Even if many modern equipment is 'digitised', you're a fool to think that the option to display analog signals will disappear completely.
Unless the option is legislated away, in an attempt to close 'the analog loophole'. I wouldn't put anything past the current members of the telecommunications subcommittee...
I don't come anywhere close to filling up my current yahoo mailbox because of the annoyingly low maximum size of file attachments. If I could easily use this unlimited storage to send file attachments of a useful size, then this might actually be a helpful thing for me. Perhaps its because of a limited exposure to web email sites, but I seem to be one of the few people who likes Yahoo!'s interface... the only other web mail address I have is at http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/ and that's not practical for ever day use.
Hmm... reading all the comments here has me interested in trying something new. Would someone please send me a gmail invite to loimprevisto at yahoo.com?
The TacBSR supports both regular GSM phones and encrypted GSM phones. ``We do support various levels of security to meet the government customer requirement" Stark says.
All I get from this is that the system can encrypt the radio signal from the phone, and that it can do it with different keys that would correspond to the different levels of classification that the military uses. If all it encrypts is the message from the phone, while leaving all the IP side clear, then this is going to be more difficult to use in situations that demand end to end security.
The reason that I asked the question is because I know very little about cell phone protocols- maybe GSM encryption takes care of all this and more. Posting the simple question to/. seemed a lot easier than taking another few minutes to write out exactly what the article said and explicitly explain why the two sentences left unanswered questions. Pardon me for wasting your time if "Crypto Supported" is all the information you need about a device.
As usual TFA is light on technical details. Did anyone pick up on how this works? I'm also curious about the encryption- they mention that it can be used for encrypted cell calls, so does that mean that the data/VOIP side is sent unencrypted?
One other thing just occured to me- if this is supposed to be for remote military operations, would it be of any use against an opponent who can track radio signals? I don't think cell phone protocols can do all of the fancy frequency hopping and other tricks that most military radios use...
Good advice about an oft-overlooked part of job seeking. These guys can save you hours or days of research and give solid advice about the job you're looking for.
In addition there are huge government grants to fund research for drugs that will have limited or no ability to make a profit during the life of a patent.
Could someone provide more information on these grants? If they exist and are substantial then this fact alone counters many of the arguments above that say the current system discourages research on drugs that would primarily help only a small group of people or people too poor to afford expensive medicines.
I have a deep respect for people of any faith who demonstrate tolerance, kindness, and critical thinking skills- but with apologies to GP poster this is just too funny to pass up!
What about doctors or other people who's job requires them to be available at all times? If their cell phone/pager can't go off because it's being jammed by an illegal device, and someone dies or a business loses millions of dollars as a result... well, realisticly the chances are that you wouldn't get caught but you sure would feel pretty shitty about it if you ever found out what happened because you were unwilling to endure a momentary distraction from your movie.
Parent describes a sensible methodology for working on any big project- define your needs and tackle it piece by piece. It makes you wish they'd just given a few tens of thousands of dollars to consultants and had some experts draft out a plan for them.
I'm surprised to hear this- I would think that it would be relatively easy to remove Hg vapor from exhaust. It has a high density and relatively high boiling/condensation point (compared to C02 and water vapor) of 357 degrees C, intuitively it shouldn't be too difficult to isolate and remove. Does anyone know why it is dificult to achieve this... or why it is just not done?
Three countries - Nepal, Maldives and Libya - have been removed from the annual list of Internet enemies, which Reporters Without Borders publishes today. But many bloggers were harassed and imprisoned this year in Egypt, so it has been added to the roll of shame reserved for countries that systematically violate online free expression.
Countries in alphabetical order:
- Belarus
The government has a monopoly of telecommunications and does not hesitate to block access to opposition websites if it feels the need, especially at election time. Independent online publications are also often hacked. In March 2006, for example, several websites critical of President Alexandre Lukashenko mysteriously disappeared from the Internet for several days.
Burma
The Burmese governments Internet policies are even more repressive than those of its Chinese and Vietnamese neighbours. The military junta clearly filters opposition websites. It keeps a very close eye on Internet cafes, in which the computers automatically execute screen captures every five minutes, in order to monitor user activity. The authorities targeted Internet telephony and chat services in June, blocking Googles Gtalk, for example. The aim was two-fold: to defend the profitable long-distance telecommunications market, which is controlled by state companies, as well as to stop cyber-dissidents from using a means of communication that is hard to monitor.
China
China unquestionably continues to be the worlds most advanced country in Internet filtering. The authorities carefully monitor technological progress to ensure that no new window of free expression opens up, After initially targeting websites and chat forums, they nowadays concentrate on blogs and video exchange sites. China now has nearly 17 million bloggers. This is an enormous number, but very few of them dare to tackle sensitive issues, still less criticise government policy. Firstly, because Chinas blog tools all include filters that block subversive word strings. Secondly, because the companies operating these services, both Chinese and foreign, are pressured by the authorities to control content. They employ armies of moderators to clean up the content produced by the bloggers. Finally, in a country in which 52 people are currently in prison for expressing themselves too freely online, self-censorship is obviously in full force. Just five years ago, many people thought Chinese society and politics would be revolutionised by the Internet, a supposedly uncontrollable medium. Now, with China enjoying increasing geopolitical influence, people are wondering the opposite, whether perhaps Chinas Internet model, based on censorship and surveillance, may one day be imposed on the rest of the world.
Cuba
With less than 2 per cent of its population online, Cuba is one of the most backward Internet countries. An investigation carried out by Reporters Without Borders in October revealed that the Cuban government uses several levers to ensure that this medium is not used in a counter-revolutionary way. Firstly, it has more or less banned private Internet connections. To surf the Internet or check their e-mail, Cubans have to go to public access points such as Internet cafes, universities and youth computer clubs where their activity is more easily monitored. Secondly, the computers in all the Internet cafes and leading hotels contain software installed by the Cuban police that triggers an alert message whenever subversive key-words are spotted. The regime also ensures that there is no Internet access for dissidents and independent journalists, for whom communicating with people abroad is an ordeal. Fina
A friend of mine who administerd a forum was having spam troubles and didn't want to require registration for posting- His solution was to mess with the default boxes/buttons on the submission forms. Adding a few more of them on the pages used by anonymous posters and changing their default states ('uncheck this box if you are not a bot') stopped the spam quickly.
Time for me to plug a writer I stumbled across recently-
There's a beekeeper who posts on kuro5hin from time to time, his page http://www.voiceofthehive.com/ is great for learning about bees. The guy's a great writer, my favorate story is 'Jose's Swarm', but they're all pretty good.
Tobias got out of bed and said to Sarah, "Sister, get up, and let us pray and implore our Lord that he grant us mercy and safety." So she got up, and they began to pray and implore that they might be kept safe. Tobias began by saying, "Blessed are you, O God of our fathers. . . . You made Adam, and for him you made his wife Eve as a helper and support. From the two of them the race of mankind has sprung. You said, 'It is not good that the man should be alone; let us make a helper for him like himself.' I now am taking this kinswoman of mine, not because of lust, but with sincerity. Grant that she and I may find mercy and that we may grow old together." And they both said, "Amen, Amen." Then they went to sleep for the night. (Tob 8:4-9)
Come on now... lets get some more funny mods to outweigh that troll mod. This stuff is pure gold! As long as you commit incest with sincerity it's OK with the church;)
Oh, and as a refection of the Slashdot demographic, I fully expect this post to be modded -1000000, Offtopic.
I find it a much better use of mod points to simply ignore off-topics and trolls. Why waste the points that I've waited months/years for, when a post that is irrelevant to the conversation will just be ignored/never rise above most people's visibility thresholds. I'd much prefer to use them to show people information that I find interesting/informative/etc.
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Ok, I'll bite. You're not a Super-Brilliant, Innovative Person Occasionaly On TeleVision?
since folks don't even need to read TFA, just the 'summary'
Don't you get it? This is DARPA we're talking about, they already have...
I don't come anywhere close to filling up my current yahoo mailbox because of the annoyingly low maximum size of file attachments. If I could easily use this unlimited storage to send file attachments of a useful size, then this might actually be a helpful thing for me.m nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/ and that's not practical for ever day use.
Perhaps its because of a limited exposure to web email sites, but I seem to be one of the few people who likes Yahoo!'s interface... the only other web mail address I have is at http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijkl
Hmm... reading all the comments here has me interested in trying something new. Would someone please send me a gmail invite to loimprevisto at yahoo.com?
Please, please mod parent up. Great reference to an obscure play/movie!
From TFAAll I get from this is that the system can encrypt the radio signal from the phone, and that it can do it with different keys that would correspond to the different levels of classification that the military uses. If all it encrypts is the message from the phone, while leaving all the IP side clear, then this is going to be more difficult to use in situations that demand end to end security.
The reason that I asked the question is because I know very little about cell phone protocols- maybe GSM encryption takes care of all this and more. Posting the simple question to
As usual TFA is light on technical details. Did anyone pick up on how this works? I'm also curious about the encryption- they mention that it can be used for encrypted cell calls, so does that mean that the data/VOIP side is sent unencrypted?
One other thing just occured to me- if this is supposed to be for remote military operations, would it be of any use against an opponent who can track radio signals? I don't think cell phone protocols can do all of the fancy frequency hopping and other tricks that most military radios use...
Good advice about an oft-overlooked part of job seeking. These guys can save you hours or days of research and give solid advice about the job you're looking for.
Could someone provide more information on these grants? If they exist and are substantial then this fact alone counters many of the arguments above that say the current system discourages research on drugs that would primarily help only a small group of people or people too poor to afford expensive medicines.
Is this a way around WGA? If so Microsoft will find a way to kill it...
Well, I guess it would be possible... althought I confess I didn't actually make any of my own.
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Check out http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archi
I have some movies on laserdisc that're pushing 20 years, and I haven't had a problem with them yet!
I have a deep respect for people of any faith who demonstrate tolerance, kindness, and critical thinking skills- but with apologies to GP poster this is just too funny to pass up!
What about doctors or other people who's job requires them to be available at all times? If their cell phone/pager can't go off because it's being jammed by an illegal device, and someone dies or a business loses millions of dollars as a result... well, realisticly the chances are that you wouldn't get caught but you sure would feel pretty shitty about it if you ever found out what happened because you were unwilling to endure a momentary distraction from your movie.
Parent describes a sensible methodology for working on any big project- define your needs and tackle it piece by piece. It makes you wish they'd just given a few tens of thousands of dollars to consultants and had some experts draft out a plan for them.
I'm surprised to hear this- I would think that it would be relatively easy to remove Hg vapor from exhaust. It has a high density and relatively high boiling/condensation point (compared to C02 and water vapor) of 357 degrees C, intuitively it shouldn't be too difficult to isolate and remove. Does anyone know why it is dificult to achieve this... or why it is just not done?
Was anyone else disappointed by the election results in Texas district 10 (http://www.opensecrets.org/races/contrib.asp?ID=T X10&cycle=2006&special=N)? I really thought the Libertarians had a shot at that one...
A friend of mine who administerd a forum was having spam troubles and didn't want to require registration for posting- His solution was to mess with the default boxes/buttons on the submission forms. Adding a few more of them on the pages used by anonymous posters and changing their default states ('uncheck this box if you are not a bot') stopped the spam quickly.
I think you misspelled Wikiality...
Time for me to plug a writer I stumbled across recently-
There's a beekeeper who posts on kuro5hin from time to time, his page http://www.voiceofthehive.com/ is great for learning about bees. The guy's a great writer, my favorate story is 'Jose's Swarm', but they're all pretty good.
Come on now... lets get some more funny mods to outweigh that troll mod. This stuff is pure gold! As long as you commit incest with sincerity it's OK with the church