Actually I heard Kevin Mitnik, talking on Emmanuel Goldstein's show, Off The Hook, about how it is very easy to spoof caller ID and tracking by hacking a PBX. Download the october 16th show it is described. According to them they can make any number appear as the origin, and it is nearly impossible to track, since the pbx itself is responsible for logging the call.
"Could Jesus Microwave a burrito so hot, that he himself could not eat it."HS
admittedly it is far more rare, but I do get telemarketers calling my cell phone. My guess is that most telemarketers aviod cell exchanges when programming auto dialers. My regular phone, which I pretty much only use for sending faxes, recieves about ten telemarketer calls a day. Despite asking all of them to take me off their lists, which I thought they are legally bound to do.
Airphones have largely been very successful. They aren't quite as expensive as people here have said. However Airlines care most about business passengers, and letting them continue cell phone use would make flying that much more convenient for them. Technically there is no reason why current cell phones don'ty work on planes. Interferring with flight electronics is not a big problem. Frequencies are far enough enough apart that they won't clash with communications, and frankly if other avionics were fickle enough to have problems with cell phones, we would have planes dropping from the sky. Only the fact that Planes fly at 30,000 feet pretty far from the towers, and cross multiple towers simultaneously cause problems. The end result is that QOS is far from guaranteed. This technology likely works by placing a tower or active repeater within the plane. By being the closest tower the plane will grab all the traffic. I am not sure if they will try and extract a roaming charge for this, or if they believe this will increase ticket sales enough to cover the service. Personally I usually keep my phone on and on vibate all the time. I have recieved calls (I have never actually answered though) and generally get a signal when I fly, which is often. This will certainly be a boon on the short Boston New York Washington Florida, East corridor flights that business people crowd.
As for the rudeness of people talking talking on cell-phones, well there is nothing that we can do. Get used to it. I do think that stewardesses should force people to put their phones on vibrate, frankly I never use my ringer anyway.
With all the streaming babies, annoying rugrats, fat people, drunks, smelly people, people with tons of carryons and jerks who kick seats, someone talking on a cell-phone doesn't seem so bad.
Given that it is a University project, any eventual commercial product will send much of its profits to Oxford or the UK government. Which doesn't all that bad.
Do you have any idea how fucking complicated a nuclear reactor is. And how fucking important it is that nothing major goes wrong. You need a guy with an engineering degree to run one. It is pretty conceited to say somehow he is any less of an engineer than say the guy who designed your power steering pump in your car.
Like the guy above said there are separate frequencies for land and air models. 75 and 78 mhz respectively. With 27mhz reserved for toy radio control models, like those sold at toys-r-us. In addition the frequencies are segmented into channels, (I think 100 now, they changed things in 91) model airplane and boat clubs use boards which list the frequencies everyone is on. Generally things work out, at my club most of us pick a certain channel and the other guys do the same. Still, I keep a second set of crystals in my field box.
Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it? HS
This my first slashdot troll. but i must say Battlebots sucked. It didn't fit on CC either. Frankly, I thought fighting robots would be very cool, unfortunately in reality with BB and the RW's it is very boring.
Maybe they can bring back Stranger's with Candy now? That was funny, battlebots is not (or even fun to watch) the show can go to tech tv or something, where it won't detract from worthwhile programming.
I do feel for you, but after I read your woes one thing sticks out. I went thru the same things, just with smaller crooked companies. You were several thousand dollars in debt when the end happened. You had no savings whatsoever. Your salary was 67,500 a year, you should have saved some of it. After I elected to quit rather than get a salary cut in august 2001, I had some money put away. I lived in Manhatten and made about the same money as you did, so my rent and lifestyle were a least as much as yours.
I don't mean to sound like an asshole, but me and many of my friends left school for dot-coms and went through the same crash. I personally saved a little over $7,000, which was enough to move and start up school again. Everyone who thought that the boom would never end and was out buying $40,000 dollar cars is in deep shit.
Sorry Evro, but you made your own bed. You took a big risk and lost, you should have been prepared for that eventuality.
You are missing the point of the whole exercise. I was involved in the construction of solar boat in college, (only the big schools can afford car programs now) Solar and electric etc car programs, develop alot of new technologies that enter the maintstream. Lightweight construction techniques and new motor technologies help industry as whole. Solar cells themselves get field tested under stressful conditions. Although solar cars will never be sold to consumers, things that look like them will. Cheap molded composite aerodynamic autos, powered by incredibly efficient gas or hybrid engines (130 mpg or so) are necessary to get the 3rd world on wheels.
Right now we are seeing solar panels on some cars to power small vent fans and tickle charge batteries.
Kit cars and classic cars are insured and registered differently than normal cars. This car would be considered a Kit-car, hence as long as the car it is based on is legal it is legal. Only basic requirements need to be met for registration, one mirror, seatbelts (actually only for post 1967 cars), most retain emissions controls for the era of the chassis, license plates, lights etc.
As for insurance, as the owner of several classic cars, insurance for something like this is cheap and easy to get. Insurance for something like this, or almost any classic custom or kit car, is based on the logic that they are driven very little and owners are very careful with thier babys. Generally you are forbidden to drive more than 5000 miles a year. For instance this 1994 built Cobra has only racked up 4000 miles total. So the likelyhood of an insurance payout is very small. My insurance rates on my 1967 Austin Healy 3000, without seatbelts or bumpers, run about 150 dollars a year.
Actually it wasn't MIT but Brown University. The did it on the side of the library building, by putting chrismas light behinf the windows. It was put by these guys, Techhouse Here is the official site.
Back when it was running I was a URI student, so I lived in the neigborhood. They were very nice guys and even let me play for a little while.
Something tells me they don't keep it in the office safe. Most of it would be invested in short term easily convertable assets. (bank accounts, T-bills)
Should be reasonably safe from attack. Given the expected remote location, a small Naval base could easily secure the airspace and seaspace for many miles around. A no-fly zone would be enforced to prevent accidental air collisions. Anyway there is very little flight traffic in those regions.
A bomb might be a greater threat, but cargo security will be tight. Any device will probably have to be shipped or flown a least a thousand miles just to get there so it is unlikely anything would make it. My guess is that passenger(consumer ) travel isn't going to happen for a long time. Probly not until a third or fourth elevator is built.
Still the idea was much cooler in Arthur C. Clark's 2061. He uses the diamond core that exploded from Jupiter when it became a star in 2010, as the building material.
Why can't these stations stream off an offshore host. To me that appears to be an easy solution to give an FU to the RIAA. I'm not saying that they still couldn't shut people down, but it might be much harder.
The FAA released this to the Associated press, I don't think they care about a flood of traffic. Actually webcams are far less useful than detailed weather reports from weather stations, as the national weather service provides.
I used to use webcams to check the surf in the morning. here
I fully agree, every small business seems to use Quickbooks. It is very well written and makes running a business much easier. Invoicing and general accounting are much easier with quickboooks, in the small business world.
I'm gonna lose some karma for this, but I don't think most geeks are hung enough to need this. Who's gonna notice the excited geek sitting in class. If a geek is big than hell he should be proud and it might be the only way that some girls notice him.
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Actually I heard Kevin Mitnik, talking on Emmanuel Goldstein's show, Off The Hook, about how it is very easy to spoof caller ID and tracking by hacking a PBX. Download the october 16th show it is described. According to them they can make any number appear as the origin, and it is nearly impossible to track, since the pbx itself is responsible for logging the call.
"Could Jesus Microwave a burrito so hot, that he himself could not eat it."HS
admittedly it is far more rare, but I do get telemarketers calling my cell phone. My guess is that most telemarketers aviod cell exchanges when programming auto dialers. My regular phone, which I pretty much only use for sending faxes, recieves about ten telemarketer calls a day. Despite asking all of them to take me off their lists, which I thought they are legally bound to do.
End of rant....
Drunks I'm usually Ok with, but there is nothing worse then being squashed against the side of a plane by a fat person sitting next to me.
Airphones have largely been very successful. They aren't quite as expensive as people here have said. However Airlines care most about business passengers, and letting them continue cell phone use would make flying that much more convenient for them. Technically there is no reason why current cell phones don'ty work on planes. Interferring with flight electronics is not a big problem. Frequencies are far enough enough apart that they won't clash with communications, and frankly if other avionics were fickle enough to have problems with cell phones, we would have planes dropping from the sky. Only the fact that Planes fly at 30,000 feet pretty far from the towers, and cross multiple towers simultaneously cause problems. The end result is that QOS is far from guaranteed. This technology likely works by placing a tower or active repeater within the plane. By being the closest tower the plane will grab all the traffic. I am not sure if they will try and extract a roaming charge for this, or if they believe this will increase ticket sales enough to cover the service. Personally I usually keep my phone on and on vibate all the time. I have recieved calls (I have never actually answered though) and generally get a signal when I fly, which is often. This will certainly be a boon on the short Boston New York Washington Florida, East corridor flights that business people crowd.
As for the rudeness of people talking talking on cell-phones, well there is nothing that we can do. Get used to it. I do think that stewardesses should force people to put their phones on vibrate, frankly I never use my ringer anyway.
With all the streaming babies, annoying rugrats, fat people, drunks, smelly people, people with tons of carryons and jerks who kick seats, someone talking on a cell-phone doesn't seem so bad.
Now you can literally watch windows crash
Given that it is a University project, any eventual commercial product will send much of its profits to Oxford or the UK government. Which doesn't all that bad.
My '99 Caddilac STS can sure as hell hit 150, I've done it many times between here and NYC.
Can I mod this guy as Fucking Nuts...
but carry 8 passengers as well?
Just the thing to get the rugrats to soccer practice.
Do you have any idea how fucking complicated a nuclear reactor is. And how fucking important it is that nothing major goes wrong. You need a guy with an engineering degree to run one. It is pretty conceited to say somehow he is any less of an engineer than say the guy who designed your power steering pump in your car.
Like the guy above said there are separate frequencies for land and air models. 75 and 78 mhz respectively. With 27mhz reserved for toy radio control models, like those sold at toys-r-us. In addition the frequencies are segmented into channels, (I think 100 now, they changed things in 91) model airplane and boat clubs use boards which list the frequencies everyone is on. Generally things work out, at my club most of us pick a certain channel and the other guys do the same. Still, I keep a second set of crystals in my field box.
Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it? HS
The state, was awesome. The bit where they hunt and eat muppets was the funniest thing I ever saw.
I'm gonna dip my balls in it.
This my first slashdot troll. but i must say Battlebots sucked. It didn't fit on CC either. Frankly, I thought fighting robots would be very cool, unfortunately in reality with BB and the RW's it is very boring. Maybe they can bring back Stranger's with Candy now? That was funny, battlebots is not (or even fun to watch) the show can go to tech tv or something, where it won't detract from worthwhile programming.
I do feel for you, but after I read your woes one thing sticks out. I went thru the same things, just with smaller crooked companies. You were several thousand dollars in debt when the end happened. You had no savings whatsoever. Your salary was 67,500 a year, you should have saved some of it. After I elected to quit rather than get a salary cut in august 2001, I had some money put away. I lived in Manhatten and made about the same money as you did, so my rent and lifestyle were a least as much as yours.
I don't mean to sound like an asshole, but me and many of my friends left school for dot-coms and went through the same crash. I personally saved a little over $7,000, which was enough to move and start up school again. Everyone who thought that the boom would never end and was out buying $40,000 dollar cars is in deep shit.
Sorry Evro, but you made your own bed. You took a big risk and lost, you should have been prepared for that eventuality.
You are missing the point of the whole exercise. I was involved in the construction of solar boat in college, (only the big schools can afford car programs now) Solar and electric etc car programs, develop alot of new technologies that enter the maintstream. Lightweight construction techniques and new motor technologies help industry as whole. Solar cells themselves get field tested under stressful conditions. Although solar cars will never be sold to consumers, things that look like them will. Cheap molded composite aerodynamic autos, powered by incredibly efficient gas or hybrid engines (130 mpg or so) are necessary to get the 3rd world on wheels.
Right now we are seeing solar panels on some cars to power small vent fans and tickle charge batteries.
Kit cars and classic cars are insured and registered differently than normal cars. This car would be considered a Kit-car, hence as long as the car it is based on is legal it is legal. Only basic requirements need to be met for registration, one mirror, seatbelts (actually only for post 1967 cars), most retain emissions controls for the era of the chassis, license plates, lights etc.
As for insurance, as the owner of several classic cars, insurance for something like this is cheap and easy to get. Insurance for something like this, or almost any classic custom or kit car, is based on the logic that they are driven very little and owners are very careful with thier babys. Generally you are forbidden to drive more than 5000 miles a year. For instance this 1994 built Cobra has only racked up 4000 miles total. So the likelyhood of an insurance payout is very small. My insurance rates on my 1967 Austin Healy 3000, without seatbelts or bumpers, run about 150 dollars a year.
I do drive it, though. Maybe 700 miles a year.
Actually it wasn't MIT but Brown University. The did it on the side of the library building, by putting chrismas light behinf the windows. It was put by these guys, Techhouse Here is the official site.
Back when it was running I was a URI student, so I lived in the neigborhood. They were very nice guys and even let me play for a little while.
Something tells me they don't keep it in the office safe. Most of it would be invested in short term easily convertable assets. (bank accounts, T-bills)
Should be reasonably safe from attack. Given the expected remote location, a small Naval base could easily secure the airspace and seaspace for many miles around. A no-fly zone would be enforced to prevent accidental air collisions. Anyway there is very little flight traffic in those regions.
A bomb might be a greater threat, but cargo security will be tight. Any device will probably have to be shipped or flown a least a thousand miles just to get there so it is unlikely anything would make it. My guess is that passenger(consumer ) travel isn't going to happen for a long time. Probly not until a third or fourth elevator is built.
Still the idea was much cooler in Arthur C. Clark's 2061. He uses the diamond core that exploded from Jupiter when it became a star in 2010, as the building material.
I'd sacrifice my ex-girlfriend
Hell I would sacrifice my current girlfriend.
Cool.. how does it do that? Please tell me, or provide a link.
Why can't these stations stream off an offshore host. To me that appears to be an easy solution to give an FU to the RIAA. I'm not saying that they still couldn't shut people down, but it might be much harder.
Or maybe Peercast will save the day.
The FAA released this to the Associated press, I don't think they care about a flood of traffic. Actually webcams are far less useful than detailed weather reports from weather stations, as the national weather service provides.
I used to use webcams to check the surf in the morning. here
I fully agree, every small business seems to use Quickbooks. It is very well written and makes running a business much easier. Invoicing and general accounting are much easier with quickboooks, in the small business world.
Still 100,000 euro is dirt cheap, even for poor Redhat. If redhat gets a few big support clients for shops running it, it will pay for itself.
I'm gonna lose some karma for this, but I don't think most geeks are hung enough to need this. Who's gonna notice the excited geek sitting in class. If a geek is big than hell he should be proud and it might be the only way that some girls notice him.