Back in the late '60s and early '70s here in NC road signs directing one to the community(ies) of Fuquay-Varina tended to disappear from the roadside on a regular basis.:-)
Yes, there is more to it than that. If the speaker attached to the line by the person doing the wiretapping is physically right next to the microphone built into the handset of the telephone being tapped, then it would be picking up almost exactly the same audio as the telephone's mouthpiece and, depending upon polarity (which end of the speaker's coil is attached to which of the two wires of the telephone line), either would subtract from or add to the audio signal on the wire.
However, someone who attaches a speaker to your phone line so as to be able to listen to your conversations is probably going to position it and themselves far enough away from you and your telephone that any soundwaves falling upon the speaker cone and causing it to act as a microphone won't be coming from you. I do not know if the voltage level produced by the speaker would be high enough for you or the person on the other end of your call to hear it, but which way around the speaker is connected to the line won't have any affect on that. If they connect that speaker *after* you have already begun the call you may well be able to hear a "click" and/or a volume drop due to an additional load being attached to the line.
The Mexicans that cross the border basically want to be Americans.
Are you sure that it isn't just that they basically want to be non-starving?
I really do suspect that most of them, if they could be just as well off (money, safety and a future for their kids, etc.) back home, would be outta here like a shot.
In the digital and Internet age, most people might record for fairly benign fair use purposes, but some people are going to record, strip the commercials, put the shows on the Internet and undermine the business model under which TV networks currently function.
The business model is that they (or their affiliates) get to use the airwaves which belong to the people as long as they are deemed to be acting "in the public interest". This allows selling a certain amount of advertising time to pay for operations and just like movie theaters show movies that the studios and not they make money on so that people will come in and buy popcorn, television stations show entertainment so that people are watching when they slip in the ads (which is what makes the ad time worth buying in the first place, an audience). Just like the ads in newspapers and magazines (which cover most of the cost of publishing), some will be ignored and some "consumed".
People who record for time-shifting purposes will fast-forward through the commercials or not as they wish and the advertisers haven't really lost anything because those people were doing something else when the show actually aired. The stations may even benefit because going to your kid's band concert didn't cause you to give up watching "Lost" or "24" on an ongoing basis due to losing track of the storyline because of not being available to watch in real-time that one particular evening.
I find it difficult to believe that many people who are able to use a VCR or DVR for time-shifting will prefer to go to the trouble of searching for and downloading what may or may not be a good quality recording just to avoid having to hit the fast forward button, especially if they have to shell out for extra hardware in order to be able to watch said recording on their television sets instead of on their computer monitors.
If anything undermines the business model under which the networks currently operate, it'll most likely be that people aren't watching because there's something else they'd rather be doing or because the shows just aren't very good.
Because I seem to remember President Bush getting bashed over what he was doing in Vietnam... Bush was in Vietnam? It must have been a super-duper top secret mission during the time when the National Guard couldn't find him.
F.R.E.D. is actually the acronym for "Friendly Recoton Entertainment Decoder", an aftermarket add-on MTS stereo decoder for monaural television sets which could also do psuedo-stereo on monaural broadcasts.
I'm referring to the original clear channel stations, not the brand name, but the AM stations licensed to operate at Fifty Thousand Watts, which meant that they really carried after sundown. Stations like WBZ in Boston, WPTF in Raleigh, WOWO in Fort Wayne, WLS in Chicago, WNOX in Knoxville, WWWE in Cleveland, KDKA in Pittsburgh, etc., and the network O&Os in New York. Yes, they were all commercial stations, but back then the commercials were a lot better.
Back then college radio was likely to be a carrier current AM station. (That's a type of 'transmitter' that got an audio feed from the studio over a phone line and put a fraction of a Watt of AM back down its power cord to the wall socket so as to use the dorm's electrical wiring as an antenna/distribution system. You could even pick it up on a car radio within 20 feet or so of the building.)
I guess the people responsible for not planning the Iraq war have gone on to careers in advertising. Well, that's where a lot of the people who helped Nixon make his administration such a travesty came from, so I guess it's sort of a coming full circle sort of thing.
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Back in the late '60s and early '70s here in NC road signs directing one to the community(ies) of Fuquay-Varina tended to disappear from the roadside on a regular basis. :-)
Yes, there is more to it than that. If the speaker attached to the line by the person doing the wiretapping is physically right next to the microphone built into the handset of the telephone being tapped, then it would be picking up almost exactly the same audio as the telephone's mouthpiece and, depending upon polarity (which end of the speaker's coil is attached to which of the two wires of the telephone line), either would subtract from or add to the audio signal on the wire.
However, someone who attaches a speaker to your phone line so as to be able to listen to your conversations is probably going to position it and themselves far enough away from you and your telephone that any soundwaves falling upon the speaker cone and causing it to act as a microphone won't be coming from you. I do not know if the voltage level produced by the speaker would be high enough for you or the person on the other end of your call to hear it, but which way around the speaker is connected to the line won't have any affect on that. If they connect that speaker *after* you have already begun the call you may well be able to hear a "click" and/or a volume drop due to an additional load being attached to the line.
Speaking of Tivo, the original poster's collection of drives sounds just right for increasing storage on a whole bunch of Series 1 and 2 Tivos.
Murrow.
It matters not in which country you are, but through which country (or countries) the data stream passes.
...call it "Guaranteed Information Delivery Protocol"...But at least we get to pronounce GIDP as "giddyup". :-)
Specifically, it was the Baptist churches.
Does that mean that you've confused both Journey and Aerosmith with The Commodores? :-)
Are you sure that it isn't just that they basically want to be non-starving?
I really do suspect that most of them, if they could be just as well off (money, safety and a future for their kids, etc.) back home, would be outta here like a shot.
Now you've done it. The Tin Foil Beanie Brigade is now convinced that the Trilateral Commission is tracking them through their cell phones. :-)
When you have discrete, countable units (like cups of water as opposed to just water) a decrease in that count means fewer, not less, of whatever.
The business model is that they (or their affiliates) get to use the airwaves which belong to the people as long as they are deemed to be acting "in the public interest". This allows selling a certain amount of advertising time to pay for operations and just like movie theaters show movies that the studios and not they make money on so that people will come in and buy popcorn, television stations show entertainment so that people are watching when they slip in the ads (which is what makes the ad time worth buying in the first place, an audience). Just like the ads in newspapers and magazines (which cover most of the cost of publishing), some will be ignored and some "consumed".
People who record for time-shifting purposes will fast-forward through the commercials or not as they wish and the advertisers haven't really lost anything because those people were doing something else when the show actually aired. The stations may even benefit because going to your kid's band concert didn't cause you to give up watching "Lost" or "24" on an ongoing basis due to losing track of the storyline because of not being available to watch in real-time that one particular evening.
I find it difficult to believe that many people who are able to use a VCR or DVR for time-shifting will prefer to go to the trouble of searching for and downloading what may or may not be a good quality recording just to avoid having to hit the fast forward button, especially if they have to shell out for extra hardware in order to be able to watch said recording on their television sets instead of on their computer monitors.
If anything undermines the business model under which the networks currently operate, it'll most likely be that people aren't watching because there's something else they'd rather be doing or because the shows just aren't very good.
You have a brilliant and devious mind.
Pulse width modulation produces a rectangular wave. If the duty cycle is 50% then that rectangle is a square.
"...in the same vein..."
I'm assuming a simple typo on your part, but others may need to be informed as to which word you actually meant.
And now you know why God invented conduit.
And pull boxes.
F.R.E.D. is actually the acronym for "Friendly Recoton Entertainment Decoder", an aftermarket add-on MTS stereo decoder for monaural television sets which could also do psuedo-stereo on monaural broadcasts.
Of course he did.
War criminals always buy retirement property in nations from which they can't be extradited.
Back then college radio was likely to be a carrier current AM station. (That's a type of 'transmitter' that got an audio feed from the studio over a phone line and put a fraction of a Watt of AM back down its power cord to the wall socket so as to use the dorm's electrical wiring as an antenna/distribution system. You could even pick it up on a car radio within 20 feet or so of the building.)
It's a Southern thing, not so much a mistake as a regional alternative usage.
The only measurement of hers in which he is interested is bandwidth.
If there's only one grocery store in town, why would they waste money subscribing to a music-to-shop-by service?
Amen.