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I am pretty sure I would not have written "Hey buy me drinks to see how I did this." even if I was CO intoxicated, that seems pretty unlikely.

I have to agree, I was 11 years old when Apollo 11 landed, I thought that by now you could fly there in something like an airplane or that we would have been to Mars. It feels a bit disappointing for sure.

I think he will fess up eventually, but is sort of being a dick about it for sure.

I was hoping HN could give me ideas, but now he will probably read this on HN and then really give me a hard time about it.

hmmm, could be, but at the time it happened he was on the other end of town but I wonder if will we were in close proximity he could have connected a BT device somehow and planted something.

Yeah, I replied in the thread earlier, I suspect he saw me put my pin in. But at the time it happened he was on the other side of town.

Yeah, I sort of feel that way too but maybe also is a good lesson learned.

I have a Galaxy S21 5G with Android 13

I also changed my pin because I suspect he saw me entering it, but when this occurred he was at the other end of town so it would have had to have been some sort of remote access. I am thinking maybe phone link, which I had been using with my laptop, I disabled that.

It was definitely not autocomplete because he said something that only he would have know regarding the message I was typing.

He is being kind of a dick about it but I think will probably tell me if I push it but I guess part of it is I don't want to appear as stupid as I guess I am and want to at least get an idea of what it was.

I also turned on face recognition so that people will not see me putting in my pin.

I do not think he went through my laptop because it was turned off at the time.

It has been making me crazy. I will probably have to buy him a bottle of wine or something to get him to confess :)

UI Verion 5.1 Android Version 13 Kernel 5.4.219 Android Security patch level March 1, 2023

The app is called Messages, it's the default app and it's version 14.1.30.19

It was a half typed message, something like this:

I put in: "Hey Dan, are you going to the comedy club Friday " but was going to put night and is anyone else going. but took a call. then he somehow put in the text area where i was typing "yeah, Jan and Steve are going too but you are buying me drinks if you want to know how I did this."

So I knew it was him, I never hit send. So, he was in my phone I think.

I have a Galaxy S21 5G with Android 13

smart-alec is a smart ass, I was trying to keep it clean,.

agree, he is being a dick.

Something happened to me the other day, I started drafting a text using the regular text messaging app on my android phone, I was sending it to a friend, but I got distracted by a call and never sent the text. Later I went to finish it and send it but he had gone in and put some smart-alec comment in the text of the message I was drafting. I was shocked. He refuses to tell me how he did it. I went through all the settings, scans permissions and so on. He says he can't do it now but still refuses to tell me how he did it. Scary. I wish I could find out what it was he did. Any HN'ers have any ideas?

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The first time I saw laced cable, I am not ashamed, much, to say was in 1978, when I had just finished my masters in EE and had just landed a job at Bell Labs. One of my first assignments was to develop a procedure to convert an old teletype system to the new "datapak" technology which was a version of X.25 (a predecessor to the Internet, more or less) and was called BX.25, I guess, Bell X.25.

I went to an office that had the old teletype equipment, which reeked of PCB's, large coils with oil dripping from them. The circuit transmitted at 10 baud, not that is not a typo, not 10Mbps, 10 bps, or baudot, back then. 300 volts to zero and back again! Travelling hundreds of miles on terrible copper cables through hills and valleys carry the news wire of the day, AP etc.

An old man with grey hair and a beard, crept out of his cubicle to greet me, I informed him that I was from HQ and here to help. Just kidding, but I am sure I said something stupid like that. He explained everything to me, which was fascinating. I was surprised to find out that he was only 25 years old, and the PCB's had aged him. Again, only kidding, I have no idea how old he was, but he ansured me that he was going to retire just as soon as we completed the upgrade to the new technology.

He showed me around, the beauty of the equipment and the cabling astounding me, it was almost as if it would be a crime to touch any of it. The way it was tied so carefully. The way everything was put together. There was a beauty that was almost reminiscent of the Incan Quipu's.

I am sure I am waxing philosophically here of course. But who is to say that ancient technology is any less amazing than old art or music?

I wrote a novel, I know, every asshole has. About this. My theory, that is, either ridiculous or correct, the Silurians are the ancestors of the dolphin. The dolphin, or OK, the Orca, have a larger cerebral cortex than humans. What if, they were on once land dwellers, could it be? There is some science behind that. And say, they burned a bunch of hydrocarbons and caused a global warming, melted all the ice and they had to evolve to be ocean mammals.

I understand this is a sci-fi fantasy.

But my mind wanders, I think, let's say you understand your fate, once cast, how would you warn the next intelligent species to inhabit Earth?

You cannot simply place an odalisque with an inscription on it, of course, over the millennia or billennia, it will be erased, you send out a sentinel into space.

How would you warn the next iteration of intelligent life?

Perhaps some sort of AI space craft?

What if it turns out, they are the intelligent ones, having learned a lesson we have yet to learn?

These guys are doing something similar with crowd sourcing. https://www.tutela.com/

When I first started reading this article, I'll admit, the first thought, as a life-long Seattlite, that crossed my mind was, here we go again, some dumbass writes about what it is like to live in Seattle. Goddamit. But when I saw the chart that showed walking distance to a park at the top of the list then I started to realize this one hit the mark. I actually purchased the home that I did because it is one block from my favorite park in the whole world, it is a magical place, to me, I discovered on a bike ride training for the STP. And I vowed I was going to buy a place near this park someday. Call me crazy, but parks, just in general, are so extremely important to the quality of life and sometimes I think people overlook the importance of having a lot of public spaces like that.

When I started reading

I suspect Hanlon's razor is operational here. China uses those things off in international waters all the time, the fact that this one almost perfectly followed the jet stream seems to indicate it may have had a malfunction of its propulsion system and it drifted with the wind. When the US uses them in the China sea they have the advantage that if there is a malfunction it usually would drift safely West away from China.

True, although, evidence of offensive transmitters is difficult to completely destroy, heavy heat sinks and so forth. Simply erasing memory does not obliterate such clues.

True, although from up there you can collect a lot more than on the ground of course. The US does the same thing over international waters off China.

The other concern would be if it has jamming capabilities, you can jam an earth station pretty easily from a balloon and effectively blind our satellites.

Even if there is wreckage, you can tell if there is offensive signal equipment like that.

The trick is to shoot it down in a way it falls slowly so you can retrieve it and see what is in it, although, I suspect our intelligence agencies have a pretty good idea already.

I have no idea of course, but one thing I thought would be a Stingray, at that altitude you could intercept thousands of cell calls. I doubt that's what it is but the other thing is if it has any radio jamming capabilities or other things of offensive nature.

Main difference, a balloon can carry a payload that is capable of jamming rather than just surveilling radio signals.

Something not being talked about.

The point is, Ma Bell, the original AT&T, was a long distance company. That was their cash cow. That was their mind set. So the basically gave cellular away. Same thing as Kodak, they saw themselves as a chemical company not a photography company.

Truth is, ma bell should have thought of themselves as a telecommunications compay.

Exact same mistake.

Yeah, pretty much none of that is what mattered really. Making a phone small enough to fit in a pocket or purse meant all digital even for voice. that came with 3G but the brick showed the way.

Just getting back here. There were a number of things that made the hand-held possible and yes, not related to the network really except that, the cellular approach meant that you needed a microprocessor in the phone to handle the channel hopping and you of course needed cheap processors at the cell site to manage the radios and control channels. All of that was stuff that came after IMTS was developed. If you disassemble a brick phone, most of it is battery and heat sink. The thing that made thin phones possible came later, that was digital technology which mean the radio could be switched on and off as packets got sent and received a technology called DRX, discontinuous reception, that came with 3G later on. The exact frequencies used is sort of irrelevant TBH, that all just has to do with propagation and path loss which just changes the various engineering parameters like cell spacing and so forth. The thing that got people hooked on cell phones was that you could carry it around. That was the game changer. I have a slide deck where I do on cellular latencies, I show a picture of a brick phone and say, this was the wireless device with the lowest latency in history. Meaning, it was on all the time when connect. Something that changed with digital. But being able to shut things down in between bursts of packets is what made the dainty phones possible :)

One of the first projects I worked on at Bell Labs back in the day, was a replacement for IMTS called HCMTS, High Capacity Mobile Telephone Service, later renamed AMPS, the original analog cellular technology. I was 2 years old at the time (joke, I am old ;) What was interesting is that during the break up of the Bell System, no one wanted the technology because the marketing research estimated that something like 150,000 people nationally wanted it. But they asked the question the wrong way, people were thinking of it like the old expensive IMTS, not something you could hold in your hand. That came later. It reminded me a lot of Kodak letting digital photography go because the early versions were klunky, and they thought it would never take off. Classic story in tech.

Very cool work, good luck, hope you land a good job.

I put in "Women Jazz Singers" Not bad, a bit heavy on Nina Simone and had Marvin Gaye, who was great but a dude. Nit picking really. Nice work :)

I recall some time back something like this article was posted in HN and I conveyed a story about the time some crows were screeching like crazy in a tree outside my bedroom window waking me up early. I was so pissed I went outside and got some rocks to throw at them. But then I noticed there was a badger (or some cat like creature, it was early, and I was groggy) and it was climbing up the tree to try to get to the crow's babies.

I guess my inner mommy kicked in and I threw the rocks at the badger, and it fell out of the tree and ran off and the crows quieted down. It seemed to me like they were bowing or nodding their heads to me after I did that.

After that, whenever I went outside, I wave at my little neighbors. I posted that and someone on HN said it was a good thing I made that decision otherwise the crows would have hated me and might chase me outside. I thought that was a little kooky when I first read that, to be honest. But after seeing a lot of other article posts like this one, and the experience I had, I think there is something to this idea that crows are smarter than, well... smarter than I had previous considered.

Ya, it would be like getting 538 people together and putting them in charge of passing laws we all have to obey. So ignorant!

How is aerial photography essential when a drone can do the same thing? Sure, carbon tax, how does the tax reduce carbon emissions? If all the resourced individuals you mention just pay it? That only works if it is a disincentive. If they all pay it then no reduction occurs.

Yes, less pilots. good. Less flights. Less carbon. all good. BTW, most light aircraft flights are hobby not training.