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by blantonl 10y ago
The Pirates using FLTSATCOM aren't Brazilian criminal gangs, they are truckers, families, and others who have used rudimentary technology to keep in touch with one another. Think CB radio from the 70's and 80's in the United
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by blantonl 10y ago
Pricing.
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by blantonl 10y ago
you didn't hear that they renamed it to the Macbook Social?
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by blantonl 10y ago
My workflow: Evernote (coupled with a ScanSnap document scanner) -> Documents Financial Statements Contracts Receipts Code snippets Infrastructure notes Invoices / POs / other financial docs Google Apps ->
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by blantonl 10y ago
Boy, you aren't kidding about an aggressive sales team. They are relentless. Ironically, a quick search of my Gmail mailbox came up with this gem in the subject line from Dyn. "Did you know the average cost of a single DDoS outag
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by blantonl 10y ago
I view technical interviews that require algorithm solving and coding on a whiteboard as ridiculous. Primarily, because I am deathly afraid of them. And here is why. I own and operate two online businesses in the Radio Communications sp
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by blantonl 10y ago
What was the broker's commission structure in this deal?
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by blantonl 10y ago
All TACSAT coms are done via single-channel Iridium networks at UHF. Huh? Military UHF TACSAT communications are single channel UHF networks via geostationary satellites. But the military also makes extensive use of Iridium and INMARSAT
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by blantonl 10y ago
I am 42 years old and own and manage a successful bootstrapped online business. I "grew up" in an IBM community, going from IBMer, then the business partner community, and I haven't been on half this many interviews in my ent
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by blantonl 10y ago
Since when was there an obligation to provide an API for every new platform release? Frankly, I get the sense that a lot of people want an API so they can build their own little businesses on top of someone else's good idea, only to fe
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by blantonl 10y ago
Dense clay might be unyielding, but depending on the plasticity of that clay you could be facing serious issues with heaving when the soil gets extremely moist.
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by blantonl 10y ago
At the tone...
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by blantonl 10y ago
Their EC2 servers are pretty good quality.
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by blantonl 10y ago
Providing GSM/LTE service in extremely remote locations in third world countries spurred the initial implementations of open source GSM stacks. Other business models include intelligence and communications interception.
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by blantonl 10y ago
I have 5 year of OS/2 Warp experience. Does that count?
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by blantonl 10y ago
Based on this ruling, why wouldn't the suspect's defense now be "well, my computer must have been hacked, it wasn't me downloading the questionable content. See, look, even the courts have ruled that my computer, for al
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by blantonl 10y ago
The flip side of that is a moderator that picks and chooses comments and threads to "moderate" while sitting behind a desk nowhere near the incident.
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by blantonl 10y ago
This boggles this mind. And is unsustainable.
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by blantonl 10y ago
Sounds like a great parasite business idea... the "surge protector"
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by blantonl 10y ago
This goes under the name of "Unit Economics" and is reasonable for small startups to use. That's fine. But I think the meat of the article is that there are startups/businesses out there that are using so much smoke an
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by blantonl 10y ago
"Profitable profitable" - I, I just can't even understand why someone would say something like this. What's next? "We're negatively profitable right now but hope to swing to an evenly profitable state and then
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by blantonl 11y ago
Cue them up and queue them up, here come the pendantics...
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by blantonl 11y ago
Project managers don't spend 1290 hours to plan a 1 hour implementation. If you did that, your contract would be terminated and the PMs would find someone who knows how to turn that 1 hour prototype implementation into 3000 hours of wo
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by blantonl 11y ago
This is not an over-reaction in even the slightest way. The barrier to entry for this implementation is a little over $600 USD. If someone brought this solution online in their apartment in midtown Manhattan NYC, they would potentially aff
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by blantonl 11y ago
Excellent point. All cell phone sites have a GPS reference clock source for each provider. The clock source is critical for everything from RF tuning to handoff timing between sites. You'll see this type of antenna mounted typically
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by blantonl 11y ago
I wouldn't even think about doing this unless you are in a faraday cage environment or other locked down RF environment where you can be absolutely sure you have complete control over all RF emitted by the device and you know exactl
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Police Radio Chatter Is Open to All Ears. But Should It Be?(npr.org)
2 points by blantonl 11y ago|0 comments
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by blantonl 11y ago
If the gentleman who did this loses his job, then those looking for a new sysadmin should definitely give this guy some serious consideration. Because I guarantee you he'll never, ever, let this happen again.
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by blantonl 11y ago
Fine. Shippy McShipface it is.
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by blantonl 11y ago
From the customer's perspective, all they did was change a fucking button. And that was the point.

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