Has anyone in this idiotic thread ever heard of a CONTRACT? When you agree to your ISP's agreement you are ENTERING INTO A LEGAL CONTRACT with them. Violation of that contract IS illegal. Sheesh.
Just what I want - to host a random spammer on my home LAN, and be the tracepoint of whatever this person wants to send out on the net. Seriously, if this "guest" wants to send stuff to deaththreats@whitehouse.gov, I'd be the target of an anal investigation by the NSA and the USSS at the very least.
The other problem would be receiving the GPS signal indoors. The GPS's I've played with won't work in the middle of my house or my basement. The GPS wouldn't start tracking untill it was atop the Garbage truck on the way to the dump:)
In a former life, I worked on a similar scam (at the time, unknowingly). It was for one of the first of the Customer-Owned Payphones back around 1985, called COCOT or COPTS phones.
I won't memtion the exact brand name, but I was one of two design engineers that designed this payphone. The entire industry was new, having just been deregulated. There were about 5 companies producing them at the start, and about 30 by the end, so the industry experienced explosive growth (just like the.COM boom of a year ago).
The two owners of the company had us start designing the phone. They then proceeded to march in Investors to see "the phone" work, well before it's design was even finalized. At first, we rigged a mock-up to act something like a phone.
"Harumph, it works", claimed the investors. Eventually, we did design and have a fully functional payphone. But most of the phones out there in the industry were horrible. They didn't look or act like Ma Bell payphones, and the most critical areas, how much to charge for the call, and answer detetion (do I thake or return the user's money?) were dismal and highly unreliable. In fact at one point it seemed that no-one could get these areas of operation reliable.
I assume it was at this point the owners decided to make it a full-blown scam. They sold the crap out of the phone. They sold EXCLUSIVE rights to manufacture the phone to at least 5 companies that I heard of afterward.
The funniest part of the whole story is that my parter and I actually screwed up the whole scam by making the phone actually work well. Instead of doing a nose-dive in 6 months as they expected, the company endured successfully for 4 years!
If anyone has ever seen the movie "The Producers" by Mel Brooks, then you know the plot - oversell the product many 100% - then BK the company and you don't have to pay any investors back. Well, the same thing happened.
Last I heard from the owners, they were hiding out in Snake's Navel, Arizona, and one actually called me, late one night, drunk off his ass, to bitch me out personally for costing him Millions!! Snicker.
Well anyway, I smell the EXACT same type of scam here. These are the bait for the investors, even with the admission that they are mock-ups of the final design. My prediction is, once the money is raked in, then actual production will start on the phone and they'll find there's no way it can be done for $30.00. The people they hired will be left holding the bag, and the bills for manufacturing phones that actually tunred out to cost $100.00 to $200.00 or so like any other phone.
And the owners? They'll be joining the Scammer's Relocation Program in Snake's Navel, AZ.
Humans don't make good random number generators. For lotteries, etc. Most people pick repetitive numbers like birthdays, SSN's, phone numbers. From another person's point of view, having no clue what the other person's motivations are, their choices seem random. To the person picking them they aren't. This is further evidenced by a stage magic trick I once saw done, where a random number guessed was picked by the performer, and It was explained to me afterward that 95% of people will pick something like 6 (don't quote me here - I don't remember the EXACT details of the trick) but it relied on the fact that people act in very predictable ways. The other 5% are insane and unpredictably erratic...
Why is it that robots must be envisioned as humanoid? Specialized robots look very little like a human, such as industrial handling robots. A more generalized design for multi-purpose applications need not look or act anything like a human being to get it's tasks accomplished. I think a lot of fear and paranoia from the ignorant might be avoided by specifically making them NOT look humanoid. Who says that the human form is the be-all and end-all general purpose vehicle? The only "pro" for them being humanoid is they must negotiate a world build for humanoids.
Can I watch? -- You'll light yourself up like the top of the Luxor! - The antennas are usually a DC short circuit, but to high frequencyy (RF energy) they look like a resonant tuned load. Your 220 mains are low enough in frequency to look like DC to the antenna - Bzzzzzt.
It's not quite that simple. The RF spectrum is very congested, and the FCC has hundreds of applicants all vying for the small pieces of spectrum not alread allocated for some service. The FCC found them a "hole" at the time of their application, and any other nearby unoccupied pieces of spectrum have probably already been sold off.
Yeah, it does mean more CPU cycles wasted on decoding the data stream, but compare a $100 CPU upgrade to a $500-$1500 blue laser based DVD drive.
Also if you have a hardware MPEG decoder on a Video card, you just need to upgrade that. No CPU upgrade, as the outboard hardware handles the new demand.
I co-wrote one of the most popular Ray-Tracing programs out there, and learned this from my travels.
Your problem is coming from an effect called Metamerism. This is a phenomenon that causes us to perceive 2 colors as the same when they are not.
The whole problem is caused by our moronic RGB model of light. It's not that simple, in reality. It's like thinking of the audio spectrum as being divided into Treble, Midrange and Bass, and all tones (frequencies) expressed as a "quantity" of bass, treble, and midrange. Stupid, hmm? Well, our RGB model has caused the same stupidity in the optical spectrum.
The visual spectrum is continuous, just like the audio and RF spectrums. A given light source (color) is almost never a single line color on a spectral scale, unless it's a monochromatic laser.
The different spectral peaks for a given light or color sample will be assimilated by your eyes and brain as a given color. There are MANY combinations of spectral peaks that can APPEAR to be the exact same color, yet a measurement system such as HSV or CIE or even RGB will see them as very different. This is called Metamerism.
Even worse, the effect is also compounded by a given color sample looking different under various spectral distributions of illumination (i.e. different colors of light)
For more research on this effect, consult the people that devised the CIELAB scale, Hunter Labs. I learned about this effect in a book written by them! Unfortunately, this book was lent to me by an old associate years ago, and I don't remember the details, like the exact name.
I think perhaps you may have miscalculated something. The HSV color space scale is equivalent to CIE but expressed differently. It's like comparing temperatures in Fahrenheit vs. Celsius.
If you have given color, it will map to an absolute value in either color space scheme. That value will be different, of course, but should be consistently repeatable.
I don't normally ever reply to AC's but here goes: The FCC doesn't regulate or license operations above 300 GHZ (considered light at that point). The CDRH is the only governmental body that deals with Lasers, X-Rays, etc.
Nope. Weather affects IR systems as well as visible light. Droplets in the air are a physical impairment to propagation, regardless of frequency. For light, at the higher end of the frequency spectrum, propagation is affected by the probability of getting "between" the rain droplets. About a 50-50 proposition at best.
At the other end of the RF spectrum, at microwave frequencies and lower, the lower frequency wavefronts are so large they don't see the droplets at all, or are only minorly distorted by them. So, microwaves work well 80-90 percent of the time in fog, rain, etc.
Anyway, that's why IR is called "night" vision, not "fog" vision.
Utter Crap. As an Amateur Radio operator and RF design engineer, I can safely say that "wireless repeaters" don't attract lightning any more or less than any other rooftop equipment.
Also, If you're clever you could use fiberoptic feed from a source indoors, and be COMPLETELY electrically isolated from the rooftop.
Also, last time I checked, my Grandfather of 92 doesn't have a LAN in his house. (What, from the fireplace to the kitchen?)
Thanks for the research! - I do have a VAX, too.
I have a couple of Micro-Vax II's, one running VMS 5.3 I loaded from the TK-50 it came with, and one that has VMS 5.5 loaded but I have no SUPV p/w. to get in and play. I haven't erased the disks with 5.5 yet hoping there is some hack available. Most of my readings, however seem to end with the hackers shrugging and declaring "VMS is the most secure O/S ever released". Arrrgh. If you want one of em, I'm sure we can talk:)
Another unpronouceable unit of measure. Crap. And I just got used the whole correct "Ghiga" / "Jiga" pronounciation of "giga"! (The latter is correct, it seems).
Since were killing off all the "evil icons" these days, i.e. Joe Camel, Barney, Usama Bin Laden, etc, go ahead - whack the evil hard disk icon too. Next on the chopping block - Ronald McDonald and that annoying whiny PrimeCo pink alien guy!
Leaking of secrets between "Military" or "Business" are VERY different issues.
Selling or leaking business secrets is unethical and rotten, but legal (short of insider trading or non-disclosure violations).
Selling/leaking MILITARY secrets is TREASON and will get you EXECUTED promptly in time of war. A little more serious than "starting trouble".
Unfortunately, morons reporting what is visible to a casual observer on the battlefield isn't considered "leaking" secrets, because the events have already happened (even though only moments ago). Pity.
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Has anyone in this idiotic thread ever heard of a CONTRACT? When you agree to your ISP's agreement you are ENTERING INTO A LEGAL CONTRACT with them.
Violation of that contract IS illegal. Sheesh.
New term coinage: War Spamming!
Just what I want - to host a random spammer on my home LAN, and be the tracepoint of whatever this person wants to send out on the net. Seriously, if this "guest" wants to send stuff to deaththreats@whitehouse.gov, I'd be the target of an anal investigation by the NSA and the USSS at the very least.
The other problem would be receiving the GPS signal indoors. The GPS's I've played with won't work in the middle of my house or my basement. The GPS wouldn't start tracking untill it was atop the Garbage truck on the way to the dump :)
You left out step 2: Then A Miracle Occurs!
In a former life, I worked on a similar scam (at the time, unknowingly). It was for one of the first of the Customer-Owned Payphones back around 1985, called COCOT or COPTS phones.
.COM boom of a year ago).
I won't memtion the exact brand name, but I was one of two design engineers that designed this payphone. The entire industry was new, having just been deregulated. There were about 5 companies producing them at the start, and about 30 by the end, so the industry experienced explosive growth (just like the
The two owners of the company had us start designing the phone. They then proceeded to march in Investors to see "the phone" work, well before it's design was even finalized. At first, we rigged a mock-up to act something like a phone.
"Harumph, it works", claimed the investors. Eventually, we did design and have a fully functional payphone. But most of the phones out there in the industry were horrible. They didn't look or act like Ma Bell payphones, and the most critical areas, how much to charge for the call, and answer detetion (do I thake or return the user's money?) were dismal and highly unreliable.
In fact at one point it seemed that no-one could get these areas of operation reliable.
I assume it was at this point the owners decided to make it a full-blown scam. They sold the crap out of the phone. They sold EXCLUSIVE rights to manufacture the phone to at least 5 companies that I heard of afterward.
The funniest part of the whole story is that my parter and I actually screwed up the whole scam by making the phone actually work well. Instead of doing a nose-dive in 6 months as they expected, the company endured successfully for 4 years!
If anyone has ever seen the movie "The Producers" by Mel Brooks, then you know the plot - oversell the product many 100% - then BK the company and you don't have to pay any investors back. Well, the same thing happened.
Last I heard from the owners, they were hiding out in Snake's Navel, Arizona, and one actually called me, late one night, drunk off his ass, to bitch me out personally for costing him Millions!! Snicker.
Well anyway, I smell the EXACT same type of scam here. These are the bait for the investors, even with the admission that they are mock-ups of the final design. My prediction is, once the money is raked in, then actual production will start on the phone and they'll find there's no way it can be done for $30.00. The people they hired will be left holding the bag, and the bills for manufacturing phones that actually tunred out to cost $100.00 to $200.00 or so like any other phone.
And the owners? They'll be joining the Scammer's Relocation Program in Snake's Navel, AZ.
Humans don't make good random number generators. For lotteries, etc. Most people pick repetitive numbers like birthdays, SSN's, phone numbers. From another person's point of view, having no clue what the other person's motivations are, their choices seem random. To the person picking them they aren't. This is further evidenced by a stage magic trick I once saw done, where a random number guessed was picked by the performer, and It was explained to me afterward that 95% of people will pick something like 6 (don't quote me here - I don't remember the EXACT details of the trick) but it relied on the fact that people act in very predictable ways. The other 5% are insane and unpredictably erratic...
Why is it that robots must be envisioned as humanoid? Specialized robots look very little like a human, such as industrial handling robots. A more generalized design for multi-purpose applications need not look or act anything like a human being to get it's tasks accomplished. I think a lot of fear and paranoia from the ignorant might be avoided by specifically making them NOT look humanoid. Who says that the human form is the be-all and end-all general purpose vehicle? The only "pro" for them being humanoid is they must negotiate a world build for humanoids.
Does the Chinese CZ Launch vehicle then use friction stir-fry welding?
I Couldn't resist!
Can I watch? -- You'll light yourself up like the top of the Luxor! - The antennas are usually a DC short circuit, but to high frequencyy (RF energy) they look like a resonant tuned load. Your 220 mains are low enough in frequency to look like DC to the antenna - Bzzzzzt.
Much as I hate to blow a good joke, most microwaves on defrost still run at full power but cycle at 50% on/off time. (Sorry - ducking)
If you could, you'd get the full 1000 Watts of Microwave energy directly into your ear, and your brain would melt like a warm candy bar. ;)
It's not quite that simple. The RF spectrum is very congested, and the FCC has hundreds of applicants all vying for the small pieces of spectrum not alread allocated for some service. The FCC found them a "hole" at the time of their application, and any other nearby unoccupied pieces of spectrum have probably already been sold off.
Yeah, it does mean more CPU cycles wasted on decoding the data stream, but compare a $100 CPU upgrade to a $500-$1500 blue laser based DVD drive.
Also if you have a hardware MPEG decoder on a Video card, you just need to upgrade that. No CPU upgrade, as the outboard hardware handles the new demand.
I co-wrote one of the most popular Ray-Tracing programs out there, and learned this from my travels.
Your problem is coming from an effect called Metamerism. This is a phenomenon that causes us to perceive 2 colors as the same when they are not.
The whole problem is caused by our moronic RGB model of light. It's not that simple, in reality. It's like thinking of the audio spectrum as being divided into Treble, Midrange and Bass, and all tones (frequencies) expressed as a "quantity" of bass, treble, and midrange. Stupid, hmm? Well, our RGB model has caused the same stupidity in the optical spectrum.
The visual spectrum is continuous, just like the audio and RF spectrums. A given light source (color) is almost never a single line color on a spectral scale, unless it's a monochromatic laser.
The different spectral peaks for a given light or color sample will be assimilated by your eyes and brain as a given color. There are MANY combinations of spectral peaks that can APPEAR to be the exact same color, yet a measurement system such as HSV or CIE or even RGB will see them as very different. This is called Metamerism.
Even worse, the effect is also compounded by a given color sample looking different under various spectral distributions of illumination (i.e. different colors of light)
For more research on this effect, consult the people that devised the CIELAB scale, Hunter Labs. I learned about this effect in a book written by them! Unfortunately, this book was lent to me by an old associate years ago, and I don't remember the details, like the exact name.
I think perhaps you may have miscalculated something. The HSV color space scale is equivalent to CIE but expressed differently. It's like comparing temperatures in Fahrenheit vs. Celsius.
If you have given color, it will map to an absolute value in either color space scheme. That value will be different, of course, but should be consistently repeatable.
I don't normally ever reply to AC's but here goes: The FCC doesn't regulate or license operations above 300 GHZ (considered light at that point). The CDRH is the only governmental body that deals with Lasers, X-Rays, etc.
Nope. Weather affects IR systems as well as visible light. Droplets in the air are a physical impairment to propagation, regardless of frequency. For light, at the higher end of the frequency spectrum, propagation is affected by the probability of getting "between" the rain droplets. About a 50-50 proposition at best.
At the other end of the RF spectrum, at microwave frequencies and lower, the lower frequency wavefronts are so large they don't see the droplets at all, or are only minorly distorted by them. So, microwaves work well 80-90 percent of the time in fog, rain, etc.
Anyway, that's why IR is called "night" vision, not "fog" vision.
Utter Crap. As an Amateur Radio operator and RF design engineer, I can safely say that "wireless repeaters" don't attract lightning any more or less than any other rooftop equipment.
Also, If you're clever you could use fiberoptic feed from a source indoors, and be COMPLETELY electrically isolated from the rooftop.
Also, last time I checked, my Grandfather of 92 doesn't have a LAN in his house. (What, from the fireplace to the kitchen?)
Thanks for the research! - I do have a VAX, too. :)
I have a couple of Micro-Vax II's, one running VMS 5.3 I loaded from the TK-50 it came with, and one that has VMS 5.5 loaded but I have no SUPV p/w. to get in and play. I haven't erased the disks with 5.5 yet hoping there is some hack available. Most of my readings, however seem to end with the hackers shrugging and declaring "VMS is the most secure O/S ever released". Arrrgh. If you want one of em, I'm sure we can talk
Now the PDP-8 in my Basement with 9-Track tape is gonna become a valuable antique (har!) Ah, well...
I keep hoping...
Another unpronouceable unit of measure. Crap. And I just got used the whole correct "Ghiga" / "Jiga" pronounciation of "giga"! (The latter is correct, it seems).
Since were killing off all the "evil icons" these days, i.e. Joe Camel, Barney, Usama Bin Laden, etc, go ahead - whack the evil hard disk icon too. Next on the chopping block - Ronald McDonald and that annoying whiny PrimeCo pink alien guy!
If you remember your pseudo-lore, Jedi's in training have to make their own! Truly the hacker's spirit at work here!
My point is exactly: It can't spread to the military - as it happens, the perpetrators will be SHOT. Dead men repeat no mistakes!
Leaking of secrets between "Military" or "Business" are VERY different issues.
Selling or leaking business secrets is unethical and rotten, but legal (short of insider trading or non-disclosure violations).
Selling/leaking MILITARY secrets is TREASON and will get you EXECUTED promptly in time of war. A little more serious than "starting trouble".
Unfortunately, morons reporting what is visible to a casual observer on the battlefield isn't considered "leaking" secrets, because the events have already happened (even though only moments ago). Pity.