'All' and I mean ALL domestic and international field sites controlled or operated by the 'intelligence agencies' have 24/7 contact phone numbers. Generally during normal 9-5 weekday working hours you will get a secretary, after that you will get the guard house. Yes, there are direct phone lines inside the compounds, but these are not typically published.
The thing is, you have to know who you want to speak to, and what section they work in. If you are just some tinfoil off the street, you don't get through.
I used to survey satellite downlinks in my previous life - the majority of satellites had large chunks of unused bandwidth - in some cases a few newly launched sats had their entire C and K band 'empty' - mostly Japanese owned birds.
Intelsat has always been well loaded, they even palm off satellites in decayed orbits to various asian countries (deemed to be end of lifed) - probably just to eek out as much money as possible. I doubt intelsat will be happy about this. There is huge competition in the industry, it's no tax write off.
The problem with sunspot activity and satellites is that there are a few 'thousand' functional satellites orbiting (or geostationary) at any given moment. If it's a numbers game, then the tin foil hat croud will need to re-think, since there is no consipracy. It just broke. A random failure in a sea of success. These things are shielded up pretty good. I've worked this trade for a long time (Military/Civil), I've not heard of many failures put down to the sun.
Sure there are numerous little problems - failed transponders and such - but these things fly with backups of most things.
You can download small programs that plot the locations of most known birds - real time 3d graphics, based on ephemeris.
Of course, SBRS and ADSCS will be mildly inconvenienced at having to 'work' for a few days - heh. It's their area of operations.
Most of the airports that will receive this thing will have to be modified - this means additional walkways for the upper deck - so basically, it's not going to be any faster or slower than a 747.
Last time I was at Hong Kong international they were already at work on this.
If I'm not mistaken - from the numerous documentaries on discovery channel and national geographic, this thing is supposed to be more efficient than the 747 - such television shows are usually advertising slots anyway - so I could well be wrong.
One looks like it is mounted in perspex, or some kind of transparent resin, have to agree with previous posts, doesn't look like any of this is terribly recent. I see no pictures of tanned skin fishermen beneath palm trees and wooden boats - I might believe it then!
Years ago (early 1990's) I used to use radar elevation data to do 'theoretical' plots of radar coverage (that sounds confusing, but it is correct) in mountainous areas across various parts of asia - For visualisation I used ARC/View running on some old unix machine, but then found that an American program.... * cough * oil * cough * stock * had better presentation methods. The latter program I loved, but development was dropped for some unknown reason.
All this stuff can be found on the internet. It is neither new, nor difficult. Anyone can do it, even way back then, though the cost to 'purchase' the data was not cheap.
Slightly off topic, I recall in Australia 'Telstra' the telephone company paying quite a chunk of money to a country family - their child died from an asthma attack (I think that is what it was) because they could not contact anyone. Broken phone line or some such. They had repeatedly asked the phone company to sort out the problem, but you know, being in the country and all somehow implies you eat dirt, and your brain is wired up all stupid.
I have heard some evidence that the level of service in the outback has increased a tad. Sad that someone has to die before things change.
It is not cool to call it IFF these days (identification friend or foe) - it's called SSR (secondary surveillance radar) - all aircraft, at and above the 'light' size, have them, as well as ships over a certain size. The only thing different between the military version and the civil version is a couple of pulses (when viewed on an oscilloscope) - it's really very basic. I rarely saw any Australian or NewZealand military aircraft ever use the military modes. More sophisticated technology exists anyway.
SOSUS is still used - but it is definitely not a bloody whapping big 'net' of sensors, just a scattering of them in key areas that triangulate fixes on anything making noise. Same as the HFDF network - used to be called bullseye, name was changed to crosshair, probably something else by now.
Having some pretty good knowledge of Indonesia and its surrounds (From DSD) I suspect Indonesia is downplaying the 'real' number of fatalities. That part of the world is "HUGELY" populated, Java has a couple of hundred million - it's not exactly a huge country - While Ache is not 'as' populated, overhead shows some massive coastal devistation. (Overhead being satellite imagery - black and white (optical) / infra red / radar)
There are no words to say how horrible it is.
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I think the bottom dwelling scum of the internet, that being spammers and the like, are just figuring out better methods of seeding the search engines with their crap.
I locked my cellphone, forgot the pin number, so I thought I'd search the net for some method to generate the PUK code. I didn't begin to find anything near useful until clicking way beyond page 20 or so.
I guess it might be the search terms used as well - how do you search for something when you are not quite sure of the 'current slang' terminology for it.
Saw a show on discovery maybe a year or two ago in which some guy had mapped a huge sample of faces down to a transparent relief. It was meant to be an ideal representation of what we look for as 'beautiful' in the opposite / same sex (or seperate species - depending on ones personal preference, not that I care anyway.) It seemed relatively accurate - at least when it was placed over the faces of movie stars and other popular entertainers.
Which of their three categories provides that recognition?, I don't know, but maybe it is worth thinking about. Can't discount the primative sex urge.
And boobs. Mmmmm Boobs... That's where I look first. The face, that might be second... might not...
I think a thousand more knowledgable individuals right here on slashdot have said that it's a non-event since any bugs that have managed to evolve on Mars, will, in all probability, have no inkling of Human biology. They are unlikely to thrive within Earth's ecosystem - at least initially.
I failed chemistry, badly, so I can only repeat the experts.
The less affluent asian countries are great at stamping out billions of plastic hello kitties, I'm sure IBM is only doing it because they/it can 'make more money' at the end of the day/decade.
Lift the cover on any old chunk of IBM hardware, you'll probably find much of it was manufactured somewhere other than America. (The rest of the world does exist by the way:-)
You know, having a top secret security clearance gives one access to privvy information. I'm not talking about the aliens at area 51, know nothing about them, rather the little blue bastards in the basement at Pine Gap. They are infact, quite stunningly boring, and, by the way, do not believe in god.:-)
A little less seriously, the government has no evidence to suggest god really does exist - well, at least not in any of the sigint crud I read all day. It's all just numbers, gossip, and 'this is the HFDF net, not the damned internet - now get back to work...'
I'm confused, how do you score informative with a total lack of content in your statement? Really, what is so extrodinary about a book that is incoherent at best. Three or four hundred years ago - are you talking about a guy who posed that the earth was not, in fact, actually flat, but rather an insignificant spec amongst an incomprehensible number of specs.
You were not alive 3 or 4 hundred years ago, where is your proof. Books, mere stories, they don't cut it, I want solid evidence over faith.
(I may be off on a tangent here, and actually have no idea what you are talking about - not meaning to offend by the way.)
I think the tinfoil hat types might want to delve into Signalling System number 7. (SS7 - CCCIT7)
It's a pretty complicated beast, but with access to the stream in a few key locations, your mobile telephone already gives away a metric crapload of information about the user.
(Tinfoil hat weenies) 'But my phone uses an encrypted signal!'
Yeah, well, that little micowave dish on the cell station 'does not'. GSM vocoders aren't too complicated to figure out.
Think big database, and multiple SS7 inputs.
Google is your friend! (It allows you to swell your sense of fear and paranoia to ever soaring heights when used correctly)
Or experience some kind of shattering 'Separation'. (I hope not)
There's something stunningly cool about pictures from 'other worlds' - amazing really. I do wish we would drop the 'financial' business sense, and just go in to space because we can. Does there even need to be a valid reason beyond 'why the hell not'
I guess the vast majority of special effects (at least photo/graphic) are just composits, if you've done the 'ghosts' in dark hallways and attics, then you've more or less covered the spectrum - the only difference is complexity and the amount of time you want to sink into it.
You could always drag up a copy of Maya, Lightwave, 3ds Max, or whatever and do your own spiderman.
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'All' and I mean ALL domestic and international field sites controlled or operated by the 'intelligence agencies' have 24/7 contact phone numbers. Generally during normal 9-5 weekday working hours you will get a secretary, after that you will get the guard house. Yes, there are direct phone lines inside the compounds, but these are not typically published.
The thing is, you have to know who you want to speak to, and what section they work in. If you are just some tinfoil off the street, you don't get through.
I used to survey satellite downlinks in my previous life - the majority of satellites had large chunks of unused bandwidth - in some cases a few newly launched sats had their entire C and K band 'empty' - mostly Japanese owned birds.
Intelsat has always been well loaded, they even palm off satellites in decayed orbits to various asian countries (deemed to be end of lifed) - probably just to eek out as much money as possible. I doubt intelsat will be happy about this. There is huge competition in the industry, it's no tax write off.
The problem with sunspot activity and satellites is that there are a few 'thousand' functional satellites orbiting (or geostationary) at any given moment. If it's a numbers game, then the tin foil hat croud will need to re-think, since there is no consipracy. It just broke. A random failure in a sea of success. These things are shielded up pretty good. I've worked this trade for a long time (Military/Civil), I've not heard of many failures put down to the sun.
Sure there are numerous little problems - failed transponders and such - but these things fly with backups of most things.
You can download small programs that plot the locations of most known birds - real time 3d graphics, based on ephemeris.
Of course, SBRS and ADSCS will be mildly inconvenienced at having to 'work' for a few days - heh. It's their area of operations.
Comcast can 'block/filter/firewall/whatever' your port 80, but they can not shut it 'off' - wait, it's a language thing - apologies.
Most of the airports that will receive this thing will have to be modified - this means additional walkways for the upper deck - so basically, it's not going to be any faster or slower than a 747.
Last time I was at Hong Kong international they were already at work on this.
If I'm not mistaken - from the numerous documentaries on discovery channel and national geographic, this thing is supposed to be more efficient than the 747 - such television shows are usually advertising slots anyway - so I could well be wrong.
Build your own 'robust' webserver might be a better topic for discussion.
One looks like it is mounted in perspex, or some kind of transparent resin, have to agree with previous posts, doesn't look like any of this is terribly recent. I see no pictures of tanned skin fishermen beneath palm trees and wooden boats - I might believe it then!
Years ago (early 1990's) I used to use radar elevation data to do 'theoretical' plots of radar coverage (that sounds confusing, but it is correct) in mountainous areas across various parts of asia - For visualisation I used ARC/View running on some old unix machine, but then found that an American program.... * cough * oil * cough * stock * had better presentation methods. The latter program I loved, but development was dropped for some unknown reason.
All this stuff can be found on the internet. It is neither new, nor difficult. Anyone can do it, even way back then, though the cost to 'purchase' the data was not cheap.
Slightly off topic, I recall in Australia 'Telstra' the telephone company paying quite a chunk of money to a country family - their child died from an asthma attack (I think that is what it was) because they could not contact anyone. Broken phone line or some such. They had repeatedly asked the phone company to sort out the problem, but you know, being in the country and all somehow implies you eat dirt, and your brain is wired up all stupid.
I have heard some evidence that the level of service in the outback has increased a tad. Sad that someone has to die before things change.
154 million dollars - a bunch of mates, a few beers, I'm sure we could come up with something for that much money!
It is not cool to call it IFF these days (identification friend or foe) - it's called SSR (secondary surveillance radar) - all aircraft, at and above the 'light' size, have them, as well as ships over a certain size. The only thing different between the military version and the civil version is a couple of pulses (when viewed on an oscilloscope) - it's really very basic. I rarely saw any Australian or NewZealand military aircraft ever use the military modes. More sophisticated technology exists anyway.
SOSUS is still used - but it is definitely not a bloody whapping big 'net' of sensors, just a scattering of them in key areas that triangulate fixes on anything making noise. Same as the HFDF network - used to be called bullseye, name was changed to crosshair, probably something else by now.
Hmmm.
Having some pretty good knowledge of Indonesia and its surrounds (From DSD) I suspect Indonesia is downplaying the 'real' number of fatalities. That part of the world is "HUGELY" populated, Java has a couple of hundred million - it's not exactly a huge country - While Ache is not 'as' populated, overhead shows some massive coastal devistation. (Overhead being satellite imagery - black and white (optical) / infra red / radar)
There are no words to say how horrible it is.
I think the bottom dwelling scum of the internet, that being spammers and the like, are just figuring out better methods of seeding the search engines with their crap.
I locked my cellphone, forgot the pin number, so I thought I'd search the net for some method to generate the PUK code. I didn't begin to find anything near useful until clicking way beyond page 20 or so.
I guess it might be the search terms used as well - how do you search for something when you are not quite sure of the 'current slang' terminology for it.
Know what you want, just no idea how to say it.
Didn't feel anything in Malaysia - Kota kinibalu, but that's just me.
Saw a show on discovery maybe a year or two ago in which some guy had mapped a huge sample of faces down to a transparent relief. It was meant to be an ideal representation of what we look for as 'beautiful' in the opposite / same sex (or seperate species - depending on ones personal preference, not that I care anyway.) It seemed relatively accurate - at least when it was placed over the faces of movie stars and other popular entertainers.
Which of their three categories provides that recognition?, I don't know, but maybe it is worth thinking about. Can't discount the primative sex urge.
And boobs. Mmmmm Boobs... That's where I look first. The face, that might be second... might not...
I think a thousand more knowledgable individuals right here on slashdot have said that it's a non-event since any bugs that have managed to evolve on Mars, will, in all probability, have no inkling of Human biology. They are unlikely to thrive within Earth's ecosystem - at least initially.
I failed chemistry, badly, so I can only repeat the experts.
Yup, but all the hello kitties I've purchased for my daughter were made in either China or Japan. (Working in various asian countries at present)
The less affluent asian countries are great at stamping out billions of plastic hello kitties, I'm sure IBM is only doing it because they/it can 'make more money' at the end of the day/decade.
:-)
Lift the cover on any old chunk of IBM hardware, you'll probably find much of it was manufactured somewhere other than America. (The rest of the world does exist by the way
You know, having a top secret security clearance gives one access to privvy information. I'm not talking about the aliens at area 51, know nothing about them, rather the little blue bastards in the basement at Pine Gap. They are infact, quite stunningly boring, and, by the way, do not believe in god. :-)
A little less seriously, the government has no evidence to suggest god really does exist - well, at least not in any of the sigint crud I read all day. It's all just numbers, gossip, and 'this is the HFDF net, not the damned internet - now get back to work...'
I'm confused, how do you score informative with a total lack of content in your statement? Really, what is so extrodinary about a book that is incoherent at best. Three or four hundred years ago - are you talking about a guy who posed that the earth was not, in fact, actually flat, but rather an insignificant spec amongst an incomprehensible number of specs.
You were not alive 3 or 4 hundred years ago, where is your proof. Books, mere stories, they don't cut it, I want solid evidence over faith.
(I may be off on a tangent here, and actually have no idea what you are talking about - not meaning to offend by the way.)
There's not really any excuse for 'not' running a small database app to do this stuff.
mysql / postgresql are both free. It's the application to sit on top of the database that could be more difficult.
I'm sure there's a solution for that on sourceforge.net
I think the tinfoil hat types might want to delve into Signalling System number 7. (SS7 - CCCIT7)
It's a pretty complicated beast, but with access to the stream in a few key locations, your mobile telephone already gives away a metric crapload of information about the user.
(Tinfoil hat weenies)
'But my phone uses an encrypted signal!'
Yeah, well, that little micowave dish on the cell station 'does not'. GSM vocoders aren't too complicated to figure out.
Think big database, and multiple SS7 inputs.
Google is your friend! (It allows you to swell your sense of fear and paranoia to ever soaring heights when used correctly)
Or experience some kind of shattering 'Separation'. (I hope not)
There's something stunningly cool about pictures from 'other worlds' - amazing really. I do wish we would drop the 'financial' business sense, and just go in to space because we can. Does there even need to be a valid reason beyond 'why the hell not'
I guess the vast majority of special effects (at least photo/graphic) are just composits, if you've done the 'ghosts' in dark hallways and attics, then you've more or less covered the spectrum - the only difference is complexity and the amount of time you want to sink into it.
You could always drag up a copy of Maya, Lightwave, 3ds Max, or whatever and do your own spiderman.