I think "all" should be replaced by "any " in this report. I can imagine the Indian Government wanting to be able to trace the location of any nominated cell phone, but not "all" because there are too many of them. They would need to have a capability to do it on all of them. Tracking the phone is not the same as tracking the person. There is a need to be precise when discussing this emoptive stuff.
Don't forget the wonderful beach in WA. It has about 3000 miles of coastline, and another 3000 miles of red sand between the Indian Ocean and civilization.
There is a hidden cost to the country that hosts this beast. That is the need to maintain a radio frequency quiet zone across a huge area of the country. Unwanted radio noise will reduce the effectiveness of the SKA and will require more computing power. This quiet zone will inevitably deny services in the future to Australians who live in remote areas. There are very few places in the world where this would be tolerable, and I am not at all certain that Australia is one of them. If the full implications of this were know to all, there might be an adverse reaction. If it is true now, then how long will it remain so. It might have been better to put this thing in Antarctica.
Mobile phones, terrestrial broadcasting, broadband internet, marine and air traffic can be controlled in the Australian SKA zones but existing satellite footprints will remain and future ones might be needed to provide economic services in the vast Outback. This will require a highly organized, strong, and effective radio spectrum regulator. Australia has one of those, responsible for the entire continent, in the ACMA (NZL has a good one too). Africa would be an entirely different story - for obvious reasons.
Disclosure: I am an Australian, and also a former spectrum manager of the regulator.
I am hoping that the Saudis only wanted to inderview him so that they could find and arrest the fuckers who were threeatening to kill him. That's the only crime that has been committed on this.
Very poor journalism,
Firstly, Interpol never arrested anyone. It has no powers of arrest anywhere, and exists only to pass messages around between member police services. Probably a Saudi wanted notice was passed to Malaysia (an Islamic country) and it decided to help, Allah knows why, because no crime was committed in either country. Perhaps there is a treaty between Saudi and Malaysia.
They needed to arrest the turds who made the death threats. Perhaps the Saudis only needed to interview him to track down who was making the death threats. That death penalty may be the product of a journalists vivid imagination. Even the Saudis are not that stupid, and Malaysia has a British common law heritage.
Yes. this is really about digital conversion. Analogue systems are obsolete and have to be phased out. Digital systems cannot be monitored by analogue scanners but encryption is much easier in digital and should be used to protect our privacy. Much police traffic is inherently private, for example an emergency call to a home where a man is beating his wife. Should his address be broadcast to the media.
I think the UK response was appropriate. That is what happened. We were less civilized then. They also burned Joan of Arc. Should we now expect them to unburn her.
Agreed. Americans have also forgotten that France won their War of Independendence for them and gave them their precious liberty.
I have no particular love of France either - being Australian.
The biggest problem facing any governemnt of a free nation is how to prevent a hideously wealthy few from taking it all. The Rs are less well equipped to do this than the Ds
Australians have forgotten that Dick Smith got his first big break in business by dumping cheap 27 MHz CB radios on the Australian market. He acquired bulk lots of them because they had been rejected by the FCC as being unsuitable for the USA market. They were equally unsuitable for Australia, and banned by the spectrum regulator, but Dick mounted a lobbying campaign and coerced the government into lowering its standards.
I just downloaded and installed Chrome, and nowhere in that process did I discover what version it was. Even in the "About Chrome" link of the tools menu it does not tell me.
I can't believe this. I attempted to watch a game of this form of football on TV last night. The average length of a play was about 3.5 seconds, with a wait inbetween plays of many times that duration. During the breaks they changed players, and sometimes almost the whole team to substitute specialists: not to mention the TV commercials. With all these breaks the pace was so slow that I found it simply impossible to maintain an interest in the game. The several coaches of each team were clearly in radio contact with key players and all players were heavily armored. Rarely was the ball actually kicked. This is not football folks. Rather, it is some kind of lame board game played by turns. The cheating has been institutionalised into the rules - like using radio communications to warn and instruct, and replacing players with specialists for just one play.
Football should be a fast athletic game of kicking and catching from all players, with two teams all in action and no more, and substitutes permitted only for injured players. Now to seriously suggest that there is insufficient technology in this game is simply ludicrous. This was once a real team sport akin to rugby, but too many interests have slowed it down, and dumbed it up, until there is almost nothing left. There is no grace and beauty. Certain players are admirable only for being massively over-weight and therefore immovable. The rest of the world thinks it is awful, and refuses to play. So it will never be anything more than an example of how Americans can ruin a sport, and Americans will never amount to much in real international football.
Those lost revenue predictions are usually based on the strange notion that the demand is the same for both cheap copy parts and original parts at vastly higher prices. It isn't.
I feel ashamed to be complicit through my government in confining Palestinians to a ghetto in their own land. Of all the peoples on earth who should know better than this it is the Israelis. Now I know how ordinary Germans felt when their leaders were doing this kind of thing.
It's not a conspiracy. The White House has nothing to gain from prohibiting marijuana. It simply has advice from more reliable sources than you that it is addictive and harmful. It seems to be prepared to risk losing the pot-head vote. Wise move.
Science cannot mix with the kind of christian fundamentalist ignorants who think that science is a conspiracy against them and should be treated as another bogus religion.
Boo hoo!! Its fine by me to knock Microsoft. Both at work and home I have paid for so many buggy MS operating systems over the years since MS Dos, and usually the only solution is to buy the next version, which is equally buggy.
One of the main lessons of 911 has still not been learned. The passengers on the jet that went down in Pennsylvania were desperate to find a weapon, any kind of weapon, which would let them take on two lightly armed terrorists. The security measures at the airport prevented them from finding such a weapon. The outcome could not have been worse if 9 mm automatic pistols had been handed to each passenger with their boarding cards. Sure, then the terrorists would have had pistols, but they would not have dared to use them. They would have chosen a weaker target.
I don't think that guns should be allowed on planes, but simple weapons like pepper spray, ropes and batons could be stored around the plane where stewards or passengers can get them in an emergency. Steel cutlery could be useful. No one would try to hijack an aircraft with weapons like that.
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It would be stupoid to have bombers. When you release the bombs, where are they gong to go ?
I think "all" should be replaced by "any " in this report. I can imagine the Indian Government wanting to be able to trace the location of any nominated cell phone, but not "all" because there are too many of them. They would need to have a capability to do it on all of them. Tracking the phone is not the same as tracking the person. There is a need to be precise when discussing this emoptive stuff.
Don't forget the wonderful beach in WA. It has about 3000 miles of coastline, and another 3000 miles of red sand between the Indian Ocean and civilization.
There is a hidden cost to the country that hosts this beast. That is the need to maintain a radio frequency quiet zone across a huge area of the country. Unwanted radio noise will reduce the effectiveness of the SKA and will require more computing power. This quiet zone will inevitably deny services in the future to Australians who live in remote areas. There are very few places in the world where this would be tolerable, and I am not at all certain that Australia is one of them. If the full implications of this were know to all, there might be an adverse reaction. If it is true now, then how long will it remain so. It might have been better to put this thing in Antarctica. Mobile phones, terrestrial broadcasting, broadband internet, marine and air traffic can be controlled in the Australian SKA zones but existing satellite footprints will remain and future ones might be needed to provide economic services in the vast Outback. This will require a highly organized, strong, and effective radio spectrum regulator. Australia has one of those, responsible for the entire continent, in the ACMA (NZL has a good one too). Africa would be an entirely different story - for obvious reasons. Disclosure: I am an Australian, and also a former spectrum manager of the regulator.
Heck! You American Bible nuts are funny. Whe will you grow up and understand that nothing in the Old Testament is literally true.
I am hoping that the Saudis only wanted to inderview him so that they could find and arrest the fuckers who were threeatening to kill him. That's the only crime that has been committed on this.
If we could remove all the computers from Nigeria, the world would be a better place.
Very poor journalism, Firstly, Interpol never arrested anyone. It has no powers of arrest anywhere, and exists only to pass messages around between member police services. Probably a Saudi wanted notice was passed to Malaysia (an Islamic country) and it decided to help, Allah knows why, because no crime was committed in either country. Perhaps there is a treaty between Saudi and Malaysia. They needed to arrest the turds who made the death threats. Perhaps the Saudis only needed to interview him to track down who was making the death threats. That death penalty may be the product of a journalists vivid imagination. Even the Saudis are not that stupid, and Malaysia has a British common law heritage.
Yes. this is really about digital conversion. Analogue systems are obsolete and have to be phased out. Digital systems cannot be monitored by analogue scanners but encryption is much easier in digital and should be used to protect our privacy. Much police traffic is inherently private, for example an emergency call to a home where a man is beating his wife. Should his address be broadcast to the media.
I think the UK response was appropriate. That is what happened. We were less civilized then. They also burned Joan of Arc. Should we now expect them to unburn her.
Agreed. Americans have also forgotten that France won their War of Independendence for them and gave them their precious liberty. I have no particular love of France either - being Australian.
If they did that they would find a great many, including the American War of Revolution.
The biggest problem facing any governemnt of a free nation is how to prevent a hideously wealthy few from taking it all. The Rs are less well equipped to do this than the Ds
Australians have forgotten that Dick Smith got his first big break in business by dumping cheap 27 MHz CB radios on the Australian market. He acquired bulk lots of them because they had been rejected by the FCC as being unsuitable for the USA market. They were equally unsuitable for Australia, and banned by the spectrum regulator, but Dick mounted a lobbying campaign and coerced the government into lowering its standards.
Why does a Canadian organisation require any permission from the Government of the USA?
I just downloaded and installed Chrome, and nowhere in that process did I discover what version it was. Even in the "About Chrome" link of the tools menu it does not tell me.
I can't believe this. I attempted to watch a game of this form of football on TV last night. The average length of a play was about 3.5 seconds, with a wait inbetween plays of many times that duration. During the breaks they changed players, and sometimes almost the whole team to substitute specialists: not to mention the TV commercials. With all these breaks the pace was so slow that I found it simply impossible to maintain an interest in the game. The several coaches of each team were clearly in radio contact with key players and all players were heavily armored. Rarely was the ball actually kicked. This is not football folks. Rather, it is some kind of lame board game played by turns. The cheating has been institutionalised into the rules - like using radio communications to warn and instruct, and replacing players with specialists for just one play. Football should be a fast athletic game of kicking and catching from all players, with two teams all in action and no more, and substitutes permitted only for injured players. Now to seriously suggest that there is insufficient technology in this game is simply ludicrous. This was once a real team sport akin to rugby, but too many interests have slowed it down, and dumbed it up, until there is almost nothing left. There is no grace and beauty. Certain players are admirable only for being massively over-weight and therefore immovable. The rest of the world thinks it is awful, and refuses to play. So it will never be anything more than an example of how Americans can ruin a sport, and Americans will never amount to much in real international football.
Those lost revenue predictions are usually based on the strange notion that the demand is the same for both cheap copy parts and original parts at vastly higher prices. It isn't.
All those quest5ion are entirely irrelevant
What about the statute of limitations? He probably cannot be charged.
I feel ashamed to be complicit through my government in confining Palestinians to a ghetto in their own land. Of all the peoples on earth who should know better than this it is the Israelis. Now I know how ordinary Germans felt when their leaders were doing this kind of thing.
It's not a conspiracy. The White House has nothing to gain from prohibiting marijuana. It simply has advice from more reliable sources than you that it is addictive and harmful. It seems to be prepared to risk losing the pot-head vote. Wise move.
Science cannot mix with the kind of christian fundamentalist ignorants who think that science is a conspiracy against them and should be treated as another bogus religion.
Boo hoo!! Its fine by me to knock Microsoft. Both at work and home I have paid for so many buggy MS operating systems over the years since MS Dos, and usually the only solution is to buy the next version, which is equally buggy.
One of the main lessons of 911 has still not been learned. The passengers on the jet that went down in Pennsylvania were desperate to find a weapon, any kind of weapon, which would let them take on two lightly armed terrorists. The security measures at the airport prevented them from finding such a weapon. The outcome could not have been worse if 9 mm automatic pistols had been handed to each passenger with their boarding cards. Sure, then the terrorists would have had pistols, but they would not have dared to use them. They would have chosen a weaker target. I don't think that guns should be allowed on planes, but simple weapons like pepper spray, ropes and batons could be stored around the plane where stewards or passengers can get them in an emergency. Steel cutlery could be useful. No one would try to hijack an aircraft with weapons like that.