I say lets do an experiment. We'd have to be somewhat deceitful but lets get these people who are 'allergic' to RF into what we tell them is a RF quiet room. We could even employ props to make it seem as though it were.
But the reality, we can bombard the room with RF while we have them fill out a questionaire on how they feel vis a vis RF illness.
Betcha that they'd be hollering for joy that they're in an RF free space.
Is that the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) unit is in West Virginia. Were we to loose that law enforcement around the country would loose the ability to identify subject based on ten-print. So lets relocate it to a geologically less active area of the country, like the northeast.
My situation is such that I have a reasonable flat ride to work and an 8 mile round trip. Then again I'm also not talking the tiny little gelled lead-acids and I understand the logarithmic scale of Pb battery degradation.
I plan to build my own plug-in EV. In classic style, I want a VW Vanagon or like. Be easy to use a lead-acid battery pack on it. Not to mention pretty simple to mount the electric drive.
The other reason for the Vanagon, in Back to the Future everyone wants the DeLorean. Me, I want the terrorist van.
I'm working with a city council candidate to implement a public MESH network trialing it in his ward first. I did advise him that setting up such a system would more likely than not violate the TOS of most providers like Cox and Verizon. But screw em' if they don't like it. We can throttle the bandwidth and block certain ports on the feed side so it's not like the traffic would be extreme.
Pre-tax? Or post-tax. Big difference there. I went from making $165K a year to $77K a year pre-tax. Big difference. But the former involved an ugly commute so I guess it's true abut $75K.
But $2.4 billion over ten years comes out to $240,000,000 per YEAR! With that kind of money they could replace their infrastructure a few times over every year.
This is a clear example of the malfeasance that happens when government gets corrupted by corporate interests. Taxpayers in VA should be up in arms about this one.
Here's my story of state agency screw-ups. Two jobs ago I was working for the Secretary of State's office here. We had the opportunity and funding to get our IT infrastructure in order when the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) became law. We were able to build out a secure and redundant room to house our critical infrastructure.
Physical access by key and alarm code only, Redundant power which included an APS Symmetra UPS system, backed up by a 125kW natural gas fired generator. Even made sure to extend tendrils from the redundant power out to the MDF so the ISP could use our power system. Also had redundant cooling tied to the generator.
The one Achilles Heel of the operation was DNS. Ours was provided from outside our space.Suggested they build a zone locally that way we'd have DNS services if the state's went down. But they quashed it as being too difficult! Ut si!
Well one day there's a massive power outage in the city. They were still up and running, lights on, air conditioning on but couldn't get in or out of the internal network even though the ISP circuits were still up. Yup, DNS!
It's the Puritan/Calvinist undercurrent that runs through the United States. Don't forget the original settlers here (The Pilgrims) were people that they really didn't want in England at the time.
So they endured hardships and came here. It figures that we founded by religious misfits.
You could also mount the correct transceiver block and do EME. That would be kind of cool! You need an amateur radio license, not hard to get these days as the code requirement went away many years ago.
Took the words right out of my mouth. I'd like to see a controlled experiment where empty WiFi access point cases (sans radio gear, you can still do LED blinkies) are mounted with net cables 'connected' as well as power. Do it in a school that doesn't have it and say they're turning it on for administrative reasons. Then see if they 'exhibit' the same 'symptoms'.
Then we'd finally put this RF sensitivity bovine effluent to rest.
For teaching to the test. I'm thankful that I came up through schools before all this crap was put in place. Learned the algebraic method etc. My involvement with computers reinforced the meaning of the = sign and then the four functions (+, -,/, *) as well as modulus and a few other statistical goodies in between.
I suppose a calculus integral symbol or even the derivative dx/dy would throw em'.
The same checksum they use for UPC codes. Sum up the 10 significant digits. Then take that sum(S) and push up to the next tens unit(T). The difference of T-S = check digit.
E.g. UPC code 54556 39824. Sum is 51. Next tens is 60. 60-51=9 so the check digit is 9. The same basic formula could work for ISBN numbers too.
I spent six months doing program reviews in schools all around the state of Rhode Island. Because of my IT background I evaluated more IT focused programs.
At one it was a business applications class. One of the projects the teacher had them working on was a payroll spreadsheet where they'd have to plug in deductions, etc. then do a manual look-up for the tax amount.
In my evaluation I noted that perhaps they could teach the kids a little VBA. VBA itself isn't difficult. The heavy lift if you will is deciphering Microsoft's object model for the various applications. But once you master one, you've got em' all.
When I mentioned this to a school psychologist friend of mine he said that it was a valid idea but subversive because education is mired in bureaucracy.
I'm about to kick Vonage to the curb. My $24.99 a month line now costs $35 per month. I'm also preparing to tell Cox to take a hike. My $49 service is now $58.99 a month.
Let the developers take anywhere from 1% to 5% of profit realized by the applications they write. Fair is fair.
For example, if the gentleman in the case presented is pulling $150K but his app generates $100,000 in revenue, 5% of that would be $5K per day or $1.825 million per year for him. I'd say that would be equitable.
Priority Mail is a pretty economical way to ship things. Especially with their once size, one price boxes. And the secret is Priority takes 2 to 3 days to cross the country.
The other thing that the postal service carries a lot of is junk mail. Every two weeks I throw out about 15 pounds of junk mail.
I can see it becoming maybe 3 days a week delivery and pickup for letters, daily for packages etc. Postal mail has just become irrelevant in the modern day. All my bills are paid online with the exception of one thing I still have to write a check for every month.
Yeah except when things go to shit in a hurry and the cell networks fail due to power loss, they call out the hams.
Let me offer some practical advice to the original poster. Yes 5 to 10 watts will get you quite a distance. You see, if there's one things we hams all recognize right away it is height above average terrain or AHAT. E.g. if one could potentially see their house from there, it's a pretty sure bet you can hit a repeater somewhere.
Just blot out the ad servers at the router level. Unless of course they make the operation of the software conditional upon being able to connect to the ad server.
Better yet - if you know the frequency and phase of their signal you can just put our your own signal with an inverted phase. Presto, changeo, waves like that cancel out.
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I say lets do an experiment. We'd have to be somewhat deceitful but lets get these people who are 'allergic' to RF into what we tell them is a RF quiet room. We could even employ props to make it seem as though it were. But the reality, we can bombard the room with RF while we have them fill out a questionaire on how they feel vis a vis RF illness. Betcha that they'd be hollering for joy that they're in an RF free space.
Wonder if they've read the book "The Adolescence of P-1". It's pretty much what NELL is doing right now.
Is that the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) unit is in West Virginia. Were we to loose that law enforcement around the country would loose the ability to identify subject based on ten-print. So lets relocate it to a geologically less active area of the country, like the northeast.
My situation is such that I have a reasonable flat ride to work and an 8 mile round trip. Then again I'm also not talking the tiny little gelled lead-acids and I understand the logarithmic scale of Pb battery degradation.
I plan to build my own plug-in EV. In classic style, I want a VW Vanagon or like. Be easy to use a lead-acid battery pack on it. Not to mention pretty simple to mount the electric drive.
The other reason for the Vanagon, in Back to the Future everyone wants the DeLorean. Me, I want the terrorist van.
Well they don't expire anywhere from 1 to 3 years. So I'm good.
I've got about a half dozen domains registered with them. What the hell do I do now?
A little think called agency. We assign human like qualities to inanimate or even animate creatures. It's pretty much how wolves were domesticated.
I'm working with a city council candidate to implement a public MESH network trialing it in his ward first. I did advise him that setting up such a system would more likely than not violate the TOS of most providers like Cox and Verizon. But screw em' if they don't like it. We can throttle the bandwidth and block certain ports on the feed side so it's not like the traffic would be extreme.
Pre-tax? Or post-tax. Big difference there. I went from making $165K a year to $77K a year pre-tax. Big difference. But the former involved an ugly commute so I guess it's true abut $75K.
But $2.4 billion over ten years comes out to $240,000,000 per YEAR! With that kind of money they could replace their infrastructure a few times over every year.
This is a clear example of the malfeasance that happens when government gets corrupted by corporate interests. Taxpayers in VA should be up in arms about this one.
Here's my story of state agency screw-ups. Two jobs ago I was working for the Secretary of State's office here. We had the opportunity and funding to get our IT infrastructure in order when the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) became law. We were able to build out a secure and redundant room to house our critical infrastructure.
Physical access by key and alarm code only, Redundant power which included an APS Symmetra UPS system, backed up by a 125kW natural gas fired generator. Even made sure to extend tendrils from the redundant power out to the MDF so the ISP could use our power system. Also had redundant cooling tied to the generator.
The one Achilles Heel of the operation was DNS. Ours was provided from outside our space.Suggested they build a zone locally that way we'd have DNS services if the state's went down. But they quashed it as being too difficult! Ut si!
Well one day there's a massive power outage in the city. They were still up and running, lights on, air conditioning on but couldn't get in or out of the internal network even though the ISP circuits were still up. Yup, DNS!
It's the Puritan/Calvinist undercurrent that runs through the United States. Don't forget the original settlers here (The Pilgrims) were people that they really didn't want in England at the time.
So they endured hardships and came here. It figures that we founded by religious misfits.
I highly doubt it. Most of the ones I wanted to do that to were Compaq servers.
You could also mount the correct transceiver block and do EME. That would be kind of cool! You need an amateur radio license, not hard to get these days as the code requirement went away many years ago.
Took the words right out of my mouth. I'd like to see a controlled experiment where empty WiFi access point cases (sans radio gear, you can still do LED blinkies) are mounted with net cables 'connected' as well as power. Do it in a school that doesn't have it and say they're turning it on for administrative reasons. Then see if they 'exhibit' the same 'symptoms'.
Then we'd finally put this RF sensitivity bovine effluent to rest.
For teaching to the test. I'm thankful that I came up through schools before all this crap was put in place. Learned the algebraic method etc. My involvement with computers reinforced the meaning of the = sign and then the four functions (+, -, /, *) as well as modulus and a few other statistical goodies in between.
I suppose a calculus integral symbol or even the derivative dx/dy would throw em'.
The same checksum they use for UPC codes. Sum up the 10 significant digits. Then take that sum(S) and push up to the next tens unit(T). The difference of T-S = check digit.
E.g. UPC code 54556 39824. Sum is 51. Next tens is 60. 60-51=9 so the check digit is 9. The same basic formula could work for ISBN numbers too.
I spent six months doing program reviews in schools all around the state of Rhode Island. Because of my IT background I evaluated more IT focused programs.
At one it was a business applications class. One of the projects the teacher had them working on was a payroll spreadsheet where they'd have to plug in deductions, etc. then do a manual look-up for the tax amount.
In my evaluation I noted that perhaps they could teach the kids a little VBA. VBA itself isn't difficult. The heavy lift if you will is deciphering Microsoft's object model for the various applications. But once you master one, you've got em' all.
When I mentioned this to a school psychologist friend of mine he said that it was a valid idea but subversive because education is mired in bureaucracy.
What is the Pentagon trying to hide? Honestly Wikileaks should tell them to go get stuffed.
I'm about to kick Vonage to the curb. My $24.99 a month line now costs $35 per month. I'm also preparing to tell Cox to take a hike. My $49 service is now $58.99 a month.
Let the developers take anywhere from 1% to 5% of profit realized by the applications they write. Fair is fair.
For example, if the gentleman in the case presented is pulling $150K but his app generates $100,000 in revenue, 5% of that would be $5K per day or $1.825 million per year for him. I'd say that would be equitable.
Priority Mail is a pretty economical way to ship things. Especially with their once size, one price boxes. And the secret is Priority takes 2 to 3 days to cross the country.
The other thing that the postal service carries a lot of is junk mail. Every two weeks I throw out about 15 pounds of junk mail.
I can see it becoming maybe 3 days a week delivery and pickup for letters, daily for packages etc. Postal mail has just become irrelevant in the modern day. All my bills are paid online with the exception of one thing I still have to write a check for every month.
Yeah except when things go to shit in a hurry and the cell networks fail due to power loss, they call out the hams.
Let me offer some practical advice to the original poster. Yes 5 to 10 watts will get you quite a distance. You see, if there's one things we hams all recognize right away it is height above average terrain or AHAT. E.g. if one could potentially see their house from there, it's a pretty sure bet you can hit a repeater somewhere.
Here's the U.S. National Repeater Database.
Just blot out the ad servers at the router level. Unless of course they make the operation of the software conditional upon being able to connect to the ad server.
But there are ways around that too.
Better yet - if you know the frequency and phase of their signal you can just put our your own signal with an inverted phase. Presto, changeo, waves like that cancel out.