The Goodyear Blimps pick up bullet holes once in a while. No, they don't fly around in circles going PPPHHHFFFFFFFFTTT!!! because the gas pressure is quite low; the support crews notice it when the rate at which they're replenishing helium goes up slightly.
Goodyear has been operating blimps since 1925 for aerial advertising and filming. The three operating in the States were all built by Goodyear. There are four overseas, including one in Australia that was used to film the Sydney Olympics. That one might have been purchased locally, but I doubt it; Goodyear is quite proud of the blimps it's been making all these years.
Goodyear has never made a serious business of selling blimp rides, although lease arrangements in certain venues sometimes force them to offer a few.
You're describing the distinction between primary and secondary radar. Yes, they're separate systems, but they're both radars. One operates on reflected pulses ("skin painting"), the other on transponded pulses, but they both get their bearing information from the pointing direction of the antenna and their range information from the out-and-return travel time of the pulses. The only difference is that the secondary radar gets information that is furnished by the airborne installation: identification ("squawk code", including emergency and hijack notifications) and pressure altitude.
Think of a more efficient microwave oven. If it can scatter radar signals, it might just be a better coating for the inside of microwave ovens.
Antiradar paint does not scatter RF radiation. It absorbs it. If you coated the inside of a microwave oven with that stuff, it would (a) reduce the energy arriving at the food, and (b) heat up the walls of the oven, making your enchilada taste like burned paint.
You want the walls of the oven to reflect, not absorb.
The transponders are in the airplanes, not on the airports. They help the airport's radar to see airplanes.
A transponder is a combination of a receiver and a transmitter that receives the pulses from a radar; generates a train of pulses that encode the identification and altitude of the airplane; and transmits them back to the radar. That way the guy sitting at the radar not only sees the airplane more easily, but knows which airplane it is and how high.
Ummm, no. His estate is all the assets he owned, excluding certain items like property held in joint tenancy. It acts like an artificial person with most of the same legal rights and responsibilities he had in his lifetime. It may owe money and it may be owed money. It can sue and it can be sued. Its assets will eventually be distributed to various people, corporations and other entities in accordance with a large body of law. Once the estate has paid off the doctors and hospital that attended to his last illness, and the lawyers who probate the will, and his credit card bills and other loans, and quite a few other things, the executor (who may or may not be one of "those he left behind") will be permitted to distribute what's left in accordance with his will (or with still more laws if he didn't leave one).
Of course, if somebody "leaves you behind" and you want to be responsible for whatever he owed, that's your business.
His worldly possessions, including his accounts and passwords, belong to those he left behind.
They belong to his estate until such time as his property has been distributed to his heirs and the estate dissolved. Welcome to the world of laws and courts, and ignore them at your peril.
If you are the next of kin and heir to the deceased estate, the accounts are now yours, the computer is yours and all information there in is yours.
Not nearly that simple. Those assets will become your property after you've jumped through some hoops. The process of determining who is the heir is complicated when there is a will, and a flat-out clusterfuck when there isn't.
In a case where the information in the computer may bear on legal proceedings, as I mention in another post, the probate judge can authorize access to the computer to a qualified person who can analyze it in the capacity of an expert witness, with his fee paid by the estate. He will be responsible for recovering and preserving any legal evidence he finds.
...when someone is killed in action or dies in any other manner while away from home, his personal effects are examined by an officer before being sent to the next of kin. The official purpose of this, and the legal justification for it, is to recover whatever government property the decedent had issued to him -- but the officer, in a totally off-the-books manner, also removes the things his survivors wouldn't want to get back. And in an overseas military environment, there are lots of those.
I'd suggest something similar. Ask the probate judge to release the computers to a designated consultant, maybe a family friend, who has the technical chops to bypass the passwords (which, as others mention here, is not that big a job) and whose judgment they trust to preserve the decedent's privacy while he digs out anything that might help them.
Two- and even three-skip meteors are not uncommon, although as you say they normally burn in. The OP does not contradict that, because he lost sight of it at the horizon; it very likely burned in after that.
The 1972 object was a one-skipper. It was very big, which means it got through the skip without losing enough velocity to bend its path down for another skip, so it went on its merry way back to space...a good thing, because if it had hit near a major city it would have been a Hiroshima-scale disaster.
Likewise any high-speed aircraft. The temperature of a gas is simply a statistical measure of how fast its molecules are moving when they impact an object. Right now, you're sitting in the midst of lots and lots of N2 and O2 molecules that are bouncing around in the disordered manner that we call Brownian motion. Every time one of them hits you, it transfers a tiny amount of energy into the cell it hits. Turn up your thermostat and they'll bounce around faster; your skin will sense that it's being pounded on harder by those molecules, and you'll say it's getting hot. A thermometer will respond in exactly the same way.
Now get yourself moving very fast, and any molecules that hit the front side of your body will have an ordered component of velocity added to the statistical disordered component you've been experiencing, and they'll hit you harder. Likewise, the ones hitting you from behind will hit less hard. You'll feel hotter in front and cooler on your butt. You haven't noticed it, because you've never been in enough wind to make a significant difference, but high-speed airplanes are a different story.
Pressure is a related but different issue: it depends on the mass of the molecules and the frequency of impacts, in addition to the velocity. Friction is not an issue; the molecules heat the surface by bouncing off it, not by rubbing along it.
If you get the chance, watch a Shuttle landing on one of the NASA feeds that shows the view from an infrared camera that gives a black-and-white image with brightness representing the temperatures. You'll see the nose and leading edges glowing white from the reentry heating: that's particle impacts at work. Then as it touches down, you'll see the tires light up like spotlights; that's friction at work.
From your spelling I gather you're in Rightpondia and I don't know what you have that corresponds to our DMCA. But over here on the left, the copyright holder would trace the IP on the torrents to your ISP and send them a takedown notice. The ISP would trace the IP the rest of the way to you, pass on the notice, and inform you that if they got any more of them you would be looking for a new ISP.
I have my doubts that more people 'borrow' Wi-Fi access.
Try a little packet sniffing in a large apartment complex sometime.
I don't see why piggy-backing wi-fi is illegal
#include "IANAL.h"
Because your contract with your ISP probably says so. If you the WAP owner know about it, you're in breach of contract; if you don't, the piggybacker is violating criminal law.
after all if someone leaves their gate open, they shouldn't be surprised if someone else walks through.
And "someone" shouldn't be surprised when they get arrested.
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You could be talking about DRM...
rj
House in Malibu? $250 for an afternoon's enjoyment? I've seen that much spent by people whose house had a refrigerator out front.
rj
rj
Goodyear has never made a serious business of selling blimp rides, although lease arrangements in certain venues sometimes force them to offer a few.
rj
From 1787 to 1865 you could legally own 3/5 of a person... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_compromise rj
Funny you should mention that. The Navy calls a six thousand ton submarine a "boat", too...
rj
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_surveillance_radar
http://www.oei-edu.com/r450.htm
rj
You're describing the distinction between primary and secondary radar. Yes, they're separate systems, but they're both radars. One operates on reflected pulses ("skin painting"), the other on transponded pulses, but they both get their bearing information from the pointing direction of the antenna and their range information from the out-and-return travel time of the pulses. The only difference is that the secondary radar gets information that is furnished by the airborne installation: identification ("squawk code", including emergency and hijack notifications) and pressure altitude.
rj
He also said they don't use radars. Level, indeed.
rj
Antiradar paint does not scatter RF radiation. It absorbs it. If you coated the inside of a microwave oven with that stuff, it would (a) reduce the energy arriving at the food, and (b) heat up the walls of the oven, making your enchilada taste like burned paint.
You want the walls of the oven to reflect, not absorb.
rj
Oh, jeez...
The transponders are in the airplanes, not on the airports. They help the airport's radar to see airplanes.
A transponder is a combination of a receiver and a transmitter that receives the pulses from a radar; generates a train of pulses that encode the identification and altitude of the airplane; and transmits them back to the radar. That way the guy sitting at the radar not only sees the airplane more easily, but knows which airplane it is and how high.
rj
Of course, if somebody "leaves you behind" and you want to be responsible for whatever he owed, that's your business.
rj
They belong to his estate until such time as his property has been distributed to his heirs and the estate dissolved. Welcome to the world of laws and courts, and ignore them at your peril.
rj
If you are the next of kin and heir to the deceased estate, the accounts are now yours, the computer is yours and all information there in is yours.
Not nearly that simple. Those assets will become your property after you've jumped through some hoops. The process of determining who is the heir is complicated when there is a will, and a flat-out clusterfuck when there isn't.
In a case where the information in the computer may bear on legal proceedings, as I mention in another post, the probate judge can authorize access to the computer to a qualified person who can analyze it in the capacity of an expert witness, with his fee paid by the estate. He will be responsible for recovering and preserving any legal evidence he finds.
rj
I'd suggest something similar. Ask the probate judge to release the computers to a designated consultant, maybe a family friend, who has the technical chops to bypass the passwords (which, as others mention here, is not that big a job) and whose judgment they trust to preserve the decedent's privacy while he digs out anything that might help them.
rj
...as in, selling the means to bypass copy protection?
rj
Well, OK, so what kind of math-themed party should the guys from the shipping department have?
rj
Hire a hooker to do a Möbius strip.
rj
rj
Here's a video of one making a "single slight bounce" in 1972, that was photographed by dozens of people from Salt Lake to Edmonton: http://fireball.meteorite.free.fr/1972_08_11/Video/video_g-t.html
Two- and even three-skip meteors are not uncommon, although as you say they normally burn in. The OP does not contradict that, because he lost sight of it at the horizon; it very likely burned in after that.
The 1972 object was a one-skipper. It was very big, which means it got through the skip without losing enough velocity to bend its path down for another skip, so it went on its merry way back to space...a good thing, because if it had hit near a major city it would have been a Hiroshima-scale disaster.
rj
And he seems to think a WW2 airplane restoration is some sort of Really Big Story...
rj
Triethyl borane.
rj
Now get yourself moving very fast, and any molecules that hit the front side of your body will have an ordered component of velocity added to the statistical disordered component you've been experiencing, and they'll hit you harder. Likewise, the ones hitting you from behind will hit less hard. You'll feel hotter in front and cooler on your butt. You haven't noticed it, because you've never been in enough wind to make a significant difference, but high-speed airplanes are a different story.
Pressure is a related but different issue: it depends on the mass of the molecules and the frequency of impacts, in addition to the velocity. Friction is not an issue; the molecules heat the surface by bouncing off it, not by rubbing along it.
If you get the chance, watch a Shuttle landing on one of the NASA feeds that shows the view from an infrared camera that gives a black-and-white image with brightness representing the temperatures. You'll see the nose and leading edges glowing white from the reentry heating: that's particle impacts at work. Then as it touches down, you'll see the tires light up like spotlights; that's friction at work.
rj
From your spelling I gather you're in Rightpondia and I don't know what you have that corresponds to our DMCA. But over here on the left, the copyright holder would trace the IP on the torrents to your ISP and send them a takedown notice. The ISP would trace the IP the rest of the way to you, pass on the notice, and inform you that if they got any more of them you would be looking for a new ISP.
Criminal law is a separate issue.
rj
Try a little packet sniffing in a large apartment complex sometime.
I don't see why piggy-backing wi-fi is illegal
#include "IANAL.h"
Because your contract with your ISP probably says so. If you the WAP owner know about it, you're in breach of contract; if you don't, the piggybacker is violating criminal law.
after all if someone leaves their gate open, they shouldn't be surprised if someone else walks through.
And "someone" shouldn't be surprised when they get arrested.
rj