If you bothered to read the article you would see that it is about terrestrial repeaters as well as the small FM transmitters. Yes, they do operate on a different band from broadcast FM, but that's not the same problem as the small FM converters sold to retransmit the signal to your car radio. Both XM and Sirius' beam their signals via satellite in the S band between 2320 and 2332.5 MHz. The terrestrial repeaters re-broadcast those signals in urban canyons and other areas that have a hard time with line of site (LOS) to the satellites.
"Of XM's 794 repeaters, 19 weren't authorized by the FCC, and as many as 142 are located more than 500 feet from their authorized locations.
The NAB also finds fault with 11 Sirius repeaters, though the letter states that "Sirius' effort to minimize the significance of its transgressions is apparent." In an industry where terrestrial radio stations have followed FCC rules to the dot, the violations "bring into question the fitness of the licensee," says Tom Taylor, editor-in-chief of industry publication Inside Radio.
The NAB letter further alleges that 28%, or 221 of XM's repeaters, exceed their authorized power level. XM says that has not adversely affected other broadcasters' transmissions, and it's working with the FCC to correct such problems."
If there's one thing that gets the FCC moving, it's an unlicensed transmitter in the commercial bands. Or exceeding your authorized power limits.
Report to the CIA that you think your PC is being hacked by Al Qaida terrorists. Report to the FCC that your business's legal radio transmissions are being interfered with. See who responds first!
No. He's been studying reports of the 2004 elections, and the primaries from earlier this year. From various states. NOT two reported incidents in Florida from yesterday...
Nice try, though!
OT - heard a funny comment this morning on the radio. I'm sure Leno or Letterman or other late night TV hosts will pick this one up: We have a man who's not the president botching a joke about the war in Iraq. We have a man who is president who is botching the war in Iraq. And the media is concentrating on the botched joke?
A computer science professor from Maryland has researched the issue and has not found a single instance where a Democratic vote was recorded when a Republican was selected on screen.
Random chance would say the error would swing both ways...
Hey - I did hack your system. It was way too easy, though. Not challenging at all.
Nice trick how you re-named your system to make it look like mine. And how you're running the same OS as mine. And you have the same userids as mine. Wow - this is just too much to be coincidence! You must have hacked into mine first! I'm calling the FBI!;-)
According to multiple sources I checked, Don Wetzel invented the ATM in 1968 and it first went into service in 1969.
Either you're confusing ATM's with bank drive-in teller windows, or every ATM location in the late 1940's had an ENIAC with 10,000 vacuum tubes sitting next to the ATM! Of course, they wouldn't have proved very popular since the user instructions would have had to be written in binary, and you would have had to input your withdrawal or deposit amount via toggle switches... CRTs and TTY terminals weren't interfaced to computers til much later.
FYI - both the drive-in teller window and the ATM were conceived in Dallas, Texas.
I heard a news report (on NPR - so take it with a dose of healthy skepticism if you wish) that in 2004 and in this years primaries, in states with Diebold electronic voting machines there was not a single report of votes intended for Republicans being recorded for Democrats. The researcher being interviewed stated that if it was a programming glitch or mistake, it should have been random and affect both parties equally...
A telephone poll to determine whether man evolved or was created by God? I think the 808 people polled were too stupid to get on a Do-Not-Call list, therefore their opinions were worthless!:-P
7% comes from the government. At least that's what WBUR in Boston says in their fundraisers. But that 7% makes them a totally unbiased presenter of the news.
But seriously, it's easy to hear the bias in individual reporters/analysts comments on NPR, so it's easy to take some of that with a grain of salt. In my opinion, the one big failing of network news, whether it's NPR, CNN, Fox, ABC/NBC/CBS, your local station... The one big failing is that the news anchor always - I mean virtually always - asks the "reporter" for analysis of the story. And that's the problem. How about reporting the news first. Then at the end, put up a big disclaimer and launch into the analysis of the news. That way Joe SixPack would at least be able to separate objective reporting from opinion.
It won't get us all the way there, but it's a start. Of course, maybe news in the past was done this way, and it didn't sell, so the networks sexed it up a bit. No, that couldn't be it...
The problem is that Maryland's state technology help desk most probably went to the lowest bidder. Ergo, the chances their helpdesk know anything about/. are slim. Hopefully, though, they do read the Post...
I actually used to be a Republican before the party sold its soul to the Religous Right, and then sold it again to the NeoConservatives. Hmm, maybe all the problems today can be traced to the fight over ownership? That's what Bush means by an "ownership society" maybe?
While I'm not a registered Libertarian, I do agree with lots of their party platform. I do, however, believe that there are some functions that can only be provided by a government body (besides national defense and the like), it'll take some generational change...
If only the Libertarians could plot a coup to take over the GOP. Nah, with the new domestic spying powers that Gonzales graciously interprets Bush as having, you know - Security Letters and all, the plot would be exposed and somehow tied to Iran or Osama (remember him?)...
Northrup-Grumman charges something like 2 hours (at ~$150 per) per wire to fabricate an Ethernet cable. 8 conductors per RJ-45 connector. Oh - you want that cable tested?
Not only AM radio. It also affects amateur radio (ham radio, which uses AM, otherwise known as Double Side Band (DSB), Single Side Band (SSB), FM and digital), and thousands of industrial/commercial radio links, like SCADA links for controlling oil and gas pipelines. But CFLs, while noisy, aren't the biggest offender. Those cheap little wall warts (DC power supplies) and older PC switching power supplies are notorious and prodigious producers of RF noise.
And you know what was the worst offender in my house? A Linksys wireless router! Second worse was a Linksys 5-port switch. Killed my ham radio reception from 40 meters up to 10 meters. Kinda makes running a software defined radio (SDR) on a PC an oxymoron...
You may be right, but the problem is that the government typically has "downsized" or outsourced significant portions of acquisition offices, and has lost lots of institutional memory. Individuals no longer have a big picture view of their program, and often don't know the right questions to ask. Contractors are notorious for taking advantage of this. They often duplicate effort by subdividing their proposals into functional area, and the government evaluators are specialized and don't see the duplication, since they're reviewing their part of the proposal. And the contractor's own people are divided that way also - so it's inevitable that redundancies happen.
Here's a specific example: In a software effort, both the developer team and the documentation team bid the same work of taking screen shots of hundreds to sample screens of info. During a week-long contract review, the development team's manager came in and described his bid - including the specific line item for his team going in and doing the screen shots and delivering them to the documentation team. The next day, while reviewing the documentation part of the bid, the documentation team's manager came in and described one of his bid line items - his team running over to development, firing up the software, and grabbing screenshots for their documentation. We started laughing, and he couldn't understand why the overall program manager for the contract was sitting there silent, turning beet-red...
The problem is each line item in a proposal bid looks innocent enough. It's only when you look at the big picture that you realize it's death by a thousand paper cuts. What burns me up is that while there are plenty of people working at government contractors with high ethical standards, the project managers are rewarded based on how much they meet their budgets. They bid hours not based on what it really would take to accomplish a task - they bid hours to meet proposed budgets, regardless of whether they think they're overblown. Ethics takes a back seat...
5% state sales tax in "Taxachusetts", 7.25% sales tax in Texas - plus most big cities add on their own 1% to make it 8.25%. Plus the Robin Hood tax to take property tax revenues from richer school districts and redistributing them to poorer ones. Wealth redistribution sounds like a socialist plan of the democrats to me. Before anyone cries "NIMBY!", check your own back yard first.
And, why, Yes - I have been a resident of Texas and of Massachusetts. And both reek of political extremes.
Actually, the DoD is transitioning to IPv6 capability by 2008, and yes, there's no way all systems will be capable of supporting IPv6, let alone transitioning to IPv6 exclusively, by then. So as systems, and more importantly - applications, are upgraded over time, they will get there.
Ironically, it's not the government that's dragging its feet - it's the contractors. You'd think they've never heard of IPv6 before, even though every contract written in the last year or so is supposed to contain a clause stating that the system/application delivered under that contract will support IPv6...
Actually, the term "Yankee" probably derived from the Dutch "janke", meaning young boy. It was orginally applied to people from the New England region of the United States - actually the English colonies in America at the time. And "everyone knows" that New Englanders are pansie liberals;-)
What you probably mean is that the current Executive Branch of the US Government and their lapdogs in the Pentagon are murderous. True "Yanks" are ashamed and doing their best to 'correct' the situation...
WiFi won't cut it as a true last-mile option. There's not enough spectrum set aside at 2.4GHz for IEEE 802.11b/g's 11 channels to work - there's only 3 non-adjacent channels available: 1, 6 and 11. Too much spectrum overlap for dense cell layout. 802.11a up at 5GHz fixes this with 12 non-overlapping channels, but for now the technology is still somewhat more expensive. 802.11n with MIMO is a bit better.
But for true last mile access to large numbers of people, you need something like WiMax (IEEE 802.16), along with IEEE 802.22 (Wireless Region Area Networks) to serve as an edge-access backbone...
The reference is from the old days when microwave radio links were in pervasive (althought there's still quite a few in service). "Fading" is when atmospheric conditions cause the received radio wave to drop in intensity, as in fade away. Heavy rain, fog, temperature inversions - all common causes.
However, in the case of backhoe fade, the signal drops off instantaneously:-)
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Now how did I miss that? Simjian's was unsuccessful, but I'll admit it was first!
Report to the CIA that you think your PC is being hacked by Al Qaida terrorists. Report to the FCC that your business's legal radio transmissions are being interfered with. See who responds first!
No. He's been studying reports of the 2004 elections, and the primaries from earlier this year. From various states. NOT two reported incidents in Florida from yesterday...
Nice try, though!
OT - heard a funny comment this morning on the radio. I'm sure Leno or Letterman or other late night TV hosts will pick this one up:
We have a man who's not the president botching a joke about the war in Iraq. We have a man who is president who is botching the war in Iraq. And the media is concentrating on the botched joke?
Google has posted openings requiring US govt. secret and SCI clearances for several years. This issue was raised back in 2001 or so...
A computer science professor from Maryland has researched the issue and has not found a single instance where a Democratic vote was recorded when a Republican was selected on screen. Random chance would say the error would swing both ways...
Nice trick how you re-named your system to make it look like mine. And how you're running the same OS as mine. And you have the same userids as mine. Wow - this is just too much to be coincidence! You must have hacked into mine first! I'm calling the FBI! ;-)
Either you're confusing ATM's with bank drive-in teller windows, or every ATM location in the late 1940's had an ENIAC with 10,000 vacuum tubes sitting next to the ATM! Of course, they wouldn't have proved very popular since the user instructions would have had to be written in binary, and you would have had to input your withdrawal or deposit amount via toggle switches... CRTs and TTY terminals weren't interfaced to computers til much later. FYI - both the drive-in teller window and the ATM were conceived in Dallas, Texas.
I heard a news report (on NPR - so take it with a dose of healthy skepticism if you wish) that in 2004 and in this years primaries, in states with Diebold electronic voting machines there was not a single report of votes intended for Republicans being recorded for Democrats. The researcher being interviewed stated that if it was a programming glitch or mistake, it should have been random and affect both parties equally...
A telephone poll to determine whether man evolved or was created by God? I think the 808 people polled were too stupid to get on a Do-Not-Call list, therefore their opinions were worthless! :-P
7% comes from the government. At least that's what WBUR in Boston says in their fundraisers. But that 7% makes them a totally unbiased presenter of the news.
But seriously, it's easy to hear the bias in individual reporters/analysts comments on NPR, so it's easy to take some of that with a grain of salt. In my opinion, the one big failing of network news, whether it's NPR, CNN, Fox, ABC/NBC/CBS, your local station... The one big failing is that the news anchor always - I mean virtually always - asks the "reporter" for analysis of the story. And that's the problem. How about reporting the news first. Then at the end, put up a big disclaimer and launch into the analysis of the news. That way Joe SixPack would at least be able to separate objective reporting from opinion.
It won't get us all the way there, but it's a start. Of course, maybe news in the past was done this way, and it didn't sell, so the networks sexed it up a bit. No, that couldn't be it...
The problem is that Maryland's state technology help desk most probably went to the lowest bidder. Ergo, the chances their helpdesk know anything about /. are slim. Hopefully, though, they do read the Post...
Man, you really had us going there! Then you had to trash you entire effort by referencing Forbes! :-)
I actually used to be a Republican before the party sold its soul to the Religous Right, and then sold it again to the NeoConservatives. Hmm, maybe all the problems today can be traced to the fight over ownership? That's what Bush means by an "ownership society" maybe?
While I'm not a registered Libertarian, I do agree with lots of their party platform. I do, however, believe that there are some functions that can only be provided by a government body (besides national defense and the like), it'll take some generational change...
If only the Libertarians could plot a coup to take over the GOP. Nah, with the new domestic spying powers that Gonzales graciously interprets Bush as having, you know - Security Letters and all, the plot would be exposed and somehow tied to Iran or Osama (remember him?)...
I leave the math as an exercise for the reader.
ibid!
Tell us, oh wise one: Just how many of those UN resolutions were based in part on intelligence provided by the United States? Hmm?
Not only AM radio. It also affects amateur radio (ham radio, which uses AM, otherwise known as Double Side Band (DSB), Single Side Band (SSB), FM and digital), and thousands of industrial/commercial radio links, like SCADA links for controlling oil and gas pipelines. But CFLs, while noisy, aren't the biggest offender. Those cheap little wall warts (DC power supplies) and older PC switching power supplies are notorious and prodigious producers of RF noise.
And you know what was the worst offender in my house? A Linksys wireless router! Second worse was a Linksys 5-port switch. Killed my ham radio reception from 40 meters up to 10 meters. Kinda makes running a software defined radio (SDR) on a PC an oxymoron...
Here's a specific example: In a software effort, both the developer team and the documentation team bid the same work of taking screen shots of hundreds to sample screens of info. During a week-long contract review, the development team's manager came in and described his bid - including the specific line item for his team going in and doing the screen shots and delivering them to the documentation team. The next day, while reviewing the documentation part of the bid, the documentation team's manager came in and described one of his bid line items - his team running over to development, firing up the software, and grabbing screenshots for their documentation. We started laughing, and he couldn't understand why the overall program manager for the contract was sitting there silent, turning beet-red...
The problem is each line item in a proposal bid looks innocent enough. It's only when you look at the big picture that you realize it's death by a thousand paper cuts. What burns me up is that while there are plenty of people working at government contractors with high ethical standards, the project managers are rewarded based on how much they meet their budgets. They bid hours not based on what it really would take to accomplish a task - they bid hours to meet proposed budgets, regardless of whether they think they're overblown. Ethics takes a back seat...
Umm, let's see. Intuitive?
Cisco IOS
Shutdown a port:
MyRouter#config
MyRouter(config)#interface ethernet 1/1
MyRouter(config-if)#shutdown
MyRouter(config-if)#Z
MyRouter#
Enable a port:
MyRouter#config
MyRouter(config)#interface ethernet 0/0
MyRouter(config-if)#NO shutdown
MyRouter(config-if)#Z
MyRouter#
Boy, that's intuitive!
Now for that wild, byzantine Linux command shell interface:
Shutdown a port:
MyHost# ifdown eth0
Enable a port:
MyHost# ifup eth0
Oops - forgot to show the command to get to "command mode", i.e. - root privelege:
Myhost$ su
Password: xxxxx
MyHost# ifup eth1
MyHost# exit
MyHost$
Thank God Cisco's IOS is soooo much more intuitive than the Linux/bash command shell!!!
In IOS, you don't "enable" a port, you just don't shut it down! How intuitive!
5% state sales tax in "Taxachusetts", 7.25% sales tax in Texas - plus most big cities add on their own 1% to make it 8.25%. Plus the Robin Hood tax to take property tax revenues from richer school districts and redistributing them to poorer ones. Wealth redistribution sounds like a socialist plan of the democrats to me. Before anyone cries "NIMBY!", check your own back yard first.
And, why, Yes - I have been a resident of Texas and of Massachusetts. And both reek of political extremes.
Ironically, it's not the government that's dragging its feet - it's the contractors. You'd think they've never heard of IPv6 before, even though every contract written in the last year or so is supposed to contain a clause stating that the system/application delivered under that contract will support IPv6...
What you probably mean is that the current Executive Branch of the US Government and their lapdogs in the Pentagon are murderous. True "Yanks" are ashamed and doing their best to 'correct' the situation...
Doesn't the guy's name, Bob Lazar, ring a bell with anyone here?
Here's a clue stick for you: Area 51. Too funny - I'll bet there were sightings of black helicopters, too!
WiFi won't cut it as a true last-mile option. There's not enough spectrum set aside at 2.4GHz for IEEE 802.11b/g's 11 channels to work - there's only 3 non-adjacent channels available: 1, 6 and 11. Too much spectrum overlap for dense cell layout. 802.11a up at 5GHz fixes this with 12 non-overlapping channels, but for now the technology is still somewhat more expensive. 802.11n with MIMO is a bit better.
But for true last mile access to large numbers of people, you need something like WiMax (IEEE 802.16), along with IEEE 802.22 (Wireless Region Area Networks) to serve as an edge-access backbone...
The reference is from the old days when microwave radio links were in pervasive (althought there's still quite a few in service). "Fading" is when atmospheric conditions cause the received radio wave to drop in intensity, as in fade away. Heavy rain, fog, temperature inversions - all common causes.
:-)
However, in the case of backhoe fade, the signal drops off instantaneously