Well, you could use a bank of huge caps and a bank of coils in a big LC circuit. sort of keep the magic smoke trapped in a continuing cycle. Might have some loss to heat, and I would use REALLY good conducters, to avoid that whole "lightning bolt" problem. it's not technically a battery, and as a added benny, you could do neat light shows.
Noo.... What we have learned is, when you are setting up a sweetheart deal with the local sheriff's office, and you bill them an outrageous amount, pocket half and give the other half to the sheriff, make sure you have some sort of evidence on hand to use against the sheriff if people start noticing, so you can say "he made me do it! ".
Good Old Boy Politics 101, learned in CLarksville, TN "The Crime and Corruption capital of Tennessee".
I think it was more on the line of: "sigh. Now every hacker, wannabe, kiddy and geek on the frikking planet is going to make breaking the encryption on this a high priority. Wonder how many days, or hours, it will take?" Sort of like telling harry houdini you have an escape proof cell.
If it's not in the constitution, it doesn't count. Of course this only applies in current U.S. Territories, and our new colonies. if we are abroad in a country that we haven't invaded yet, we usually attempt to obey the local laws, when convenient.
It WAS a treasure trove of information. Sometimes I don't want to read the 39 chapter o'pedantic and assoc. book on the exact meaning of the word "dynamic", sometimes I just want a brief overview and a little example. Unfortunately, most sites of the type seem to have died, with webmonkey being one of the last. IMO, the web was destined for suckiness when C/net killed winfiles, this is just elaboration.
..And that would be the time to start worrying. After all, look how effective CD copy protection, X-box modding, even furby hacking is; It's imposssible! Damn, that was too smart assed. Ok, seriously; That would be a almost inevitable next step, the only think that might prevent it is the action of doing it would provide a 2nd chance for the ACLU et al to protest the obvious freedom & privacy violation.
Don't worry about it. I, for one, WELCOME this new opportunity to sell kits for cars that bypass this sort of shit. There are people who know electronics in the world, and aren't completely unfamiliar with automotive systems; Just rip the shit out, or better yet, have them think they are looking at you when in actuality they are tracking the driving habits of the Local Sheriff. This is about as silly as worrying about RFID tags; don't look at this as a imposition, look at this as the chance to misdirect and confuse!
If they come near my Wrangler I'm going to liberate some energy on their shiny metal asses. (by the way, what IS the posssesive plural of Ass? I live in Tennessee, and it comes up in conversation quite often).
As a aside to this; I have been working on computers/electronics/ etc since the mid-80's; when the dot-com bubble was bursting, I was working as a network/security engineer for a medium large bank chain; I went on from that to running a 6000 computer WAN network. In the 6 weeks between those I decided, for the heck of it to get my MCSE. When I finally managed to extricate myself from the nightmarish (EVIL coworker) government job, I couldn't find ANYTHING outside of a couple weeks here & there. I finally decided to just say screw it and retire from the field when a recruiter told me that they are taking resumes with MCSE cert & no CS degree and shredding them. I experimentally tried out my pre-MCSE resume on a couple of employers, and got near-immediate hits. I'm not saying this is the case now, and might not have been anything but a fluke then, but I still think it's weird.
I'm not involved, but I'm a regular user. It's not working as good as it has. just prior to the v0.5 release, and the first 4 releases of v0.5 were pretty much ideal; after that... pffft. It's getting better, if a site can get inserted, you can pull it up 100% of the time, but getting a site inserted is still a nightmare. It's pretty good for file sharing using Fuqid, and if you wanted to download MacroHard source, cash register software, the dirt on Kerry, it's all there. FROST was killed by it's abandonment by Jantho, the guy who came up with the idea; as he was leaving you had a pretty rocking little usenet-like interface searchable interface for freenet, but the guys who took it over killed it deader than a doorknob; the old version still works, and works well, but apparently i'm the only one who knows it. so, if you want to use it for file trading, use IIP to contact people for keys, and the web interface to see the sites from people who have enough skill or luck to insert frequently.
Let us say that I'm a member of a organization that is strict Constitutionalist, or in other words, believes in a LITERAL interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S.; Or I was a fundy Mormon (Polygamist). Or a member of ELF. That would make me a terrorist to the current administration. Let us say also that the Administration was making use of advances in Science to monitor dissidents communications, purchases, library visits, how many times you go the bathroom each days, etc. Freenet is a neccesary evil, much like lawyers.
Ahh. On a Naval/Corp airbase, the weapons are stored pretty darn close to the flightline; onboard ship, they are just a elevator ride down about 100 feet. When space is at a premium, you try to get as few people doing as many portions of the overall job as is possible.
I'll keep my eye on the auction. have you worked on Lot 6? will you work for free if this develops into a RIAA strike mission? I'm sure the employer will want to know...
Unless it's a F/A-18, F-14, or A-7 (or the last mod A-4) I'd be pretty much useless, except as a general Electronics tech. But I would LOVE to work on any of those birds again.
Uh-huh. I think we need to stick with Navy & Navy Security (Marines) on this one. BB Stacker on the F/A-18 would be a ordnance specialist, someone who does storage, testing & mounting; I understand the USAF uses 3 or 4 separate people for the job; we never had that luxury.
So the Proper mix would be: 1 AQ/AT (for electronics, weapons control, radar) 1 BB Stacker (AO) 1 AE (Electrical) 1 Hydraulics (can't remember the rate or MOS) 1 Airframe Mech (probably not neccesary unless you are going to be buying that $4mil Brazilian Aircraft Carrier thats for sale, also). 1 Power Plant monkey to keep the engines running.
So, say 6 guys, minimum (I've been on a detached team that did it with 5, but it was only for one flight). I would want to have a experienced Fleet plane captain available to do the stuff we don't have a specialist for.
and they would only need to be A&P certified if it was all done legally; if we are just doing this for a RIAA strike, we just need it to work.
His new game system,
Lejendary Adventure, IIRC, was originally free, released on PDF; when he
decided to sell it he asked everybody to pull the PDF's from download sites;
there was this one Hungarian site that kept them up and all the Hardcore Players
were ready to stage a overseas commando raid to shut the guy down; Gary just
made jokes about it.
Hmm. I'm an ex-navy fire control & Avionics tech for this bird (lot 12 being the last one I worked on). What say we see who buys it and offer ourselves as ground crew? I've got a friend who's a BB stacker, just need a power guy... Assuming, of course, that it has the AN/APG-65 radar/avionics package still onboard; thats what I can't see the Navy willing to let fall into private hands, but I also can't see the bird flying without it, it's fairly integrated.
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Well, you could use a bank of huge caps and a bank of coils in a big LC circuit.
sort of keep the magic smoke trapped in a continuing cycle.
Might have some loss to heat, and I would use REALLY good conducters, to avoid that whole "lightning bolt" problem.
it's not technically a battery, and as a added benny, you could do neat light shows.
As long as Wil Wheaton gets the part of Thranduil, i'll be happy.
Ok, moderately content.
Noo....
What we have learned is, when you are setting up a sweetheart deal with the local sheriff's office, and you bill them an outrageous amount, pocket half and give the other half to the sheriff, make sure you have some sort of evidence on hand to use against the sheriff if people start noticing, so you can say "he made me do it! ".
Good Old Boy Politics 101, learned in CLarksville, TN "The Crime and Corruption capital of Tennessee".
I think it was more on the line of:
"sigh. Now every hacker, wannabe, kiddy and geek on the frikking planet is going to make breaking the encryption on this a high priority. Wonder how many days, or hours, it will take?"
Sort of like telling harry houdini you have an escape proof cell.
Peter Jackson deserves all the accolades he can get IMO for one reason above all others: He didn't screw it up.
It would have been Sooooooo easy.
I really liked Howard the Duck.
seriously.
If it's not in the constitution, it doesn't count. Of course this only applies in current U.S. Territories, and our new colonies. if we are abroad in a country that we haven't invaded yet, we usually attempt to obey the local laws, when convenient.
It WAS a treasure trove of information. Sometimes I don't want to read the 39 chapter o'pedantic and assoc. book on the exact meaning of the word "dynamic", sometimes I just want a brief overview and a little example.
Unfortunately, most sites of the type seem to have died, with webmonkey being one of the last.
IMO, the web was destined for suckiness when C/net killed winfiles, this is just elaboration.
..And that would be the time to start worrying. After all, look how effective CD copy protection, X-box modding, even furby hacking is; It's imposssible!
Damn, that was too smart assed.
Ok, seriously; That would be a almost inevitable next step, the only think that might prevent it is the action of doing it would provide a 2nd chance for the ACLU et al to protest the obvious freedom & privacy violation.
Don't worry about it.
I, for one, WELCOME this new opportunity to sell kits for cars that bypass this sort of shit.
There are people who know electronics in the world, and aren't completely unfamiliar with automotive systems; Just rip the shit out, or better yet, have them think they are looking at you when in actuality they are tracking the driving habits of the Local Sheriff.
This is about as silly as worrying about RFID tags; don't look at this as a imposition, look at this as the chance to misdirect and confuse!
If they come near my Wrangler I'm going to liberate some energy on their shiny metal asses.
(by the way, what IS the posssesive plural of Ass? I live in Tennessee, and it comes up in conversation quite often).
but I LOVE semicolons!!!
As a aside to this; I have been working on computers/electronics/ etc since the mid-80's; when the dot-com bubble was bursting, I was working as a network/security engineer for a medium large bank chain; I went on from that to running a 6000 computer WAN network. In the 6 weeks between those I decided, for the heck of it to get my MCSE.
When I finally managed to extricate myself from the nightmarish (EVIL coworker) government job, I couldn't find ANYTHING outside of a couple weeks here & there. I finally decided to just say screw it and retire from the field when a recruiter told me that they are taking resumes with MCSE cert & no CS degree and shredding them.
I experimentally tried out my pre-MCSE resume on a couple of employers, and got near-immediate hits.
I'm not saying this is the case now, and might not have been anything but a fluke then, but I still think it's weird.
I'm not involved, but I'm a regular user.
It's not working as good as it has. just prior to the v0.5 release, and the first 4 releases of v0.5 were pretty much ideal; after that... pffft.
It's getting better, if a site can get inserted, you can pull it up 100% of the time, but getting a site inserted is still a nightmare.
It's pretty good for file sharing using Fuqid, and if you wanted to download MacroHard source, cash register software, the dirt on Kerry, it's all there.
FROST was killed by it's abandonment by Jantho, the guy who came up with the idea; as he was leaving you had a pretty rocking little usenet-like interface searchable interface for freenet, but the guys who took it over killed it deader than a doorknob; the old version still works, and works well, but apparently i'm the only one who knows it.
so, if you want to use it for file trading, use IIP to contact people for keys, and the web interface to see the sites from people who have enough skill or luck to insert frequently.
I'm probably going to regret this, but I try to mirror some of it.
http://www.vrhome.com/freenet
Let us say that I'm a member of a organization that is strict Constitutionalist, or in other words, believes in a LITERAL interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S.; Or I was a fundy Mormon (Polygamist). Or a member of ELF.
That would make me a terrorist to the current administration.
Let us say also that the Administration was making use of advances in Science to monitor dissidents communications, purchases, library visits, how many times you go the bathroom each days, etc.
Freenet is a neccesary evil, much like lawyers.
Ahh.
On a Naval/Corp airbase, the weapons are stored pretty darn close to the flightline; onboard ship, they are just a elevator ride down about 100 feet.
When space is at a premium, you try to get as few people doing as many portions of the overall job as is possible.
Why spend that much?
Especially when you can have your very own Aircraft Carrier for less money!
The Vengeance was refitted in 1998, so it's probably still in fair shape, and they WERE asking only 4 million, but now they are asking for best offer.
I'll keep my eye on the auction.
have you worked on Lot 6? will you work for free if this develops into a RIAA strike mission? I'm sure the employer will want to know...
Unless it's a F/A-18, F-14, or A-7 (or the last mod A-4) I'd be pretty much useless, except as a general Electronics tech.
But I would LOVE to work on any of those birds again.
Uh-huh.
I think we need to stick with Navy & Navy Security (Marines) on this one.
BB Stacker on the F/A-18 would be a ordnance specialist, someone who does storage, testing & mounting; I understand the USAF uses 3 or 4 separate people for the job; we never had that luxury.
So the Proper mix would be:
1 AQ/AT (for electronics, weapons control, radar)
1 BB Stacker (AO)
1 AE (Electrical)
1 Hydraulics (can't remember the rate or MOS)
1 Airframe Mech (probably not neccesary unless you are going to be buying that $4mil Brazilian Aircraft Carrier thats for sale, also).
1 Power Plant monkey to keep the engines running.
So, say 6 guys, minimum (I've been on a detached team that did it with 5, but it was only for one flight). I would want to have a experienced Fleet plane captain available to do the stuff we don't have a specialist for.
and they would only need to be A&P certified if it was all done legally; if we are just doing this for a RIAA strike, we just need it to work.
Sorry, no mod points right now; i'll keep a link for the next time I get some.
I thought it was Funny.
That's just Gary; He's like that.
His new game system, Lejendary Adventure, IIRC, was originally free, released on PDF; when he decided to sell it he asked everybody to pull the PDF's from download sites; there was this one Hungarian site that kept them up and all the Hardcore Players were ready to stage a overseas commando raid to shut the guy down; Gary just made jokes about it.
He's got a MMORPG in the works, also.
Hmm.
I'm an ex-navy fire control & Avionics tech for this bird (lot 12 being the last one I worked on).
What say we see who buys it and offer ourselves as ground crew? I've got a friend who's a BB stacker, just need a power guy...
Assuming, of course, that it has the AN/APG-65 radar/avionics package still onboard; thats what I can't see the Navy willing to let fall into private hands, but I also can't see the bird flying without it, it's fairly integrated.