Run a ton of SDR IQ data streams at full bandwidth to a remote datacenter for processing.

Yes, I wish they would be more specific especially as 5G becomes more of a Swiss Army Knife kind of a spec with tons of different features. C-band is just a small part of it.

I think most of the time devices are like this anyways. They are build on some kind of linux subsystem host with some proprietary hardware running GPS daughtercards or modules. I am guessing FB wanted some specific security that the major manufacturers didn't want to provide (are there any devices with LDAP integration and without shitty wide-open telnet access? I'm a little out of the loop here). So, they took the important bits, put it on a PCI card, and now they can use any host that can provide whatever functionality they want.

I tried looking my name .dev and for day 1 purchase they want $12,500 for the registration. No thanks!

Why wouldn't the military just turn their encryption keys back on so that they can use it but others get worse data? I do agree that teaching your officers celestial navigation is important, but when shit hits the fan, it will be interesting to see which ones actually retain it and can use it without constant practice.

Does it translate to anything? "Myndlykill" looks like Mindly-kill ... kill your brainnnnnnsssss.....brainnnsssss....tv gooood...

Something like a Davis VantagePro2 (http://www.davisnet.com/weather/products/weather_product.asp?pnum=06162) weather station has a small panel that measures UV and solar radiation in addition to weather measurements. I think you can also get additional sensors to add to the station and you can get a dongle that lets you speak with the wireless panel via usb-serial. Then, you can write an easy script to log your measurements (the protocol is well defined) and get a real idea of what your roof is capable of. The VantagePro2 is probably overkill for your purposes, but it's a good thread to chase down for options.

I think you should be appointed the editor of something like simple.slashdot.org (similar to simple.wikipedia.org). Great summary!

I think the key to what was said above was to have wealth distribution of profits created by automation. The only problem with that is that I'm sure the people who created the automation would want their fair share of their creation, unless they were people motivated by more altruistic ideals.

I wonder what happened to that "New Here" guy. I always got a chuckle from them.

Do you sell Progressive Rock?

It's not landlocked, and it's connected just like any other state. It's close to the 128 corridor in MA, and hosts a whole bunch of companies (Velcro and Brookstone to name two). What's your beef with them?

What I found most interesting was the link in the article to opengovernment.org, which I followed on to this project: https://github.com/sunlightlabs/openstates They provide the screen scrapers which feed the data to the main project. I"m sure that even with the gov't providing data freely there will still need to be formatting transformation required, and some screen scraping needed to get the full picture into some database somewhere. I'm sure there are other frameworks around that build up scraping/database/analysis applications. Does anyone have any experience with these?

It's like striking oil on Slashdot!