it's actually a very messy situation - airports (certified aerodromes) are federal government objects
Sorta. Many are Federal properties, but not all. In particular, they accept Federal "management" when they accept money from the FAA.
Chicago tried, digging up the runways at Meigs Field, but was fined millions for contract violation (the FAA makes agreements for airport funding and improvements, provided the land stays as an airport for X years, usually 25+)
In Chicago's case, when you accept Federal (FAA) money for an airport, you better use it on that airport or suffer the consequences. Frankly, I don't think Chicago paid a high enough fine. I believe KSMO's problems stem from similar matters. I'm surprised they haven't tried the Mayor Daly approach to airport management.
My public transit is cheap and I can quickly and easily walk to about three bus stops within a block or two of my house. The problem: my one-way commute is 15 minutes by car, it would be 65 by bus. That, in itself isn't the dealbreaker. I very often have to be at work before the first bus is even running and occasionally I come home after the last bus has run. If we could run an express from a stop near me to a stop near work that operates before and after the regular routes, I'd use public transit significantly more.
#1, #2 are mere nuisances compared to #3. Administrative interference caused my wife to quit early in her career. The only thing keeping my mother in teaching is that she's close to retirement.
#4 is evil and the roots are deep. Increasingly, teachers are incapable of teaching (either by training or policy).
I'd rather just discuss these things with my kids. Way easier to give them the tools to make the right decisions on their own than to hide my kids under a rock, deep in a cave.
Having spent many hours flying in your region, I can tell you the commercial aviators are talking to someone that is looking at a RADAR screen. Transponders are in heavy use, and someone is INSIDE the aircraft looking OUTSIDE. Drones have extremely limited field of view, and no identification system to allow for inclusion in the air traffic system.
Can't say much about the private flyers other than, I really wish they would take advantage of the ATC system more.
Maybe as ADS-B gets less expensive, that'd be the way to go. However, at present, ADS-B pricing is utterly ludicrous for hobby. As it is, the ATCRBS is antiquated and cumbersome for drone use.
I know of one state that specifically regulates R/C, rockets, and kites within the vicinity of an airport. I don't see why the FAA couldn't address the issue and make a uniform rule across the country.
On a tangent: I have hit birds, had more RAs than I care to count (thank my lucky stars for TCAS), and just a few months ago, as I was coming down final for 34L at VNY, I had to maneuver to avoid a kite being flown within the final approach corridor. Every one of those involved me reporting it to ATC and filling out any requisite paperwork and/or being interviewed by ATC personnel after-the-fact.
And a final story, somewhere over Georgia a couple years ago, talking to Atlanta Center, there was a Lufthansa flight descending through the clouds that queried Center about a weather balloon flying at altitude. Center was not aware of the presence of the balloon and the Lufthansa pilot, expressing his concern (in a heavy German accent) says, "That was FUCKING CLOSE!" The particularly bad thing about a balloon is that one cannot see if a cable extends beneath it or not until it's too late. If it's not charted or not NOTAM'd, it's extremely dangerous.
People do stupid things. Unfortunately, we are in a world where stupidity has to be regulated.
State Codes may limit/restrict use of kites/drones/models/rockets/etc. (Michigan comes to mind), but you are correct, the FAA has published no limitations on such devices. Yet.
Doom, that's awesome. That's pretty much when I started getting bored with games and the race for frame rates.
That was a fun game, though. Flight sims were more my thing. I enjoyed the heck out of F-19 Stealth Fighter (yeah, C64) and FPS:Football. Wish I could find a working copy of the latter. Also, been looking for a flight sim I had purchased, but never got to install (would like to see what I missed) as hardware evolved too rapidly and backward compatibility was super sketchy at that time. Wish I could remember the name of that sim.
I'd get one if it could do all of these things: 1) Tell time in at least three time zones at one glance (local, UTC, home) 2) Must be solar powered (those kinetic watches are crazy pricey) -- My last trip to a jeweler for a battery change was wasted with a 45 minute sales pitch for Melaleuca. No thank you! 3) Must NOT be crazy pricey (I'd rather spend $100 for a GOOD watch) 4) Must, absolutely must be light and comfortable (ideally of a size that would be considered large for a ladies' watch, yet smallish for a mens' watch)
I'd be flexible on these: 1) Be able to tell the time of sunset, sunrise, civil twilight, and anything else interesting as far as sunset/sunrise is concerned, but must be able to give LOCAL times without me resetting the location manually each time. 2) Exercise tracking ability (obviously GPS/calculator/etc/) 3) USB/Bluetooth/IR connectivity
Things I really DO NOT need: 1) An E-6B built-in to the face. 2) Fancy/flashy face and/or band
You stole my thunder, I was going to say that there are devices that can do that now without sucking down 200W. And, they don't really cost a bundle either. Especially if one digs around on eBay.
A thousand monkeys standing around a box of parts would "accidentally" build a computer long before I figure it out. I'm impressed by what this guy did.
$35 (1968) is roughly equivalent to $73.80 to $107.00 (1980) using various indices
or, going the other way:
$850 (1980) is roughly equivalent to $277 to $403 (1968).
The value of gold was not allowed to inflate for several years (fixed at $35/oz. in 1934). John Seabrook wrote an article in 1989, Invisible Gold that briefly touched on the value of gold from the Gold Standard through the 1980s.
The post I replied to suggests stopping at the first collision. Perhaps the question was poorly worded. I would like to know how many collisions occur for a given hash. Could this be calculated without a brute-force attempt or is that the only way?
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it's actually a very messy situation - airports (certified aerodromes) are federal government objects
Sorta. Many are Federal properties, but not all. In particular, they accept Federal "management" when they accept money from the FAA.
Chicago tried, digging up the runways at Meigs Field, but was fined millions for contract violation (the FAA makes agreements for airport funding and improvements, provided the land stays as an airport for X years, usually 25+)
In Chicago's case, when you accept Federal (FAA) money for an airport, you better use it on that airport or suffer the consequences. Frankly, I don't think Chicago paid a high enough fine. I believe KSMO's problems stem from similar matters. I'm surprised they haven't tried the Mayor Daly approach to airport management.
I know, right? Tech. is pretty stagnant.
You're at an amazing dual production of HMS Pinafore.
Why constantly fix a car that barely works?
I'm still running Debian, CentOS, and PC-BSD, but I can understand the frustration.
And East Germany was Democratic, too.
The Private is more dispensable than the Colonel.
My public transit is cheap and I can quickly and easily walk to about three bus stops within a block or two of my house. The problem: my one-way commute is 15 minutes by car, it would be 65 by bus. That, in itself isn't the dealbreaker. I very often have to be at work before the first bus is even running and occasionally I come home after the last bus has run. If we could run an express from a stop near me to a stop near work that operates before and after the regular routes, I'd use public transit significantly more.
#1, #2 are mere nuisances compared to #3. Administrative interference caused my wife to quit early in her career. The only thing keeping my mother in teaching is that she's close to retirement.
#4 is evil and the roots are deep. Increasingly, teachers are incapable of teaching (either by training or policy).
I'd rather just discuss these things with my kids. Way easier to give them the tools to make the right decisions on their own than to hide my kids under a rock, deep in a cave.
Having spent many hours flying in your region, I can tell you the commercial aviators are talking to someone that is looking at a RADAR screen. Transponders are in heavy use, and someone is INSIDE the aircraft looking OUTSIDE. Drones have extremely limited field of view, and no identification system to allow for inclusion in the air traffic system.
Can't say much about the private flyers other than, I really wish they would take advantage of the ATC system more.
Maybe as ADS-B gets less expensive, that'd be the way to go. However, at present, ADS-B pricing is utterly ludicrous for hobby. As it is, the ATCRBS is antiquated and cumbersome for drone use.
I know of one state that specifically regulates R/C, rockets, and kites within the vicinity of an airport. I don't see why the FAA couldn't address the issue and make a uniform rule across the country.
On a tangent: I have hit birds, had more RAs than I care to count (thank my lucky stars for TCAS), and just a few months ago, as I was coming down final for 34L at VNY, I had to maneuver to avoid a kite being flown within the final approach corridor. Every one of those involved me reporting it to ATC and filling out any requisite paperwork and/or being interviewed by ATC personnel after-the-fact.
And a final story, somewhere over Georgia a couple years ago, talking to Atlanta Center, there was a Lufthansa flight descending through the clouds that queried Center about a weather balloon flying at altitude. Center was not aware of the presence of the balloon and the Lufthansa pilot, expressing his concern (in a heavy German accent) says, "That was FUCKING CLOSE!" The particularly bad thing about a balloon is that one cannot see if a cable extends beneath it or not until it's too late. If it's not charted or not NOTAM'd, it's extremely dangerous.
People do stupid things. Unfortunately, we are in a world where stupidity has to be regulated.
Hmm. For work I spend the majority of my time at an approximate cabin altitude of 5,000 to 7,000 feet. I guess my data won't be very meaningful.
State Codes may limit/restrict use of kites/drones/models/rockets/etc. (Michigan comes to mind), but you are correct, the FAA has published no limitations on such devices. Yet.
Doom, that's awesome. That's pretty much when I started getting bored with games and the race for frame rates.
That was a fun game, though. Flight sims were more my thing. I enjoyed the heck out of F-19 Stealth Fighter (yeah, C64) and FPS:Football. Wish I could find a working copy of the latter. Also, been looking for a flight sim I had purchased, but never got to install (would like to see what I missed) as hardware evolved too rapidly and backward compatibility was super sketchy at that time. Wish I could remember the name of that sim.
I'd get one if it could do all of these things:
1) Tell time in at least three time zones at one glance (local, UTC, home)
2) Must be solar powered (those kinetic watches are crazy pricey) -- My last trip to a jeweler for a battery change was wasted with a 45 minute sales pitch for Melaleuca. No thank you!
3) Must NOT be crazy pricey (I'd rather spend $100 for a GOOD watch)
4) Must, absolutely must be light and comfortable (ideally of a size that would be considered large for a ladies' watch, yet smallish for a mens' watch)
I'd be flexible on these:
1) Be able to tell the time of sunset, sunrise, civil twilight, and anything else interesting as far as sunset/sunrise is concerned, but must be able to give LOCAL times without me resetting the location manually each time.
2) Exercise tracking ability (obviously GPS/calculator/etc/)
3) USB/Bluetooth/IR connectivity
Things I really DO NOT need:
1) An E-6B built-in to the face.
2) Fancy/flashy face and/or band
You stole my thunder, I was going to say that there are devices that can do that now without sucking down 200W. And, they don't really cost a bundle either. Especially if one digs around on eBay.
I've seen planes that use floppies, Zip, and now, my current ride uses an Ethernet connection between a laptop and the file server.
You're post makes me wistful for IUMA again. Anyone know of something similar these days?
I have a feeling the FBI would not actively discourage this, particularly when a honeypot is so tasty.
<sigh> Parent is the real one.
I'm on a tiny screen (1024 wide) and had to scroll side-to-side to read the article.
Great content, but wish I had a bigger screen.
A thousand monkeys standing around a box of parts would "accidentally" build a computer long before I figure it out. I'm impressed by what this guy did.
$35 (1968) is roughly equivalent to $73.80 to $107.00 (1980) using various indices
or, going the other way:
$850 (1980) is roughly equivalent to $277 to $403 (1968).
The value of gold was not allowed to inflate for several years (fixed at $35/oz. in 1934). John Seabrook wrote an article in 1989, Invisible Gold that briefly touched on the value of gold from the Gold Standard through the 1980s.
The post I replied to suggests stopping at the first collision. Perhaps the question was poorly worded. I would like to know how many collisions occur for a given hash. Could this be calculated without a brute-force attempt or is that the only way?
What fascinates me about this scenario is how many collisions can be found during this brute-force process?