Actually you are very mistaken. Please read the Satelite Navigation news group, several people have described the phenomenon. And there isn't anything unique or special about it. All electronics give off some radio interference to some degree. Typically not enough to cause you to actually lose a radio station on an FM radio. But specific GPS units can, and do if placed close to the antena or stereo. (For some people this shows up when putting the GPS on their dashboard. A common place to put a GPS in a car for it to get a clear signal.). GPS units have also caused interference with each other.
I don't expect the level of interference given off by a GPS is significant enough to worry about, but I was trying to make a point that when arguing that some form of transmitter (intentional) might interfer with GPS that Un-intentional interference is caused by most electronics in close proximity and from everything I have browsed through on UWB seems to indicate the amount of noise is on par with unintentional transmitions. (This includes browsing through an FCC document outlining speed to lock-on with interference & without, distance of transmitters etc.)
Please calculate the number of devices required within a 50 meter radius required to create sufficient interference on a specific band to cause a problem EXCLUDING anything -on- said aircraft. (No one has any reason to believe they would be more allowed on planes than cellphones are). Within a few feet there are interference issues. But then, some people find GPS handheld block out their car stereos too.
Except the only locations where it would likely add enough noise to be a problem would be very high population density areas... like a city. Where GPS doesn't work worth shit. (Tall buildings block the signals, and reflect them, etc.). On the other hand, it would be possible to use cheap UWB transmitters do add the same functionality within such an environment...
There is no news. Thats the problem with this story.
The reported stated claims made by an individual as NEWS. it isn't. It is claims by an individual, who probably is getting free beer from all his buddies because he scammed the press.
So your saying the US has a population of: 1.5billion?
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the population of California "34,818,000" As of January 1, 2001. So, we will assume for the sake of discussion an even distribution of wiretap costs across the US based on population. Lets see.. so, 300 million people as opposed to 30 million, so 880 wiretaps TOTAL for the United States. So 880 * 57,000 = 50,160,000; So, you owe $0.16 for Wiretaps in the US/year.
While I think extrapolating these numbers this far could be misleading, I think pointing out that you personally pay less than $0.20/year based on these numbers isn't...
It isn't a victimless crime when you have to work with the druggies and they have powertools in their hands either.
That was on the job experience I didn't need.
GPS Can resolve altitude; but the accuracy for altitude is considerably less than for lat/long.
Typically with a GPS you can get 10meters accuracy, but the accuracy for altitude is around 25 meters.
People here assuming the accuracy is higher than 10 meters (lets assume a 10meters sphere just to make things simply) are woefully mistaken. Even with systems like WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) the accuracy can be increased substantially, to about a 3meter sphere; but it doesn't work very well on the ground as the geosynchronous satelites used are near the horizon. Good for aviation though. (Which is the intent).
Your pissed because the beam might kill some electronics.
The beam is applied to a significant amount of mail, it isn't tested first. It is just done. And no, you won't be able to ship something through such a system and have it NOT get irradiated if it goes through the equipment.
For the moment this procedure will deal with the current threat, in the future it could be applied again at a moments notice to prevent a major outbreak.
Think of this whole thing as a computer virus. Th only reason more people weren't effected is because something WAS done. Mail was stopped. High-risk mail was then treated and moved on.
If nothing were done the numbers would likely be a hell of a lot higher than 5.
And somebody would try something even more effective than anthrax. Maybe even somethinbg contagious.
It's been against the law to lie about someone in an attempt is cause them harm since long before you were born.
Freedom of Speech has nothing to do with it.
It is estimate to cost $0.025 to mint 1 Canadian penny. The value of the material is less than $0.01 though. Obviously if the value of the material was worth more than the penny itself it would get recycled (legal or not) and sold as the material it is.
I would expect American pennies cost a similar amount to produce. (which would probably be about $0.015US). Again, the material would probably be less than $0.01US.
Depending on the technology used the number of tags is irrelevent. Check out how iButtons, or Bluetooth devices work. You can have an 'unlimited' number in the network and still query and identify them individually.
Unless specificly authorized in his capacity as a consultant he never should have touched the password file.
As a consultant you may be in the situation, on a daily basis, that you have access to information which is not yours to do anything with. Thats the nature of the beast, don't screw with it.
As a consultant I have access to data on the customers of my clients. That data is confidential. Unless specificly using the data for testing I have zero right to that data. Even if it is in the database I have access to, and available to me based on my access privledges.
Having access to data doesn't mean you have the right to that data.
Agreed.
I own a copy of BeOS 4.5 and his BeOS book. I've been tempted to aquire a Mac and OS X. Why? Because Nothing else makes sense.
I've used PCs since DOS 2.01, I've used Windows 2.01-W2K, OS/2 2.0beta-Warp Connect (complete with pull-away menus), Linux (RedHat 5+), and BeOS 3.0, 4.5 and 5.0.
I upgraded my computer at one point, installed a new motherboard (From P166 to PIII-500) and said 'Watch this...' to my girlfriend as I booted each installed operating system for the first time.
BeOS took its usual short time to boot into full GUI. Worked fine.
Linux booted in its leasurly time as per usual. X didn't run, but that was my fault, not the upgrade.
Windows95 took 3hrs to get working correctly.
No, I'm not kidding.
I liked BeOS. It was quick, smooth, awesome filesystem. Lots of potential. (I liked OS/2 before that...)
So, I figure if I buy a Mac they should go bust in 6months.
Every negative thing that Scot said about Linux I agree with. I'm an experienced user but I'm tired of all the stupid interface issues under Linux. (I don't use it enough to eliminate the problems by familiarity alone). I figure a lot of people here are blind to the issues because they are so used to adapting to it.
I was so used to the right-click menus in OS/2 for a while I felt crippled under Windows. When I sit down at Linux I don't feel empowered, I feel hog-tied. Even though it IS far more powerfull than Windows. BeOS didn't make me feel that way.
If OS X had a filesystem like BFS I'm not sure I could stop myself from buying a Mac.
Warning: If you start goofing with airflow throughout an entire house/furnace system be very aware that you could cause carbon-monoxide levels to build up.
Agreed. I grew up in greater vancouver. I now live in Winnipeg. Winter here is typically a few weeks of -30C (give or take) a long with a few weeks of -20C and a few of -15C....
You ever look at the price of a PC game?
Ever looked at the price of a console game that is almost impossible to pirate? Yep. You guessed it. The console game costs MORE.
Read the full story and you note that the author has specificly chosen to ignore the fact that companies are trying Linux out.
He seems to treat it like it is irrelevent. It isn't. Especially when you consider that it takes 18 or more months for a large company to rollout significant changes.
BUt, the story follows the release of Windows XP and it's lack luster sales quite nicely....
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I drink pepsi out of glasses labeled 'Coke'. DOes this mean I planned my life incorrectly?
Actually you are very mistaken. Please read the Satelite Navigation news group, several people have described the phenomenon. And there isn't anything unique or special about it. All electronics give off some radio interference to some degree. Typically not enough to cause you to actually lose a radio station on an FM radio. But specific GPS units can, and do if placed close to the antena or stereo. (For some people this shows up when putting the GPS on their dashboard. A common place to put a GPS in a car for it to get a clear signal.). GPS units have also caused interference with each other.
I don't expect the level of interference given off by a GPS is significant enough to worry about, but I was trying to make a point that when arguing that some form of transmitter (intentional) might interfer with GPS that Un-intentional interference is caused by most electronics in close proximity and from everything I have browsed through on UWB seems to indicate the amount of noise is on par with unintentional transmitions. (This includes browsing through an FCC document outlining speed to lock-on with interference & without, distance of transmitters etc.)
Please calculate the number of devices required within a 50 meter radius required to create sufficient interference on a specific band to cause a problem EXCLUDING anything -on- said aircraft. (No one has any reason to believe they would be more allowed on planes than cellphones are). Within a few feet there are interference issues. But then, some people find GPS handheld block out their car stereos too.
Except the only locations where it would likely add enough noise to be a problem would be very high population density areas... like a city. Where GPS doesn't work worth shit. (Tall buildings block the signals, and reflect them, etc.). On the other hand, it would be possible to use cheap UWB transmitters do add the same functionality within such an environment...
There is no news. Thats the problem with this story.
The reported stated claims made by an individual as NEWS. it isn't. It is claims by an individual, who probably is getting free beer from all his buddies because he scammed the press.
So your saying the US has a population of: 1.5billion?
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the population of California "34,818,000" As of January 1, 2001. So, we will assume for the sake of discussion an even distribution of wiretap costs across the US based on population. Lets see.. so, 300 million people as opposed to 30 million, so 880 wiretaps TOTAL for the United States. So 880 * 57,000 = 50,160,000; So, you owe $0.16 for Wiretaps in the US/year.
While I think extrapolating these numbers this far could be misleading, I think pointing out that you personally pay less than $0.20/year based on these numbers isn't...
It isn't a victimless crime when you have to work with the druggies and they have powertools in their hands either.
That was on the job experience I didn't need.
GPS Can resolve altitude; but the accuracy for altitude is considerably less than for lat/long.
Typically with a GPS you can get 10meters accuracy, but the accuracy for altitude is around 25 meters.
People here assuming the accuracy is higher than 10 meters (lets assume a 10meters sphere just to make things simply) are woefully mistaken. Even with systems like WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) the accuracy can be increased substantially, to about a 3meter sphere; but it doesn't work very well on the ground as the geosynchronous satelites used are near the horizon. Good for aviation though. (Which is the intent).
Your pissed because the beam might kill some electronics.
The beam is applied to a significant amount of mail, it isn't tested first. It is just done. And no, you won't be able to ship something through such a system and have it NOT get irradiated if it goes through the equipment.
For the moment this procedure will deal with the current threat, in the future it could be applied again at a moments notice to prevent a major outbreak.
Think of this whole thing as a computer virus. Th only reason more people weren't effected is because something WAS done. Mail was stopped. High-risk mail was then treated and moved on.
If nothing were done the numbers would likely be a hell of a lot higher than 5.
And somebody would try something even more effective than anthrax. Maybe even somethinbg contagious.
It's been against the law to lie about someone in an attempt is cause them harm since long before you were born.
Freedom of Speech has nothing to do with it.
This would be the same government which charges outrageous rates for map data.
I doubt they will release any of this.
It is estimate to cost $0.025 to mint 1 Canadian penny. The value of the material is less than $0.01 though. Obviously if the value of the material was worth more than the penny itself it would get recycled (legal or not) and sold as the material it is.
I would expect American pennies cost a similar amount to produce. (which would probably be about $0.015US). Again, the material would probably be less than $0.01US.
Depending on the technology used the number of tags is irrelevent. Check out how iButtons, or Bluetooth devices work. You can have an 'unlimited' number in the network and still query and identify them individually.
Unless specificly authorized in his capacity as a consultant he never should have touched the password file.
As a consultant you may be in the situation, on a daily basis, that you have access to information which is not yours to do anything with. Thats the nature of the beast, don't screw with it.
As a consultant I have access to data on the customers of my clients. That data is confidential. Unless specificly using the data for testing I have zero right to that data. Even if it is in the database I have access to, and available to me based on my access privledges.
Having access to data doesn't mean you have the right to that data.
Agreed.
I own a copy of BeOS 4.5 and his BeOS book. I've been tempted to aquire a Mac and OS X. Why? Because Nothing else makes sense.
I've used PCs since DOS 2.01, I've used Windows 2.01-W2K, OS/2 2.0beta-Warp Connect (complete with pull-away menus), Linux (RedHat 5+), and BeOS 3.0, 4.5 and 5.0.
I upgraded my computer at one point, installed a new motherboard (From P166 to PIII-500) and said 'Watch this...' to my girlfriend as I booted each installed operating system for the first time.
BeOS took its usual short time to boot into full GUI. Worked fine.
Linux booted in its leasurly time as per usual. X didn't run, but that was my fault, not the upgrade.
Windows95 took 3hrs to get working correctly.
No, I'm not kidding.
I liked BeOS. It was quick, smooth, awesome filesystem. Lots of potential. (I liked OS/2 before that...)
So, I figure if I buy a Mac they should go bust in 6months.
Every negative thing that Scot said about Linux I agree with. I'm an experienced user but I'm tired of all the stupid interface issues under Linux. (I don't use it enough to eliminate the problems by familiarity alone). I figure a lot of people here are blind to the issues because they are so used to adapting to it.
I was so used to the right-click menus in OS/2 for a while I felt crippled under Windows. When I sit down at Linux I don't feel empowered, I feel hog-tied. Even though it IS far more powerfull than Windows. BeOS didn't make me feel that way.
If OS X had a filesystem like BFS I'm not sure I could stop myself from buying a Mac.
I'm in shock.
Denial even.
First year I lived here it was -35C or colder on December 25th...
Warning: If you start goofing with airflow throughout an entire house/furnace system be very aware that you could cause carbon-monoxide levels to build up.
Agreed. I grew up in greater vancouver. I now live in Winnipeg. Winter here is typically a few weeks of -30C (give or take) a long with a few weeks of -20C and a few of -15C....
Nothing like ego surfing old messages... you get to find out how smart you were/are/weren't.
Is Pileline require you to run a program to login? My sister had a provider offering pipeline and they had to login...
You ever look at the price of a PC game?
Ever looked at the price of a console game that is almost impossible to pirate? Yep. You guessed it. The console game costs MORE.
The IQ of a Group is Equal to the Lowest IQ divided by the number of members in the Group.
You don't fight a war democratically. You won't win. The only good thing is, bad leaders don't generally last long.
Ironically? Ha, Who's job do you think you might get...
Cold In summer? Hardly. Try winter north of 49th (And East of the rockies).
It won't be your idea of a hot summer, but it won't be that cold. Although, it will be quite sunny...
Read the full story and you note that the author has specificly chosen to ignore the fact that companies are trying Linux out.
He seems to treat it like it is irrelevent. It isn't. Especially when you consider that it takes 18 or more months for a large company to rollout significant changes.
BUt, the story follows the release of Windows XP and it's lack luster sales quite nicely....