My pleasure. We have a lot of fun with this stuff, and I'll continue to try to stretch the envelope for as long as I can. Chris and I have talked about doing an open-bitstream gate-array after this project.

There was a TAPR paper a year ago from guys who did chirp-mode radar on HF and plotted the entire surface of the earth via ionosphere skip. OK, it was low resolution, but very impressive.

Yes. SDRs have been used for NMR, CAT, and radar besides the usual communication stuff. One of the issues is whether they will turn from transmit to receive fast enough. If not, you might need two, or one of those cheap stick receivers and a converter.

Baofeng won't do all of the nice digital codecs and apps we would like you to be able to do. Indeed, it does just about what a Motorola tube taxicab radio could do in 1954. We have a lot of new stuff for you to do.

Yeah, I have a KX3 and a CrankIR. I run FreeDV on them.

It would be possible to use it in a short-range transmit mode or as a receiver without a ham license. That said, I spend several years of my life helping to get rid of the Morse Code test for radio hams, so that smart folks like you could just take technical tests to get the license. They aren't that difficult. It might be worth your time.

More recently Public Defender Arrested While Defending Client and Video Shows Defense Attorney's Arrest Inside Courthouse. Obviously the police were way out of line and charges against the Attorney were dropped. I don't know if she will pursue the officers in court.

Firefox comes with a couple of calculators built in. It has since before it was called Firefox.

:-)

In 1981, I worked in the NYIT Computer Graphics Lab as a disk operator, paid $2.15 per hour. We were creating the field of feature film computer graphics, but of course I was just a disk operator. I had never taken any computer courses, and indeed any math beyond algebra, and my bad grades got me into NYIT, which was open admissions as far as I know.

There were 8 or so other operators, mostly computer science students from C.W. Post University which was next-door to NYIT. By being admitted to Post, studying computer science, etc., they had all of the advantages.

And there was Rogue. Rogue was a text adventure program. And we had lots of terminals to run it upon.

While I was waiting for the next operator call, I read all of the documentation on Unix and C that existed in the world. There wasn't much of it back then. I started to hack Unix. I got a job as assistant systems programmer.

The other operators played Rogue.

I eventually moved on to Pixar, and various other interesting things. Perhaps those other guys have had great rewarding careers, but I don't hear much of them.

The rules say they can refuse a shipment that they believe to be illegal, and notify law enforcement, too.

Yes. The problem here is establishing when a tool is one for violating the law, and when is it just a tool. And courts can place much credence upon the creator's own explanation of the tool, which is damned incriminating, IMO.

So, what bothers me about this is the extent to which it impairs the transport of other similar tools, not this particular one.

I am no fan of firearms and would take them out of your (not cold and dead) hands if I could. That said, isn't FedEx a common carrier? There are rules for such things.

Will it all have been for nothing?

OK. People go crazy about sports. But this breathless commentary is a bit over the top.

Rents in Mountain View for a nice apartment run around $2500/mo. The cost of not having to commute can be high. But there are plenty of other places with relatively good BART access that will run significantly lower. They certainty don't run $7K/month unless you are renting a large house.

-Matt

As it happens, about three years ago I started doing an irregular series of Let's Play/Drown Out videos on YouTube with my colleage, GammaDev. Both of us are former employees of 3DO, and we covered The Deal that Never Happened in a video about two years ago (seek to 25:12).

This is a "we'll all have flying cars" sort of paper by people who could not make flying cars but were convinced that they'd be here any moment.

Strong AI is the first "computer program" that has the potential to automate the act of creativity. Everything less can be a compiler, a pattern recognizer, an Uber driver, and in general a tool that does what it is told .

And we are not particularly closer to Strong AI than when it was first theorized.

I would be more impressed with a paper by people who could actually make the software these guys theorize about, rather than sophomoricaly discussing it.