They actually used the term kilowatt hours? Something is very very off there.
Why is that? Kilowatt hours is how electrical energy use is billed (at least in Australia) and I just pulled out my last bill and can see I used around 2200 kWh for last quarter, so around 24 kWh per day so it's a convenient unit for comparison. Unless you're thinking of seeing batteries quotes in Ah which doesn't mean much without knowing the nominal voltage.
I hadn't heard of them before but the only 3G + GPS solutions using Python I've heard of are Telit modules, doing a search for Telit products it's probably something like the following:
Is it even possible for most people to use a modem these days? I suspect most phone traffic is already passing through an ADC->DAC translation anyway. Trying to put a modem signal through that seems like a painful exercise.
I did some work on a legacy embedded system using a 2400bps modem about 5 years back and it still worked fine over a modern phone system when the receiving end was VoIP with an analog modem attached. It was part of a gas meter reading systems where it piggy-backed on a POTS line and reported usage once a day, the tiny amount of data being transmitted only needed about a 30 second connection so a few hundred reporting back to a single line overnight with staggered connections and retries was practical.
Some vending machines used to do the same until relatively recently but much rarer now that a GSM subscription can be had for $50 per annum in volume so trying to make use of an existing land-line would have a long payback time given the extra installation costs.
I've read a few of these stories lately and while personally I run a Mikrotik router with a separate access point I thought the vast majority of shitty consumer routers still had a basic firewall that blocked all incoming connections by default? Plus for those that don't presumably all these IoT device would need NAT on your typical home network to be accessible externally so does anyone know if UPnP is required for these exploits to work?
I realize this only applies to external port scans but I'd assume that's how most botnets find target devices rather than because of outgoing connections to the vendor's server that may be compromised.
1. A solution that uses a central server only for the purpose of establishing the IP address of your chosen call recipient, then allows all communication to that recipient to happen directly, point-to-point. There is no need to route call traffic through central servers (unless you want to listen in). Ahem. Skype.
I'm not so sure with mobile devices that's as easy as it sounds. I'm not aware of the situation in other countries but in Australia you normally sit behind NAT and don't get a publicly routable IP address. I once inquired with with a carrier if it was possible to get one so I could VNC into an embedded system using a dynamic DNS arrangement and the answer was it was only available as an add-on option for corporate accounts, and that meant having a minimum of 500 phone services.
I don't really know anything about (semi-)professional photography, but I always assumed objectives from different manufacturers were compatible. Can't you use your old glass with the new, different camera?
Just as a bit of additional background modern lenses and flashes may do a bit more than you'd imagine. I'm a Canon user but say I attach a 70-200 zoom lens the auto-focus motor is in the lens so if say tracking a moving vehicle in servo mode there's a constant stream of information flowing between the camera and lens to try and hold it in focus. The current focal length also gets reported back as I zoom in and out, and if a compatible flash is attached it will mechanically move reflectors to direct the most flash power into a smaller area that will still cover the scene.
Those are proprietory protocols but have been reverse-engineered by 3rd party lens manufacturers. Occasionally though the OEM will begin using some new feature / protocol that was always present in their lenses and it's not uncommon to hear that a 3rd party lens needs to go back to the factory for a firmware update to work with a newly released camera.
Not sure really, understanding an article written by an anthropologist on programming seems harder than kernel development to me. But you're probably on the right track though. Other requirements from what I gather are a one-click install and a Microsoft Bob equivalent to ask what you want to achieve.
Thanks for the clarification. I'd assumed from TFS it was GPS data.
It probably makes the anecdote suspect as well unless he's a good cheater but poor liar. I assume the sort of people who buy these products are the kind who might have trouble sleeping and end up doing a little excercise or go for a jog in the early hours.
I tried that too using Melbourne and Sydney and got similar results, but then realised it was because I was using 3000 and 2000 postcodes which are the CBD areas that probably don't have a lot of residents comparitively. Using my actual suburb which is only medium size and is Tasmania yielded 63 results and that would strike me as fairly plausible.
Results are pretty useless in a lot of areas though because of the obvious bias of using credit cards. For example "Christco Hampers" that are once a year Christmas mail-orders hampers come up as the #1 grocery supplier because just about all customers would use a credit card card. The two big supermarket chains that have about a 90% market share I believe come up as #2 and #3.
This wasn't about stopping taking pictures - the demand was to delete the pictures. Which he couldn't - it's a film camera.
Not that it's the point in the case, but with a film camera it is rather easy to delete your photos albeit at the expense of losing your other shots as well.
I suspect a few seconds of sun exposure is a whole lot harder to recover than deleted pictures on a DSLR, where you can just use a FAT undelete utility especially if no more pictures are taken afterwards.
I suspect many millions like myself have thousands of HD5970 cards busy mining bitcoins which probably accounts for some of it. Hell I had to install my own array of diesel generators after I realized that silicon solar cells can't be vertically stacked well.
Anyway I expect my cache of BTC will keep my family and myself financially secure for generations to come, even if air quality may be somewhat degraded.
That safety zone is shaped like a pizza box and extends out 15 miles (25 kilometers) to either side, as well as a half-mile (0.75 km) above and below the station.
I wonder why it's shaped like a pizza box?
I guess the forward deflector array must be more effective on the vertical plane but anyone know for sure?
True, I normally use a 8-bit checksum for my hashing for best performance. On passwords in particular some people think hashing and password recovery are incompatible, but on the server I simply maintain a list of 256 complex looking passwords so a match can be quickly looked up and e-mailed back.
Does anyone know if that idea has been thought of before, maybe I should take a patent?
Honest question, he has the asterisk next to him for a subscriber but looking at past posts they are all complete shit as well but don't seem to have been modded down. Is that some sort of 'perk' of subscribing?
I noticed in TFA there's a twitter link to #OpAustralia that mentions it's being released next Saturday. I'm not sure which definition of "next" they're using.
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They actually used the term kilowatt hours? Something is very very off there.
Why is that? Kilowatt hours is how electrical energy use is billed (at least in Australia) and I just pulled out my last bill and can see I used around 2200 kWh for last quarter, so around 24 kWh per day so it's a convenient unit for comparison. Unless you're thinking of seeing batteries quotes in Ah which doesn't mean much without knowing the nominal voltage.
I hadn't heard of them before but the only 3G + GPS solutions using Python I've heard of are Telit modules, doing a search for Telit products it's probably something like the following:
HE910 Mini PCIe - 3G
Is it even possible for most people to use a modem these days? I suspect most phone traffic is already passing through an ADC->DAC translation anyway. Trying to put a modem signal through that seems like a painful exercise.
I did some work on a legacy embedded system using a 2400bps modem about 5 years back and it still worked fine over a modern phone system when the receiving end was VoIP with an analog modem attached. It was part of a gas meter reading systems where it piggy-backed on a POTS line and reported usage once a day, the tiny amount of data being transmitted only needed about a 30 second connection so a few hundred reporting back to a single line overnight with staggered connections and retries was practical. Some vending machines used to do the same until relatively recently but much rarer now that a GSM subscription can be had for $50 per annum in volume so trying to make use of an existing land-line would have a long payback time given the extra installation costs.
I've read a few of these stories lately and while personally I run a Mikrotik router with a separate access point I thought the vast majority of shitty consumer routers still had a basic firewall that blocked all incoming connections by default? Plus for those that don't presumably all these IoT device would need NAT on your typical home network to be accessible externally so does anyone know if UPnP is required for these exploits to work? I realize this only applies to external port scans but I'd assume that's how most botnets find target devices rather than because of outgoing connections to the vendor's server that may be compromised.
1. A solution that uses a central server only for the purpose of establishing the IP address of your chosen call recipient, then allows all communication to that recipient to happen directly, point-to-point. There is no need to route call traffic through central servers (unless you want to listen in). Ahem. Skype.
I'm not so sure with mobile devices that's as easy as it sounds. I'm not aware of the situation in other countries but in Australia you normally sit behind NAT and don't get a publicly routable IP address. I once inquired with with a carrier if it was possible to get one so I could VNC into an embedded system using a dynamic DNS arrangement and the answer was it was only available as an add-on option for corporate accounts, and that meant having a minimum of 500 phone services.
I don't really know anything about (semi-)professional photography, but I always assumed objectives from different manufacturers were compatible. Can't you use your old glass with the new, different camera?
Just as a bit of additional background modern lenses and flashes may do a bit more than you'd imagine. I'm a Canon user but say I attach a 70-200 zoom lens the auto-focus motor is in the lens so if say tracking a moving vehicle in servo mode there's a constant stream of information flowing between the camera and lens to try and hold it in focus. The current focal length also gets reported back as I zoom in and out, and if a compatible flash is attached it will mechanically move reflectors to direct the most flash power into a smaller area that will still cover the scene.
Those are proprietory protocols but have been reverse-engineered by 3rd party lens manufacturers. Occasionally though the OEM will begin using some new feature / protocol that was always present in their lenses and it's not uncommon to hear that a 3rd party lens needs to go back to the factory for a firmware update to work with a newly released camera.
Not sure really, understanding an article written by an anthropologist on programming seems harder than kernel development to me. But you're probably on the right track though. Other requirements from what I gather are a one-click install and a Microsoft Bob equivalent to ask what you want to achieve.
Does he have a db25 plug on his head?
It's probably wireless and I'm also guessing the test device was probably a Blue monkey over Bluetooth.
Nice shots, I'm down the south of the country near Hobart and it was heavily clouded and under 50% coverage but got one half-decent pic
Eclipse
Thanks for the clarification. I'd assumed from TFS it was GPS data.
It probably makes the anecdote suspect as well unless he's a good cheater but poor liar. I assume the sort of people who buy these products are the kind who might have trouble sleeping and end up doing a little excercise or go for a jog in the early hours.
I tried that too using Melbourne and Sydney and got similar results, but then realised it was because I was using 3000 and 2000 postcodes which are the CBD areas that probably don't have a lot of residents comparitively. Using my actual suburb which is only medium size and is Tasmania yielded 63 results and that would strike me as fairly plausible.
Results are pretty useless in a lot of areas though because of the obvious bias of using credit cards. For example "Christco Hampers" that are once a year Christmas mail-orders hampers come up as the #1 grocery supplier because just about all customers would use a credit card card. The two big supermarket chains that have about a 90% market share I believe come up as #2 and #3.
What he was seeking at the university I really don't know.
Probably a job?
Your analytical skills don't seem advanced.
True, but you need to remember to say CQ DX for long distance calls.
This wasn't about stopping taking pictures - the demand was to delete the pictures. Which he couldn't - it's a film camera.
Not that it's the point in the case, but with a film camera it is rather easy to delete your photos albeit at the expense of losing your other shots as well.
I suspect a few seconds of sun exposure is a whole lot harder to recover than deleted pictures on a DSLR, where you can just use a FAT undelete utility especially if no more pictures are taken afterwards.
I suspect many millions like myself have thousands of HD5970 cards busy mining bitcoins which probably accounts for some of it. Hell I had to install my own array of diesel generators after I realized that silicon solar cells can't be vertically stacked well.
Anyway I expect my cache of BTC will keep my family and myself financially secure for generations to come, even if air quality may be somewhat degraded.
I'm deeply offended - and off the police
That sounds like a terrorist threat, we are on our way. What is your IP address?
--MI5
Do you really think THAT Jack Thompson would be using Photoshop CS6??
Jack Thompson is an incredibly uncommon name though so I get your point. However my guess it was someone more arty-farty like Jack Thompson (actor).
That safety zone is shaped like a pizza box and extends out 15 miles (25 kilometers) to either side, as well as a half-mile (0.75 km) above and below the station.
I wonder why it's shaped like a pizza box?
I guess the forward deflector array must be more effective on the vertical plane but anyone know for sure?
Damned right, try putting A = PEAK(10) into your BASIC interpreter and see how it goes.
I won't even go into how many people around here have probably either forgotten or never known in the first place how to do a well structured POKE.
Interesting, I often find the same reading things not succinct and broken into paragraphs.
True, I normally use a 8-bit checksum for my hashing for best performance. On passwords in particular some people think hashing and password recovery are incompatible, but on the server I simply maintain a list of 256 complex looking passwords so a match can be quickly looked up and e-mailed back.
Does anyone know if that idea has been thought of before, maybe I should take a patent?
Fucking offtopic horseshit.
Honest question, he has the asterisk next to him for a subscriber but looking at past posts they are all complete shit as well but don't seem to have been modded down. Is that some sort of 'perk' of subscribing?
If there's one thing internet users have plenty of, it's opinions.
Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks.
~~~~ Dirty Harry
I noticed in TFA there's a twitter link to #OpAustralia that mentions it's being released next Saturday. I'm not sure which definition of "next" they're using.
Wifi: patented! For shame australia. I am legitimately disgusted.
Well get fucked and use a captital A next time.
-- Australia