Or you drill the lines through the floor in a corner of the room for rooms on the first floor, or through a furnace pipe, or return air vent on upper floors.
Its really not as hard as you make it out. I installed cable for a living, and new or old never met a place I couldn't run a coax line to in less than 20 minutes with anything but a drill and some fish tape.
-Shawn
First of all, if someone is screwing with the green phone ped in my yard, chances are someone is going to see it. When I used to work for the cable company, people would often report us to local authorities when we were working on the lines... so I doubt someone is gonna sneak up there and screw with it without being seen.
Secondly, GSM is digital, and not even carried at 800Mhz. Most places its carried at either 900MHz, 1800MHz, or 1900MHz. A few places in America have begun to carry it at 850MHz, but that is rare in the first place. And having a scanner that can get the signal is nothing. Its not FM modulated, nor is it AM modulated so the scanner CANT recieve it (unless your in a lab somewhere and can design something)... speaking of which...
Yes, GSM has been cracked, but of course, its exceedingly expensive, and has only been done so in research labs. There are no cases of GSM cloning in the wild, nor is there any cases of GSM spying confirmed either.
Also, how does the fact taht your Aunt has a cordless phone that is 20 years old change the fact that anyone who has purchased a relitively recent phone is using Digital Spread Spectrum?
Except they still keep the bank account info. I deleted an account from my PayPal account, then for some reason (stupid me) tried to use it on a different account I set up later. So I registered the account and then wham I couldn't use that debt-card because it was tied to the old account.
I went into the old account and apparently someone had complained that the printer I sold on ebay and advertised as "broken, parts only, as-is" didn't work upon recipt. So they charged me back the $20. So now, 4 years later, I have a PayPal account with a -120 balance, an "open collections" account on my credit history, and will never ever EVER use PayPal again.
The worst part is, even after I deleted that checking account, they tried to withdraw the 20 dollars for the charge-back from it. They tried four times! I was broke at the time, didn't even have 20 dollars in the account, so I got charged 25 dollar "insufficent funds" from them also. They can rot for all I care I will not pay that. I would have paid the $20 originally because it was my mistake for using eBay... but I will not pay the additonal fees. I filed a complaint against PayPal at my bank, and they told me that "they hear that a lot about them" and that they've blocked PayPal from ever touching my account...
Nor will you have any listeners. The point of broadcasting illegally is not to just to broadcast, its to be heard. I think people who run pirate radio stations would rather run the risk of being caught if it means being heard, than not getting caught but not getting heard.
And so, you're suggesting that pirate radio stations go legal by broadcasting with illegal CB equipment?
Honestly I have no idea what that has to do with anything...
There are illegal FM transmitters out there just like there are illegal CB radios out there. So why is it better for people to broadcast their station illegally in the CB band than in the FM band?
Well, let me know when even 10 percent of broadcast radio listeners can listen to Spread Spectrum technology. In fact, not even 1% of new radios sold (not existing radios) support digital IBOC... so I'm guessing it will never happen.
Yes, it was available in the 50s but it was not easy nor was it affordable. Radio only became as popular because it was cheap to buy a reciever.
Not to mention Spread Spectrum is not very well suited for one-way communication. All that time-base sync becomes pretty complicated...
Technically, its a license to put "stuff" (in this case electromagnetism) into the air around you. I think of it more like polution, which can be regulated.
I understand the need to regulate broadcast band also, because if you don't it just becomes one huge mess of people transmitting and effectively becomes useless... but the license fees should be a scale that rewards community ownership and local "stuff" as opposed to saying, it costs 10,000$ to apply. That prices out all but the big-boys from playing.
Now, don't get me started on how DirecTV / Dish Network saturate my house with their signal, but if I decide to try to pick that up (IE: breathe it in), they can sue me.
There are restrictions on power and bandwidth on the CB band. You cant transmit more than 4W (this may now be measured in ERP, I don't recall) and you also cant use anything higher than the (250 khz??) bandwidth allotted to a channel.
Except ham radio requires two-way communication. You cannot broadcast on ham radio, except instructional ham radio training material (example; morse code training exercises). You also cannot transmit music (even background) with one exception, it accidently gets on the air if you're rebroadcasting a transmission from the space shuttle.
So one way communication (IE: broadcasting) is not an option through ham radio.
Because their site looks like shit, their media player looks like a tird, and what sort of name is the Cowon iAudio A2 ? Hey, dude, check out my Cowon, it's rockin!!!
Seriously guys. Slow down on the flash. Make it wait for me. And please, only have one thing animated per page. I don't need your f'ing logo blinking all over the page.
Why would Apple want to be mainstream? Isn't enough to be successful and profitable? Last time I checked Apple has several million (it was maybe over 100?) in the bank. They're not losing money. Thats what I'd call a successful business.
Dell sells crap PCs to idiots who don't know any better. They're like eMachines, or Gateway, or HP, or Compaq, or Levino... or any other brand. Tell me whats different about any of the bargan-basement PC brands?
Apple and Dell are very different companies. Apple pays R&D teams to innovate, where as Dell just copies. Same with all the other beige box PC companies. Apple develops something new, packages it up so its easy to use, secure, stable, and fun. And they sell tons of machines, make a huge profit, and still people think they're doomed.
Wake up, 1999 called, it wants its "Apple is going to fail" story back!
Exactly. Both parties are full of shit. We're all for saving kids from "violent video games" but if they're going hungry we cant spend a dime to help them out... and spending money to help their schools so that they might have a chance in the future is out of the question.
LOL! Thats rich. Republicans shout at you for being "Anti American" or "Hating America" or tell you that you'll go to hell since your not republican. I think you'll find most democrats are FAR more level headed than that.
Don't forget to add in the part where KDE had Microsoft come in and show them exactly how to display the multiple windows on the screen, had the source code in their hands, and let Microsoft write a seperate implementation. Then, KDE uses Find & Replace to change the Microsoft name to KDE everywhere, tells Microsoft to take a hike, and sells the product at a great profit.
The wording of the bill is a bit lax, and therefore in theory could be applied toward sites like Slashdot or Amazon that allow users to post information. In reality, though, this bill is aimed at Myspace / Friendster / Facebook (hell, those names are right in the article) and not slashdot or Amazon. Its just like when the NRA says that some bill proposed in congress is going to ban all guns. There has never been a bill proposed that would ban all guns, but they find some vauge wording when the bill attempts to describe what is really being banned and say, well if you twist it this way out of context then it applies to everything. Now, would someday a legal case be brought forth with that mindset? Maybe. But certainly this bill is not attempting to ban things like Slashdot.
Just another case of a biased article on Slashdot.
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You _dont_ need a credit card to register for iTunes. Just an email address.
Yes, before the web, I couldn't post a link ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAUxkJP4k20 ) where the Republicans call a local canidate a Commie.
Damn the web is great!
"Nothing for you to see here..."
How fitting... Guess my hour is up!
Or you drill the lines through the floor in a corner of the room for rooms on the first floor, or through a furnace pipe, or return air vent on upper floors. Its really not as hard as you make it out. I installed cable for a living, and new or old never met a place I couldn't run a coax line to in less than 20 minutes with anything but a drill and some fish tape. -Shawn
Did you bother to read any of that?
First of all, if someone is screwing with the green phone ped in my yard, chances are someone is going to see it. When I used to work for the cable company, people would often report us to local authorities when we were working on the lines... so I doubt someone is gonna sneak up there and screw with it without being seen.
Secondly, GSM is digital, and not even carried at 800Mhz. Most places its carried at either 900MHz, 1800MHz, or 1900MHz. A few places in America have begun to carry it at 850MHz, but that is rare in the first place. And having a scanner that can get the signal is nothing. Its not FM modulated, nor is it AM modulated so the scanner CANT recieve it (unless your in a lab somewhere and can design something)... speaking of which...
Yes, GSM has been cracked, but of course, its exceedingly expensive, and has only been done so in research labs. There are no cases of GSM cloning in the wild, nor is there any cases of GSM spying confirmed either.
Also, how does the fact taht your Aunt has a cordless phone that is 20 years old change the fact that anyone who has purchased a relitively recent phone is using Digital Spread Spectrum?
Except they still keep the bank account info. I deleted an account from my PayPal account, then for some reason (stupid me) tried to use it on a different account I set up later. So I registered the account and then wham I couldn't use that debt-card because it was tied to the old account.
I went into the old account and apparently someone had complained that the printer I sold on ebay and advertised as "broken, parts only, as-is" didn't work upon recipt. So they charged me back the $20. So now, 4 years later, I have a PayPal account with a -120 balance, an "open collections" account on my credit history, and will never ever EVER use PayPal again.
The worst part is, even after I deleted that checking account, they tried to withdraw the 20 dollars for the charge-back from it. They tried four times! I was broke at the time, didn't even have 20 dollars in the account, so I got charged 25 dollar "insufficent funds" from them also. They can rot for all I care I will not pay that. I would have paid the $20 originally because it was my mistake for using eBay... but I will not pay the additonal fees. I filed a complaint against PayPal at my bank, and they told me that "they hear that a lot about them" and that they've blocked PayPal from ever touching my account...
Nor will you have any listeners. The point of broadcasting illegally is not to just to broadcast, its to be heard. I think people who run pirate radio stations would rather run the risk of being caught if it means being heard, than not getting caught but not getting heard.
And so, you're suggesting that pirate radio stations go legal by broadcasting with illegal CB equipment? Honestly I have no idea what that has to do with anything... There are illegal FM transmitters out there just like there are illegal CB radios out there. So why is it better for people to broadcast their station illegally in the CB band than in the FM band?
Electromagnetic radiation can cause cancer too, although there are not enough studies to prove what levels are harmful.
Well, let me know when even 10 percent of broadcast radio listeners can listen to Spread Spectrum technology. In fact, not even 1% of new radios sold (not existing radios) support digital IBOC... so I'm guessing it will never happen.
Yes, it was available in the 50s but it was not easy nor was it affordable. Radio only became as popular because it was cheap to buy a reciever.
Not to mention Spread Spectrum is not very well suited for one-way communication. All that time-base sync becomes pretty complicated...
Technically, its a license to put "stuff" (in this case electromagnetism) into the air around you. I think of it more like polution, which can be regulated.
I understand the need to regulate broadcast band also, because if you don't it just becomes one huge mess of people transmitting and effectively becomes useless... but the license fees should be a scale that rewards community ownership and local "stuff" as opposed to saying, it costs 10,000$ to apply. That prices out all but the big-boys from playing.
Now, don't get me started on how DirecTV / Dish Network saturate my house with their signal, but if I decide to try to pick that up (IE: breathe it in), they can sue me.
There are restrictions on power and bandwidth on the CB band. You cant transmit more than 4W (this may now be measured in ERP, I don't recall) and you also cant use anything higher than the (250 khz??) bandwidth allotted to a channel.
Except ham radio requires two-way communication. You cannot broadcast on ham radio, except instructional ham radio training material (example; morse code training exercises). You also cannot transmit music (even background) with one exception, it accidently gets on the air if you're rebroadcasting a transmission from the space shuttle.
So one way communication (IE: broadcasting) is not an option through ham radio.
Because their site looks like shit, their media player looks like a tird, and what sort of name is the Cowon iAudio A2 ? Hey, dude, check out my Cowon, it's rockin!!!
Seriously guys. Slow down on the flash. Make it wait for me. And please, only have one thing animated per page. I don't need your f'ing logo blinking all over the page.
Apple and Dell are very different companies. Apple pays R&D teams to innovate, where as Dell just copies. Same with all the other beige box PC companies. Apple develops something new, packages it up so its easy to use, secure, stable, and fun. And they sell tons of machines, make a huge profit, and still people think they're doomed.
Wake up, 1999 called, it wants its "Apple is going to fail" story back!
Dell should close up shop and return the money to the shareholders!
Exactly. Both parties are full of shit. We're all for saving kids from "violent video games" but if they're going hungry we cant spend a dime to help them out... and spending money to help their schools so that they might have a chance in the future is out of the question.
I would never vote for Hillary, and I'm a registered Democrat. And its _not_ because shes a woman...
Wow, I just wanted to comment that is exactly how I feel. Spot-on. I only hope there are enough of us out there to make a difference...
LOL! Thats rich. Republicans shout at you for being "Anti American" or "Hating America" or tell you that you'll go to hell since your not republican. I think you'll find most democrats are FAR more level headed than that.
-Shawn
IMO its about time Dish has to own up.
The wording of the bill is a bit lax, and therefore in theory could be applied toward sites like Slashdot or Amazon that allow users to post information. In reality, though, this bill is aimed at Myspace / Friendster / Facebook (hell, those names are right in the article) and not slashdot or Amazon. Its just like when the NRA says that some bill proposed in congress is going to ban all guns. There has never been a bill proposed that would ban all guns, but they find some vauge wording when the bill attempts to describe what is really being banned and say, well if you twist it this way out of context then it applies to everything. Now, would someday a legal case be brought forth with that mindset? Maybe. But certainly this bill is not attempting to ban things like Slashdot.
Just another case of a biased article on Slashdot.
You sure you didn't fail to put the irony in there in the first place?