Congress could allow the FCC to preempt all of those local laws with the stroke of a pen if it wanted to, and declare that last-mile broadband delivery is under their jurisdiction, therefore severing the tie between service providers and bit delivery (much like the split between electricity production and transmission).
I would rather not concentrate so hard on the search for life and consider the likelihood of discovering 'new stuff'. Life would be great to find, but if the odds of finding life are similar, I'd rather go to the moon that has more activity going on - ice sheets thrusting up, clouds, etc. I'd hate to land in a place that we thought we'd find life, find none, and then be sitting on a barren sheet of ice, waiting for the batteries to die.
Good lord, I'm fairly sure I've _never_ heard Dylan actually reach the proper note as he slips and slides from one to the next. He has asymptotic pitch - he approaches the note without actually ever getting there.
I don't know what a Qalculate is, but (as you probabably are aware) Google is great at unit conversion. You can 'search' for "-30F in C" which yields "(-30) degrees Fahrenheit = -34.4444444 degrees Celsius". You can also do things like "1 us gallon in cc" with gives "1 US gallon = 3 785.41178 cc".
Similarly, you can do wacky things like "1 gallon per hour in hogsheads per fortnight" which yields "1 (US gallon per hour) = 5.33333333 hogsheads per fortnight".
Part of the reason NTSC is so 'robust' is because it is so spectrally inefficient. If you look at it with a spectrum analyzer, you'll see lots of RF jammed in close to the carrier, a lot of nothing, then the FM audio carrier. ATSC is fairly efficient wrt to the amount of data being crammed into 6 MHz, so naturally it's going to be more sensitive than NTSC to narrowband interference (like the notch you mentioned).
I mostly agree, however I don't fully agree with your second point. The spectrum of the signal has little to do with ATSC's overall resistance to interference. There are levels of redundancy and error correction that run on top of the RF signal that can reconstruct some errors induced from interference. With analog, you could see every blip from every stray cosmic ray, it seemed.
Oh, that's just a monumental cluster-#$#@. I'd love to see a battle of the transmitters - I've got 200kW! Oh yeah, I've got 300kW and a high-gain antenna! My analog signal's foo will wipe the floor with your lousy digital signal! Oh yeah? My digital signal will ignore your analog signal as noise!
You shouldn't be able to use it to check for possible matches in outstanding cases (a CLEAR violation of the presumption of innocence and would lead to a "fishing expedition"-gallore).
You mean like they do now when they run your license for outstanding "wants and warrants", and run your fingerprints when arrested for hits in the unsolved crime database? They're already doing it; with DNA they'll be able to not only check to see if you're in the database, but whether any of your close relatives are in the database. Chilling, no? The cops come knocking on your door because a relative of yours commits a crime, and you're arrested as an accomplice if you don't roll over on them.
He even implied that those mosquitoes were infected. Using "...life-threatening acts...[that] appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population..." is the definition of "Terrorism" in the US. He used the bugs to coerce them into taking his dogma seriously. Substitute "kill a hostage" for "releasing mosquitoes" and "Save Islam from the Great Satan" for "save malaria victims".
Why does it appear to be underwater in this picture? Is it radioactive? It looks like pictures of 'swimming pool' reactors. Or maybe it has a P4 processor.
The nasty little secret is that many DTV channels will move from their current temporary slot to their old analog slot, making daily channel rescanning necessary until all of the stations in your area switch over. With One True Date (tm), at least we'd only have to rescan once on Feb 17th.
I would hope that any moderately functional government would have developed use cases for these cards, analyzed the effect of using them on length of queues, effectiveness at preventing fraud etc, AND ACTUALLY TESTED THAT THEY WORK IN AN END-TO-END PILOT, which would require working readers. It sounds to me like a sweet contract was handed to some company without any thought of the implications of implementing this plan.
Do you think BluRay disks were developed in a vacuum without a working player (or at least a prototype) to test them? Not a chance. Technologies like that are developed hand-in-hand.
The reason you had to show the first page was because the security key to read biometric data from the the chip is in the additional characters tacked onto the Machine Readable Zone line with your name.
The encoding of the tag data is spelled out in ICAO Doc 9303, Parts I, II, III, which used to be downloadable. Now you have to buy them. Humm....
Probably not. They're only slightly conductive (it doesn't take much to drain off static), and do not represent an effective Faraday shield or bulk attenuator.
The information he read was from an EPC Class1 Gen2 encoded UHF tag. It was encoded as a Global Document Type Identifier (GDTI-96). The Company Prefix is 0893599002, and the Document Type is 1. The serial numbers of the documents are there, but I'm not going to post them. I don't have access to the GS1 Company Prefix database, and it's not searchable here. - anyone else have those mappings?
It is trivial to program an arbitrary tag ID into a blank Gen2 tag - I do it all the time wrt DOD-encoded tags.
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Farther along there's a picture of Bush Laden taped to a window. Also, there's a Fake Ham hanging out on a street corner.
One click forward yields "Image no longer available" - I wonder what that was? One more click farther along yields ghost and a guitar player.
Congress could allow the FCC to preempt all of those local laws with the stroke of a pen if it wanted to, and declare that last-mile broadband delivery is under their jurisdiction, therefore severing the tie between service providers and bit delivery (much like the split between electricity production and transmission).
I would rather not concentrate so hard on the search for life and consider the likelihood of discovering 'new stuff'. Life would be great to find, but if the odds of finding life are similar, I'd rather go to the moon that has more activity going on - ice sheets thrusting up, clouds, etc. I'd hate to land in a place that we thought we'd find life, find none, and then be sitting on a barren sheet of ice, waiting for the batteries to die.
Good lord, I'm fairly sure I've _never_ heard Dylan actually reach the proper note as he slips and slides from one to the next. He has asymptotic pitch - he approaches the note without actually ever getting there.
For the rest of the tripe being "manufacturered" today...
Your comment, you insensitive clod, is offensive to all of the tasty stomach lining out there and all of the wonderful products made thereof.
The McCoy automatic oiler...
That's pronounced "You-ler", not "Oiler".
I don't know what a Qalculate is, but (as you probabably are aware) Google is great at unit conversion. You can 'search' for "-30F in C" which yields "(-30) degrees Fahrenheit = -34.4444444 degrees Celsius". You can also do things like "1 us gallon in cc" with gives "1 US gallon = 3 785.41178 cc".
Similarly, you can do wacky things like "1 gallon per hour in hogsheads per fortnight" which yields "1 (US gallon per hour) = 5.33333333 hogsheads per fortnight".
No, but I'd like to see it 8-)
Part of the reason NTSC is so 'robust' is because it is so spectrally inefficient. If you look at it with a spectrum analyzer, you'll see lots of RF jammed in close to the carrier, a lot of nothing, then the FM audio carrier. ATSC is fairly efficient wrt to the amount of data being crammed into 6 MHz, so naturally it's going to be more sensitive than NTSC to narrowband interference (like the notch you mentioned).
I mostly agree, however I don't fully agree with your second point. The spectrum of the signal has little to do with ATSC's overall resistance to interference. There are levels of redundancy and error correction that run on top of the RF signal that can reconstruct some errors induced from interference. With analog, you could see every blip from every stray cosmic ray, it seemed.
Otherwise, an insightful post.
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Oh, that's just a monumental cluster-#$#@. I'd love to see a battle of the transmitters - I've got 200kW! Oh yeah, I've got 300kW and a high-gain antenna! My analog signal's foo will wipe the floor with your lousy digital signal! Oh yeah? My digital signal will ignore your analog signal as noise!
You shouldn't be able to use it to check for possible matches in outstanding cases (a CLEAR violation of the presumption of innocence and would lead to a "fishing expedition"-gallore).
You mean like they do now when they run your license for outstanding "wants and warrants", and run your fingerprints when arrested for hits in the unsolved crime database? They're already doing it; with DNA they'll be able to not only check to see if you're in the database, but whether any of your close relatives are in the database. Chilling, no? The cops come knocking on your door because a relative of yours commits a crime, and you're arrested as an accomplice if you don't roll over on them.
Botched the sitar link.
He even implied that those mosquitoes were infected. Using "...life-threatening acts...[that] appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population..." is the definition of "Terrorism" in the US. He used the bugs to coerce them into taking his dogma seriously. Substitute "kill a hostage" for "releasing mosquitoes" and "Save Islam from the Great Satan" for "save malaria victims".
"I only speak the truth"
Are you shaped like a sitar?
[John Leguizamo appeared in "Moulin Rouge!" as a magic sitar that could "Only speak the truth".]
Why does it appear to be underwater in this picture? Is it radioactive? It looks like pictures of 'swimming pool' reactors. Or maybe it has a P4 processor.
The nasty little secret is that many DTV channels will move from their current temporary slot to their old analog slot, making daily channel rescanning necessary until all of the stations in your area switch over. With One True Date (tm), at least we'd only have to rescan once on Feb 17th.
Does it prevent you from being killed by mortal weapons, or just any snorted, injected, inhaled, or eaten compound?
The Scots have had this forever - Haggis is a bag of liver (and lungs, and hearts, and oats and onions).
I would hope that any moderately functional government would have developed use cases for these cards, analyzed the effect of using them on length of queues, effectiveness at preventing fraud etc, AND ACTUALLY TESTED THAT THEY WORK IN AN END-TO-END PILOT, which would require working readers. It sounds to me like a sweet contract was handed to some company without any thought of the implications of implementing this plan.
Do you think BluRay disks were developed in a vacuum without a working player (or at least a prototype) to test them? Not a chance. Technologies like that are developed hand-in-hand.
The encoding of the tag data is spelled out in ICAO Doc 9303, Parts I, II, III, which used to be downloadable. Now you have to buy them. Humm....
Probably not. They're only slightly conductive (it doesn't take much to drain off static), and do not represent an effective Faraday shield or bulk attenuator.
The information he read was from an EPC Class1 Gen2 encoded UHF tag. It was encoded as a Global Document Type Identifier (GDTI-96). The Company Prefix is 0893599002, and the Document Type is 1. The serial numbers of the documents are there, but I'm not going to post them. I don't have access to the GS1 Company Prefix database, and it's not searchable here. - anyone else have those mappings?
It is trivial to program an arbitrary tag ID into a blank Gen2 tag - I do it all the time wrt DOD-encoded tags.