As the subline says, I've always wanted to go out in the field with some MILES gear and blank-adapted rifles. It's much more fun when you're stalking around corners with an AR-15 and going BAMBAMBAMBAMBAM at an opponent until his little siren starts to beep. Unfortunately, real MILES gear is GODDAMNED EXPENSIVE and we've been looking for a cheaper alternative which fulfils the same roles (such as, shots fired, which shot from which player hits you, who you've hit, hit percentages, GPS position and bearing tracking, et cetera). If any of you out here in slash-land have any tips, I'd be much obliged.
As an amateur avionics enthusiast and rocketeer (I've stated in a previous post that your own web page has prompted me to tinker with my very own buzzbomb motor, which fizzled, overloaded, sparked and blowed up real good), I can do nothing but applaud your efforts, both in the field of Amateur Cruise Missiletry and your act of bringing this threat to the awareness of Those Officials That Need To Know This Sort of Thing.
If you're willing to expose yourself for everybody to see as one who is willing to construct these little buzzbombs for anybody who's willing to shell out the cash reminds us of the old adage "For every one that speaks out, there are a hundred behind him thinking the same thing." Granted, I've always aimed this adage toward my local cable television company, but it can and will indeed hold true in your case.
Here's what all the ASSHOLES here on SLASHDOT aren't able to understand: IF YOU ARE WILLING TO OVERTLY SELL YOUR SERVICES, THERE ARE OTHERS WHO WILL DO THE SAME COVERTLY. As a lad who finds this whole Homeland Security Department to be a little impotent dingle trying to show that it's actually Doing Something by taking nail clippers and Congressional Medals of Honor away from geriatrics before they board planes, I can only applaud your up front and overt display of how actually ineffectual these Homeland Security Types actually are.
You're nobody to be afraid of. The people with similar knowledge as yours with weaker moral spines are the ones we're to be afraid of. Sir, I can do naught but applaud your actions.
Personally, I'd love one. We started building one some time ago. We got to the stage "We just spent a hundred bucks trying to build a pulse jet intake and it done blowed up" when we put that project on the backburner. Yay for limited funds!
One of the ideas I had for a cruise missile would be to have a small, unmanned, essentially disposable drone that one could send out over the mountains to get a visual on any trails and travails that one may happen across while out exploring the mountains. Simply implant a string of GPS co-ordinates for the cruise missile to check out, photograph and report back to the base station via UHV television broadcast. If one could build the cruise missile out of fiberglas and doped rice paper, it'd likely only cost you in the range of a hundred dollars to build the airframe and motor (we planned on using a pocketing fuel injectors from those sharks at Pick-and-Pull, cheapy ignition coils and spark modules, each of which can be obtained for free if you know how to palm things at the Pick-and-Pull).
Ebay sells camcorder parts kits (one of which I've discombobulated and recombobulated and mounted to my old steel pot helmet as a simple night vision monocle), I've bought them for as low as 30 bucks! Perfect electronic fodder for building simple little cameras, The CCDs are typically in good order (most are missing a few pixels here and there, but it's really not a big deal if you have no intention on using them for professional video production or broadcast) as are the viewfinders.
Some time ago, when the army base at Hawthorne closed, they auctioned off lots and lots of electronics gear, I purchased HALF A TON (that's one thousand pounds, kids) of UHF and RF transciever gear at auction for five hundred bucks. If I weren't so lazy, I'd put it to good use and make a little UHF Pirate TV station here in the Valley. But I'm lazy. God how I'm lazy.
Point remaining though, little pulsejet cruise missiles have more legitimate uses than simply delivering a payload. They could be used for reconnasaince or the idea just struck me that they could be used as a recoverable deployment system for an over-the-horizon RF communication aerial.
Granted, these jobs could be equally completed with solid-fuel rockets or even a radio-controlled zeppelin. And at a much lower cost to boot. But the principle remains!
Also, as a sibling poster commented, some of us do take our Second Amendment Rights very, very seriously. If the Federal Government has these devices that they could use against us, then it is only fair that we're allowed to have them so as to use for defense against said agents of the Federal Government.
It depends on the type of NVGs the dorks in the black vests are wearing. I'd trust that they're wearing simple military-surplus Generation 1 light intensifiers. They can be had for $300-$500 in military surplus or hunting supplies catalogs. (Amazon has some of these Soviet-alike NVGs for $650, which is pretty steep. I bought mine for $450 from CheaperThanDirt (technically, it's a rifle scope, but similar enough, Besides, operating a rifle at night with those cheapy Soviet NVGs is nearly impossible, this one also works great as a helmet-mounted monocular. Yes, I wear my helmet when I'm playing in the desert).
Each of these Gen 1 light amplifiers don't really do that great of a job, all things considered. The resolution is far too low to be terribly useful (the scope has a reticle, so that makes targeting the general area of your target a bit easier, but actually hitting anything with any degree of accuracy is pretty much impossible) and the contrast can be irritating as hell. Either everything in the viewfinder is pitch black or bright white. This makes driving in a no-light situation very difficult, even at low speeds. And given the fact that my dumb Ford Bronco just loves to tell me that I should CHECK REAR ANTI-LOCK every time I turn the key, I'm treated to an intense white blob out of the corner of my eye. Love them dashboard lights.
Both the scope and the goggles are 'passive light amplification' which means they can amplify the starlight, but if you're in a pitch-black situation (overcast, underground) both have an infrared emitting diode atop the objective lens, which paints the area in front of you with light out of the visible spectrum. If you're not actually hunting someone with their own NVGs, turning on the IRED works great.
Now, as for the theater, why don't they just use a little Sony Handicam with NightShot? When I... appended one to my fender (so as to make an inexpensive Forward-Looking Infrared setup for my vehicle), I got better images on my little monochrome field monitor than I ever got from the stupid goggles. The Handicam picked up the IREDs from my other friends and their NVGs, even outside of NightShot mode.
But I ramble on. As for your question, I don't think it could do any permanent damage to the idiot ushers using them to totally narc out those evil Copyright Violators, lamentably. No, turning the lights on won't permanently blind NVG users (despite what the film 'Clear and Present Danger' had to say about the issue), just leave a nasty monitor burn-in against your retinas! Just like looking at the sun for a second or catching the glimpse of an arc from your welder. Unless of course, you're stupid and ignore that old HEY BRIGHT LIGHT I SHOULD PROBABLY CLOSE MY EYES BECAUSE THIS IS BRIGHT, WHOA! reflex that most mammals have when confronted with an intense light being beamed right into their cute little peepers.
You know, he's absolutely right. If us private citizens armed ourselves and formed an angry mob outside these spammers' opulent mansions and you know, dragged them into the street and executed them in a most grisly manner, perhaps the FUCKING PROBLEM WOULD GO AWAY.
It doesn't help matters that this nation's professional law-enforcement establishment is so limp-dicked that they refuse to go after Public Menaces but will go out of their fucking way to nail innocent, freedom-enjoying citizens for not wearing their fucking seat-belts.
Perhaps the time has more than come for the abolishment of the professional police force and having the entire law-enforcement establishment replaced by democratically-elected members of a Vigilance Committee. Having elected officials who are unafraid to just outright KILL THESE MOTHERFUCKING SPAMMERS in a very public (read: televised nationally) and brutal way, complete with much screaming and blood all over the place culminating in the animal's corpse being rended asunder and mailed to other spammers so they get the FUCKING HINT ALREADY (that they themselves are Next On The List and they'd better Reform Right Fucking Now or become reduced to little shreds of pink flesh).
HEY FAGS ON SLASHDOT. This INANE SHIT is not OBLIGATORY. You are NOT OBLIGED in any way to make your INANE LITTLE COMMENTS lifted from the pages of the hack-job screenplays of THE FUCKING MATRIX or THE FUCKING SIMPSONS or FUCKING FUTURAMA in every goddamned thread.
Quit doing this. Quit being a COCKSUCKER
Nobody GIVES A SHIT about PITHY LITTLE COMMENTS that you little insignificant shits deem 'OBLIGATORY.'
Why can't every INANE COCKSUCKER here on SLASHDOT just up and FUCKING DIE already?
Thanks in advance for cutting DOWN the vein instead of ACROSS, you useless shits.
Stoming on me will destroy the future. Probably. See, we don't really know one way or another if stomping on me while you're out romping around in the mesozoic forest ranges and shooting teerexes in their big dumb heads an attosecond before they die of way-natural causes will undo the entire space-time continuum or if things will just go on as they were before you put your inexpensive, Chinese-made knockoff Jungle Boots onto my delicate, fragile little exoskeleton.
See there friend, if you flatten me silly, there will be absolutely no way to tell if you've changed the future irreparably! As the changes you've wrought have taken place way way way long time ago in the superpast, well before you and the rest of your crazy civilization were concieved and born, these changes existed before you went back in time to stomp on me and maybe change the entire history of forever!
Who knows! All I know is that I'm a butterfly and that I like nectar. Yum nectar!
Was an excellent film regarding this fine Republic's upbringing and growth from nothingness to a delightful little hate-filled boiling kettle of rage and racial despisement and MERCHANDISING! Man, Birth of a Nation branded clotheslines, silk nightgowns and galvanized buckets fetch up to and exceeding fifteen dollars at auction! Considering their initial purchase prices of three to twelve cents, that states an increase of well over ten thousand per cent!
This information bodes well for the Birth of an Empire collector's market. So kids, get out there and buy buy buy up all the Birth of an Empire merchandise you can possibly fit down your dumb throats! The lava-field Anakin and Throat Crush: The Game for X-Box and PS2 should fetch obscene amounts in auctions one century hest.
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As the subline says, I've always wanted to go out in the field with some MILES gear and blank-adapted rifles. It's much more fun when you're stalking around corners with an AR-15 and going BAMBAMBAMBAMBAM at an opponent until his little siren starts to beep. Unfortunately, real MILES gear is GODDAMNED EXPENSIVE and we've been looking for a cheaper alternative which fulfils the same roles (such as, shots fired, which shot from which player hits you, who you've hit, hit percentages, GPS position and bearing tracking, et cetera). If any of you out here in slash-land have any tips, I'd be much obliged.
If you're willing to expose yourself for everybody to see as one who is willing to construct these little buzzbombs for anybody who's willing to shell out the cash reminds us of the old adage "For every one that speaks out, there are a hundred behind him thinking the same thing." Granted, I've always aimed this adage toward my local cable television company, but it can and will indeed hold true in your case.
Here's what all the ASSHOLES here on SLASHDOT aren't able to understand: IF YOU ARE WILLING TO OVERTLY SELL YOUR SERVICES, THERE ARE OTHERS WHO WILL DO THE SAME COVERTLY. As a lad who finds this whole Homeland Security Department to be a little impotent dingle trying to show that it's actually Doing Something by taking nail clippers and Congressional Medals of Honor away from geriatrics before they board planes, I can only applaud your up front and overt display of how actually ineffectual these Homeland Security Types actually are.
You're nobody to be afraid of. The people with similar knowledge as yours with weaker moral spines are the ones we're to be afraid of. Sir, I can do naught but applaud your actions.
One of the ideas I had for a cruise missile would be to have a small, unmanned, essentially disposable drone that one could send out over the mountains to get a visual on any trails and travails that one may happen across while out exploring the mountains. Simply implant a string of GPS co-ordinates for the cruise missile to check out, photograph and report back to the base station via UHV television broadcast. If one could build the cruise missile out of fiberglas and doped rice paper, it'd likely only cost you in the range of a hundred dollars to build the airframe and motor (we planned on using a pocketing fuel injectors from those sharks at Pick-and-Pull, cheapy ignition coils and spark modules, each of which can be obtained for free if you know how to palm things at the Pick-and-Pull).
Ebay sells camcorder parts kits (one of which I've discombobulated and recombobulated and mounted to my old steel pot helmet as a simple night vision monocle), I've bought them for as low as 30 bucks! Perfect electronic fodder for building simple little cameras, The CCDs are typically in good order (most are missing a few pixels here and there, but it's really not a big deal if you have no intention on using them for professional video production or broadcast) as are the viewfinders.
Some time ago, when the army base at Hawthorne closed, they auctioned off lots and lots of electronics gear, I purchased HALF A TON (that's one thousand pounds, kids) of UHF and RF transciever gear at auction for five hundred bucks. If I weren't so lazy, I'd put it to good use and make a little UHF Pirate TV station here in the Valley. But I'm lazy. God how I'm lazy.
Point remaining though, little pulsejet cruise missiles have more legitimate uses than simply delivering a payload. They could be used for reconnasaince or the idea just struck me that they could be used as a recoverable deployment system for an over-the-horizon RF communication aerial.
Granted, these jobs could be equally completed with solid-fuel rockets or even a radio-controlled zeppelin. And at a much lower cost to boot. But the principle remains!
Also, as a sibling poster commented, some of us do take our Second Amendment Rights very, very seriously. If the Federal Government has these devices that they could use against us, then it is only fair that we're allowed to have them so as to use for defense against said agents of the Federal Government.
Then again, The Turner Diaries we ain't livin'.
Each of these Gen 1 light amplifiers don't really do that great of a job, all things considered. The resolution is far too low to be terribly useful (the scope has a reticle, so that makes targeting the general area of your target a bit easier, but actually hitting anything with any degree of accuracy is pretty much impossible) and the contrast can be irritating as hell. Either everything in the viewfinder is pitch black or bright white. This makes driving in a no-light situation very difficult, even at low speeds. And given the fact that my dumb Ford Bronco just loves to tell me that I should CHECK REAR ANTI-LOCK every time I turn the key, I'm treated to an intense white blob out of the corner of my eye. Love them dashboard lights.
Both the scope and the goggles are 'passive light amplification' which means they can amplify the starlight, but if you're in a pitch-black situation (overcast, underground) both have an infrared emitting diode atop the objective lens, which paints the area in front of you with light out of the visible spectrum. If you're not actually hunting someone with their own NVGs, turning on the IRED works great.
Now, as for the theater, why don't they just use a little Sony Handicam with NightShot? When I... appended one to my fender (so as to make an inexpensive Forward-Looking Infrared setup for my vehicle), I got better images on my little monochrome field monitor than I ever got from the stupid goggles. The Handicam picked up the IREDs from my other friends and their NVGs, even outside of NightShot mode.
But I ramble on. As for your question, I don't think it could do any permanent damage to the idiot ushers using them to totally narc out those evil Copyright Violators, lamentably. No, turning the lights on won't permanently blind NVG users (despite what the film 'Clear and Present Danger' had to say about the issue), just leave a nasty monitor burn-in against your retinas! Just like looking at the sun for a second or catching the glimpse of an arc from your welder. Unless of course, you're stupid and ignore that old HEY BRIGHT LIGHT I SHOULD PROBABLY CLOSE MY EYES BECAUSE THIS IS BRIGHT, WHOA! reflex that most mammals have when confronted with an intense light being beamed right into their cute little peepers.
It doesn't help matters that this nation's professional law-enforcement establishment is so limp-dicked that they refuse to go after Public Menaces but will go out of their fucking way to nail innocent, freedom-enjoying citizens for not wearing their fucking seat-belts.
Perhaps the time has more than come for the abolishment of the professional police force and having the entire law-enforcement establishment replaced by democratically-elected members of a Vigilance Committee. Having elected officials who are unafraid to just outright KILL THESE MOTHERFUCKING SPAMMERS in a very public (read: televised nationally) and brutal way, complete with much screaming and blood all over the place culminating in the animal's corpse being rended asunder and mailed to other spammers so they get the FUCKING HINT ALREADY (that they themselves are Next On The List and they'd better Reform Right Fucking Now or become reduced to little shreds of pink flesh).
Oh a lad can dream, a lad can dream of utopia...
Quit doing this. Quit being a COCKSUCKER Nobody GIVES A SHIT about PITHY LITTLE COMMENTS that you little insignificant shits deem 'OBLIGATORY.'
Why can't every INANE COCKSUCKER here on SLASHDOT just up and FUCKING DIE already?
Thanks in advance for cutting DOWN the vein instead of ACROSS, you useless shits.
See there friend, if you flatten me silly, there will be absolutely no way to tell if you've changed the future irreparably! As the changes you've wrought have taken place way way way long time ago in the superpast, well before you and the rest of your crazy civilization were concieved and born, these changes existed before you went back in time to stomp on me and maybe change the entire history of forever!
Who knows! All I know is that I'm a butterfly and that I like nectar. Yum nectar!
(effa why eye, Mozart in Mirrorshades was better)
Was an excellent film regarding this fine Republic's upbringing and growth from nothingness to a delightful little hate-filled boiling kettle of rage and racial despisement and MERCHANDISING! Man, Birth of a Nation branded clotheslines, silk nightgowns and galvanized buckets fetch up to and exceeding fifteen dollars at auction! Considering their initial purchase prices of three to twelve cents, that states an increase of well over ten thousand per cent! This information bodes well for the Birth of an Empire collector's market. So kids, get out there and buy buy buy up all the Birth of an Empire merchandise you can possibly fit down your dumb throats! The lava-field Anakin and Throat Crush: The Game for X-Box and PS2 should fetch obscene amounts in auctions one century hest.