We actually did - my Total Telecommunications modem for the C=64 retailed for $20 (Taiwan) and it was enough for a bunch of kids to set up BBS's and have some fun. Especially if you knew the kids whose Dads worked for AT&T and were a local call to them!:)
By time the 2400 baud modems were on the market, $199 was a good price. *That* was a lot of paper route money. Don't even ask me about how many papers I delivered to pay for the 330MB ESDI drive.
Together with the giant American National Security Agency (NSA) and its Canadian, British, and New Zealand counterparts, DSD operates a network of giant, highly automated tracking stations that illicitly pick up commercial satellite communications and examine every fax, telex, e-mail, phone call, or computer data message that the satellites carry.... According to the former Canadian agent Mike Frost, it would be "nave" for Australians to think that the Americans were not exploiting stations like Kojarena for economic intelligence purposes. ""They have been doing it for years," he says. ""Now that the Cold War is over, the focus is towards economic intelligence. Never ever over-exaggerate the power that these organisations have to abuse a system such as Echelon. Don't think it can't happen in Australia. It does."
My, how much progress we've made in fifteen years...
That's exactly what the journalists he gave it to know, or are supposed to know.
Your average FoxNNBC reporter won't, but Greenwald is smart as hell about politics (I've been reading his blog for years and it always felt like the good kind of homework) plus he's teamed up with Poitras, Scahill and others who fit the same mold, and now he just got a quarter billion dollars to work with. Oh, and the people he's been writing about recently held his fiance hostage.
Let's just put it this way - the Snowden briefings in October 2014, right before the mid-term elections, are going to make your ears bleed. If an NSA apparatchik is up for a primary election in the Spring, expect some juicy ones then, too.
Remember, the NSA has enough information to blackmail almost everybody in the Westernized world (and then some).
So you're saying that Snowden is a plant and the leaks are intentional?
I think all he said was that there's much nastier stuff than what Snowden knows about. Perhaps the activities that the CIA engages in without any oversight or need to draw on appropriations for.
None of this will ever get straightened out until the Epsionage Act of 1917 get repealed. We'll make do without it, just like we did before it.
So, in the example I cite, you're actually supporting the idea that these people may only bushwhack through the forest (in 10' snowpack, some days), across private property, and their rights are not being violated.
Great point - Einstein may have had a genetic advantage, due to his larger than average parietal lobe and corpus collosum. What if his advanced brain made him worse at math? Or if may types of advanced brains (spatial, mathematical, artistic, etc.) are possible but mutually exclusive?
Or if his advanced brain had nothing to do with that but made him tenacious as hell and he just happened to find physics interesting?
Still, if this project finds no result, that's still good science, even if it won't be accepted into Nature.
I don't know how far one can track a GPS jamming signal, but the GPS signals themselves are very weak, so noising them out would not take very much signal.
unless you hold a phone at eye level with the road
That's why the texting-while-driving laws are so dangerous. People used to text with the phone on top of the steering wheel. Since the laws, they now text on their lap. Fatal crashes have increased and real scientific studies have shown the increased danger.
Lawmakers think "we can stop this behavior" despite all evidence to the contrary and just wind up making things worse.
Since it's obvious that these people would rather not be driving, I sure hope they're the first to buy cars with autopilots.
In fact there is no basic human right driving a motor vehicle on a public road, it is a privelege.
The Right to Travel is recognized by the UN Declaration of Human Rights as a fundamental human right. And they don't mean that you can bushwhack across private property - it's the common means of travel.
Otherwise you would not need a driving license.
Oh, yeah, governments would never infringe on human rights.
(there are some houses near me that are only accessible by Interstate - I guess those people could always just choose to starve or hire delivery people, maybe find a job that operates by mail, so their rights aren't infringed, right?)
Thereby displacing competition from local banks that would want to charge a higher interest rate - best to keep the big Western banking powers in charge through taxpayer subsidy.
If the map says Taiwan (ROC) is a nation, that will offend mainland China (PRC).
Apple could have used GeoIP to give the politically correct answer inside China... not sure if the great firewall is doing deep packet modification yet.
I don't think anybody outside China goes to China first when dealing with Taiwan.
This is not destroying the healthcare system - it is (potentially) destroying the health insurance industry. The two are different things.
You're probably right, but if they were creative enough this could be avoided. Being denied health insurance is a small risk out of a large group, so that's something that can be insured against. Follow that back and you find pregnant couples buying a tiny insurance policy for their newborns.
But that's largely a though exercise - most every creative use of insurance has already been banned by government or will be subsequently banned by "well-meaning" regulators. I have firsthand experience with that - my State regulated my family out of the health insurance market a few years ago. Grrr.
It's all well and good if you want to destroy insurance and have government take over those sectors of the economy.
I'm truly interested. He either called it and they ignored him, in which case he's not useful, or he didn't call it, in which case he's not useful.
I'm sure he costs less than a redundant engine for the F-35, but everybody who says that each of the thousands of useless programs don't need to be cut because they don't cost too much is ignoring the rest of those other thousands.
If he's as smart as the ethos contends, many think tanks would be glad to hire him on. I only hope I'm fortunate enough to be in such a position when I'm 92. Also cool that he was already 60 before he picked up his nickname - most career military are outta-there at that point.
I'm still using a NYC data center for my VoIP termination, because it's the lowest latency to me, but I'm also now prepared to move that termination to another PoP if a superstorm approaches NYC again. Though, frankly we got hit harder here by Irene than most people did by Sandy.
I was even thinking about it this summer - I've been told to expect ever-worsening hurricane seasons and this year was rather disappointing in that regard. I was quite glad to not have to deal with it, of course.
I'm not at all surprised that Apple or Nokia behave this way. But, my goodness, Lessig was on the FSF board and now he's using an Apple phone?
His comments would not be deleted from a Replicant mailing list or a xda-developers - they'd be dealt with by engineers (at least acknowledged/triaged). If that's the kind of experience he wants, he's using the wrong phone.
I couldn't quickly find a mAh rating on a watch spring. But perhaps we just need electronics that are efficient enough to use that sort of energy storage device.
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My first modem was 300 baud, and we liked it.
We actually did - my Total Telecommunications modem for the C=64 retailed for $20 (Taiwan) and it was enough for a bunch of kids to set up BBS's and have some fun. Especially if you knew the kids whose Dads worked for AT&T and were a local call to them! :)
By time the 2400 baud modems were on the market, $199 was a good price. *That* was a lot of paper route money. Don't even ask me about how many papers I delivered to pay for the 330MB ESDI drive.
I'd so much like to buy one of these, but I live in the hills where only Verizon has service. :(
I wonder if the Moto X Developer Edition will still be $700 after this release...
Good points - as long as there are a variety of trackers using different frequencies, the cat-and-mouse game is going to be hard to beat.
ob. link.
From the linked article there:
My, how much progress we've made in fifteen years...
That's exactly what the journalists he gave it to know, or are supposed to know.
Your average FoxNNBC reporter won't, but Greenwald is smart as hell about politics (I've been reading his blog for years and it always felt like the good kind of homework) plus he's teamed up with Poitras, Scahill and others who fit the same mold, and now he just got a quarter billion dollars to work with. Oh, and the people he's been writing about recently held his fiance hostage.
Let's just put it this way - the Snowden briefings in October 2014, right before the mid-term elections, are going to make your ears bleed. If an NSA apparatchik is up for a primary election in the Spring, expect some juicy ones then, too.
Remember, the NSA has enough information to blackmail almost everybody in the Westernized world (and then some).
So you're saying that Snowden is a plant and the leaks are intentional?
I think all he said was that there's much nastier stuff than what Snowden knows about. Perhaps the activities that the CIA engages in without any oversight or need to draw on appropriations for.
None of this will ever get straightened out until the Epsionage Act of 1917 get repealed. We'll make do without it, just like we did before it.
Well, you don't exactly have to use roads when you walk. That is what I meant by "in many places a car cannot".
yes, that's what I meant by if the only human right is to bushwhack through the forest across private property through 10' of snowpack.
I have my doubts the the authors had this in mind.
It's the most sure-fire way to make sure that the outcomes of elections don't really matter.
I was disappointed to not find any Frosty Cat Piss posts down at -1.
It would not allow you to fly a nuclear ramjet over a populated area; on a less hyperbolic scale
Which has nothing to do with the common means of conveyance in a population.
the government is permitted to restrict you to driving safely.
It is, and like other restrictions on rights, it may be taken only after a trial and due process, as specified by the Fifth Amendment.
Walking can get you everywhere a car can and in many places a car cannot.
Not if the only road to a place forbids pedestrian traffic.
You have a right to travel. By walking.
So, in the example I cite, you're actually supporting the idea that these people may only bushwhack through the forest (in 10' snowpack, some days), across private property, and their rights are not being violated.
This is how the State perpetuates its power.
It seems rather unlikely that you couldn't get to those places by foot.
Pedestrians aren't allowed on the Interstates, so you're back to bushwhacking.
But why would someone who can't drive even buy their house there?
The local road was seized for the Interstate project - the owners of the homes had no choice in the matter.
Are taxis unavailable in your area?
It's a fairly rural stretch of road. A taxi into town would probably cost $30 round-trip.
Usually people with such low user IDs make a bit more sense, but your post comes across more as trolling and/or lack of coffee.
Or perhaps you just aren't aware of the history and regulations regarding the Interstate system?
Great point - Einstein may have had a genetic advantage, due to his larger than average parietal lobe and corpus collosum. What if his advanced brain made him worse at math? Or if may types of advanced brains (spatial, mathematical, artistic, etc.) are possible but mutually exclusive?
Or if his advanced brain had nothing to do with that but made him tenacious as hell and he just happened to find physics interesting?
Still, if this project finds no result, that's still good science, even if it won't be accepted into Nature.
I don't know how far one can track a GPS jamming signal, but the GPS signals themselves are very weak, so noising them out would not take very much signal.
unless you hold a phone at eye level with the road
That's why the texting-while-driving laws are so dangerous. People used to text with the phone on top of the steering wheel. Since the laws, they now text on their lap. Fatal crashes have increased and real scientific studies have shown the increased danger.
Lawmakers think "we can stop this behavior" despite all evidence to the contrary and just wind up making things worse.
Since it's obvious that these people would rather not be driving, I sure hope they're the first to buy cars with autopilots.
In fact there is no basic human right driving a motor vehicle on a public road, it is a privelege.
The Right to Travel is recognized by the UN Declaration of Human Rights as a fundamental human right. And they don't mean that you can bushwhack across private property - it's the common means of travel.
Otherwise you would not need a driving license.
Oh, yeah, governments would never infringe on human rights.
(there are some houses near me that are only accessible by Interstate - I guess those people could always just choose to starve or hire delivery people, maybe find a job that operates by mail, so their rights aren't infringed, right?)
That would cause massive amounts of inflation not seen since the days of the Weimar Republic, but it would not be bankruptcy.
The inflation has already occurred (see the Lahey audit of the Fed); it's just being slowly recognized.
Thereby displacing competition from local banks that would want to charge a higher interest rate - best to keep the big Western banking powers in charge through taxpayer subsidy.
If the map says Taiwan (ROC) is a nation, that will offend mainland China (PRC).
Apple could have used GeoIP to give the politically correct answer inside China ... not sure if the great firewall is doing deep packet modification yet.
I don't think anybody outside China goes to China first when dealing with Taiwan.
This is not destroying the healthcare system - it is (potentially) destroying the health insurance industry. The two are different things.
You're probably right, but if they were creative enough this could be avoided. Being denied health insurance is a small risk out of a large group, so that's something that can be insured against. Follow that back and you find pregnant couples buying a tiny insurance policy for their newborns.
But that's largely a though exercise - most every creative use of insurance has already been banned by government or will be subsequently banned by "well-meaning" regulators. I have firsthand experience with that - my State regulated my family out of the health insurance market a few years ago. Grrr.
It's all well and good if you want to destroy insurance and have government take over those sectors of the economy.
I'm truly interested. He either called it and they ignored him, in which case he's not useful, or he didn't call it, in which case he's not useful.
I'm sure he costs less than a redundant engine for the F-35, but everybody who says that each of the thousands of useless programs don't need to be cut because they don't cost too much is ignoring the rest of those other thousands.
If he's as smart as the ethos contends, many think tanks would be glad to hire him on. I only hope I'm fortunate enough to be in such a position when I'm 92. Also cool that he was already 60 before he picked up his nickname - most career military are outta-there at that point.
I'm still using a NYC data center for my VoIP termination, because it's the lowest latency to me, but I'm also now prepared to move that termination to another PoP if a superstorm approaches NYC again. Though, frankly we got hit harder here by Irene than most people did by Sandy.
I was even thinking about it this summer - I've been told to expect ever-worsening hurricane seasons and this year was rather disappointing in that regard. I was quite glad to not have to deal with it, of course.
I'm not at all surprised that Apple or Nokia behave this way. But, my goodness, Lessig was on the FSF board and now he's using an Apple phone?
His comments would not be deleted from a Replicant mailing list or a xda-developers - they'd be dealt with by engineers (at least acknowledged/triaged). If that's the kind of experience he wants, he's using the wrong phone.
I couldn't quickly find a mAh rating on a watch spring. But perhaps we just need electronics that are efficient enough to use that sort of energy storage device.