With all this talk of megalomania, all I can see is Bill Gates talking to Tom Cruise:
You want my OS on your box;
You need my OS on your box;
And somewhere, deep down in places you don't talk about at dinner parties, my OS on your box makes you feel better.
Mr. Gates, I want the truth. Tom, you little pussy, you can't handle the truth Mr. Gates, did you order Linux put on your Webservers? You're goddamn right I did, and I'd do it again.
Well, I suppose that the defense rests. I shouldn't be at work this morning. Blea.
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Okay, this one is fixed. Promise.
For those of us not initiated, a CLEC is a Competing Local Exchange Carrier (like birch telecommunications or Corvad) and an RBOC is a Regional Bell Operating Center (like SWBell or PacBell.. one of the seven baby bells). The RBOC link has some decent info, if not technical at all.
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Re:Covad is always gonna be a CLEC.
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I feel a lot of sympathy towards Covad. If someone was not paying me for my services, I would stop providing them. The customers who chose these slacker ISPs are, unfortunately, SOL, but at least Covad is refering them to other providers who pay for what they use. As for the other comment, some CLECs seem to be doing alright. I work for one, and we showed a billion dollars in revenue our first fiscal year, which isn't too shabby. It is, though, an uphill battle, fighting the incumbent LECs for network access and customer mindshare. I think that as more and more CLECs/Data/Long Distance providers come into play with these huge fatpipe networks, it will become more and more profitable and that will bring more and more CLEC/D/LD folks into the game. And competition can't be a bad thing. Right?
I'm guessing that those think geek (TM) banner ads here on slashdot are targeted to a certian audience. I bet that the commercials during 'ER' are likewise targeted. I know that the ads I see when I'm surfing for p0rn are targeted. Advertising is a useful way of subsidising things that we like. I read somewhere once, long long ago that a Sunday newspaper would cost something like 7 bucks (US) if there were no ads. And I, for one (of course, I'm one who has been desensitized over many years of being bombarded with these ads) would rather have ads that matter to me personally then ads for, say, Depends (TM) or herpes medication (okay, okay... I already have my scrip for that). As has been said many, many times, if you are going to put the contents of your mp3 collection on a publicly available network, you should by-gott well know that people are goign to look at the files. I, for one, enjoy topical advertising, and would do so on the napster network. "hey, banuaba, did you know that John Flansburgh came out with a solo project? Check out www.ilikecheese.org for some singles and information". To serve its purpose, advertising has to provide the person viewing/hearing it with something of value, usually information (that, of course, is not an all-inclusive statement, but let's pretend for the sake of argument) that helps the consumer make an informed(er) decision on a purchase. The napster ads, provided they don't start being (ugh, bad grammar) for p0rn adn viagra and driver's licenses and get out of debt free; are a helpful service, at least to moi.
I'd get a whole goddamn suit made out of this stuff. I'd walk around broadcasting DVD p0rn to the masses. I'd get a panel surgically implanted in my arm along with a WAP phone so I could/. and launch dDOS' from the metro. I dunno what else, but that would be really cool.
Ooh, ooh. Take and put that over your windshield so that you could have fullscreen nightvision instead of my stupid eyeballs.
Brant In the final words of Jim Henson, "anybody got any asprin? I think I've got a cold."
If the school is going to institute student-student informing as a de facto or an actual policy, they are going to have to sleep where they make their beds. (methaphor baaaad) This new wave 'after Columbine' era is quite frightening to me, and this makes me very very glad I'm no longer in school. I was quiet, angry, made various death threats from time to time (mostly in jest or release of bile and usually while Quaking), didn't have many friends except for a small, tight-knit group.... Boy. I would have been locked up and watched on faster than you can imagine. And, I suspect that the geekier of you out there woudl have fallen under that same umbrella. Is being dorky a crime? A loner? Angry? It seems that we are heading there, faster than I'd like.
For some info on SLAPPs go here or Here or even here. This is a handbook on SLAPP from firstamendemt.org, so take that for what you will. And for the DIY out there, this is the google search for slapp.
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of McDonald's or Pepsi or Microsoft, etc. And then try and take the domain when the registration period expired or through the UDRP or some other cleverness. But the key is that, when I registered my trademark it would be for the market in 'Unassembled cardboard boxes for the transport of nails' so that I would not be infringing on thier existing trademarks. I'm quite sure I'd lose, but it'd be fun to put a burr under the bonnet (mix some metaphors, anyone?) of Mr. Megacorp.
Brant. The man with way too much time on his hands. Brant
There is, in a vague sort of way. There was some incedent a couple of years ago where they somehow met (David Korn and KoRn) and laughed it up. There are some wierd pictures of the pudgy nerd hanging out with the dreadlocked wierdos. Look at this for pictures of the band and david and wierdo fans.
Crazily enough, the cops involved have probably broken no law and have followed the policies of the department to a t. When you have recurring mass violent crimes (columbine, et al), law enforcement personell certianly dont' want that sort of thing to happen in thier community (does anyone?), and they have knee-jerked to the excessive side of the fence, overreacting and confiscating equipiment. If you read the article, you can see that they also searched furniture, 'probably for drugs' the article states. I do not envy law enforcement thier jobs (those members who are interested in protecting and serving, not the bad ones). You are forced to balance the good of the community with the rights of an individual, even to the point of letting the guilty go free due to violations of thier rights. I think that this is the right thing to do, but it's gotta be a sh1tty job. Another problem is that these 'old school' cops and administrators dont' understand the new technologies and the way that kids today think. My screaming of vulgarities and death threats at other poeple while I'm playing QIII is not a crime, it's ust me blowing off steam, but if someone who doesn't play or hasn't played anything of the type hears me, they'd think I was a psycho who needed medical attention. (this is, of course, still open to debate) Regardless of what comes of this, the cops screwed up, and will get a ration of crap from the students there, and hopefully there will be a review of the situation, and something good will come of it. Maybe warrant/search procedure rules? Student government involvment?
The startup costs for me to start making open source software are very low (assuming I have a computer) and the cost of failure/screwup is low (an hour or so of my time to compile). When this is compared to chip fab: 12 billion dollars (approx.) of equipment to start making chips, and the cost of failure is higher (still low, but the amount of times I screw stuff up compiling software, assuming that would translate to chip design, I'd be broke in a couple of days). Complete those problems with much less interest and a smaller amount of 'beginner level projects' (this is just my uneducated thoughts) would make this less likely to succeed.
What are you going to start with? A chip that beeps out 'hello world' in morse over a pizeo?
This may seem like a silly, Americo-centric question, but why do you need to do terribly much online in Hebrew? Your English is compeltely comprehensible to me, and, for the good or for the bad, most (please realize: this is not a troll, it is an opinion) 'worthwhile' content is in English. From what I've seen of pictures of Israel and.il websites, most signage and websites are written in Hebrew, Arabic and English. Unfortunately, if you're going to use a non-mainstream OS, you are going to have to deal with less support for less common (read: Non-US) situations.
As for getting people to stop sending you MS based unreadable stuff, ROT-13 it and mail it back with 'here are my comments/corrections' as a subject/body.
The use of bars of steel dropped from low orbit was seriously investigated by the US/DARPA. They had a great name for it, which I can't quite remember. Perhaps 'Shining Rain'. Something like that. It was really neat. And a railgun would be very non-quiet. The projectiles would probably be supersonic. Brant Brant
Why in the heck does a lack of memory equal stupidity? Does that mean that the autistics who can remember conversations/books vertabim are hyperintellegent? What crap. That said, I have been using a computer for most of my bookkeeping/writing/calculating for the last 10 or so years, and I've noticed that my spelling and 'in the head' math has gone into the toilet. This isn't a turrible thing because I have adaptive devyces(get it?::sigh::), but it is kind of disturbing. Of course, I'm a better thinker now and my papers have become more consise and intelligent (this post notwithstanding) because I don't have to concentrate on layout or spelling, I can put the entirety of my brainpower to use getting my point across. The other side of the coin says that our children and thier children are going to have a piss-poor understanding of how the mechanics of the language work, and will subsequently not be able to make themselves easily understood.
Now, I'm as all for Privacy (please note the A.A. Miline-style caps), but the fact of the matter is that anyone who sniffs my packets, and most other people's, is going to get a big fat lot of nothing interesting. The level of security I need differs depending on what I'm doing. If I'm talking to my mom about how her dog had to have hip surgery, I'll use my cordless phone. If I'm plotting assassinations, I use a landline with scramblers on both ends. Sometimes, for convenience, I'm willing to sacrifice a little bit of privacy (letting everyone see my/. posts and searches for 'porn' on MSNBC). All things being equal, I'd take security over not, but hey, life is full of little disapointments. As an aside, I assume that stuff like SSL will still work on this wireless network, so if the packet is sniffed they'll get garbage... Anyone know different?
Now, as far as I can understand, these 'mirror cells' are supposed to behave as if we were experiencing the thing we were watching. Take the aforementioned 'America's funniest home videos'. So this donkey tries to do some guy in the pooper, I find that pants-peeingly funny, but if I was the one who the donkey was molesting, I'd be a little bit scared and a lot pissed off (and maybe just a wee smidge turned on..). That isn't mirroring my reaction to the occurence, it has a completely different affect.
Or perhaps I'm just missing some huge point of the study.
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Oh, and I don't know if anyone's seen that video, but the best part is that you can hear the cameraman laughing his ass off and the camera shaking as his friend runs for his poor, poor life. Brant
"Charlton Heston is a national treasure," Moore said. "I think any man who had the vision to star in Planet of the Apes, Omega Man and Soylent Green deserves respect. The bottom line is that if you love individual liberty you have to admire Charlton Heston."
Says the article at WiredNews. I'm scared. And not just of Charlton Heston.
For those of us not interested in the meta-article, click here.
Of course, this would enable my dog to eat my p0rn collection and my copy of QIII at the same time. No doubt pissing me off and making one less dog in the world.
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I'm not too terribly sure how shadow is extrapolated into a racist subtext. I mean, if he had called it The Hegemon's Slice of Watermelon or That Nappy Hegemon (see the Nappy Hair argument for more info), I'd understand it. But as far as I can tell, the use of the word shadow indicates an absence of light. I suppose the fact that OSC is a member of LDS puts him under greater scrutiny for being a racist, homophobic, baby-killing, styrofoam using, non-recycling jerk, but jeez, calm down. Allegorical shadows have been a fixture of Card's Enders Game series. Ender was constantly under the shadow of Peter, his older brother; Bean was under Ender's shadow; the Piggies were under the shadow of the big trees (don't recollect what they were called); and there are probably more, but I'm too lazy to find them. While Card's obsession with shadows may be a failing of his as a writer, much like John Irving's constant references to incest, they don't make him a racist.
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What I don't understand is how the signal is reliably recievable, due to the limitations of the elliptical footprint (see section 1.5.2 of this link) and the sporadicness (Is that a word? Doubt it...) of the meteors. Looking at the chart they have on the site showing meteor frequency, it seems as if all of the ground stations would have to constantly broadcast to catch the next meteor. And with the elliptical footprint, wouldn't that exacerbate problems of the RF reflecting off of buildings if the mobile transmitters were on vehicles?
Of course, we didn't cover this in my General ham radio classes.
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With all this talk of megalomania, all I can see is Bill Gates talking to Tom Cruise:
You want my OS on your box;
You need my OS on your box;
And somewhere, deep down in places you don't talk about at dinner parties, my OS on your box makes you feel better.
Mr. Gates, I want the truth.
Tom, you little pussy, you can't handle the truth
Mr. Gates, did you order Linux put on your Webservers?
You're goddamn right I did, and I'd do it again.
Well, I suppose that the defense rests. I shouldn't be at work this morning. Blea.
Brant
Okay, this one is fixed. Promise.
For those of us not initiated, a CLEC is a Competing Local Exchange Carrier (like birch telecommunications or Corvad) and an RBOC is a Regional Bell Operating Center (like SWBell or PacBell.. one of the seven baby bells). The RBOC link has some decent info, if not technical at all.
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For those of us not initiated, a is a Competing Local Exchange Carrier (like birch telecommunications or Corvad) and an RBOC is a Regional Bell Operating Center (like SWBell or PacBell.. one of the seven baby bells). The RBOC link has some decent info, if not technical at all.
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I feel a lot of sympathy towards Covad. If someone was not paying me for my services, I would stop providing them. The customers who chose these slacker ISPs are, unfortunately, SOL, but at least Covad is refering them to other providers who pay for what they use.
As for the other comment, some CLECs seem to be doing alright. I work for one, and we showed a billion dollars in revenue our first fiscal year, which isn't too shabby. It is, though, an uphill battle, fighting the incumbent LECs for network access and customer mindshare. I think that as more and more CLECs/Data/Long Distance providers come into play with these huge fatpipe networks, it will become more and more profitable and that will bring more and more CLEC/D/LD folks into the game. And competition can't be a bad thing. Right?
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I'm guessing that those think geek (TM) banner ads here on slashdot are targeted to a certian audience. I bet that the commercials during 'ER' are likewise targeted. I know that the ads I see when I'm surfing for p0rn are targeted.
Advertising is a useful way of subsidising things that we like. I read somewhere once, long long ago that a Sunday newspaper would cost something like 7 bucks (US) if there were no ads. And I, for one (of course, I'm one who has been desensitized over many years of being bombarded with these ads) would rather have ads that matter to me personally then ads for, say, Depends (TM) or herpes medication (okay, okay... I already have my scrip for that).
As has been said many, many times, if you are going to put the contents of your mp3 collection on a publicly available network, you should by-gott well know that people are goign to look at the files. I, for one, enjoy topical advertising, and would do so on the napster network. "hey, banuaba, did you know that John Flansburgh came out with a solo project? Check out www.ilikecheese.org for some singles and information".
To serve its purpose, advertising has to provide the person viewing/hearing it with something of value, usually information (that, of course, is not an all-inclusive statement, but let's pretend for the sake of argument) that helps the consumer make an informed(er) decision on a purchase. The napster ads, provided they don't start being (ugh, bad grammar) for p0rn adn viagra and driver's licenses and get out of debt free; are a helpful service, at least to moi.
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Here... Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner are already signed to Star Trek X (2002)
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I'd get a whole goddamn suit made out of this stuff. I'd walk around broadcasting DVD p0rn to the masses. I'd get a panel surgically implanted in my arm along with a WAP phone so I could /. and launch dDOS' from the metro. I dunno what else, but that would be really cool.
Ooh, ooh. Take and put that over your windshield so that you could have fullscreen nightvision instead of my stupid eyeballs.
Brant
In the final words of Jim Henson, "anybody got any asprin? I think I've got a cold."
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If the school is going to institute student-student informing as a de facto or an actual policy, they are going to have to sleep where they make their beds. (methaphor baaaad)
This new wave 'after Columbine' era is quite frightening to me, and this makes me very very glad I'm no longer in school. I was quiet, angry, made various death threats from time to time (mostly in jest or release of bile and usually while Quaking), didn't have many friends except for a small, tight-knit group.... Boy. I would have been locked up and watched on faster than you can imagine. And, I suspect that the geekier of you out there woudl have fallen under that same umbrella.
Is being dorky a crime? A loner? Angry? It seems that we are heading there, faster than I'd like.
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For some info on SLAPPs go here or Here or even here.
This is a handbook on SLAPP from firstamendemt.org, so take that for what you will.
And for the DIY out there, this is the google search for slapp.
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of McDonald's or Pepsi or Microsoft, etc. And then try and take the domain when the registration period expired or through the UDRP or some other cleverness. But the key is that, when I registered my trademark it would be for the market in 'Unassembled cardboard boxes for the transport of nails' so that I would not be infringing on thier existing trademarks. I'm quite sure I'd lose, but it'd be fun to put a burr under the bonnet (mix some metaphors, anyone?) of Mr. Megacorp.
Brant.
The man with way too much time on his hands.
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There is, in a vague sort of way. There was some incedent a couple of years ago where they somehow met (David Korn and KoRn) and laughed it up.
There are some wierd pictures of the pudgy nerd hanging out with the dreadlocked wierdos. Look at this for pictures of the band and david and wierdo fans.
Hope that helps,
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Crazily enough, the cops involved have probably broken no law and have followed the policies of the department to a t. When you have recurring mass violent crimes (columbine, et al), law enforcement personell certianly dont' want that sort of thing to happen in thier community (does anyone?), and they have knee-jerked to the excessive side of the fence, overreacting and confiscating equipiment. If you read the article, you can see that they also searched furniture, 'probably for drugs' the article states.
I do not envy law enforcement thier jobs (those members who are interested in protecting and serving, not the bad ones). You are forced to balance the good of the community with the rights of an individual, even to the point of letting the guilty go free due to violations of thier rights. I think that this is the right thing to do, but it's gotta be a sh1tty job.
Another problem is that these 'old school' cops and administrators dont' understand the new technologies and the way that kids today think. My screaming of vulgarities and death threats at other poeple while I'm playing QIII is not a crime, it's ust me blowing off steam, but if someone who doesn't play or hasn't played anything of the type hears me, they'd think I was a psycho who needed medical attention. (this is, of course, still open to debate)
Regardless of what comes of this, the cops screwed up, and will get a ration of crap from the students there, and hopefully there will be a review of the situation, and something good will come of it. Maybe warrant/search procedure rules? Student government involvment?
Brant
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The startup costs for me to start making open source software are very low (assuming I have a computer) and the cost of failure/screwup is low (an hour or so of my time to compile). When this is compared to chip fab: 12 billion dollars (approx.) of equipment to start making chips, and the cost of failure is higher (still low, but the amount of times I screw stuff up compiling software, assuming that would translate to chip design, I'd be broke in a couple of days).
Complete those problems with much less interest and a smaller amount of 'beginner level projects' (this is just my uneducated thoughts) would make this less likely to succeed.
What are you going to start with? A chip that beeps out 'hello world' in morse over a pizeo?
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This may seem like a silly, Americo-centric question, but why do you need to do terribly much online in Hebrew? .il websites, most signage and websites are written in Hebrew, Arabic and English.
Your English is compeltely comprehensible to me, and, for the good or for the bad, most (please realize: this is not a troll, it is an opinion) 'worthwhile' content is in English. From what I've seen of pictures of Israel and
Unfortunately, if you're going to use a non-mainstream OS, you are going to have to deal with less support for less common (read: Non-US) situations.
As for getting people to stop sending you MS based unreadable stuff, ROT-13 it and mail it back with 'here are my comments/corrections' as a subject/body.
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The use of bars of steel dropped from low orbit was seriously investigated by the US/DARPA. They had a great name for it, which I can't quite remember. Perhaps 'Shining Rain'. Something like that. It was really neat.
And a railgun would be very non-quiet. The projectiles would probably be supersonic.
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Why in the heck does a lack of memory equal stupidity? Does that mean that the autistics who can remember conversations/books vertabim are hyperintellegent? What crap. ::sigh::), but it is kind of disturbing.
That said, I have been using a computer for most of my bookkeeping/writing/calculating for the last 10 or so years, and I've noticed that my spelling and 'in the head' math has gone into the toilet. This isn't a turrible thing because I have adaptive devyces(get it?
Of course, I'm a better thinker now and my papers have become more consise and intelligent (this post notwithstanding) because I don't have to concentrate on layout or spelling, I can put the entirety of my brainpower to use getting my point across.
The other side of the coin says that our children and thier children are going to have a piss-poor understanding of how the mechanics of the language work, and will subsequently not be able to make themselves easily understood.
But, of course, I isn't a scietficist.
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Now, I'm as all for Privacy (please note the A.A. Miline-style caps), but the fact of the matter is that anyone who sniffs my packets, and most other people's, is going to get a big fat lot of nothing interesting. The level of security I need differs depending on what I'm doing. If I'm talking to my mom about how her dog had to have hip surgery, I'll use my cordless phone. If I'm plotting assassinations, I use a landline with scramblers on both ends. /. posts and searches for 'porn' on MSNBC). All things being equal, I'd take security over not, but hey, life is full of little disapointments.
Sometimes, for convenience, I'm willing to sacrifice a little bit of privacy (letting everyone see my
As an aside, I assume that stuff like SSL will still work on this wireless network, so if the packet is sniffed they'll get garbage... Anyone know different?
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Now, as far as I can understand, these 'mirror cells' are supposed to behave as if we were experiencing the thing we were watching. Take the aforementioned 'America's funniest home videos'.
So this donkey tries to do some guy in the pooper, I find that pants-peeingly funny, but if I was the one who the donkey was molesting, I'd be a little bit scared and a lot pissed off (and maybe just a wee smidge turned on..). That isn't mirroring my reaction to the occurence, it has a completely different affect.
Or perhaps I'm just missing some huge point of the study.
Brant
Oh, and I don't know if anyone's seen that video, but the best part is that you can hear the cameraman laughing his ass off and the camera shaking as his friend runs for his poor, poor life.
Brant
"Charlton Heston is a national treasure," Moore said. "I think any man who had the vision to star in Planet of the Apes, Omega Man and Soylent Green deserves respect. The bottom line is that if you love individual liberty you have to admire Charlton Heston."
Says the article at WiredNews. I'm scared.
And not just of Charlton Heston.
John
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For those of us not interested in the meta-article, click here.
Of course, this would enable my dog to eat my p0rn collection and my copy of QIII at the same time.
No doubt pissing me off and making one less dog in the world. Brant
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I'm not too terribly sure how shadow is extrapolated into a racist subtext. I mean, if he had called it The Hegemon's Slice of Watermelon or That Nappy Hegemon (see the Nappy Hair argument for more info), I'd understand it. But as far as I can tell, the use of the word shadow indicates an absence of light. I suppose the fact that OSC is a member of LDS puts him under greater scrutiny for being a racist, homophobic, baby-killing, styrofoam using, non-recycling jerk, but jeez, calm down.
Allegorical shadows have been a fixture of Card's Enders Game series. Ender was constantly under the shadow of Peter, his older brother; Bean was under Ender's shadow; the Piggies were under the shadow of the big trees (don't recollect what they were called); and there are probably more, but I'm too lazy to find them. While Card's obsession with shadows may be a failing of his as a writer, much like John Irving's constant references to incest, they don't make him a racist.
--Brant
What I don't understand is how the signal is reliably recievable, due to the limitations of the elliptical footprint (see section 1.5.2 of this link) and the sporadicness (Is that a word? Doubt it...) of the meteors.
Looking at the chart they have on the site showing meteor frequency, it seems as if all of the ground stations would have to constantly broadcast to catch the next meteor.
And with the elliptical footprint, wouldn't that exacerbate problems of the RF reflecting off of buildings if the mobile transmitters were on vehicles?
Of course, we didn't cover this in my General ham radio classes.
--Brant
the fewer declarative statements a man makes, the less likely he is to look like a fool.