I think you will find that is IS NOT wiretapping. Wiretapping has a specific legal meaning, and this is certainly not it.
The store is providing a proprietary service, specifically, a dedicated, store-purchased and controlled wi-fi service. They own it, they provide it to you for nominally "free". It's not a common carrier, it's not "net neutrality", it's their network connection that they are allowing you to use.
The cost, of course, is that you aren't able to get anything you want as if you were connected to your own personally-owned system. You have no intrinsic right to do anything or demand any sort of service, you take what they give you. In this case, they are blocking access to certain websites, and (probably) inserting their own ads.
Since you are on private property using a private network connection, you take what they give you. Don't like it? Use something else, or put the phone down for the duration.
Note that if you can connect to an *external* wi-fi network, cell network, whatever, then you can do whatever *that* network permits. They probably *can* make their store a Faraday cage (intentionally or otherwise). The FCC's position is that they cannot intentionally jam a cell phone signal and probably not any wi-fi networks.
I would disagree most strenuously. For the left, being a violent kook is now mainstream. Just listen to the 24/7 nonsensical conspiracy theories about Trump on CNN/MSNBC, etc, and huge mobs of leftist psychos and BLM supporters marching and calling for cop killings (which they got). Compare that to 8 years of the insufferably arrogant, worthless community agitator. No one in the mainstream conservative movement did anything like pretend to behead him, threaten to kill his supporters, etc.
Your idiotic gibberish about Russians is pretty typical, and ignorant. Trump didn't go to the Russians with a mispelled "reset" button and Trump didn't tell Medvedev he would "have more room to maneuver after the election" - or later try to side with ISIS in a civil war. The Trump/Russian collusion conspiracy was blown completely out of the water and even worthless lefties like Feinstein admit there is not a shred of evidence to support ot.
By "gamed the system", you mean "followed the system in place for 200+ years", right? And, according to your losing candidate, questioning this system is âoehorrifyingâ and "talking down our democracy" as recently as 2 weeks before the election?
Even the simplest bare-minimum function (making calls) would require a system the size of a house. In the early 40's, it was virtually impossible to reliably build anything that ran above about 50 mhz in mass-production, forget *890* mhz. There were AM "apex" broadcasts in the 50 mhz range, and early FM was around there, too, because that was the best they could do.
Even in the mid 50's the "new" FM band at 100-ish mhz was very marginal to even build into a receiver, and there was *never* a portable tube FM radio (forget the transmitter part). The first portable FM radio in wide release wasn't available until 1961 (Zenith Royal 2000 - still the best performer), and it used transistors, weighed about two pounds, and was the size of a large lunchbox/small briefcase. And that, again, was just the receiver.
Essentially, cellphones weren't practically realizable until large-scale integration came along in the 70's, and available spectrum had nothing to do with it.
I think that includes the mass of bullshit associated by this project. Sure it's expensive and useless, but it certainly resolves the issue of how to signal that you really, really, care about the environment, so much that you are willing to waste this much money on it. That at least gives you gravitas.
Slahsdot is a hotbed of extreme leftists, and the defeat of a middle-of-the-road conservative makes them want to gloat in a venue they know will be kept as a blissful monoculture by moderation.
"Provoke Jihad"? What the hell are you talking about. These people have been killing people at what any rational human being would describe as random for 1200+ years. It's a fundamental part of their belief system. All the other world religions grew out of it, but not Islam, it's as bat-shit crazy at it has always been.
The only thing that has consequentially changed is that about 20-30 years ago, "western society" became so concerned about possibly offending someone that we started tolerating it. Or in your case, excusing because you feel guilty about being part of a wildly successful, superior, culture.
Only for the last 30 years. And far more complex items than simple logic, fiendishly complex systems can be quickly generated from controls block diagrams using packages like SIMULINK, Many times, its too fiendishly complex to use in an end-item but certainly for simuations it can be very effective, It also has endless frustrating bugs, but that's not inherent in the concept.
The poop thing is no joke, I only occasionally go to SF, intentionally avoiding it for all the obvious reasons, but people (bums) crapping on the street is no small problem. That's what happens when you welcome bums and claim that being out of work and homeless makes you some sort of SJW hero.
You aren't missing much. Altitude is a minor issue, it's delta-V that matters. People have been studying similar ideas for years (like 60 years), and the value in terms of energy expended is negligible. Orbital is already launching from an airplane in similar circumstances, from the bottom of an existing airplane (L-1011). This is just a scaled-up version of the same thing.
Where the value, perhaps minimal, lies, is in launch date/time flexibility. If you launch it from the ground into a polar or inclined orbit, and want it to be in a particular orbit plane, you have to wait until the launch site lines up with it, which makes for narrow launch windows and limited launch window opportunities. If you can just fly to the right place, you can launch any day/time.
I haven't bother to follow this particular effort, but very similar ideas were floating around in the "little LEO" era where there were all sorts of ideas, maybe even involving some Microsoft idiots, about launching giant networks of tiny spacecraft into low polar orbits to replace cell phone towers, provide internet service, etc (like Iridium). For that, you want launch-on-demand or extreme flexibility with relatively low "throw weight" requirements. If you can get past the basic flaws with the network idea, this is an OK solution.
Of course, among the flaws is the fact that all these spacecraft flying around at more-or-less the same altitude greatly raise the possibility of a collision, which creates debris, which causes more collisions, creating more debris, etc, in a cascade of collisions which wipes out the entire constellation (and everything else that happens to get in the way, which at the altitudes they tend to use (low to get better signal strength at the ground so you can us a handset) is a lot of other things) in relatively short order.
We'll see what they end up doing. I would be surprised if this has any consequential effect on average launch costs, and no one has made any significant breakthroughs with basic issues associated with little LEO constellations since Iridium, so we'll see, I suppose.
If you want to perform unnatural acts with a robot, I am sure SF will be at the vanguard. Using them for a productive purpose, on the other hand, really doesn't fit their model.
Hate to break it to you AC, but liberals democrats have been totalitarian statists since liberalism began. It is part and parcel with liberalism that it descend into totalitarianism, it is an utterly inevitable result of trying to force some people to act against their own interests for the alleged purpose of helping others.
Trump never claimed anything else. What was so blatantly fraudulent about Hillary was that she would always pay lip service to fighting for the little guys, but it was perfectly clear that she was an international oligarch, taking money from each and every obscenely rich donor after another, and clearly lying about it, over and over again. She has exactly zero charisma and avoided anything but the most softball venues where she could be assured of cloying praise. All the while, using a completely corrupt organization to crush another candidate like a bug, despite his large following. Bernie is a bumbling communist imbecile, but he at least believes what he says.
Science is facing a raft of politically-motivated studies, rigged or suppressed medical trials, false or irreproducible results are rampant. But the big problem is "lack of diversity"??
I would think if you demanded rigor and accountability for the actual science part of the job, you wouldn't have to worry too much about who was doing the work.
Of all the places SJW types should stay the hell out of, aside from politics, its science.
Because it was universally supported (because it came first) and worked well enough for the application. OGG is a obscure format that most people in the general public has never heard of.
Are you psychotic? All of this is utterly unprofessional behavior, and a big chunk of it is *illegal*. Drugs are still illegal throughout the USA, it's a federal crime. So it this type and degree of sexual harrassment. Anyone who condones this sort of behavior in the workplace is a moron, risks the entire companies' standing, is ripe for a lawsuit (which they will easily win), and overall, a jackass.
If "people are OK with it" then they should all be fired summarily.
This is the sort of people we are turning out in this country - morally bankrupt and self-centered.
Hate to break it to you, but the formation of quasi-governmental agencies that insulate the politicians from the effects of the regulations that are imposed, and the massive torrent of regulation itself, are both leftist ideas, beloved of the Democrat party.
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I think you will find that is IS NOT wiretapping. Wiretapping has a specific legal meaning, and this is certainly not it.
The store is providing a proprietary service, specifically, a dedicated, store-purchased and controlled wi-fi service. They own it, they provide it to you for nominally "free". It's not a common carrier, it's not "net neutrality", it's their network connection that they are allowing you to use.
The cost, of course, is that you aren't able to get anything you want as if you were connected to your own personally-owned system. You have no intrinsic right to do anything or demand any sort of service, you take what they give you. In this case, they are blocking access to certain websites, and (probably) inserting their own ads.
Since you are on private property using a private network connection, you take what they give you. Don't like it? Use something else, or put the phone down for the duration.
Note that if you can connect to an *external* wi-fi network, cell network, whatever, then you can do whatever *that* network permits. They probably *can* make their store a Faraday cage (intentionally or otherwise). The FCC's position is that they cannot intentionally jam a cell phone signal and probably not any wi-fi networks.
I would disagree most strenuously. For the left, being a violent kook is now mainstream. Just listen to the 24/7 nonsensical conspiracy theories about Trump on CNN/MSNBC, etc, and huge mobs of leftist psychos and BLM supporters marching and calling for cop killings (which they got). Compare that to 8 years of the insufferably arrogant, worthless community agitator. No one in the mainstream conservative movement did anything like pretend to behead him, threaten to kill his supporters, etc.
Your idiotic gibberish about Russians is pretty typical, and ignorant. Trump didn't go to the Russians with a mispelled "reset" button and Trump didn't tell Medvedev he would "have more room to maneuver after the election" - or later try to side with ISIS in a civil war. The Trump/Russian collusion conspiracy was blown completely out of the water and even worthless lefties like Feinstein admit there is not a shred of evidence to support ot.
240 mhz in a car is a far cry from a hand-holdable 800 mhz system.
By "gamed the system", you mean "followed the system in place for 200+ years", right? And, according to your losing candidate, questioning this system is âoehorrifyingâ and "talking down our democracy" as recently as 2 weeks before the election?
Got any other deep thoughts to share?
Even the simplest bare-minimum function (making calls) would require a system the size of a house. In the early 40's, it was virtually impossible to reliably build anything that ran above about 50 mhz in mass-production, forget *890* mhz. There were AM "apex" broadcasts in the 50 mhz range, and early FM was around there, too, because that was the best they could do.
Even in the mid 50's the "new" FM band at 100-ish mhz was very marginal to even build into a receiver, and there was *never* a portable tube FM radio (forget the transmitter part). The first portable FM radio in wide release wasn't available until 1961 (Zenith Royal 2000 - still the best performer), and it used transistors, weighed about two pounds, and was the size of a large lunchbox/small briefcase. And that, again, was just the receiver.
Essentially, cellphones weren't practically realizable until large-scale integration came along in the 70's, and available spectrum had nothing to do with it.
I think that includes the mass of bullshit associated by this project. Sure it's expensive and useless, but it certainly resolves the issue of how to signal that you really, really, care about the environment, so much that you are willing to waste this much money on it. That at least gives you gravitas.
What is particularly idiotic is that everyone didn't understand it from the beginning. But clearly, they don't.
Slahsdot is a hotbed of extreme leftists, and the defeat of a middle-of-the-road conservative makes them want to gloat in a venue they know will be kept as a blissful monoculture by moderation.
Your input to government is your elected representatives, not the president.
"Provoke Jihad"? What the hell are you talking about. These people have been killing people at what any rational human being would describe as random for 1200+ years. It's a fundamental part of their belief system. All the other world religions grew out of it, but not Islam, it's as bat-shit crazy at it has always been.
The only thing that has consequentially changed is that about 20-30 years ago, "western society" became so concerned about possibly offending someone that we started tolerating it. Or in your case, excusing because you feel guilty about being part of a wildly successful, superior, culture.
Only for the last 30 years. And far more complex items than simple logic, fiendishly complex systems can be quickly generated from controls block diagrams using packages like SIMULINK, Many times, its too fiendishly complex to use in an end-item but certainly for simuations it can be very effective, It also has endless frustrating bugs, but that's not inherent in the concept.
The poop thing is no joke, I only occasionally go to SF, intentionally avoiding it for all the obvious reasons, but people (bums) crapping on the street is no small problem. That's what happens when you welcome bums and claim that being out of work and homeless makes you some sort of SJW hero.
You aren't missing much. Altitude is a minor issue, it's delta-V that matters. People have been studying similar ideas for years (like 60 years), and the value in terms of energy expended is negligible. Orbital is already launching from an airplane in similar circumstances, from the bottom of an existing airplane (L-1011). This is just a scaled-up version of the same thing.
Where the value, perhaps minimal, lies, is in launch date/time flexibility. If you launch it from the ground into a polar or inclined orbit, and want it to be in a particular orbit plane, you have to wait until the launch site lines up with it, which makes for narrow launch windows and limited launch window opportunities. If you can just fly to the right place, you can launch any day/time.
I haven't bother to follow this particular effort, but very similar ideas were floating around in the "little LEO" era where there were all sorts of ideas, maybe even involving some Microsoft idiots, about launching giant networks of tiny spacecraft into low polar orbits to replace cell phone towers, provide internet service, etc (like Iridium). For that, you want launch-on-demand or extreme flexibility with relatively low "throw weight" requirements. If you can get past the basic flaws with the network idea, this is an OK solution.
Of course, among the flaws is the fact that all these spacecraft flying around at more-or-less the same altitude greatly raise the possibility of a collision, which creates debris, which causes more collisions, creating more debris, etc, in a cascade of collisions which wipes out the entire constellation (and everything else that happens to get in the way, which at the altitudes they tend to use (low to get better signal strength at the ground so you can us a handset) is a lot of other things) in relatively short order.
We'll see what they end up doing. I would be surprised if this has any consequential effect on average launch costs, and no one has made any significant breakthroughs with basic issues associated with little LEO constellations since Iridium, so we'll see, I suppose.
If you want to perform unnatural acts with a robot, I am sure SF will be at the vanguard. Using them for a productive purpose, on the other hand, really doesn't fit their model.
Hate to break it to you AC, but liberals democrats have been totalitarian statists since liberalism began. It is part and parcel with liberalism that it descend into totalitarianism, it is an utterly inevitable result of trying to force some people to act against their own interests for the alleged purpose of helping others.
Trump never claimed anything else. What was so blatantly fraudulent about Hillary was that she would always pay lip service to fighting for the little guys, but it was perfectly clear that she was an international oligarch, taking money from each and every obscenely rich donor after another, and clearly lying about it, over and over again. She has exactly zero charisma and avoided anything but the most softball venues where she could be assured of cloying praise. All the while, using a completely corrupt organization to crush another candidate like a bug, despite his large following. Bernie is a bumbling communist imbecile, but he at least believes what he says.
Everything is to blame, except for her own manifold failings.
Isn't jail the best place for them? It's still a crime. and they are definitely a danger to themselves and others.
Science is facing a raft of politically-motivated studies, rigged or suppressed medical trials, false or irreproducible results are rampant. But the big problem is "lack of diversity"??
I would think if you demanded rigor and accountability for the actual science part of the job, you wouldn't have to worry too much about who was doing the work.
Of all the places SJW types should stay the hell out of, aside from politics, its science.
That's a fantastic argument. Because shut up, that's why!
Waves of illegal aliens IS a national security matter.
Because it was universally supported (because it came first) and worked well enough for the application. OGG is a obscure format that most people in the general public has never heard of.
Are you psychotic? All of this is utterly unprofessional behavior, and a big chunk of it is *illegal*. Drugs are still illegal throughout the USA, it's a federal crime. So it this type and degree of sexual harrassment. Anyone who condones this sort of behavior in the workplace is a moron, risks the entire companies' standing, is ripe for a lawsuit (which they will easily win), and overall, a jackass.
If "people are OK with it" then they should all be fired summarily.
This is the sort of people we are turning out in this country - morally bankrupt and self-centered.
Hate to break it to you, but the formation of quasi-governmental agencies that insulate the politicians from the effects of the regulations that are imposed, and the massive torrent of regulation itself, are both leftist ideas, beloved of the Democrat party.
My pinky ring repels tigers - you don't see any around, do you? That proves it works.