Never heard of that, the EZPass system we have in houston reads your tag AND your license plate as you blow by at 65 MPH (the speed limit) but I have seen people (ahem) regularly blow through there at 70-80 with no problems.
And they do read the plates, I got pulled over when I changed my plate number, but didn't remember to let the tag agency know about it... one week (and about 6 runs through the ez tag lane), I got pulled over by the cops as I went through the lane...
I thought I was getting a speeding ticket, but they just wrote me a warning that I needed to contact the tag agency.
To see this particular nigerian money laundering scheme?
I first saw one of these via SNAIL mail back in 1991!!! Since I was fresh out of school, studing lasers, there were many jokes around the office of our small company about us designing a 'Nigerian Defense Initative', with Ground Based Lasers on the corners of the building...
You could imagine my disgust when I started getting the same damn letter via email 10 years later... I guess there are some gullible idiots out there who keep the thing alive... but wow!
That would be with the cell-jammer design, the design for my system put them in the $500 range...
But I digress...
As long as the fellow with the rifle is shooting at mines, not at our soldiers, or are planes, or anything else with people in it, I'd say we are winning, for sure.
As an after though, it should be possible to determine where he is at, based on which sensors he is taking out... call in an air strike or artillery.
Military types have a healthy faciniation with 'Mission'. Anything else is simply a distraction. Doing it cheaply (from a people perspective) is #1. Cheap from a $$$ perspective is a close 2nd, though.
It is FAR cheaper (given the procededing logic) to strew $10k 'sensors' all over the place, than it would be to station a couple of hundred guys with the Mark-1 Eyeball out in the dark, making sure bad guys don't sneak onto an air base and take out the bombers...
SUPER COOL!!!! How long ago was this implemented. do you know?
So, how come we never hear about this when the Anti-Military/Anti Mine folks whine about the evils of the Military and its horrible maming of civilians with their EVIL MINES!!!!
That was sarcasm, as we know text does not route sarcasm well...
Not if you can make them cheap enough that you can have considerable overlap in coverage.
if your maximum p2p range is 500 feet, and you have dropped these sensors every 100 feet, it would take a sharpshooter a LOT of ammo to make a big enough hole in this thing to sneak through... and by then, someone has already noticed that sensors have started malfunctioning in a strange way...
the original design used Infrared p2p in a matrix... all the sensors would 'ping' to find the closest sensor, the sensors closest to the main 'brain' of the bunch were connected to the mini-gun/rail gun at the permiter of the base/airfield you are tring to keep infiltrators out of.
Driving 'fast' through the area was not though to be much of an issue, because at that point, you arn't trying to infiltrate, you have gone from a covert to an overt mode of operation.
Also, you would use a diffrent type of mine setup to take out cars/jeeps/tanks.
This one was strictly anti personal.
Hard to jam, even with radio, however, unless your high powered transmitter is right up on the minefield. And then I can just use radio triagulation to arty your jammer into the ground:)
I went on to design some pretty cool OC-48 and OC-192 Internet Backbones:)
And I still havn't gotten around to going back and getting a degree....:O
The other fellow is right about sharpshooters, I had designed my sensors to look like mushrooms or rocks.
A burrowing mine was also conidered, after I presented my paper.:)
This type of mine field is also not a Denial of Area system, like you would use with tank mines, it is designed to prevent infiltrators, accross a large area, with the minimum number of people.
Picture now that these devices are equiped not only with wireless, but also with infrared and motion sensors.
Slave these to a smart 'expert' system, that creates a 'map' of the area over which they have been spread. Now you can 'see' when anyone intrudes into that area.
Slave THAT to some artilery (or better yet, a jeep towed high energy rail gun;) ), and you have just created a mine field that can be abandond without worring about hurting civilians afterwards.
I wrote a high end overview of such a system for my technical writing class in 1989... As I recall, I got a 'D' for it, because my diagrams were not good enough. Ahh, I wish I could have had Visio back then!
I really like how cities could end up preying on each other for the life extending drugs... The guy at the NASA-like government agency, who only took on the 'anti gravity' project as a way to increase his funding, and keep his beuracracy alive... And best off all, the Algebreic manipulation for the Gravity Formula that made the spindizzy possible...
(well, maybe not my TV) The toaster toasts my bread so I don't have to, and I don't have to pay it to do it for me.
My computer does a lot of menial book keeping tasks, and I don't have to pay it.
Don't confuse the concept of slavery with having a slave device... Slaves were the original labor saving device. It could be argued technology allowed us to dispense with the practice, but the fact of the matter is, we still don't do the task ourselves, we slaved the task to something else to make our lives easier.
Interesting, we will shift from an economy based on merit and work, to one based on slave labor?
The author talks about jobs lost, what he should have said is jobs will be shifted... Even today, a lot of people get to go to college... when you can replace a prof with a good robot, the barrier to access to a high quality education is dropped, and everyone can be a PhD!
Jobs will shift to support the new slave labor population, Laws will be passed, prohibiting the automation of certain jobs... Labor unions will become poweful again...
Is this another example of us doing something because we can, not because we should?
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Just switch to a REAL free OS, FreeBSD, it was created specificly to get around any and all posible licensing issues with the original Unix brand...
And since it is capable of translating linux kernel calls,shouldn't take very long to rehost the whole site (maybe a few weeks?)
well, it only goes to show you, them boys in texas can't be too dumb... :D
Never heard of that, the EZPass system we have in houston reads your tag AND your license plate as you blow by at 65 MPH (the speed limit) but I have seen people (ahem) regularly blow through there at 70-80 with no problems.
And they do read the plates, I got pulled over when I changed my plate number, but didn't remember to let the tag agency know about it... one week (and about 6 runs through the ez tag lane), I got pulled over by the cops as I went through the lane...
I thought I was getting a speeding ticket, but they just wrote me a warning that I needed to contact the tag agency.
Cool, someone brought back Elija... I loved that basic program!!!
Buick Grand Nationals from a few years back were turboed 6s...
I bought a Belikin 54G WAP in April, I had NO problems disabling this feature...
I thought it was actually really clever that they let you know it was available...
Too bad some people are stupid...
To see this particular nigerian money laundering scheme?
I first saw one of these via SNAIL mail back in 1991!!! Since I was fresh out of school, studing lasers, there were many jokes around the office of our small company about us designing a 'Nigerian Defense Initative', with Ground Based Lasers on the corners of the building...
You could imagine my disgust when I started getting the same damn letter via email 10 years later... I guess there are some gullible idiots out there who keep the thing alive... but wow!
Texas City was a nice one too...
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http://www.copi.com/articles/mk_fitb.rtf
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http://www.btinternet.com/~gentry/WebMedia/Were
http://www.borderlands.com/archives/arch/gavrea
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/658
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/issues/Nonletha
http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/non_lethal_death
Do i really need to go on?
FreeBSD has had good PCI ATM support since 1999 or so...
I used it for building IP over ATM test gear in the Williams labs back then... worked great!
This will be out in stores shortly as the Game Shark Media Player...
Supports Linux!!!
Works with your PS/2... GREAT PICTURE on my big screen, lots of features, plays DivX,Xvid,mp3s and still picture slide show...
A STEAL at $50....
Only one word for that...
DAMN......
Hahahaaaa!!!!
This is amazingly funny!
I'm laughing all the way to the bank....
Thank Ya, Thank Ya Very Much!
CRAP MAN!!! If they can EMP it, I think worring about an infilration team is the LEAST of our worries!!!!
hahahaaaa
Thanks for the feedback!
That would be with the cell-jammer design, the design for my system put them in the $500 range...
But I digress...
As long as the fellow with the rifle is shooting at mines, not at our soldiers, or are planes, or anything else with people in it, I'd say we are winning, for sure.
As an after though, it should be possible to determine where he is at, based on which sensors he is taking out... call in an air strike or artillery.
Military types have a healthy faciniation with 'Mission'. Anything else is simply a distraction. Doing it cheaply (from a people perspective) is #1. Cheap from a $$$ perspective is a close 2nd, though.
It is FAR cheaper (given the procededing logic) to strew $10k 'sensors' all over the place, than it would be to station a couple of hundred guys with the Mark-1 Eyeball out in the dark, making sure bad guys don't sneak onto an air base and take out the bombers...
SUPER COOL!!!!
How long ago was this implemented. do you know?
So, how come we never hear about this when the Anti-Military/Anti Mine folks whine about the evils of the Military and its horrible maming of civilians with their EVIL MINES!!!!
That was sarcasm, as we know text does not route sarcasm well...
See - A diffrent answer
Not if you can make them cheap enough that you can have considerable overlap in coverage.
if your maximum p2p range is 500 feet, and you have dropped these sensors every 100 feet, it would take a sharpshooter a LOT of ammo to make a big enough hole in this thing to sneak through... and by then, someone has already noticed that sensors have started malfunctioning in a strange way...
the original design used Infrared p2p in a matrix... all the sensors would 'ping' to find the closest sensor, the sensors closest to the main 'brain' of the bunch were connected to the mini-gun/rail gun at the permiter of the base/airfield you are tring to keep infiltrators out of.
:)
Driving 'fast' through the area was not though to be much of an issue, because at that point, you arn't trying to infiltrate, you have gone from a covert to an overt mode of operation.
Also, you would use a diffrent type of mine setup to take out cars/jeeps/tanks.
This one was strictly anti personal.
Hard to jam, even with radio, however, unless your high powered transmitter is right up on the minefield. And then I can just use radio triagulation to arty your jammer into the ground
Oh, it didn't discourage me at all...
:)
:O
:)
I went on to design some pretty cool OC-48 and OC-192 Internet Backbones
And I still havn't gotten around to going back and getting a degree....
The other fellow is right about sharpshooters, I had designed my sensors to look like mushrooms or rocks.
A burrowing mine was also conidered, after I presented my paper.
This type of mine field is also not a Denial of Area system, like you would use with tank mines, it is designed to prevent infiltrators, accross a large area, with the minimum number of people.
Picture now that these devices are equiped not only with wireless, but also with infrared and motion sensors.
;) ), and you have just created a mine field that can be abandond without worring about hurting civilians afterwards.
Slave these to a smart 'expert' system, that creates a 'map' of the area over which they have been spread. Now you can 'see' when anyone intrudes into that area.
Slave THAT to some artilery (or better yet, a jeep towed high energy rail gun
I wrote a high end overview of such a system for my technical writing class in 1989... As I recall, I got a 'D' for it, because my diagrams were not good enough. Ahh, I wish I could have had Visio back then!
That was a GREAT book...
I really like how cities could end up preying on each other for the life extending drugs... The guy at the NASA-like government agency, who only took on the 'anti gravity' project as a way to increase his funding, and keep his beuracracy alive... And best off all, the Algebreic manipulation for the Gravity Formula that made the spindizzy possible...
woo hooo!
strictly speaking, yes. :)
(well, maybe not my TV)
The toaster toasts my bread so I don't have to, and I don't have to pay it to do it for me.
My computer does a lot of menial book keeping tasks, and I don't have to pay it.
Don't confuse the concept of slavery with having a slave device... Slaves were the original labor saving device. It could be argued technology allowed us to dispense with the practice, but the fact of the matter is, we still don't do the task ourselves, we slaved the task to something else to make our lives easier.
Interesting, we will shift from an economy based on merit and work, to one based on slave labor?
The author talks about jobs lost, what he should have said is jobs will be shifted... Even today, a lot of people get to go to college... when you can replace a prof with a good robot, the barrier to access to a high quality education is dropped, and everyone can be a PhD!
Jobs will shift to support the new slave labor population, Laws will be passed, prohibiting the automation of certain jobs... Labor unions will become poweful again...
Is this another example of us doing something because we can, not because we should?
Man, bringing back the memories.... Running my ISP on a SUNOS Sparc10....
:) Happy 10th B-day!
Needed something for a news server, and we tried the 1st rev of slackware....
Worked great, until the 1st time it crashed.... File system corrupted on reboot.... (sigh)
Reinstalled and rebuilt about 5 times, finally gave up and install FBSD...
I still go back and install linux about once a year, just to make sure I'm not missing anything...