Only your transmitters need to be cheap. If you can build a box and run it out to a few hundred antennas, the home-on-jam devices keep knocking out your antennas. At $500,000 each for an anti-jammer missile and $500 for an antenna and a bit of coax the numbers aren't good. Also keep in mind that some of the cheap spark gap transmitters work great for messing up some types of transmissions and Telsa had lots of cheap devices that will mess with a wide range of spectrum. The reason that the modern military jamers are so expensive is they only want to jam their enemys signals not their own. If your not using radio to such a high level you can just bust the whole spectrum.
Every time Rome was sacked it was by armys with lower tech weapons than what its defenders had.
America is tring to be the modern version of the old Roman Empire. After all thats what many of the founders had hoped for. Remember Rome didn't fall because it was defeated, it feel because it became a power hungry political back stabing cesspool.
That assumes they can. It took years to get cruise missles to work correctly and nearly a decade to retrofit GPS into them.
The way most countries will look at these is you have to take out the command and control system and to do that you nuke it or the communication sats. Waht this has done is just moved up the bar on the space weapons race.
Thats wat a GPS reciever does until it knows where it is and what sats it can find. It searches all the posabilities until it locks on to one sats signal and then starts downloading a list of what stats are up and where they are. Once it has that, it uses its last known position and tries to lock onto other stats. If that position is good, it can do it quickly otherwise it could take a good reciver nearly 15 minutes. The data messages from GPS sats are at something like 50 baud in the 1.2Ghz range but the signals are below the noise floor by the time they get to the front end of the reciver.
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It's called Amateur Radio.
Which is generally not open to experimentation, testing or demonstration of new methods and technologies.
If you don't like clearchannel, get a few thousand of your friends to all complain to the FCC that they aren't providing enough comunity service and ask that their license not be renewed. If the FCC gets a thousand complaints from anyone they have to act on it and even more so if the the letters are all CC:ed to the local Hose of Rep memeber.
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The optical transmitters are teh easy part. That bit has been solved to the rate of about 3.6petabites/second. The problem is the recivers can't do that (not to mention that 10baseT device you want to plug in).
Now that people are looking at optical as RF and not as visable light, some of the sensors technology that is in R&D labs right now is good for 25km in rain and fog in the gigabit range. Its still point to point but the research is going places and I expect the line of site radio links are going to be gone in 15 to 20 years.
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Has this guy seen how modern radios work? You start out with a binary signal. Then you find out where you modify your carrier on of say 64 different ways based on the next 4 bit patterns. (some of them aren't used as type of sanity check) Modern radios will do sevral bits per Hz while his charts are showing about 1 bit per 10Hz. Now back to thouse 64 different patterns when you only need 16. What happens when another radio steps on your signal? You get one of thouse other bits and your reciever decides not to accept that bit and hope your forward error correction copes with it. Some radios work by taking the signals and spliting them into 8 groups, inverting some of them ina pseudo random way and transmitting them either serialy or on silghtly different frequencies. The reciever at the other end can take all them at once do a bit of voting and then check aginst the ECC code to help get rid of th noise.
This all works well until you have too many transmitters in one are all talking at once. Think about hearing converstations in a loud bar. Its the smae problem but you tend to only hear the people near you or the very loud ones. You can't hold a conversioation at a moderate volume with someone far away. Human speech has much better noise imunity than most radio signals.
Has anyone else noticed that the ex-spook founded compaines are doing very very well right now?
We all know that George Sr was a spook and look at how well his buddies companies ('cept Enron) are doing. There are many net references that indicate that George Jr used to for on projects for Daddy.
There may not be a new wolrd order yet, but there are lots of happy and wealthy ex-spooks.
There data rate just happens to be the wholesale isdn data rate from the US. If you can find someone in the US has has a good deal with their teleco, they can call you 128k 24x7 for the same rate as you can connect to bigpond and transfer almost as much data.
Its the cost of getting data from over seas to Australia. Its the cost of getting the data from end of Sydney to the other. A 45mb link can be had from a term point in Australia to a reasonable termination point in the US for AU$66,000 per month including all the IP data it can carry. It cost about twice that to get Telsra to carry that much data one block. Since the landscape around where the links come in aren't great for microwave, you end up using fiber and even though a few others pretend to have it, its still mostly telstra's game.
Maybe Tyco's new cable will cuase the prices to drop again.
The one true brace style as defined by K&R puts the braces on the same line as the else and if statements since they control the flow and the braces are just there for grouping.
int foo(bar) {
if (something) { // code
} else { // more code
} }
Thats 8 spaces to the tab for older stuff and 4 for newer stuff.
Pulling Perl from the base package will limit the flexibility for many of the set up scripts but I can see where the size of Perl has gotten way out of hand. Maybe they should look at mini-perl (the one perl uses to configure its self) might be worth considering.
The R commands need to go away but I'm wondering if the best option is to fix them properly. The idea here is to put together a library (maybe a fork of getops) so that you can take most standard programs that use stdio and make r versions of them by linking to the proper library. This way things like rmt (remote mag tape) and its friends restore and dump would all still work in a modern enviroment. There is no current version of dump or restore that works the way old rmt versions do and most of us still like to do backups from time to time.
I've been using ChecFree's old DOS program under dosemu for a number of years. Its even is happy calling the old compuserve data network to transfer payments.
I've been using the program since about '92 or so and its quite happy except for a few stupid questions about thinking the date is set very far ahead and a few y2k sorting bugs.
I looked into the data format of the file and it looks very easy so if someone is looking at writing a program that talks to chcekfree, I might be able to dig up the code that decodes their packets. They build a small file and then xmodem it off to some connecion on the old CIS network so its not big on security but at least it works unlike my banks payment system (which uses some new shiny interface to the same backend and might just use the same CIS interface)
Wired did a story a while back about why sending people to mars with a 40 year supply of gear is cheaper than sending a return vehicle. Henry Spencer (of regex and usenet fame) was even willing to go along for the one way trip.
There is a nice graph of British naval tonage at the Greenwich museum. There was a major drop in 1812 but its not explained on the graph like ever other drop is. That war ended the UK's absolute rule of the sea. The US could have done major damge to some UK ports at that time but didn't have enough troops to even invade a pub at the time.
Don't forget that the US provided fuel and raw metals to the UK during the entire war. They only provided fuel and materials to Germany for part of it (except thouse nice IBM counting machines).
The US has been mass murdering civilians in Iraq for a number of years. Its all part of the modern warfare using economic means. So why do you expect thouse people to just sit there and take it? Would you? They fought back and their sting hurt.
If the cause was to screw over America, it looks like it worked. US liberties are at an all time low and heading even lower. Millions of Americans are still parnoid. The people involved with the 9/11 planning are all dead (by their own choice) or no where to be found.
One solution for this is for America to once again become an isolationist country. There is a reason that over 2 billion people on the planet don't like America and that is America's problem.
Its not useless. What if you run an oil business in Texas but need to increase the price of helium? Most of it still comes from gas and oil wells in Texas and the price has been going down for a long time. This is a stunt to get more cash and I think it will work quite well for someone.
The reality is there are too many musicians compared to the current market which is based on moving small plastic discs through stores.
Years ago it required quite a few people and lots of money to put together a record. Now anyone can put together something that has a good sound if they have talent.
I don't think the RIAA represents anywhere close to 90% of the artists out there. For example there are about 3000 bands in Melbourne Austraila that can put together an album per year (according to entries from a local radio station). If the US has as many bands/person there should be nearly 300,000 bands that produce at least one album per year. Consider that people like Bing Crosby made nearly 33 songs per year and popular bands tend to record 8 to 16 songs a year. So how do I get access to thouse 2.5 million songs that were recorded last year? Current album sales in the US are around 3/4 billion units per year but most of thouse are the top 40 albums.
Ifyou go ask everyone in jail that was busted by figerprints if they did the crime, you will find at least 10% that will say they didn't. Even if 99.99% of them are lying, that still leave many questions.
Unique figer prints may be like unique social security numbers. Everyone assumes they are unique but full inspection shows they aren't unique.
Since you bring up DNA... The DNA tests they use to put people in jail are typicaly the type were they sperate each of the chromosomes and effectively weigh them by finding how far up a filter paper they can climb up.
Back on the figreprint topic, If I have a database of fingerprint scan hashes, I should be able to use gimp to create fingerprints that have the same hash and then make a mold and its trival to fake being someone else.
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Only your transmitters need to be cheap. If you can build a box and run it out to a few hundred antennas, the home-on-jam devices keep knocking out your antennas. At $500,000 each for an anti-jammer missile and $500 for an antenna and a bit of coax the numbers aren't good. Also keep in mind that some of the cheap spark gap transmitters work great for messing up some types of transmissions and Telsa had lots of cheap devices that will mess with a wide range of spectrum. The reason that the modern military jamers are so expensive is they only want to jam their enemys signals not their own. If your not using radio to such a high level you can just bust the whole spectrum.
Every time Rome was sacked it was by armys with lower tech weapons than what its defenders had.
America is tring to be the modern version of the old Roman Empire. After all thats what many of the founders had hoped for. Remember Rome didn't fall because it was defeated, it feel because it became a power hungry political back stabing cesspool.
That assumes they can. It took years to get cruise missles to work correctly and nearly a decade to retrofit GPS into them.
The way most countries will look at these is you have to take out the command and control system and to do that you nuke it or the communication sats. Waht this has done is just moved up the bar on the space weapons race.
Thats wat a GPS reciever does until it knows where it is and what sats it can find. It searches all the posabilities until it locks on to one sats signal and then starts downloading a list of what stats are up and where they are. Once it has that, it uses its last known position and tries to lock onto other stats. If that position is good, it can do it quickly otherwise it could take a good reciver nearly 15 minutes. The data messages from GPS sats are at something like 50 baud in the 1.2Ghz range but the signals are below the noise floor by the time they get to the front end of the reciver.
It's called Amateur Radio.
Which is generally not open to experimentation, testing or demonstration of new methods and technologies.
If you don't like clearchannel, get a few thousand of your friends to all complain to the FCC that they aren't providing enough comunity service and ask that their license not be renewed. If the FCC gets a thousand complaints from anyone they have to act on it and even more so if the the letters are all CC:ed to the local Hose of Rep memeber.
The optical transmitters are teh easy part. That
bit has been solved to the rate of about 3.6petabites/second. The problem is the recivers can't do that (not to mention that 10baseT device you want to plug in).
Now that people are looking at optical as RF and not as visable light, some of the sensors technology that is in R&D labs right now is good for 25km in rain and fog in the gigabit range. Its still point to point but the research is going places and I expect the line of site radio links are going to be gone in 15 to 20 years.
Has this guy seen how modern radios work? You start out with a binary signal. Then you find out where you modify your carrier on of say 64 different ways based on the next 4 bit patterns. (some of them aren't used as type of sanity check)
Modern radios will do sevral bits per Hz while his charts are showing about 1 bit per 10Hz. Now back to thouse 64 different patterns when you only need 16. What happens when another radio steps on your signal? You get one of thouse other bits and your reciever decides not to accept that bit and hope your forward error correction copes with it. Some radios work by taking the signals and spliting them into 8 groups, inverting some of them ina pseudo random way and transmitting them either serialy or on silghtly different frequencies. The reciever at the other end can take all them at once do a bit of voting and then check aginst the ECC code to help get rid of th noise.
This all works well until you have too many transmitters in one are all talking at once. Think about hearing converstations in a loud bar. Its the smae problem but you tend to only hear the people near you or the very loud ones. You can't hold a conversioation at a moderate volume with someone far away. Human speech has much better noise imunity than most radio signals.
Network solutions was founded by ex CIA and NSA guys and then sold to SAIC which who's sr mangment are all exspooks.
Has anyone else noticed that the ex-spook founded compaines are doing very very well right now?
We all know that George Sr was a spook and look at how well his buddies companies ('cept Enron) are doing. There are many net references that indicate that George Jr used to for on projects for Daddy.
There may not be a new wolrd order yet, but there are lots of happy and wealthy ex-spooks.
There data rate just happens to be the wholesale isdn data rate from the US. If you can find someone in the US has has a good deal with their teleco, they can call you 128k 24x7 for the same rate as you can connect to bigpond and transfer almost as much data.
Its the cost of getting data from over seas to Australia. Its the cost of getting the data from end of Sydney to the other. A 45mb link can be had from a term point in Australia to a reasonable termination point in the US for AU$66,000 per month including all the IP data it can carry. It cost about twice that to get Telsra to carry that much data one block. Since the landscape around where the links come in aren't great for microwave, you end up using fiber and even though a few others pretend to have it, its still mostly telstra's game.
Maybe Tyco's new cable will cuase the prices to drop again.
In the days before Ansi C it was done like this:
int foo(bar)
int bar;
{
If you trade in 8 ps or n64 games you can get a new cube for AU$300 which is about US$150.
The one true brace style as defined by K&R puts the braces on the same line as the else and if statements since they control the flow and the braces are just there for grouping.
// code
// more code
int foo(bar)
{
if (something) {
} else {
}
}
Thats 8 spaces to the tab for older stuff and 4
for newer stuff.
Pulling Perl from the base package will limit the flexibility for many of the set up scripts but I can see where the size of Perl has gotten way out of hand. Maybe they should look at mini-perl (the one perl uses to configure its self) might be worth considering.
The R commands need to go away but I'm wondering if the best option is to fix them properly. The idea here is to put together a library (maybe a fork of getops) so that you can take most standard programs that use stdio and make r versions of them by linking to the proper library. This way things like rmt (remote mag tape) and its friends restore and dump would all still work in a modern enviroment. There is no current version of dump or restore that works the way old rmt versions do and most of us still like to do backups from time to time.
I've been using ChecFree's old DOS program under dosemu for a number of years. Its even is happy calling the old compuserve data network to transfer payments.
I've been using the program since about '92 or so and its quite happy except for a few stupid questions about thinking the date is set very far ahead and a few y2k sorting bugs.
I looked into the data format of the file and it looks very easy so if someone is looking at writing a program that talks to chcekfree, I might be able to dig up the code that decodes their packets. They build a small file and then xmodem it off to some connecion on the old CIS network so its not big on security but at least it works unlike my banks payment system (which uses some new shiny interface to the same backend and might just use the same CIS interface)
Wired did a story a while back about why sending people to mars with a 40 year supply of gear is cheaper than sending a return vehicle. Henry Spencer (of regex and usenet fame) was even willing to go along for the one way trip.
There is a nice graph of British naval tonage at the Greenwich museum. There was a major drop in 1812 but its not explained on the graph like ever other drop is. That war ended the UK's absolute rule of the sea. The US could have done major damge to some UK ports at that time but didn't have enough troops to even invade a pub at the time.
Don't forget that the US provided fuel and raw metals to the UK during the entire war. They only provided fuel and materials to Germany for part of it (except thouse nice IBM counting machines).
The US has been mass murdering civilians in Iraq for a number of years. Its all part of the modern warfare using economic means. So why do you expect thouse people to just sit there and take it? Would you? They fought back and their sting hurt.
If the cause was to screw over America, it looks like it worked. US liberties are at an all time low and heading even lower. Millions of Americans are still parnoid. The people involved with the 9/11 planning are all dead (by their own choice) or no where to be found.
One solution for this is for America to once again become an isolationist country. There is a reason that over 2 billion people on the planet don't like America and that is America's problem.
Its not useless. What if you run an oil business in Texas but need to increase the price of helium? Most of it still comes from gas and oil wells in Texas and the price has been going down for a long time. This is a stunt to get more cash and I think it will work quite well for someone.
The reality is there are too many musicians compared to the current market which is based on moving small plastic discs through stores.
Years ago it required quite a few people and lots of money to put together a record. Now anyone can put together something that has a good sound if they have talent.
I don't think the RIAA represents anywhere close to 90% of the artists out there. For example there are about 3000 bands in Melbourne Austraila that can put together an album per year (according to entries from a local radio station). If the US has as many bands/person there should be nearly 300,000 bands that produce at least one album per year. Consider that people like Bing Crosby made nearly 33 songs per year and popular bands tend to record 8 to 16 songs a year. So how do I get access to thouse 2.5 million songs that were recorded last year? Current album sales in the US are around 3/4 billion units per year but most of thouse are the top 40 albums.
Ifyou go ask everyone in jail that was busted by figerprints if they did the crime, you will find at least 10% that will say they didn't. Even if 99.99% of them are lying, that still leave many questions.
Unique figer prints may be like unique social security numbers. Everyone assumes they are unique but full inspection shows they aren't unique.
Since you bring up DNA...
The DNA tests they use to put people in jail are typicaly the type were they sperate each of the chromosomes and effectively weigh them by finding how far up a filter paper they can climb up.
Back on the figreprint topic,
If I have a database of fingerprint scan hashes, I should be able to use gimp to create fingerprints that have the same hash and then make a mold and its trival to fake being someone else.
You can't use a flashlight. However an IR light will work and may trick the life finger detector as well.