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541.
by lb1lf 6y ago
-With regards to selling my location info to third parties, I have been fighting an increasingly irresistible urge to set up an old smartphone and an SDR in my basement to see whether they derive the location info from GPS exclusively or if
542.
by lb1lf 6y ago
As others have said, this page provided more understanding than more than one university course I've taken. Oh, and anecdotally I'll state that while Ziegler-Nicholls was great for my lab exercises, it was, ahem, quickly dropped w
543.
by lb1lf 6y ago
Thank you for the link, that Wikipedia entry was pure engineering porn.
544.
by lb1lf 6y ago
That we do. I never got a contact with Hussein, but did have the (surprising!) pleasure to find out that the Argentinian ham obligingly swapping bands all the way from 20m through 17, 15 and 12m to give me a couple of new band countries as
545.
by lb1lf 6y ago
I know of a callsign causing trouble with most log programs - RAEM, which Russian amateurs dust off every now and then to commemorate polar pioneer Ernst Krenkel. Took a while to get ARRL Logbook of the World credit for that one.
546.
by lb1lf 6y ago
-When in university, I was a member of a radio club affiliated with the local Students' Society. Lore had it a member had gotten in contact with JY1 once, and, much like the ham in this article, assumed he hadn't got the call down
547.
by lb1lf 6y ago
-They also have the dubious honor of making the first 28-bit minicomputer, if the story I was told over beers at a geekfest at my alma mater holds true. Apparently, in an effort to gain market share in the Soviet block (Which cloned ND prod
548.
by lb1lf 6y ago
-Additionally (while on the subject of computer history and norsemen), the first ARPANET node outside the US was located in Norway; NORSAR (The Norwegian seismic survey) was hooked up in June 1973 - presumably the seismic activity of intere
549.
by lb1lf 6y ago
The mind works in mysterious ways. When in high school, I memorized Ibsen's 'Terje Vigen'[0], a dramatic poem on the hardships felt in southern Norway during the British blockade during the Napoleonic wars - and of revenge, r
550.
by lb1lf 6y ago
-I think it is hard to rank bands like this, but surely Einstürzende Neubauten could give Rammstein a run for their money? (Or is Rammstein a much bigger and the Neubauten a much less significant act than I think? ;))
551.
by lb1lf 6y ago
-I'd be surprised if some unknown exploit was being used to gain access to Bluetooth - basically, it would probably be too useful for other, more nefarious purposes, so it would be unlikely to be used in an app deployed to millions. Th
552.
by lb1lf 6y ago
Irrelevant anecdote - "Ladda" is Swedish for "(to) charge".
553.
by lb1lf 6y ago
-That's most kind of you, I really appreciate it - however, I do have a sourdough starter available and can (and do!) make all the bread we need - I was just amused at /our/ supply chain having a flour surplus and no yeast, w
554.
by lb1lf 6y ago
We need to talk, then. :)
555.
by lb1lf 6y ago
-Do you have yeast? Over on the other side of the North Sea, we've got more flour than we know what to do with on the shelves, as there is no yeast to be had - haven't seen a yeast cube in a month! (good thing sourdough is a thing
556.
by lb1lf 6y ago
We used to have this in Norway when I was a kid; I still remember when I found out by accident - it felt like I had been let in on some big secret.
557.
by lb1lf 6y ago
-That inherent right may, however, be repealed by Congress and state legislatures (not that I can see THAT happen). To amend our Constitution, two sessions of Parliament -with an election inbetween- must ratify the change proposed at two t
558.
by lb1lf 6y ago
I am in Norway, so the First Amendment carries little weight around here; our equivalent is 'Article 100' (of the Constitution) stating pretty much the same thing as the First Amendment. (This is hardly relevant; I just grasped th
559.
by lb1lf 6y ago
-I am quite convinced it was just meant to drive home the point that they were being serious about me changing the welcome message. I do not think there is any legal way they could have severed my (well, my parents') phone service over
560.
by lb1lf 6y ago
I drew the ire of our security services in a much dumber way sometime in the early nineties; after having seen Wargames, I set up my MicroVAX, rescued from a dumpster at the local bank, to ID as a DoD box whenever any of my friends dialled
561.
by lb1lf 6y ago
It did, and they did.
562.
by lb1lf 6y ago
-At a former employer, I had coded some embedded devices to spit out their bus address and current error code in morse code using the buzzer in the keypad. Saved me lots of time during initial debugging of new installations, then I'd j
563.
by lb1lf 6y ago
-No, most people simply stopped listening to radio in their cars, or bought DAB adapters which rebroadcast the DAB channel you wish to listen to on an FM frequency. A lucky few with cars old enough to have a standard DIN car stereo bracket
564.
by lb1lf 6y ago
Crude, but effective. I wouldn't be too concerned about cleaning it up afterwards - 90% can be dug out quite rapidly, the rest calls for half a dozen skaters with brooms or an industrial size vacuum cleaner. (Think: a trailer with a be
565.
by lb1lf 6y ago
A Scot chief engineer I once worked with claimed you only needed four words in your vocabulary to keep up conversation with a true Scotsman - Aye, Nay, Fook, Shite; if you'd been to university, you could expand your vocabulary with Bas
566.
by lb1lf 7y ago
If nothing else, nuclear-powered cars would have made David Hahn’s nuclear reactor a lot simpler to build! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
567.
by lb1lf 7y ago
-Taking the opportunity to suggest that anyone remotely interested in the old believers - or Dukhabors - go find a copy of Philip Marsden’s eminent exploration of the south Caucasus Dukhabor heartlands in his book ‘The Spirit-Wrestlers’. Pa
568.
by lb1lf 7y ago
-I had the same issue, after cursing my bad luck I eventually got around to using a couple of coloured cellofan candy wrappers as colour filters. :)
569.
by lb1lf 7y ago
-As kryptiskt has already pointed out, tactical nuking... isn't. Besides, if things were getting hot, the Swedes (or anyone!) would be fools to keep their naval assets in port; doubly so when those assets are largely autonomous and eas
570.
by lb1lf 7y ago
-The very problem Sweden causes for Russia is described in the story; Sweden can effectively prevent the Russian Baltic fleet from exercising power in the Baltic or, for that matter - keep it holed up in the Baltic sea if the Russian admira

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