Under GSM, you'd have to duplicate the SIM rather than the phone. There is an "official" way to do this, whereby the phone company creates a new SIM for you with the same MSISDN (phone number) but different IMSI (SIM number - the phone network actually works on the basis of IMSI rather than MSISDN). A few companies offer this, mainly to make certain types of car phone easier to use.
It's also possible to crack some (but not all) SIMs to get "Ki", the shared secret. Having done this, making a duplicate SIM is fairly easy. This will only work on networks which use the COMP128-1 algorithm to generate the session authentication and encryption key. This algorithm is not a part of the GSM standard, and does not have enough entropy, which means it's vulnerable to brute-force attack in a few hours. Most GSM operators avoid COMP128-1 for this reason.
Modem? You were lucky. We had to reverse-engineer t'source code to gcc from the blurb on the outside of the Slackware box we were living in on t'hard shoulder of the information super-byway.
I live in the UK. Yes, the current situation is worrying, but we do only hear one side of the law on this. A while back I was in the happy position of telling an American company that our lawyers advised that it would be unlawful for us to provide certain information about our users, precisely because of the notorious RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) to which you refer (Part III). This specifies the circumstances under which you can provide information to, and hence excludes all others: in fact that was one of the reasons for bringing in the act. I believe (IANAL) that AT&T's action would be unlawful in the UK. Even if it were authorised, 28(2)(b) requires that the interception be proportionate to the purpose.
I don't want to whitewash RIPA, OTOH - for instance I've just noticed:
28(3) An authorisation is necessary on grounds falling within this subsection if it is necessary-...
(f) for the purpose of assessing or collecting any tax, duty, levy or other imposition, contribution or charge payable to a government department;
For GSM, the network will only ping it every few hours. Other than that, the network doesn't care which cell you're in within a region, as it will broadcast a request to get in contact over a region when it has an incoming call. However there are location based services which do work as you suggest - actually I believe it's a silent SMS which is used to trigger the phone to get in contact. LBS seems to work pretty accurately now - about a hundred yards, I think, in the town where I live.
Disclaimer - I work in telecoms, but not this area.
As far as I know, the only scramjet to develop enough power to sustain speed was a US experimental model which ran for 7s after a rocket launch. While UK military programmes are normally more secret than US ones, I'm pretty sure we don't have a scramjet missile.
I tried the search terms "ims nat stun" in Accoona and Google (IMS is a variation of SIP for mobile telecoms - it has a problem with NAT and STUN is a protocol which mitigates the problem). Google gave 14700 results, with the early ones all relevant. Accoona gave three (!) results, all from a single source, covering a single press release.
As I understand it, if the police request your ID card in France and you are not able to produce it, you can be imprisoned for up to three days while someone brings it to you even though there is no other reason to detain you. Can you understand how strange and objectionable this seems to us?
As I understand it, they were demonstrating in Parliament Square, which I understand to be illegal because of the danger of rioting. Given that the photographs in the sites you refer to show protestors actually on the floor of the House of Commons, I'm inclined to think that for once this is a reasonable precaution rather than anti-democratic repression.
Ah - the first I owned, though far from the first that I used (a Modular 1 with core memory). I used my Psion 3 for DTP for a church address book. As I remember it, I entered the addresses into the database, exported to the spreadsheet to sort to alphabetical order, then exported to the word processor for formatting and printing. All in 256kb of RAM and no SSD storage. Very much a real computer. I loved the way the 3 and 3a acquired a polish through long use, and the elegant design of the hinge mechanism.
I later bought an MC400 - the early "laptop" variant of the Psion 3 with a touchpad, four SSD slots and a simple windows interface. I've never used that one in anger, but it's a fun machine.
I think what they've done is to splice in the "GFP" (green fluorescent protein) gene. This is derived from jelly-fish and is commonly used as a debugging tool to test whether a vector (a virus modified to transplant genes) is working before they add the new payload. Even so, the DNA will not glow of itself, so I'm finding it difficult to see the point.
An eight-hundred year old wooden church is impressive. The place I rave about is the Pantheon in Rome. In its present form it was built in 150AD, with the main part being a cylinder about forty yards across, surmounted by a concrete dome of the same diameter with a hole at its centre. The building is still in near-perfect condition and is used as a memorial church.
IME, most users of Opera and Firefox have IE to fall back to if their prefered browser doesn't work.
I'd only ever do that with my bank. I don't use IE because it's the most popular cause of security breaches, and I particularly don't use it on sites I've never visited before for the same reason.
Well, it's a matter of usability. Studies have show that the dual-engined concept of the Atlas is easier to use for the first-time rocket scientist. The five-engine (five!) of the Saturn F1 is intrinsically confusing in those "which engine did tech support say to shut down?" moments in the control centre. Contrary to propaganda, there's native support for strapping on additional boosters if the experienced user absolutely insists, although I would argue that this still detracts from the basic usability.
Handling of exceptional conditions is less intrusive than the Saturn V: instead of an escape tower distractingly popping up over your work, you get a graceful pogoing on the launch pad. Yes, there are a few payloads that aren't yet available for the Altas V, but that's only real retro-gear dating back as far as the 60's!
Here's a gigabuck. Get yourself a real rocket, kid.
A reasonable suggestion, but it's worth remembering that a standard keyboard was originally designed to have the numeric pad used with the left hand (hence the big Enter key for the thumb) while entering columns of numbers, with the keyboard shoved over to the left and your paper work in front of you.
Twaddle. Perhaps it took you 15 years to become competent, but for most people if they get there at all, they do in a few years. Personally I think you're just being a pretentious plonker.
It's still a fun place to shop. I find the staff there far less pushy than most places, and a couple of weeks back I actually had someone knock off five pounds after I'd agreed to buy something.
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It's also possible to crack some (but not all) SIMs to get "Ki", the shared secret. Having done this, making a duplicate SIM is fairly easy. This will only work on networks which use the COMP128-1 algorithm to generate the session authentication and encryption key. This algorithm is not a part of the GSM standard, and does not have enough entropy, which means it's vulnerable to brute-force attack in a few hours. Most GSM operators avoid COMP128-1 for this reason.
They changed the definition of m. You had a modern textbook, but it's the same formula.
Modem? You were lucky. We had to reverse-engineer t'source code to gcc from the blurb on the outside of the Slackware box we were living in on t'hard shoulder of the information super-byway.
Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!
I don't want to whitewash RIPA, OTOH - for instance I've just noticed:
28(3) An authorisation is necessary on grounds falling within this subsection if it is necessary-...
(f) for the purpose of assessing or collecting any tax, duty, levy or other imposition, contribution or charge payable to a government department;
Disclaimer - I work in telecoms, but not this area.
Give? Technology costs. How much can you afford?
It's just one of those things you have to know as a NASA administrator.
A more elegant solution: if you hold the patent on the diabetes gene, you should be held responsible for all cases of diabetes, treated or not.
What - is the maximum speed of a Martian rover?
Nah, definitely not, unless you want to count this.
As far as I know, the only scramjet to develop enough power to sustain speed was a US experimental model which ran for 7s after a rocket launch. While UK military programmes are normally more secret than US ones, I'm pretty sure we don't have a scramjet missile.
Ok, 's a fair cop guv.
I tried the search terms "ims nat stun" in Accoona and Google (IMS is a variation of SIP for mobile telecoms - it has a problem with NAT and STUN is a protocol which mitigates the problem). Google gave 14700 results, with the early ones all relevant. Accoona gave three (!) results, all from a single source, covering a single press release.
Too subtle. Go for a unary clock tower 750 feet tall.
As I understand it, if the police request your ID card in France and you are not able to produce it, you can be imprisoned for up to three days while someone brings it to you even though there is no other reason to detain you. Can you understand how strange and objectionable this seems to us?
As I understand it, they were demonstrating in Parliament Square, which I understand to be illegal because of the danger of rioting. Given that the photographs in the sites you refer to show protestors actually on the floor of the House of Commons, I'm inclined to think that for once this is a reasonable precaution rather than anti-democratic repression.
I later bought an MC400 - the early "laptop" variant of the Psion 3 with a touchpad, four SSD slots and a simple windows interface. I've never used that one in anger, but it's a fun machine.
I think what they've done is to splice in the "GFP" (green fluorescent protein) gene. This is derived from jelly-fish and is commonly used as a debugging tool to test whether a vector (a virus modified to transplant genes) is working before they add the new payload. Even so, the DNA will not glow of itself, so I'm finding it difficult to see the point.
An eight-hundred year old wooden church is impressive. The place I rave about is the Pantheon in Rome. In its present form it was built in 150AD, with the main part being a cylinder about forty yards across, surmounted by a concrete dome of the same diameter with a hole at its centre. The building is still in near-perfect condition and is used as a memorial church.
I'd only ever do that with my bank. I don't use IE because it's the most popular cause of security breaches, and I particularly don't use it on sites I've never visited before for the same reason.
Handling of exceptional conditions is less intrusive than the Saturn V: instead of an escape tower distractingly popping up over your work, you get a graceful pogoing on the launch pad. Yes, there are a few payloads that aren't yet available for the Altas V, but that's only real retro-gear dating back as far as the 60's!
Here's a gigabuck. Get yourself a real rocket, kid.
A reasonable suggestion, but it's worth remembering that a standard keyboard was originally designed to have the numeric pad used with the left hand (hence the big Enter key for the thumb) while entering columns of numbers, with the keyboard shoved over to the left and your paper work in front of you.
Twaddle. Perhaps it took you 15 years to become competent, but for most people if they get there at all, they do in a few years. Personally I think you're just being a pretentious plonker.
It's still a fun place to shop. I find the staff there far less pushy than most places, and a couple of weeks back I actually had someone knock off five pounds after I'd agreed to buy something.