This sounds nuts. Here you need a licensed land surveyor to check and verify legal plans are correct, and that's pretty much it. They sign their name to it, and are liable if its wrong. (there's a bit more to it than that.. but its the core)
Some places want a licensed surveyor to do stuff as part of their process but its pretty rare. Doing work like general topo mapping, stockpile volumes etc can be done by anyone, a lot of the field work is done by graduate surveyors who have yet to become fully licensed. Even the field work for legal surveys can be done by technician surveyors, but the licensed surveyor will be checking the work, and that all the math does in fact stack up (its their license on and liability after all).
In the drone space we get competition from non-surveyor operators. For some tasks they do the job cheaper, and are a better option if what they produce is good enough.. then its fine. Often they don't understand the limitations of of what they are producing, or the accuracy. But that shouldn't stop them from operating.. Like we shouldn't be stopping someone from drawing a map of a place by hand.. it may or may not be fit for the purpose at the end of it. For example a "you are here map" who cares if the dimensions are correct if they are close enough to find your way. If that purpose isn't of legal consequence then its up to the client to choose the quality they want.
We should take the officer at his word: that the officer feared for his safety. That he 'saw' bulging eyes, sweat etc..
Then remove him from duty as unfit due to psych reasons. He's clearly suffering from paranoia, or PTSD or something that is making him see things that are not there. As such he is not fit for duty.
While everyone seems to (correctly) be up in arms about the privacy issues these things raise, I've yet to see someone complain about the mechanics of how they work on everyday cellphone usage. I can't believe they don't mess it up at least a little bit, and possibly quite horribly.
These things broadcast a cell tower signal out that is stronger than the local towers tricking every cellphone in the area connecting to them instead. Presumably then every phonecall/sms/data packet then gets routed through this fake cellphone tower so that the law enforcement can see what's going on. (otherwise what's the point?)
I can't believe that these stingrays will have a better back-end connection to the rest of the telephone network than a static tower, so surely they must degrade the performance of every device that connects to it.
Possibly your poor cellular service isn't due to your provider sucking.. just that the police have decided that it would be a great idea for them to relay all your calls through their mobile connection.
Is no-one else bothered by this change in definition of 'weapon of mass destruction' that seems to have happened. When Hans Blix was searching Iraq for WMDs these seemed to include Nukes, Chemical and Biological weapons. The sort of things where a single attack could wipe a city off the map. Now we are down to car and pressure cooker bombs? Why couldn't Hans Blix find a single one of those in Iraq?
I wouldn't rely on the Anarchist's Cookbook's recipes
I second that. I got hold of what was supposed to be a copy as a teenager, and compared what it said about making nitroglycerine to what my chemistry textbooks said. There were a couple of VERY important points missing that would probably get an amateur bomb maker covered in a mixture of strong acids and broken glass. That alone convinced me to never trust anything it said. I did find it a fun read though.
FYI the exotic cars with the personalised plates were not picked out by dotcom. He accepted them in lieu of payment from someone who owed him money, but was unable to pay.
Sure dotcom kept them, but they were not his idea.
Sky is a pay TV monopoly in NZ. This shows that Sky is terrified of competition, and rightly so. I believe with the exception of live sport that Netflix provides a superior service to Sky in NZ for a fraction of the cost.
Sky flinching at seeing that available to non-technical users is just showing how scared they are of their market collapsing.
Not exactly for the faint of heart, or scared of the command line. But if you want to setup a mikrotik router you could sort it so that traffic from a given MAC address was routed via a VPN. I do that in NZ for the users of the guest wifi to avoid the stupid NZ 'skynet' law.
Sidenote: The NZ 'Skynet' law is obsessed with the last public IP address.. so if a guest downloads a mp3 without the proper license I'm on the line as the owner of the last public IP address in the system. However if the last public IP address is in another country... no problem... hence the VPN for guests
The US speed index tops out at 3mpbs? I get 3mpbs from Netflix on DSL in New Zealand.. or ah.. so I've heard. I couldn't possibly actually be doing that: it would be breaking their terms of service.
I'm IT for my company, and I will ask you to enter your password. I'll never ask you to tell me your password.
If for some business reason I need to act as you I'll reset your password, and tell you as soon as you are available. (presumably you are not available). I'd be very suspicious of any IT department that has a different policy.
Some users are very hard to dissuade from telling you their passwords "It doesn't matter it's just ....". I try very very had to stop them from telling me that.. I don't even want to know HOW they create their passwords.
I understand how users get confused though. We had one user return from working for another company overseas recently. Apparently their IT dpt wouldn't let them even SET their own passwords because 'Then how would I use your computer if you are not there'. If their IT demands terrible practices like that how are users supposed to know better?
I live in NZ, and I'm damn sad this shit got passed. I literally protested in the streets over this. The Prime Minister is the minister in charge of this and has been trying to cover up the bullshit exposed by the kim dotcom saga all 'under urgency' with a nasty legal patch job.
The only oversight on the new laws all come down to the PM saying "trust me, I'll never let anyone do anything bad". After cocking up the oversight on a bunch of crap including the dotcom raids I don't trust him as far as I can throw him. He also said that he would resign if there had been mass spying on NZers.. it makes the guardian interesting reading at the moment, but I'd be amazed if he would ever do it.
The only light at the end of the tunnel is that the opposition parties have said they will repeal these changes, and instigate a wider review of NZs intelligence agencies if they are elected next time. And next time it should at least be close.
The difference in energy release from a microwave and the energy by a human body is 10 DBm. So to go from harmful (putting your hand in a microwave) to harmless (touching another person) that's a good baseline on an exponential scale.
Now the difference between standing in a wifi zone, and a microwave is ~60DBm. To put it another way, the person standing next to you is emitting the same amount of energy as just over 3000 laptops wifi. If you afraid of wifi, you should be deathly afraid of other people.
Numbers came from here.. any math was my fault :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBm#Unit_conversions
As a drone pilot for a survey firm in another country
This sounds nuts. Here you need a licensed land surveyor to check and verify legal plans are correct, and that's pretty much it. They sign their name to it, and are liable if its wrong. (there's a bit more to it than that.. but its the core)
Some places want a licensed surveyor to do stuff as part of their process but its pretty rare. Doing work like general topo mapping, stockpile volumes etc can be done by anyone, a lot of the field work is done by graduate surveyors who have yet to become fully licensed. Even the field work for legal surveys can be done by technician surveyors, but the licensed surveyor will be checking the work, and that all the math does in fact stack up (its their license on and liability after all).
In the drone space we get competition from non-surveyor operators. For some tasks they do the job cheaper, and are a better option if what they produce is good enough.. then its fine. Often they don't understand the limitations of of what they are producing, or the accuracy. But that shouldn't stop them from operating.. Like we shouldn't be stopping someone from drawing a map of a place by hand.. it may or may not be fit for the purpose at the end of it. For example a "you are here map" who cares if the dimensions are correct if they are close enough to find your way. If that purpose isn't of legal consequence then its up to the client to choose the quality they want.
Take the man at his word
We should take the officer at his word: that the officer feared for his safety. That he 'saw' bulging eyes, sweat etc..
Then remove him from duty as unfit due to psych reasons. He's clearly suffering from paranoia, or PTSD or something that is making him see things that are not there. As such he is not fit for duty.
Degraded Cellphone Coverage
While everyone seems to (correctly) be up in arms about the privacy issues these things raise, I've yet to see someone complain about the mechanics of how they work on everyday cellphone usage. I can't believe they don't mess it up at least a little bit, and possibly quite horribly.
These things broadcast a cell tower signal out that is stronger than the local towers tricking every cellphone in the area connecting to them instead. Presumably then every phonecall/sms/data packet then gets routed through this fake cellphone tower so that the law enforcement can see what's going on. (otherwise what's the point?)
I can't believe that these stingrays will have a better back-end connection to the rest of the telephone network than a static tower, so surely they must degrade the performance of every device that connects to it.
Possibly your poor cellular service isn't due to your provider sucking.. just that the police have decided that it would be a great idea for them to relay all your calls through their mobile connection.
They were both wrong
The better smartphone is of course a windows phone.
FBI is better than Hans Blix.. they found some.
attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction
Is no-one else bothered by this change in definition of 'weapon of mass destruction' that seems to have happened. When Hans Blix was searching Iraq for WMDs these seemed to include Nukes, Chemical and Biological weapons. The sort of things where a single attack could wipe a city off the map. Now we are down to car and pressure cooker bombs? Why couldn't Hans Blix find a single one of those in Iraq?
Re: I wouldn't rely on the Anarchist's Cookbook's recipes.
Re: And for what?
So as John Key and his son can play golf with Barrack Obama mostly.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
FYI the exotic cars with the personalised plates were not picked out by dotcom. He accepted them in lieu of payment from someone who owed him money, but was unable to pay.
Sure dotcom kept them, but they were not his idea.
This shows Sky's fear
Sky is a pay TV monopoly in NZ. This shows that Sky is terrified of competition, and rightly so. I believe with the exception of live sport that Netflix provides a superior service to Sky in NZ for a fraction of the cost.
Sky flinching at seeing that available to non-technical users is just showing how scared they are of their market collapsing.
Re: Re: console use
Because choice is a bad thing?
Re: Comcast and Netflix
Not exactly for the faint of heart, or scared of the command line. But if you want to setup a mikrotik router you could sort it so that traffic from a given MAC address was routed via a VPN. I do that in NZ for the users of the guest wifi to avoid the stupid NZ 'skynet' law.
Sidenote: The NZ 'Skynet' law is obsessed with the last public IP address.. so if a guest downloads a mp3 without the proper license I'm on the line as the owner of the last public IP address in the system. However if the last public IP address is in another country... no problem... hence the VPN for guests
3mpbs
The US speed index tops out at 3mpbs? I get 3mpbs from Netflix on DSL in New Zealand.. or ah.. so I've heard. I couldn't possibly actually be doing that: it would be breaking their terms of service.
Easy Solution
Just move it all to /dev/null it's surprisingly fast, cheap, and scalable.
Re: Re:
I'm IT for my company, and I will ask you to enter your password. I'll never ask you to tell me your password.
If for some business reason I need to act as you I'll reset your password, and tell you as soon as you are available. (presumably you are not available). I'd be very suspicious of any IT department that has a different policy.
Some users are very hard to dissuade from telling you their passwords "It doesn't matter it's just ....". I try very very had to stop them from telling me that.. I don't even want to know HOW they create their passwords.
I understand how users get confused though. We had one user return from working for another company overseas recently. Apparently their IT dpt wouldn't let them even SET their own passwords because 'Then how would I use your computer if you are not there'. If their IT demands terrible practices like that how are users supposed to know better?
This Sucks
I live in NZ, and I'm damn sad this shit got passed. I literally protested in the streets over this. The Prime Minister is the minister in charge of this and has been trying to cover up the bullshit exposed by the kim dotcom saga all 'under urgency' with a nasty legal patch job.
The only oversight on the new laws all come down to the PM saying "trust me, I'll never let anyone do anything bad". After cocking up the oversight on a bunch of crap including the dotcom raids I don't trust him as far as I can throw him. He also said that he would resign if there had been mass spying on NZers.. it makes the guardian interesting reading at the moment, but I'd be amazed if he would ever do it.
The only light at the end of the tunnel is that the opposition parties have said they will repeal these changes, and instigate a wider review of NZs intelligence agencies if they are elected next time. And next time it should at least be close.
4Chan Proof?
The problem with making something 4Chan proof, is it's like trying to make something idiot proof. They just keep making better idiots.
Hobbiton.. good idea!
Hrm, I live near where the Hobbiton scenes in LoTR were filmed, I wonder if they would hire it out.
Re: Re: Re: That sounds familiar...
$8 in 1984 is $18 today. So it wasn't that much of a lie http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%248USD++%281984+dollars%29+
Poes Law
It sounds like they've been taking tips from this guy http://twitter.com/NotAPoliceman
Re: Not dangerous?
The difference in energy release from a microwave and the energy by a human body is 10 DBm. So to go from harmful (putting your hand in a microwave) to harmless (touching another person) that's a good baseline on an exponential scale.
Now the difference between standing in a wifi zone, and a microwave is ~60DBm. To put it another way, the person standing next to you is emitting the same amount of energy as just over 3000 laptops wifi. If you afraid of wifi, you should be deathly afraid of other people.
Numbers came from here.. any math was my fault :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBm#Unit_conversions