Digital signals for high data rates just create "noise" - a spray of transmissions across a huge part of the radio spectrum - tens of thousands of "channels" you might say. They won't just interfere with a few people - they will literally interfere with everyone that uses any kind of radio receiver.
It's not exactly noise. A digital transmission is essentially a train of sqare waves, ones and zeroes. Where the noise comes from is that a square wave is actually composed of an infinite number of odd order harmonics. That's what makes it hard to filter - you can't damp the harmonics because all the power under the square wave is in the harmonics. In other words, the noise is the signal. The FCC typically grants Special Temporary Authorizations to operate BPL throughout the 2.46 to 38MHZ range. That's one big splat!
I live near one of the BPL test sites. It is not an overstatement to say that BPL will make the entire amateur radio spectrum useless, along with any other licensed radio services in the 1.8 to 30MHZ spectrum because of the extreme interference issues.
And worldwide, it's the IARU, the International Amateur Radio Union. The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the IARU member society for the U.S. Anyone interested in Amateur Radio is welcome to join the ARRL, you don't have to be a licensed operator. However, only licensed radio amateurs of the U.S. qualify for full voting membership, so be sure to tell them if you're licensed when you join.
I'm an amateur radio operator, an EMC engineer, and a member of the ARRL and IEEE. You couldn't have got Part 15 more wrong if you'd tried. As for the rest of your comments, just apologize.
I've driven in lots of places around the USA, and Alabama of all places is the only one where I've seen kilometer marking signs on the interstates.
Interstate I-19 South from Tucson to Nogales, Arizona (a distance of 71 miles) is also signed in metric. It's been that way since sometime in the 1970's. Recently some of the metric signage has been discarded as part of a reconstruction project at the intersection of I-10 and I-19.
I-19 is also one of the few interstates that doesn't cross a state border.
It ain't baseball, sportsfans. It's whining. Corporate whining, individual whining, and whining by proxy. Now I am supposed to feel sorry for the dying newspaper industry after this pathetic whinge?
NSA's involvement in Linux amounts to a research project.
That's one of those things that if they told you, then they'd have to shoot you. So if you indeed know this for a fact, you might want to Google real-soon-now for "plastic surgeons" and "new identity".
I find it absolutely hilarious that the ad running at the top of this article is for Microsoft's "Get the Facts" program itself. Whatever puts food on the table, eh Taco?
You're right. With that amount of liquid coolant, he could just as well have used a featureless box rather than a radiator. Any cooling benefit was probably derived from the thermal mass of the coolant.
[...] I remember seeing "Darl McBride" himself post somewhere there (although it's now removed).
No, it's still there; I just saw it. But what I found interesting was a post from one of the editorial staff at Sys-Con... one Maryann MacBride. Any relation to Darl you suppose? Anyway, after skimming through a handful of articles, I can't tell whether the entire site is for real (and just horribly done) or whether it's just tasteless satire. It really reminds me of Mad Magazine, it's so over the top.
"According to this article [...], it was "Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas."
He sure ain't toeing the official Republican party line on this one, is he? The Hon. Ron needs to change his party affiliation if'n he's gonna use common sense like that.
*tears out another Dvorak article, wipes, and flushes it down the toilet*
I can't believe any knowledgeable human would risk almost certain death and disfigurement by intentionally allowing a Dvorak article to come into direct physical contact with their anus. The only other person believed to have done this was a gentleman by the name of Goatse, I think. You might be able to find him with a Google search....
So this is what HP means by "Invent"? In just a few short years, I have waved sayonara to their medical instruments division, their measurements division, OpenMail, MPE/iX and the HP3000 line, and now UDC. Not to mention tens of thousands of people, many of whom I used to work with.
I'm too depressed to continue. I only wish our country had the balls to fight treason like this.
And whose job is it to decide which category someone falls into? Certainly not yours.
It certainly is when I've got mod points!
In all seriousness, let me add my heartfelt condolences to those of others here. I lost a son last year to an accident, and I know firsthand what a tragedy it can be.
When those people want to buy something [...] we better be prepared to provide them with whatever they want to buy, and charge accordingly for it.
So just who's gonna sell it to them? Not the U.S.A. We don't build anything for sale anymore; we sent all those jobs to China last month.
Thankfully, the assault weapons ban expires this year. I think that's gonna be the most valuable personal investment a U.S. citizen can make in the next decade.
Why don't you just tell us what these three extensions [to make FF work like IE] were for?
That would be the "Execute Malicious Code without Asking" extension, the "Expose Sensitive Personal Data" extension, and lastly the "Randomly Turn Blue and Go Comatose" extension.
I just had 3 bluescreens yesterday afternoon on my Windows-XP/SP2 box. I think they're being caused by a new video capture card I just installed, but the installer claimed the drivers had been blessed by Microsoft. The whole install is fresh and has never been on the Internet except to load updates, and it's been thoroughly scanned for viruses and spyware.
So yeah, Windows-XP can, and does, BSOD with certified drivers and no viruses and not doing anything out of the ordinary. Sorry.
Paektu-san (Mount Paektu or White Head Mountain), is an extinct volcano and Korea's highest mountain (2,744 meters). It's located on North Korea's northern land border. It may have sprung violently back to life like North America's own Mount St. Helens.
Also, forest fires occur there with some regularity (more than 130 at once this summer), and can produce large white mushroom shaped clouds under the right atmospheric conditions.
Let's not jump to conclusions. Oh wait, this is Slashdot....
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Bee-yoo-tee-full.
What is this DCMA thing which is spoken of? I see it all the time here on Slashdot, but nowhere else.
It's not exactly noise. A digital transmission is essentially a train of sqare waves, ones and zeroes. Where the noise comes from is that a square wave is actually composed of an infinite number of odd order harmonics. That's what makes it hard to filter - you can't damp the harmonics because all the power under the square wave is in the harmonics. In other words, the noise is the signal. The FCC typically grants Special Temporary Authorizations to operate BPL throughout the 2.46 to 38MHZ range. That's one big splat!
I live near one of the BPL test sites. It is not an overstatement to say that BPL will make the entire amateur radio spectrum useless, along with any other licensed radio services in the 1.8 to 30MHZ spectrum because of the extreme interference issues.
And I just bought a brand new rig from Ten-Tec.
And worldwide, it's the IARU, the International Amateur Radio Union. The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the IARU member society for the U.S. Anyone interested in Amateur Radio is welcome to join the ARRL, you don't have to be a licensed operator. However, only licensed radio amateurs of the U.S. qualify for full voting membership, so be sure to tell them if you're licensed when you join.
I'm an amateur radio operator, an EMC engineer, and a member of the ARRL and IEEE. You couldn't have got Part 15 more wrong if you'd tried. As for the rest of your comments, just apologize.
I've driven in lots of places around the USA, and Alabama of all places is the only one where I've seen kilometer marking signs on the interstates.
Interstate I-19 South from Tucson to Nogales, Arizona (a distance of 71 miles) is also signed in metric. It's been that way since sometime in the 1970's. Recently some of the metric signage has been discarded as part of a reconstruction project at the intersection of I-10 and I-19.
I-19 is also one of the few interstates that doesn't cross a state border.
It ain't baseball, sportsfans. It's whining. Corporate whining, individual whining, and whining by proxy. Now I am supposed to feel sorry for the dying newspaper industry after this pathetic whinge?
Whine away, I don't care anymore.
NSA's involvement in Linux amounts to a research project.
That's one of those things that if they told you, then they'd have to shoot you. So if you indeed know this for a fact, you might want to Google real-soon-now for "plastic surgeons" and "new identity".
I find it absolutely hilarious that the ad running at the top of this article is for Microsoft's "Get the Facts" program itself. Whatever puts food on the table, eh Taco?
Cendant just wants to use Amazon's "one-click" patent and not pay anything. All these settlements end up being patent rights swaps.
You're right. With that amount of liquid coolant, he could just as well have used a featureless box rather than a radiator. Any cooling benefit was probably derived from the thermal mass of the coolant.
[...] I remember seeing "Darl McBride" himself post somewhere there (although it's now removed).
No, it's still there; I just saw it. But what I found interesting was a post from one of the editorial staff at Sys-Con... one Maryann MacBride. Any relation to Darl you suppose? Anyway, after skimming through a handful of articles, I can't tell whether the entire site is for real (and just horribly done) or whether it's just tasteless satire. It really reminds me of Mad Magazine, it's so over the top.
"According to this article [...], it was "Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas."
He sure ain't toeing the official Republican party line on this one, is he? The Hon. Ron needs to change his party affiliation if'n he's gonna use common sense like that.
At least you'll be awake and in a good mood while you "learn to enjoy" it
Just what the highways need at oh-dark-thirty in the A.M... a bunch of wide awake drunks behind the wheel.
"[...]the world is at least a little bit safer without Saddam Hussein in charge in Iraq[...]"
And the world would be a whole lot safer without Bush in charge in the U.S.
Vote appropriately this November.
*tears out another Dvorak article, wipes, and flushes it down the toilet*
I can't believe any knowledgeable human would risk almost certain death and disfigurement by intentionally allowing a Dvorak article to come into direct physical contact with their anus. The only other person believed to have done this was a gentleman by the name of Goatse, I think. You might be able to find him with a Google search....
So this is what HP means by "Invent"? In just a few short years, I have waved sayonara to their medical instruments division, their measurements division, OpenMail, MPE/iX and the HP3000 line, and now UDC. Not to mention tens of thousands of people, many of whom I used to work with.
I'm too depressed to continue. I only wish our country had the balls to fight treason like this.
Why do you think banks still use AS400's and code in FORTRAN?
FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. The language of choice for banking is COBOL.
And whose job is it to decide which category someone falls into? Certainly not yours.
It certainly is when I've got mod points!
In all seriousness, let me add my heartfelt condolences to those of others here. I lost a son last year to an accident, and I know firsthand what a tragedy it can be.
When those people want to buy something [...] we better be prepared to provide them with whatever they want to buy, and charge accordingly for it.
So just who's gonna sell it to them? Not the U.S.A. We don't build anything for sale anymore; we sent all those jobs to China last month.
Thankfully, the assault weapons ban expires this year. I think that's gonna be the most valuable personal investment a U.S. citizen can make in the next decade.
Why don't you just tell us what these three extensions [to make FF work like IE] were for?
That would be the "Execute Malicious Code without Asking" extension, the "Expose Sensitive Personal Data" extension, and lastly the "Randomly Turn Blue and Go Comatose" extension.
I just had 3 bluescreens yesterday afternoon on my Windows-XP/SP2 box. I think they're being caused by a new video capture card I just installed, but the installer claimed the drivers had been blessed by Microsoft. The whole install is fresh and has never been on the Internet except to load updates, and it's been thoroughly scanned for viruses and spyware.
So yeah, Windows-XP can, and does, BSOD with certified drivers and no viruses and not doing anything out of the ordinary. Sorry.
I hope IBM takes action and drags their sorry faces into the mud.
I'd rather they (SCO) got their faces drug though feces.
There won't be a front entryway to the building. But there will be hundreds of back doors.
Paektu-san (Mount Paektu or White Head Mountain), is an extinct volcano and Korea's highest mountain (2,744 meters). It's located on North Korea's northern land border. It may have sprung violently back to life like North America's own Mount St. Helens.
Also, forest fires occur there with some regularity (more than 130 at once this summer), and can produce large white mushroom shaped clouds under the right atmospheric conditions.
Let's not jump to conclusions. Oh wait, this is Slashdot....