Yes, I've been making real, 100% VOIP calls on my Android device over WiFi with my GV for a while. There's a whole project dedicated to it: http://code.google.com/p/google-voice-sipsorcery-dialplans/ Personally, I use the IPKall + Sipsorcery method, but I hear signups at Sipsorcery are currently closed. I'm not sure what's available in the meantime.
That's a good point. The summary is written as if it's the Roman Catholic Church trying to keep the commoners from reading Scripture and or pamphlets by dissidents. Is Evolution, Global Warming, and whatever else really so frail as to fall over if any other theories walk in the room?
I use Perspectives out of paranoia about this sort of thing. It's easy - just install and hope it never alerts you. This is a tool activists should be aware of and employ religiously.
The cell phone industry (part of telecom) is currently in the middle of an earthquake, and it is being driven by two extremely capitalistic companies: Apple and Google. It will get even better when deregulated spectrum starts coming into play. The FCC has hindered advancement in cell communications with many of its rules, but a few regulations (like billing transparency) have been helpful. Finding the proper balance between anarchy and central planning is the key.
There are some industries that must be regulated more than others, like financial services, but most of the regulations needed are "sunshine" type laws. Information is an excellent disinfectant!
Electricity is an industry that needs more care and feeding than others, largely because of the rural problem. Nobody wants to risk many millions of dollars to bring service to the middle of nowhere. That is a job, like rural road-building, that almost certainly needs public money involved. However, there are many large markets around the country that would benefit immensely from some energy entrepreneurship.
Why not leave the current public-private companies in place, but stop barring private entities from attempting to compete with them? That way rural areas can continue to be serviced, but the booming areas can benefit from free-market innovation?
I assume you don't live in the US. Our government isn't very popular at present. Sunshine is being cautiously welcomed, although the release of military information spooks a lot of us.
Corporations don't get money just for existing and being evil. They get it from customers. Now, unless they have a monopoly, they must be doing something to attract those customers. Perhaps you are in a minority that doesn't want to be a customer?
They're going to bust you for destruction of federal property. You can argue that it was put on your car on your property, but I wouldn't expect to get very far. If a police car pulls into your driveway and parks there for 15 minutes while the cop runs down some suspect, you don't suddenly own the car.
I've never seen an officer park in a residential driveway that wasn't his. There's probably a reason behind it.
A better idea would be to remove it, give it an AC power source, and just let it sit there, in your driveway. I considered the idea of placing it on some other random (or not-so-random) vehicle, but that would lead to them doing something more sophisticated that you might not be able to detect. Simply building it a nice little permanent housing w/ power should stall them for a while.
There are some even better ideas below: call the bomb squad and news agencies on it, or give it to your lawyer.
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who dissented from this month's decision refusing to reconsider the case, pointed out whose homes are not open to strangers: rich people's. The court's ruling, he said, means that people who protect their homes with electric gates, fences and security booths have a large protected zone of privacy around their homes. People who cannot afford such barriers have to put up with the government sneaking around at night. Judge Kozinski is a leading conservative, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, but in his dissent he came across as a raging liberal. "There's been much talk about diversity on the bench, but there's one kind of diversity that doesn't exist," he wrote. "No truly poor people are appointed as federal judges, or as state judges for that matter." The judges in the majority, he charged, were guilty of "cultural elitism."
Wow, that reporter has a bit of bias there, doesn't he?
That's not the only industry this is destroying: http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/14/smallbusiness/toy_law_threatens_small_companies.smb/index.htm Old-fashioned toymakers cannot afford lead testing for handmade items. I'm nauseated by Congress making up a new something-or-other every time we have a new scare. The lead scare is over, but the costly boards are still here, doing stupid stuff like this.
I quickly take notice when people that rarely swear actually do swear, I know immediately that they are really ticked off.
Exactly. I can count the number of times I've said, "damn," out loud, and I've never used an F-bomb. The result is that if I even say, "crap," people take notice. This approach also works very well with Victorian insults. There's a quote I like:
Profanity is a feeble mind attempting to express itself in forceful terms.
I find that the cleaner your everyday language, the greater the effect you can produce when you need it. Calling someone a blithering idiot is far more effective than a common swear word that you hear every 5 minutes in public.
No, if this story is true at all, it is because of customs, not TSA-style goons. If you fly from point A to point B in the USA on your private jet, you drive your car out to the plane and take whatever you want aboard. The complication in this story is that it was international travel, meaning customs had to inspect everything for export laws. Perhaps he was required to go through general security, because, say, customs was behind the secure area or something.
Once devices are built that are able to broadcast on these frequencies it would stand to reason that staying off the frequencies when they are "occupied" will be regulated by software. How long before a hacker mods one of these to broadcast on frequencies that it should not be using?
How long before a hacker mods a cell phone transmitter to jam cell phone frequencies? How long before a hacker modifies a GPS, FM Radio, Bluetooth transmitter, or anything else to jam X frequency? Jammers are easy, cheap, and widely available. However, the world has not come to a halt yet. Hey, even my WRT54G has the ability to transmit on the wrong channels just by changing an option in the web console.
Why not not make extra babiez? I personally know a couple that requested that. The doctor thought it was unusual, but they had him do it anyway. Now their child will be born soon and they have a clean conscience.
It's a racist movement. Are there a few black people? Sure, but only a *few*. Not unexpected from a group that attracts oddballs.
So you're saying blacks are attracted to oddballs? Racist.;)
Now, the percentage of blacks in Tea Party rallies is roughly the same as in the greater population (7-11% IIRC). That means that it is a mainstream movement, not a racist one.
The continuity of the broadcasts can easily be explained as a method to thwart traffic analysis. Most of the stuff they broadcast is garbage, just to keep the traffic going. If one broadcasts only when orders are to be sent, then the enemy can deduce that something is afoot when traffic picks up. Its possible that UVB-76 may not have issued an order for years, but is being kept alive 'just in case'. If they only powered up the transmitter when they needed it, that would be a dead giveaway that sleeper agents were being activated.
It also makes it really hard for the sleeper agents to know when they're being activated.
Buy a professional-grade power conditioner. A compact Furman like this guy http://www.furmansound.com/product.php?div=02&id=AC-215A runs about $150 and does wonders for analog audio devices. There are many better ones, but even their cheapest units will kill ground loop completely.
Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Furman in any way. Just a happy customer (PL-8 Series II rackmount unit).
You can also buy a decent power conditioner. I run the sound system at my church (6+ years so it's kinda my baby), and I used to have all sorts of junk noise from the dirty AC. It was bad enough that I was stringing wires between chassis (which sorta worked). A $200 Furman PL-8 Series II made it completely silent. It's also a non-sacrificial surge suppressor, so you don't have to replace it all the time.
It's nothing to do with freedom, and everything to do with local monopolies. Get your very own state to stop granting them (thus removing regulation) and see what happens. It will be messy to have lots of wires running to your house, but to me, better service is worth avoiding more junk under the lawn.
Summary is wrong. They're after bootleg merchandise, not audience recording. Unless you found a way to charge CowboyNeal (premium MMS?) for the noise you should be fine.
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Yes, I've been making real, 100% VOIP calls on my Android device over WiFi with my GV for a while. There's a whole project dedicated to it: http://code.google.com/p/google-voice-sipsorcery-dialplans/
Personally, I use the IPKall + Sipsorcery method, but I hear signups at Sipsorcery are currently closed. I'm not sure what's available in the meantime.
No one checks to see if the cert is actually the one that the domain normally uses...
I do! Via Perspectives. I've very, very rarely had it alert me to anything, but it could be extremely useful the one time it does.
That's a good point. The summary is written as if it's the Roman Catholic Church trying to keep the commoners from reading Scripture and or pamphlets by dissidents. Is Evolution, Global Warming, and whatever else really so frail as to fall over if any other theories walk in the room?
I use Perspectives out of paranoia about this sort of thing. It's easy - just install and hope it never alerts you.
This is a tool activists should be aware of and employ religiously.
The cell phone industry (part of telecom) is currently in the middle of an earthquake, and it is being driven by two extremely capitalistic companies: Apple and Google. It will get even better when deregulated spectrum starts coming into play. The FCC has hindered advancement in cell communications with many of its rules, but a few regulations (like billing transparency) have been helpful. Finding the proper balance between anarchy and central planning is the key.
There are some industries that must be regulated more than others, like financial services, but most of the regulations needed are "sunshine" type laws. Information is an excellent disinfectant!
Electricity is an industry that needs more care and feeding than others, largely because of the rural problem. Nobody wants to risk many millions of dollars to bring service to the middle of nowhere. That is a job, like rural road-building, that almost certainly needs public money involved. However, there are many large markets around the country that would benefit immensely from some energy entrepreneurship.
Why not leave the current public-private companies in place, but stop barring private entities from attempting to compete with them? That way rural areas can continue to be serviced, but the booming areas can benefit from free-market innovation?
especially in the US that most people despise him
I assume you don't live in the US. Our government isn't very popular at present. Sunshine is being cautiously welcomed, although the release of military information spooks a lot of us.
Corporations don't get money just for existing and being evil. They get it from customers. Now, unless they have a monopoly, they must be doing something to attract those customers. Perhaps you are in a minority that doesn't want to be a customer?
But the NYT does speak far louder than other entities. It might as well be donating to the candidate when it provides them free services.
On the playground we called it cheating.
I cannot imagine how a playground analogy can be applied here. There is no playground parallel to mass media that I can think of./quote
They're going to bust you for destruction of federal property. You can argue that it was put on your car on your property, but I wouldn't expect to get very far. If a police car pulls into your driveway and parks there for 15 minutes while the cop runs down some suspect, you don't suddenly own the car.
I've never seen an officer park in a residential driveway that wasn't his. There's probably a reason behind it.
A better idea would be to remove it, give it an AC power source, and just let it sit there, in your driveway. I considered the idea of placing it on some other random (or not-so-random) vehicle, but that would lead to them doing something more sophisticated that you might not be able to detect. Simply building it a nice little permanent housing w/ power should stall them for a while.
There are some even better ideas below: call the bomb squad and news agencies on it, or give it to your lawyer.
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who dissented from this month's decision refusing to reconsider the case, pointed out whose homes are not open to strangers: rich people's. The court's ruling, he said, means that people who protect their homes with electric gates, fences and security booths have a large protected zone of privacy around their homes. People who cannot afford such barriers have to put up with the government sneaking around at night. Judge Kozinski is a leading conservative, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, but in his dissent he came across as a raging liberal. "There's been much talk about diversity on the bench, but there's one kind of diversity that doesn't exist," he wrote. "No truly poor people are appointed as federal judges, or as state judges for that matter." The judges in the majority, he charged, were guilty of "cultural elitism."
Wow, that reporter has a bit of bias there, doesn't he?
That's not the only industry this is destroying: http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/14/smallbusiness/toy_law_threatens_small_companies.smb/index.htm
Old-fashioned toymakers cannot afford lead testing for handmade items. I'm nauseated by Congress making up a new something-or-other every time we have a new scare. The lead scare is over, but the costly boards are still here, doing stupid stuff like this.
I quickly take notice when people that rarely swear actually do swear, I know immediately that they are really ticked off.
Exactly. I can count the number of times I've said, "damn," out loud, and I've never used an F-bomb. The result is that if I even say, "crap," people take notice. This approach also works very well with Victorian insults. There's a quote I like:
Profanity is a feeble mind attempting to express itself in forceful terms.
I find that the cleaner your everyday language, the greater the effect you can produce when you need it. Calling someone a blithering idiot is far more effective than a common swear word that you hear every 5 minutes in public.
No, if this story is true at all, it is because of customs, not TSA-style goons. If you fly from point A to point B in the USA on your private jet, you drive your car out to the plane and take whatever you want aboard. The complication in this story is that it was international travel, meaning customs had to inspect everything for export laws. Perhaps he was required to go through general security, because, say, customs was behind the secure area or something.
Once devices are built that are able to broadcast on these frequencies it would stand to reason that staying off the frequencies when they are "occupied" will be regulated by software. How long before a hacker mods one of these to broadcast on frequencies that it should not be using?
How long before a hacker mods a cell phone transmitter to jam cell phone frequencies? How long before a hacker modifies a GPS, FM Radio, Bluetooth transmitter, or anything else to jam X frequency? Jammers are easy, cheap, and widely available. However, the world has not come to a halt yet. Hey, even my WRT54G has the ability to transmit on the wrong channels just by changing an option in the web console.
Thank you for a civilised, open-minded opinion. I don't agree with all you said, but I appreciate your actually thinking.
Why not not make extra babiez? I personally know a couple that requested that. The doctor thought it was unusual, but they had him do it anyway. Now their child will be born soon and they have a clean conscience.
It's a racist movement. Are there a few black people? Sure, but only a *few*. Not unexpected from a group that attracts oddballs.
So you're saying blacks are attracted to oddballs? Racist. ;)
Now, the percentage of blacks in Tea Party rallies is roughly the same as in the greater population (7-11% IIRC). That means that it is a mainstream movement, not a racist one.
The continuity of the broadcasts can easily be explained as a method to thwart traffic analysis. Most of the stuff they broadcast is garbage, just to keep the traffic going. If one broadcasts only when orders are to be sent, then the enemy can deduce that something is afoot when traffic picks up. Its possible that UVB-76 may not have issued an order for years, but is being kept alive 'just in case'. If they only powered up the transmitter when they needed it, that would be a dead giveaway that sleeper agents were being activated.
It also makes it really hard for the sleeper agents to know when they're being activated.
Since when are religions defined by exactly the first two paragraphs of an online encyclopedia??
Buy a professional-grade power conditioner. A compact Furman like this guy http://www.furmansound.com/product.php?div=02&id=AC-215A runs about $150 and does wonders for analog audio devices. There are many better ones, but even their cheapest units will kill ground loop completely.
Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Furman in any way. Just a happy customer (PL-8 Series II rackmount unit).
You can also buy a decent power conditioner. I run the sound system at my church (6+ years so it's kinda my baby), and I used to have all sorts of junk noise from the dirty AC. It was bad enough that I was stringing wires between chassis (which sorta worked). A $200 Furman PL-8 Series II made it completely silent. It's also a non-sacrificial surge suppressor, so you don't have to replace it all the time.
worth avoiding more junk under the lawn
I meant that in the sense of, "more junk under the lawn that I have to avoid."
It's nothing to do with freedom, and everything to do with local monopolies. Get your very own state to stop granting them (thus removing regulation) and see what happens. It will be messy to have lots of wires running to your house, but to me, better service is worth avoiding more junk under the lawn.
Summary is wrong. They're after bootleg merchandise, not audience recording. Unless you found a way to charge CowboyNeal (premium MMS?) for the noise you should be fine.