Typical drone ground stations w will use circular polarized, directional antennas for live video signal, however you won't have a CP directional on the drone (for obvious reasons) and will use omni directional instead (not very directional). This means that it's pretty easy to disrupt a 1.3, 2.4 and 5.8GHz signal (or even 900MHz) with simple, cheap hobby gear when you're closer to the drone than the operator.
For control (usually 433MHz or 2.4GHz), you won't be using directional antennas on either end-point. Therefore, it's pretty simple to disrupt that signal using cheap, hobby gear as well.
You're right about the GPS when using autopilot and waypoints, that's another story. GPS receivers on most drones can only be disrupted when there's a strong RF signal (or resulting harmonic) in the drone's near vicinity. I'm not sure what kind of gear you would need to blast a point in the sky with ~1500MHz to disrupt the GPS.
Commonly used GPS units on drones rely on GPS lock to function. These are also radio frequencies which can be overwhelmed in small areas. I know this because using an overpowered 1.2GHz transmitter on the drone will negatively effect GPS satellite lock. Knock the sat lock down to below 6 and you got yourself a lost drone.
You can detect the drones by monitoring commonly used radio frequencies, like 433MHz, 900MHz, 1.3GHz, 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz. It's not hard to flood those frequencies with plenty of noise to disrupt control as well as video stream. I would guess these drones are not flying LOS, therefore disrupting video and telemetry would make it very difficult for a drone operator to effectively maneuver, make any interesting video, and even return the drone back to safety.
They probably don't want drones simply because people will start taking drone footage to leak the activities happening on the ground.
Shouldn't the right and wrong with regard to viewing people in their private yards be all about intent? For example, if someone puts a stepladder against my fence for the purposes of observing myself in my backyard, then that person has the express intention of viewing me in a "private" area. This is what the Peeping Tom law is all about. Now, just because a drone flies over my neighborhood with a camera doesn't mean there was any intent to violate my reasonable expectation of privacy, unless the drone operator is flying over my property to purposefully observe/film me in my yard. It's also important to consider altitude; is a camera flying drone flying at 100 feet over your yard ok? 200 feet? 2000 feet? Where do you draw the line before sounding ridiculous? I have light aircraft flying over my home and yard every day at atltitudes of less than 300 feet (and I'm not near an airport). I don't know what their intentions are, but I do know that privately operated drones must strongly account for weight. You won't find serious photo gear with telephoto lenses on a private drone, whereas you can load many pounds of camera gear on light aircraft or helicopters. Look, if a drone flies over my yard at 100 feet or more and keeps moving, I just don't care. If it hovers for no apparent reason, then I'll investigate. Drafting legislature that is so broad as to say that any drone flying with a camera over any private yard is breaking the law is just plain stupid.
I've lived in both Germany and Russia. I am now under the impression that the whole "simlock" thing is a US only stupidity and just waiting for a class action lawsuit before it's finally abated.
Here in Russia, you buy the phone you want. Then you get the service you want.
OK, so you're happy with the absolute defaults that come from an apt-get (or equivalent). Good for you.
What are you talking about?
I configured all aspects of my Gnome desktop, icons, window behaviors, extension behaviors, theme, panels, etc some 4 years ago. Anytime I re-install (to a new system, another system, etc) I just copy my home directory over and I'm done.
So, if I install a new system (Fedora Core for example), it takes me 15 minutes for the install (using LAN, not a CD), 20 minutes to download/install all updates and another 2-3 minutes to copy my home directory over.
Done in less than 40 minutes and 2 reboots.
With WindowsXP, you need to think about all the security updates/reboots and running all over the web downloading the latest drivers for this or that piece of hardware. On windows, you're looking at 3-4 hours and 10-15 reboots. No thanks.
From this story at TIME.com, it says, "Putin has said repeatedly he respects the constitution that requires him to step down."
Any thoughts from within? Inflation is going through the roof. Apartment rents that were $200 2 years ago are $600 today. Salaries have also gone up, but not to match the increase of real estate.
Corruption is everywhere. Everyone breaks the law. So many thugs and no one to police them.
Everyone feels that Putin is no longer suited to lead the country. Sure, everyone loved him a few years ago, but now they realize they need someone more modern since everything is flying towards Democracy.
So if the royalty price that AllofMP3 offered was not enough, does that mean that AllofMP3 can go ahead with their business model and not pay anything at all?
But this is exactly what did happen...Shame on AllofMP3 for selling products which did not belong to them nor had rights to sell.
p.s. I live in Russia
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...FC sucks even more
What the hell are you going on about? You keep telling us that Fedora sucks over and over without a single reason? You sound more like an idiot than someone who should be listened to.
I don't think any linux distro "sucks". I have been using Redhat since version 5.2. Now, I use Fedora Core(3-6) in 3 different data centers on three different continents. One Fedora group runs the 3rd largest gaming website. Another Fedora group runs our data center that powers the entire backend of an ISP leader in a city of 6 million. I have had zero stability/security issues (not a single crash).
People often recommend to me this distro or that version of xBSD for "stability reasons". I find these recommendations idiotic and in fact it just tells me that the person recommending is a junior level or below sysadmin. If you are a good sysadmin, then stability and security has less to do with the distro and more to do with what kernel and what packages you are using.
and therein lies one of American's biggest problems:
I'm an American, but moved to Europe several years ago. I currently live in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The whole "wacko apartment" thing is fairly non-existent here.
As an example, here in St Pete, if you want to go anywhere, just stick out your arm. A car will immediately stop to take you where you want to go for an extremely reasonable price. This sort of thing wouldn't last 5 seconds in the States without people getting robbed, raped or murdered.
I feel very safe here, even walking around the slums.
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Do you understand that using a single RSA style dongle for multiple places is a huge risk?
It's not a huge risk if you're simply using the dongle as a second factor.
I agree. It's probably just kids with Phantoms doing crap they shouldn't be doing in the first place - not serious hobbyists.
Typical drone ground stations w will use circular polarized, directional antennas for live video signal, however you won't have a CP directional on the drone (for obvious reasons) and will use omni directional instead (not very directional). This means that it's pretty easy to disrupt a 1.3, 2.4 and 5.8GHz signal (or even 900MHz) with simple, cheap hobby gear when you're closer to the drone than the operator.
For control (usually 433MHz or 2.4GHz), you won't be using directional antennas on either end-point. Therefore, it's pretty simple to disrupt that signal using cheap, hobby gear as well.
You're right about the GPS when using autopilot and waypoints, that's another story. GPS receivers on most drones can only be disrupted when there's a strong RF signal (or resulting harmonic) in the drone's near vicinity. I'm not sure what kind of gear you would need to blast a point in the sky with ~1500MHz to disrupt the GPS.
Commonly used GPS units on drones rely on GPS lock to function. These are also radio frequencies which can be overwhelmed in small areas. I know this because using an overpowered 1.2GHz transmitter on the drone will negatively effect GPS satellite lock. Knock the sat lock down to below 6 and you got yourself a lost drone.
You can detect the drones by monitoring commonly used radio frequencies, like 433MHz, 900MHz, 1.3GHz, 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz. It's not hard to flood those frequencies with plenty of noise to disrupt control as well as video stream. I would guess these drones are not flying LOS, therefore disrupting video and telemetry would make it very difficult for a drone operator to effectively maneuver, make any interesting video, and even return the drone back to safety.
They probably don't want drones simply because people will start taking drone footage to leak the activities happening on the ground.
Shouldn't the right and wrong with regard to viewing people in their private yards be all about intent? For example, if someone puts a stepladder against my fence for the purposes of observing myself in my backyard, then that person has the express intention of viewing me in a "private" area. This is what the Peeping Tom law is all about.
Now, just because a drone flies over my neighborhood with a camera doesn't mean there was any intent to violate my reasonable expectation of privacy, unless the drone operator is flying over my property to purposefully observe/film me in my yard. It's also important to consider altitude; is a camera flying drone flying at 100 feet over your yard ok? 200 feet? 2000 feet? Where do you draw the line before sounding ridiculous?
I have light aircraft flying over my home and yard every day at atltitudes of less than 300 feet (and I'm not near an airport). I don't know what their intentions are, but I do know that privately operated drones must strongly account for weight. You won't find serious photo gear with telephoto lenses on a private drone, whereas you can load many pounds of camera gear on light aircraft or helicopters.
Look, if a drone flies over my yard at 100 feet or more and keeps moving, I just don't care. If it hovers for no apparent reason, then I'll investigate. Drafting legislature that is so broad as to say that any drone flying with a camera over any private yard is breaking the law is just plain stupid.
I haven't been on Slashdot in years, but I can see that the trolls are still out in force. One day...
..that these people are still living in the stone age.
Marketing and Sales.
I've lived in both Germany and Russia. I am now under the impression that the whole "simlock" thing is a US only stupidity and just waiting for a class action lawsuit before it's finally abated.
Here in Russia, you buy the phone you want. Then you get the service you want.
I can't think of a smarter method than that.
here in Russia, you can buy a 5 digit ICQ number for 600 rubles ($20).
Yawns are typically extremely contagious when a close friend or family member yawns.
The closer the person is to you (wife, child, etc), the more contagious the yawn will be.
Doesn't everybody know that? I guess the Mythbusters didn't.
OK, so you're happy with the absolute defaults that come from an apt-get (or equivalent). Good for you.
What are you talking about?
I configured all aspects of my Gnome desktop, icons, window behaviors, extension behaviors, theme, panels, etc some 4 years ago. Anytime I re-install (to a new system, another system, etc) I just copy my home directory over and I'm done.
So, if I install a new system (Fedora Core for example), it takes me 15 minutes for the install (using LAN, not a CD), 20 minutes to download/install all updates and another 2-3 minutes to copy my home directory over.
Done in less than 40 minutes and 2 reboots.
With WindowsXP, you need to think about all the security updates/reboots and running all over the web downloading the latest drivers for this or that piece of hardware. On windows, you're looking at 3-4 hours and 10-15 reboots. No thanks.
I'm curious about something.
Other than kernel 2.0.x (10+ years ago), has Linux ever had a kernel bug that was exploitable remotely?
I apologize for the incorrect link above.
Here is the correct link for the step by step
Sheesh, windows users are so damn unimaginative.
Simply do VNC over an SSH tunnel. I seriously doubt that you have to worry about port 22 being blocked, and all of your packets will be encrypted.
and yes, you can do this in windows with putty (windows ssh package) and vncviewer.exe.
Look here for a step by step how do to this
later that day...(if using SMS)
"Honey, I'm home!"
"Great, did you get the items I asked you to buy?"
"What items? Oh, looks like I have a new SMS on my phone.. Oh it's you. oops!"
The movie Antitrust had many things right.
If I remember correctly, it had real gnome desktops, actual C and HTML code and showed *nix command line operation that made sense.
Linux users are not a class interest. They are not a community. They're people who happen to use Linux. Period. Full stop.
MS fears the already large and growing community of Linux developers. "Period. Full stop."
From this story at TIME.com, it says, "Putin has said repeatedly he respects the constitution that requires him to step down."
Any thoughts from within? Inflation is going through the roof. Apartment rents that were $200 2 years ago are $600 today. Salaries have also gone up, but not to match the increase of real estate.
Corruption is everywhere. Everyone breaks the law. So many thugs and no one to police them.
Everyone feels that Putin is no longer suited to lead the country. Sure, everyone loved him a few years ago, but now they realize they need someone more modern since everything is flying towards Democracy.
My personal opinion? Putin is a fucking loser.
They pose him no threat, politically. Nothing they can say or do is going to remove popular support or his power
What the hell is everyone smoking?
Putin, now being in his second term (2 term max limit), loses power at the next election. He cannot run for president in the next election.
Yes, I live in Russia.
Because they refused to take it.
Do you realize how dumb that sounds? Here, let me put it into some kind of perspective...
Let's say you're a musician and you give various companies the right to sell your music as long as they pay you 50 cents per song.
Now, imagine a company that tells you they are selling your music and they offer to pay you 1 penny per song. Of course you refuse.
So, they continue to sell your music and their excuse for legally being able to do so is because you refused the penny per song offered?
dumb.
Allof MP3 offered to pay royalties.
So if the royalty price that AllofMP3 offered was not enough, does that mean that AllofMP3 can go ahead with their business model and not pay anything at all?
But this is exactly what did happen...Shame on AllofMP3 for selling products which did not belong to them nor had rights to sell.
p.s. I live in Russia
...FC sucks even more
What the hell are you going on about? You keep telling us that Fedora sucks over and over without a single reason? You sound more like an idiot than someone who should be listened to.
I don't think any linux distro "sucks". I have been using Redhat since version 5.2. Now, I use Fedora Core(3-6) in 3 different data centers on three different continents. One Fedora group runs the 3rd largest gaming website. Another Fedora group runs our data center that powers the entire backend of an ISP leader in a city of 6 million. I have had zero stability/security issues (not a single crash).
People often recommend to me this distro or that version of xBSD for "stability reasons". I find these recommendations idiotic and in fact it just tells me that the person recommending is a junior level or below sysadmin. If you are a good sysadmin, then stability and security has less to do with the distro and more to do with what kernel and what packages you are using.
and therein lies one of American's biggest problems:
I'm an American, but moved to Europe several years ago. I currently live in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The whole "wacko apartment" thing is fairly non-existent here.
As an example, here in St Pete, if you want to go anywhere, just stick out your arm. A car will immediately stop to take you where you want to go for an extremely reasonable price. This sort of thing wouldn't last 5 seconds in the States without people getting robbed, raped or murdered.
I feel very safe here, even walking around the slums.