I've got 800bip nine-track tapes from a PDP-10 system from 1969. They're still readable on an HP 88780A SCSI tape drive. There are text files from 1968. The text is all in ASCII, though it's the 1963 standard, which has up-arrow and left-arrow in place of caret and underscore of the 1967 and later standards.
Having tried Sense on the EVO, and stock Android 2.1 and 2.2 on the Nexus One, I *much* prefer stock Android. HTC, how about giving us an option to completely disable Sense, without having to install third-party firmware builds? On the EVO you can sort of partially disable Sense, but apparently on many other HTC phones you can't even do that.
They only give the source to paying customers. But do they prevent those paying customers from redistributing the source? If not, then it really is open source. Nothing about open source requires that owner of the code give it out to everyone, but if there are restrictions on redistribution, it's not open source.
If the D-STAR transmissions are not intentionally obfuscated, then the parties responsible for manufacturing the D-STAR equipment should be perfectly willing to explain to me how I can decode the transmissions, in sufficient detail that I could myself decode the transmissions. Since they are unwilling to explain that information, it is obvious that the transmissions are in fact obfuscated.
The fact that they will happily sell equipment to decode the transmissions does NOT negate the fact that the transmissions are obfuscated.
Some of us licensed hams think that allowing a proprietary protocol/codec on the amateur bands is a crock of shit. Where's the petition to praise the decision? (I'm licensed, but I'm not in the EU.)
In the US, I would argue that using D-Star on amateur radio is already illegal, under Title 47 part 97(a)(4). Since the codec is proprietary, and documentation on the encoded format is not available, the use of the code is clearly an attempt to obscure the meaning of the communication from anyone that doesn't buy D-Star equipment that contains the proprietary codec.
I recently wanted a battery monitor app, and I was appalled that most of the apps in the store wanted access to my location, email, text messages, etc. Obviously there's no reason why a battery monitor app needs any of this.
At least Android warns you about that before you install the app; on the iPhone the only warning you ever get is about location. Given how many of these apps seem to have good ratings, I guess most people just don't care.
I tried one battery monitor app that did not present privacy warnings, and it basically worked, but it sucked the battery flat in less than an hour. Apparently it was written to run continuously, rather than periodically. I guess for now you don't get a good battery monitor without giving up your privacy.
The security warnings would be much better if instead of just being warnings, the user had the option to install the app but deny it access to the things you don't want it to use (the way location works on the iPhone).
Based on the specs of the closest off-the-shelf laser from Nichia (probably the same laser die in a different package), it appears that the lowest achievable output will be somewhere between 150 and 300mW, still too high to be used safely as a laser pointer. Nichia makes a 455 nm diode that can run at 5-10 mW, but it costs $3000.
You're apparently looking at the wrong one. The 1W blue for $198 is the Spider III Pro Arctic. It's the headline item on their top page, and is listed under "Blue Lasers" under "2010 Pro Series" in the left pane.
though I'm rather skeptical that they'll really be able to deliver what they've promised.
If they really do, the first thing I'll want to do is take it apart and change the current limiting, to get it down to 5mW, so that it can be used safely as a laser pointer.
I don't need a 1W blue laser, but I haven't found any 5mW blue lasers for under $200.
Yes, and I'm certain that drug kingpins would buy the cellphone with their own, entirely legitimate photo ID.
Contrary to what the Senators are saying, this bill has NOTHING to do with catching drug kingpins, and everything to do with advancing the surveillance state.
If the government tells an airline that they are not to let me fly, and threatens the airline with revocation or non-renewal of licenses needed to operate, then yes, they are forbidding me to fly. The fact that an intermediate party (the airline) is involved doesn't alter that.
Aside from violating my (unenumerated) right to travel by air, it violates the Privileges and Immunities clause. That they add names to the NFL arbitrarily with no legal process and that there is no provided means of getting my name removed from the NFL violates the Due Process clause.
The government has absolutely NO rights whatsoever. The rights belong to the people. The people have granted the government limited powers to impose restrictions on the people's rights. The government routinely exceeds the limitations of those powers, and one of the functions of the courts is to provide a means for the people to attempt to rein in such abuses.
Of course the government does things all the time that they don't actually have the power to do. That's no surprise. Thanks to the Constitution (as amended), we have legal recourse, and can at least attempt to rein in the worst excesses.
The Supreme Court isn't always willing to let them get away with everything on the basis of the interstate commerce clause. U.S. v Lopez 514 U.S. 549 (1995) is an example of the court recognizing that a broad interpretation of the interstate commerce clause would effectively remove all limitations on government power.
Although not marketed for open-source use the way the Linksys WRT54GL was, the DLink DIR-825 rev B seems like a great choice. It is supported by many of the third-party firmware distributions (I use OpenWRT), has an Atheros MIPS-based CPU that runs at 680 MHz, simultaneous dual-band Atheros WiFi which has good open source support (no binary blob driver needed), detachable antennas, gigabit ethernet, and isn't too expensive.
Much though it pains me (as a former Ubicom employee) to say it, I would recommend avoiding the earlier DIR-825 rev A which uses a Ubicom processor. Although Ubicom now offers some kind of Linux SDK, as far as I know there is currently no third-party firmware that will run on the DIR-825 rev A. The hardware revision is on the label of the package, and also the rev A and rev B look somewhat different, so if you buy a DIR-825 at retail you can easily ensure that you get the rev B. I suspect that most of the major online retailers probably have exhausted their inventory of rev A by now.
Sorry, but there most certainly *IS* a right to travel by air. It is one of the unenumerated rights, protected by the Ninth Amendment:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The government can only deny us this right if they have a power to do so, granted to the government by the people, by means of the Constitution. I am not presently able to find the section of the Constitution that gives the government the power to deny the people the right to travel by any particular means.
Note that the right to air travel does not compel any other party to help me to exercise this right. I can't demand that United give me a ticket; the right simply guarantees that I can negotiate a contract with United to pay them to transport me, or to purchase (or build) and fly my own plane. If the government wants to deny me that right, they have to have a specific power to do so. The government does not have the power to arbitrarily deny rights just because it suits their purposes to do so. That is a key difference between the US government and most governments of the past (and even many of the present).
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That would be way beyond "epic". I'm not sure that a suitable adjective for that level of fail has even been invented.
I've got 800bip nine-track tapes from a PDP-10 system from 1969. They're still readable on an HP 88780A SCSI tape drive. There are text files from 1968. The text is all in ASCII, though it's the 1963 standard, which has up-arrow and left-arrow in place of caret and underscore of the 1967 and later standards.
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Having tried Sense on the EVO, and stock Android 2.1 and 2.2 on the Nexus One, I *much* prefer stock Android. HTC, how about giving us an option to completely disable Sense, without having to install third-party firmware builds? On the EVO you can sort of partially disable Sense, but apparently on many other HTC phones you can't even do that.
They only give the source to paying customers. But do they prevent those paying customers from redistributing the source? If not, then it really is open source. Nothing about open source requires that owner of the code give it out to everyone, but if there are restrictions on redistribution, it's not open source.
The fact that they will happily sell equipment to decode the transmissions does NOT negate the fact that the transmissions are obfuscated.
Yes, I was only claiming that the D-STAR voice modes are (in my opinion) in violation of the FCC regs.
Sorry, that's Part 97.113(a)(4).
In the US, I would argue that using D-Star on amateur radio is already illegal, under Title 47 part 97(a)(4). Since the codec is proprietary, and documentation on the encoded format is not available, the use of the code is clearly an attempt to obscure the meaning of the communication from anyone that doesn't buy D-Star equipment that contains the proprietary codec.
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You still get stuff in and out through the display and buttons. Best to leave it turned off; then it is fairly secure.
At least Android warns you about that before you install the app; on the iPhone the only warning you ever get is about location. Given how many of these apps seem to have good ratings, I guess most people just don't care.
I tried one battery monitor app that did not present privacy warnings, and it basically worked, but it sucked the battery flat in less than an hour. Apparently it was written to run continuously, rather than periodically. I guess for now you don't get a good battery monitor without giving up your privacy.
The security warnings would be much better if instead of just being warnings, the user had the option to install the app but deny it access to the things you don't want it to use (the way location works on the iPhone).
Based on the specs of the closest off-the-shelf laser from Nichia (probably the same laser die in a different package), it appears that the lowest achievable output will be somewhere between 150 and 300mW, still too high to be used safely as a laser pointer. Nichia makes a 455 nm diode that can run at 5-10 mW, but it costs $3000.
You're apparently looking at the wrong one. The 1W blue for $198 is the Spider III Pro Arctic. It's the headline item on their top page, and is listed under "Blue Lasers" under "2010 Pro Series" in the left pane.
If they really do, the first thing I'll want to do is take it apart and change the current limiting, to get it down to 5mW, so that it can be used safely as a laser pointer.
I don't need a 1W blue laser, but I haven't found any 5mW blue lasers for under $200.
Contrary to what the Senators are saying, this bill has NOTHING to do with catching drug kingpins, and everything to do with advancing the surveillance state.
"Any sufficiently optimistic statement is indistinguishable from sarcasm."
Aside from violating my (unenumerated) right to travel by air, it violates the Privileges and Immunities clause. That they add names to the NFL arbitrarily with no legal process and that there is no provided means of getting my name removed from the NFL violates the Due Process clause.
The government has absolutely NO rights whatsoever. The rights belong to the people. The people have granted the government limited powers to impose restrictions on the people's rights. The government routinely exceeds the limitations of those powers, and one of the functions of the courts is to provide a means for the people to attempt to rein in such abuses.
The Supreme Court isn't always willing to let them get away with everything on the basis of the interstate commerce clause. U.S. v Lopez 514 U.S. 549 (1995) is an example of the court recognizing that a broad interpretation of the interstate commerce clause would effectively remove all limitations on government power.
Much though it pains me (as a former Ubicom employee) to say it, I would recommend avoiding the earlier DIR-825 rev A which uses a Ubicom processor. Although Ubicom now offers some kind of Linux SDK, as far as I know there is currently no third-party firmware that will run on the DIR-825 rev A. The hardware revision is on the label of the package, and also the rev A and rev B look somewhat different, so if you buy a DIR-825 at retail you can easily ensure that you get the rev B. I suspect that most of the major online retailers probably have exhausted their inventory of rev A by now.
The government can only deny us this right if they have a power to do so, granted to the government by the people, by means of the Constitution. I am not presently able to find the section of the Constitution that gives the government the power to deny the people the right to travel by any particular means.
Note that the right to air travel does not compel any other party to help me to exercise this right. I can't demand that United give me a ticket; the right simply guarantees that I can negotiate a contract with United to pay them to transport me, or to purchase (or build) and fly my own plane. If the government wants to deny me that right, they have to have a specific power to do so. The government does not have the power to arbitrarily deny rights just because it suits their purposes to do so. That is a key difference between the US government and most governments of the past (and even many of the present).
That's "sprawling urban charm". There isn't any suburban charm to be found anywhere near here.
The "isolated from our reality" part of the quote sums it up quite nicely.
Sure, at first.
Just like how your census form won't be used inappropriately, except maybe to round up japanese-americans and put them in internment camps.
And Java 7 is actually going to be released some day?
unless you don't mind having a "heart attack" or "farming accident".