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Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by walrus01 »

wolvoleo wrote: post #104
fragmede wrote: post #80

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> The terror setting in deeper when the consumer GPS unit stopped responding after 30,000' altitude Ah yes, the CoCom export control limits so you can't use it to build an ICBM. Legally they're supposed to stop working above 60,000 ft and 1,200 mph, but some manufacturers interpret that as an "or". The rumor was that some really cheap chips out of China failed to implement either, so if you'd bought a crappier gps mo…

Ummmm. Any country with the knowhow to make an ICBM can source or build a gps receive without said restriction. Just saying. That's like putting a sign "no burglary permitted" and leaving the door wide open.

I've recently seen a very concrete example of a Chinese CRPA GPS/Glonass/Galileo receiver which is being integrated into some Russian UAVs. It's a COTS thing the vendor in China will sell to anyone. In addition to not obeying any arbitrary limits on GPS speed/altitude it's a 4-element small array for better signal discrimination.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by walrus01 »

ikidd wrote: post #9
iamnothere wrote: post #7

The part where he gets contacted over the hit-and-run reads like the curl guy’s experience with people investigating “hacking”. I wonder how often this happens outside of software? Do fence manufacturers get emails asking to identify the culprit when someone crashes through a fence?

Actually, it wasn't unreasonable. If the guy caused the damage while picking up a sonde, to know who's sonde it was would help identify the culprit.

Responding to an email like that has basically no possible benefits for the person running the balloon tracking website, but it does introduce the possibility of some fool paying their lawyer to add you as a respondent in a lawsuit. Costing you many thousands of dollars at minimum in legal fees and travel even if you get the court to remove you from the case. Never respond to something like that unless your lawyer, whom you pay has instructed you to.

A person like that sending inquiries to website/API operators demanding data, ignore it. Always. Continue to ignore it until a process server actually shows up on your doorstep and serves you, in which case you know they're at least moderately serious, and then you need to engage your own counsel to deal with it.

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by asdfsa32 »

MacsHeadroom wrote: post #149
chabska wrote: post #126

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You would think that the right to bear arms would extend to Iran developing a nuclear warhead though.

Natural rights belong to individuals, not states. Iran is a government; governments hold powers, not inalienable rights. The analogy collapses before reaching the question of nuclear weapons.

But do Iranians have a right for self-determination? How about Israelis?

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by wongarsu »

chabska wrote: post #127
ButlerianJihad wrote: post #72

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If the transmitters continued to operate after battery exhaustion, then I may begin to question the laws of physics, as well as my life choices

It's weirdly phrased, but it just means that they don't have a tight control for battery capacity. Their device is designed to operate for at most ten hours (for example), but the battery that they use could have anywhere between 8-12 hours of supply, so the transmitter would be active anywhere between 8-10 hours.

In your scenario the device shuts done when the battery runs out, but at the latest after 10 hours. That's different from "at the latest when the battery capacity is exhausted".

Instead the implied mode of operation is that they shut down after 10 hours, but sometimes they dont and after 12 hours the battery is empty. Or maybe it's another trigger (location?) that is not always active or does not always trigger

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by wongarsu »

elictronic wrote: post #103
ButlerianJihad wrote: post #72

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If the transmitters continued to operate after battery exhaustion, then I may begin to question the laws of physics, as well as my life choices

Small solar panel and a charge controller. Defeat physics with this one trick.

My transmitter shuts down after a certain amount of time. At the latest when the solar panel is heavily degraded. This is due, among other things, to strategic considerations

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by dghf »

rexpop wrote: post #102
dalemyers wrote: post #75

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They are Australian. Don't everyone is from the US just because they speak English.

The rights delineated in the American Constitution are understood to precede the government being held to account for them. Furthermore, they are held to be universal, natural rights.

The right to a trial by jury in civil suits where the sum in dispute is greater than US$20 is a universal natural right?

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by throwaway2037 »

porjo wrote: post #137
throwaway2037 wrote: post #124

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Stupid question: Did you rent the bike? You nerd sniped me here! How did you have a bike on a work trip? That sounds fun.

Afaik Tel Aviv has city wide bike share, so guessing that's what OP was using.

Cool, I was not aware. I found the website here: https://metrofun.co.il/

Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by brohee »

frantathefranta wrote: post #113
makr17 wrote: post #71

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I remember being in Tel Aviv for work, and pulling up maps to plot out a bike route from the hotel to the office. Only to find that the entire route is blurred out online. Turns out our office was a few 100 meters from something important to the IDF, so no map/route data available. Too far to reasonably walk, and didn't want to try a bike without knowing there was a reasonable route...

This does remind me of driving on the western edge of the Dead Sea in 2014 with my family. The only device we had that was capable of 3G-less navigation was my Nokia Lumia 620 (windows phone) with bing maps. I had maps downloaded for all of Israel and Palestine, but they refused to work at that particular spot. Still not sure if it was some kind of GPS/map blocking or just being at a really low altitude. Pretty sure…

I suspect a lot of software does not behave well at negative altitude. I heard of an ECU having trouble on one of the rare negative altitude roads.
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