You're basically right. The control of the RF portion of the design is what the FCC is interested in and they want you to demonstrate that it would be very difficult (nothing is impossible) to change RF operation.
Typically the control is hard-coded in a MAC-like device which runs the phone. Things like channel selection and power output would be hard coded in the sense that even if you had access to the registers which set them, you would not be able to set them to illegal values. However, even setting them to legal values could be a problem, as you could create a jammer, so there has to be a layer there which is responsible for the low-level protocol to talk to the cell site and conduct operation of the physical layer - you can forget about having access to that. So you can't tell the phone to start transmitting on a particular channel, but you can tell it to initiate a phone call.
However you can always get after things with a soldering iron if you are so inclined. Doing that would not be illegal, but causing the phone to operate in a manner in which it is not intended, e.g. as a jammer, would be (duh).
The latest chip sets integrate the RF _and_ the baseband control _and_ the MAC, so even with a soldering iron, you'd have a tough time getting at low-level RF control.
It's been said in the comments on slashdot many times. Learning functional programming techniques will improve your programming skills. There are many good functional languages out there, and many have imperative features for ease of transition. No functional will not solve all of your problems, but it will give you that most valuable of all lessons, how to think about a problem _differently_.
As another poster has mentioned, if there are now dissolved minerals permeating the circuitry you are probably out of luck.
Here's what you can try if you are feeling brave.
Get some DISTILLED WATER. Clean the electronics thoroughly. The more you can take things apart and get to the nooks and crannies the better.
Now the hard part. To drive off the water you will need a nice dry enclosure which can be heated to a relatively high temperature, say 130-140 deg F or so. The upper temperature depends on the plastic materials used, if it gets too hot they will start to deform. Watch carefully.
Leave things heated for at least 2-4 hours.
Now go back over things with 90% + isopropyl alcohol (it might be hard to find - do NOT use the 70% stuff).
Why this might not work : the "dissolved" materials which have stuck to the PCB and components do not get washed off completely. They are still present and when you hit the power something shorts - bright lights and probably a decent badda-boom.
The exposure which the electronics have already experienced have more than likely started corroding the potentiometers, i.e. volume, bass, etc.. controls. So even if things power up they may not work correctly.
Finally, if you can't take things apart and expose the PCBs and a good portion of the components, then your chances of success are very low. However if you can really get at the compenents this method will work.
Good luck !
REMEMBER, IF YOU TRY THIS BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN IT COMES TIME TO FLIP THE POWER ON. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU GET ELECTROCUTED.
Tor isn't great for high bandwidth connections, but I think it's just perfect to make sure all of those do-gooder large corporations don't get a choice about anonymizing IP addresses.
As many on slashdot have pointed out in previous threads about offshoring, one of the main drivers of the high cost of living, i.e. a high salary is the necessity of working in expensive urban areas.
Companies are perfectly willing to take non-trivial jobs and ship them overseas, but seem to be extremely reluctant to let workers telecommute, which would probably help in lowering costs, allowing the jobs to stay here.
TFA does not discuss whether or not in might be frozen co2. I thought there was still some question as to whether the poles were covered in water ice or co2 ice.
Is commercial speech really the same thing as free speech ? I'm not so sure. It's primary purpose is to sell a product, not to inform the citizens about the going's on in the world.
I consider the crud put out by hate groups to be much closer to free speech than advertising.
"We could stop lobbyists."
Lobbyists have a more resources than the average citizen, is it reasonable to make an argument that they limit my free speech by their ability to have a lying liar sitting in front of a representative all day long ?
These same lobbyists are also major campaign contributors. When does their "free speech" devolve into bribery ?
I think these points are worthy of discussion. Just like there is no such thing as free trade there is no such thing as free speech. Free fill-in-the-blank is only free to the extent that it does not impede someone else's rights.
Probably the most embarrassing thing that would be revealing some of the locations of body piercings.
No the most embarrassing thing would be that people will willingly submit themselves to this absurd violation of privacy without even knowing, or more importantly, caring, why they should.
I think this would be perfect, I found it when I was looking for a DB which met similar criteria. I don't care about windows, but it does work under windows AFAIK.
Use it all the time for everthing from trivial databases to several 10s of megabytes. Since query's can be entered on the command line it's quite simple to write an ascii results grabber.
One of the overlooked problems with the NSL is that they provide a bureaucratic shortcut. You know, warrants are just so much work. Naturally it becomes the path of least resistance and so everything becomes related to terrorism just so they don't have to do all that work to get a regular warrant. You have to show probable cause, you need to identify the particulars of what you are looking for, etc... The best part is that you can do a really sloppy job and nobody will be the wiser, because they're all ecretsay.
There should be a little work involved, shouldn't there ? Wouldn't it be just great if those letters would actually apply to matters of national security ? The FBI has proven for us that they don't, just by the simple fact that they've generated so many of them.
FUD has ruled for many years now. Contact your congresscritter, register to vote, after all it is supposed to be your government.
What it does do is undermine (very thoroughly) an argument for god(s) that used to be a 'slam dunk': the 'argument from complexity in the biological world'. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't understand the distinction, and people like Dawkins don't help.
I believe that Dawkins has written several books about evolutionary biology. How is it that he is not helping ? What is not helping is that creationists either do not read the books (and not just his), do not understand them, or simply refuse to even try and understand them.
Turns out Komodo dragons have a fairly lethal cocktail of bacteria in their saliva. Kills prey that manages to escape their immediate grasp, then they use smell to track it down. Naturally they need protection from this goo too.
The Q is an indicator of the short term accuracy of the resonator. The long term accuracy is usually discussed in terms of temperature drift. The absolute accuracy has to do with how accurately you can produce a resonator of the desired frequency.
The short term accuracy is referred to, by digital designers, as jitter and is a very important figure of merit in both digital designs and communication systems.
The Q of this resonator is quite good, athough it's not unusual for quartz crystals to havo a Q of 50000. What's truly amazing is that this resonator has a Q of 10000 @ 4.5 GHz. The high end on a quartz crystal is in the range of 20 to 40 MHz. It is very difficult to produce resonators with such a high Q at such a high frequency.
Alcohol abuse is a seriously health issue and advertising it is doing much more harm thean good, or perhaps you've forgotten that distilled spirits can now be advertised ?
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With modern switching supplies there is no reason why the power interface for various electronic devices cannot be standardized.
Standard plug and a standard information bus.
Device tells you what it wants, the supply adjusts to suit. You _might_ have to have two classes of power supplies for low and high power.
Now I don't need 10 million fucking transformers for my electronic devices.
This interface could then be extended to some sort of wireless power interface.
Why can't they ever start with the easy, and _useful_ stuff ??!!
You're basically right. The control of the RF portion of the design is what the FCC is interested in and they want you to demonstrate that it would be very difficult (nothing is impossible) to change RF operation.
Typically the control is hard-coded in a MAC-like device which runs the phone. Things like channel selection and power output would be hard coded in the sense that even if you had access to the registers which set them, you would not be able to set them to illegal values. However, even setting them to legal values could be a problem, as you could create a jammer, so there has to be a layer there which is responsible for the low-level protocol to talk to the cell site and conduct operation of the physical layer - you can forget about having access to that. So you can't tell the phone to start transmitting on a particular channel, but you can tell it to initiate a phone call.
However you can always get after things with a soldering iron if you are so inclined. Doing that would not be illegal, but causing the phone to operate in a manner in which it is not intended, e.g. as a jammer, would be (duh).
The latest chip sets integrate the RF _and_ the baseband control _and_ the MAC, so even with a soldering iron, you'd have a tough time getting at low-level RF control.
It's been said in the comments on slashdot many times. Learning functional programming techniques will improve your programming skills. There are many good functional languages out there, and many have imperative features for ease of transition. No functional will not solve all of your problems, but it will give you that most valuable of all lessons, how to think about a problem _differently_.
You don't need an excuse, start today.
I've been trying to find the actual frequencies which will be made available with no luck.
Anyone have a link ?
One galaxy going _through_ another ?
Mind boggling !
As another poster has mentioned, if there are now dissolved minerals permeating the circuitry you are probably out of luck.
Here's what you can try if you are feeling brave.
Get some DISTILLED WATER. Clean the electronics thoroughly. The more you can take things apart and get to the nooks and crannies the better.
Now the hard part. To drive off the water you will need a nice dry enclosure which can be heated to a relatively high temperature, say 130-140 deg F or so. The upper temperature depends on the plastic materials used, if it gets too hot they will start to deform. Watch carefully.
Leave things heated for at least 2-4 hours.
Now go back over things with 90% + isopropyl alcohol (it might be hard to find - do NOT use the 70% stuff).
Why this might not work : the "dissolved" materials which have stuck to the PCB and components do not get washed off completely. They are still present and when you hit the power something shorts - bright lights and probably a decent badda-boom.
The exposure which the electronics have already experienced have more than likely started corroding the potentiometers, i.e. volume, bass, etc.. controls. So even if things power up they may not work correctly.
Finally, if you can't take things apart and expose the PCBs and a good portion of the components, then your chances of success are very low. However if you can really get at the compenents this method will work.
Good luck !
REMEMBER, IF YOU TRY THIS BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN IT COMES TIME TO FLIP THE POWER ON. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU GET ELECTROCUTED.
The real tragedy is that our congresscritters are allowing it to happen.
The republicans are enthusiastic about law and order at the expense of liberty, and the democrats have yet to become vertebrates.
Separation of powers isn't just a good idea, it's essential to the proper operation of our system.
Tor isn't great for high bandwidth connections, but I think it's just perfect to make sure all of those do-gooder large corporations don't get a choice about anonymizing IP addresses.
http://www.torproject.org/
Unfortunately, there is a physical limit to how good an image taken from 400 miles away can be.
Unfortunately ?! I'd say that was fortunate. Wouldn't it be nice if there were limits on other forms of monitoring.
As many on slashdot have pointed out in previous threads about offshoring, one of the main drivers of the high cost of living, i.e. a high salary is the necessity of working in expensive urban areas.
Companies are perfectly willing to take non-trivial jobs and ship them overseas, but seem to be extremely reluctant to let workers telecommute, which would probably help in lowering costs, allowing the jobs to stay here.
Really, WTF ?
To a large extent good old passive wires make for quite a robust system.
However with the addition of all the support equipment necessary for LN2, doesn't this make for a step
backward in terms of reliability ?
Decentralized power production, e.g., solar, still seems like a more worthwhile idea to me.
1 company does short term r&d, i.e. product development
2 govt & univ do long term research
3 take over IP of publicly funded work
4 profit !!
TFA does not discuss whether or not in might be frozen co2.
I thought there was still some question as to whether the poles were covered in water ice or co2 ice.
Can anyone enlighten me ?
"We could limit advertisers."
Is commercial speech really the same thing as free speech ? I'm not so sure. It's primary purpose is to sell a product, not to inform the citizens about the going's on in the world.
I consider the crud put out by hate groups to be much closer to free speech than advertising.
"We could stop lobbyists."
Lobbyists have a more resources than the average citizen, is it reasonable to make an argument that they limit my free speech by their ability to have a lying liar sitting in front of a representative all day long ?
These same lobbyists are also major campaign contributors. When does their "free speech" devolve into bribery ?
I think these points are worthy of discussion. Just like there is no such thing as free trade there is no such thing as free speech. Free fill-in-the-blank is only free to the extent that it does not impede someone else's rights.
Probably the most embarrassing thing that would be revealing some of the locations of body piercings.
No the most embarrassing thing would be that people will willingly submit themselves to this absurd violation of privacy without even knowing, or more importantly, caring, why they should.
I think this would be perfect, I found it when I was looking for a DB which met similar criteria. I don't care about windows, but it does work under windows AFAIK.
http://www.sqlite.org/
Use it all the time for everthing from trivial databases to several 10s of megabytes. Since query's can be entered on the command line it's quite simple to write an ascii results grabber.
One of the overlooked problems with the NSL is that they provide a bureaucratic shortcut. You know, warrants are just so much work. Naturally it becomes the path of least resistance and so everything becomes related to terrorism just so they don't have to do all that work to get a regular warrant. You have to show probable cause, you need to identify the particulars of what you are looking for, etc... The best part is that you can do a really sloppy job and nobody will be the wiser, because they're all ecretsay.
There should be a little work involved, shouldn't there ? Wouldn't it be just great if those letters would actually apply to matters of national security ? The FBI has proven for us that they don't, just by the simple fact that they've generated so many of them.
FUD has ruled for many years now. Contact your congresscritter, register to vote, after all it is supposed to be your government.
Getting closer to PGMP-11 ?
What it does do is undermine (very thoroughly) an argument for god(s) that used to be a 'slam dunk': the 'argument from complexity in the biological world'. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't understand the distinction, and people like Dawkins don't help.
I believe that Dawkins has written several books about evolutionary biology. How is it that he is not helping ? What is not helping is that creationists either do not read the books (and not just his), do not understand them, or simply refuse to even try and understand them.
It occurs to me that buying an open source software company might be a sneaky way to get some good, old fashioned customer lock-in.
Look for free software program, preferably complicated, with a large user base.
Close it, and begin charging.
It seems as though you could get customers to stick around with the right price point. Now you may begin your ad infinitum licensing fees.
I'm not saying that's what's happening in this case, but it seems like something to evaluate. The two flaws in this idea:
The customers migrate to another free software tool - which might be difficult to do.
The program forks.
Seems to minimize risk a high percentage of the userbase would pay as the path of least resistance.
The fact that the buyers could get to this point on the (free) contributions of the original authors is kind of annoying.
Your probably still better off having used free software in the first place.
Turns out Komodo dragons have a fairly lethal cocktail of bacteria in their saliva.
Kills prey that manages to escape their immediate grasp, then they use smell to track it down.
Naturally they need protection from this goo too.
Couldn't find a better link than this:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12238371/
When they are not, there is a conflict of interest.
The same thing applies to the electrical grid, and to cable.
The maintenance of the infrastructure should be separate from the product delivered using the infrastructure, shouldn't it ?
The Q is an indicator of the short term accuracy of the resonator. The long term accuracy is usually discussed in terms of temperature drift. The absolute accuracy has to do with how accurately you can produce a resonator of the desired frequency.
The short term accuracy is referred to, by digital designers, as jitter and is a very important figure of merit in both digital designs and communication systems.
The Q of this resonator is quite good, athough it's not unusual for quartz crystals to havo a Q of 50000. What's truly amazing is that this resonator has a Q of 10000 @ 4.5 GHz. The high end on a quartz crystal is in the range of 20 to 40 MHz. It is very difficult to produce resonators with such a high Q at such a high frequency.
It was most certainly not a troll.
Alcohol abuse is a seriously health issue and advertising it is doing much more harm thean good, or perhaps you've forgotten that distilled spirits can now be advertised ?
I'm going to boldly state that alcohol shouldn't be advertised either.
It's a drug too, right ?