They left a few chunks of evidence they were there though, minor odds and ends like a secret helicopter tail rotor assembly. Right you are though, pics or it just did not happen. (Even if it did):-)
If a country like the Philippines (about 100 million - 20m of which live in the greater NCR give or take) can handle 10 million+ internet subscribers over 3G, with about 50 million more that use data on their cell phones daily, then I think the USA can handle it. Filipino's send 140 billion text messages every year on top of this too - sure, everywhere you look there are cell sites, most larger buildings have them inside on every floor too - but that's how you do it. Make your footprint smaller, add in more cells, blanket the country in fiber, job done.
What you suggest is certainly one solution, however I think the world has established that such steps are not necessary when you actually spend some of your billions on better infrastructure.
Why would you do endless alt+tabs when endless Ctrl+Alt+cursor can get you the window you want much faster? Possibly saving you tens of milliseconds every week. Give everyone a bunch of xterms, vi, and OLVWM, you can't go wrong with that:-)
From the article: (CERT) Australia, formed in 2009.
I'd say you are spot on. The article reads like an advert attempting to convince the reader that CERT Australia is important. The Defence Signals Directorate has been providing this type of service to big corporations and local government since the early 90's. (I worked there for a decade, not that this is important)
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Voice and data are indeed exactly the same. It's all binary on the T1 / E1 (or multiples thereof), the distinction is entirely arbitrary these days and your explanation is apples and apples (and a little bit wrong). Whatever your phone does in the local loop will almost always be converted to something else as soon as it hits the first junction box or cell site. That conversion is always in favor of the carrier, be it DCME or lossy encoding to increase capacity - this is how it has always been, the mindset is a hundred years old. Increasing capacity for voice is cheap and easy. The carriers are not complaining about this.
Along comes the internet, people want it on their phones, they want it on their laptops, in the car, motorbike, train, bus, everywhere. The carriers are definitely whining because they have to start aggregating T1's just to appease our need for bandwidth. We pay them, they make billion dollar profits, they use hardly any of that money for better infrastructure. Gravy train will not leave the station without some kicking and screaming along the way.
The problem has been solved already.
Remember this, the 'rip off txt messages' - that same concept extends to absolutely everything the carrier does. Everything.
It's good you're not the boss of everything then:-) I would prefer that browsers simply accept self signed certs without any kind of warning at all - I just want the encrypted link without scaring away visitors.
These days it seems that most transceivers can be modified. The web abounds with entry codes or simple circuit modifications that near on anyone could make to increase the available frequency range. Here in the Philippines (Sta. Cruz in Manila) you can pick up hand held or base station type radios that can transmit AM / FM / CW / SSB pretty much continuous from 1 to 1000MHz. They cost anywhere from $200 USD to about $3000 depending on what features you might want.
I guess I'm the opposite, I did ELINT for a lot of years in Australian military so I like my stuff to have no artificial restrictions in place. I'd like to think I'm responsible about it too, if it's an empty chunk of spectrum, why not.
Right you are good sir. Having used Maemo for the last year I only recently took a look at Android - naturally my opinion is subjective, but it struck me as being a much more tedious experience, inferior in many ways. This is not to say it's bad, maemo just felt more intuitive and easier to use.
I haven't seen WP7 though I gather from the responses to the parent that it's not so great.
It would be trivially simple to deduce this as one of its functions - we know pretty much where every single man made object is down to about the size of a hammer, there are numerous free or paid applications floating around the net that will tell you where all of this stuff is right now, also where it is predicted to be at time X.
The X-37B wont get close to anything in orbit without someone figuring it out in short order - and if it does, the most logical explanation will be servicing or retrieval.
Common sense overcomes the whole 'classified' aspect though. What can you do with a spacecraft like this? Aside from the theorized servicing / retrieval aspect, about the only other major use would be as a great surveillance platform for looking down at the world in whatever part of the spectrum one might care to select. Where it's cost prohibitive to change the orbit of a more traditional spy satellite by small amounts to view different areas of the world, this craft is designed with that goal more in mind. You fill it full of ELINT / COMMINT / IMINT equipment, place it roughly where you need it to be, then maneuver as required. The best part being it'll come back to you when the batteries start going flat. Pretty easy to upgrade the payload in these circumstances.
Given your low UID I find your comment rather bewildering. Setting up a server so that it does exactly what you want is a complex task - add in a good bit of security and you're so far away from the mouse that it is utterly absurd to make this claim.
Someone still has to make the images that the point and click types use. That requires real sys-admin work.
Sort of. Most satellites are fairly simple repeaters. The jammers are not overpowering the satellite at all, they are just transmitting a tad more power on the uplink frequencies than the legitimate operators, this means the ground stations on the receive side are no longer able to sync because garbage going in = garbage out.
There are quite a few defences against jamming, though it entirely depends on the type of jamming equipment being employed to say exactly what those might be.
ADVRider must have a hundred or more 'ride reports' complete with thousands of pictures from average people that have ridden motorbikes through Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and numerous other countries in the last few years. Now imagine the numbers of people trekking around doing the same that don't bother to publish the fact on the web.
They probably were just hikers in the wrong spot at the wrong time. Fortunately you're not the boss of everything so your assumptions about the world around you hold no weight. Even a modicum of rational thought would have one concluding that it was a set up.
Correct, however their tablets were a breath of fresh air with an xterm available through the menu by default, and root available through the software repositories.
Symbian is locked down as tight as any other mobile phone OS out there, though there are exploits floating around, flash a modified firmware to the phone and you can install anything, certificates or not.
Have you actually used the touch screen on the N900? I'm going to go out on a bit of a limb here and claim it's about the best resistive screen on the market - quite a good deal better than the 5800 or N97 - very sensitive, very accurate. Take a look at some of the drawing threads over at maemo.org, it can even simulate pressure sensitivity.
To answer your question, there are no 3rd party capacitive screens for the N900. That would be a fairly major downgrade.
The vast majority of commercial satellites are just simple repeaters - nothing stops anyone from aiming a signal up and getting a good downlink other than cost of equipment. It's not nearly as expensive these days, though still not cheap. From time to time you do see unwanted signals, mostly it's accidental though, uplink forgot to switch off at the end of their contract, maybe didn't pay their bill on time, operator typed the wrong frequency in to the up converter, etc. One fairly effective way to deal with the problem is to sweep a CW spike over the errant signal until it goes away.
Another similar bit of speculation that used to run through ELINT hallways was that you could paint an F-117 flying at a few hundred feet above sea level with a bog standard surface navigation radar - or rather, pulses reflected of the ocean would hit the airframe and bounce back to the receiver giving a fairly decent return on the PPI. I don't recall which country laid claim to this now, though if memory serves it might have been the dutch...
If LCD manufacturers would actually stop making 1900x600 screens then we wouldn't be having a lack of space for the status bar. (1900x600 was a random resolution plucked from my backside that highlights the stupidity of current low to mid range displays currently available)
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They left a few chunks of evidence they were there though, minor odds and ends like a secret helicopter tail rotor assembly. Right you are though, pics or it just did not happen. (Even if it did) :-)
You seem to be forgetting that we've moved on from Mosaic good sir :-)
If a country like the Philippines (about 100 million - 20m of which live in the greater NCR give or take) can handle 10 million+ internet subscribers over 3G, with about 50 million more that use data on their cell phones daily, then I think the USA can handle it. Filipino's send 140 billion text messages every year on top of this too - sure, everywhere you look there are cell sites, most larger buildings have them inside on every floor too - but that's how you do it. Make your footprint smaller, add in more cells, blanket the country in fiber, job done.
What you suggest is certainly one solution, however I think the world has established that such steps are not necessary when you actually spend some of your billions on better infrastructure.
Old satellites? Just about every single bird in the Clarke Belt is still using C band - even the brand new ones.
Why would you do endless alt+tabs when endless Ctrl+Alt+cursor can get you the window you want much faster? Possibly saving you tens of milliseconds every week. Give everyone a bunch of xterms, vi, and OLVWM, you can't go wrong with that :-)
From the article: (CERT) Australia, formed in 2009.
I'd say you are spot on. The article reads like an advert attempting to convince the reader that CERT Australia is important. The Defence Signals Directorate has been providing this type of service to big corporations and local government since the early 90's. (I worked there for a decade, not that this is important)
I don't mind if PJ is not real, I only care about my Groklaw UID (3681 - not that this matters, but it is 4 digits! woohoo)
Member Since: Friday February 06, 2004 @02:22PM
Voice and data are indeed exactly the same. It's all binary on the T1 / E1 (or multiples thereof), the distinction is entirely arbitrary these days and your explanation is apples and apples (and a little bit wrong). Whatever your phone does in the local loop will almost always be converted to something else as soon as it hits the first junction box or cell site. That conversion is always in favor of the carrier, be it DCME or lossy encoding to increase capacity - this is how it has always been, the mindset is a hundred years old. Increasing capacity for voice is cheap and easy. The carriers are not complaining about this.
Along comes the internet, people want it on their phones, they want it on their laptops, in the car, motorbike, train, bus, everywhere. The carriers are definitely whining because they have to start aggregating T1's just to appease our need for bandwidth. We pay them, they make billion dollar profits, they use hardly any of that money for better infrastructure. Gravy train will not leave the station without some kicking and screaming along the way.
The problem has been solved already.
Remember this, the 'rip off txt messages' - that same concept extends to absolutely everything the carrier does. Everything.
It's good you're not the boss of everything then :-) I would prefer that browsers simply accept self signed certs without any kind of warning at all - I just want the encrypted link without scaring away visitors.
These days it seems that most transceivers can be modified. The web abounds with entry codes or simple circuit modifications that near on anyone could make to increase the available frequency range. Here in the Philippines (Sta. Cruz in Manila) you can pick up hand held or base station type radios that can transmit AM / FM / CW / SSB pretty much continuous from 1 to 1000MHz. They cost anywhere from $200 USD to about $3000 depending on what features you might want.
I guess I'm the opposite, I did ELINT for a lot of years in Australian military so I like my stuff to have no artificial restrictions in place. I'd like to think I'm responsible about it too, if it's an empty chunk of spectrum, why not.
Right you are good sir. Having used Maemo for the last year I only recently took a look at Android - naturally my opinion is subjective, but it struck me as being a much more tedious experience, inferior in many ways. This is not to say it's bad, maemo just felt more intuitive and easier to use.
I haven't seen WP7 though I gather from the responses to the parent that it's not so great.
And 200 to 300 years ago people would have made the same comparisons with distant generations previous to that. Kids these days huh! :-)
The same deal with music.
They don't make 'em like they used to.
And so on and so forth.
It would be trivially simple to deduce this as one of its functions - we know pretty much where every single man made object is down to about the size of a hammer, there are numerous free or paid applications floating around the net that will tell you where all of this stuff is right now, also where it is predicted to be at time X.
The X-37B wont get close to anything in orbit without someone figuring it out in short order - and if it does, the most logical explanation will be servicing or retrieval.
Common sense overcomes the whole 'classified' aspect though. What can you do with a spacecraft like this? Aside from the theorized servicing / retrieval aspect, about the only other major use would be as a great surveillance platform for looking down at the world in whatever part of the spectrum one might care to select. Where it's cost prohibitive to change the orbit of a more traditional spy satellite by small amounts to view different areas of the world, this craft is designed with that goal more in mind. You fill it full of ELINT / COMMINT / IMINT equipment, place it roughly where you need it to be, then maneuver as required. The best part being it'll come back to you when the batteries start going flat. Pretty easy to upgrade the payload in these circumstances.
Assuming your image of the production server is not borked as well :-)
Given your low UID I find your comment rather bewildering. Setting up a server so that it does exactly what you want is a complex task - add in a good bit of security and you're so far away from the mouse that it is utterly absurd to make this claim.
Someone still has to make the images that the point and click types use. That requires real sys-admin work.
Sort of. Most satellites are fairly simple repeaters. The jammers are not overpowering the satellite at all, they are just transmitting a tad more power on the uplink frequencies than the legitimate operators, this means the ground stations on the receive side are no longer able to sync because garbage going in = garbage out.
There are quite a few defences against jamming, though it entirely depends on the type of jamming equipment being employed to say exactly what those might be.
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Former SIGINT drone.
ADVRider must have a hundred or more 'ride reports' complete with thousands of pictures from average people that have ridden motorbikes through Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and numerous other countries in the last few years. Now imagine the numbers of people trekking around doing the same that don't bother to publish the fact on the web.
They probably were just hikers in the wrong spot at the wrong time. Fortunately you're not the boss of everything so your assumptions about the world around you hold no weight. Even a modicum of rational thought would have one concluding that it was a set up.
As above, liveleak had a fairly graphic video showing some guy that took a head shot for the cause (whatever that is)
I'm guessing the F1 will be canceled too.
Correct, however their tablets were a breath of fresh air with an xterm available through the menu by default, and root available through the software repositories.
Symbian is locked down as tight as any other mobile phone OS out there, though there are exploits floating around, flash a modified firmware to the phone and you can install anything, certificates or not.
Have you actually used the touch screen on the N900? I'm going to go out on a bit of a limb here and claim it's about the best resistive screen on the market - quite a good deal better than the 5800 or N97 - very sensitive, very accurate. Take a look at some of the drawing threads over at maemo.org, it can even simulate pressure sensitivity.
To answer your question, there are no 3rd party capacitive screens for the N900. That would be a fairly major downgrade.
The vast majority of commercial satellites are just simple repeaters - nothing stops anyone from aiming a signal up and getting a good downlink other than cost of equipment. It's not nearly as expensive these days, though still not cheap. From time to time you do see unwanted signals, mostly it's accidental though, uplink forgot to switch off at the end of their contract, maybe didn't pay their bill on time, operator typed the wrong frequency in to the up converter, etc. One fairly effective way to deal with the problem is to sweep a CW spike over the errant signal until it goes away.
Another similar bit of speculation that used to run through ELINT hallways was that you could paint an F-117 flying at a few hundred feet above sea level with a bog standard surface navigation radar - or rather, pulses reflected of the ocean would hit the airframe and bounce back to the receiver giving a fairly decent return on the PPI. I don't recall which country laid claim to this now, though if memory serves it might have been the dutch...
Although I'm nobody special, please do extend the same sentiment to me also. Thankyou. That is all. : )
If LCD manufacturers would actually stop making 1900x600 screens then we wouldn't be having a lack of space for the status bar. (1900x600 was a random resolution plucked from my backside that highlights the stupidity of current low to mid range displays currently available)
I think Cartman had it pretty much spot on - "You get your bitch ass back in the kitchen, and make me some pie" : )
(I would not actually say this, but it's still makes me chuckle)