Looks more like a left over set from the original Max Max movie, which was made in the same area. Hard to believe that rocks will just sit in the same place for 10000 years. This whole area has been pretty much gone over. There are plenty of farms in the area. Its really just outside Melbourne. Hardly outback.
It is well understood that neurons use electric fields to operate. Its just that it works over small distances. Advanced EEGs can be used to detect the signals but to understand the information being conveyed we would have to be able to tell the difference between adjacent synapses on individual neurons, do it for all the other neurons too. Thats not so easy.
You make IPv6 support a requirement for new equipment and software.
What, with a couple of months to go? My router runs netbsd. I will be okay, but what about the people up the road with a cheap COTS router? Who is going to tell the to flash it, assuming that new firmware is available?
The signal is going to scatter everywhere when it hits the meteor trail so I suppose the answer is yes. The main problem is that you need something like radar to detect the trails, and that exposes your station to attack from people with direction finding equipment.
Here in Melbourne we are getting the southern fringes of the Queensland cyclone. We went out for Pizza an hour ago and the weather was exactly what we would expect in Malaysia. 29 degrees C, 90% humidity. Just as we finished up we got a tropical downpour. Gutters overflowing, minor flooding all over the place. I got soaked running 20 metres or so to the car. The water tank in my garage filled to overflowing in a couple of minutes. Welcome to the greenhouse....
The towers are built to "cyclone proof" standards, and many of the towers are on backup generators. Coverage is expected to get worse before it gets better because the backups only last 8-12 hrs. But I think those backup generators will be pretty high up on the emergency service todo list.
Ten years ago when I was in vic roads we were giving up our UHF channel space and using cellular phones. Keeping cellphones working will be as important as keeping ambulances on the road I reckon.
None of them are connected to the Internet but the people who manage them are absolutely reliant on the Internet to exchange information about the systems they manage.
In which case turning OFF the Internet would accomplish... what?
It would make those people unable to keep the infrastructure they manage working correctly.
I have seen back yard solar barbecues that size or larger. Its just a cheap parabolic mirror with a bracket at the focus. This one lacks the bracket but otherwise he could have just bought it in the shop.
I take your point but back in my traffic signaling days I had a lot of sites flood and we got through it. The phone cables in Melbourne are called the secondary storm water system by the techs who see the pits and pipes flood regularly. I have seen the concrete floor in a computer room with 10cm of water over it. You just had to lift a tile and there it was. We had 250VAC in cables tacked to the concrete but the wet stuff stayed out and the systems stayed up. The floods in FNQ are coastal anyway. Associated with high tides and low air pressure.
Why do services such as power, water, and traffic lights have to be on-line? Wouldn't it make sense not to have any sensitive services connected to the Internet in the first place?
Well okay but consider that I have been involved in supporting air traffic control systems around the world. None of them are connected to the Internet but the people who manage them are absolutely reliant on the Internet to exchange information about the systems they manage.
Actually, I think that the idea that the NSA doesn't already have one in place is pretty far-fetched. The real question, to me, is: what would cause them to actually use it?
Egypt shows that the killswitch can't be used for more than a week or so because business and Government both complain that they need it to do their work and keep things running. If it lasted a week in Egypt I reckon it would last a day in the US. At the same time people are good networkers and they know how to get the word out. An intranet can be a wifi card and a copy of mediawiki, though I am sure the solutions used in Egypt were pretty low tech. In short the kill switch does more damage than good. It can't be used for any length of time and it is pretty easy to work around. You may as well switch off the water and see how far you get.
Amateur satellites or maybe high altitude balloon or UAV based links. Pirate cellular services from aircraft, packet switched TCP/IP for the satellite services. Maybe you could build an ad-hoc store and forward messaging system with weather balloons. Each unit collects data and dumps it when contacted from the ground. Units can replicate data when they contact each other. Data is lost when they crash.
Use a CDMA like protocol to pack data into frequencies below 50Mhz. Ionospheric propagation, particularly at night should get your signal 1000km or so.
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Can't be that hard to find. Its right beside the road from Geelong to Bacchus Marsh.
What also puzzles me, is why cultures that create such structures, just kinda sorta die out?
Maybe its because cultures just sorta die out.
Looks more like a left over set from the original Max Max movie, which was made in the same area. Hard to believe that rocks will just sit in the same place for 10000 years. This whole area has been pretty much gone over. There are plenty of farms in the area. Its really just outside Melbourne. Hardly outback.
It is well understood that neurons use electric fields to operate. Its just that it works over small distances. Advanced EEGs can be used to detect the signals but to understand the information being conveyed we would have to be able to tell the difference between adjacent synapses on individual neurons, do it for all the other neurons too. Thats not so easy.
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This is relevant to my interests...
You make IPv6 support a requirement for new equipment and software.
What, with a couple of months to go? My router runs netbsd. I will be okay, but what about the people up the road with a cheap COTS router? Who is going to tell the to flash it, assuming that new firmware is available?
I Will Fear No Evil
I am pretty sure Ada Lovelace is dead too.
Well at least Carly Fiorina won't be taking it. She needs to be in the Senate so she can make that Presidential bid for 2016.
The signal is going to scatter everywhere when it hits the meteor trail so I suppose the answer is yes. The main problem is that you need something like radar to detect the trails, and that exposes your station to attack from people with direction finding equipment.
Here in Melbourne we are getting the southern fringes of the Queensland cyclone. We went out for Pizza an hour ago and the weather was exactly what we would expect in Malaysia. 29 degrees C, 90% humidity. Just as we finished up we got a tropical downpour. Gutters overflowing, minor flooding all over the place. I got soaked running 20 metres or so to the car. The water tank in my garage filled to overflowing in a couple of minutes. Welcome to the greenhouse....
The towers are built to "cyclone proof" standards, and many of the towers are on backup generators. Coverage is expected to get worse before it gets better because the backups only last 8-12 hrs. But I think those backup generators will be pretty high up on the emergency service todo list.
Ten years ago when I was in vic roads we were giving up our UHF channel space and using cellular phones. Keeping cellphones working will be as important as keeping ambulances on the road I reckon.
None of them are connected to the Internet but the people who manage them are absolutely reliant on the Internet to exchange information about the systems they manage.
In which case turning OFF the Internet would accomplish... what?
It would make those people unable to keep the infrastructure they manage working correctly.
I have seen back yard solar barbecues that size or larger. Its just a cheap parabolic mirror with a bracket at the focus. This one lacks the bracket but otherwise he could have just bought it in the shop.
You could get a nasty case of sunstroke from that thing.
Solar concentrators are used for photovoltaic cells.
I take your point but back in my traffic signaling days I had a lot of sites flood and we got through it. The phone cables in Melbourne are called the secondary storm water system by the techs who see the pits and pipes flood regularly. I have seen the concrete floor in a computer room with 10cm of water over it. You just had to lift a tile and there it was. We had 250VAC in cables tacked to the concrete but the wet stuff stayed out and the systems stayed up. The floods in FNQ are coastal anyway. Associated with high tides and low air pressure.
Why do services such as power, water, and traffic lights have to be on-line? Wouldn't it make sense not to have any sensitive services connected to the Internet in the first place?
Well okay but consider that I have been involved in supporting air traffic control systems around the world. None of them are connected to the Internet but the people who manage them are absolutely reliant on the Internet to exchange information about the systems they manage.
Meteor burst communications
Do you mean normal comsats? Don't you need some sort of key to use them?
If you wish to be fair, how about a critical response to the oppositions approach to the Internet.
Its a fair question.
Actually, I think that the idea that the NSA doesn't already have one in place is pretty far-fetched. The real question, to me, is: what would cause them to actually use it?
A leak which they couldn't stop in time.
As long as Conroy gets his face in the media he is pretty much guaranteed a seat in the senate.
Egypt shows that the killswitch can't be used for more than a week or so because business and Government both complain that they need it to do their work and keep things running. If it lasted a week in Egypt I reckon it would last a day in the US. At the same time people are good networkers and they know how to get the word out. An intranet can be a wifi card and a copy of mediawiki, though I am sure the solutions used in Egypt were pretty low tech. In short the kill switch does more damage than good. It can't be used for any length of time and it is pretty easy to work around. You may as well switch off the water and see how far you get.
Amateur satellites or maybe high altitude balloon or UAV based links. Pirate cellular services from aircraft, packet switched TCP/IP for the satellite services. Maybe you could build an ad-hoc store and forward messaging system with weather balloons. Each unit collects data and dumps it when contacted from the ground. Units can replicate data when they contact each other. Data is lost when they crash.
Use a CDMA like protocol to pack data into frequencies below 50Mhz. Ionospheric propagation, particularly at night should get your signal 1000km or so.