Comment Re:Amazon in control? (Score 1) 44
I, for one, welcome our new bot overlords.
I, for one, welcome our new bot overlords.
True enough, but this data is not from a home weather station; it's from the nearest airport. Note the airplane icon and the word "McNary" (McNary Field, Salem, OR).
W.U. is just plain lousy.
> Weather Underground's website . . .
Yeah, well there's the problem. Earlier this month Weather Underground called it 160F here in the northwest USA.
Fortunately, with the breeze and low humidity, it only felt like 150F.
> Samsung shall first extract precious metals, such as copper, nickel, gold and silver
Copper, nickel -- precious metals now? WTF?
Time to rip the copper wires out of the walls and melt them down.
"Under the right conditions, people can also listen to HAARP radio transmissions from virtually anywhere in the world using an inexpensive shortwave radio."
So this is a feature now?
Obviously these researchers don't consider it a cancer on HF communications like we hams do.
> The official, who was not authorized to discuss the case, noted that a large batch of unclassified personnel records were among the cache.
What does it mean when an official who was not authorized to discuss the case goes ahead and discusses it?
Maybe at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency there's a culture of not following the rules.
It's also the 20th anniversary of Microsoft Bob but I don't see Slashdot commemorating it. Oh, the unfairness
You are absolutely right (on both counts) and I stand corrected. Thank you for pointing that out.
I must say: it makes me a little sad to have the popular press and "great unwashed" corrupt our specific technical language. But that just dates me -- obviously I'm a fossil.
It's a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or unmanned aerial system (UAS).
Drones are either male honeybees or objects used as targets. Drone is what the popular press calls a UAV/UAS and it contributes to "the dumbing of America".
If you think it doesn't matter, go back to watching your "flat screen TV" or put some "shrink wrap" on a wire connection, you ignoramus.
Without her Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. would not be where they are today.
You mean Jobs would be still be alive and Bezos would have hair?
A pox on you, Admiral Hopper!
From TFA: "... for non-commercial use. This material is Copyright © 1978 Apple Inc., "
That's a shame because someone might like to use it for a commercial product: a modern-day knockoff of the Apple ][.
But that would require a cool name for the project and the good ones were already taken circa-1980: the Japanese implementation (the Japple) and the Korean version (the Krapple).
Using SSL for searches will prevent tragedies such as this.
(Not the wife and mistress teaming up which can sometimes lead to tragedy. I'm talking about the IT department discovering searches for making poison.)
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Joe
Radio amateurs (hams) have been doing something like this for years with APRS. Aircraft (and ground vehicles, boats, etc.) contain a VHF transmitter (and other equipment) to transmit GPS information to a network of ground stations. The data makes its way to some networked servers on the Internet and a feed can be taken by anyone. A raw feed won't let you visualize but numerous mapping applications are available.
Here's an example of the track of one specific airplane for the past 60 days.
If that site is slashdotted (quite possible) this site will also provide the track of KA1GJU-6 (and all other APRS stations) although visualization and useability for aircraft stations suffers.
In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
