Be warned, my brothers! Soon shall come the Robot Holocaust!
The world will be reduced to a single city where humans are forced to fight for sport to please a giant artichoke! If you displease the artichoke his Dr. Zoidberg robot will kill you! Or he might turn off the air! Sure you could just run outside but there are marauding bands of lesiban Amazon women who only have sex with men for procreation and then kill them.
Beware! Overeliance on robots WILL trigger the Robot Holocaust!
Uh, how is that a TROLL? I think I made a good point. CS is about TERRORISTS and COUNTER TERRORISTS shooting each other! It's a violent game about violent situations! That's why we love it! Troll, feh. If you disagree then bring the debate, don't abuse the mod system.
All Woz has done is shrunk the size and cost of the transmitters. Woz is the master of shrinking hardware (see the Apple II video and disk controllers, as previously mentioned). I guess I can see the potential for abuse, but my point is that a system like this was inevitable. Hams have been doing it on a slightly different scale for 10 years. Woz just consumerized it. It isn't really NEW, only the price and size is different. Personally I can't fucking WAIT to get some of these so I can FINALLY make my lights turn on when I pull into my driveway, and find my stupid dog when he takes off after deer.
Did you honestly think that NOBODY was ever going to do this and it's Woz that has opened Pandora's box?? NO! It was BOUND to happen. You should be HAPPY that somebody like WOZ is going to be the first to market!
Oh and sure your local stalker could stick one on your car/person/segway, but you could always just check the local tracking net and see if you can see yourself moving around. Or wear a tinfoil hat. Or zap yourself with EMPs occasionally. Or use a 900mhz RF sniffer. Yes they would be EASY to abuse, but it's also EASY to shoot somebody in the fucking face. It DOESN'T happen all the time. You will probably die of cancer or heart desease, not getting shot in the face. People don't shoot people in the face because it's amoral and illegal. Tracking someone without their consent is also amoral and (should be) illegal, and will probably quickly be made illegal if it isn't already. In many cases it would probably alrady fall under the umbrella of the anti-stalking laws that many states have enacted. Nobody should be SCARED of WozNet any more than they are scared of GUNS. They're both just tools. I've heard of people getting mugged with screwdrivers but I'm not scared of screw drivers. Sheesh.
There's a ham band in the 900mhz range, I wonder if these could be modified to run higher power as Part 97 devices...
Security through obscurity is NOT "security" at all, because it's impossible to know what the other guy knows.
In fact, STO is WORSE than NO security because it leads to a FALSE sense of security.
This weekend I took a ferry to Long Island and I used my GPS to record my track. As I was doing so it occured to me that my activity could be considered suspicious, and suddenly I got very nervous about using my GPS on the ferry. What the fuck kind of country are we living in now? Why should ANYTHING _I_ do be considered suspicious? I am an upstanding tax paying public serving ham radio operating red blooded patriotic citizen of the USA. If I really WAS planning some kind of attack on the ferry, why would I bother with GPSing it? Why would I bother to pull it out of my pocket in public in the first place? Am I wearing a towel? NO!
Knowledge is power and if EVERYBODY knew EVERYTHING then the world would be in perfect balance. That was the idea that brought about the Internet as we know it today, a medium for the free exchange of information. Open the fucking floodgates!
Hamisms... QSL THIS... DID YOU QSL THAT? I ONLY WORK 80M I ONLY WORK CW I ONLY WORK 80M CW HAM RADIO IS DYING THE INTERNET IS DESTROYING HAM RADIO GET OFF THIS FREQUENCY, WE'RE ABOUT TO OPEN THE IOTA NET CONTESTS RUIN HAM RADIO THANKS FOR THE CALL. HOWS THE WEATHER? OURS IS (insert 10 minute weather report) AND PLEASE LET ME WISH MANY MANY OF THE VERY BEST 73'S TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND GOD BLESS AND (insert 10 more minutes of this type of thing)
Actually I'm wrong on one count. In the US there are large chunks of the RF spectrum designated for military use, and the FCC has absolutely no authority over how those bands are used. I'm not sure who the responsible party there is. The FCC does get to have some say in exactly what bands are designated as military.
There ARE international treaties on spectrum utilization. Except that they tend to take a extremely broad view, and only recognize a few specific services, such as shortwave broadcasting, amateur radio, radar, radio astronomy, etc. The vast majority of frequency allocations are designated for certain general types of use and the implementation is left entirely up to the national governments.
In Great Britain you have to buy a license to legally RECIEVE television channels (may no longer be true).
There are no "windows" of unregulated frequencies in the US. The FCC regulates everything from 30KHz to 300GHz. Some bands are free-er than others, but they are all regulated and all devices which emit radio frequency energy must meet FCC regulations.
It's pretty common for broadcasters to transmit from neighboring countries. The US does it on a global scale, poinding The Voice Of America into evil commie pinko countries all over the world. Just as their are companies transmitting from Mexico into the US, there are also a lot of companies transmitting from the US into Canada. International law DOES specify that signals are only subject to the regulations of the country they originate in. For example, France can't extradite you for transmitting a pro-Nazi tyrade from a US based shortwave station. Fuck Nazi's by the way, it's just the only example I could think of.
International treaties take much less notice of the higher bands, since the only way signals at those frequencies will cross many borders is via satellites. This is a problem for countries like the Canada, that basicly ends up having to copy most of the US's band-plans.
Thankfully, with few exceptions, my ham radio frequencies are protected on a global basis. Now if we could just get those god damn short wave stations off 40 meters...
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Now we have companies named after Pokemon? I'm moving to Mars.
Seriously, Congress is busy passing bullshit laws that supposedly "promote" bandwidth while mandating DRM tech. Meanwhile the FCC is trumpeting broadband over powerlines which is the WORST FUCKING IDEA EVER!!! GOODBYE HF BANDS, BEEN NICE KNOWING YOU! And NOW they're considering taxing the SHIT out of cable modems?????? OMG WTF?! HELLO, MCFLY!
It occured to me... in one of the last interviews with a SCO lacky, he basicly said "We haven't found our 'proprietary' code in the Linux kernel." Last I check, Linux IS a kernel. They continue to incorrectly refer to GNU/Linux as simply Linux, and run their mouths about how it infringes on their intellectual property. If they aren't accusing the kernel of infringement, then they need to STOP referring to the infringing code as simply "Linux". IANAL but IMO continuing to expound upon "Linux's" infringement is libelous.
People have been talking about Apple breaking into hardware and software divisions since I was knee-high to a Mac Plus. IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. In case nobody has noticed, making the hardware AND the software is probably the most important aspect of Apple's business plan. It's really the only thing that sets them apart, from a business point of view.
BTW Palm is doing great, right? Even though their hardware costs more but performs lower than Pocket PCs, and Sony makes the only good Palm devices, and people are now saying that PalmOS is going to be relegated to the embedded system market.
My big beef with palm is that they've kept their hardware prices so artificially high. By now they should be selling low-end palms for $25 in 7-11 and Cumberland Farms. I thought these things were supposed to be cheap and ubiquitous? $350 is a little much for a glorified notepad that could be destroyed after one fall to the pavement or a run-in with my keys in my pocket.
I used Microchip's USB PICs. They'll send you free samples, although you'll need to be able to program them somehow. I won't go into the details of getting started in PIC programming, you can google for that and find 1000 pages. They supply USB firmware, which is pretty easy to use. Just define your descriptors (this will require reading parts of the USB spec), and then put copy your data into a buffer and put the number of bytes in W and call their library routine. Data sent.
If you look at the data sheet for the PIC 16c745 and 16c765, you'll find schematics. It's damn simple, you add a cap and a resistor and a USB connector and the thing powers itself off the bus.
I can't belive people are still using the parallel port. I just finished my first project using USB for my interface, and it was pretty easy overall. I guess not as easy as using the parallel port, but then again I can control 127 USB devices, and each one could be controlling an arbitrary number of other devices. I would like to see some decent USB experimentation products and drivers out there. Maybe I'll hear my own calling.
Hmm way to go modding me down as a troll and flaimbait. You've proven once again that Apple users are the most zealous. And not a single reply explaining why anybody thinks I'm trolling or baiting, how about that? Grow up, if you think I'm wrong and you want a debate, bring it. If you mod me down just because you disagree with me, and you don't even have the balls to say why, you're a pussy. And my karma is so high I don't give a damn.
I'll tell you one thing that SUCKS about dropping ISA slots... If you want to learn about bus interfaces, ISA is the shit BECAUSE it's so slow. PCI is so fast, you can't just run a big fat ribbon cable out of a slot and into a breadboard to prototype your card. The high frequency RF effects are too great. Of course I suppose you could also just get a PCI->ISA bridge card.
There havent been many REAL viri in a long time. Most "viri" are really some sort of bastardized trojan/worm hybrid. And most of those weren't written in machine code, so trusted computing wouldn't necessarily have stopped them. Trusted computing isn't a magic bullet.
It's not even the hardcore hackers like me who will get locked out. I'll etch my own god damn motherboards to run Linux if I have to. It's the part time casual hobbiests who will get screwed.
It's like buying a chevy and only being able to use chevy brand gasoline even though it's not really any different from regular gas. Like printer cartredges. Etc. It's fucking bullshit, man.
Are you one of those MS guys that gets paid to post pro-MS stuff on the net? Maybe if you'd read the article you'd realize that Taco was just summarizing it.
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Be warned, my brothers! Soon shall come the Robot Holocaust!
The world will be reduced to a single city where humans are forced to fight for sport to please a giant artichoke! If you displease the artichoke his Dr. Zoidberg robot will kill you! Or he might turn off the air! Sure you could just run outside but there are marauding bands of lesiban Amazon women who only have sex with men for procreation and then kill them.
Beware! Overeliance on robots WILL trigger the Robot Holocaust!
Uh, how is that a TROLL? I think I made a good point. CS is about TERRORISTS and COUNTER TERRORISTS shooting each other! It's a violent game about violent situations! That's why we love it! Troll, feh. If you disagree then bring the debate, don't abuse the mod system.
Is there anything to CS that DOESN'T involve violence? I guess the maps. Seems like they could just use any FPS then.
Get a clue: See http://www.aprs.org
All Woz has done is shrunk the size and cost of the transmitters. Woz is the master of shrinking hardware (see the Apple II video and disk controllers, as previously mentioned). I guess I can see the potential for abuse, but my point is that a system like this was inevitable. Hams have been doing it on a slightly different scale for 10 years. Woz just consumerized it. It isn't really NEW, only the price and size is different. Personally I can't fucking WAIT to get some of these so I can FINALLY make my lights turn on when I pull into my driveway, and find my stupid dog when he takes off after deer.
Did you honestly think that NOBODY was ever going to do this and it's Woz that has opened Pandora's box?? NO! It was BOUND to happen. You should be HAPPY that somebody like WOZ is going to be the first to market!
Oh and sure your local stalker could stick one on your car/person/segway, but you could always just check the local tracking net and see if you can see yourself moving around. Or wear a tinfoil hat. Or zap yourself with EMPs occasionally. Or use a 900mhz RF sniffer. Yes they would be EASY to abuse, but it's also EASY to shoot somebody in the fucking face. It DOESN'T happen all the time. You will probably die of cancer or heart desease, not getting shot in the face. People don't shoot people in the face because it's amoral and illegal. Tracking someone without their consent is also amoral and (should be) illegal, and will probably quickly be made illegal if it isn't already. In many cases it would probably alrady fall under the umbrella of the anti-stalking laws that many states have enacted. Nobody should be SCARED of WozNet any more than they are scared of GUNS. They're both just tools. I've heard of people getting mugged with screwdrivers but I'm not scared of screw drivers. Sheesh.
There's a ham band in the 900mhz range, I wonder if these could be modified to run higher power as Part 97 devices...
making me pie!
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mod down as unfunny
Security through obscurity is NOT "security" at all, because it's impossible to know what the other guy knows.
In fact, STO is WORSE than NO security because it leads to a FALSE sense of security.
This weekend I took a ferry to Long Island and I used my GPS to record my track. As I was doing so it occured to me that my activity could be considered suspicious, and suddenly I got very nervous about using my GPS on the ferry. What the fuck kind of country are we living in now? Why should ANYTHING _I_ do be considered suspicious? I am an upstanding tax paying public serving ham radio operating red blooded patriotic citizen of the USA. If I really WAS planning some kind of attack on the ferry, why would I bother with GPSing it? Why would I bother to pull it out of my pocket in public in the first place? Am I wearing a towel? NO!
Knowledge is power and if EVERYBODY knew EVERYTHING then the world would be in perfect balance. That was the idea that brought about the Internet as we know it today, a medium for the free exchange of information. Open the fucking floodgates!
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
Hamisms...
QSL THIS... DID YOU QSL THAT?
I ONLY WORK 80M
I ONLY WORK CW
I ONLY WORK 80M CW
HAM RADIO IS DYING
THE INTERNET IS DESTROYING HAM RADIO
GET OFF THIS FREQUENCY, WE'RE ABOUT TO OPEN THE IOTA NET
CONTESTS RUIN HAM RADIO
THANKS FOR THE CALL. HOWS THE WEATHER? OURS IS (insert 10 minute weather report)
AND PLEASE LET ME WISH MANY MANY OF THE VERY BEST 73'S TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND GOD BLESS AND (insert 10 more minutes of this type of thing)
And the #1 hamism...
FINE BUSINESS OLD MAN
Actually I'm wrong on one count. In the US there are large chunks of the RF spectrum designated for military use, and the FCC has absolutely no authority over how those bands are used. I'm not sure who the responsible party there is. The FCC does get to have some say in exactly what bands are designated as military.
There ARE international treaties on spectrum utilization. Except that they tend to take a extremely broad view, and only recognize a few specific services, such as shortwave broadcasting, amateur radio, radar, radio astronomy, etc. The vast majority of frequency allocations are designated for certain general types of use and the implementation is left entirely up to the national governments.
In Great Britain you have to buy a license to legally RECIEVE television channels (may no longer be true).
There are no "windows" of unregulated frequencies in the US. The FCC regulates everything from 30KHz to 300GHz. Some bands are free-er than others, but they are all regulated and all devices which emit radio frequency energy must meet FCC regulations.
It's pretty common for broadcasters to transmit from neighboring countries. The US does it on a global scale, poinding The Voice Of America into evil commie pinko countries all over the world. Just as their are companies transmitting from Mexico into the US, there are also a lot of companies transmitting from the US into Canada. International law DOES specify that signals are only subject to the regulations of the country they originate in. For example, France can't extradite you for transmitting a pro-Nazi tyrade from a US based shortwave station. Fuck Nazi's by the way, it's just the only example I could think of.
International treaties take much less notice of the higher bands, since the only way signals at those frequencies will cross many borders is via satellites. This is a problem for countries like the Canada, that basicly ends up having to copy most of the US's band-plans.
Thankfully, with few exceptions, my ham radio frequencies are protected on a global basis. Now if we could just get those god damn short wave stations off 40 meters...
Now we have companies named after Pokemon? I'm moving to Mars.
and where can I get some?
Seriously, Congress is busy passing bullshit laws that supposedly "promote" bandwidth while mandating DRM tech. Meanwhile the FCC is trumpeting broadband over powerlines which is the WORST FUCKING IDEA EVER!!! GOODBYE HF BANDS, BEEN NICE KNOWING YOU! And NOW they're considering taxing the SHIT out of cable modems?????? OMG WTF?! HELLO, MCFLY!
Did anybody else here get their $20 check from Nintendo for price fixing the NES many years ago? Some things never change.
this is just a glorified potato clock.
It occured to me... in one of the last interviews with a SCO lacky, he basicly said "We haven't found our 'proprietary' code in the Linux kernel." Last I check, Linux IS a kernel. They continue to incorrectly refer to GNU/Linux as simply Linux, and run their mouths about how it infringes on their intellectual property. If they aren't accusing the kernel of infringement, then they need to STOP referring to the infringing code as simply "Linux". IANAL but IMO continuing to expound upon "Linux's" infringement is libelous.
People have been talking about Apple breaking into hardware and software divisions since I was knee-high to a Mac Plus. IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. In case nobody has noticed, making the hardware AND the software is probably the most important aspect of Apple's business plan. It's really the only thing that sets them apart, from a business point of view.
BTW Palm is doing great, right? Even though their hardware costs more but performs lower than Pocket PCs, and Sony makes the only good Palm devices, and people are now saying that PalmOS is going to be relegated to the embedded system market.
My big beef with palm is that they've kept their hardware prices so artificially high. By now they should be selling low-end palms for $25 in 7-11 and Cumberland Farms. I thought these things were supposed to be cheap and ubiquitous? $350 is a little much for a glorified notepad that could be destroyed after one fall to the pavement or a run-in with my keys in my pocket.
AC, incorectness != trolling. Furthermore I'm stating my opinions, I never claimed them to be facts, therefor they cannot be incorrect.
I used Microchip's USB PICs. They'll send you free samples, although you'll need to be able to program them somehow. I won't go into the details of getting started in PIC programming, you can google for that and find 1000 pages. They supply USB firmware, which is pretty easy to use. Just define your descriptors (this will require reading parts of the USB spec), and then put copy your data into a buffer and put the number of bytes in W and call their library routine. Data sent.
If you look at the data sheet for the PIC 16c745 and 16c765, you'll find schematics. It's damn simple, you add a cap and a resistor and a USB connector and the thing powers itself off the bus.
Jesus! Flamebait!? What are you smoking and where can I get some?! Mod parent up.
I can't belive people are still using the parallel port. I just finished my first project using USB for my interface, and it was pretty easy overall. I guess not as easy as using the parallel port, but then again I can control 127 USB devices, and each one could be controlling an arbitrary number of other devices. I would like to see some decent USB experimentation products and drivers out there. Maybe I'll hear my own calling.
Just for the record, I do own two PowerMacs. I used to be an Apple fanatic. But I honestly couldn't justify spending any more money on their products.
Hmm way to go modding me down as a troll and flaimbait. You've proven once again that Apple users are the most zealous. And not a single reply explaining why anybody thinks I'm trolling or baiting, how about that? Grow up, if you think I'm wrong and you want a debate, bring it. If you mod me down just because you disagree with me, and you don't even have the balls to say why, you're a pussy. And my karma is so high I don't give a damn.
I'll tell you one thing that SUCKS about dropping ISA slots... If you want to learn about bus interfaces, ISA is the shit BECAUSE it's so slow. PCI is so fast, you can't just run a big fat ribbon cable out of a slot and into a breadboard to prototype your card. The high frequency RF effects are too great. Of course I suppose you could also just get a PCI->ISA bridge card.
There havent been many REAL viri in a long time. Most "viri" are really some sort of bastardized trojan/worm hybrid. And most of those weren't written in machine code, so trusted computing wouldn't necessarily have stopped them. Trusted computing isn't a magic bullet.
It's not even the hardcore hackers like me who will get locked out. I'll etch my own god damn motherboards to run Linux if I have to. It's the part time casual hobbiests who will get screwed.
It's like buying a chevy and only being able to use chevy brand gasoline even though it's not really any different from regular gas. Like printer cartredges. Etc. It's fucking bullshit, man.
Are you one of those MS guys that gets paid to post pro-MS stuff on the net? Maybe if you'd read the article you'd realize that Taco was just summarizing it.