Yeah. An entire state.

This.

Joking aside, you never get involved with the clients' motivation behind wanting this sort of information. It's always 'for educational purposes only'. If someone walks in and says, "I want to take your class because ...." you just respond with, "Shut up. None of my business."

Aside from lying to, or assisting in misinforming federal officials, this guy could have been a party in a civil case. Where a client came to him to seek help in beating a polygraph used in a civil fraud case.

But its not just Congress. We have the laws in place to thow these bums in prison. What we don't have is law enforcement and prosecutors wiling to make a case.

We need to bring charges against the DoJ for turning a blind eye toward these sorts of activities and maybe throw a few of these people in their own prisons for refusing to uphold the Constitution and the law of the land. Perhaps then we'd get some movement on thes issues. But we have to ask permission from the government to bring charges against it. And we know what that answer will be ahead of time.

And they are going to need them if we expect them to drive cars for us. Three legs, in fact. Because my car is a stick shift.

In Slashdot beta, nobody can hear you scream.

Actually, they should stop their money wasting, useless projects. One of them that I live near, is a $170 million dollar waste of money on I-405, north of Kirkland, WA. The majority of the money is being spent on a "fly-over" ramp to mitigate a problem that could have been fixed with better signage on the freeway.

Northbound on I-405, there is a hill, resulting in a blind intersection. The signs indicating correct lanes for through traffic and off-ramps appear 200-300 feet before the ramps, after the crest of the hill. The result: Mad panic as drivers attempt to weave across several lanes of traffic. The proper solution (which was never even tried): Put up a fscking sign half a mile or so BEFORE the hill to get drivers into the correct lanes. The cost of that would probably be less than a million dollars, even with the exorbitant pay.

He screwed up.

Lesson #1, Question #1: "Are you guys cops?"

I'm assuming that most GSM modems have their own RAM for their baseband processor to access. And the parts of that memory (and processor registers) critical to proper (legal) RF operation are secured from modification over the serial link. Given a fast enough link, TX.RX data can be transferred between the baseband and application procesors without risking one poking around in the memory space of the other. Yes, there would be some performance hit. But the upside would be security (keeping the network operator and the NSA out of application memory space).

Before Sound Transit's final go-ahead vote in 1996, there was another proposal which included Snohomish County. Sound Transit planners said they only wanted to go as far as a park-and-ride in south Everett, somewhere along Highway 99. The city of Everett wanted the line extended to the Boeing plant and downtown Everett. But when ST nixed that idea, the Snohomish County voters turned it down. It was widely viewed by them as a rail system intended to feed people out of the suburbs and into downtown Seattle. Screw everyone else.

Nothing useful? The Seattle city fathers' propaganda is powerful. BNRR parallels I-405, which is overloaded. People must be going someplace they consider useful.

Some years ago, there was a website (its gone now) that showed the ownership of operating and abandoned railroad rights-of-way. I was surprised to see how much of the abandoned system Sound Transit was buying up (with tax dollars intended for transit) and then tearing out and quit-claiming to other groups. Strange behavior for a group charged with building transportation systems.

Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to entertain a bunch of meatbags. Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I don't. [Sigh]

Huey, Dewey and Louie.

Not just the wires. But the core physically changes shape due to magnetostriction. The only was to reduce this is by careful selection of the inductor magnetic material and/or reducing the flux density in the core.

Now they can lose two satellites at once when their surplus Russian rocket engine blows up.

Seattle light rail. Back in the planning stages, a route was proposed that would take it near the Southcenter mall area with a stop there. The downtown Seattle business interests practically shit themselves, as one of the purposes of the rail system was to bring shoppers into the downtown shopping area. Not to feed other business/shopping areas. So they moved the route to the other side of I-5, missing Southcenter and making transit connections to that area inconvenient.

Earlier in its planning stages, the light rail system was to be funded by several counties. But the design in Snohomish county (Everett and the big Boeing plant) was to stop the rail line at a park-and-ride south of Everett. When that city proposed extending the line nearer the Boeing plant and into downtown Everett, Seattle business/real estate interests shit themselves and stopped it. The rail line's only purpose is to feed downtown Seattle. Everyone else can go fuck themselves.

The same thing is happening with the rail link to the east side (Bellevue). The east end is going to be land-locked in such a way as to make it only practical to commute into Seattle. Not the other way around. To top that off, the transit planners had the opportunity to pick up an abandoned BNRR right of way for a north-south link on the eastside (Southcenter, Renton/Boeing, Bellevue, Redmond/Microsoft). But they actively chopped it up, abandoned sections of it and turned other parts over for use as a bicycle trail. Because transit money is only supposed to feed downtown Seattle businesses. Nothing else.

Wouldn't that just be a GSM modem? Instead of giving a baseband processor direct access to a phone's memory and storage, these are controlled over a serial link using an enhanced AT command set. That gives a decent level of isolation between the RF processor and phone logic so as to prevent a network operator from poking around in the phone's OS. It is also reasonably well documented and, although it still might be possible for a malicious operator to monkey around in the modem's RF system, the phone OS as a separate system can't be fooled as easily.

There have been a few DIY cellphone projects built around modem/processor combinations. Although much less cpable than a late model iPhone or Andriod, they could implement some security not available to proprietary RF platfoms.