Nice thing about military experience, especially military aviation is that they, too, love consistency. Follow orders, follow your checklists, get to work on time and get your job done. I would think that an HR drone would just love that sort of experience. They could check off a half dozen boxes right off the bat and maybe get bonus points for hiring a veteran.
We'll have none of that nonsense here. We've already made hundreds of posts using the inflammatory headline. The last thing we want now is rational behavior.
You know, the easier way to do this is as follows:
- Germany has significant infrastructure along navigable waterways. - Boats, even boats available to the lay public, can be quite large and capable of carrying building leveling quantities of ANFO (diesel / ammonium nitrate explosive, also nominally available to the lay public). - It's a trivial exercise to add automatic piloting to your boat. Add a nice GPS system with routing capabilities and you have a self guided munition that can cause hundreds of casualties or bring down a building or both.
Nobody is saying that an RC plane, suitably equipped, can't cause damage. It's the claim that such damage can cause 'harm to the state' that's just a bit hyperbolic.
True enough but I think it kinda funny that Motorola gets away with charging 5 figures for control that I have at the touch of a switch. Yes, you don't want every policeman, environmental engineer and sidewalk cleaner fiddling with bandwidth and DTMF tones, but you could at least make your control software standard and reasonably inexpensive.
And there still are a large number of non trunked systems in use. For smaller towns and agencies, trunking is needlessly expensive and complex.
The funny thing is that amateur radios often make better business / public service radios than most commercial units. I can control the output on my Yaesu (Standard / Vertex) 2M rigs much better than the Fire department can do on their super expensive Motorola bricks. For one thing, I don't need a $20,000 (actual cost, complete with high quality Chinese dongle) box to change bandwidth and power parameters. I can do it from the front panel*. The power spectrum looks much cleaner than the Motorola rigs.
If it weren't blatantly illegal I would rig my HT to broadcast on Fire / Rescue channels and not have to take the overweight FT5000 POS that they dumped on me. **
* Of course, this is an intellectual exercise. One should never open up the front display unit and unsolder the two jumper wires that are described in many places in the Internet. One should never, ever do that.
** I wouldn't even think of it. Especially because opening the transmit frequency of a Yaseau FT-530 requires one to open up the back and remove a jumper. A difficult and dangerous endeavor. Small parts, even.
Because, one of the longstanding implicit quid pro quo behaviors of Amateur radio is that it is 'harmless'. Amateur radio operators are given the freedom to use a significant swath of radio frequency for non commercial use. Amateur radio is designed to be self policing. If somebody starts sending commercial / illegal / inappropriate transmissions, other radio ops are supposed to help figure out where the transmission is coming from and cooperate with the FCC in finding the miscreant.
So, if you obfuscate the transmission, all of that goes out the window. Then the feeling is that the FCC will decide that amateur radio isn't worth the bother (and we can be a real PITA) and shut the whole thing down.
It's a slippery slope that no one wants to peer down.
Not EVERYTHING on the planet needs to be attached to the Internet....
Then come literally thousands of sites which have scraped data on me from obituaries, home sale records, other people's unsecured social media postings.
Emphasis mine.
You might have something really important going on here. Care to tell us about it?
It's still evolution. It's change in response to the environment. LGT (Lateral Gene Transfer) is a Big Deal in the bacterial world - it evolved. You can amplify the effect by causing a selection pressure (ie, put an antibiotic in the flask). But, you can also have de novo point mutations that cause antibiotic resistance - that's done thousands, if not millions of times a day all over the planet. The clever little protists have figured out an even more efficient way to do things.
If you looked at TFA, you would notice that what the company has is a way of tailoring long chain hydrocarbon manufacturing through algae production. It can be longer chains like cooking oils, it can be shorter chains like fuel oil. The tech is interesting is that they can actually manipulate the algae well enough to change the final product without resorting to high pressure / high temperature methods like seen in an oil refinery.
What they can't do yet is produce the products in oil refinery-like quantities. That's something they need to do in order to sell it as a fuel, but they've figured out there is potentially a market in smaller quantities of different oils.
Whether or not that happens commercially remains to be seen, but it's a different play on building up to the next Exxon.
I don't think they will ever get there, but who knows?
I'm not so sure how stringent things are. A good friend called me a number of years ago and asked me if I remembered all of the times we had done drugs together. "All of them?" - yep, he was supposed to right them down.
Now, that was college in the 70's and I can't even exactly recall what drugs we used, much less when we used them. They also contacted my father, who at the time had a TS clearance, and asked him. He told them to stuff it. (He was in a couple of years of retirement, didn't really need the clearance but they didn't pull it.)
He got the clearance and the job. He didn't write down the details, just told them he did a fair bunch.
But doing drugs in the 70's won't even get you disqualified from being president. Being gay these days, likewise.
Now, complaining to the local water board about the drinkablitity of what comes out of your tap, that might be problematic.
Now you're using Senators as a proxy for understanding a definition?
You're on pretty shaky ground, there.
(Of course, he can't possibly have a fair trial. They don't want him to have a fair trial. They want him to have a plane crash or a heart attack or better yet, to be found in a compromising position with an underage age dragon of the opposite sex and then have a heart attack while flying a plane.
If you don't have a facebook page (with friends...) the question of 'why not' arises.
Are you kidding? You state this on Slashdot?
There are dozens of reasons NOT to have a Facebook account. There are even good reasons for not having a Linkdn account (been spammed there more times than I care to recall). Twitter?
Good grief kids, you can have an active social and professional life with just a telephone. It's not hard - billions of people do it.
True enough, but you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel if you putative scary monsters come from people complaining about government services. Who's next? People who don't pay parking tickets?
Slashdot Mirror
Are you allowed to say this stuff on Slashdot? Isn't there something in the fine print about this behavior?
Nice thing about military experience, especially military aviation is that they, too, love consistency. Follow orders, follow your checklists, get to work on time and get your job done. I would think that an HR drone would just love that sort of experience. They could check off a half dozen boxes right off the bat and maybe get bonus points for hiring a veteran.
If you've got the money, honey - I've got the time.
We'll have none of that nonsense here. We've already made hundreds of posts using the inflammatory headline. The last thing we want now is rational behavior.
I am so not inviting you to my Christmas party.
You know, the easier way to do this is as follows:
- Germany has significant infrastructure along navigable waterways.
- Boats, even boats available to the lay public, can be quite large and capable of carrying building leveling quantities of ANFO (diesel / ammonium nitrate explosive, also nominally available to the lay public).
- It's a trivial exercise to add automatic piloting to your boat. Add a nice GPS system with routing capabilities and you have a self guided munition that can cause hundreds of casualties or bring down a building or both.
Why is the dog barking?
Nobody is saying that an RC plane, suitably equipped, can't cause damage. It's the claim that such damage can cause 'harm to the state' that's just a bit hyperbolic.
You just described why PRISM exists.
Nah, it's the 'free' market. What part of 'free' don't you understand?
True enough but I think it kinda funny that Motorola gets away with charging 5 figures for control that I have at the touch of a switch. Yes, you don't want every policeman, environmental engineer and sidewalk cleaner fiddling with bandwidth and DTMF tones, but you could at least make your control software standard and reasonably inexpensive.
And there still are a large number of non trunked systems in use. For smaller towns and agencies, trunking is needlessly expensive and complex.
The funny thing is that amateur radios often make better business / public service radios than most commercial units. I can control the output on my Yaesu (Standard / Vertex) 2M rigs much better than the Fire department can do on their super expensive Motorola bricks. For one thing, I don't need a $20,000 (actual cost, complete with high quality Chinese dongle) box to change bandwidth and power parameters. I can do it from the front panel*. The power spectrum looks much cleaner than the Motorola rigs.
If it weren't blatantly illegal I would rig my HT to broadcast on Fire / Rescue channels and not have to take the overweight FT5000 POS that they dumped on me. **
* Of course, this is an intellectual exercise. One should never open up the front display unit and unsolder the two jumper wires that are described in many places in the Internet. One should never, ever do that.
** I wouldn't even think of it. Especially because opening the transmit frequency of a Yaseau FT-530 requires one to open up the back and remove a jumper. A difficult and dangerous endeavor. Small parts, even.
Well, mostly harmless, anyway.
Because, one of the longstanding implicit quid pro quo behaviors of Amateur radio is that it is 'harmless'. Amateur radio operators are given the freedom to use a significant swath of radio frequency for non commercial use. Amateur radio is designed to be self policing. If somebody starts sending commercial / illegal / inappropriate transmissions, other radio ops are supposed to help figure out where the transmission is coming from and cooperate with the FCC in finding the miscreant.
So, if you obfuscate the transmission, all of that goes out the window. Then the feeling is that the FCC will decide that amateur radio isn't worth the bother (and we can be a real PITA) and shut the whole thing down.
It's a slippery slope that no one wants to peer down.
Not EVERYTHING on the planet needs to be attached to the Internet....
Then come literally thousands of sites which have scraped data on me from obituaries, home sale records, other people's unsecured social media postings.
Emphasis mine.
You might have something really important going on here. Care to tell us about it?
i will give it 5 years at most before folks will be able to make near undetectable forges of photos.
Too late. The future is already here.
It's still evolution. It's change in response to the environment. LGT (Lateral Gene Transfer) is a Big Deal in the bacterial world - it evolved. You can amplify the effect by causing a selection pressure (ie, put an antibiotic in the flask). But, you can also have de novo point mutations that cause antibiotic resistance - that's done thousands, if not millions of times a day all over the planet. The clever little protists have figured out an even more efficient way to do things.
That's certainly evolution in action.
"When all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error"
John Kenneth Galbraith
If you looked at TFA, you would notice that what the company has is a way of tailoring long chain hydrocarbon manufacturing through algae production. It can be longer chains like cooking oils, it can be shorter chains like fuel oil. The tech is interesting is that they can actually manipulate the algae well enough to change the final product without resorting to high pressure / high temperature methods like seen in an oil refinery.
What they can't do yet is produce the products in oil refinery-like quantities. That's something they need to do in order to sell it as a fuel, but they've figured out there is potentially a market in smaller quantities of different oils.
Whether or not that happens commercially remains to be seen, but it's a different play on building up to the next Exxon.
I don't think they will ever get there, but who knows?
Well, no one in the high tech field will likely hire you. You're still on dialup.
I'm not so sure how stringent things are. A good friend called me a number of years ago and asked me if I remembered all of the times we had done drugs together. "All of them?" - yep, he was supposed to right them down.
Now, that was college in the 70's and I can't even exactly recall what drugs we used, much less when we used them. They also contacted my father, who at the time had a TS clearance, and asked him. He told them to stuff it. (He was in a couple of years of retirement, didn't really need the clearance but they didn't pull it.)
He got the clearance and the job. He didn't write down the details, just told them he did a fair bunch.
But doing drugs in the 70's won't even get you disqualified from being president. Being gay these days, likewise.
Now, complaining to the local water board about the drinkablitity of what comes out of your tap, that might be problematic.
Now you're using Senators as a proxy for understanding a definition?
You're on pretty shaky ground, there.
(Of course, he can't possibly have a fair trial. They don't want him to have a fair trial. They want him to have a plane crash or a heart attack or better yet, to be found in a compromising position with an underage age dragon of the opposite sex and then have a heart attack while flying a plane.
If you don't have a facebook page (with friends...) the question of 'why not' arises.
Are you kidding? You state this on Slashdot?
There are dozens of reasons NOT to have a Facebook account. There are even good reasons for not having a Linkdn account (been spammed there more times than I care to recall). Twitter?
Good grief kids, you can have an active social and professional life with just a telephone. It's not hard - billions of people do it.
PHP? You're fired....
Soylent Green?
True enough, but you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel if you putative scary monsters come from people complaining about government services. Who's next? People who don't pay parking tickets?
Boo!
WHAT HAPPENED???
They saw themselves on YouTube and went "Oh, Shit".