Yes and no, your correct, except consumer grade equipment cannot get that accurate.
Consumer grade equipment does not generally give out the necessary data to be merged with another unit necessary to correct for the error. Garmin units produce some of the necessary data when some undocumented functions are accessed though the serial port. But even then, my undertsanding is the Garmin units cannot generate the data at the resolution required for less than about half a meter accuracy.
(Garmin produces units which can do better, but I would not classify them as consumer grade, they are much more expensive).
Complicate question, as the whole thing is based on statistical probablities. But, I can get a reading, right now, in the open that within a minute is probably accurate to less than 10 meters. Further samples will generally give back more accurate results.
It is possible on some low-end units to get accuracy less than a meter, but requires external data and software to process. (I've tried, but the data I have access to won't get me that level of accuracy in my area).
From Garmin's website "The 24 satellites that make up the GPS space segment are orbiting the earth about 12,000 miles above us. They are constantly moving, making two complete orbits in less than 24 hours. These satellites are travelling at speeds of roughly 7,000 miles an hour.
GPS satellites are powered by solar energy. They have backup batteries onboard to keep them running in the event of a solar eclipse, when there's no solar power. "About GPS
I have a GPS receiver. Note, I said RECEIVER! It doesn't transmit anything.
Kinda fun to use on commercial airliners too! (I have an interesting trace of a recent trip, its only partial but shows us flying in anything but a straight line. (We were avoiding some rough weather).
Speaking of which, I think the publishing industry should be taken to task for the crap about a missing cover signifying a stolen book.
Damnit, if you want to restrict what stores send you for credit have them rip the last couple of text pages from a book and send those back!
Covers get ripped all the time, there are a large number of used books without covers, mostly because they got torn at some point in the past. Not because the book was 'stolen'. But that is why they have the policy they have.
I love the arguments against using paretheses. I think it comes from people having a reaction to LISP. I don't blame them, but I don't let them bitch at me for an extra set or 2 in a complicated formula either.
While I think there is nothing wrong with Click-wrap licenses (ie: makes no difference to me if I click it or not) I don't believe it is necessary for any license UNLESS that license restricts someones rights MORE than copyright already does by default.
And I don't believe the BSD or GNU licenses do that. As for the rest, well thats another story.
I have access to a small collection that is rapidly degrading. 'Pulp' publications from the 40s are falling apart. Once the process starts it is quite rapid. I doubt most of it will last another 50 years.
There is a compression/file format called MrSID. It is very impressive. My mother access a website which has scanned copies of Census data from the 1800's, etc. These are huge archives, but the files are only about 150K per page (or less!). These are high-resolution scans. I was very impressed.
Now the GPS/mapping software I use supports it, but I have no way to create MrSID files, or I would.
I purchased a library to support multiple serial ports under DOS, way back in 1989/90. I purchased the library because I didn't know assembler well enough, and I specificly wanted flexible support for multi-port serial devices (Digiboards come to mind).
I wrote up my program, testing it with a single serial port and had success quickly. I expanded it to support multiple ports and had it working, up until it was supposed to actually communicate with both ports at the same time.
The company which released the library failed to reference anything except the first port in their interrupt handler. Leaving me to trace through unknown assembler code trying to figure out what was wrong with code that worked, but not correctly.
I sent them a letter complaining about the problem, they sent back disks with that bug patched (exactly the same as my patch) and a couple of other bugs fixed (which didn't effect me). And vowed at that point to never trust thrid party code. (I did have full sourcecode though, which was nice).
I have a TINI (from Dallas Semiconductor) sitting behind me. I has an ethernet port, and serial port. Runs on 8 volts and is small enough you could put it anywhere. It was about $100.
On the other hand, a Dreamcast is about $50 (give or take) + 1 rare broadband adapter. Which boosts the price to $150-$250 for the device.
For $299 CANADIAN ($200 US?) I bought an XBox the other day. Gee, it has built in Ethernet, and, at the point when somebody fully cracks the bootflash could theoretically run Linux and do the same thing.
And have an 8gig drive to log data.
But I don't think that is a realistic use for an XBox either.
4-5 dreamcasts, without broadband adapters. And, currently a broadband adapter is going for anywhere from $60-130US there are cheaper things I could aquire to do this...
Hell, I have such a device sitting behind me. Ethernet (10baseT) and small enough to hide almost anywhere. (About the size of a dimm.)
Unless you have an unusual network where 99% of it is from the same manufacturer your unlikely to notice unless you start looking. I don't have the broadband adapter for the dreamcast, but I understand it uses a Realtek chipset. So, I expect it uses a similar MAC address range as the more generic cards out there. Not sure what the manufacturers id would be.
With a network of a few hundred machines and random equipment I doubt it would be noticed. Add to the fact that you won't have a mac address for antyhing except what is on your own segment...
You aren't likely to notice it unless you are already checking for non-approved equipment.
Not being able to make the phone valid on a network reduces its value considerably. The easier it is to change the code, the higher the value of the phone.
There isn't any valid reasons for changing the number on a phone.
Period. None.
If a car requires a part be replaced which has a VIN then it can, and is, registered. (My GF had her dash replaced and was given the chance to get a new VIN, or physicaly transfer the VIN from the old dash to the new.)
There really isn't a correlary to a cell phone. (In the UNLIKELY event the chip with the serial number was damaged I expect it could be replaced and have the old number from the phone encoded.).
I mean really. Blogging is someone putting a paragraph or 2 (or a dozen) a day, a week, etc into an online journal. They are often trivial. Personally I think thats why people like them. They show that other people involve themselves in the trivial aspects of their own lives as much as the rest of us.
As for a story, go ahead and write one. But the difference between yours, and everyone else who blogs is, theirs might actually be true.
Then again, maybe they are already telling a story, and we don't know it yet.
Somehow I don't see your problem. I mean, if what you say is true (it isn't), then there is no difference whether he spends his money to do this, or hoards it. The net effect is to put the money back into the economy...
An individual hoarding money doesn't allow the federal reserve to start printing more...
I humbly disagree. First, I think the guy is an idiot. Bar-none, waste of time, blah blah.
But, the people I know without money to meet basic needs don't give a shit about this guy in the least. They are too busy trying to get their basic needs met. The only people bitching about it are the ones trying to find ways to spend money they can't afford to spend.
The difference is, their needs are met and they resent not being able to do the same damn things as him.
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Yes and no, your correct, except consumer grade equipment cannot get that accurate.
Consumer grade equipment does not generally give out the necessary data to be merged with another unit necessary to correct for the error. Garmin units produce some of the necessary data when some undocumented functions are accessed though the serial port. But even then, my undertsanding is the Garmin units cannot generate the data at the resolution required for less than about half a meter accuracy.
(Garmin produces units which can do better, but I would not classify them as consumer grade, they are much more expensive).
Complicate question, as the whole thing is based on statistical probablities. But, I can get a reading, right now, in the open that within a minute is probably accurate to less than 10 meters. Further samples will generally give back more accurate results.
It is possible on some low-end units to get accuracy less than a meter, but requires external data and software to process. (I've tried, but the data I have access to won't get me that level of accuracy in my area).
Point Roberts?
From Garmin's website "The 24 satellites that make up the GPS space segment are orbiting the earth about 12,000 miles above us. They are constantly moving, making two complete orbits in less than 24 hours. These satellites are travelling at speeds of roughly 7,000 miles an hour. GPS satellites are powered by solar energy. They have backup batteries onboard to keep them running in the event of a solar eclipse, when there's no solar power. " About GPS
Your either trolling, or overly paranoid.
I have a GPS receiver. Note, I said RECEIVER! It doesn't transmit anything.
Kinda fun to use on commercial airliners too! (I have an interesting trace of a recent trip, its only partial but shows us flying in anything but a straight line. (We were avoiding some rough weather).
Speaking of which, I think the publishing industry should be taken to task for the crap about a missing cover signifying a stolen book.
Damnit, if you want to restrict what stores send you for credit have them rip the last couple of text pages from a book and send those back!
Covers get ripped all the time, there are a large number of used books without covers, mostly because they got torn at some point in the past. Not because the book was 'stolen'.
But that is why they have the policy they have.
Writing Solid code is an Excelent book. Too bad it's from Microsoft and tends to be ignored.
I love the arguments against using paretheses. I think it comes from people having a reaction to LISP. I don't blame them, but I don't let them bitch at me for an extra set or 2 in a complicated formula either.
While I think there is nothing wrong with Click-wrap licenses (ie: makes no difference to me if I click it or not) I don't believe it is necessary for any license UNLESS that license restricts someones rights MORE than copyright already does by default.
And I don't believe the BSD or GNU licenses do that. As for the rest, well thats another story.
The limit of 32,000 rows was removed. Just don't get me started at how it handles CSV files by default...
I have access to a small collection that is rapidly degrading. 'Pulp' publications from the 40s are falling apart. Once the process starts it is quite rapid. I doubt most of it will last another 50 years.
There is a compression/file format called MrSID. It is very impressive. My mother access a website which has scanned copies of Census data from the 1800's, etc. These are huge archives, but the files are only about 150K per page (or less!). These are high-resolution scans. I was very impressed.
Now the GPS/mapping software I use supports it, but I have no way to create MrSID files, or I would.
I purchased a library to support multiple serial ports under DOS, way back in 1989/90. I purchased the library because I didn't know assembler well enough, and I specificly wanted flexible support for multi-port serial devices (Digiboards come to mind).
I wrote up my program, testing it with a single serial port and had success quickly. I expanded it to support multiple ports and had it working, up until it was supposed to actually communicate with both ports at the same time.
The company which released the library failed to reference anything except the first port in their interrupt handler. Leaving me to trace through unknown assembler code trying to figure out what was wrong with code that worked, but not correctly.
I sent them a letter complaining about the problem, they sent back disks with that bug patched (exactly the same as my patch) and a couple of other bugs fixed (which didn't effect me).
And vowed at that point to never trust thrid party code. (I did have full sourcecode though, which was nice).
Tools exist to program the machine in assembler as well.
Thats why I'm laughing at this whole thread.
I have a TINI (from Dallas Semiconductor) sitting behind me. I has an ethernet port, and serial port. Runs on 8 volts and is small enough you could put it anywhere. It was about $100.
On the other hand, a Dreamcast is about $50 (give or take) + 1 rare broadband adapter. Which boosts the price to $150-$250 for the device.
For $299 CANADIAN ($200 US?) I bought an XBox the other day. Gee, it has built in Ethernet, and, at the point when somebody fully cracks the bootflash could theoretically run Linux and do the same thing.
And have an 8gig drive to log data.
But I don't think that is a realistic use for an XBox either.
4-5 dreamcasts, without broadband adapters. And, currently a broadband adapter is going for anywhere from $60-130US there are cheaper things I could aquire to do this...
Hell, I have such a device sitting behind me. Ethernet (10baseT) and small enough to hide almost anywhere. (About the size of a dimm.)
Unless you have an unusual network where 99% of it is from the same manufacturer your unlikely to notice unless you start looking. I don't have the broadband adapter for the dreamcast, but I understand it uses a Realtek chipset. So, I expect it uses a similar MAC address range as the more generic cards out there. Not sure what the manufacturers id would be.
With a network of a few hundred machines and random equipment I doubt it would be noticed. Add to the fact that you won't have a mac address for antyhing except what is on your own segment...
You aren't likely to notice it unless you are already checking for non-approved equipment.
Not being able to make the phone valid on a network reduces its value considerably. The easier it is to change the code, the higher the value of the phone.
There isn't any valid reasons for changing the number on a phone.
Period. None.
If a car requires a part be replaced which has a VIN then it can, and is, registered. (My GF had her dash replaced and was given the chance to get a new VIN, or physicaly transfer the VIN from the old dash to the new.)
There really isn't a correlary to a cell phone.
(In the UNLIKELY event the chip with the serial number was damaged I expect it could be replaced and have the old number from the phone encoded.).
You cannot legitimatly modify a stolen device/object/PHONE.
It's stolen.
We could as simply change the law to allow anyone to modify the IMEI unless it is tagged stolen. And then only to an AVAILABLE IMEI.
Which, by the way, is virtually impossible to do properly since almost anything could conflict with some others companies number space...
How is this news?
I mean really. Blogging is someone putting a paragraph or 2 (or a dozen) a day, a week, etc into an online journal. They are often trivial. Personally I think thats why people like them. They show that other people involve themselves in the trivial aspects of their own lives as much as the rest of us.
As for a story, go ahead and write one. But the difference between yours, and everyone else who blogs is, theirs might actually be true.
Then again, maybe they are already telling a story, and we don't know it yet.
Somehow I don't see your problem. I mean, if what you say is true (it isn't), then there is no difference whether he spends his money to do this, or hoards it. The net effect is to put the money back into the economy...
An individual hoarding money doesn't allow the federal reserve to start printing more...
Quit buying Nintendo games then.
I humbly disagree. First, I think the guy is an idiot. Bar-none, waste of time, blah blah.
But, the people I know without money to meet basic needs don't give a shit about this guy in the least. They are too busy trying to get their basic needs met. The only people bitching about it are the ones trying to find ways to spend money they can't afford to spend.
The difference is, their needs are met and they resent not being able to do the same damn things as him.
It is a stunt. FM radio won't support frequencies high enough to be helpfull.