It's not that it's unpredictable, just ridiculously complex.
You can set up a very reliable 800 MHz trunked radio system, and with 50 watt radios in the cars and a 300 watt repeater on the top of a mountain you can be assured of 99.99 percent reliability. That's pretty much the average police department setup.
But if you're wanting to communicate over the horizon and don't have intermediate links to leapfrog off of, HF or satellite are pretty much the only ways to go. HF is basically relying on the ionosphere to bounce the signal, and you can predict to a certain extent what frequencies you'll be able to communicate best on, but other than that it's pretty much luck of the draw. Satellites require aimed antenna rigs (except for the Low Earth Orbiting AMSATs) and beefy stations (usually SSB, as FM modulation is a satellite battery power-sucker like no other); as well, satellite is an intermittent service - it's not geosynchronous in most cases, so you only get communications capability for a fraction of the day.
Forgot to add this as well: portable radios such as your little Sony are notorious for having very unselective and easily overloaded front-ends. Recommendations for quality receivers include Icom, Japan Radio, Kenwood, or Yaesu among others...
Those rigs will pull damn near anything out of the air with a well-designed and erected antenna.
Case A: Your receiver's front end is overloaded with the strong signal. Extremely strong transmitters will induce large voltages in receiver circuits that have automatic gain control circuits and 'fake them' into believing that the station they're listening to is extremely strong. That, or the front end amp simply can't handle the (relatively) large voltage coming in and it's just thrashing everything.
Case B: Skywave vs. ground-wave propagation. Radio signals from 1-50 MHz often bounce from earth to ionosphere and back, and often several times to get to your radio. That signal may be not propagating well via ground-wave to your current location, and the skywaves are effectively bouncing right over your head.
Something tells me that the people most likely to have the money for a laptop, wireless ethernet card and assorted accessories are also likely to spring for broadband at home.
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Look, the days of the whiz-kid cracking into systems and then getting hired by the same company as a result is long over. There are professional security consultants that do this sort of thing and if the agency didn't hire them beforehand, well, then, they deserved to get fucked. But it was neither this man's job, his obligation, nor his civic duty to prove to them this fact.
The fact that this guy called the media out to witness this will damn him in court. He's watched _Sneakers_ too many times. The age of the geeky computer hacker is long gone; if you know a lot about computers these days, you're either a communist, terrorist or both. Ask any ordinary USian. They're *TERRIFIED* of computers. They refuse to give credit cards to my company because "we might be hacked". They constantly think that somebody stole our/etc/passwd because they're getting spam and "they had to get those addresses somehow."
Ignorance is the key matter at hand. The laws today are ignorant of the 'intent' of the accused, and for good reason. Every computer cracker ever caught has pulled the "i just wanted to show them how insecure their system was" line, and they're sick and tired of letting kids trash networks and getting probation for it.
He committed a crime while in the presence of a public official. It DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER what his "intent" was.
I'm going to break into my neighbor's house and steal his checkbook because he might drop it and accidentally give access to his checking account to some random person. Ain't I a regular fucking Robin Hood?
I would think that something like the Shuttle SV24 with a 1U copper heatsink would do the trick. Would be cool if you kept the "external power brick" paradigm and extended the ATX power cable a few feet, shrinktubed it and ran it outside the case.
Yeah, the 10,000 user weblog with articles about cooking salmon on a budget, how to chew smokeless tobacco, how the existentialist movement ties in with the Mayan-American work ethic with regard to organic farming in the Mississippi Delta, and articles by supposed 20-year veterans about how it's "too hard" to build your own machine?
It's all about Plastic. Wit everywhere, and even the fluff is more interesting.
No, largely trance works by having the most heart-rending breakdowns and cartoonish emotional pseudo-journeys to get all the rollin kids to raise their glowsticks in the air.
Unless you're putting gigabit ethernet cards onto it (whose price is not justified by their performance), the best you're going to get is 10 megabytes a second. The ABSOLUTE BEST. A 32x burner hooked up via USB 2.0 is more reliable and usable than a DVD burner.
It's rather obvious that Sony's in competition with only one company - Apple. And i'm not going to comment on who's winning, because I like aspects of both companies and machines.
I'll agree with that. I've got a Powermac 8100 sitting under my desk, with a Kensington Turbo Mouse(best trackball evar!) and an Apple ][gs keyboard (tiny, tiny, tiny!). Even though it's only 100 mhz clocked up to 115, 104 MB of RAM lets OS 8.1 run quite nicely. Onboard Ethernet, pretty fast SCSI for its time, and a slick third party video card make this machine quite nice. I use it as my "forum crapping" computer.:)
I'll put Photek, Roni Size or Mocean Worker up against any trance out there. Even Goa, which sounds very complex, is built up out of very repetitive 303 lines. I honestly don't see any trance artists out there hand-tweaking every bass drum, snare, and hihat sample that they use...and I know for a fact that every drum and bass producer does that, myself included
I should have titled this as "Trance Electronic Music", as the point that I wanted to communicate was not that it's NOT electronic music, but that electronic music is not JUST trance.
I don't view "complexity" as the measuring stick for a genre's legitimacy. If so, then Bogdan Raczynski and Autechre on their LP5 album own every other producer out there.:)
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Insert standard Darn-And-I-Just-Finished-Downloading-The-Last-One- Yesterday wisecrack...
Aren't all three of those the same thing? Should simplify the search.
It's not that it's unpredictable, just ridiculously complex.
You can set up a very reliable 800 MHz trunked radio system, and with 50 watt radios in the cars and a 300 watt repeater on the top of a mountain you can be assured of 99.99 percent reliability. That's pretty much the average police department setup.
But if you're wanting to communicate over the horizon and don't have intermediate links to leapfrog off of, HF or satellite are pretty much the only ways to go. HF is basically relying on the ionosphere to bounce the signal, and you can predict to a certain extent what frequencies you'll be able to communicate best on, but other than that it's pretty much luck of the draw. Satellites require aimed antenna rigs (except for the Low Earth Orbiting AMSATs) and beefy stations (usually SSB, as FM modulation is a satellite battery power-sucker like no other); as well, satellite is an intermittent service - it's not geosynchronous in most cases, so you only get communications capability for a fraction of the day.
Forgot to add this as well: portable radios such as your little Sony are notorious for having very unselective and easily overloaded front-ends. Recommendations for quality receivers include Icom, Japan Radio, Kenwood, or Yaesu among others...
Those rigs will pull damn near anything out of the air with a well-designed and erected antenna.
There are two possibilities here.
Case A: Your receiver's front end is overloaded with the strong signal. Extremely strong transmitters will induce large voltages in receiver circuits that have automatic gain control circuits and 'fake them' into believing that the station they're listening to is extremely strong. That, or the front end amp simply can't handle the (relatively) large voltage coming in and it's just thrashing everything.
Case B: Skywave vs. ground-wave propagation. Radio signals from 1-50 MHz often bounce from earth to ionosphere and back, and often several times to get to your radio. That signal may be not propagating well via ground-wave to your current location, and the skywaves are effectively bouncing right over your head.
Here are a few links to get you started:
Realtime HF propagation news from qsl.net
Lots of info on propagation effects
Something tells me that the people most likely to have the money for a laptop, wireless ethernet card and assorted accessories are also likely to spring for broadband at home.
Look, the days of the whiz-kid cracking into systems and then getting hired by the same company as a result is long over. There are professional security consultants that do this sort of thing and if the agency didn't hire them beforehand, well, then, they deserved to get fucked. But it was neither this man's job, his obligation, nor his civic duty to prove to them this fact.
/etc/passwd because they're getting spam and "they had to get those addresses somehow."
The fact that this guy called the media out to witness this will damn him in court. He's watched _Sneakers_ too many times. The age of the geeky computer hacker is long gone; if you know a lot about computers these days, you're either a communist, terrorist or both. Ask any ordinary USian. They're *TERRIFIED* of computers. They refuse to give credit cards to my company because "we might be hacked". They constantly think that somebody stole our
Ignorance is the key matter at hand. The laws today are ignorant of the 'intent' of the accused, and for good reason. Every computer cracker ever caught has pulled the "i just wanted to show them how insecure their system was" line, and they're sick and tired of letting kids trash networks and getting probation for it.
He committed a crime while in the presence of a public official. It DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER what his "intent" was.
I'm going to break into my neighbor's house and steal his checkbook because he might drop it and accidentally give access to his checking account to some random person. Ain't I a regular fucking Robin Hood?
Unless he was hired for the job, he deserves it.
Just because you *can* do something doesn't mean you *should*.
Tired of having all these people act like "well, it's not secure, so I should poke around."
My apologies. I didn't know there was such a beast.
;)
Fuggin cool.
And I do understand the hardware hack aspect.
How about you just run an emulator instead of spending a half million bucks on chip fab and ending up with 49,999 spare NES-on-a-chip devices? ;)
Of course, you might end up selling a few, but still....
I would think that something like the Shuttle SV24 with a 1U copper heatsink would do the trick. Would be cool if you kept the "external power brick" paradigm and extended the ATX power cable a few feet, shrinktubed it and ran it outside the case.
Thank you all for pointing that out. Yes, I meant /dev/[u]random instead of /dev/null. :)
Or just kill two birds with one stone and have it loop decss.c . :)
Who says they have to be actual files?
:D
/dev/null.
Just create some garbage filesystem entries on an unused hard drive. A 430mb hard drive should be plenty.
You could even survey to find the exact size to the byte of the most popular rips of each track and make sure they're that size.
It may be a bit more elegant if you actually hacked the p2p client or FTP server to just pipe x bytes from
Yeah, the 10,000 user weblog with articles about cooking salmon on a budget, how to chew smokeless tobacco, how the existentialist movement ties in with the Mayan-American work ethic with regard to organic farming in the Mississippi Delta, and articles by supposed 20-year veterans about how it's "too hard" to build your own machine?
It's all about Plastic. Wit everywhere, and even the fluff is more interesting.
*Jonny 290 sets mode: +senseofhumor t0qer*
;)
There ya go. Now read it again.
Yeah, and some dumb overclocker kid at the colo puts a UV cold cathode in there cause it 'looks cool' and erases the whole fuckin thing. :)
Neat idea, in all seriousness.
I'm going to laugh when Starbucks sues the shit out of Yahoo when they order 100,000 units of mocha and get shipped 100,000 units of espresso.
Fucking idiotic.
The funny part is that I enjoyed his post more than any I've seen on Slashdot in the last two weeks, Recipe Troll excluded.
No, largely trance works by having the most heart-rending breakdowns and cartoonish emotional pseudo-journeys to get all the rollin kids to raise their glowsticks in the air.
Unless you're putting gigabit ethernet cards onto it (whose price is not justified by their performance), the best you're going to get is 10 megabytes a second. The ABSOLUTE BEST. A 32x burner hooked up via USB 2.0 is more reliable and usable than a DVD burner.
It's rather obvious that Sony's in competition with only one company - Apple. And i'm not going to comment on who's winning, because I like aspects of both companies and machines.
I'll agree with that. I've got a Powermac 8100 sitting under my desk, with a Kensington Turbo Mouse(best trackball evar!) and an Apple ][gs keyboard (tiny, tiny, tiny!). Even though it's only 100 mhz clocked up to 115, 104 MB of RAM lets OS 8.1 run quite nicely. Onboard Ethernet, pretty fast SCSI for its time, and a slick third party video card make this machine quite nice. I use it as my "forum crapping" computer. :)
Ever thought that maybe it was not because of technical superiority, but perhaps because the BSD license is different from the GNU license?
I'll put Photek, Roni Size or Mocean Worker up against any trance out there. Even Goa, which sounds very complex, is built up out of very repetitive 303 lines. I honestly don't see any trance artists out there hand-tweaking every bass drum, snare, and hihat sample that they use...and I know for a fact that every drum and bass producer does that, myself included
:)
I should have titled this as "Trance Electronic Music", as the point that I wanted to communicate was not that it's NOT electronic music, but that electronic music is not JUST trance.
I don't view "complexity" as the measuring stick for a genre's legitimacy. If so, then Bogdan Raczynski and Autechre on their LP5 album own every other producer out there.