Nevermind it took them two years to release Java 6 which required users to have 64bit intel boxes. So, if you were doing any sort of Java desktop work (yes, this does exist), you were stuck on Java 5.
They later started to ship Java 6 for 32 bit boxes, too. I'm running it on an early MacBook (Core Duo, 32 bit cpu).
And all it does is intercept unencrypted IP packets from satellites which use IP over dvb-s for internet connections (most of them are one-way connections, uplink via pots modem/isdn).
So this is _definitly_ _NOT_ "spying on drones", I highly doubt that the drones themselves have an dvb-s transmitter in the same frequency range as "public" communication sats. It _might_ be that some of the drone data was/is routed through the internet and therefore could be intercepted with above software _IF_ some military dudes use any of the commercial ip-via-sat-providers (or even their _unencrypted_ own), but this isn't different from normal ethernet/wifi/whatever carrier ist used - sniffing.
Oh and btw., open source terrorists get their awsome drone sniffing software for FREE!!!!1111:
Brian: "Look at all these Hummers. What kind of jerk would drive one of these?
Hummer Jerk: "Dude, this car kicks ass. And I can watch Madagaskar while I'm drivin'!" (looks to onboard tv)
Lion: "What kind of music do you like, Gloria?"
Hippo: "Hippo-Hop! Yeah baby!" (music kicks in)
Hummer Jerk: "Hahaha, those animals are so fucking funny, they wanna make me merge without looking! YEAH! RUMSFELD!"
Just search for.doc and.xls on your favourite network. Most of the results certainly aren't supposed to be public. Search for a file normaly found in the root directory (in win98 days it was AUTOEXEC.BAT), and you've got thousands of "friends" sharing their complete hd.
If not in a completly automated way as in OCRing and stuff then by either
a) masses of cheap labor monkeys getting some pennys for every hundreds of solved captchas. And no, that won't change until those monkeys are cheaper than the profit made of spamming, selling valid gmail accounts or what ever the captcha is for. There is even an open market for those captcha solving providers.
b) Tricking joe sixpack into solving this "puzzle" in order to see more of them naked milfs. This will last as long as enough stupid people want so see some porn on the tubes (forever).
Both these methods relay on human interaction (hence the quotation marks around "broken" in the caption), so they can, by definition, break every captcha, which is supposed to "...Tell Computers and Humans Apart", d'oh!
As somebody already said, there is a java client which uses the same NASA imagery as WW.
Also very interesting imho is that the developer of gaia, the once open-sourced client for GE, switched his code to use the NASA data after being shut down by google. Gaia uses the sdl library and therefore should compile on any system sdl supports (from www.libsdl.org: "SDL supports Linux, Windows, Windows CE, BeOS, MacOS, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. The code contains support for AmigaOS, Dreamcast, Atari, AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, SymbianOS, and OS/2, but these are not officially supported.").
...which sells in europe for abt. 40 EURs. The wii remote uses ordinary bluetooth, drivers exist for ALL common OSes (win, osx, linux, see http://wiihacks.blogspot.com/ and http://www.wiili.org/ for further infos) and you got:
- a precise mouse-like pointing device (you've got to build yourself a simple "sensor bar" which consists only of a couple of IR LEDs as wii (hoho) all know)
- 3 dimensional acceleration/motion sensors
- couple of buttons ...and you're done!
There is another dangerous capacitor in conventional TVs besides in the power supply unit the parent post describes: The CRT itself! The rectified voltage from the power supply is switched and transformed again with a special high voltage transformer and a diode ladder to serveral tenths of kilovolts to get the nessesary acceleration of the electrons which penetrate the phosphor on the front to make a pixel light up. Since this voltage is applied between the front and the back of the tube, the tube itself is a (although very low) capacitor. Remeber, energy in a capacitor is calculated by: E=1/2*C*U^2 , with the voltage in square, so thanks to the high voltage, this capacitor can be equally lethal. Plus, as a rule of thumb, about 1kV will sparkover at a distance of 1mm, so you just have to come close to get buzzed.
In professional tv service, the tube is discharged with a suitable high voltage resistor at first. For the hobbyist, it might be enough just to the let the tv completely disconnected from any power source for at least one day get the crt discharged itself.
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Nevermind it took them two years to release Java 6 which required users to have 64bit intel boxes. So, if you were doing any sort of Java desktop work (yes, this does exist), you were stuck on Java 5.
They later started to ship Java 6 for 32 bit boxes, too. I'm running it on an early MacBook (Core Duo, 32 bit cpu).
...is just a dvb-s grabber, see:
http://www.skygrabber.com/en/skygrabber.php
And all it does is intercept unencrypted IP packets from satellites which use IP over dvb-s for internet connections (most of them are one-way connections, uplink via pots modem/isdn).
So this is _definitly_ _NOT_ "spying on drones", I highly doubt that the drones themselves have an dvb-s transmitter in the same frequency range as "public" communication sats. It _might_ be that some of the drone data was/is routed through the internet and therefore could be intercepted with above software _IF_ some military dudes use any of the commercial ip-via-sat-providers (or even their _unencrypted_ own), but this isn't different from normal ethernet/wifi/whatever carrier ist used - sniffing.
Oh and btw., open source terrorists get their awsome drone sniffing software for FREE!!!!1111:
http://sites.google.com/site/skynetr32/skynet.%3Ar32_index_en (in case you're to lazy to klick on the link: basically another dvb-s file sniffer, but open sauce).
Brian: "Look at all these Hummers. What kind of jerk would drive one of these?
Hummer Jerk: "Dude, this car kicks ass. And I can watch Madagaskar while I'm drivin'!" (looks to onboard tv)
Lion: "What kind of music do you like, Gloria?"
Hippo: "Hippo-Hop! Yeah baby!" (music kicks in)
Hummer Jerk: "Hahaha, those animals are so fucking funny, they wanna make me merge without looking! YEAH! RUMSFELD!"
http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l89/blackh3/?action=view¤t=fg-hummer.flv
n/t
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/02/jovion-corporation-gets-patent-for-zero.html
Full patent (pdf) http://www.calphysics.org/Patent7379286.pdf
How is this supposed to work? I don't get it...
1. gas gets pushed through micro-cavities (small enough for the casimir effect to work)
2. ???
3. "free" energy from heated gas
Just search for .doc and .xls on your favourite network. Most of the results certainly aren't supposed to be public. Search for a file normaly found in the root directory (in win98 days it was AUTOEXEC.BAT), and you've got thousands of "friends" sharing their complete hd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBaXwRQQciI&eurl
The small hole on the case is easy to miss.
If not in a completly automated way as in OCRing and stuff then by either
a) masses of cheap labor monkeys getting some pennys for every hundreds of solved captchas. And no, that won't change until those monkeys are cheaper than the profit made of spamming, selling valid gmail accounts or what ever the captcha is for. There is even an open market for those captcha solving providers.
b) Tricking joe sixpack into solving this "puzzle" in order to see more of them naked milfs. This will last as long as enough stupid people want so see some porn on the tubes (forever).
Both these methods relay on human interaction (hence the quotation marks around "broken" in the caption), so they can, by definition, break every captcha, which is supposed to "...Tell Computers and Humans Apart", d'oh!
It's not only about software. Apple translates their hardware prices with their own, erm "special" exchange rates: For e.g. let's buy the cheapest macbook in the US store: http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MB402LL/A?mco=NzQ3Njk0 which sells for 1,099 USD. Vs. the same in the German store: http://store.apple.com/de/configure/MB402D/A?mco=NzU0Njc2 for 999 EUR, that's abt. 1,557 USD according to google.
for all the russian reversals! btw, in soviet russia, TLDs register YOU!
I will read TFA before posting on ./ ./
I will read the pages I link to before posting on
http://jlnlabs.imars.com/gfsuav/index.htm
;-)
Besides, there's a company claiming to have "invented" this type of craft years ago (hp says 2002):
http://www.gfsprojects.co.uk/
so is the business model the following?
1. patent stuff others invented before (and maybe forgot to patent it)
2. profit
3. ???
(please honor my contribution to a new version of the underpant gnomes joke
As somebody already said, there is a java client which uses the same NASA imagery as WW. Also very interesting imho is that the developer of gaia, the once open-sourced client for GE, switched his code to use the NASA data after being shut down by google. Gaia uses the sdl library and therefore should compile on any system sdl supports (from www.libsdl.org: "SDL supports Linux, Windows, Windows CE, BeOS, MacOS, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. The code contains support for AmigaOS, Dreamcast, Atari, AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, SymbianOS, and OS/2, but these are not officially supported.").
...which sells in europe for abt. 40 EURs. The wii remote uses ordinary bluetooth, drivers exist for ALL common OSes (win, osx, linux, see http://wiihacks.blogspot.com/ and http://www.wiili.org/ for further infos) and you got:
...and you're done!
- a precise mouse-like pointing device (you've got to build yourself a simple "sensor bar" which consists only of a couple of IR LEDs as wii (hoho) all know)
- 3 dimensional acceleration/motion sensors
- couple of buttons
I gotta say, I really like fucking till I sleep!
There is another dangerous capacitor in conventional TVs besides in the power supply unit the parent post describes: The CRT itself! The rectified voltage from the power supply is switched and transformed again with a special high voltage transformer and a diode ladder to serveral tenths of kilovolts to get the nessesary acceleration of the electrons which penetrate the phosphor on the front to make a pixel light up. Since this voltage is applied between the front and the back of the tube, the tube itself is a (although very low) capacitor. Remeber, energy in a capacitor is calculated by: E=1/2*C*U^2 , with the voltage in square, so thanks to the high voltage, this capacitor can be equally lethal. Plus, as a rule of thumb, about 1kV will sparkover at a distance of 1mm, so you just have to come close to get buzzed. In professional tv service, the tube is discharged with a suitable high voltage resistor at first. For the hobbyist, it might be enough just to the let the tv completely disconnected from any power source for at least one day get the crt discharged itself.