States rights activists are a joke. States can barely keep themselves afloat, except for those with petroleum resources (i.e. North Dakota). The federal government exists to take care of things to large to be handled by any one state, as it should.
Doesn't matter if its a diesel truck or an F-16 at full afterburner, if you're burning biofuels produced from either recycled or reclaimed non-petroleum oil products (vegetable/cooking oil, chicken carcasses, etc), it closes the carbon cycle and is environmentally friendly (unless you want to argue the whole emissions control issue, but you're never going to control emissions on a portable gas turbine engine such as that on an aircraft.
This is a step forward, make no mistake. Its not easy getting a new fuel certified on an aircraft engine of any kind.
On smartphones, yes, they can if users consent and let the app run (or its built into the OS, perhaps in iOS or a locked down Android version like on AT&T).
After my drive in this morning, with someone doing 60 in the left most lane, I suggest you start a kickstarter project. Top contributor should get to drive said wall of Tahoe *gets credit card out*
Almost all handsets are sending signal quality data back to the tower; this is how the tower and the device decide how much power each should be using to transmit (note that your cellphone will use more power when there is no signal available; it is yelling asking if someone is around, and uses more power to do so, whereas it'll use *much* less power compared to when it can easily and reliably hear the tower, and the tower can hear it).
Location data? That's a bit more difficult without smartphones or phones that have GPS built in, although you can triangulate the location of a phone with a fair amount of accuracy using only cell tower identifier and signal data:
But how does GSM localization work? The radio mobile network is made up of a number of adjacent radio cells, each of which is characterized by an identifier consisting of four data: a progressive number (Cell ID), a code related to the area in which that given cell is (LAC, or Local Area Code), the code of national network to which the cell belongs (MCC, an acronym for Mobile Country Code), and finally the company code (MNC, or Mobile Network Code), which obviously identifies the phone company itself. For this reason, once a cell name and coordinates are known, and considering the maximum distance allowed between this cell and a phone before the phone connects to a new cell, it is possible to find out, approximately, the most distant position of the phone itself. For example, if the maximum distance has been determined to be one mile, the cell phone can be within a one-mile radius. It can be deduced that the more cells are found in a given area, the more precisely one can determine where the phone is located (up to 200-350 feet). The idea of employing only a GSM device to build a remote localization system occurred to us when we realized that Google Maps Mobile, which had been conceived to allow smartphones equipped with a GPS receiver to use Google for satellite navigation, was extended to all cell phones, as long as they were able to support GPRS or UMTS data.
When OP said "get this data from the handsets themselves", I believe he meant via software that would measure, record, and upload the metrics, not from people. People are unreliable. Software is less so.
EXACTLY. This is why Falcon/Falcon Heavy/Dragon is an amazing efficient model. Fully reusable, and can be for cargo or humans, you just swap the top out with the rest down being the same (for the most part) lifter.
Clearwire has an investment in WiMax, not Sprint, and Sprint is really tired of Clearwire stabbing its largest shareholder in the back by trying to sell the WiMax service cheaper than Sprint can. Why do you think Sprint signed with LightSquared for LTE? When Sprint moves away from Clearwire, they'll probably end up in bankruptcy with the network being shutdown or piecemeal sold.
So could we do something similar to SPF/DomainKeys? You create a public key that you advertise via DNS and require the private key to be uploaded to the CA to get the certificate? That would ensure only the domain owner could request the SSL certificate.
Which is a good thing. When gas is cheap, your land development is based solely around the automobile. Gas prices go up? Can't drive to work, the store, the mall. in Europe, keeping gas prices high ensures you don't become too dependent on the fuel, preventing an economic shock (like the US went through) when crude prices hit $140/barrel.
Firefox Sync (which predates Chrome Sync by a long shot) has always had full encryption (you can't store stuff unencrypted) and a separate passphrase (Mozilla cannot decrypt your data). This is the kind of stuff that matters most to Firefox devs.
What matters to devs and some users, doesn't matters to others (hence, why Chrome usage has blown past Firefox usage).
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States rights activists are a joke. States can barely keep themselves afloat, except for those with petroleum resources (i.e. North Dakota). The federal government exists to take care of things to large to be handled by any one state, as it should.
Behind bars? If they're lucky.
Doesn't matter if its a diesel truck or an F-16 at full afterburner, if you're burning biofuels produced from either recycled or reclaimed non-petroleum oil products (vegetable/cooking oil, chicken carcasses, etc), it closes the carbon cycle and is environmentally friendly (unless you want to argue the whole emissions control issue, but you're never going to control emissions on a portable gas turbine engine such as that on an aircraft.
This is a step forward, make no mistake. Its not easy getting a new fuel certified on an aircraft engine of any kind.
+1 Juno Reactor
If you dare suggest we use router/switch buffers as "cloud storage", I'm going to stab you over IP.
I highly recommend both Daft Punk or Deadmau5 for those long coding/scripting sessions. Helps my mind keep a tempo with what I'm doing.
On smartphones, yes, they can if users consent and let the app run (or its built into the OS, perhaps in iOS or a locked down Android version like on AT&T).
After my drive in this morning, with someone doing 60 in the left most lane, I suggest you start a kickstarter project. Top contributor should get to drive said wall of Tahoe *gets credit card out*
Almost all handsets are sending signal quality data back to the tower; this is how the tower and the device decide how much power each should be using to transmit (note that your cellphone will use more power when there is no signal available; it is yelling asking if someone is around, and uses more power to do so, whereas it'll use *much* less power compared to when it can easily and reliably hear the tower, and the tower can hear it).
Location data? That's a bit more difficult without smartphones or phones that have GPS built in, although you can triangulate the location of a phone with a fair amount of accuracy using only cell tower identifier and signal data:
http://www.open-electronics.org/gsm-localizer-without-gps-part-1-introduction/
But how does GSM localization work? The radio mobile network is made up of a number of adjacent radio cells, each of which is characterized by an identifier consisting of four data: a progressive number (Cell ID), a code related to the area in which that given cell is (LAC, or Local Area Code), the code of national network to which the cell belongs (MCC, an acronym for Mobile Country Code), and finally the company code (MNC, or Mobile Network Code), which obviously identifies the phone company itself. For this reason, once a cell name and coordinates are known, and considering the maximum distance allowed between this cell and a phone before the phone connects to a new cell, it is possible to find out, approximately, the most distant position of the phone itself. For example, if the maximum distance has been determined to be one mile, the cell phone can be within a one-mile radius. It can be deduced that the more cells are found in a given area, the more precisely one can determine where the phone is located (up to 200-350 feet). The idea of employing only a GSM device to build a remote localization system occurred to us when we realized that Google Maps Mobile, which had been conceived to allow smartphones equipped with a GPS receiver to use Google for satellite navigation, was extended to all cell phones, as long as they were able to support GPRS or UMTS data.
When OP said "get this data from the handsets themselves", I believe he meant via software that would measure, record, and upload the metrics, not from people. People are unreliable. Software is less so.
I don't mean to pick on you so much as give you ammunition with which to fire back.
Anything where cannons may be pointed in the direction of Creationists piques my interest.
Don't forget that they pay property taxes via their rent payments.
EXACTLY. This is why Falcon/Falcon Heavy/Dragon is an amazing efficient model. Fully reusable, and can be for cargo or humans, you just swap the top out with the rest down being the same (for the most part) lifter.
Any company would buy goodwill if it cost them less than a dollar.
I have yet to hear of a single instance where patents were vital for a person to make a profit.
When they want to charge repeatedly for work they did once.
Sprint is abandoning Clearwire for LightSquared-deployed LTE.
Clearwire has an investment in WiMax, not Sprint, and Sprint is really tired of Clearwire stabbing its largest shareholder in the back by trying to sell the WiMax service cheaper than Sprint can. Why do you think Sprint signed with LightSquared for LTE? When Sprint moves away from Clearwire, they'll probably end up in bankruptcy with the network being shutdown or piecemeal sold.
So what lawyer do I write a check to so they go after the throat of the troll?
Bank of America *does* have mirrored datacenters though (onlineEast and onlineWest). Something went tits up for sure.
So could we do something similar to SPF/DomainKeys? You create a public key that you advertise via DNS and require the private key to be uploaded to the CA to get the certificate? That would ensure only the domain owner could request the SSL certificate.
Good luck with $6-$8/gallon gas in your Civic.
Which is a good thing. When gas is cheap, your land development is based solely around the automobile. Gas prices go up? Can't drive to work, the store, the mall. in Europe, keeping gas prices high ensures you don't become too dependent on the fuel, preventing an economic shock (like the US went through) when crude prices hit $140/barrel.
Gas taxes = good policy.
Good to see they're offering an aero wheel mod. Go Tesla! :)
THIS! Now, to call the Chicago Tesla store tomorrow and find out how I can turn my $5K deposit into one for the faster "sports" Model S version.
Firefox Sync (which predates Chrome Sync by a long shot) has always had full encryption (you can't store stuff unencrypted) and a separate passphrase (Mozilla cannot decrypt your data). This is the kind of stuff that matters most to Firefox devs.
What matters to devs and some users, doesn't matters to others (hence, why Chrome usage has blown past Firefox usage).
Chrome also syncs all my bookmarks, passwords, extensions with just my Google credentials, something Firefox doesn't do out of the box.