asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's a cicisbeo xn ?
asciilifeform: phf: http://archive.is/u5uG8 << might be interesting to learn where d00d got his hardware. because the article immediately gives us the fact that that particular receiver has the cripplement in firmware. after this, only a matter of finding where (derp, of course, did not post it)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do use search engine
asciilifeform: 'All the major manufacturers that create chips for mobile devices (Broadcom, Qualcomm, CSR, Samsung, uBlox) have these limits deeply baked into their chips. If you want to go beyond the CoCom limits, you'd have to redesign the silicon, or at least reprogram the firmware without the manufacturer's support. That's not easy -- it's several years of work.' << lol
asciilifeform: but chinese chip makers have, iirc, long ago stopped making usg-only units
asciilifeform: ( is it connected to the map widget proggy? now this i have nfi )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty sure ipnoje ships with these
asciilifeform: 'The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules require licensing of non-federal receive-only equipment operating with foreign satellite systems...'
asciilifeform: so no, you won't find one at 'microcenter'.☟︎
asciilifeform: phf: celestial navigatron may not look as 'sexy' as a thermonuke, but it is actually in some ways equivalent in terms of strategic worth : a 10x moar accurate navigatron is worth roughly 100x the nukage! because inverse-square. think about it.
asciilifeform: ( there might be good ru material floating about, i never dug in properly, it is on the lengthy conveyor )
asciilifeform: phf: unfortunately not. the field was more or less quashed by usg.
asciilifeform: the german one, of course could not find the fixed stars by itself, had to be set before rocket is fired. but would then keep the lock.
asciilifeform: ( paywall, see if you can find on warez )
asciilifeform: aha! what i learned was: throw it out and derive from 0.
asciilifeform: ( and, most often, not even in 'famous restaurant' but mcd... )
asciilifeform: trying to learn something by reading shithubolade ( and yes i'm quite aware that there simply ain't much else in public ) is rather like trying to learn to be a fine french chef by studying shit going out the pipe of the toilet in famous restaurant
asciilifeform: ( if it's rubbish even worth digging through, that is -- most rubbish ain't )
asciilifeform: and oughta have your entomological hat on.
asciilifeform: so if you see 1) problem that doesn't call for multitude of moving parts + 2) multitude of moving parts --> you know you are looking at rubbish
asciilifeform: e.g. the problem described in the avionics link, certainly does not
asciilifeform: the other thing, phf, is that not so many things ACTUALLY call for 'many moving parts'.
asciilifeform: ( consider the observation: if martians dropped in front of your house a 8192-bit cpu, you could set Word => 8192 and ... all of the loops disappear.
asciilifeform: so i asked 'what would this look like on sane iron' and ended up with ffa
asciilifeform: and realizing that they are the reason why $subj ( for various values of $subj ) appears not to make sense.
asciilifeform: this is the funny bit : i learned by studying from horrifying cruftsmen☟︎
asciilifeform: i.e. 'what do you ACTUALLY NEED for rsa ?'
asciilifeform: phf: i'ma try again. for past few yrs i collected various maculature re 'bignum arithmetic', etc. and it all turned out to be rubbish, it is going to the flea market. because was made by people who did not consider the essentials.
asciilifeform: phf: do you recall the ( now defunct ? and i forget where it was... ) www where folx made fun of 'india code', with the folx who never heard of a for() loop etc
