Yeah but power from multiple sources can be summed, though the information it carries would be largely lost in the process. Individual radars may emit the most power but I suspect the collective output from different transmitters would add up to a lot of power. A distant receiver would be able to extract information from the Doppler shifts at the very least.
The Arecibo radar seems to transmit at 430 MHz which is not exactly low frequency. Submarine radio (at 100Hz) is highly unlikely to make it out of the ionosphere, let alone getting mast the termination shock. Anything which can get in, can by definition get out. So our radio telescopes tell us what frequencies make it into the solar system and the atmosphere.
TFA doesn't talk about specific applications but I bet the CSIRO want this machine for modelling. Climate modelling is a big deal here in Australia. Predicting where the water will and will not be. This time of year bush fires are a major threat. I bet that with the right model and the right data you could predict the risk of fire at high resolution and in real time.
There was the time when really good diving torches were hard to come by so my dad had built some up out of plastic sewer pipe, and motorbike electrical components. It used a reed switch and an external magnet as a switch (no direct electrical connection) and they pressure tested the things to 1000 feet in a test chamber.
So we were in Europe in 1975 with a camper van (I was 10) and where we parked I saw this cave in a nearby hill. I said "dad, can I have the torch" and he said "yeah, just let me take it off charge" so I switched the torch on, looked at the lamp, pointed the torch in the direction I was walking then the bloody thing blew up because the water in the lead acid battery had electrolysed into hydrogen and oxygen while the torch was charging off the car battery.
The only solid parts left were the plastic pipe and (luckily) me. My pants were covered with battery acid. There were little fragments of plastic battery all over the road. The clear perspex disk which made up the back of the torch was found 20 metres away. The front one was never found.
Come to think of it that story isn't funny either.
Funny story. My dad's girlfriend had a good Seiko watch. It wasn't the proper dive watch but it had a bezel and was good to 100 metres depth or so. They were diving in (I think) Papua New Guinea and after they came to the surface the watch started to hiss and splutter, then the face flew off at high velocity. Good thing she wasn't looking right at it at the time.
Use it as feedback to calibrate a separate vote rigging operation. If your guy wins by 20% an investigation may be triggered. If he wins by 2% you may be in the clear. So how do you gauge the real vote, while there is still time to cast face votes?
Well okay but when I go sea kayaking my garmin etrex will be attached to the deck of the boat and my openmoko will be in a water proof container behind the seat.
I have a Seiko kinetic titanium. Its a good looking piece of mechanical engineering, but it I want to measure time I have a $30 generic digital watch with world time, alarms, timer, etc.
I don't believe you can have both ideal function and form in the same unit. I know from experience that the digital watch is way more shock proof than me, and the Seiko is not.
There is this automated internet kiosk system you can use here. You put a coin in the slot then it netboots windows. Its all memory resident so nothing gets preserved between sessions.
I wonder if google could provide a BOOTP service for Chrome OS? That way you wouldn't actually need to keep it installed.
Might have been easier if the image was smaller than 300 megabytes.
. If anyone, it should be Stallman, for writing the GPL, for starting the free software movement and spreading knowlege of the existence of free software and for explicitly backing a public cause, and basically dedicating his life to it.
Yeah but Stallman's already given himself a sainthood. Poor Linus has nothing.
With those big heavy enclosures which slid out of the 19 inch racks you had to slide out extra legs to keep the whole thing balanced. We had a CPU box and an expansion box for IO and normally you only slid one out at a time.
Working on the back plane involved sliding the CPU box out then lying on the floor under it to unscrew the bottom cover. So yes, I could have wound up with a PDP-11/84 sticking out of my skull. The 11/83 was much safer to work on.
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Yeah but power from multiple sources can be summed, though the information it carries would be largely lost in the process. Individual radars may emit the most power but I suspect the collective output from different transmitters would add up to a lot of power. A distant receiver would be able to extract information from the Doppler shifts at the very least.
The Arecibo radar seems to transmit at 430 MHz which is not exactly low frequency. Submarine radio (at 100Hz) is highly unlikely to make it out of the ionosphere, let alone getting mast the termination shock. Anything which can get in, can by definition get out. So our radio telescopes tell us what frequencies make it into the solar system and the atmosphere.
All you need for that is a chisel and a back shed to work in.
TFA doesn't talk about specific applications but I bet the CSIRO want this machine for modelling. Climate modelling is a big deal here in Australia. Predicting where the water will and will not be. This time of year bush fires are a major threat. I bet that with the right model and the right data you could predict the risk of fire at high resolution and in real time.
Not in my lifetime.
But maybe mine. I plan on living to be at least 500, hopefully more. So far, so good.
How long have you lived so far?
But they did use an iPhone.
If you'll deposit a small transfer fee, 3 metric tons of gold, in a local bank
Okay here it is.
CRASH...
One bit per second is good enough for the Navy...
Since ET already gets all our TV transmissions, plus cell phones and wifi, I don't think this one will make much difference.
Actually I believe calculations have been done which show that two Arecibo type telescopes could communicate across the galaxy.
...while sending messages through the telescope. Because, you know, you are not allowed to redistribute those ring tones.
BTW whats a "Poetica Vaginal transmission"? Sounds interesting.
No thats an Eclipse sized object.
There was the time when really good diving torches were hard to come by so my dad had built some up out of plastic sewer pipe, and motorbike electrical components. It used a reed switch and an external magnet as a switch (no direct electrical connection) and they pressure tested the things to 1000 feet in a test chamber.
So we were in Europe in 1975 with a camper van (I was 10) and where we parked I saw this cave in a nearby hill. I said "dad, can I have the torch" and he said "yeah, just let me take it off charge" so I switched the torch on, looked at the lamp, pointed the torch in the direction I was walking then the bloody thing blew up because the water in the lead acid battery had electrolysed into hydrogen and oxygen while the torch was charging off the car battery.
The only solid parts left were the plastic pipe and (luckily) me. My pants were covered with battery acid. There were little fragments of plastic battery all over the road. The clear perspex disk which made up the back of the torch was found 20 metres away. The front one was never found.
Come to think of it that story isn't funny either.
OTH maybe a device on your wrist is a good place for a bluetooth display device.
Funny story. My dad's girlfriend had a good Seiko watch. It wasn't the proper dive watch but it had a bezel and was good to 100 metres depth or so. They were diving in (I think) Papua New Guinea and after they came to the surface the watch started to hiss and splutter, then the face flew off at high velocity. Good thing she wasn't looking right at it at the time.
Use it as feedback to calibrate a separate vote rigging operation. If your guy wins by 20% an investigation may be triggered. If he wins by 2% you may be in the clear. So how do you gauge the real vote, while there is still time to cast face votes?
What options do you have to protect your self from Van eck phreaking? Lead casing? Foil voting boxes?
Honest replies welcome.
Put rubbish on the screen and send all your actual output through the caps lock LED with xled.
Not very useful outside in the real world, I know.
Well okay but when I go sea kayaking my garmin etrex will be attached to the deck of the boat and my openmoko will be in a water proof container behind the seat.
I have a Seiko kinetic titanium. Its a good looking piece of mechanical engineering, but it I want to measure time I have a $30 generic digital watch with world time, alarms, timer, etc.
I don't believe you can have both ideal function and form in the same unit. I know from experience that the digital watch is way more shock proof than me, and the Seiko is not.
There is this automated internet kiosk system you can use here. You put a coin in the slot then it netboots windows. Its all memory resident so nothing gets preserved between sessions.
I wonder if google could provide a BOOTP service for Chrome OS? That way you wouldn't actually need to keep it installed.
Might have been easier if the image was smaller than 300 megabytes.
. If anyone, it should be Stallman, for writing the GPL, for starting the free software movement and spreading knowlege of the existence of free software and for explicitly backing a public cause, and basically dedicating his life to it.
Yeah but Stallman's already given himself a sainthood. Poor Linus has nothing.
Except money. Poor guy.
With those big heavy enclosures which slid out of the 19 inch racks you had to slide out extra legs to keep the whole thing balanced. We had a CPU box and an expansion box for IO and normally you only slid one out at a time.
Working on the back plane involved sliding the CPU box out then lying on the floor under it to unscrew the bottom cover. So yes, I could have wound up with a PDP-11/84 sticking out of my skull. The 11/83 was much safer to work on.
Have you really tried it? Last time I tried, Mercurial died with files over 10 megabytes in size.
Thats a warning. I have successfully used mercurial with 100 megabyte files.
Got to look out for those feedback loops.
Mmmmm, Forbidden plutonium.