I have always wanted to set up laser pointers that were on all the time so that they blocked the site of the cameras for everyone. One could be set up for each camera. They could be placed hundreds of feet away from the building (somewhere convenient to leech power!?). It wouldn't take long for them to find where the laser was located...
My stepfather died Staphylococcus. It was not vancomycin-resistant, but it was enough to spread to his heart. While he was in the hospital, we encountered three people with the vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus bacteria next to his room (they thought that he had that, but it turned out he didn't)! This is deffenitely not the first case. I don't understand how they could say this. The doctors that were carring for him said that there were many cases in the US (a little over 20) and some cases overseas.
One of the doctors thought that he was causing these infetions himself "using needles" and whatnot. This was, of course, not true, but I wonder how often this happens in these super bacteria cases.
you can google for some sites that have an aurora forecast... It is like a normal weather thing, but for the northen lights. Sometimes you can see them from northern california! have fun.
Just get any old 12v hub and...
on
Portable Hubs?
·
· Score: 1
Run it off a small lead acid battery... There are many small ones that would outlast your laptop batteries (which I'm assuming your not plugging in your laptops since you want a battery powered hub).
Are you tellin me there is NO way for them to connect to an external (out of china) proxy that they could use for browsing? Or does it filter content as it comes in (jsut ssl)?
the users manual. They don't expect people to be intelligent or anything...that's why they pack the little manual they send you with information. One of the sections should be called something like Care and maintenance. All laptop manuals I have had tell how to properly clean the screen (lite detergent on a rag). Also, the screen should be covered with a protective coating (they all have a polarized piece of plastic film) that should keep the transistors from being exposed to the outside, so your friend probably dripped water inside or something...unless it ate through the plastic.
Just turn it off and pull the battery when you clean it...if you get water in it, don't worry about it, just wait until you think the water inside is dry before you turn it back on.
A great place for info is at the ESD Association's website. More specifically, there page about ESD http://www.esda.org/aboutesd.html
This page has information on what causes ESD, ESD testing, and how to control esd in places like your work.
If the machine is automated, I wouldn't think it would be a problem, as long as those pesky charged humans don't touch anything.
If the machine is automated, they most likely have ESD precautions built in, such as discharging any belts that move components, etc...
The real questin you have to ask is if it is worth it. If you have a circuit that you made for $10, and it get's inspected by a human...how do you know that in the process of being inspected the person didn't kill it... not only will the customer not be happy about recieving a dead product, which will hurt you buisness, but that's $10 dollars down the drain... So it has a lot to do with product reliability and cost saving.
I personally don't think that you need all of the things you mentioned... If your sitting at a little solder station or where many components are going through your hands, then I would deffenitely wear a wrist strap...it will pay for itself even after one kill (assuming about $10)...
As for the flooring, in order for that to work, you would need conductive shoes, so they go hand in hand...but I think that's overdoing it by quite a bit. As for the humidity, if your in a place that has very very low humidity, then you would need some kind of control because you, and many things around you, will accumulate a charge very quickly...and, I would assume that it would be a lot cheaper than buying all the flooring and shoes, because, in your situation, you wouldn't need both.
Here's a good site with typing tutors and other dvorak info...this is where I learned about it...
http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/
I honestly didn't use a typing tutor, but I imagine it would make it a lot easier and I reccomend that you do...
Like that web page says, don't use a qwerty keyboard while you are learning! You will unteach yourself everytime, trust me...:) Convert your keyboard at work and anywhere else you can.
If I get onto my any other windows computers with a qwerty layout, I ussually just go to the keyboard settings and make it so alt+shift switches between layouts. But you won't be able to do this until you get comfortable with it.
And on the issue of most other computers having qwerty...you will be able to type qwerty fine once you learn dvorak (as long as you can type it ok now)...it just takes about 10 minutes of contant typing on the qwerty keyboard to get used to. When people are watching me type real real slow while looking at the keyboard, I explain to them that I just use a different more superior layout! hehehe
If your going to change your layout to dvorak, remember that all you bios passwords(I thought I just forgot them) and non windows dos consoles will be in qwerty...
Once you learn dvorak, you will realise how pointless and irritating qwerty is when you go back to use it...
My 1GHz Laptop (with Gforce2) uses a MAX of 60 watts...thats for screen and everything...If the screen is not on the brightest setting, and the battery is not charging, and you not doing something that requires constant cpu activity, I would imagine it would use tens of watts less...
Also, with a laptop, you could use it for about three hours (or buy two batteries to double time) during times that you can't afford to use power from your preciouse batteries..
Also, maybe there is some way that you could set up a battery or two made only for the laptop...it would be a nice way to regulate how much power you use. Just get some deep cycle marine batteries for it...
The cone you are speaking of is most likely the nulls from the antenna pattern. If it is a radio station, it most likely has a dipole...this means that it will transmitt in a donut shape, with inside of the donut stretched to the center point...so if you are fairly close to the antenna, the signal will be extremely weak because the antenna (if it were horizontal campared to the ground (horizontal polarization)) does not transmit well in horizontal directions.
Here you can see a dipole antenna pattern, and many more, and the cone you are speaking of. http://www.rfcafe.com/references/electrical/a ntenn a_patterns.htm
Here is an explanation on how antennas transmit which will other people understand how antenna patterns are effected a little, and how antennas transmit http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/whyantradia tes.html
Satellites need to be aimed because the beamwidth from the high gain antennas they use are very narrow. Because of free space losses, and all the spheres, they need to consentrate the signal into a small beam in order to recieve a strong signal, at the antenna.
Its not because of front end overlaoding...as the lady said, its a dead spot, meaning no signal...your right about it just going over his head...
Also, imagine how warm and fuzzy you would feel if they did use ground waves and you were "just down the street" from a 50,000 watt transmitter (even with losses)! hehehe...pretty warm...
I honestly don't understand why people want to kill floppies!
What would the benefit be over not having one compared with having one? Until they come up with something that almost all computers support, is small, portable, and just big enough to tranfer small files, I think they should keep it.
If you don't have a network, and no floppy, your screwed if you want to get a file to another computer, unless you burn it on a cd of course.
There have been many many many times when I have written a report at home, and taken it to school to continue working on it. The only alternative would be to email it to yourself (which some internet access places don't even allow) burn it on a cd (that would get old, and if you wanted to save it, and there wasn't a computer with a burner around, your real screwed), or put it on some server (which again can be a pain with places that censor what you can do (if they would only allow access to ftp.exe).
I constantly use my floppy, and so do many people I see. I use it to get my blank or broken hard drive up and running, and many many other uses. Sure, if your not writting or breaking hard drives you might not use it often, but its a REAL life saver if you need to get a fairly small (with todays standards) file from one computer to another.
I'm real currious of what other people use in place of a floppy. Mainly for school or buisiness documents that you want to get from home to school/work or the other way around.
They can already listen to all phone calls. Anyway, like I said on another post, this is just an easier less risky way of planting a bug. They could still do it the old fashioned way, it would just be harder.
Re:When will society and government learn
on
Spy Fly
·
· Score: 1
"It's all for the good of the nation"
By spying, you could passibly stop bad things from happening. You could constantly spy on and follow a terrorist leader and listen to his every move. You could do a lot of good with this "evil" thing. It's just a normal radio bug that can be placed somewhere without risking someone elses life (the guy that ussually has to put it there).
Slashdot Mirror
my toshiba laptop has a reprogrammable mac address on it's network card!
I can spoof all I want.
Got some nano-dust on my cd...gotta clean it...
I have always wanted to set up laser pointers that were on all the time so that they blocked the site of the cameras for everyone. One could be set up for each camera. They could be placed hundreds of feet away from the building (somewhere convenient to leech power!?). It wouldn't take long for them to find where the laser was located...
Is this illegal?
If they squish one of these things into a PCMCIA card, I would be happy!
My stepfather died Staphylococcus. It was not vancomycin-resistant, but it was enough to spread to his heart. While he was in the hospital, we encountered three people with the vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus bacteria next to his room (they thought that he had that, but it turned out he didn't)! This is deffenitely not the first case. I don't understand how they could say this. The doctors that were carring for him said that there were many cases in the US (a little over 20) and some cases overseas.
One of the doctors thought that he was causing these infetions himself "using needles" and whatnot. This was, of course, not true, but I wonder how often this happens in these super bacteria cases.
you can google for some sites that have an aurora forecast... It is like a normal weather thing, but for the northen lights. Sometimes you can see them from northern california! have fun.
Run it off a small lead acid battery... There are many small ones that would outlast your laptop batteries (which I'm assuming your not plugging in your laptops since you want a battery powered hub).
Are you tellin me there is NO way for them to connect to an external (out of china) proxy that they could use for browsing? Or does it filter content as it comes in (jsut ssl)?
the users manual. They don't expect people to be intelligent or anything...that's why they pack the little manual they send you with information. One of the sections should be called something like Care and maintenance. All laptop manuals I have had tell how to properly clean the screen (lite detergent on a rag). Also, the screen should be covered with a protective coating (they all have a polarized piece of plastic film) that should keep the transistors from being exposed to the outside, so your friend probably dripped water inside or something...unless it ate through the plastic.
Just turn it off and pull the battery when you clean it...if you get water in it, don't worry about it, just wait until you think the water inside is dry before you turn it back on.
A great place for info is at the ESD Association's website. More specifically, there page about ESD
http://www.esda.org/aboutesd.html
This page has information on what causes ESD, ESD testing, and how to control esd in places like your work.
If the machine is automated, I wouldn't think it would be a problem, as long as those pesky charged humans don't touch anything.
If the machine is automated, they most likely have ESD precautions built in, such as discharging any belts that move components, etc...
The real questin you have to ask is if it is worth it. If you have a circuit that you made for $10, and it get's inspected by a human...how do you know that in the process of being inspected the person didn't kill it... not only will the customer not be happy about recieving a dead product, which will hurt you buisness, but that's $10 dollars down the drain... So it has a lot to do with product reliability and cost saving.
I personally don't think that you need all of the things you mentioned...
If your sitting at a little solder station or where many components are going through your hands, then I would deffenitely wear a wrist strap...it will pay for itself even after one kill (assuming about $10)...
As for the flooring, in order for that to work, you would need conductive shoes, so they go hand in hand...but I think that's overdoing it by quite a bit. As for the humidity, if your in a place that has very very low humidity, then you would need some kind of control because you, and many things around you, will accumulate a charge very quickly...and, I would assume that it would be a lot cheaper than buying all the flooring and shoes, because, in your situation, you wouldn't need both.
Some Kernel or something lost his arm way back when and asked Dvorak to make him a keyboard that he could type quickly on with one hand.
It's called the Dvorak right and left hand keyboard...or simplified right or left hand keyboard.
I believe that windows comes with a driver for it...
Here's a good site with typing tutors and other dvorak info...this is where I learned about it...
:) Convert your keyboard at work and anywhere else you can.
http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/
I honestly didn't use a typing tutor, but I imagine it would make it a lot easier and I reccomend that you do...
Like that web page says, don't use a qwerty keyboard while you are learning! You will unteach yourself everytime, trust me...
If I get onto my any other windows computers with a qwerty layout, I ussually just go to the keyboard settings and make it so alt+shift switches between layouts. But you won't be able to do this until you get comfortable with it.
And on the issue of most other computers having qwerty...you will be able to type qwerty fine once you learn dvorak (as long as you can type it ok now)...it just takes about 10 minutes of contant typing on the qwerty keyboard to get used to. When people are watching me type real real slow while looking at the keyboard, I explain to them that I just use a different more superior layout! hehehe
If your going to change your layout to dvorak, remember that all you bios passwords(I thought I just forgot them) and non windows dos consoles will be in qwerty...
Once you learn dvorak, you will realise how pointless and irritating qwerty is when you go back to use it...
My 1GHz Laptop (with Gforce2) uses a MAX of 60 watts...thats for screen and everything...If the screen is not on the brightest setting, and the battery is not charging, and you not doing something that requires constant cpu activity, I would imagine it would use tens of watts less...
Also, with a laptop, you could use it for about three hours (or buy two batteries to double time) during times that you can't afford to use power from your preciouse batteries..
Also, maybe there is some way that you could set up a battery or two made only for the laptop...it would be a nice way to regulate how much power you use. Just get some deep cycle marine batteries for it...
We're being invaded!
They look just like those creatures from the planet Zen in Hal-Life! It's all comming together! That wasn't a game, it was a training exercise!
I think the crappy satelites are just slowly falling to the earth...it would make scense because the gravitational field is increasing.
hahah..sorry..i meant vertical...
The cone you are speaking of is most likely the nulls from the antenna pattern. If it is a radio station, it most likely has a dipole...this means that it will transmitt in a donut shape, with inside of the donut stretched to the center point...so if you are fairly close to the antenna, the signal will be extremely weak because the antenna (if it were horizontal campared to the ground (horizontal polarization)) does not transmit well in horizontal directions.
a ntenn a_patterns.htm
a tes.html
Here you can see a dipole antenna pattern, and many more, and the cone you are speaking of.
http://www.rfcafe.com/references/electrical/
Here is an explanation on how antennas transmit which will other people understand how antenna patterns are effected a little, and how antennas transmit
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/whyantradi
Satellites need to be aimed because the beamwidth from the high gain antennas they use are very narrow. Because of free space losses, and all the spheres, they need to consentrate the signal into a small beam in order to recieve a strong signal, at the antenna.
Its not because of front end overlaoding...as the lady said, its a dead spot, meaning no signal...your right about it just going over his head...
Also, imagine how warm and fuzzy you would feel if they did use ground waves and you were "just down the street" from a 50,000 watt transmitter (even with losses)! hehehe...pretty warm...
I honestly don't understand why people want to kill floppies!
What would the benefit be over not having one compared with having one? Until they come up with something that almost all computers support, is small, portable, and just big enough to tranfer small files, I think they should keep it.
If you don't have a network, and no floppy, your screwed if you want to get a file to another computer, unless you burn it on a cd of course.
There have been many many many times when I have written a report at home, and taken it to school to continue working on it. The only alternative would be to email it to yourself (which some internet access places don't even allow) burn it on a cd (that would get old, and if you wanted to save it, and there wasn't a computer with a burner around, your real screwed), or put it on some server (which again can be a pain with places that censor what you can do (if they would only allow access to ftp.exe).
I constantly use my floppy, and so do many people I see. I use it to get my blank or broken hard drive up and running, and many many other uses. Sure, if your not writting or breaking hard drives you might not use it often, but its a REAL life saver if you need to get a fairly small (with todays standards) file from one computer to another.
I'm real currious of what other people use in place of a floppy. Mainly for school or buisiness documents that you want to get from home to school/work or the other way around.
They can already listen to all phone calls. Anyway, like I said on another post, this is just an easier less risky way of planting a bug. They could still do it the old fashioned way, it would just be harder.
"It's all for the good of the nation"
By spying, you could passibly stop bad things from happening. You could constantly spy on and follow a terrorist leader and listen to his every move. You could do a lot of good with this "evil" thing. It's just a normal radio bug that can be placed somewhere without risking someone elses life (the guy that ussually has to put it there).
Hey, can you send me your email address...I would like to talk about this off forum(?)...today, my email adress looks backwards...
Damn that mechanic...I better take back my pistons...
Do you realy get 8 hours? What Kind of laptop you have? Cause that's real nice...