Posts by jonfr 482 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2010
There is no risk of interference from Earth since the distance is on average 350.000 km and the frequencies in use are already in use in Europe (but not in US). With all 4G transmitters being too small to reach the Moon (normal is 1W to 30W).
I do wonder how much coverage this going to get on the Moon. Since on Earth the best 1800Mhz can give is 25 km. Weather is not a issue on the Moon but radiation levels are.
Putin public rating is rigged. It can be seen in the data numbers. This is done by a variation of this logical fallacy. Nobody ever has this high approval rating for anything. It just doesn't happen.
"Star Power (also Testimonial, Questionable Authority, Faulty Use of Authority, Falacia ad Vericundiam; Eminence-based Practice): In academia and medicine, a corrupt argument from ethos in which arguments, standpoints and themes of professional discourse are granted fame and validity or condemned to obscurity solely by whoever may be the reigning "stars" or "premier journals" of the profession or discipline at the moment. E.g., "Foster's take on Network Theory has been thoroughly criticized and is so last-week!.This week everyone's into Safe Spaces and Pierce's Theory of Microaggressions. Get with the program." (See also, the Bandwagon.) Also applies to an obsession with journal Impact Factors. At the popular level this fallacy also refers to a corrupt argument from ethos in which public support for a standpoint or product is established by a well-known or respected figure (i.e.,. a star athlete or entertainer) who is not an expert and who may have been well paid to make the endorsement (e.g., “Olympic gold-medal pole-vaulter Fulano de Tal uses Quick Flush Internet--Shouldn’t you?" Or, "My favorite rock star warns that vaccinations spread cooties, so I'm not vaccinating my kids!" ). Includes other false, meaningless or paid means of associating oneself or one’s product or standpoint with the ethos of a famous person or event (e.g., “Try Salsa Cabria, the official taco sauce of the Winter Olympics!”). This fallacy also covers Faulty use of Quotes (also, The Devil Quotes Scripture), including quoting out of context or against the clear intent of the original speaker or author. E.g., racists quoting and twisting the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s statements in favor of racial equality against contemporary activists and movements for racial equality. "
Source: http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/ENGL1311/fallacies.htm
@ Phil O'Sophical, You can get fibre LAN card in the computer. But those are expensive (up to $599) and that would require a different modems than are in use today. Normal Ethernet works today at the speed of 1Gbps or more (depending on hardware and cables in use) even if it is a copper connection.
Most of my LAN is at 1Gbps and I have 100Mbps fibre connection in Denmark (until I move to Iceland, then I'll be switching to VDSL connection).
Many people in Iceland get a minimum of 50Mbps over VDSL or VDSL2 connection. Most of the capital area now has fibre connection or is going to be connected soon. Remote areas (farms) are being connected to a fibre in the summer since it is cheaper and better than using the old copper lines for VDSL connection. The plan in Iceland is that minimum speed is going to be at least 100Mbps by 2020 or 2022 (not sure what year is the official guideline).
I haven't found any maps for this yet. But I was doing a calculations in my head and the car might hit Mars in 200 million years, at that point it has the greatest chance of doing so. If that does not happen the car is going to get booted out of the solar system by Jupiter and Saturn gravity.
Snapchat and Facebook are not the same. Facebook is loosing users today* but there are so many users the loss of 200 million users doesn't appear that big when the total user base is around 1,4 billion.
Snapchat has smaller user base. I don't know the exact number but I've heard around 300 to 400 million user snapchat. The effects on smaller user base are larger when large group of people start to leave.
Facebook it self is also getting less usable since they keep adding features that few people want and use. Same goes for snapchat and the latest update has 83% dislike from the people that use the platform. Many people keep using the platform they are on since it is often difficult to connect to everyone on a new platform (people not using it and so on). But there are breaking points and I think facebook and snapchat are reaching them soon. Snapchat might even already be there in due to their latest update being really bad.
*Many of them don't come back. Because they die from the platform. It's turning into a large graveyard of people that once where among the living. Many of them have no-one to delete their account once they are gone for various reasons.
See here, http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160313-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-facebook-dead
The last update of snapchat is terrible and I don't like it and nobody that I know about and has gotten the update likes it.
Far as I have read on the internet about the new app it seem that 83% of people using it dislike the upgrade. When that happens it normally means that people start to phase out their usage of the app for something better once it is found.
That means in the long run that snapchat might finished and going bankrupt soon.
The fact is that St. Petersburg is just a ocean a way from UK coast. Russia would have to occupy Denmark and parts of Sweden in order to reach the UK directly. But that is not going to be a major problem in the short term (first few months). Such occupation is going to be a major issue in the long term. Neither Danes or the Swedes would be happy about being occupied by Russians invaders.
Kaliningrad is the most closest part of Russia to UK and even closer to Denmark and Sweden.
This is going to be taught in history as the path the U.S took when the country collapsed and got really poor and fell from global power. This is going to be awful for the U.S and Europe (indirectly).
Europe better prepare for some hard time. I suspect Russia is going to use this time to move its border more than it already has done.
I have AMD and I had to install Windows 10 update kb4073290 to get windows 10 stable again. Since I am using Windows 10 Home I don't have the option of disabling the updates.
My AMD computer was not in unbootable state but was showing signs of unstably with at least one random reboot. Random reboot should not happen under any circumstances.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4073290/unbootable-state-for-amd-devices-in-windows-10-version-1709
As it stands UK is going to leave EU on 29th March 2019 on 11:00 pm (23:00) (UK time) or 30 March 00:00 (Brussels time).
The transition period is just about 1 year. Mostly for budget reasons.
At the time the Brexit happens all EU treaties and laws (that have not been put into UK law) becomes invalid in the UK and connected areas. This also means that roaming charges go to the sky and above and EU blue card for medical emergency looses it validity (there is a chance current issued cards stay good until 31 December 2020).
Aliens don't come to Earth as humans are primitive and not as smart they think they are (some automatic robots might go by every few decades on average). There is plenty of aliens out there, but none of them are going to talk to the human race until we at least get sub-light able engine. There is no way to cross light-speed so other methods are used to travel long distances in deep space (it involves large worm holes and gates connected to them).
People (humans) act like they are the centre of the universe. This can be seen in science fiction (mainstream at least) and in other works of writing. That has spread into the culture. I do suspect that the universe does not agree with the human race self assessment.
The most likely outcome of the human race in the future is to go extinct and nearby civilization won't even notice (at all).
There was also discovery of several bodies due to this game.
Source 1, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-pokemon-go-players-are-going-to-keep-finding-dead-bodies
Source 2, http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-diego-dead-body-pokemon-go-20160715-snap-story.html
I do wonder what other things Pokemon go players found out the wild.
In the long run even Google has given up on Linux and they are now preparing on moving to their own micro-kernel operating system. I don't know when it is going to be ready, few years at least.
I'll just install FreeBSD and use binary packages for KDE and such installs (easier) as it is for desktop. The attitude of Linus is a security risk on it's own.
Norway has freedom of movement since it's in EEA. UK is not going to have any of that once it's out of the EU. This is going to be closer to the Russia - EU border or Ukraine - EU border. You'll not be allowed closer than 10 meters to the border from the Ireland and UK side. Visa requirements to enter Ireland and so on. That's just the easy part to start with.
If this is a antimatter star then this might be a light show in few years time.
Last antimatter supernova that exploded was at distance of 7 billion light years.
https://news.nd.edu/news/runaway-anti-matter-production-makes-for-a-spectacular-stellar-explosion/
https://www.universetoday.com/49885/another-antimatter-supernova-discovered/
This also might be a Pair-instability supernova.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair-instability_supernova
Bringing back the 1970's (when Donald Trump was 24) seems to be a mission for him. This is dangerous path (but everything connected to and with Donald Trump is dangerous and corrupt).
The 5.9Ghz spectrum is only good for short distance communication. I don't understand why mobile companies want it.
If you are looking for easy time, it is wrong for you to move to Linux. If you want easy time you need to move to FreeBSD or NetBSD. You also have the option of OpenBSD. It is far easier to maintain and update FreeBSD than any Linux version that I've used so far. I have not yet used NetBSD but it is on my plan to do so (for web service or something else useful).
Yahoo! forced everyone on Flickr to use Yahoo! email account. I have a Flickr account and I had to use Yahoo! email account after some date (around 2013) and I was unable to use my normal email account at the time. I just set-it up, saved the password and never used the Yahoo! email account for anything.
The version 10.4-Release of FreeBSD is legacy. The current release is 11.1-Release and is from July. The driver changes can be found here with other changes. I need to upgrade my FreeBSD server to this new release soon.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/relnotes.html#drivers
Europe is in the magnetic south pole as that is why you get the north arrow in a compass pointing north. Everything I knew about the polar thing until I got corrected on this detail. Australia is in the magnetic north pole. All the maps are wrong (again).
You can find the details here.
https://youtu.be/aVqN1tW1k7w
In the nearby future Facebook is going to simply vanish on the internet. Their revenue model is not as sound as they claim it to be. Currently Facebook is already awful to use (Google+ and Twitter are a lot better to use). Oddly as it seems, Facebook also seems to freeze Firefox (for a short time) and the website is generally doing something odd when used (not sure what).
I'll be happy when Facebook is gone and forgotten.
In May of 2017 an alien signal from Ross 128 was detected, this signal was promptly declared of human origins even if they were unable to explain in details were it came from (I don't even think they bothered to contact the operators of those satellites to check if this frequency was in use at the time of observations), or rather what satellite did broadcast the signal.
It is my idea that none of the satellite that are in the view of Ross 128 did broadcast the signal, reason being that it is not in use over the U.S. The 4,6 to 4,8Ghz is used for either Space to Earth communication or Earth to Space communication (ITU region 3, India). It is difficult for me to prove this since I'm on the wrong side of the plant (Ross 128 is below the horizon for me all the time) and I don't have the correct technology to do this (lack of money). I want to prove this, it just isn't going to happen for me at the moment.
The signal has dispersion properties showing or suggesting that it came from far away. There is always a chance that this signal is only coming from the direction of Ross 128 and might not actually be at Ross 128. I have no way to know for sure since this radio signal is not being studied. This radio signal was again observed in July-2017 on a follow up observation.
On the image of the radio signal that was published there is plenty of Earth based radio signals at 5000Mhz (?) and 4200 - 4400Mhz (C-band television broadcasting), little to nothing above that until the frequency goes up to 5000Mhz. Those Earth based signal appear clearly on the image and can easily be spotted. It is also worth noting that I don't know of any technology that can use 300Mhz of bandwidth in this way. I am also sure such technology would not be allowed on licence requirement frequency as is the case for 4500 - 4800Mhz.
What I think was detected was not a alien data transmission. This looks more like a radar signal of some type (I don't know the type, I checked for comparable techniques on Earth and found nothing). I don't have any idea how this signal works but I think radar is the most likely explanation since those are often the most powerful radio signal broadcast out. I don't know what signal strength is used, I do think it is several thousands kW or more.
As it stands now I suspect future alien signal that are discovered by accident are going to get ignored and given human explanation. I am starting to blame this on the narrow and possibly stupid definition and requirement of alien signal as it is set by SETI (and possibly the narrative that follows it). The result of this requirement is that nothing is going to be found by SETI. Not today and not 100 years from now.
I also want to point out that Ross 128 has no life like all of the other red dwarfs or low energy starts that exoplanets have been discovered in orbit around those stars. If you want to find life and possibly civilization you have to check this star types out.
F-type stars
G-type stars.
K-type stars.
Anything else is either to hot (O-type star, A-type star, B-type star) or too cold (M-type star, Y-type star and other classes of this nature). This includes Trappist-1 star system. It has water on the planets, but the planets are stone cold dead to life as we know it and it has always been like that.
I don't think that Earth has ever had an alien visit. At least not on ground, I don't know about high orbit (or even a low orbit). I don't think there is any interest among the aliens that can and do travel the stars to visit a primitive race with nuclear weapons. Smart phones and computers are not the top of technological scale after all. Rather primitive beginning of it and this technological scale goes higher and wider then people realise today.
This is just my view and some of it is not in agreement with current established ideas of today's science community.
Information.
SETI faq, https://www.seti.org/faq#obs3
Weird signal #1. http://phl.upr.edu/library/notes/ross128
Weird signal #2. http://phl.upr.edu/press-releases/theweirdsignal?utm_content=buffer0a5d3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Star classification, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Spectral_types
This is overly dictatorship like by the U.S government. They are in basic just fishing for anything that oppose Donald Trump in the hope that the person in question has spoken out against him. Why the judge allowed this is beyond me but this needs to be stopped (if that is possible).
The Danish news is now reporting that the captain of the submarine has been arrested for murder of the Swedish journalist. She is now been searched for.
DR News (in Danish): http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/ubaadsejer-sigtet-drab-paa-svensk-kvinde
The yellow paper (Ekstrabladet) are reporting there might be a security footage from the harbour area where he travelled from a nearby restaurant. I will not link to Ekstrabladet news articles, due to other unrelated news articles that are seriously not safe for work by UK standards (fine in Denmark).
@ BongoJoe, Technically, Assange is in Britain. Embassies are not considered to be on the soil of their home countries. They don't even fall under extra-territality rules that many military stations fall under.
The only reason why UK hasn't gone and got Assanage is that they don't want to cause a diplomatic incident at the moment. That might not be the UK government few forever. Something is going to break one day for one reason and Assange might find him self arrested and in UK jail being extradited to the U.S.
After a minor run in with the police and the law 17 years ago in a accidental I.T security thing at my school I'm never going to help them or anyone else again. It didn't land me in jail but it did come dam close it. What it did was cost me computer hardware + data and good amount of money (by 17 years ago standards).
He is going to feel the same way once this is over. He might work for a company in the security I.T field (or he might switch fields once he gets out from the U.S) if he feels up to it. That might not be the case in the long run. This type of things have terrible results on one mental personality.
Today, if I see a security flaw I let it be. The owner of it can deal with it on his own time and cost once everything has started to burn because if his own incompetence.
I just make sure my own gate is secure on my own systems. Everything else is treated as possible security risk.
It is also smallest part of slavery trade today. I was not able to find any good statics on it due to search pollution on Google.
There are however older news reports on this subject that anyone should consider. Sex trafficking is a problem, it just isn't nearly as bad as many claim. Many other sectors are lot worse in this regards and I'm not exactly seeing any law to help those people. I want all slavery stopped, but something major has to change before that happens (sadly).
Article from 2015.
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/22/the_slave_labor_behind_your_favorite_clothing_brands_gap_hm_and_more_exposed_partner/
They are just looking at the range on any given watt they can send out (to use the poor technical terms). But this area of frequency has its own problems. At this low frequency of 600Mhz there is a slight chance of signal bounce from distant location under certain conditions in the atmosphere. That risk drops with higher frequency. The risk here is that mobile transmitters located ~60 km away start to ping at location where there is no or poor signal during the day, as this is most common during the summer in the afternoon and in the mornings.
That is the same reason today that people can hear FM radio (or DAB+ radio at VHF 3 frequencies) at longer distance or get a television signal when same thing happens.
This might make mobile reception interesting in the U.S. This is less of a problem at 700Mhz and no problem at 800Mhz and above.
I've come to the conclusion that banks are not to be trusted. As for this case, holding up her money is nothing but a case of theft and should be treated as such. Regardless of payment type. As for this programming "error" I find it strange that this "anomaly" appeared in the system, it sounds odd that it would behave that way (I'm in no way expert on payment systems, I just find this odd to start with).
The film industry is always loosing money. Its only few films over the year that actually make profit first time around. Some films do make money in the end, but that might take up to two to three years until that happens.
Blaming a loss on internet piracy is stupid. They should make less of the stupid crap that Hollywood is always making.
I did install the upgrade to Windows 10 version 1706 from version 1607 only to find out it was buggy and many basic things that worked. I did complain about what I found when I was at version 1706 and that was just SNMP service that I found. I did downgrade back to version 1607 only to find out that process made Windows 10 inconsistent with it self and made part of Windows 10 Store stop working, breaking Netflix and Microsoft calendar app (or something like it) and there doesn't appear to be any good way to repair that problem without doing a complete reset of the system.
I'm currently trying to repair the damage without having to put the system into default state. As a matter of rule I don't keep my data on the C: drive (that I can avoid placing there) due to the experience with Microsoft and their bugs.
Germany has already moved to HEVC/H.265 and that leaves my television out in the cold as it can't receive that signal at all. The best my television can do is H.264 codec. The only signals I now get over antenna are the Danish ones that continue to use H.264 codec. I don't think that's going to change any time soon.
I'll get me a external receiver to get the signal. I'm going to have it a double type that can handle both DVB-S2 and DVB-T2 (its from Technisat).
@Dagg, I've come to the conclusion that Linux isn't for Desktop. That's just my view after using it as such for 14 years. During that time the progress has been painfully slow and it is now good five to eight years behind Microsoft Windows and Apple MacOS. The reason why it isn't popular is clear, it isn't competitive as a desktop Os on the market. If it was, it would be used.
Mobile is different thanks to Google (Alphabet).
I was speaking about Microsoft Windows server. I don't know for sure how progress has been going on it for the past 14 years, but I don't think its an ideal environment to use due to how its structured on the system level (with hard drive a:, b: and so on). Servers need a different set-up since they are doing a different thing. I guess in all Microsoft environment it can be useful, unless you use something else for a gateway and firewall to connect to the internet.
I have found that Microsoft Windows 10 is highly useable as a Desktop (but I'm no fan of it). But I'll keep my server FreeBSD or Linux, that's not going to change.
Hat tip: If you are using Microsoft Windows shared folder network (also known as samba) you can access remote computer hard drive by typing in ${drive letter} into the address bar on that computer. Example; \\192.168.0.4\F$ - Type in user and password and you got access to all the files, read-write access included.
I've never been the caps lock type, too much time on the IRC in the past where such behaviour got one banned from the channel from hours to days.
Those people you speak of have left the internet to do other things. I think it's mostly cocaine and opioids and other such things if they do drugs at all (many don't). Some return, most don't return I guess (there is no study into this, so guesses go wild).
Some views on this subject are interesting.
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/i-quit-the-internet-for-4-years/
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