficult. Lineman's gear would be even more of a problem.
Plus, how much gear do you carry? As it is, for my personal gear (this is what's in my locker, not counting what lives on the apparatus), I have: Full set of structural PPE (coat, pants, suspenders, boots, helmet with light/band/wedges, 2 pairs of gloves, medical gloves, hand tools, rope bag, search loop, additional flashlight, etc.) Full set of extrication/wildland PPE (jumpsuit, gloves, helmet, hand tools, flashlight, medical gloves, rope bag) Handheld radio, another flashlight or two, more tools, etc.
I carry all of this every time we get a call (about 700 calls a year, I average 50-60%, all volunteer). Add too much more and we'll need a second truck to carry all of the gear!
It's frightening that someone modded you insightful.
Vehicle extrications are death-traps for firefighters. Just to name a few issues: Shocks in bumpers, prone to send the bumper flying off the car at knee height Rollover bars, prone to release at the wrong time and pummel anything in its path (already killed more than one FF) Chemical airbags, which can cause injury or burns Stored-gas airbags and their cylinders and tubing - not good to cut into a ~3Kpsi cylinder High-voltage cables in hybrids Magnesium and springs in steering columns Hood and tailgate struts, prone to overheating and exploding Fuel tank, fuel lines, etc. And more...
Our bunker gear is insulating... from HEAT, not electricity. I carry a few different types of gloves (structural, extrication, work gloves for hose rolling) - none of them are rubber or insulating from electricity either. There is nothing in a firefighter's typical equipment that will provide any significant protection from electricity. Cutting a high-voltage cable in a hybrid will result in significant injury at best... death at worst.
You can get "intrinsically safe" radio equipment which will not generate a spark, or will keep any sparks safely enclosed, for use in hazardous environments, they have a severely restricted RF output. They also use FM, with peak power the same as the average, and even then probably only about 100mW.
Huh? I have, sitting before me, a Motorola XTS3000 ASTRO-25 digital-capable radio. The radio and the battery are Factory Mutual approved as intrinsically safe devices (class 1, 2, 3, division 1, group C-G) and nonincendive (class 1, division 2, group A-D). The radio emits 5 watts on transmit. The radio itself is no different than its non-FM-approved bretheren, it just has the magic green dots and is FM-approved.
In the case of something like a mobile, with digital modulation, the peak power is the important thing as regards ignition hazards. The peak power of a typical mobile is 1.5 watts and is definitely unsafe.
The Motorola ASTRO Spectra, a digital-capable mobile, can be purchased in versions that produce up to 110 watts (other available power levels include 40 watts and 20 watts.) I have several.
Read and learn before talking out your ass. Clearly you have no clue about radio communications equipment.
They exist, but hold on to your wallet - every one I've seen is in the pro/broadcast category.
Videonics Firestore(available in rack, portable and on-camera configurations for professional camcorders.)
Sony DSR-DU1 (note the DU1 is intended for use with the DSR line of professional shoulder-mount camcorders.)
There are others out there, but those are a couple of the common ones. Why are they so expensive? If you can afford broadcast cameras and broadcast glass, they aren't expensive.
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I'm actually a volunteer firefighter... but, with the antennas, an LED lightstick in the rear window, red strobes on the forward-facing sides of the outboard mirrors (intersection lighting), and red strobes on the pushbumper... well, let's just say I get some interesting glances, comments, etc. here and there.
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The best way to get 802.11b/g coverage from your vehicle is to use a real external antenna. This leaves you with two options - buy something that's magnetic mount (easily available on the Net) or punch a hole in the roof and put a real antenna and mount in.
For my 2.4 solution, I installed an "NMO" antenna mount on the roof of my Expedition (drilling holes doesn't bother me - there's a total of 15 antennas mounted on the roof using NMO mounts, each of which requires a 3/4"-diameter hole).
First, find you an 802.11 card with an external antenna connector. The Orinoco 802.11b-only Gold works very nicely. Buy a pigtail to convert from the little push-on connector on the edge of the card (MCX?) to something more standard, like an N.
Next, buy the appropriate mount and antenna. The mount coax will be somewhat inflexible and will have a solid center conductor, so you'll need to be careful not to crush/damage it. Maxrad mounts
And an antenna: Maxrad antennas
I use the BMAXC24503 model. The 5db gain is nicer, but longer.
Drill a hole in the roof, install the mount, run the coax down through one of the pillars, connect to your pigtail, and connect to the card. You'll be amazed at the difference over your internal "antenna" (more like a dummy load.)
Installing antennas (drilling holes in the roof) is not for the faint of heart. Check with your local 2-way radio installers, and they might be able to put the antenna in for you for not too much money.
I've still got my Tandy 1000SE running, running DOS 3.3 and, wait for it, the wonderful game Bubble Bobble! Totally mindless entertainment in all its EGA goodness...
For more serious pursuits, I have a 386SX/25 desktop and a 486SL/33 laptop still running for commercial radio programming (the majority is written in DOS, the majority is damn picky on processor speed, and, for some of the radios, if you try to talk to them with a too-fast machine, you will kill the radio, to the tune of hundreds of dollars to fix...)
At least in Texas, `grand theft auto' is a good deal more serious crime
In Texas, "Grand Theft Auto" isn't a crime. Just because they use it on TV and it sounds good, doesn't mean it's accurate. In Texas, the charge is "Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle," or, in police circles, UUMV (a state-jail felony, for those interested.)
As far as theft goes, it's a Class C misdemeanor for items valued less than $50, or less than $20 if the theft involved the passing of a hot check. An officer can choose to write a ticket or give you the ol' cuff-and-stuff, just like a traffic ticket.
One must be careful about aggregation rules - if you steal a computer, printer, and monitor from your local CompUSA, it's one offense, which, of course, can quickly increase the offense class.
Considering the amount of money people invest in their aquariums, why not something like an APC Smart-UPS? The Smart-UPS series outputs a pure sinewave - essentially they've replaced the only "modified sine wave" inverter with a pure-sine inverter.
The power is clean and beautiful on a scope, and it keeps my computers happy.
I'm not getting paid - just the words of a very satisifed customer (who's looking at an APC array for the new house...)
It's clear the **AA has a fair amount of money to throw at these problems. If someone called you and said they'd give you $100K to allow them access to your machine connected to your friends, would you allow it? Maybe for $1M? You'd be surprised at how little money it really takes to make people rat out friends and family.
Now, granted, they wouldn't have access to everyone. But they could take down a few of your friends, bastardize the legal system for access to THEIR computers, use their computers to catch more people, ad nauseum. It would likely only take one "defector." And, once ANYONE on the system had been sued/etc., those who believed it's design made them totally safe would likely be more than a bit concerned.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. " -- Ben Franklin.
Exams, programs, training... cool. Photo radar? GPS tracking? Long-run black boxes? The day these become standard is the day I begin taking all available measures to defeat them. If that makes me a criminal, oh well.
Slashdot Mirror
One more time, in something approximating proper English?
Not that it in any way makes these laws right and proper, but they are probably concerned about things like this:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-isis-fighter-al-britani-threatens-3819631
When one of the militant nutjobs is bragging about holding executions in Trafalgar Square... well, it's probably reason for some level of concern.
I don't know what the hell to think about Obama anymore. The guy we elected was smart, charismatic, capable, articulate; he ran a brilliant campaign that took out the heavily favored Hilary Clinton. He came across as a man with the intelligence, principles, and pragmatism to fix the nations problems... or at least not fuck it up as catastrophically as George W. Bush did. So where the hell did that guy go?
Same guy... what you saw was an act, and millions of people fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Now, since he's in his second term and Congress is unlikely to grow the cojones to impeach him, he simply doesn't care.
If you give it the middle finger, will it wipe itself and install Linux?
Just a thought - why would we trust your thoughts regarding the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) when you can't even get the acronym right?
So, who charges $20K for programming software? CPS for the latest and greatest APX7000 portable is $265 for a 3-year subscription and runs on your favorite WinXP, Win7, or Win8 machine. The USB interface cable is sub-$100. And, by the way, several Motorola radios are capable of front-panel programming, to include the entire APX line (mobile and portable), the XTS2500/5000, etc.
Quite correct. Bunker C (type 6 fuel oil) is a thick black sludge similar in consistency to molasses and must be preheated above 200 degrees F before it becomes combustible.
If you're going to have to pull it out and preheat it prior to burning, may as well load it on another ship and do something useful with it.
For clarity, I'm not seeing a mesh network here. A mesh network is defined as a "swarm" or "cloud" of clients, where each client talks to multiple other clients to transfer data from the client to some endpoint. Typically, these networks are "self healing", where they gain and lose connections to other clients as those clients move in and out of range.
With the gear I'm seeing here, this is a typical linked repeater system. A subscriber (mobile or portable radio) talks to a repeater. His voice is (typically) repeated locally, but also retransmitted down the linked system to be broadcast elsewhere. There are quite a few amateur radio examples out there - check out Armadillo Intertie and Cactus Intertie. Disclaimer: I'm a member of Armadillo, which is affiliated with Cactus. We use 440MHz UHF repeaters, with backhaul links on 420MHz, 900MHz, microwave, and via the Internet. There are many other linked systems out there - MOTOTRBO systems that link using IP Site Connect, other conventional/analog systems, etc.
If mesh is your thing, google HSMM-MESH. This is a self-healing, fault-tolerant, amateur radio mesh networking system using off the shelf WRT54s (did you know 2.4GHz was actually an amateur radio band?) and some custom firmware to provide link-state routing, etc. Pretty cool stuff.
The Washington Examiner has some higher-res images available (download the pic and zoom in)
I'm seeing:
Kenwood TKR-750/850
Kenwood TKR-720/820
Motorola XPR8300
Motorola CM200 pair (presumably using a RICK)
Also an Icom rack-mount something or other (sorry, I don't do Icom)
As far as RF conditioning, I'm seeing:
Simple fiberglass sticks with radials (such as a Comet GP-3)
A couple Stationmasters
UHF yagis
DB-408/420s
The subscribers they show include two Kenwood business-class radios, a Moto HT1250 and MTS2000, and the FRS crap. Antennas appear to be UHF.
However, the duplexers are all sized to be VHF. If they're UHF, they're designed for some seriously high power output.
I'm thinking simple analog repeaters (the XPR is an oddball, but maybe they're just using it in analog mode) and analog links, like many wide-area amateur repeater systems. These systems would be relatively easy to set up, and would provide what they'd want with a minimum of fuss. Delivering traffic to some radios while bypassing others could be accomplished using MDC, FleetSync, etc.
Considering the geographic area, I'd also not be surprised if we're looking at pieces from multiple systems. They may have basic UHF conventional stuff in places, MOTOTRBO in others.
As far as OpenSky - as powerful as they are, I don't think the Zetas have whats necessary to successfully deploy OpenSky (don't tase... err, slaughter my family... bro!) - that technology hasn't been invented yet!
Warning: 4chan tard detected...
10^27. Is your Google broken?
As a side note, I'd hate to live under this regime, but I'd have a blast playing with this system if I had access to it. What Sesame Street quotes would set off the filter, etc.
Right up until you were "detained" indefinitely (at what I'm sure would be a first-class Chinese prison) for "suspicious activity".
No. Why would we?
One of the key components to any fire department is mutual aid - we help each other out. We do similar things with external entities. I need high voltage cut off? I call the power company. I know of no specialized "high voltage" unit or response team in any FD anywhere in the world, save for some industrial fire departments working at large power generation facilities.
We will strip a meter out of a box as a last resort, but we prefer letting the power company handle it. They're trained for it, they have the equipment (which they know how to inspect properly), etc. If we have an electrical hazard, we make a risk/reward decision and try to work around it. If the structure is fully involved and we either know everyone has been evacuated (per the homeowner) or we see that the conditions are not compatible with life, then we won't take a big chance. If we know there are three kids trapped in a bedroom, we'll work around the hazard as best we can to effect the rescue. Firefighting is a series of these decisions - is the amount of potential "good" worth a given amount of peril to my life and the lives of my crew?
Now, think about a crunched-up car, especially a little microbox like a Prius. The guys who work on HV for a living don't have "suits" - they have proper clothing, long insulating gloves, insulating boots, etc., along with tools that do their best to keep them away from the high voltage where possible. Ever tried a set of lineman's gloves on? You can forget any fine motor control. Now, think about what happens when you have no fine motor control and you need to mount an effective rescue on a car that's been crunched badly, while people sit inside bleeding to death. As it is, we are issued additional equipment for vehicle extrication and wildland firefighting (dual certified gear) - jumpsuit, gloves, lightweight helmet. The typical structural firefighting PPE is simply too big and bulky, and it impairs movement to the point that working with hand tools, rescue tools, etc. becomes very difficult. Lineman's gear would be even more of a problem.
Plus, how much gear do you carry? As it is, for my personal gear (this is what's in my locker, not counting what lives on the apparatus), I have:
Full set of structural PPE (coat, pants, suspenders, boots, helmet with light/band/wedges, 2 pairs of gloves, medical gloves, hand tools, rope bag, search loop, additional flashlight, etc.)
Full set of extrication/wildland PPE (jumpsuit, gloves, helmet, hand tools, flashlight, medical gloves, rope bag)
Handheld radio, another flashlight or two, more tools, etc.
I carry all of this every time we get a call (about 700 calls a year, I average 50-60%, all volunteer). Add too much more and we'll need a second truck to carry all of the gear!
It's frightening that someone modded you insightful.
Vehicle extrications are death-traps for firefighters. Just to name a few issues:
Shocks in bumpers, prone to send the bumper flying off the car at knee height
Rollover bars, prone to release at the wrong time and pummel anything in its path (already killed more than one FF)
Chemical airbags, which can cause injury or burns
Stored-gas airbags and their cylinders and tubing - not good to cut into a ~3Kpsi cylinder
High-voltage cables in hybrids
Magnesium and springs in steering columns
Hood and tailgate struts, prone to overheating and exploding
Fuel tank, fuel lines, etc.
And more...
Our bunker gear is insulating... from HEAT, not electricity. I carry a few different types of gloves (structural, extrication, work gloves for hose rolling) - none of them are rubber or insulating from electricity either. There is nothing in a firefighter's typical equipment that will provide any significant protection from electricity. Cutting a high-voltage cable in a hybrid will result in significant injury at best... death at worst.
That's what the duct tape is for.
Read and learn before talking out your ass. Clearly you have no clue about radio communications equipment.
They exist, but hold on to your wallet - every one I've seen is in the pro/broadcast category.
Videonics Firestore(available in rack, portable and on-camera configurations for professional camcorders.)
Sony DSR-DU1 (note the DU1 is intended for use with the DSR line of professional shoulder-mount camcorders.)
There are others out there, but those are a couple of the common ones. Why are they so expensive? If you can afford broadcast cameras and broadcast glass, they aren't expensive.
I'm actually a volunteer firefighter... but, with the antennas, an LED lightstick in the rear window, red strobes on the forward-facing sides of the outboard mirrors (intersection lighting), and red strobes on the pushbumper... well, let's just say I get some interesting glances, comments, etc. here and there.
The best way to get 802.11b/g coverage from your vehicle is to use a real external antenna. This leaves you with two options - buy something that's magnetic mount (easily available on the Net) or punch a hole in the roof and put a real antenna and mount in.
For my 2.4 solution, I installed an "NMO" antenna mount on the roof of my Expedition (drilling holes doesn't bother me - there's a total of 15 antennas mounted on the roof using NMO mounts, each of which requires a 3/4"-diameter hole).
First, find you an 802.11 card with an external antenna connector. The Orinoco 802.11b-only Gold works very nicely. Buy a pigtail to convert from the little push-on connector on the edge of the card (MCX?) to something more standard, like an N.
Next, buy the appropriate mount and antenna. The mount coax will be somewhat inflexible and will have a solid center conductor, so you'll need to be careful not to crush/damage it.
Maxrad mounts
And an antenna:
Maxrad antennas
I use the BMAXC24503 model. The 5db gain is nicer, but longer.
Drill a hole in the roof, install the mount, run the coax down through one of the pillars, connect to your pigtail, and connect to the card. You'll be amazed at the difference over your internal "antenna" (more like a dummy load.)
Installing antennas (drilling holes in the roof) is not for the faint of heart. Check with your local 2-way radio installers, and they might be able to put the antenna in for you for not too much money.
Good choices, all. But the final choice must be Foreigner's "Rev on the Red Line".
I've still got my Tandy 1000SE running, running DOS 3.3 and, wait for it, the wonderful game Bubble Bobble! Totally mindless entertainment in all its EGA goodness...
For more serious pursuits, I have a 386SX/25 desktop and a 486SL/33 laptop still running for commercial radio programming (the majority is written in DOS, the majority is damn picky on processor speed, and, for some of the radios, if you try to talk to them with a too-fast machine, you will kill the radio, to the tune of hundreds of dollars to fix...)
Terry
I'm probably burning karma, but...
At least in Texas, `grand theft auto' is a good deal more serious crime
In Texas, "Grand Theft Auto" isn't a crime. Just because they use it on TV and it sounds good, doesn't mean it's accurate. In Texas, the charge is "Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle," or, in police circles, UUMV (a state-jail felony, for those interested.)
As far as theft goes, it's a Class C misdemeanor for items valued less than $50, or less than $20 if the theft involved the passing of a hot check. An officer can choose to write a ticket or give you the ol' cuff-and-stuff, just like a traffic ticket.
One must be careful about aggregation rules - if you steal a computer, printer, and monitor from your local CompUSA, it's one offense, which, of course, can quickly increase the offense class.
Considering the amount of money people invest in their aquariums, why not something like an APC Smart-UPS? The Smart-UPS series outputs a pure sinewave - essentially they've replaced the only "modified sine wave" inverter with a pure-sine inverter.
The power is clean and beautiful on a scope, and it keeps my computers happy.
I'm not getting paid - just the words of a very satisifed customer (who's looking at an APC array for the new house...)
It's clear the **AA has a fair amount of money to throw at these problems. If someone called you and said they'd give you $100K to allow them access to your machine connected to your friends, would you allow it? Maybe for $1M? You'd be surprised at how little money it really takes to make people rat out friends and family.
Now, granted, they wouldn't have access to everyone. But they could take down a few of your friends, bastardize the legal system for access to THEIR computers, use their computers to catch more people, ad nauseum. It would likely only take one "defector." And, once ANYONE on the system had been sued/etc., those who believed it's design made them totally safe would likely be more than a bit concerned.
I'll make this simple...
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. " -- Ben Franklin.
Exams, programs, training... cool. Photo radar? GPS tracking? Long-run black boxes? The day these become standard is the day I begin taking all available measures to defeat them. If that makes me a criminal, oh well.