Just have lots of them. Thousands of small, cheap, battery powered devices. Put them all over the country. A GPS jammer wouldn't be the trickiest thing in the world to construct, it's all just RF, right? Mass-manufacture the jammers and put the *everywhere* and what are you going to do? Carpet bomb the country? That'd kind of make GPS pointless anyway, yes?
Say I'm a construction supervisor. I want a new building putting up on the site, and I want it accurately positioned. Unless my site straddles a fault, in which case I've probably got bigger problems to worry about, then I don't care if my site moves.
Say I'm laying cables and I want to know *exactly* where they are on the site so I can dig them up again in the future, or avoid putting a backhoe through them in ten years when the building's altered. I need to know to sub-cm accuracy exactly where they are.
At my site we use Trimble-supplied backpack GPS with Ipaqs to map this stuff straight into AutoCAD.
Of course they think it'll work! A few month's subliminal justification on Fox and the like, and the majority of the public won't care. And even if they do, it won't matter: it'll happen anyway, there'll be a bit of a fuss which will die down eventually, and then it'll be too late.
This is 1984 coming 20 years later than planned.
What a horrible, horrible government.
Watch is better! Nyer-nyer-ne-nyer-nyeh!
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Personally I'd rather do without the bundle of pointy keys in my pocket and have everything unlock via a small proximity RFID or similar I could mount on the back of my watch. Hand reaches for lock, door opens. Easy. Why isn't this common? You can get it for cars, why not houses? Keys are pretty nasty things...
The point is everything has a USB connector and most stuff copes with USB mass-storage devices without any drivers. It's quite tricky getting data off your phone or palm into a PC that doesn't have a cradle/synch software installed. IR's possible on laptops but sucks big time.
Take your point about the styling tho', *real* men wear fully-mechanical watches!
Is it so complicated?
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All I want is a semi-autonomous robot about the size of, ooooh, say a hippo. With massive servo-controlled hydraulic jaws that go "psssssst". And angry glowing eyes. Is this so hard for Sony to grasp? Enough of the cuteness, already, I want something that's *dangerous*, unpatched and connected to the Internet.
No, I pushed the power button, the current drain on the battery fell to zero and when I measured the RF output that too was zero.
If you think current phones act any differently then you're paranoid.
Of course it's technically possible, but it doesn't happen now with current GSM phones.
"Mobile (Cell) phones send signals that can be tracked, even when they're on standby". Turn it off, no RF energy. Simple.
For fellow geeks with P800s, just put it in "flight mode" for the same effect.
"I could super-impose an RF signal on the telephone line that would "jump" or "short" out the hook switch on the phone effectively creating an off-hook condition" has precisely bog-all to do with modern GSM digital handsets.
Also, any site with a cute.gif button mentioning "The Ark of the Covenant: against Satan New World Order" probably isn't exactly a technical journal, dig?
I copied this CD (repeatedly! ha! so sue me!*) with zero problems using Nero 5 CD Copy and a Yamaha F1 burner. Didn't try reading individual tracks, though.
Most people would prefer "Something for Nothing" though...And don't complain about being a student, we've got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries...
Just change Proliant to Presario and away you go!
Of course you'd need to make them in pretty colours, ship them without SmartStart CDs and charge for them to be shipped to you when you needed it, and put them in a case that you *can't open without a hammer or far more patience than i have*
I have, it's hard.
To test this, get yerself a standard floppy disk. Write data to it. Find a bit Hifi speaker and rub it all over the magnet. Reread. It's actually very difficult to wipe magnetic storage using a non-specialised electromagnet.
Ric
We have a huge articulated DR truck that does this. In a smoking-crater emergency it provides failover domain controllers, backup and recovery, the whole shebang. Plugs into a set of armoured ports scattered over our sites for maximum resiliency.
if you're talking about *vital* data.
you can backup your pr0n collection to braille for all i care, but if you absolutely, positively need the data - if the likelihood of your continued employment is directly proportional to the integrity of your data - then you do it *right*.
that means you *minimise potential problems* - use tried and tested solutions, that maximise the chance of recovery in the future. Are we going to have DVD-R or +R in 10 years? Can you read the data you've archived if the disks survive?
Minimise single point of failure, reread and rewrite your data periodically if needed etc etc.
Certainly for pharmaceutical companies there is a requirement to keep data for the patentable lifetime of a drug: this could be 25 years.
Not only do you need to archive it, you need to find an archive solution that you can read in 25 years - this might mean mothballing a current system, or exporting to XML etc etc....
Keep it quiet, but we're just pretending to in order to keep Brussels happy. You can order, say, a new backdoor in metric sizes, but when you talk to your joiner you *know* they're going to make you pay "metric tax" if you don't give them the sizes in feet and inches.
Besides, who ever popped out for a swift 548cl down the pub?
if you post ironic comments about people, why not spend the time just programming the thing. people will thank you, you'll get a warm fuzzy glow, why not try it?
Can we ask for an inspection of his house and the glove box of his car? Want to bet there'll be a few cassette tapes he's recorded at some point in his life?
Ric
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shall we end this discussion now?
or a joiner? or anyone else you *need* to fix your house or utilities?!
It's asymmetric warfare, kids
Say I'm laying cables and I want to know *exactly* where they are on the site so I can dig them up again in the future, or avoid putting a backhoe through them in ten years when the building's altered. I need to know to sub-cm accuracy exactly where they are.
At my site we use Trimble-supplied backpack GPS with Ipaqs to map this stuff straight into AutoCAD.
This is 1984 coming 20 years later than planned. What a horrible, horrible government.
Personally I'd rather do without the bundle of pointy keys in my pocket and have everything unlock via a small proximity RFID or similar I could mount on the back of my watch. Hand reaches for lock, door opens. Easy. Why isn't this common? You can get it for cars, why not houses? Keys are pretty nasty things...
Take your point about the styling tho', *real* men wear fully-mechanical watches!
...there goes another kitty...
Ric
Of course it's technically possible, but it doesn't happen now with current GSM phones.
For fellow geeks with P800s, just put it in "flight mode" for the same effect.
"I could super-impose an RF signal on the telephone line that would "jump" or "short" out the hook switch on the phone effectively creating an off-hook condition" has precisely bog-all to do with modern GSM digital handsets.
Also, any site with a cute .gif button mentioning "The Ark of the Covenant: against Satan New World Order" probably isn't exactly a technical journal, dig?
shouldn't that be pictures of presidents dead from the neck up?
* Just kidding
...there goes another kitty...
they can monitor your internet if they like, just keep their hands off mine!
...you just need to know exactly how imperfect the one you're using is!
...he's lucky he didn't get carted off to Guantanemo Bay...
Most people would prefer "Something for Nothing" though...And don't complain about being a student, we've got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries...
Just change Proliant to Presario and away you go! Of course you'd need to make them in pretty colours, ship them without SmartStart CDs and charge for them to be shipped to you when you needed it, and put them in a case that you *can't open without a hammer or far more patience than i have*
I have, it's hard. To test this, get yerself a standard floppy disk. Write data to it. Find a bit Hifi speaker and rub it all over the magnet. Reread. It's actually very difficult to wipe magnetic storage using a non-specialised electromagnet. Ric
It's big, and it's clever.
Minimise single point of failure, reread and rewrite your data periodically if needed etc etc.
Certainly for pharmaceutical companies there is a requirement to keep data for the patentable lifetime of a drug: this could be 25 years.
Not only do you need to archive it, you need to find an archive solution that you can read in 25 years - this might mean mothballing a current system, or exporting to XML etc etc....
Besides, who ever popped out for a swift 548cl down the pub?
if you post ironic comments about people, why not spend the time just programming the thing. people will thank you, you'll get a warm fuzzy glow, why not try it?
Ric Campaign for the national sig: "*Just kidding, Admiral Poindexter!"