One small rock accelerated for a long enough time then steered at a large ship (or moon or planet) would pretty much be the end of it.
Why wouldn't the other side do the same to intercept enroute?
Defender only has to use say, 1/2 the mass and energy to destroy the incoming projectile so defender seems to have the upper hand.
One small rock does approximately nothing to a planet. The earth gets hit by those constantly. Assuming you mean human sized small rock like a baseball. If you mean small rock like a 100 foot asteroid, well yeah that is a problem. However the bigger problem is the planet has an entire planets worth of railguns and tracking stations to detect and blast it, and the visiting ship only has... one dinky little ship to accelerate it. It gets complicated real fast.
You can't argue the planet would be targeted by a near planet orbiting asteroid, because those are the first targets the planet would use for its own offensive ops! In other words if it were a "near hit" asteroid, it would already be the planets offensive weapon (or defensive?) long before the visiting team gets to try to use it against the planet....
Given an infinite amount of computational power and tech, simply shoot the rail round out of the "sky" with one of your own rounds. CIWS is old/ancient stuff on naval ships, I can't imagine something unimaginably more advanced not being deployed.
That works against long range, because its so easy to lock and and pop them enroute. There will exist a short range where one side's super-CIWS will lose its control loop, then the other side wins. I would imagine that intel info would be very valuable...
Too far away and its too easy to dodge the ship using maneuvering thrusters. A near miss by a millimeter means nothing in a vacuum.
Whichever side has more railgun rounds fired per minute/second, wins, alternately, he who runs out of ammo first, loses, most likely.
Also deployable chaff. Have you ever seen a.45 cal nearly subsonic round after it goes thru a target, it practically looks unfired assuming it hit nothing too hard. Have you ever seen a hypervelocity off the shelf.22 cal round after it hits a blade of grass? No, you haven't because it shatters into dust. Thats at low supersonic range. At mach 25 you hit a piece of mylar chaff and that projectile turns into plasma dust and there's no effect more than 10 feet away. So I expect to see lots of "junk" in space. Maybe even physical shields.
Yeah, go ahead, just dare them to post yet another raspberry pi article. Remember when we had to sit thru 3 e-ink display astroturfs per week? Ugh. Weird as it is, at least this doesn't get posted on a regular basis... thats why I upvoted it in the firehose.
When talking space distances controlling them remotely quickly becomes impractical due to the time it takes for commands to be sent.
Literature/culture problem. We are only permitted binary thinking, so robots must either be radio controlled cars with weapons, or they must be more human than some humans, like Cmdr Data or Cherry 2000. It is a thoughtcrime to have a robot exist somewhere in between, just as its a thoughtcrime to not be a devout republican or democrat, or christian or anti-christian.
The real world is most likely to have them be fairly autonomous. A bit smarter than an off the shelf air to air missile, but probably not a heck of a lot smarter.
Based on my experience in the military 20 years ago, it will remain the same as today... 99.99% boring as all hell; a bad dilbert cartoon would be better, and 00.01% holy cow. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
There's always the interstellar medium. There's not much of it, but its there. With all the cheesy "turn images and graphs into computer generated sounds" that I've had to suffer thru over the decades, that is one that I've never heard but would enjoy hearing. Sample, Fourier transform, play back at a substantially accelerated speed, all done.
Yeah that takes care of the battle part. After the battle the losers, military, civilians, pets, and all get genocided. I donno if you want to count that as part of the battle.
The other problem is own goal action, the problem with a million little nano bots is making sure they all attack the enemy and not yourself by either being reprogrammed, or fooled. Millions of them, yikes. At least with 2 giant ships you only need 2 really intelligent commanders.
Most likely is two giant ships filled with clouds of ultra short range nano bots. Ultra short range so they don't accidentally hit the fatherland.
Oh, I wouldn't say high quality. I have a 1600x1200 LCD and I can't find a way to replace it other than downgrading to only 1080, which would suck given the recent UI designer fixation on as many horizontal tool bars as large as possible. Major Bummer.
I would say "adequate quality for the masses". You know, like Walmart products. And that market has wiped out anything better so you have a huge jump from low res junk for only $100 to graphics artist terminals at over $2K and not much in between.
It would be hard to get away with it due to equal protection etc.
Could "they" do something like purchase haiti or somalia and change its law to be eternal copyright, then have the US and their newly purchased state form a reciprocal treaty for copyrights, then transfer all their copyrights from the us to haiti, then return our countries laws to something sane for 99.999999% of content?
signifigant enough that the FCC requires public notice.
Dude I'm telling you, they don't. I've worked at least at three places in telecom with big (heck, giant) ugly recieve (and at one place, transmit!) dishes in engineering and there is no such thing as a FCC requirement or license for the installation, ownership, or use of a dish. Current job has a small farm of dishes I'm not directly involved with in C band and Ku band, coincidentally, but I previously worked for a big microwave digital service, etc. 3 t-3 might not sound like much bandwidth, but out in the boonies, thats like one meg per human being so its not so bad... In an area with more cows than people, old fashioned microwave radio is still better than fiber.
This "dish filing" is because C-band is a dual purpose allocation and the FCC will protect a registered primary user... assuming they've actually registered. Best example outside this service I can come up that might help clarify it is the ham radio 70 cm band has the hams as a secondary service and.mil as primary and if.mil registers a radar or whatever the heck they're doing, then within a certain geographic area the hams get the boot and/or have ridiculous low ERP limitations along with a legal obligation as secondary users to not interfere with the primary users. That's not an issue where I live so there are weaksignal and EME guys with stacked long beam yagis and hundreds of watts, but I know there are places along the flyover coasts where the.mil limits hams to something too small to make even a weak little FM repeater. The 5 MHz ham band channelized ops have the same relationship, secondary allocation means you must stay out of the way of the primary users. GOOG is just registering themselves as a primary user, you secondary folks best stay away.
Air to ground satellite is a primary service in that band and some pt-pt is secondary if and only if there exist no registered cband ground receivers that could be interfered with. All this means is they've declared their willingness to exert their rights as a primary user, rather than waiting until a secondary builds out a network and THEN takes the secondary to court (and wins, because they're legally primary). It just saves everyone a lot of lawyer time and trouble.
Would sprint or whoever be allowed to build a c-band ground-ground pt-pt on the frequencies we use at work within a short distance of our dishes? heck no, we're primary users and we're registered so that ain't happening. They could get (in fact, do have) a secondary allocation that wouldn't interfere with our primary allocated work.
If you don't register, then you can fight it out in court later with a secondary, but its really frowned upon.
I don't see how calling it cow shit makes it extreme.
Don't you watch TV? Its edgey, its slightly rebellious, it might offend your school librarian or auntie, it lets you make endless middle school level jokes and innuendo about shit, for the target market, whats not to love? I'm not the target market, but I could totally see this in a TV commercial on the G4 network.
Here's your extreme TV commercial, have a bunch of skaters on skateboards on a half pipe make some jokes about who dropped a cow chip on the half pipe while some older woman looks on horrified, then have the kool kids sit down for a snack and chomp down on some bags of teriyaki flavored beef jerky cow chips and say yum and swig a same corporation energy drink. Or you could have a school librarian (not the nympho type but more the gray type) horrified at overhearing the kool kids talk about sniffing and eating cow chips. Or some nerdy guy eating potatoe chips out of the vending machine at school but the kool kids eating a bag of way cool cow chips.
IF I could hold my nose at the marketing, a crispier than normal beef jerky "chip" might be pretty tasty and I'd eat it. Heck I held my nose for years at the Virgin Mobile ads and bought their service, I'm sure I can tolerate commercials that my mythtv auto-skips on a network I never watch.
I use Quicken for one reason and one reason only, to be able to pay bills directly and electronically through my register, and to be able to download transactions and reconcile accounts.
Well, for a sufficiently large definition of "one"... Anyway, I had the same problem, Quicken was my last remaining windoze app and I was sick of living on the upgrade treadmill where they disabled features like download unless you bought a new almost identical version every two years. I probably would still be a customer, every 4 or 5 years, if they didn't try to squeeze their fingers around my neck so tightly... Solutions:
1) I pay bills directly out of my bank's online billpay now. Buh bye quicken...
2) I don't reconcile accounts anymore. Buh bye quicken. With all access being online for all my accounts, the quaint postal idea of reconciling a monthly statement doesn't make much sense anymore. I don't have a monthly financial cycle anymore... My bank sends me an email receipt for each check/savings/CC/billpay transaction. I keep up with it in real time. Don't really see the point of a monthly reconciliation. This might have something to do with how I used to write something in excess of ten paper checks per month in the 90s and now I write exactly one per month to the mortgage payment, plus the occasional sort-isolated oddity.
I tried the mint thing to do budgeting, but its kind of like facebook, an addictive waste of time that provided no useful result in my life. So, buh bye mint. Then mint got bought by Quicken so I figured they'd destroy it, but its apparently still going well, although much spammier than it used to be. I heard if your bank doesn't spam you with transactions, you can configure mint to do it somehow, something to do with setting your monthly budget to one cent in all categories or something to trick it into sending alerts.
I don't understand quite how it all works, but the FCC requires permits for antennas above a certain db gain, and these would definately qualify for that.
No, they do not. I've been involved in RF engineering, in some tangential manner or another, for a quarter century and I've never heard of a FCC antenna permit. I have been involved in FAA work for towers, which is regulated and permitted more than licensed and the FAA isn't the FCC anyway. I have thankfully avoided getting involved with the EPA especially WRT wetland management where some antennas are installed, but the EPA is not the FCC. I have been involved in transmitter licensing, admittedly transmitters are attached to antennas and the FCC is all excited about V/M ERP levels and such but they are licensing a complete system of transmitter, grounding system and antenna, not just an antenna. I have been involved in microwave links where below a certain ERP you are unlicensed and to run above a certain ERP you need licensing (another obvious example is FM broadcast radio transmitter, wanna run 1 milliwatt from your ipod to car radio, fine, but you wanna run 100 watts community radio station you need a license), again this is system licensing not antenna licensing. There is a weird corner case in the family radio service FRS where the antenna must be permanently attached to the transmitter and is type accepted as a complete inseparable unit, but its type accepted not licensed. God only knows local building inspectors LOVE to do all kinds of civil engineering and general permitting foolishness to put an antenna on a tower or whatever, but they are not the FCC. Local oscillator leakage makes any non-TRF receiver essentially a very weak transmitter. So if your LO leakage is at -50 dBmW and you attach a 50 dB radio astronomy antenna to it, you MAY be in violation of the FCC unintentional radiator regulations, but thats not a license thats an emission regulation and that is fixed by repairing your equipment up to standard, not getting a license to interfere. You can do anything the FAA, building codes, zoning, and your bank account will allow you to do WRT to ham radio antennas. There might be some really amazingly obscure corner of RF work where an antenna is licensed that I've somehow avoided, but I find it Highly Unlikely. Please let me / us know if you find it.
So you mean they'd just make a mutated catfish, tuna or soybean?
I was thinking more along the lines of taking "carnivorous" pig cells and letting them process the raw material into delicious bacon.
Much like when you drink beer, you tell yourself you're drinking processed barley, not yeast. Pickles, you're eating processed cucumbers, not acetobacteria.
In a similar line of thought, you're not eating sliced up catfish, you're eating catfish that was processed into bacon-like filets or whatever by being dunked for a few hours into baconic cells.
I suppose if the fish itself could be modified to taste like bacon then you could skip the processing step.
Essentially we've had alcohol fermentation cells and acetic acid pickling cells in our cooking bag of tricks for centuries, and I'm hoping for a new line of cells that turns anything vaguely meaty into bacon. Baconic cells, to go with our existing zoos of acetobacteria and yeasts.
Where I'm from, cow chips mean something very different.
Yes exactly, which is why I suggested it as an extreme marketing term. You can sell an extreme bag of spicy cow chips in a commercial during a professional wrestling TV show, in between the "vocational video game classes" ads and energy drink ads. A bag of "extreme cow chips" is not gonna sell if advertised on dancing with the stars.
I find some horse steaks to be far better than beef.
I was almost believing you until that point. The more you work a muscle, and the older it gets, the stringier and tougher it becomes. I bet horse would make an awesome slow cooked bbq, but as a steak it would make "cube steaks" (which I personally find inedible) seem like tenderloin. Keep this in mind for the post-zombie apocalypse cannibalism era, old muscular ex-military weightlifter dude like me is almost the definition of not good eats.
But there are a myriad of different stuff in meat, including bacteria of all kinds, microbes, all types of things.
Absolutely true at McDonalds, or taco bell. Ideally, however, the interior of raw meat is pretty darn near sterile.
Think about it, the interior of your bicep right now is either sterile, or red, inflamed, and in intense pain, correct? The interior of meat is actually much more sterile than the interior of vegetable matter, which is kind of interesting, especially organic vegetables which were bathed in fecal matter as a fertilizer.
Now the exterior of factory slaughtered meat is in fact generally filthy beyond all comprehension, ditto ground meat products, but I don' t think anyone has found a digestive or culinary advantage to intentionally smearing a layer of e coli fecal bacteria on their steak.
Correct. One is still using cells of a pig to create pig meat. Just because it's not extracted from an entire pig does it mean it's no longer classified as pig flesh.
Until you genetically engineer it sufficiently far away. Imagine an aquaculture catfish that is literally fileted into something indistinguishable from pig bacon but is technically born of a fish. Or a tuna that tastes just like the finest beef tenderloin.
For that matter, I'd settle for a soybean that when processed tastes and cooks more like real meat instead of weird fake soy-meat.
Also, they need to come up with some kind of lab grown Dorito-esq chip that’s actually healthy for you and doesn’t taste like crap.
Beef Jerky. Reasonably low fat and low carb and mostly paleo diet. "Cow Chip" might actually sell as an extreme marketing term.
Also if you have some "health food" type store nearby there are veggie chips that taste fantastic kind of like a potato chip already dunked in salsa. That would probably count.
Finally I've gotten addicted to these freeze dried apple chips.
Grind up a multi-vitamin and dust it onto the chips and you're pretty much all good.
In addition, while fairly high in peak transmit power, IFF has a VERY low duty cycle, and in fact has some very strict duty cycle limitations imposed on it specifically because of interference concerns. Last but not least, 1090 MHz is MUCH farther in frequency from GPS L1 (1575 MHz) than LightSquared is (1526-1536 MHz), meaning that it's going to be attenuated much more by the frontend filters of GPS receivers. Obtaining significant rejection at 1090 MHz is MUCH easier to do without size/weight/inband attenuation penalties than obtaining significant rejection for nearly continuous high-duty-cycle interference at 1536 MHz.
Yes but I was thinking of R-squared issues. So a 1 watt transponder at 1090 at maybe as little as 5 feet away vs 100 watts from LS maybe a couple miles away (miles straight down?).
Also there are issues w/ filters. So I do microwave RF work. Some MMICs I work with don't tolerate more than 20 dBmW at the input without physically frying. No problemo, you only need 10 dB of filtering a 1090 MHz 1 watt source to prevent physical damage, assuming you plugged the transponder antenna port directly into the preamp input port. 10 dB at a "third of an octave away" (depending how you do your math) is not an overly heroic engineering achievement, BUT that comes at an insertion loss of maybe a couple dB which comes Right Off The Top of my system noise figure which ruins my overall system SNR. Why even waste time and money on an exotic HEMT front end if the required front end filter results in system performance as cruddy as an old (bulletproof) bipolar transistor...
So much for hard core engineering. Now for the heresay... I also do microwave ham radio work and people with more experience than myself claim driving a rover 1296 MHz station down the road next to an airport will inevitably result in the preamp frying from the radar interregator and/or individual plane transponders. Since I live 3 blocks from an airport I don't seriously bother with the 1296 band, that and its a big hobby, plenty other stuff to do. Also old fashioned analog AMPS cell towers were supposedly the death of many a hilltoppers 902 MHz preamp. Comments? Its just heresay, but I just keep on hearing it and it is technically believable...
...sensationalist IMO in the way it counted mistakes and deaths / errors. An "error" that had no effect in a critically ill patient who died 3 days later was counted as a fatal outcome.
Yikes, so you're saying a gunshot wound bleeding out who doesn't get a required tetanus shot would be counted?
Can we do more? Well, banning handwritten prescriptions would be a pretty bad idea (if I'm in a community clinic wanting to give a patient some antibiotics for an ear infection, I think I should be allowed.)
I have not ready any/. comments about fraud / prescription abuse, what do you think about that WRT to handwritten vs e-prescriptions? Fraud w/ paper is harder to detect (or is it?) and when it happens I would assume thats one order at a time, whereas online I'd assume if you get owned you'll suddenly insta-prescribe 100000 orders of some abuse drug. You could design systems for both paper and online that are either secure or insecure, I'm sure paper has been optimized and electronic has not been optimized as much...
An elderly patient may have mentioned a decade ago that they were "allergic" to some medication because they got a headache after they took it, but once that allergy is on the drug allergy list, no one is going to put themselves on the line and delete it. As a result, the lists of drug allergies tend to accumulate junk over time and may prevent physicians from using the most appropriate medication.
Amoxocillian makes me puke, at least it did once 30 years ago. Or maybe I puked after amoxocillian because I was home from school and ate nothing but junk food because I was sick and miserable. Fast forward 30 years and horrible ear infection from my ear infected kids, go to doc, amox worked great on the kids but I can't have it. Doc suggests something and warned me of horrific side effects (was it cipro ?). I talked him off the ledge and we agreed zithromycin would be safer and more appropriate. 4 hours later the fever was gone, feeling better, etc. Even azithromycin is not harmless. The "best" answer probably would have been amox and don't eat any taco bell or other upsetting substances, but that is not possible for insurance reasons, etc.
You don't want to get in a situation where you have a relatively minor headache, but aspirin gives you a slight tummy ache, so they "have to" do exploratory brain surgery instead. I can imagine an old person being "allergic" to everything and therefore getting crazy treatment plans that are much riskier than a minor reaction.
When I was in the army my Drill Sergent "forced" everyone with a red allergy dog tag to find out what their reaction was, not just that they were allergic as a simple binary yes/no. He had some story about being in central america with a buddy with a minor leg infection and the corpsman only had antibiotics on hand that his buddy was allergic to, so they were contemplating cutting his leg off vs how bad would the allergy reaction be. Supposedly option 3 medivac saved both his life and leg...
One thing I've wondered about is whether we should consider all deaths equal. Is it as tragic if an 80 year old dies from a presecription error as if a two-year old dies in a car crash? From the perspective of life span, the 80 year old likely got cheated out of 7-10 yeas of life but the 2 year old around 70.
My intuition tells me that a disproportionate number of these 50k deaths are individuals... who are very sick to begin with.
Your numbers are way too high. Taking, say, my grandmother into consideration, depending on the prescriptions selected, some years ago she had the choice of dying of heart/circulatory trouble, lung trouble, or kidney trouble. Technically the doctors may have made the "wrong" off the cuff under fire multidimensional optimization thus robbing her of hours, perhaps even days of life. Not 7-10 years. As an engineer, I think they did pretty well, but I can see how someone brought up with rich Dr always right on pedestal above us all never wrong might want to file a malpractice lawsuit for those couple hours of life in exchange for what they think will be a big financial payoff. Or, a deal where you guys are trying to bill a uninsured widower for $2M of "service" but we will "overlook" the malpractice if you "overlook" the $2M bill. Etc.
Ditto the kid. So my son had horrible flu and pneumonia (and eventually made a 100% recovery thanks) but in the ER they had to decide to risk hard core IV antibiotics that he might be allergic to vs fluid in lungs vs high fever needing IV (whatever it was) to drop his temp which also has side effects, etc. Now if they had guessed wrong and he croaked, VERY superficially you might claim he lost 70 years of life, but lets be realistic, a semi-dehydrated little kid with the flu and a high fever and trouble breathing, without any medical intervention his lifespan would have been, what, maybe a day or two at most? Certainly not 70 years. A kid that sick in Africa would be dead for sure.
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One small rock accelerated for a long enough time then steered at a large ship (or moon or planet) would pretty much be the end of it.
Why wouldn't the other side do the same to intercept enroute?
Defender only has to use say, 1/2 the mass and energy to destroy the incoming projectile so defender seems to have the upper hand.
One small rock does approximately nothing to a planet. The earth gets hit by those constantly. Assuming you mean human sized small rock like a baseball. If you mean small rock like a 100 foot asteroid, well yeah that is a problem. However the bigger problem is the planet has an entire planets worth of railguns and tracking stations to detect and blast it, and the visiting ship only has ... one dinky little ship to accelerate it. It gets complicated real fast.
You can't argue the planet would be targeted by a near planet orbiting asteroid, because those are the first targets the planet would use for its own offensive ops! In other words if it were a "near hit" asteroid, it would already be the planets offensive weapon (or defensive?) long before the visiting team gets to try to use it against the planet....
Given an infinite amount of computational power and tech, simply shoot the rail round out of the "sky" with one of your own rounds. CIWS is old/ancient stuff on naval ships, I can't imagine something unimaginably more advanced not being deployed.
That works against long range, because its so easy to lock and and pop them enroute. There will exist a short range where one side's super-CIWS will lose its control loop, then the other side wins. I would imagine that intel info would be very valuable...
Too far away and its too easy to dodge the ship using maneuvering thrusters. A near miss by a millimeter means nothing in a vacuum.
Whichever side has more railgun rounds fired per minute/second, wins, alternately, he who runs out of ammo first, loses, most likely.
Also deployable chaff. Have you ever seen a .45 cal nearly subsonic round after it goes thru a target, it practically looks unfired assuming it hit nothing too hard. Have you ever seen a hypervelocity off the shelf .22 cal round after it hits a blade of grass? No, you haven't because it shatters into dust. Thats at low supersonic range. At mach 25 you hit a piece of mylar chaff and that projectile turns into plasma dust and there's no effect more than 10 feet away. So I expect to see lots of "junk" in space. Maybe even physical shields.
Slow news day, eh?
Yeah, go ahead, just dare them to post yet another raspberry pi article. Remember when we had to sit thru 3 e-ink display astroturfs per week? Ugh. Weird as it is, at least this doesn't get posted on a regular basis... thats why I upvoted it in the firehose.
When talking space distances controlling them remotely quickly becomes impractical due to the time it takes for commands to be sent.
Literature/culture problem. We are only permitted binary thinking, so robots must either be radio controlled cars with weapons, or they must be more human than some humans, like Cmdr Data or Cherry 2000. It is a thoughtcrime to have a robot exist somewhere in between, just as its a thoughtcrime to not be a devout republican or democrat, or christian or anti-christian.
The real world is most likely to have them be fairly autonomous. A bit smarter than an off the shelf air to air missile, but probably not a heck of a lot smarter.
My prediction: slow and boring.
Based on my experience in the military 20 years ago, it will remain the same as today... 99.99% boring as all hell; a bad dilbert cartoon would be better, and 00.01% holy cow. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
There's always the interstellar medium. There's not much of it, but its there. With all the cheesy "turn images and graphs into computer generated sounds" that I've had to suffer thru over the decades, that is one that I've never heard but would enjoy hearing. Sample, Fourier transform, play back at a substantially accelerated speed, all done.
Yeah that takes care of the battle part. After the battle the losers, military, civilians, pets, and all get genocided. I donno if you want to count that as part of the battle.
The other problem is own goal action, the problem with a million little nano bots is making sure they all attack the enemy and not yourself by either being reprogrammed, or fooled. Millions of them, yikes. At least with 2 giant ships you only need 2 really intelligent commanders.
Most likely is two giant ships filled with clouds of ultra short range nano bots. Ultra short range so they don't accidentally hit the fatherland.
Oh, I wouldn't say high quality. I have a 1600x1200 LCD and I can't find a way to replace it other than downgrading to only 1080, which would suck given the recent UI designer fixation on as many horizontal tool bars as large as possible. Major Bummer.
I would say "adequate quality for the masses". You know, like Walmart products. And that market has wiped out anything better so you have a huge jump from low res junk for only $100 to graphics artist terminals at over $2K and not much in between.
It would be hard to get away with it due to equal protection etc.
Could "they" do something like purchase haiti or somalia and change its law to be eternal copyright, then have the US and their newly purchased state form a reciprocal treaty for copyrights, then transfer all their copyrights from the us to haiti, then return our countries laws to something sane for 99.999999% of content?
signifigant enough that the FCC requires public notice.
Dude I'm telling you, they don't. I've worked at least at three places in telecom with big (heck, giant) ugly recieve (and at one place, transmit!) dishes in engineering and there is no such thing as a FCC requirement or license for the installation, ownership, or use of a dish. Current job has a small farm of dishes I'm not directly involved with in C band and Ku band, coincidentally, but I previously worked for a big microwave digital service, etc. 3 t-3 might not sound like much bandwidth, but out in the boonies, thats like one meg per human being so its not so bad... In an area with more cows than people, old fashioned microwave radio is still better than fiber.
This "dish filing" is because C-band is a dual purpose allocation and the FCC will protect a registered primary user... assuming they've actually registered. Best example outside this service I can come up that might help clarify it is the ham radio 70 cm band has the hams as a secondary service and .mil as primary and if .mil registers a radar or whatever the heck they're doing, then within a certain geographic area the hams get the boot and/or have ridiculous low ERP limitations along with a legal obligation as secondary users to not interfere with the primary users. That's not an issue where I live so there are weaksignal and EME guys with stacked long beam yagis and hundreds of watts, but I know there are places along the flyover coasts where the .mil limits hams to something too small to make even a weak little FM repeater. The 5 MHz ham band channelized ops have the same relationship, secondary allocation means you must stay out of the way of the primary users. GOOG is just registering themselves as a primary user, you secondary folks best stay away.
Air to ground satellite is a primary service in that band and some pt-pt is secondary if and only if there exist no registered cband ground receivers that could be interfered with. All this means is they've declared their willingness to exert their rights as a primary user, rather than waiting until a secondary builds out a network and THEN takes the secondary to court (and wins, because they're legally primary). It just saves everyone a lot of lawyer time and trouble.
Would sprint or whoever be allowed to build a c-band ground-ground pt-pt on the frequencies we use at work within a short distance of our dishes? heck no, we're primary users and we're registered so that ain't happening. They could get (in fact, do have) a secondary allocation that wouldn't interfere with our primary allocated work.
If you don't register, then you can fight it out in court later with a secondary, but its really frowned upon.
I don't see how calling it cow shit makes it extreme.
Don't you watch TV? Its edgey, its slightly rebellious, it might offend your school librarian or auntie, it lets you make endless middle school level jokes and innuendo about shit, for the target market, whats not to love? I'm not the target market, but I could totally see this in a TV commercial on the G4 network.
Here's your extreme TV commercial, have a bunch of skaters on skateboards on a half pipe make some jokes about who dropped a cow chip on the half pipe while some older woman looks on horrified, then have the kool kids sit down for a snack and chomp down on some bags of teriyaki flavored beef jerky cow chips and say yum and swig a same corporation energy drink. Or you could have a school librarian (not the nympho type but more the gray type) horrified at overhearing the kool kids talk about sniffing and eating cow chips. Or some nerdy guy eating potatoe chips out of the vending machine at school but the kool kids eating a bag of way cool cow chips.
IF I could hold my nose at the marketing, a crispier than normal beef jerky "chip" might be pretty tasty and I'd eat it. Heck I held my nose for years at the Virgin Mobile ads and bought their service, I'm sure I can tolerate commercials that my mythtv auto-skips on a network I never watch.
I use Quicken for one reason and one reason only, to be able to pay bills directly and electronically through my register, and to be able to download transactions and reconcile accounts.
Well, for a sufficiently large definition of "one"... Anyway, I had the same problem, Quicken was my last remaining windoze app and I was sick of living on the upgrade treadmill where they disabled features like download unless you bought a new almost identical version every two years. I probably would still be a customer, every 4 or 5 years, if they didn't try to squeeze their fingers around my neck so tightly... Solutions:
1) I pay bills directly out of my bank's online billpay now. Buh bye quicken...
2) I don't reconcile accounts anymore. Buh bye quicken. With all access being online for all my accounts, the quaint postal idea of reconciling a monthly statement doesn't make much sense anymore. I don't have a monthly financial cycle anymore... My bank sends me an email receipt for each check/savings/CC/billpay transaction. I keep up with it in real time. Don't really see the point of a monthly reconciliation. This might have something to do with how I used to write something in excess of ten paper checks per month in the 90s and now I write exactly one per month to the mortgage payment, plus the occasional sort-isolated oddity.
I tried the mint thing to do budgeting, but its kind of like facebook, an addictive waste of time that provided no useful result in my life. So, buh bye mint. Then mint got bought by Quicken so I figured they'd destroy it, but its apparently still going well, although much spammier than it used to be. I heard if your bank doesn't spam you with transactions, you can configure mint to do it somehow, something to do with setting your monthly budget to one cent in all categories or something to trick it into sending alerts.
I don't understand quite how it all works, but the FCC requires permits for antennas above a certain db gain, and these would definately qualify for that.
No, they do not. I've been involved in RF engineering, in some tangential manner or another, for a quarter century and I've never heard of a FCC antenna permit. I have been involved in FAA work for towers, which is regulated and permitted more than licensed and the FAA isn't the FCC anyway. I have thankfully avoided getting involved with the EPA especially WRT wetland management where some antennas are installed, but the EPA is not the FCC. I have been involved in transmitter licensing, admittedly transmitters are attached to antennas and the FCC is all excited about V/M ERP levels and such but they are licensing a complete system of transmitter, grounding system and antenna, not just an antenna. I have been involved in microwave links where below a certain ERP you are unlicensed and to run above a certain ERP you need licensing (another obvious example is FM broadcast radio transmitter, wanna run 1 milliwatt from your ipod to car radio, fine, but you wanna run 100 watts community radio station you need a license), again this is system licensing not antenna licensing. There is a weird corner case in the family radio service FRS where the antenna must be permanently attached to the transmitter and is type accepted as a complete inseparable unit, but its type accepted not licensed. God only knows local building inspectors LOVE to do all kinds of civil engineering and general permitting foolishness to put an antenna on a tower or whatever, but they are not the FCC. Local oscillator leakage makes any non-TRF receiver essentially a very weak transmitter. So if your LO leakage is at -50 dBmW and you attach a 50 dB radio astronomy antenna to it, you MAY be in violation of the FCC unintentional radiator regulations, but thats not a license thats an emission regulation and that is fixed by repairing your equipment up to standard, not getting a license to interfere. You can do anything the FAA, building codes, zoning, and your bank account will allow you to do WRT to ham radio antennas. There might be some really amazingly obscure corner of RF work where an antenna is licensed that I've somehow avoided, but I find it Highly Unlikely. Please let me / us know if you find it.
So you mean they'd just make a mutated catfish, tuna or soybean?
I was thinking more along the lines of taking "carnivorous" pig cells and letting them process the raw material into delicious bacon.
Much like when you drink beer, you tell yourself you're drinking processed barley, not yeast. Pickles, you're eating processed cucumbers, not acetobacteria.
In a similar line of thought, you're not eating sliced up catfish, you're eating catfish that was processed into bacon-like filets or whatever by being dunked for a few hours into baconic cells.
I suppose if the fish itself could be modified to taste like bacon then you could skip the processing step.
Essentially we've had alcohol fermentation cells and acetic acid pickling cells in our cooking bag of tricks for centuries, and I'm hoping for a new line of cells that turns anything vaguely meaty into bacon. Baconic cells, to go with our existing zoos of acetobacteria and yeasts.
Where I'm from, cow chips mean something very different.
Yes exactly, which is why I suggested it as an extreme marketing term. You can sell an extreme bag of spicy cow chips in a commercial during a professional wrestling TV show, in between the "vocational video game classes" ads and energy drink ads. A bag of "extreme cow chips" is not gonna sell if advertised on dancing with the stars.
I find some horse steaks to be far better than beef.
I was almost believing you until that point. The more you work a muscle, and the older it gets, the stringier and tougher it becomes. I bet horse would make an awesome slow cooked bbq, but as a steak it would make "cube steaks" (which I personally find inedible) seem like tenderloin. Keep this in mind for the post-zombie apocalypse cannibalism era, old muscular ex-military weightlifter dude like me is almost the definition of not good eats.
But there are a myriad of different stuff in meat, including bacteria of all kinds, microbes, all types of things.
Absolutely true at McDonalds, or taco bell. Ideally, however, the interior of raw meat is pretty darn near sterile.
Think about it, the interior of your bicep right now is either sterile, or red, inflamed, and in intense pain, correct? The interior of meat is actually much more sterile than the interior of vegetable matter, which is kind of interesting, especially organic vegetables which were bathed in fecal matter as a fertilizer.
Now the exterior of factory slaughtered meat is in fact generally filthy beyond all comprehension, ditto ground meat products, but I don' t think anyone has found a digestive or culinary advantage to intentionally smearing a layer of e coli fecal bacteria on their steak.
Correct. One is still using cells of a pig to create pig meat. Just because it's not extracted from an entire pig does it mean it's no longer classified as pig flesh.
Until you genetically engineer it sufficiently far away. Imagine an aquaculture catfish that is literally fileted into something indistinguishable from pig bacon but is technically born of a fish. Or a tuna that tastes just like the finest beef tenderloin.
For that matter, I'd settle for a soybean that when processed tastes and cooks more like real meat instead of weird fake soy-meat.
Also, they need to come up with some kind of lab grown Dorito-esq chip that’s actually healthy for you and doesn’t taste like crap.
Beef Jerky. Reasonably low fat and low carb and mostly paleo diet. "Cow Chip" might actually sell as an extreme marketing term.
Also if you have some "health food" type store nearby there are veggie chips that taste fantastic kind of like a potato chip already dunked in salsa. That would probably count.
Finally I've gotten addicted to these freeze dried apple chips.
Grind up a multi-vitamin and dust it onto the chips and you're pretty much all good.
I could see requiring permission to place transmitters, but why for receivers?
Legal protection from interference. Example:
http://www.comsearch.com/industry_solutions/interference_protection/c-band_es.jsp
Pretty much first come first served.
In addition, while fairly high in peak transmit power, IFF has a VERY low duty cycle, and in fact has some very strict duty cycle limitations imposed on it specifically because of interference concerns. Last but not least, 1090 MHz is MUCH farther in frequency from GPS L1 (1575 MHz) than LightSquared is (1526-1536 MHz), meaning that it's going to be attenuated much more by the frontend filters of GPS receivers. Obtaining significant rejection at 1090 MHz is MUCH easier to do without size/weight/inband attenuation penalties than obtaining significant rejection for nearly continuous high-duty-cycle interference at 1536 MHz.
Yes but I was thinking of R-squared issues. So a 1 watt transponder at 1090 at maybe as little as 5 feet away vs 100 watts from LS maybe a couple miles away (miles straight down?).
Also there are issues w/ filters. So I do microwave RF work. Some MMICs I work with don't tolerate more than 20 dBmW at the input without physically frying. No problemo, you only need 10 dB of filtering a 1090 MHz 1 watt source to prevent physical damage, assuming you plugged the transponder antenna port directly into the preamp input port. 10 dB at a "third of an octave away" (depending how you do your math) is not an overly heroic engineering achievement, BUT that comes at an insertion loss of maybe a couple dB which comes Right Off The Top of my system noise figure which ruins my overall system SNR. Why even waste time and money on an exotic HEMT front end if the required front end filter results in system performance as cruddy as an old (bulletproof) bipolar transistor...
So much for hard core engineering. Now for the heresay... I also do microwave ham radio work and people with more experience than myself claim driving a rover 1296 MHz station down the road next to an airport will inevitably result in the preamp frying from the radar interregator and/or individual plane transponders. Since I live 3 blocks from an airport I don't seriously bother with the 1296 band, that and its a big hobby, plenty other stuff to do. Also old fashioned analog AMPS cell towers were supposedly the death of many a hilltoppers 902 MHz preamp. Comments? Its just heresay, but I just keep on hearing it and it is technically believable...
...sensationalist IMO in the way it counted mistakes and deaths / errors. An "error" that had no effect in a critically ill patient who died 3 days later was counted as a fatal outcome.
Yikes, so you're saying a gunshot wound bleeding out who doesn't get a required tetanus shot would be counted?
Can we do more? Well, banning handwritten prescriptions would be a pretty bad idea (if I'm in a community clinic wanting to give a patient some antibiotics for an ear infection, I think I should be allowed.)
I have not ready any /. comments about fraud / prescription abuse, what do you think about that WRT to handwritten vs e-prescriptions? Fraud w/ paper is harder to detect (or is it?) and when it happens I would assume thats one order at a time, whereas online I'd assume if you get owned you'll suddenly insta-prescribe 100000 orders of some abuse drug. You could design systems for both paper and online that are either secure or insecure, I'm sure paper has been optimized and electronic has not been optimized as much...
Coricidin Cold and Cough they said, was the safe choice.
The new stuff made from chlorpheniramine or the old stuff made from psudephedrine?
Thats the "killer" with brand names.
An elderly patient may have mentioned a decade ago that they were "allergic" to some medication because they got a headache after they took it, but once that allergy is on the drug allergy list, no one is going to put themselves on the line and delete it. As a result, the lists of drug allergies tend to accumulate junk over time and may prevent physicians from using the most appropriate medication.
Amoxocillian makes me puke, at least it did once 30 years ago. Or maybe I puked after amoxocillian because I was home from school and ate nothing but junk food because I was sick and miserable. Fast forward 30 years and horrible ear infection from my ear infected kids, go to doc, amox worked great on the kids but I can't have it. Doc suggests something and warned me of horrific side effects (was it cipro ?). I talked him off the ledge and we agreed zithromycin would be safer and more appropriate. 4 hours later the fever was gone, feeling better, etc. Even azithromycin is not harmless. The "best" answer probably would have been amox and don't eat any taco bell or other upsetting substances, but that is not possible for insurance reasons, etc.
You don't want to get in a situation where you have a relatively minor headache, but aspirin gives you a slight tummy ache, so they "have to" do exploratory brain surgery instead. I can imagine an old person being "allergic" to everything and therefore getting crazy treatment plans that are much riskier than a minor reaction.
When I was in the army my Drill Sergent "forced" everyone with a red allergy dog tag to find out what their reaction was, not just that they were allergic as a simple binary yes/no. He had some story about being in central america with a buddy with a minor leg infection and the corpsman only had antibiotics on hand that his buddy was allergic to, so they were contemplating cutting his leg off vs how bad would the allergy reaction be. Supposedly option 3 medivac saved both his life and leg...
One thing I've wondered about is whether we should consider all deaths equal. Is it as tragic if an 80 year old dies from a presecription error as if a two-year old dies in a car crash? From the perspective of life span, the 80 year old likely got cheated out of 7-10 yeas of life but the 2 year old around 70.
My intuition tells me that a disproportionate number of these 50k deaths are individuals ... who are very sick to begin with.
Your numbers are way too high. Taking, say, my grandmother into consideration, depending on the prescriptions selected, some years ago she had the choice of dying of heart/circulatory trouble, lung trouble, or kidney trouble. Technically the doctors may have made the "wrong" off the cuff under fire multidimensional optimization thus robbing her of hours, perhaps even days of life. Not 7-10 years. As an engineer, I think they did pretty well, but I can see how someone brought up with rich Dr always right on pedestal above us all never wrong might want to file a malpractice lawsuit for those couple hours of life in exchange for what they think will be a big financial payoff. Or, a deal where you guys are trying to bill a uninsured widower for $2M of "service" but we will "overlook" the malpractice if you "overlook" the $2M bill. Etc.
Ditto the kid. So my son had horrible flu and pneumonia (and eventually made a 100% recovery thanks) but in the ER they had to decide to risk hard core IV antibiotics that he might be allergic to vs fluid in lungs vs high fever needing IV (whatever it was) to drop his temp which also has side effects, etc. Now if they had guessed wrong and he croaked, VERY superficially you might claim he lost 70 years of life, but lets be realistic, a semi-dehydrated little kid with the flu and a high fever and trouble breathing, without any medical intervention his lifespan would have been, what, maybe a day or two at most? Certainly not 70 years. A kid that sick in Africa would be dead for sure.