MystikIncarnate

It's also not something that you can really stop people from doing.

You might be able to stop people sharing the information freely, but, the transponders that people track and the protocols and standards for the communication are well known internationally. It doesn't take more than $50 in parts to set up your own receiver and connect it to a computer.

I'd consider any law prohibiting the observation of air traffic by the public to be impossible to enforce. How can you stop someone from listening by law?

Sharing the information, however, that's a bit different.

This is something the neckbeards need to take a page from (apologies for the intended pun).

It boils down to this. No matter who you're dealing with, no matter what they look like, no matter what may afflict them.... People want to be treated like people. Not be "looked after" or "taken care of" or whatever....

The friend zone doesn't exist. If you're in a "friend zone", one of two things is true: either, they're not attracted to you (big deal, move on), or you've made it clear to them that you would be a nightmare to date.

Pretty much every gf I've ever had in my 20+ years of dating, started with friendly conversation and normal get togethers with friends. I'm going to depart the dating pool now, the ring is on order and I got the tracking number yesterday.

Stop treating anyone like they're a prize to be won, or that you need to do something "get" them. If you're being yourself, and nerding out over something you're genuinely interested in, and that turns them off, then maybe your happiness isn't important to that person you like so much.... Maybe you need to find someone who can be happy that you're happy. Simply: you deserve to be with someone who loves who you are, not what you are for them.

I dare say that this is the most wholesome green text story I've seen so far.

The USA was founded on capitalist ideals. This is the system working as intended.

The price will be whatever the market will bear. Right now, they're figuring out exactly what the market will bear. They'll step back from the line just a little bit then slowly creep up over time to reclaim all the profits.

If you're old enough to remember, this happened with fuel prices not super long ago. Prices were sent just north of ~ $3/gallon, and there was outrage. The prices dropped back to somewhat normal levels and everything resumed but the prices always kept trending higher and higher, now, we barely even flinch at $3/gal, and often, that's considered a good price for fuel.... At least, it is where I am.

The same people who were outraged by it now seek it out. This isn't any different. They spiked prices, now sales are falling like a brick. They'll bring it down to something "more reasonable" in the near future to recover sales, then over the next 5-10 years they slowly jack it back up to the current price and beyond and we will barely even notice.

I just want to say, I have a pretty nice Nike cap that I got from a previous employer. It's embroidered with the company logo, but otherwise it's pretty much blank. I don't typically wear caps, but this is one of a very very small collection I have (I think it's the only one that I know where it is), when I do.

I can't wear it anymore, and I haven't been able to for years. It's red. The same bright red as the Maga caps. The company logo is white, and square on the front of it, just like where the text is on the Maga caps.

From a distance, they're indistinguishable.

I can't wear it because I don't even want to be confused for one of these Maga jerks, even from a distance. They've basically ruined red ball caps.

Instead of wearing the ball cap in summer, I went and picked up a Tilly hat. It's fine I guess. Not red, which is a big feature.

It sucks because I really like that hat. It fits well. Most Ball caps don't fit right and I'm uncomfortable. I finally found one that's not a literal pain to wear, and I can't wear it anymore because Trump.

Aah. Those things. I remember those things.

The way you described it, sounded like the cars didn't have controls. My brain was too tired to put it together with memories that far back.

Thanks for the clarity. Be well.

I always liked PDAs, a friend of mine got a palm pilot before I picked up the axim, and I was envious.

I liked the exchange sync as I was able to charge my device while actively syncing to my experimental exchange server, and interacting with that account via Outlook on my PC.

One thing I can say about Microsoft is that they know how to centrally manage independent systems. Between active directory and exchange, you can manage about 60% of your digital life by policy. That's exactly what I did. Made day to day interactions really simple. I also used reoccurring events for classes, and it was super easy to set the time and day-of-the-week for a class, then have it repeat once a week for 20-26 weeks. The events literally stopped when classes were over, and I always knew when and where to be on campus. I migrated the information when I moved everything to Google calendar, when that became a thing. I still have, in my calendar, all my college classes, dates, times, and what room each was in, in my calendar to this day.

I could look up emails, as long as I received them before coming to school, and reference them for classmates, whether about classes and changes to class schedules or if it was a notice from the faculty or something. The axim got me to classes on time consistently and kept me moving. It was particularly helpful when trying to decide what to do after class with friends as I could quickly look up what came next, when, and where we had to be.

Now smartphones do all that.

Even still, it was interesting and kind of nice to have a dedicated device to organize with, independent of distractions like social media.

Except "RC" literally stands for "remote controlled".

What you had were uncontrolled toy cars.

I had a Dell axim x51v, which was a PDA that I personally bought for myself, prior to when smartphones were a thing.

At the time I was tinkering with my own exchange server and had it synced to my exchange server (over wireless b) to keep track of classes in college and stuff. I had a metal case for it and everything.... I think it still works, but I have no idea where it is now. Since security has marched forwards at a steady pace, I'm sure that the unit would be less than useful to do the same today since it wouldn't support the encryption used today.

It also had a contact list with all my friends and family's email, phone numbers and stuff in it, so I could look someone up, then call them on my flip phone.

The calendar was by far the most useful. I had one small device (by the standards of that era), which told me when my classes were, what building and room they were in, etc.

I was the nerd carrying a flip phone, PDA, and laptop, around the campus. Took notes on my laptop, used my PDA for scheduling, and my phone for calling/texting. The only paper I carried were course books.

It's Windows CE. Unless you like to be frustrated, don't bother. I used Windows Mobile 5/6, which was fairly similar, and that was an exercise in patience at the best of times.

Not too long ago, I had to deal with CE/win mobile again for some symbol terminals and holy hell, nothing has changed.

If you want to have an idea of how bad it is, blend Windows 8's metro start menu/settings interface with Windows 3.1 visual styles and you won't be too far off, just add in pretty much everything you hated from every version of Windows...

It suuuuucccccccks

FHSS is not magic. In some ways it makes things worse for other protocols while avoiding problems for itself.

Which leads me into The next comments you made about interference sources. With microwaves and LED bulbs and such. While I do have an SDR, I don't use it for wireless cleanliness. My access points, mainly Cisco aironet 2802i series, have a feature called "clean air" which isn't new for Cisco, but other vendors are starting to add similar features to their access points. I believe it's been included in most mid-range aironet access points since wireless N (around the 2600, maybe before)... Anyways, the built in radios will listen for and analyse interference and provide information related to it.

Clean Air will report pretty much everything that can be interference with decent accuracy. I've personally seen the following: radar, Bluetooth, microwave (oven), and "non-wifi" as interference sources. I believe "non-wifi" is the catch-all for something that can't be identified.

Clean Air also reports on what channels are impacted by the inference, and I can also get reports on nearby wifi networks, and what channels they're on, the frequency width that's set on foreign access points.... On top of that, it gives me a report on how busy the channels are for the configured channels on the access points, with classifications for my wifi traffic, others wifi traffic, noise, and inference.

With microwaves, I mainly watch the clean air report, if I see microwave (oven) interference, I try to reference the time of the interference, and figure out if the microwave was in use during that time. If it lines up consistently, time to replace the microwave.

In my experience, new microwaves rarely have an isolation problem. The mark quality in the manufacturing of the microwave, is how long before that happens. Some last a long time, others lose their isolation fairly quickly. Pre-testing isn't very useful since the isolation is usually fine when It's new.

To the same point it'll pick up interference from other sources, like lightbulbs. So if that's picked up at all, I'll have to correlate what lights are on and when, to figure out which ones are the problem. To date, the interference is either off-band, or not significant enough to trigger clean air.

I know CFL's put off way more RF interference than LED bulbs. The high frequency required for florescent lamps is far worse than the RF put out by most LED bulbs.

I've considered getting an ekahau sidekick to get a better wireless spectrum analysis, but there's no way I could afford one right now. If I had more of a purpose for it, beyond my curiosity, then maybe. As it stands, no way. It's in the neighborhood of $2000+. Unless I can use it to help pay the rent, I won't be picking that up.

Have you ever seen a WNBA game?

Nope. Can't say that I have. I've also never watched an NBA game.

I'm not the target audience. I'm just commenting from an outsiders perspective. I don't "get" it, and I don't expect to.

Have a good day.