NO FUCKING EXCUSES! This is a major hub, the entire airport is a critical goddamn circuit, and don't give me the load of bullshit about the amount of power either when this same country has a CITY with a UPS! That's right, Fairbanks, Alaska has enough battery power to run the city until the emergency plant can come on if the line to Anchorage fails Atlanta airport is nothing.

By default the account "root" is disabled, however, if you use this exploit, you enable the root account with no password. The workaround is literally enabling the account and setting the password. I almost freaked out when I found this exploit.

Now we just need a cluster of the clusters in the name of Science.

If they don't recommend photo ID for voters the whole thing is worthless. There is voter fraud on both sides of the political spectrum and the arguments against voter ID are actually quite racist.

This kind of attack was easy for an advanced electronics experimenter to pull off. All that needed done was to overpower the studio's signal on the studio to transmitter link with the appropriate signal and you were in. Most of the information was provided by the sign off program as the studio to transmitter link station identification occurred during this time and the frequency was provided. This was basically a terrestrial version of the HBO attacks.

What is needed is a 50kW regional channel broadcast with directional antenna (one end of the island point to the other). This should be more than sufficient to cover the island.

In theory it MAY be possible depending on what is causing the limitation. I know a lot of old (and to me iconic) models were able to upgrade one last time due to a software faking the existence of a "required" component. It was a way to allow the old Clamshell iBooks (and likely other models) to upgrade from 10.3 to 10.4. I'm sure Apple is a bit smarter than that now.

This sounds exactly like the kind of equipment you would want overhead in a major combat operation. Both visual and communications intelligence along with the means to detect missiles and possibly defend itself are all capabilities you want during major combat operations.

Why have a drill over a major American City if they aren't trying to spy on Americans? Major cities have a large quantity of communications systems all over the spectrum. Police, Fire, Ambulance, Taxi, and even Amateur radio operate in the ranges of interest. They will be able to receive both local and distant broadcast stations that will change based on position and atmospheric conditions. This is simply an exercise in how to operate the equipment to find and decode various communications. Add a ground component with training signals intentionally generated by the military and this becomes more realistic.

As for privacy concerns, this is very valid and you should remember that no telecommunications network can be completely secure. It is also important to note that any communications intercepts of civilian communications will be concerned with capabilities, not content.

Portable kerosene (lighter #1 fuel) space heaters do put off an odor due to the unvented nature. On the other hand oil fired furnaces, boilers, and water heaters (which can burn kerosene or #2 fuels such as diesel or #2 heating oil) can be surprisingly efficient and vent their exhaust to the outside of the building usually up via a chimney (except for maybe high efficiency units which may vent closer to ground level).

Replying to undo erroneous mod.

I would be more concerned with Jitter, Depending on the pricing of service and if it was portable I may consider a terminal for various portable applications and VoIP is one application that is practically a must have.

Don't laugh, but that's actually how the sirens in my county are activated. Each fire station's siren has a tone pair along with an all siren tone pair and a cancel tone pair for the all call tone. For an auto accident you usually get (not sure of the order) Siren Tones, Fire Pager Tones, EMS Pager tones, and a human decoded auto accident tone. This is simulcast from two sites on the main frequency (not sure if the other UHF system is still active) and the audio is carried on the digital P25 dispatch talk group.

Oh and we don't use what the people in the business call VHF (15X to 16X MHz range) we use Low Band (3X and 4X MHz Range).

Manufacturing in India doesn't mean they can't use the Chinese factories for Asian Market or to build a US factory for the North American market.

If you have international roaming enabled you will get a charge of $10 per device per day (versus the standard international charges). If you have international roaming disabled (most phones only allow data roaming to be disabled), it will not connect to the other country's base station.

If you go over your cap, the overage rate you pay will be the same as if you incurred the overage in the US.