Bullshit. I don't know what he smoked, and I'm awfully sorry for your loss, assuming you aren't a troll, which you probably are. But nevertheless it serves as a good opportunity to remind everybody that overdosing on THC via smoking is basically impossible.
Have you eve played flight simulator? There's this thing called an "artificial horizon" that tells you exactly how you are oriented. It is not affected by freezing of the pitot tube.
It's a long way to travel with current technology. But communications could be possible. 127 years is a long time to wait for a reply. But it would be terribly significant just to detect signals, even without two-way conversations. At least it lends hope to projects like SETI. The more systems like this we find, the less likely it becomes that we are alone in the universe.
On the other hand it's always seemed likely to me that life on other planets, if it exists, and even if the beings are sentient, is probably so unlike life on earth that any hope of meaningful communication is small. Most animals only really care about food and sex, and that's all they're likely to talk about. Deep down it's probably all humans really care about either.
But hey, maybe the universe is populated with English speaking hominids like in Star Trek. Everything else on that show has come true (communicators, beam weapons, the iPad).
... is not the only country in the world with a wireless enforcement agency belonging to the International Telecommunications Union and bound by international law to regulate eg shortwave users and take a dim view of pirates.
You could of course buy a license and comply with the actual regulations, but they're not cheap and pretty onerous, respectively.
The ocean is a tough environment. The antennas are gyro stabilized and have a lot of moving parts. Lighting is common at sea and does terrible things to radios. Radios in general get hot and fail sometimes. No ship goes out to sea with only one means of communication, usually 3 or 4.
Agreed, Fleet Broadband is your only good option. It's not particularly cheap, though it doubles as a sat phone which you'd probably want anyway. I guess it all depends on how much bandwidth you need vs how much money you make. It's not particularly fast either, 300k-ish if I recall, and it's a shared channel(s). But it's much faster and cheaper than the older F-77 technology.
Also that equipment isn't the worlds most reliable, you either need to buy two so you can have a backup, or think hard about how much downtime will cost you when you are two weeks out of kerplopistan harbor and nobody there knows how to fix one of these things so you have to get parts flown in air-freight.
The trouble is most satellites use spot-beams to focus their signals on continental areas, where the people are. They intentionally focus their signals AWAY from the ocean, where the people are not. Services like Hugues Net, etc. They usually work in coastal areas, but that's about it.
A rootkit that is AWARE of this detection mechanism ought to be able to defeat it easily by just overwriting the computed and expected keys in the detectors memory space with a random number. No delay, the values are equal, so no problem right? Wrong. The only way to make this really work would be for the detector to have direct hardware access to the machine's RAM but be running on a different uninfected machine. That's theoretically possible, but not really practical with out of the box hardware.
I think the most obvious use would be to receive satellite TV, there's quite a bit of free stuff out there still. One of those fancy new mpeg receivers might be helpful. http://www.tech-faq.com/free-to-air-satellite.shtml
Oh geez, someone has been drinking the Gold Standard Kool-Aid. Man, I love it when people make original insults like 'drinking the kool-aid!' rather than debating the subject at hand. I usually know there is a lot of bunk coming afterwards. I love it too because it's hilarious and poignant, unlike your inane and inaccurate diatribe.
I agree with a lot of Ron Paul's positions, at least in principle, but I have been utterly and completely freaked out by his squad of righteous zealot fanboys like you who mercilessly attack anybody who says one syllable that might be construed as being negative towards Dr. Ron. Reminds me of the dogs in Animal Farm...
Why is it so easy for companies to get away with receiving and using stolen data? The gummint vigorously prosecutes people receiving stolen property, including stolen intellectual property. Why can you get fined $200,000 for copying an MP3, but you can get away with buying 2.8 million stolen customer data records?
That's pretty much standard procedure for a lot of places. To me it's a pleasent suprise when that DOESN'T happen. Anyway, I never submit my resignation without planning on being cut off lock stock and barrel immideately. Plan on it in the future. Back up and delete any personal data, clear your browser cache, wipe the free space on your harddrive, clean out your desk, get your benefits questions answered, THEN submit your resignation with the expectation that you will be sent home for two weeks, and you won't get blindsided.
Word. Let us not forget that Linux is just a kernel, nothing else. GNU provides all of the essential system utilities that we have come to know and love.
You obviously don't know what you are talking about. My Civic Hybrid absolutely gets better highway mileage.
In my Hybrid Civic, I get optimal milage with my cruise control set at about 45MPH on level ground, about 60mpg. Even at 65MPH I get about 45MPG. Throw in some hills, or some stop and go traffic however, and watch the mileage go to shit. In a hilly area in heavy city stop-and-go traffic in San Diego where I live, driving like not a grandmother, I get about 30mpg even. Of course I floor it at every green light and after every stop sign. Why? Because everybody else does too, and they don't drive pussy little hybrids, and if I don't floor it everybody will get ahead of me and it will take longer for me to get to work. My batteries are dead a lot of the time from all that flooring it and all the stupid hills they have around here. Batteries in general are very slow and inefficient to recharge, and have to be on charge for a period of time before they even start to take the charge, which sort of defeats the purpose of regenerative breaking.
I'm sure it would be even worse in a conventional car though, and I'm sure if I just slowed down a litle my mileage would go up a lot, but who wants to do that? I'm still glad I have a hybrid, because when gas hits $8/gallon then I will slow down and get 45mpg. You can slow down in your SUV but you still won't hit THAT kind of mileage.
Bottom line: Because of the dinky 85hp motor in my civic, I get GREAT highway mileage. Because of the limitations of the hybrid system in REAL city driving conditions, I get shitty city mileage. The solution? Ultra-capacitors, clearly.
It's interesting to note that Tibet also does not show up as an independent country in Google Earth. Apparently Google doesn't consider supporting an evil communist regime to be "evil".
Costs a buck at any store, doesn't take batteries, doesn't lose it's memory.
I tried using a PDA for a while in college and I found I was always the last one out of the room because it always took so long to tap in my assignments. I found it worked a lot better to write them down in my notes for that class for that day then type them into a scheduling program on my PC back in the bat cave.
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Bullshit. I don't know what he smoked, and I'm awfully sorry for your loss, assuming you aren't a troll, which you probably are. But nevertheless it serves as a good opportunity to remind everybody that overdosing on THC via smoking is basically impossible.
"One estimate of THC's LD50 for humans indicates that about 1,500 pounds (680 kg) of cannabis would have to be smoked within 14 minutes." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol#Toxicity
That must have been one hell of a "pack of marijuana cigarettes"!
Have you eve played flight simulator? There's this thing called an "artificial horizon" that tells you exactly how you are oriented. It is not affected by freezing of the pitot tube.
It's a long way to travel with current technology. But communications could be possible. 127 years is a long time to wait for a reply. But it would be terribly significant just to detect signals, even without two-way conversations. At least it lends hope to projects like SETI. The more systems like this we find, the less likely it becomes that we are alone in the universe.
On the other hand it's always seemed likely to me that life on other planets, if it exists, and even if the beings are sentient, is probably so unlike life on earth that any hope of meaningful communication is small. Most animals only really care about food and sex, and that's all they're likely to talk about. Deep down it's probably all humans really care about either.
But hey, maybe the universe is populated with English speaking hominids like in Star Trek. Everything else on that show has come true (communicators, beam weapons, the iPad).
I don't know, but having used Yahoo Store, I think one of their mistakes was buying it from Viaweb.
... is not the only country in the world with a wireless enforcement agency belonging to the International Telecommunications Union and bound by international law to regulate eg shortwave users and take a dim view of pirates. You could of course buy a license and comply with the actual regulations, but they're not cheap and pretty onerous, respectively.
The ocean is a tough environment.
The antennas are gyro stabilized and have a lot of moving parts.
Lighting is common at sea and does terrible things to radios.
Radios in general get hot and fail sometimes. No ship goes out to sea with only one means of communication, usually 3 or 4.
That will work great, until the FCC raids your house, takes your equipment, and fines you.
Agreed, Fleet Broadband is your only good option. It's not particularly cheap, though it doubles as a sat phone which you'd probably want anyway. I guess it all depends on how much bandwidth you need vs how much money you make. It's not particularly fast either, 300k-ish if I recall, and it's a shared channel(s). But it's much faster and cheaper than the older F-77 technology.
Also that equipment isn't the worlds most reliable, you either need to buy two so you can have a backup, or think hard about how much downtime will cost you when you are two weeks out of kerplopistan harbor and nobody there knows how to fix one of these things so you have to get parts flown in air-freight.
The trouble is most satellites use spot-beams to focus their signals on continental areas, where the people are. They intentionally focus their signals AWAY from the ocean, where the people are not. Services like Hugues Net, etc. They usually work in coastal areas, but that's about it.
I have "always use https" turned, on, and I was hacked. Then again I used a pretty shitty password.
A rootkit that is AWARE of this detection mechanism ought to be able to defeat it easily by just overwriting the computed and expected keys in the detectors memory space with a random number. No delay, the values are equal, so no problem right? Wrong. The only way to make this really work would be for the detector to have direct hardware access to the machine's RAM but be running on a different uninfected machine. That's theoretically possible, but not really practical with out of the box hardware.
Sounds a hell of a lot like APRS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_System
http://www.aprs.org/
http://ibcnu.us/ -- aprs iphone app
You could also:
Why is it so easy for companies to get away with receiving and using stolen data? The gummint vigorously prosecutes people receiving stolen property, including stolen intellectual property. Why can you get fined $200,000 for copying an MP3, but you can get away with buying 2.8 million stolen customer data records?
Cave Radio & Electronics Group
Google "Cave Radios"
Granted this guy's sounds a little more advanced with DSP and stuff, but still not a new concept.
The simple solution is to estimate how much you're undercharging using standard estimation techniques and then overcharge for that amount.
That's pretty much standard procedure for a lot of places. To me it's a pleasent suprise when that DOESN'T happen. Anyway, I never submit my resignation without planning on being cut off lock stock and barrel immideately. Plan on it in the future. Back up and delete any personal data, clear your browser cache, wipe the free space on your harddrive, clean out your desk, get your benefits questions answered, THEN submit your resignation with the expectation that you will be sent home for two weeks, and you won't get blindsided.
Word. Let us not forget that Linux is just a kernel, nothing else. GNU provides all of the essential system utilities that we have come to know and love.
You obviously don't know what you are talking about. My Civic Hybrid absolutely gets better highway mileage. In my Hybrid Civic, I get optimal milage with my cruise control set at about 45MPH on level ground, about 60mpg. Even at 65MPH I get about 45MPG. Throw in some hills, or some stop and go traffic however, and watch the mileage go to shit. In a hilly area in heavy city stop-and-go traffic in San Diego where I live, driving like not a grandmother, I get about 30mpg even. Of course I floor it at every green light and after every stop sign. Why? Because everybody else does too, and they don't drive pussy little hybrids, and if I don't floor it everybody will get ahead of me and it will take longer for me to get to work. My batteries are dead a lot of the time from all that flooring it and all the stupid hills they have around here. Batteries in general are very slow and inefficient to recharge, and have to be on charge for a period of time before they even start to take the charge, which sort of defeats the purpose of regenerative breaking. I'm sure it would be even worse in a conventional car though, and I'm sure if I just slowed down a litle my mileage would go up a lot, but who wants to do that? I'm still glad I have a hybrid, because when gas hits $8/gallon then I will slow down and get 45mpg. You can slow down in your SUV but you still won't hit THAT kind of mileage. Bottom line: Because of the dinky 85hp motor in my civic, I get GREAT highway mileage. Because of the limitations of the hybrid system in REAL city driving conditions, I get shitty city mileage. The solution? Ultra-capacitors, clearly.
That would imply that the network executives had functioning neurons. I would like to direct your attention to the following Futurama transcript...
Network President: Greetings gentlemen, you already know my Execubots. Executive Alpha, programmed to like things that are seen before.
Alphabot: Hey hey hey.
Network President: Executive Beta, programmed to roll dice to determine the fall schedule.
[Betabot rolls two dice.]
Betabot: More reality shows.
Network President: And Executive Gamma, programmed to underestimate middle America.
Gammabot: It's funny but is it going to get them off their tractors?
The UN doesn't even recognize The Principality of Sealand! What kind of backwoods hicks are running that joint anyway?
It's interesting to note that Tibet also does not show up as an independent country in Google Earth. Apparently Google doesn't consider supporting an evil communist regime to be "evil".
Nuff said.
They should call it the "Nipponcorde"
Costs a buck at any store, doesn't take batteries, doesn't lose it's memory. I tried using a PDA for a while in college and I found I was always the last one out of the room because it always took so long to tap in my assignments. I found it worked a lot better to write them down in my notes for that class for that day then type them into a scheduling program on my PC back in the bat cave.