Passenger rail doesn't use that kind of sensible logic. They run statistical models until they are able to plot out very accurate, pretty, and colorful graphs (with cute Asian anime warning symbols and such) to show the perfect balance between the the first individual going postal as a result of those SUV driving idiots in their pin striped suits that dared dream up the timetable as implemented, minus one. The timetable that results in a steady routine of undesirable retards rubbing their penis on your leg due to near perfect levels of overcrowding. Thus your destination from point A to point Z will see all cars filled up as tight as 300 field mice shoved in a vegemite jar (any size) beginning at point A, remaining this way until destination Z.
Even in always polite and punctual Japan, people turn in to savage tree swinging rock apes when boarding and riding the train.
I'm Australian, I now live in Asia (not Japan), have done for a lot of years so I can safely call bullshit on the skilled labour thing. You can buy quality research, manufacturing, and brains anywhere in the world. You may wish to pull your head out of your own anal passage good man. The rest of the world actually can build some pretty shit hot stuff, all on their own.
Don't get me wrong, like I said, I'm from the west and I'm as fucking smart as all hell (It's a joke! I'm not really that smart, bottom two percent, tops), but enough with the arrogance already, the state of the art doesn't just exist in the 'west', it's everywhere.
You really think the American worker is value for money? Here's a clue for you, good value for money is a bunch of low paid men and women (sometimes children) working the sewing machines and industrial fires for 12 hours a day 6 days a week, all for the lofty sum of $150 USD a month. On the backs of all this one can then sell those wares and gain quite a few orders of magnitude back in pure profit. In comparison the American worker is high maintenance and very expensive from an economic perspective.
What is far-fetched is the idea that you could intercept photons from a fiber-optic cable without someone at either end noticing a signal drop in that part of the link. The only way you can do this is by either splicing in to the cable directly, or by bending the cable. It is infinitely easier just to syphon off the data at (at least) one of the termination points.
Aside from this, a submerged piece of kit gets its intelligence back to HQ how again? Nuclear submarines don't exactly make routine house calls to all their undersea intercept boxes to swap out hard drives. It's not like you could use a buoy equipped with a radio link either, that'd be too obvious and easily found by general shipping traffic, or by any one of 5000 spy satellites in LEO should it actually transmit.
This kind of intercept was possible on your average little person to person piece of fiber back in the day, but such things are a rarity in modern times, now you have quite a few gigabits per second to work with. The 3 letter agencies are not going to waste such huge amounts of money to put in a complex device just to filter out Mr or Mrs presidents email (be they president of a corporation, government, or whatever) There are cheaper ways to obtain the same information.
I think you misunderstood me in several ways. The submarine is entirely passive, it simply listens, records, and performs analysis of radiated energy. You can find the internet 'everywhere' - including satellite, but parking ones submarine in a city harbour also means one has the opportunity to intercept a lot of interesting stuff, everything within range of the receive systems. No need to log on to anything.
It's interesting to see several people draw the analogy that a submarine is a disconnected unit, and that viruses could not spread through systems on board the sub itself. This is a good point for sure, and for the most part it is true enough, but the bigger picture is a little different. Electronic warfare kit doesn't exist in a bubble. The submarine will eventually offload data, communicate with its owners, and generally have people lugging its hard drives from point a to point b once back in port
That rack of sunblades in back might be immune to virus, but there's no telling what kind of systems are used to trawl through data on those machines, including systems on board the sub itself.
I think most people would be utterly surprised at just how much latitude the average sailor has in his or her work space, particularly in the areas my post covers. Sticking your head in the back of the rack and wiring up your own idea of 'the right way to do things' is not uncommon. If it works better, then it is better. You're the expert in your field, nobody will tell you you can't do it. If you break it, you better be able to fix it though:-) (Or come up with good excuses: "Just fell apart in my hands chief")
No, but your average submarine does have an array of sigint antennas, elint, and all the other ints. That said, in the course of sucking down internet from that pencil beam footprint along the cost where president whoever lives, do you really think (all) the processing systems are immune to viruses and malware as well? The bored scope goat running his hand crafted packet sniffer used to strip out files (a.k.a porn) from the data stream, gets a little click happy with the mouse on a dull night watch and runs jessica.exe
Not all viruses get in via the suited moron with the laptop.
Those capsules, they don't have wings. Inside all they get are a few switches and dials to make the 'pilot' feel like he is contributing his little bit to the mission. The shuttle, that has rows and rows of dignitary fascination panels, lots of lights, switches, dials, and little TV's everywhere. It even has a sun roof. It's not meant to fall like a brick, and sure it probably has an autopilot, but it's a tad more complicated than typing KSFO in to flightgear.
You'd have to maintain several rather long runways for that 'just in case' scenario, not to mention training the 'spaceflight participants' to know which switches are good, and which are bad.
While I understand this is the usual mode of operation for debt collectors (from personal experience), they are actually very strictly bound to various legal codes, including codes of conduct. They violate them often at their own peril. They routinely end up in the courts for this activity, the problem is that for every agency that goes under for harassment, there are 30 more in the queue lining up to take over.
* a little bit unrelated to your post *
It's a pretty sleazy industry, if you're at the wrong end of one of their phone calls, simply tell them you will only communicate via the written word, and that you wont hesitate to go to the ACCC (And numerous other watchdogs) if they fail to abide by your directive to do so. Don't be afraid to do this either, you might be in debt, but you still have rights - and most of us do actually like to keep some shred of dignity about us, even in our worst moments.
Believe me, these bastards wont hesitate to tell everyone all about your financial situation, including your boss, your friends, family, their aim is to cause embarrassment and get a quick settlement - they get a cut of this, so it's in their interest to do it fast.
If you are in debt and really can't pay at their stupid rates, then you are actually better off going to court and discussing your options with a judge. They are far more understanding, compassionate, and willing to intervene so you can continue to live your life.
Back on topic, there have been other precedents to inform people of such things via the internet, it is rare, but it happens. I live in Asia now, it's even worse here, if they can't find you the law says they have to publish the details in a paper of general circulation - some of it is amusing to read, but mostly it's just sad.
Juvenile says Mr infantile. Perhaps you missed the bit about patent law whereby the military get to use whatever they want, whenever they want. Aside from this, there are a whole plethora of devices ranging from touch pads (think mouse pad on laptop or keyboard) through to the more traditional fingers on screen.
Perhaps you would be wise to do a little research of your own before hitting the keyboard. There have been numerous plasma screens, LCD panels, and other devices that are capable of sensing more than one pressure point. Your American patent matters to me in Asia how exactly?
(At the time I used these devices I was in the Australian Military doing electronic warfare, I then went on to work for the Defence Signals Directorate, but this is immaterial, many people far better than I have said similar things right here on slashdot every time the whole multi-touch thing comes up.)
Maybe it is a little creative, but not that much. What is really creative is a company like Alias wavefront (or whoever bought them out) writing Maya, and then having pixar (or anyone) come along and use that software to make films like Cars. Be realistic though, what apple have done is not exactly rocket science, they took existing off the shelf tech and wedged it in to a piece of plastic. Having a computer draft up a circuit diagram for interconnecting things like a bluetooth chip, a wifi chip, a CCD, a 3G chip, a GSM chip, LCD, and some assorted electronics, then wedge all that together - this is lego, slightly more expensive lego, but definitely lego. It's not innovation when sony ericsson, nokia, LG, samsung, and a whole host of others were already building stuff in the same way.
Don't get me wrong, I think their interface is kind of cool, it definitely shook up the existing players, but the technology is neither new, nor as profound as people are saying. Even the multi-touch is not new, I was using military hardware in 1995 that did this. I'm not American, so my view is perhaps not the same as yours, the iPhone may well be unusual in your (their) markets, but in my stores, it's kind of crippled up against what I can get at a cheaper price point. (I live in Asia)
Apple fanboy? Dude, at least read the summary. Nokia are still leaps and bounds ahead of Apple. It's doubtful they'll lose that spot anywhere in the next few years. If you were 'really' involved with any cell phone company, particularly as an engineer, you'd know that almost every hardware function of either of the two iPhone models thus far has been a knock off of stuff Nokia (and many others) have been doing for several years already. So it has a cute little finger sensitive display, this is not new either, but what else is actually innovative? Everything it does is simply following spec sheets that others have forged long before them.
Wake me when they come up with technology that really does forego any incremental improvements, and actually does consist of stuff that nobody else has already done 4 years ago.
Depends on what country you live in. Here in Asia, anything with the words "net" and/or "book" in its title can be safely assumed to have Linux running under the covers. The few models that come installed with Windows more often than not also come with lower specs as well. (Smaller hard drive / SSD, less RAM, and so on)
Americans seem to be stuck in the PC = Windows mode, Asians, not so much.
Your comment is not insightful at all, you are just looking for someone else to drag along for the blame, for any stupid reason other than the right one. The individuals doing the investigation would have been the ones who let the rapist get away with the crime. End of story. "Here at the California DA office we routinely put all our eggs in one basket". What kind of shop are they running there anyway? - a single video recording device, one disc, a large number of months between the interview recording and the need to use that disc in court. Nobody bothers to see if the disc actually works until it's needed.
I think your words don't really match whatever it is you are intending to say good sir.
QAM is a modulation method. Quadrature amplitude modulation. It comes in many shapes and patterns, routinely prefixed with a number 8QAM, 16QAM, 256QAM. The higher the number, the higher your information rate. (And usually a higher data rate, depending on FEC and other things) On your bog standard oscilloscope they form what are usually very obvious and sometimes fascinating patterns. It is probably safe to make the assumption that QAM does not have encryption. In all my years on the secret 3 letter agency circuits I've only ever seen static assignments of bits to phase or amplitude change. They can definitely come in unusual head scratching configurations, but static, always.
ATSC covers video, audio, and how it gets encoded pretty comprehensively, but it has very little to do with modulation methods or encryption. The carriers are left free to pump out whatever they want on the spectrum. Obviously some stations will have a governing body that cares enough to restrict them on their use of this radio resource by way of licenses. You can certainly use QAM to encode ATSC compliant transmissions though.
What you may mean is that some carriers like to add their own stupidity in to the mix just to force a vendor lock in as it were. Be this through stupid combinations of FEC, keying speeds, modulation methods (QAM, PSK, FSK, etc), encryption, and so on and so forth. The correction for this might be a simple firmware level tweak to enable the stupid, or it may mean it is simply beyond the capabilities of the system you have. Hard to know without all the geeky details.
A disease? Please do cite your sources for this. Maybe in some cases.
I was a depressed teenager, actually, pretty much depressed from about the age of 14 until 24, then it struck me that the entire fault for this was my own. Change didn't happen overnight, it took a few years, but eventually I managed to get myself a clue. That said, where do you draw the line between 'state of mind' and 'disease'? Mine was absolutely the former, we can argue all day long about causes and such, but ultimately who gives a crap, the fact is that change was possible for me, end of story. I'm inclined to believe this is so in the vast majority of hormonally challenged teenagers, they either need the care and attention of their parents, or a sympathetic ear once in a while.
I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty pissed if someone walked up to me and spanked me on the arse as an adult. What makes this act ok when children are involved? What does it achieve? It certainly doesn't work as a disciplinary measure, what it does do is enforce a pointless cycle of abuse. Didn't finish that TPS report, bookmark your butt with a nice red hand print, 'cause you know, that'll make you get it done on time next week wont it.
Back when I was military I used to dabble in a little electronic warfare for a few critical minutes every once in a while. Mostly though, I just sat around saying a quiet thanks to whichever childlike jerkoff with a PhD embedded tetris and a few other odds and ends in to our very own life saving mission critical kit.
Certainly you don't code up a flight sim in the halon fire suppression system, activated by tapping out some obscure code on the trigger switch, but you know, fair is fair, there is a place for humour in everything. Even slashdot. It's what humans do. It doesn't have to make it in to the code, but having a clinical beer and some high brow humour on the side... Not for me. If you aren't coming in on Monday morning saying 'sorry about that chief, just fell apart in my hands' at least a few times a year, you're doing something wrong.
Kind of related, about 10 years ago in Australia Telstra was heavily pushing satellite and radio based internet (no higher than 256kbps) to farmers. One of their ads showed the stereotypical farmer family giggling around the computer looking at a bunch of sheep drinking from a water trough somewhere on their farm in a web browser. High resolution, very high frame rate, dvd quality. On the quiet Telstra had their fingers burned big time for spewing such bullshit, a revised advert was shown with the same scene a few weeks later, but very pixelated and at about 1 frame per second.
Nice to see consumer watchdogs orgs doing their bit, even better to see them getting it right in technology fields. I'd like to think that the iPhone crap wouldn't fly in Australia, but times have changed. I've since moved to Asia where there are absolutely no laws at all that cover truth in advertising. Your iPhone looks even more absurd here.
Damn, here I've been calling my servers the, er, 'servers' for the last 15 years. I find out from this website that I should have been referring to them as the " Appliance" instead. How many promotions have I lost to those slick suited dorks that I mock on a daily basis:-(
Pretty much any scope goat with an oscilloscope handy can read out transponder codes in their head after a few days practise, including the military IFF stuff. I'm not sure what you mean regarding security in Radar tech? Radar is absolutely one very complex system, but secure it is not. You can buy gear off the shelf (it's expensive) to build your own electronic warfare station right at home:-)
While the actual transmission from each aircraft might be encrypted, you can bet your backside that all of it will be fed back over the same satellite in the clear. I, as a basement geek living on the 30th floor, will be able to soak it all up via whatever handy multiplexer they decide to use.
Sounds a little like systems in use by the Australian FAA - sort of, they route all the voice and a few other cool odds and ends via satellite. Things like RADAR PPI & SSR - which is the similarity, bonus points for having aircraft transmit the stuff direct instead. A relatively modest:-) home enthusiast could drop 50 or 60 thousand on kit to watch the entire country. Should be quite trivial to plot it all in near real time over the net. (It'd be the kind of thing I'd do anyway, then get my arse kicked by some government authority not too keen on the idea) Even better is that the footprints for these birds cover half of Asia too, so all the foreign intelligence gathering agencies get to see the big picture just as well as the guy in the tower.
It'd also be a good method to track wayward fliers - back in the mid 90's I used to chug around Canberra in a C-150, before they had mode C working, had lots of fun at treetop height and messing about in the clouds. I did not actually have an IFR rating, though I was young and was quite partial to the idea that I was entirely invincible. Fortunately I lived through it, in hindsight it might have been better if I had someone watching over my shoulders to keep me honest.
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Passenger rail doesn't use that kind of sensible logic. They run statistical models until they are able to plot out very accurate, pretty, and colorful graphs (with cute Asian anime warning symbols and such) to show the perfect balance between the the first individual going postal as a result of those SUV driving idiots in their pin striped suits that dared dream up the timetable as implemented, minus one. The timetable that results in a steady routine of undesirable retards rubbing their penis on your leg due to near perfect levels of overcrowding. Thus your destination from point A to point Z will see all cars filled up as tight as 300 field mice shoved in a vegemite jar (any size) beginning at point A, remaining this way until destination Z.
Even in always polite and punctual Japan, people turn in to savage tree swinging rock apes when boarding and riding the train.
I'm Australian, I now live in Asia (not Japan), have done for a lot of years so I can safely call bullshit on the skilled labour thing. You can buy quality research, manufacturing, and brains anywhere in the world. You may wish to pull your head out of your own anal passage good man. The rest of the world actually can build some pretty shit hot stuff, all on their own.
Don't get me wrong, like I said, I'm from the west and I'm as fucking smart as all hell (It's a joke! I'm not really that smart, bottom two percent, tops), but enough with the arrogance already, the state of the art doesn't just exist in the 'west', it's everywhere.
You really think the American worker is value for money? Here's a clue for you, good value for money is a bunch of low paid men and women (sometimes children) working the sewing machines and industrial fires for 12 hours a day 6 days a week, all for the lofty sum of $150 USD a month. On the backs of all this one can then sell those wares and gain quite a few orders of magnitude back in pure profit. In comparison the American worker is high maintenance and very expensive from an economic perspective.
What is far-fetched is the idea that you could intercept photons from a fiber-optic cable without someone at either end noticing a signal drop in that part of the link. The only way you can do this is by either splicing in to the cable directly, or by bending the cable. It is infinitely easier just to syphon off the data at (at least) one of the termination points.
Aside from this, a submerged piece of kit gets its intelligence back to HQ how again? Nuclear submarines don't exactly make routine house calls to all their undersea intercept boxes to swap out hard drives. It's not like you could use a buoy equipped with a radio link either, that'd be too obvious and easily found by general shipping traffic, or by any one of 5000 spy satellites in LEO should it actually transmit.
This kind of intercept was possible on your average little person to person piece of fiber back in the day, but such things are a rarity in modern times, now you have quite a few gigabits per second to work with. The 3 letter agencies are not going to waste such huge amounts of money to put in a complex device just to filter out Mr or Mrs presidents email (be they president of a corporation, government, or whatever) There are cheaper ways to obtain the same information.
I think you misunderstood me in several ways. The submarine is entirely passive, it simply listens, records, and performs analysis of radiated energy. You can find the internet 'everywhere' - including satellite, but parking ones submarine in a city harbour also means one has the opportunity to intercept a lot of interesting stuff, everything within range of the receive systems. No need to log on to anything.
It's interesting to see several people draw the analogy that a submarine is a disconnected unit, and that viruses could not spread through systems on board the sub itself. This is a good point for sure, and for the most part it is true enough, but the bigger picture is a little different. Electronic warfare kit doesn't exist in a bubble. The submarine will eventually offload data, communicate with its owners, and generally have people lugging its hard drives from point a to point b once back in port
That rack of sunblades in back might be immune to virus, but there's no telling what kind of systems are used to trawl through data on those machines, including systems on board the sub itself.
I think most people would be utterly surprised at just how much latitude the average sailor has in his or her work space, particularly in the areas my post covers. Sticking your head in the back of the rack and wiring up your own idea of 'the right way to do things' is not uncommon. If it works better, then it is better. You're the expert in your field, nobody will tell you you can't do it. If you break it, you better be able to fix it though :-) (Or come up with good excuses: "Just fell apart in my hands chief")
No, but your average submarine does have an array of sigint antennas, elint, and all the other ints. That said, in the course of sucking down internet from that pencil beam footprint along the cost where president whoever lives, do you really think (all) the processing systems are immune to viruses and malware as well? The bored scope goat running his hand crafted packet sniffer used to strip out files (a.k.a porn) from the data stream, gets a little click happy with the mouse on a dull night watch and runs jessica.exe
Not all viruses get in via the suited moron with the laptop.
Those capsules, they don't have wings. Inside all they get are a few switches and dials to make the 'pilot' feel like he is contributing his little bit to the mission. The shuttle, that has rows and rows of dignitary fascination panels, lots of lights, switches, dials, and little TV's everywhere. It even has a sun roof. It's not meant to fall like a brick, and sure it probably has an autopilot, but it's a tad more complicated than typing KSFO in to flightgear.
You'd have to maintain several rather long runways for that 'just in case' scenario, not to mention training the 'spaceflight participants' to know which switches are good, and which are bad.
While I understand this is the usual mode of operation for debt collectors (from personal experience), they are actually very strictly bound to various legal codes, including codes of conduct. They violate them often at their own peril. They routinely end up in the courts for this activity, the problem is that for every agency that goes under for harassment, there are 30 more in the queue lining up to take over.
* a little bit unrelated to your post *
It's a pretty sleazy industry, if you're at the wrong end of one of their phone calls, simply tell them you will only communicate via the written word, and that you wont hesitate to go to the ACCC (And numerous other watchdogs) if they fail to abide by your directive to do so. Don't be afraid to do this either, you might be in debt, but you still have rights - and most of us do actually like to keep some shred of dignity about us, even in our worst moments.
Believe me, these bastards wont hesitate to tell everyone all about your financial situation, including your boss, your friends, family, their aim is to cause embarrassment and get a quick settlement - they get a cut of this, so it's in their interest to do it fast.
If you are in debt and really can't pay at their stupid rates, then you are actually better off going to court and discussing your options with a judge. They are far more understanding, compassionate, and willing to intervene so you can continue to live your life.
Back on topic, there have been other precedents to inform people of such things via the internet, it is rare, but it happens. I live in Asia now, it's even worse here, if they can't find you the law says they have to publish the details in a paper of general circulation - some of it is amusing to read, but mostly it's just sad.
Juvenile says Mr infantile. Perhaps you missed the bit about patent law whereby the military get to use whatever they want, whenever they want. Aside from this, there are a whole plethora of devices ranging from touch pads (think mouse pad on laptop or keyboard) through to the more traditional fingers on screen.
Perhaps you would be wise to do a little research of your own before hitting the keyboard. There have been numerous plasma screens, LCD panels, and other devices that are capable of sensing more than one pressure point. Your American patent matters to me in Asia how exactly?
(At the time I used these devices I was in the Australian Military doing electronic warfare, I then went on to work for the Defence Signals Directorate, but this is immaterial, many people far better than I have said similar things right here on slashdot every time the whole multi-touch thing comes up.)
Open your eyes good man.
Maybe it is a little creative, but not that much. What is really creative is a company like Alias wavefront (or whoever bought them out) writing Maya, and then having pixar (or anyone) come along and use that software to make films like Cars. Be realistic though, what apple have done is not exactly rocket science, they took existing off the shelf tech and wedged it in to a piece of plastic. Having a computer draft up a circuit diagram for interconnecting things like a bluetooth chip, a wifi chip, a CCD, a 3G chip, a GSM chip, LCD, and some assorted electronics, then wedge all that together - this is lego, slightly more expensive lego, but definitely lego. It's not innovation when sony ericsson, nokia, LG, samsung, and a whole host of others were already building stuff in the same way.
Don't get me wrong, I think their interface is kind of cool, it definitely shook up the existing players, but the technology is neither new, nor as profound as people are saying. Even the multi-touch is not new, I was using military hardware in 1995 that did this. I'm not American, so my view is perhaps not the same as yours, the iPhone may well be unusual in your (their) markets, but in my stores, it's kind of crippled up against what I can get at a cheaper price point. (I live in Asia)
Apple fanboy? Dude, at least read the summary. Nokia are still leaps and bounds ahead of Apple. It's doubtful they'll lose that spot anywhere in the next few years. If you were 'really' involved with any cell phone company, particularly as an engineer, you'd know that almost every hardware function of either of the two iPhone models thus far has been a knock off of stuff Nokia (and many others) have been doing for several years already. So it has a cute little finger sensitive display, this is not new either, but what else is actually innovative? Everything it does is simply following spec sheets that others have forged long before them.
Wake me when they come up with technology that really does forego any incremental improvements, and actually does consist of stuff that nobody else has already done 4 years ago.
Depends on what country you live in. Here in Asia, anything with the words "net" and/or "book" in its title can be safely assumed to have Linux running under the covers. The few models that come installed with Windows more often than not also come with lower specs as well. (Smaller hard drive / SSD, less RAM, and so on)
Americans seem to be stuck in the PC = Windows mode, Asians, not so much.
Your comment is not insightful at all, you are just looking for someone else to drag along for the blame, for any stupid reason other than the right one. The individuals doing the investigation would have been the ones who let the rapist get away with the crime. End of story. "Here at the California DA office we routinely put all our eggs in one basket". What kind of shop are they running there anyway? - a single video recording device, one disc, a large number of months between the interview recording and the need to use that disc in court. Nobody bothers to see if the disc actually works until it's needed.
Now that is incompetence at its finest.
400? I'd do it for free. He's a good guy.
I think your words don't really match whatever it is you are intending to say good sir.
QAM is a modulation method. Quadrature amplitude modulation. It comes in many shapes and patterns, routinely prefixed with a number 8QAM, 16QAM, 256QAM. The higher the number, the higher your information rate. (And usually a higher data rate, depending on FEC and other things) On your bog standard oscilloscope they form what are usually very obvious and sometimes fascinating patterns. It is probably safe to make the assumption that QAM does not have encryption. In all my years on the secret 3 letter agency circuits I've only ever seen static assignments of bits to phase or amplitude change. They can definitely come in unusual head scratching configurations, but static, always.
ATSC covers video, audio, and how it gets encoded pretty comprehensively, but it has very little to do with modulation methods or encryption. The carriers are left free to pump out whatever they want on the spectrum. Obviously some stations will have a governing body that cares enough to restrict them on their use of this radio resource by way of licenses. You can certainly use QAM to encode ATSC compliant transmissions though.
What you may mean is that some carriers like to add their own stupidity in to the mix just to force a vendor lock in as it were. Be this through stupid combinations of FEC, keying speeds, modulation methods (QAM, PSK, FSK, etc), encryption, and so on and so forth. The correction for this might be a simple firmware level tweak to enable the stupid, or it may mean it is simply beyond the capabilities of the system you have. Hard to know without all the geeky details.
Please don't take offence, none was intended :-)
A disease? Please do cite your sources for this. Maybe in some cases.
I was a depressed teenager, actually, pretty much depressed from about the age of 14 until 24, then it struck me that the entire fault for this was my own. Change didn't happen overnight, it took a few years, but eventually I managed to get myself a clue. That said, where do you draw the line between 'state of mind' and 'disease'? Mine was absolutely the former, we can argue all day long about causes and such, but ultimately who gives a crap, the fact is that change was possible for me, end of story. I'm inclined to believe this is so in the vast majority of hormonally challenged teenagers, they either need the care and attention of their parents, or a sympathetic ear once in a while.
I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty pissed if someone walked up to me and spanked me on the arse as an adult. What makes this act ok when children are involved? What does it achieve? It certainly doesn't work as a disciplinary measure, what it does do is enforce a pointless cycle of abuse. Didn't finish that TPS report, bookmark your butt with a nice red hand print, 'cause you know, that'll make you get it done on time next week wont it.
Tell that to my wrt54g v7 then sir. It has been gathering dust ever since the day I purchased it thinking it'd work with 3rd party firmware.
You reject.
Atheists don't believe in gods or deities, period. Please do explain to everyone how you managed to screw up that definition?
Back when I was military I used to dabble in a little electronic warfare for a few critical minutes every once in a while. Mostly though, I just sat around saying a quiet thanks to whichever childlike jerkoff with a PhD embedded tetris and a few other odds and ends in to our very own life saving mission critical kit.
Certainly you don't code up a flight sim in the halon fire suppression system, activated by tapping out some obscure code on the trigger switch, but you know, fair is fair, there is a place for humour in everything. Even slashdot. It's what humans do. It doesn't have to make it in to the code, but having a clinical beer and some high brow humour on the side... Not for me. If you aren't coming in on Monday morning saying 'sorry about that chief, just fell apart in my hands' at least a few times a year, you're doing something wrong.
Kind of related, about 10 years ago in Australia Telstra was heavily pushing satellite and radio based internet (no higher than 256kbps) to farmers. One of their ads showed the stereotypical farmer family giggling around the computer looking at a bunch of sheep drinking from a water trough somewhere on their farm in a web browser. High resolution, very high frame rate, dvd quality. On the quiet Telstra had their fingers burned big time for spewing such bullshit, a revised advert was shown with the same scene a few weeks later, but very pixelated and at about 1 frame per second.
Nice to see consumer watchdogs orgs doing their bit, even better to see them getting it right in technology fields. I'd like to think that the iPhone crap wouldn't fly in Australia, but times have changed. I've since moved to Asia where there are absolutely no laws at all that cover truth in advertising. Your iPhone looks even more absurd here.
That was meant to be <buzzword> Appliance - stupid slashdot.
Damn, here I've been calling my servers the, er, 'servers' for the last 15 years. I find out from this website that I should have been referring to them as the " Appliance" instead. How many promotions have I lost to those slick suited dorks that I mock on a daily basis :-(
Pretty much any scope goat with an oscilloscope handy can read out transponder codes in their head after a few days practise, including the military IFF stuff. I'm not sure what you mean regarding security in Radar tech? Radar is absolutely one very complex system, but secure it is not. You can buy gear off the shelf (it's expensive) to build your own electronic warfare station right at home :-)
While the actual transmission from each aircraft might be encrypted, you can bet your backside that all of it will be fed back over the same satellite in the clear. I, as a basement geek living on the 30th floor, will be able to soak it all up via whatever handy multiplexer they decide to use.
Sounds a little like systems in use by the Australian FAA - sort of, they route all the voice and a few other cool odds and ends via satellite. Things like RADAR PPI & SSR - which is the similarity, bonus points for having aircraft transmit the stuff direct instead. A relatively modest :-) home enthusiast could drop 50 or 60 thousand on kit to watch the entire country. Should be quite trivial to plot it all in near real time over the net. (It'd be the kind of thing I'd do anyway, then get my arse kicked by some government authority not too keen on the idea) Even better is that the footprints for these birds cover half of Asia too, so all the foreign intelligence gathering agencies get to see the big picture just as well as the guy in the tower.
It'd also be a good method to track wayward fliers - back in the mid 90's I used to chug around Canberra in a C-150, before they had mode C working, had lots of fun at treetop height and messing about in the clouds. I did not actually have an IFR rating, though I was young and was quite partial to the idea that I was entirely invincible. Fortunately I lived through it, in hindsight it might have been better if I had someone watching over my shoulders to keep me honest.