Like a friend of mine says about his Google glass, The best feature is that now he can take all the pictures of boobs and asses he wants and no one is the wiser.

I'm curious, could he be sued by someone who flashed him and he glass-posted it to the Internet? Where is the line drawn?

Wish it was just that.

Page source = 128KB.
ctrl+a, ctrl+c, ctrl+v of page yields 16KB.

Is that other 112KB of CSS really necessary?

It depends on how the antennas are aimed. They are directional after all. For example, you talk about an "old school" microwave long distance relay -- how likely is it that this will be aimed at you, the ground, etc. It is aimed, as tightly as possible, at the next relay tower.

To the direct south of me, just five houses away, I've measured levels of 24,000 microwatts per meter squared (on the sidewalk) -- one-third of the reading directly in front of a working microwave oven. Move ten feet (or one foot) over and it is "just" 2,000 or 4,000. Outside my home it is 700 and the one time I took readings north of me I gave up after a house or two -- they were in the 100 range. And yes I have an "antenna farm" just a hundred yards away, with dozens of antennas spread over an enormous retirement center roof. By the way, at the base of all that, the front door measurements at the center are just 100 to 300.

It is about are you line-of-sight, and where are the antennas aimed.

My video on the subject.

Agreed.

One question I have: How do we know Snowden said any of what is being reported in this story?

Here is some new physics. Feel free to critique it.

And you evidently never worked at an analog exchange. Start your education process with a search on "stepper motors". Cliff notes: once you have a route through the exchange, you get your ring and nothing else. And it keeps ringing.

In thinking of an analogy to the old stepper system, I would say completing a call through an analog exchange would be like getting all your lemming sacrifices in place before unleashing the rest of the horde (the ringing current) through the path (connection). A busy signal would be a stationary lemming blocking your path, or using up all your specific-function lemmings before completing the pathway. Only cure in Lemmings is a level retry. Same for old analog system -- waiting out a busy signal in the old days was completely futile, by the way.

In this case, the Target-leased/owned equipment is picking up the call, realizing they don't have anyone available to handle it, and then dropping the call internally by faking a busy signal.

By picking up the call, I imagine, they can claim responsiveness. In reality they are totally swamped and unresponsiveness, at least when I called earlier today.

My red card goes to nowhere (i.e. It is their credit card version). So unless the thieves shop at my store and fake my signature, I imagine I'm ok.

I just tried to call Target and got some amusing results. Predictable busy signal on first three tries. Then, for variety, the phone rang two or three times, then dropped into a busy signal. This would not have even been possible in the old analog phone system -- we have progressed indeed. Able to reproduce the ring-becomes-busy on my next few tries.

Oh well, back to The Best of Bill Hicks.

He found them at the corner of Smith & Wesson.

Not if everyone shops at Dollar Tree!

You forgot ductility. Combining this with its nobility and you have the best gilding material -- for spaceships as well as palaces.

Also, its conductivity. Though bested by silver & copper, these both tarnish.

It's a shame that we probably won't get good details about what happened.

Right. And considering Target has a rather unique "red card" of their own, I would at least like to know if THIS was also compromised during the most recent hack. Seems more secure, mainly because it is less portable to other stores.

The recordings were of poor quality

So sharing them will net you double the financial penalty. Sneaky, very sneaky.

You sound like you are bi-polar/M.D. Not trying to troll or argue or anything.

I know several M.D. -- all high I.Q. When you talk about a new project, that is the mania side of your nature showing. When you say a cycle of brain chemical addiction, that is very much M.D. -- with sufferers typically addicted to the manic side. Many M.D. do not want to take Lithium (or the worse drugs like Depakote...strongly not recommended) because then they don't get their high any more. And in general they don't think they are M.D....

I blame that on focusing so hard on my hobbies that I can't really talk about much else. Both of the M.D. I am thinking of have their hobbies (that others call their addictions) and that is about it.

On the other hand, having cared for ADHD types, there is no sign of them having any hobbies. They can't eat, chew gum and read without trying to do all three at the same time. They sure as heck aren't getting high I.Q. results on tests.

Anyway, just some food for thought, my friend.

When I was a kid I had to go to Sunday school. There I was the worst fidget in the history of fidgets. Around age 10 or 12, I don't remember exactly, I was allowed to opt out. Went hand logging with my father instead. I was cured!

Maybe half of ADHD is just the mind-numbing boredom of school, when compared to today's video games/YouTubes/athletics/music/etc. A problem I call "tasting the ice cream". You don't have any problems getting your kids to eat all kinds of healthy things...until they taste ice cream.