Weather observation ballons have been known to be tethered at decent altitudes. There's one 17 miles northeast of Key West, FL that floats 17000ft up, tied to a cable.
Now, granted, 17000 !== 68000, but it is 1/4 of the distance... if they can make cabling strong enough for that, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they figure out some process to allow them to run even higher.
These things are well published on aeronautical charts, so it's not like they're fired up randomly. "Fsck, where'd that come from?"
Wasn't it ROTT that would display "You need to get a 486:)" when you minimized the viewing area to increase game speed on your krad 386DX DR-DOS box?
I remember running ROTT on a pentium several years later... it was still fun on a multi-player level, just much much faster, heh. Those tramp-o-leens saved my ass many many times, all while managing to piss off whomever was chasing me.
Not really, they'll probably continue business, just under a different name. That's the problem with modern corporate structure. When individuals become shielded from liability, there's little to no accountability.
Fsck that.YOU can start a business, get sued for an ungodly sum, and lose all your personal assets if you want to, but I'm going to stay incorporated.
I'm not about shirking your accountability, but jesus... Losing your house, your car, and anything the creditors can sell to get cash is not the way to go.
I dont doubt that you are suspicious of what I posted. However, I was in the cockpit and I heard the phone call. We then had the flight attendants go back and find the woman - she described where she was to her caller friend when complaining about the engine noise.
You are correct about the variances in frequencies, but I know what my ears heard, sir.
In fact, the frequencies for aviation are:
NAV -- 108.000-117.950 MHz
COM -- 118.000-136.975 MHz
You can actually dial in 108.00 on your nav receiver, turn on the ident, and listen to bleed-through from the upper-range FM stations using older analog transmitter equipment.
Now, if you look at my original post, I never said "this is how it happened, why it happened, with a schematic." I just said it happened.
If you'd like to debate it further, I'm willing to dive into the technical details with you... the mechanics and engineering crew that descended upon the aircraft during its next progressive inspection were very interested in the issue, since the pilot wrote it up in the logbook. (in case you're unfamiliar, a logbook write-up leads to paperwork which leads to the FAA... follow the papertrail)
Years later, I was on a plane that still had the system installed (but turned off). The rumor around the office was that it cost $250K to remove the now-dead system from a plane, and the airlines weren't willing to foot the bill, so the dead system stayed in planes for years to come.
Well, sure. All that crap was installed and computed in the zero-fuel weight of the aircraft. In order to remove it, you'd need to pay the mechanics to yank the parts out, drain the fuel (ALL the fuel - in the tanks, the fuel lines, etc), re-weigh the aircraft, resubmit the paperwork to the FAA in order to get the work approved, and possibly repeat a step if the feds dont like something.
Never underestimate the red tape mess the FAA is capable of producing. Such a task could take an aircraft out of service for quite some time. Ask anyone in aviation; a plane that's not flying isn't making you money and could be costing you instead.
I work for a domestic carrier in the US, and one day while flying jumpseat to get to a conference we had one of the passengers sneak in a call on her cell phone, which somehow got into unsheilded wires and broadcast clear-as-day onto the aircraft's comm gear. It wasn't transmitting from us out to the world, mind you, but we could hear her conversation.
additionally, I've heard that the reason CDRoms and discman players and the like are banned is due to the frequency wandering those things emit when spinning up/down and the interruption it causes with precision approach gear. I dont know how true that is.
See, the thing is, if you made it out of those parabolic dish-thingies, it'd be really, really tough to modify the deflector dish to interface with the sensor array, and emit a neutrino pulse into the heart of the anomaly.
Point of order, Mr Weaton.
You are officially cheating, using your knowledge of technobabble to gain karma.
That's dirty pool in my book, insider.
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Requesting that a user update their browser merely to view your site is bad coding.
A pet peeve of mine is when a site says you need to be in a certain resolution to use their site.
What happened to designing your site for the widest possible group of users?
Hear hear! Personally I'd like to see the US withdraw from the UN and tell them to find another country to hold their parties in, then withdraw all military forces to US soil, to be used only to totally annihilate any nation that invades the country or blows up parts of it. Then tell the rest of the world to go clean up their own damn mess.
Right on... I'll just happily move into that underground bunker I've been constructing in my backyard when the fallout makes the surface totally uninhabitable.... Maybe I'd better bone up on my plate welding skills to thicken the walls some more...
is the fact that Morrig here is having a discussion with an AC. Not that I agree with Morrig in the sightest, but come on - if you're going to disagree and post... grow some nuts and have accountability for your words.
Just don't carry around any floppy disks or people with pacemakers and you should be fine.
Can you imagine the mayhem you'd cause just by driving through a retire community? Or, hell, your local airport. I'm sure that 1.21 jigawatts:) radiating from the underside of your car would cause interesting results with an ILS approach corridor.
You would think that a letter from someone in management would at least be written properly. Why would you compose a letter representing the company without doing some checks/proofing on it... ?
I thought this type of fraud/theft of cable service fell under the jurisdiction of the Secret Service?
Since 1984, our investigative responsibilities have expanded to include crimes that involve financial institution fraud, computer and telecommunications fraud, false identification documents, access device fraud, advance fee fraud, electronic funds transfers, and money laundering
Emphasis is mine. Is this going to happen more in the future, I wonder, with agencies hopping jurisdiction lines whenever they want to? Perhaps this was routed to the FBI because attention was wanted drawn to this. I can't recall ever hearing about the Secret Service in the news except in regards to the President.
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Is there an mp3 setting that is essentially just a wave file?
Heh, yeah, it's called "Write to disk"
So, uh, what happens when they migrate south for the winter? You go back to dialup?
Weather observation ballons have been known to be tethered at decent altitudes. There's one 17 miles northeast of Key West, FL that floats 17000ft up, tied to a cable.
Now, granted, 17000 !== 68000, but it is 1/4 of the distance... if they can make cabling strong enough for that, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they figure out some process to allow them to run even higher.
These things are well published on aeronautical charts, so it's not like they're fired up randomly. "Fsck, where'd that come from?"
Wasn't it ROTT that would display "You need to get a 486 :)" when you minimized the viewing area to increase game speed on your krad 386DX DR-DOS box?
I remember running ROTT on a pentium several years later... it was still fun on a multi-player level, just much much faster, heh. Those tramp-o-leens saved my ass many many times, all while managing to piss off whomever was chasing me.
Not really, they'll probably continue business, just under a different name. That's the problem with modern corporate structure. When individuals become shielded from liability, there's little to no accountability.
Fsck that.YOU can start a business, get sued for an ungodly sum, and lose all your personal assets if you want to, but I'm going to stay incorporated.
I'm not about shirking your accountability, but jesus... Losing your house, your car, and anything the creditors can sell to get cash is not the way to go.
I dont doubt that you are suspicious of what I posted. However, I was in the cockpit and I heard the phone call. We then had the flight attendants go back and find the woman - she described where she was to her caller friend when complaining about the engine noise.
You are correct about the variances in frequencies, but I know what my ears heard, sir.
In fact, the frequencies for aviation are:
NAV -- 108.000-117.950 MHz
COM -- 118.000-136.975 MHz
You can actually dial in 108.00 on your nav receiver, turn on the ident, and listen to bleed-through from the upper-range FM stations using older analog transmitter equipment.
Now, if you look at my original post, I never said "this is how it happened, why it happened, with a schematic." I just said it happened.
If you'd like to debate it further, I'm willing to dive into the technical details with you... the mechanics and engineering crew that descended upon the aircraft during its next progressive inspection were very interested in the issue, since the pilot wrote it up in the logbook. (in case you're unfamiliar, a logbook write-up leads to paperwork which leads to the FAA... follow the papertrail)
Years later, I was on a plane that still had the system installed (but turned off). The rumor around the office was that it cost $250K to remove the now-dead system from a plane, and the airlines weren't willing to foot the bill, so the dead system stayed in planes for years to come.
Well, sure. All that crap was installed and computed in the zero-fuel weight of the aircraft. In order to remove it, you'd need to pay the mechanics to yank the parts out, drain the fuel (ALL the fuel - in the tanks, the fuel lines, etc), re-weigh the aircraft, resubmit the paperwork to the FAA in order to get the work approved, and possibly repeat a step if the feds dont like something.
Never underestimate the red tape mess the FAA is capable of producing. Such a task could take an aircraft out of service for quite some time. Ask anyone in aviation; a plane that's not flying isn't making you money and could be costing you instead.
I work for a domestic carrier in the US, and one day while flying jumpseat to get to a conference we had one of the passengers sneak in a call on her cell phone, which somehow got into unsheilded wires and broadcast clear-as-day onto the aircraft's comm gear. It wasn't transmitting from us out to the world, mind you, but we could hear her conversation.
additionally, I've heard that the reason CDRoms and discman players and the like are banned is due to the frequency wandering those things emit when spinning up/down and the interruption it causes with precision approach gear. I dont know how true that is.
What's worse is they're going to push and push and take away rights under the guise of 'public safety' or some shit and it will come to a head.
America in the past has risen up to say 'fsck you' to overwhelming repression and hopefully it will again.
The most insightful quote I ever heard was Sean Connery in Red October.... "A little revolution now and then is a good thing."
America needs a revolution, and needs one soon. I have no desire for my children live with the burden of pencil-pushers dictating their lives.
See, the thing is, if you made it out of those parabolic dish-thingies, it'd be really, really tough to modify the deflector dish to interface with the sensor array, and emit a neutrino pulse into the heart of the anomaly.
Point of order, Mr Weaton.
You are officially cheating, using your knowledge of technobabble to gain karma.
That's dirty pool in my book, insider.
Requesting that a user update their browser merely to view your site is bad coding.
A pet peeve of mine is when a site says you need to be in a certain resolution to use their site.
What happened to designing your site for the widest possible group of users?
What Apple needs to do is a photo shoot with Ellen and Janie. They'd sell a shitload of computers....
and a lot of hand lotion.
Do you realize what this means?
/. people actually read the article BEFORE posting.
For ONCE in the history of
Holy shit...
heh. I particularly enjoyed this part.
Hear hear! Personally I'd like to see the US withdraw from the UN and tell them to find another country to hold their parties in, then withdraw all military forces to US soil, to be used only to totally annihilate any nation that invades the country or blows up parts of it. Then tell the rest of the world to go clean up their own damn mess.
Right on... I'll just happily move into that underground bunker I've been constructing in my backyard when the fallout makes the surface totally uninhabitable.... Maybe I'd better bone up on my plate welding skills to thicken the walls some more...
I find it enormously funny that you use
:)
a bank of nics
and
a hell of a home router
in the same sentence.... exactly how many subnets do you have in your home network, sir?
What may be MORE irresponsible is /. posting a link to Wired posting a link to the exploit for all the l33t script kiddies here.
No, wait... there's no script kiddies here. Only hax0rz with K-rad XP boxen.
is the fact that Morrig here is having a discussion with an AC. Not that I agree with Morrig in the sightest, but come on - if you're going to disagree and post... grow some nuts and have accountability for your words.
Sorry to break the news to Georgia....
No matter how much they shout at the roaches on the table, they won't combine to form another blunt.
Sadly.
Just don't carry around any floppy disks or people with pacemakers and you should be fine.
Can you imagine the mayhem you'd cause just by driving through a retire community? Or, hell, your local airport. I'm sure that 1.21 jigawatts
nope, negative.
you think that the phone and the tower only talk when you're placing a call?
you think that's air you're breathing now? hm.
You would think that a letter from someone in management would at least be written properly. Why would you compose a letter representing the company without doing some checks/proofing on it... ?
uh.
You'd have to know their internal IP setup. Granted, most are probably 192.168.0.0/24, but you still have other private IP ranges.
Also, the websites that would pull this kind of stunt aren't the typical ones that Joe User would go to normally, you know?
I thought this type of fraud/theft of cable service fell under the jurisdiction of the Secret Service?
Since 1984, our investigative responsibilities have expanded to include crimes that involve financial institution fraud, computer and telecommunications fraud, false identification documents, access device fraud, advance fee fraud, electronic funds transfers, and money laundering
Emphasis is mine. Is this going to happen more in the future, I wonder, with agencies hopping jurisdiction lines whenever they want to? Perhaps this was routed to the FBI because attention was wanted drawn to this. I can't recall ever hearing about the Secret Service in the news except in regards to the President.
Since when does no air == no friction?
If you take two sticks into space and rub 'em they're still going to wear against each other. No?
Always on the lookout for the dreaded /. effect, now we have 5 copies posted on the board.