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My kingdom for a mod point! Mod parent up please.

For Iran to do what you propose would require that they had a large workforce of highly skilled IT people who are both willing to work for the Iranian government and considered trustworthy by the Iranian government. Iran is not exactly known for its leading edge science and technology. The article itself states that IT in Iran is abyssmal. They may be well advised to try to do as you say, but they probably can't.

It's not totally the fault of the editors. It's also the fault of the readers who come back to Slashdot expecting the editors to start reading articles when they have clearly demonstrated that they do not plan to.

15 days after initial telecast doesn't seem that "quickly" to me when they're competing against the Scene which releases new episodes within a few hours of initial telecast -- sometimes even 15 minutes after. If they're asking for money they better think about same day releases.

I served on a jury in Wake County (NC) and my experience was the opposite. To a person all 14 of us were college educated and about half the jurors had higher than college level education. The only people who were excused were people with ties to law enforcement and people who had been on the receiving end of law enforcement in the past.

I use TED. It's right around your price range. It monitors whole-house power usage in real time and has a USB-Serial interface which you can easily suck data out of with Python script. I personally do all the data logging on a Linux box and export it through a web interface.

Don't weather balloons already meet this criteria? They can reach 60000 ft and stay there for extended periods (not sure about 5 years). How much do you want to bet that Boeing is just going to build a $89 million balloon with a solar panel on it?

They can take advantage of multiple antennas, directional antenntas, or both to lock onto the interference sources as well as the intended signal and use DSP to subtract out the noise and recover the original signal. Others have posted about how cellphones can take advantage of multipath interference to actually improve the received signal rather than degrade it. As long as the enemy is using a small number of stationary or slow-moving transmitters for their interference, you can locate them all and use DSP to remove the noise, OR if you can arrange for your signal to arrive from a different direction than the enemy's jamming just use a directional antenna. It would get more difficult if the enemy had hundreds of jamming transmitters moving around and covering your receiver from all directions. In the case of jamming a drone, your enemy would need either space-based jammers or airborne jammers to cover you from above. Space based jammers are impractical though (because of the distance) and airborne jammers are laughably easy to shoot down. It seems to me that the simple solution is to deliver your signals from above (satellites), use a directional antenna to ignore noise coming up from the ground, and then shoot anything out of the sky that makes noise which interferes with your signal.

Peruse means something different than what you think it means.

Adobe -- UR DOIN IT RONG! (Insert picture of adorable cat here)

I clicked on the last option because I thought it was NRA (misread it). Even though I agree with their politics the membership is just a marketing scheme to try to sell you stuff.

Or maybe netbook sales are cratering because instead of delivering quality models with high performance and low power packed into a lightweight enclosure, companies like Dell have axed all but the most profitable models, and replaced SSDs with magnetic disks and raised prices to the maximum they can squeeze out of customers. Netbook selection is terrible now compared to what it was a year ago. Last year there were many models and there was a price war, now there are a few models and they're just crappy low-end notebooks.

State employees have one of the most powerful unions there is. This is the thin end of the wedge to destroy it. Whether you are happy about this or not depends on how you feel about unions. I, for one, welcome this as a step forward for government employment.

I can understand concerns about privacy when it comes to web browsing, but I don't get the fear about TV watching being tracked. I can't count the number of good TV shows that have been canceled because of bad ratings. Before Tivo existed, every time one of the shows I liked was canceled I wished that the TV network was tracking MY viewing habits instead of the unwashed masses who appear to like reality TV. Ever since I've had Tivo I always record all the shows I like and I'm happy that Tivo is collecting that information. Sometimes I even record and play back reruns (with the TV off) to positively affect the data for the shows I like.