You are right -- I misread the title. It is late and I have been up since 06:00 and I have done what I often criticize other people for doing. I misread the title. Most in error, me. I regret and withdraw.
Yes, illegal in Canada too, and for the same reasons it is illegal in the US. I have been licensed here in Canada (Amateur Radio VE3OAT) for 36 years and there has never been any question about the use of Amateur Radio for commercial purposes. I can't recall the details now but there have been several cases over the years that were prosecuted.
"I'm digging Mars." God, I hate it when NASA and other science organizations anthropomorphize everything. It is very unscientific and can give less educated people (most of them voters) the wrong idea about how nature really works. As in, "the virus mutated in order to spread more easily". (I can't find the exact quote now, but you know what I mean.)
So I guess the Insight lander has a personality and a whole PR team to relay its hopes and feelings to its fans and the interested public. If I ask, maybe it will send me an autographed picture. I wonder if Insight writes in block letters or cursive.
The summary asked "How will people accidentally cursed with the wrong data profile get affordable insurance?"
Answer : Move to Canada. We pay our taxes and the provincial governments provide health care. No middle men. The doctors, nurses and administrators all get paid ultimately by the provincial governments, depending on which province you live in. No external investors wanting big profits. Health care in Canada is (mostly) self-invested by the tax-paying citizens. Even non-citizens and people who are too poor to pay taxes get the same health care as the rest of us. Sure, there are things that can be improved in our system, but one thing is paramount -- no middle men who exist just to get profits out of the system. Some Americans call it "socialism". I have never met an American who really understood socialism. Whatever you want to call it, it works.
As for privacy, that is another problem, caused, I suspect, mostly by big American companies. I wish they would all stay away from my country.
If by "unlicensed bands" you mean a radio band where a licence is not required, then the unlicensed users of that band must accept any interference from licensed users. If the government (a licensed user, by definition) sets up a jammer on that band to discourage and disable drones in a particular geographic area, there is no problem. I doubt there are many users of that band near an airport anyway, so a jamming operation would disturb very few legitimate users. If they haven't already, Ofcom (the British spectrum regulatory agency) could use a little more imagination in attacking this drone problem. I am sure that GCHQ and the various military electronic warfare groups would be glad to help.
Of course spread spectrum can be jammed!! You just need enough power and the same bandwidth. As for "other users", I doubt very much that there are avionics systems anywhere nearby in frequency to these unlicensed general-purpose allocations. And if the drone operator is using frequencies outside of the allocated frequency band, well, then there is another law he has broken and can be charged for.
So what radio frequency is used by the drone controllers? It would be simple to build a jamming transmitter that could disable the link between the pirate pilots and their drones. I know nothing about drones but I would bet that someone with a few smarts could easily put together a rather sophisticated jamming transmitter with the necessary modulations that could ground the drones after taking over control of them. It might also be fun to build a directed EMP "weapon" that could be used to take them down when visually sighted. I suppose drones are too small to show up on radar, even the higher frequency radars. Too bad. But the whole problem should be fertile ground for a small group of imaginative engineers and electronics technologists. What about it, guys and girls??
Yes, but they have to click on the link to Facebook to be tracked. The presence of the link on my web page does not trigger any tracking. Am I correct in this?
I have a Share button on some of my webpages that is a simple link to the Facebook sharing service :
"https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://example.com/index.html"
but there are no scripts running (especially from Facebook!) on my website.
Am I wrong to think that this, by itself, is safe and provides no tracking information?
No. You can't just "feel" that they deserve criticism, you have to THINK that they deserve it, and based on factual evidence. Feelings aren't good enough; you need facts. Too many people today go about their lives just feeling and wishing, instead of thinking critically and making evidence-based decisions.
Scientific Data Systems (SDS) made computers. Their pads of preprinted coding sheets had 80 columns (think of punch cards). Columns 1-6 were for memory location, columns 8-14 were for operation, 16-35 were for arguments and operands, 36-72 were for remarks, and 73-80 were for "Ident". Used mostly for assembler and raw machine language code, as I recall (it has been a very long time). Bonus -- If you ignored the column headings, you could compose your FORTRAN programs on them before committing them to punch cards.
Never had the pleasure of using a 1401, but I still have my 1959 Faber-Castell 2/82 sliderule and a pad of SDS symbolic coding sheets. Also a couple of pads of FORTRAN coding forms. A few years later I spent many hours coding assembler language and FOCAL language for a DEC PDP-8/L in our data acquisition and processing lab. It had paper-tape input and typewriter output with just 4K of core memory, and some of my programs bumped up against that 4K limit. Man, did I learn fast about optimizing my code! Today I think that optimizing code is a lost art.
In three words, there is the major difference between health care in the USA and health care in Canada. (I know, this is intensely political, off-topic, and irrelevant to the subject under discussion. Just wanted to point out what is often missing in discussions of the differences.)
I am very familiar with the generation, emission and suppression of harmonics and other spurious responses. But none of the "pirate" stations that I could hear on this side of the Atlantic operated on frequencies that interfered with other stations of any service. And none of them had harmonics detectable here. I am saddened that, being closer to them, your experience was different. I do hope that you joined the RSGB's intruder watch to assist in the regulatory enforcement effort.
Your ad hominem work on behalf of Ofcom is noted.
I was an SWL (short wave listener) from the 1950s until about 1990 and I can't recall any "pirate" radio station that could possibly interfere with emergency services or air traffic control. Most "pirate" broadcasters operated on frequencies in the domestic AM and FM broadcast bands (where ordinary people could hear them) or, if on short wave, near the international broadcast bands (naturally) or on *clear channels* in the so-called Fixed Public bands (point-to-point press and commercial services, etc) or in the Maritime Mobile bands. None of the "pirate" stations wanted to interfere with anyone else because then they would suffer interference too. (Radio interference is a two-way street, you see.) I think the Ofcom statement is simply a regurgitation of some self-serving bureaucratic mythology.
I have many fond memories of installing WordPerfect 5.1 on my office computer and taking the manual home to study on my own time. The manual explained almost everything you could do at that time in WordPerfect, in plain English, step by step, and with short examples. Thanks to the manual I learned how to do many things that I never actually had to myself and was often called upon by others in the office to help them. Several of us were of the same mind and studied the manual. Oh, the amazing things that got done there because several of us knew how to do extra things. I believe that manual helped to make WordPerfect the word processor of choice at that time. What a cynical, stoopid, useless time we live in now.
I run a small information website (not further identified) which has no bullshit. My guiding principle has been to present only the content without unnecessary embellishment. So, I have...
no cookies,
no pop-ups,
no plug-ins,
no Flash,
no scripts of any kind except for a visit counter and a script to run the form on the Contact page,
no requests to sign up, register, or subscribe,
no collection of information about your location,
no frames,
no applets,
no animations,
no auto-start videos, and
no advertisements, except for links to and a few logos from organizations that I support or of which I am a dues-paying member.
Someone should start a public black-list of sites that have too many scripts or too much non-content "stuff". I could name a few sites to add to the list.
At that height, no satellite will stay in "orbit" very long, due to atmospheric drag. I don't have the figures here but at 100 miles up, the daily loss of altitude will be easily noticed. And it is expensive to correct that loss. Mind you , it is much easier to launch to 100 miles than to a more stable altitude like 600 miles, provided you don't mind losing the satellite very soon.
Absolutely! False color is a very powerful presentation technique used widely in other scientific fields. I am surprised that it took so long to be used for medical imaging.
I'm an old guy and old-fashioned. Whenever possible I avoid buying gas at any of the pay-ahead pumps and dealers. (Living in Canada, this isn't too difficult still.) I pump my gasoline and then go inside to pay, in cash. I almost always fill the tank and it's so hard to guess ahead of time how much gasoline I need to pay for at the pay-ahead pumps, so I avoid them. But I'm in the minority and the petroleum industry doesn't care about people like me, so they continue with their fancy new pumps based on insecure technology. It's all about marketing anyway, isn't it?
We all remember LIBO, right? The London Interbank Offered Rate. One of the causes of the 2008 bank crash, especially in Europe. Same thing -- under the table manipulation of a rate by a few key players for their own benefit. It can and will happen in any unregulated market.
Just finished reading "Open Secret" by Erin Arvedlund, 2014, ISBN 978-1-59184-668-0. "The global banking conspiracy that swindled investors out of billions". I would recommend it highly. Cryptocurrency investors, watch out!
It's taught in Canada that Canadians burned down the White House
As a Canadian, schooled in Canada, and whose children were schooled in Canada, I can tell you that this is absolutely not true. As most of you probably already know, it was British troops who razed the original White House, and that is what we were taught. (God, where does this nonsense come from?)
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You are right -- I misread the title. It is late and I have been up since 06:00 and I have done what I often criticize other people for doing. I misread the title. Most in error, me. I regret and withdraw.
It is "MOST", not Hubble.
Yes, illegal in Canada too, and for the same reasons it is illegal in the US. I have been licensed here in Canada (Amateur Radio VE3OAT) for 36 years and there has never been any question about the use of Amateur Radio for commercial purposes. I can't recall the details now but there have been several cases over the years that were prosecuted.
"I'm digging Mars." God, I hate it when NASA and other science organizations anthropomorphize everything. It is very unscientific and can give less educated people (most of them voters) the wrong idea about how nature really works. As in, "the virus mutated in order to spread more easily". (I can't find the exact quote now, but you know what I mean.)
So I guess the Insight lander has a personality and a whole PR team to relay its hopes and feelings to its fans and the interested public. If I ask, maybe it will send me an autographed picture. I wonder if Insight writes in block letters or cursive.
The summary asked "How will people accidentally cursed with the wrong data profile get affordable insurance?"
Answer : Move to Canada. We pay our taxes and the provincial governments provide health care. No middle men. The doctors, nurses and administrators all get paid ultimately by the provincial governments, depending on which province you live in. No external investors wanting big profits. Health care in Canada is (mostly) self-invested by the tax-paying citizens. Even non-citizens and people who are too poor to pay taxes get the same health care as the rest of us. Sure, there are things that can be improved in our system, but one thing is paramount -- no middle men who exist just to get profits out of the system. Some Americans call it "socialism". I have never met an American who really understood socialism. Whatever you want to call it, it works.
As for privacy, that is another problem, caused, I suspect, mostly by big American companies. I wish they would all stay away from my country.
If by "unlicensed bands" you mean a radio band where a licence is not required, then the unlicensed users of that band must accept any interference from licensed users. If the government (a licensed user, by definition) sets up a jammer on that band to discourage and disable drones in a particular geographic area, there is no problem. I doubt there are many users of that band near an airport anyway, so a jamming operation would disturb very few legitimate users. If they haven't already, Ofcom (the British spectrum regulatory agency) could use a little more imagination in attacking this drone problem. I am sure that GCHQ and the various military electronic warfare groups would be glad to help.
If these new drones are so all-powerful and invulnerable, why are they being sold on the consumer market??
Of course spread spectrum can be jammed!! You just need enough power and the same bandwidth. As for "other users", I doubt very much that there are avionics systems anywhere nearby in frequency to these unlicensed general-purpose allocations. And if the drone operator is using frequencies outside of the allocated frequency band, well, then there is another law he has broken and can be charged for.
So what radio frequency is used by the drone controllers? It would be simple to build a jamming transmitter that could disable the link between the pirate pilots and their drones. I know nothing about drones but I would bet that someone with a few smarts could easily put together a rather sophisticated jamming transmitter with the necessary modulations that could ground the drones after taking over control of them. It might also be fun to build a directed EMP "weapon" that could be used to take them down when visually sighted. I suppose drones are too small to show up on radar, even the higher frequency radars. Too bad. But the whole problem should be fertile ground for a small group of imaginative engineers and electronics technologists. What about it, guys and girls??
Yes, but they have to click on the link to Facebook to be tracked. The presence of the link on my web page does not trigger any tracking. Am I correct in this?
I have a Share button on some of my webpages that is a simple link to the Facebook sharing service :
"https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://example.com/index.html"
but there are no scripts running (especially from Facebook!) on my website.
Am I wrong to think that this, by itself, is safe and provides no tracking information?
"... if they feel that the media deserves it"
No. You can't just "feel" that they deserve criticism, you have to THINK that they deserve it, and based on factual evidence. Feelings aren't good enough; you need facts. Too many people today go about their lives just feeling and wishing, instead of thinking critically and making evidence-based decisions.
Maybe that is what you meant to say.
Scientific Data Systems (SDS) made computers. Their pads of preprinted coding sheets had 80 columns (think of punch cards). Columns 1-6 were for memory location, columns 8-14 were for operation, 16-35 were for arguments and operands, 36-72 were for remarks, and 73-80 were for "Ident". Used mostly for assembler and raw machine language code, as I recall (it has been a very long time). Bonus -- If you ignored the column headings, you could compose your FORTRAN programs on them before committing them to punch cards.
Never had the pleasure of using a 1401, but I still have my 1959 Faber-Castell 2/82 sliderule and a pad of SDS symbolic coding sheets. Also a couple of pads of FORTRAN coding forms. A few years later I spent many hours coding assembler language and FOCAL language for a DEC PDP-8/L in our data acquisition and processing lab. It had paper-tape input and typewriter output with just 4K of core memory, and some of my programs bumped up against that 4K limit. Man, did I learn fast about optimizing my code! Today I think that optimizing code is a lost art.
In three words, there is the major difference between health care in the USA and health care in Canada. (I know, this is intensely political, off-topic, and irrelevant to the subject under discussion. Just wanted to point out what is often missing in discussions of the differences.)
I am very familiar with the generation, emission and suppression of harmonics and other spurious responses. But none of the "pirate" stations that I could hear on this side of the Atlantic operated on frequencies that interfered with other stations of any service. And none of them had harmonics detectable here. I am saddened that, being closer to them, your experience was different. I do hope that you joined the RSGB's intruder watch to assist in the regulatory enforcement effort. Your ad hominem work on behalf of Ofcom is noted.
I was an SWL (short wave listener) from the 1950s until about 1990 and I can't recall any "pirate" radio station that could possibly interfere with emergency services or air traffic control. Most "pirate" broadcasters operated on frequencies in the domestic AM and FM broadcast bands (where ordinary people could hear them) or, if on short wave, near the international broadcast bands (naturally) or on *clear channels* in the so-called Fixed Public bands (point-to-point press and commercial services, etc) or in the Maritime Mobile bands. None of the "pirate" stations wanted to interfere with anyone else because then they would suffer interference too. (Radio interference is a two-way street, you see.) I think the Ofcom statement is simply a regurgitation of some self-serving bureaucratic mythology.
I have many fond memories of installing WordPerfect 5.1 on my office computer and taking the manual home to study on my own time. The manual explained almost everything you could do at that time in WordPerfect, in plain English, step by step, and with short examples. Thanks to the manual I learned how to do many things that I never actually had to myself and was often called upon by others in the office to help them. Several of us were of the same mind and studied the manual. Oh, the amazing things that got done there because several of us knew how to do extra things. I believe that manual helped to make WordPerfect the word processor of choice at that time. What a cynical, stoopid, useless time we live in now.
I run a small information website (not further identified) which has no bullshit. My guiding principle has been to present only the content without unnecessary embellishment. So, I have ...
no cookies,
no pop-ups,
no plug-ins,
no Flash,
no scripts of any kind except for a visit counter and a script to run the form on the Contact page,
no requests to sign up, register, or subscribe,
no collection of information about your location,
no frames,
no applets,
no animations,
no auto-start videos, and
no advertisements, except for links to and a few logos from organizations that I support or of which I am a dues-paying member.
Someone should start a public black-list of sites that have too many scripts or too much non-content "stuff". I could name a few sites to add to the list.
At that height, no satellite will stay in "orbit" very long, due to atmospheric drag. I don't have the figures here but at 100 miles up, the daily loss of altitude will be easily noticed. And it is expensive to correct that loss. Mind you , it is much easier to launch to 100 miles than to a more stable altitude like 600 miles, provided you don't mind losing the satellite very soon.
It's not just Amazon. At used bookseller network abebooks.com, "At Home Inside" is listed for $1971.20 (free shipping in USA) and up.
Absolutely! False color is a very powerful presentation technique used widely in other scientific fields. I am surprised that it took so long to be used for medical imaging.
I'm an old guy and old-fashioned. Whenever possible I avoid buying gas at any of the pay-ahead pumps and dealers. (Living in Canada, this isn't too difficult still.) I pump my gasoline and then go inside to pay, in cash. I almost always fill the tank and it's so hard to guess ahead of time how much gasoline I need to pay for at the pay-ahead pumps, so I avoid them. But I'm in the minority and the petroleum industry doesn't care about people like me, so they continue with their fancy new pumps based on insecure technology. It's all about marketing anyway, isn't it?
We all remember LIBO, right? The London Interbank Offered Rate. One of the causes of the 2008 bank crash, especially in Europe. Same thing -- under the table manipulation of a rate by a few key players for their own benefit. It can and will happen in any unregulated market. Just finished reading "Open Secret" by Erin Arvedlund, 2014, ISBN 978-1-59184-668-0. "The global banking conspiracy that swindled investors out of billions". I would recommend it highly. Cryptocurrency investors, watch out!
It's taught in Canada that Canadians burned down the White House
As a Canadian, schooled in Canada, and whose children were schooled in Canada, I can tell you that this is absolutely not true. As most of you probably already know, it was British troops who razed the original White House, and that is what we were taught. (God, where does this nonsense come from?)