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The people who need that hint would miss the subtlety... IF you broadcast AM modulation on the FM band, few hear it. The broadcaster has at least a little responsibility...EG, I can't win.

The 5 eyes are one issue, but now that this is "out there" a large threat of copycat attacks is present, and like our analysis of how long it would take the Russians to dupe our nuclear weapons, it won't take nearly as long as most think before that becomes reality. It's really not even as hard...

Actually, there have been more revelations of spookery since this thread began, and it's considerably worse if you use any wireless to communicate (cel tower stuff). As in the "authority" that provides the unique ID for phones has also been hacked, and that ID is used as the once-almost-a...

I operated in a similar fashion, though this was a different business - product development, systems/hardware/software. All my guys chose to be contractors, rather than employees (I didn't hire dumb people). I told them we could charge $X for their hours, and would they rather just have me...

Right on, CT, but sometimes even claiming "human" is embarrassing, since most of them are so ignorant. I've seen "normal" and am glad to be called "not". As far as jobs, I've never gotten a really good one via going through anyones HR dept. It's meeting some other engineer or whatever in a bar...

We didn't ignore the obvious here. We lived together 24/7 for years and had plenty of time...and no one was stupid. Yes, there is always an outlier, like N vs S, but I've live in both places and actually that only applies to a very few people, nearly all of them I'd class as ignorant. Not the...

Or any ism. Yup. Like I said, it's hard enough to simply be correct without adding the spin-bound "politically" in front. Someone is getting ahead of things...or simply using this stuff as a tool of manipulation, which is what I think about it. Humans, sigh. Now and then I go read a list of...

Heck there's also: On the CPM machine - can you even read English (assuming that's the language). Does your dump-to machine know ASCII? It goes on and on. Who needs windows? The lowliest arduino or simpler can handle serial, and you can actually, you know, make stuff if you know what you...

I'm self taught to the extent possible, but in real life, we all stand on the shoulders of others, some giants. I have some formal schooling, but tended to "skip out" - I skipped two years of HS to take a scholarship to Uni, then skipped out of there to take a 6 fig job when I figured out I'd...

I tossed my old 8" floppies out, just before a museum wanted them, rats. They had the source code for CPM on them, too...but they didn't read reliably even new. On the other hand, the other day I wanted something I just knew I had, turned on an old NT machine that I thought had it on there -...

Yup, ARC-5. Yes, they used 12v tubes in series and ran on 24 (which is my main battery here as well). I changed it IIRC by either changing the tube types or rewiring the filaments so I could run on car battery. I then made an inverter using Delco PNP germanium power transistors for the HV...

Yeah, we even discussed epigenetics and a possible case of Lysenko-ism as possible causes. We were that mystified, none of us understood it. As to the spin aspect mentioned by Yazata, yeah, that's why I'm proud to be non-PC, which after all, changes with the winds (and the desires of the...

Careful when you say no one has one in his basement (there are basements and warehouses that would defy belief if you hadn't seen them, and mine isn't special)...I happen to have transports and the hard-to-make crucial parts - multitrack tape heads. But it would take quite a bit of work to make...

Prices always overshoot at either end of a trend, it's human psychology, and yes, I traded for a living for some years. Follow the money! At any rate, geopolitical forces are in play just now, and some players would really like to see the high cost, highly leveraged players out of business...

Kittamaru - you'd be welcome to come visit sometime when the weather is nicer. It's driving range, I think. Right now, it's not fit for man nor beast out there and I'm struggling to keep a couple buildings warm enough so things don't freeze and break. I'm not a fan of doing plumbing work!

Not all comm sats are geosynchronous orbit. But far more often the issue is peering between the higher level backbone providers (and most internet is ground level fiber anyway). Just because you have a fast connection, doesn't mean someone doesn't run out of bandwidth somewhere else along the...

Yup, that's the one. I prefer dead-tree media for some things, rather then google et al, though. I haven't yet found where anyone has just scanned this in for me to get as a .pdf (probably a picture of each page), rats - I have a lot of others. I'm supposing you're thinking of the old ARC-5...

Actually, the book covers microwaves far better than most more-modern texts do...that's part of the "Radio" in the title. And, BTW, shows why no one uses radio waves to xmit power, or for that matter, light (photons either way). Serious losses due to spreading and re-conversion into some...

Or self destruction. One of my favorite ones, "Radio Engineers Handbook" by Fredrick Terman, was printed right at the end of WWII (1943). On high-acid paper (there's even an apology for it in the foreword). I have 3 copies...one of which is still in OK shape, the rest are pages falling apart...

It was hard for THEM to understand. They'd never been enslaved by anyone, other than the usual drag it is to have to make a living. Being outstanding in every way, they'd not had any especially hard life - high IQ, super talented...and so on. They did fine, personally, as did we all. That was...