Based on just this discrepancy between the BBC and the CBC articles,/. might be a bit careful on it's reporting right now...
Everyone's getting excited over the nuclear plants, and ignoring the thousands that are still are dying due to just water. Why is radiation so much scarier? Water kills faster./rant.
Oh. Okay. So this project I'm on to network the county with a self-healing mesh of wireless nodes running 802.11 and OLRP and ipv4 and ipv6 at 54Mbps on amateur radio frequencies is old tech.
Seems to me you have to try pretty hard to laser an airplane cockpit from the ground.
You have to realize that even though lasers don't diverge (expand) much as they travel, they do.
So what starts out as a small circle of light at 3 feet ends up -3000 feet later- being maybe a 30 foot circle of light.
At that range it's hard to *miss* aircraft.
Is it me, or does the media just assume that everyone just has an 8th grade education?
That's nice it transmits on "TV Frequencies 14 and up"...gimmie the good stuff, man, how does it *really* work. Quadrature PSK modulation? Multi-channel? Compression? Gain budgets?
No im not asking too much, I'll bet most/.'ers feel the same way.
I.E. keeping you from graduating from High School, getting that date (getting A date), actually finishing those genius late night projects, sleeping at night, following and holding conversations, I could go on...
Noncompliance is one of the biggest isues with mood disorders [see merck's entry on the subject], which means you take the drugs, then you think you're okay, so you don't take the drugs anymore or anyone's suggestions.
Sure I feel like a genius and am hyper-productive when I'm affected by mood-disorder diseases, but can I actually function...do I actually have a life and friends?
I welcome any new research into getting myself back into mainstream. My intelligence is not affected, just my hyperactivity.
The Australian telescope is more powerful, with a wider view of the sky
Okay, picky picky this one, but I think you mean more sensitive. We're not blasting the aliens with Ricky Martin (maybe they didn't like that, hence the move), we're listening here.
Bigger dishes and arrays have the advantage of higher signal gain and different far field patterns (listening area shapes).
You gotta have more gain to overcome loss of signal due to air, noisy equipment, and the like.
You don't get many choices on moving a dish the size of a small town really, so you gotta move.
I go through international borders all the time (it's part of my job) and last week I realized I'm ALWAYS nervous at the checkpoints. Who isn't now? It's downright intimidating nowadays to travel.
It's not that I'm doing anything wrong, I just don't like to hang out with guys with very large guns and more power over me than my own government does.
I let the search me and everything, answer all their questions, but it is a bit intimidating. It also doesn't help when you look arab too.
If they went though with that, they'd have to pull over half the people that go through, heartrates and all.
"Don't be nervous while we aim weapons at you and read your innermost thoughts. Really, it's okay..relax!"
I know I'm opening some deep wounds in the radio community, BUT,
What about the other users of this spectrum?
Sure people can share radio spectrum between themselves, but there's a big difference between a phone sharing with a microwave sharing with a camera, and a world-wide rollout of a million lil radios sharing with a few private weak-signal radio users.
Yea, it's nice they at least move if they find interference, but what about the "hidden transmitter" effect? (I hear him, he don't hear me.) If I'm listening to an amateur radio satellite, and our new friends start up, would I have to move my antenna away (to keep from overloading the sat), key the transmitter, then move the ant back?
What if I can't send out on the signal cuz it's a listening-only frequency?
Last summer, I was in a small town in Thailand, and I was using Ipass. Sitting in my hotel room, batting mosquitoes, and suffering through a monsoon squall, I successfully repaired the mail server back at work stateside before the beginning of the work day there. I've found Ipass will have dialins when there are no other ISP's available..including aol and friends. I've used Ipass from all over the world in both rual and metro areas, and I've been much pleased with it. It works on linux fine, as it's a normal PPP connection. Just use Pusername@isp.com and set up a login script (which is usually standardized anyways) Everything else is as normal. Look at Ipass.com for more info. Dan
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I'd second that.
If you're hungry and worried about the rent, then make that your priority instead of worrying about being happy.
It's called Maslow's Hierarchy, and I've seen techie people make that same mistake time after time.
Take care of the tummy first. Don't lose your house. In your spare time, look for the happiness, either by training and/or job searching.
Great!
Now we have a database of thousands of people's daily habits, combined with their addresses and age.
We can query it to find out the best time to air TV shows.
Or use it to find out the best time to break in and steal the TV.
I'm kidding. I'm sure they'll keep the data safe, just like Apple does.
His position got nuked.
Alamaray!
one two three;
Alamaray!
if you can see,
Alamaray!
then come with me.
Was out and about sunday night.
And I was geek enough to have noted the az/elevation at the time.
Azmith was 325 to 350 or so, and Elevation was 50 deg down to about 30 degrees.
It was losing rather large chunks midway through it's burn..very much not like your normal meteorite.
There's a lot of misinformation flying around.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12721498 [bbc.co.uk] (watch the movie)
Steam was released on purpose.
Based on just this discrepancy between the BBC and the CBC articles, /. might be a bit careful on it's reporting right now...
Everyone's getting excited over the nuclear plants, and ignoring the thousands that are still are dying due to just water. Why is radiation so much scarier? Water kills faster. /rant.
Oh. Okay. So this project I'm on to network the county with a self-healing mesh of wireless nodes running 802.11 and OLRP and ipv4 and ipv6 at 54Mbps on amateur radio frequencies is old tech.
I'll go home now. We're old school.
The sun is nearing a 11 year low on a 22 year activity cycle. It has nothing to do with "magnetism" in that regard.
You have to realize that even though lasers don't diverge (expand) much as they travel, they do.
So what starts out as a small circle of light at 3 feet ends up -3000 feet later- being maybe a 30 foot circle of light. At that range it's hard to *miss* aircraft.
I think it would have been valuable to have the design put out in public (or at least out to the science community) for review.
I'm geeky enough to check sensors for correct orientation, and motivated enough to do it for free.
-Dan
Why do we have to point fingers at each other after a major failure?
Mostly it's systems that are poorly planned and fail and not people. Fix the problem.
Pointing fingers makes people defensive in the long run, and raises the probablily of it all happening again.
Is it me, or does the media just assume that everyone just has an 8th grade education?
/.'ers feel the same way.
That's nice it transmits on "TV Frequencies 14 and up"...gimmie the good stuff, man, how does it *really* work. Quadrature PSK modulation? Multi-channel? Compression? Gain budgets?
No im not asking too much, I'll bet most
Thank you
-Dan N7NMD
It keeps you from being normal .
I.E. keeping you from graduating from High School, getting that date (getting A date), actually finishing those genius late night projects, sleeping at night, following and holding conversations, I could go on...
Noncompliance is one of the biggest isues with mood disorders [see merck's entry on the subject], which means you take the drugs, then you think you're okay, so you don't take the drugs anymore or anyone's suggestions.
Sure I feel like a genius and am hyper-productive when I'm affected by mood-disorder diseases, but can I actually function...do I actually have a life and friends?
I welcome any new research into getting myself back into mainstream. My intelligence is not affected, just my hyperactivity.
-Dan
Heh. That'd be funny, except it's true.
The site's account just got suspended a few minutes ago.
THATS gotta be embarrasing. Slashdot popularity costs money.
Okay, picky picky this one, but I think you mean more sensitive. We're not blasting the aliens with Ricky Martin (maybe they didn't like that, hence the move), we're listening here.
Bigger dishes and arrays have the advantage of higher signal gain and different far field patterns (listening area shapes).
You gotta have more gain to overcome loss of signal due to air, noisy equipment, and the like. You don't get many choices on moving a dish the size of a small town really, so you gotta move.
Dan N7NMD/9W2DU
That article seems to cover usage of open-source software being used by a structured team.
/. audience has always pulled for is open-structure teams, i.e. a thousand geeks looking at code and output to find flaws.
I think the
I know I for one am geeky enough to sit and stare for hours at sat telemetry and uplink commands for weird anomolies...nothing more exciting.
Amateur radio sats have been leaning that way, I hope someone gets around to it.
-Dan N7NMD/9W2DU
I go through international borders all the time (it's part of my job) and last week I realized I'm ALWAYS nervous at the checkpoints. Who isn't now? It's downright intimidating nowadays to travel.
It's not that I'm doing anything wrong, I just don't like to hang out with guys with very large guns and more power over me than my own government does.
I let the search me and everything, answer all their questions, but it is a bit intimidating. It also doesn't help when you look arab too.
If they went though with that, they'd have to pull over half the people that go through, heartrates and all.
"Don't be nervous while we aim weapons at you and read your innermost thoughts. Really, it's okay..relax!"
-Net
I know I'm opening some deep wounds in the radio community, BUT,
What about the other users of this spectrum?
Sure people can share radio spectrum between themselves, but there's a big difference between a phone sharing with a microwave sharing with a camera, and a world-wide rollout of a million lil radios sharing with a few private weak-signal radio users.
Yea, it's nice they at least move if they find interference, but what about the "hidden transmitter" effect? (I hear him, he don't hear me.) If I'm listening to an amateur radio satellite, and our new friends start up, would I have to move my antenna away (to keep from overloading the sat), key the transmitter, then move the ant back?
What if I can't send out on the signal cuz it's a listening-only frequency?
Awe heck, it'll work itself out anyways.
Sigh.
-Dan
Korean Air Missile Crisis Moved on Linus.
I guess I should get some sleep...
-Dan
Too lazy to find a cute sig. Deal with it.
Last summer, I was in a small town in Thailand, and I was using Ipass. Sitting in my hotel room, batting mosquitoes, and suffering through a monsoon squall, I successfully repaired the mail server back at work stateside before the beginning of the work day there. I've found Ipass will have dialins when there are no other ISP's available..including aol and friends. I've used Ipass from all over the world in both rual and metro areas, and I've been much pleased with it. It works on linux fine, as it's a normal PPP connection. Just use Pusername@isp.com and set up a login script (which is usually standardized anyways) Everything else is as normal. Look at Ipass.com for more info. Dan