Neither of which will help if you have removed the SIM card in your unlocked smartphone to use it as a PDA.
With the example of iPhone/iPodTouch, they still have EDID (basically ESN) when no SIM is present... And if you never connect the device to a network, the whole reason for having this kind of ID is moot anyway.
I don't understand what you're trying to argue here.
but how is that going to help if this is using your mobile phone internal memory for purchase authentication?
There are already systems in place for that: SIM cards and electronic serial numbers. Neither of those require purposefully breaking read-write memory in a way that provides no benefit over simple ROM, and both are just as "unspoofable" as this is. Not to mention that SIMs/ESNs have a much reduced chance of randomly changing the identity.
What if one more bit goes bad during normal usage..Identity is gone. Any thing tied to it will stop working.."Very much like humans recognize faces: by their defects"..if your son had plastic surgery without your knowledge..you will fail to recognize him?
Especially if that plastic surgery was done unintentionally just by looking at him one time too many.
So let me get this straight... They "create" an ID by writing and rewriting a bunch of bits until they start failing, then mark the whole block bad. To "read" the identity, they set all bits to 0 and see which ones are stuck at 1 and then set all bits to 1 to see which are stuck at 0. The "bad block" ID area has already been written to thousands of times intentionally. What's going to guarantee that by "reading" the bad block ID (with 2 assignments each time), we won't unintentionally be making the final write to an extra bit or two?
Really? I could script automatic commercial insertion with freely available tools in under an hour. Add a little more time and I could have my DNS server pointing you to a region appropriate page to pull a torrent, direct download, or stream with those region appropriate ads from. And unlike now, you wouldn't be sharing revenue from the ads with your distribution method of choice; you would get every penny. Further, you would have a far more accurate count of how many people watched your programming via that method than Nielsen could ever give.
How is a torrent generated by a script for each user at all useful? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the torrent; y'know, to have multiple people share their bandwidth when downloading the same data? Even if you cache the torrents that you're throwing out there, do you really think having one per city would be good? Anything bigger starts to hit the same locality problem as just having a single torrent.
And if you don't torrent it, you'll be paying for bandwidth. I'm not in the industry, but I'd expect bandwidth to stream to anybody is a lot more expensive than simply sending it off to a few distributors and letting them put it through their cable system.
[1]: I'm very annoyed that the likes of CBS, Fox, ABC and Comedy Central don't simply provide their own torrents. I'd be much happier if I could simply download legitimate feeds of this stuff, with commercials, than I currently am stealing it commercial-free. I'd even be happy help them distribute it, as is the nature of bittorrent. Alas.
The difference is that you have to download the entire file before you can watch it. You know this. So you should know that anybody can just skip past the ads in anything they downloaded. This is harder to do with streams or broadcast TV.
Further, ads in a torrent like that would be very hard to sell. Most ads are targeted to specific regions. Not all products being advertised are available anywhere in the world. And not all companies wanting to advertise have locations everywhere. Think of an ad for your local used car dealer--but being watched in China. Not very effective, right? I don't imagine they'd create region-specific torrents either because even the idea has tremendous problems.
That's strange, I thought most of the cell companies had customer retention plans for when they screw something up. I have a friend who used Verizon and noticed some minuscule fee increase by $0.25. He'd been having problems with them for a while; calls dropping randomly in areas with excellent signal strength, often hearing messages that all the outgoing lines were busy, etc. So he took the contract in to a store and pointed them to the clause that stated it was void because of unannounced fee increases. They really didn't want him to cancel service with them and gave him a ridiculous plan to stay on. It was something like $40/mo total for 4000 minutes and unlimited text. And his phone also happened to stop having its network problems.
Because the story at micropctalk.com is just a scattered set of forum postings. I did some quick searching and found the pictures from the USB hub here. I'm sure there's other bits of the story elsewhere.
China does not want North Korea to fall simply because of the economic (read: food) drain that would be placed on Northeast China. They don't want 23 million impoverished people flooding in through their border. Would you want 23 million people showing up in your state/province? In that same sense, South Korea (and the US as the stick holding them up) doesn't want that either. Instead, it's financially beneficial for us to let North Korea have a government that keeps them all contained. It just happens to be inconvenient that they want to build nukes and threaten us as well.
I actually met a North Korean guy in China. (He was in China legally; not an escapee) He was cordial though untrusting and thought I was European. We talked in Mandarin real briefly and even with the limited exchange we had it was apparent he was quite proud of Kim Jong-il. He stopped talking to me when I told him I'm American. North Koreans are indoctrinated to believe that the US imperialists' only goal is to destroy their country and kill off their people. If you read any of their news, you'd see this pretty clearly.
I also find it strange that you do not bring up Xinjiang province. That one is in a similar situation as Tibet. Basically, they're another province in China that wants to separate. A migrant worker of Uygher ethnicity in Southeast China lost his factory job and started a rumor that some Han men raped a Uygher woman. The rumor was false as the Uygher man admitted after the resultant riot broke out. That riot burned buses and raped/beat/murdered any member of the Han ethnicity that was living in Urumqi (capital of Xinjiang). It was brutal and senseless. Western media was not given free reign in Urumqi because of the way they spun the Tibetan riot before it. Spun. Western media has a knack for making aggressors look like victims. Tibet instigated violence but was cast as the victim. And remember the recent Georgian/Russian dispute?
So sure, Xinjiang and Tibet both want to be free from China. But is that a good thing? Upon separation, I can guarantee both new countries would be authoritarian--just as China is. The lives of the common people wouldn't improve by a simple political change, and many historical examples show this. The difference is that we don't know who their leaders would be. I'd rather have a stable evil that I understand than a new evil that I know nothing about.
They mention Whispernet as a way of saving the games. That's 24/7 internet access that runs over the Sprint network. Why is that needed to save games?
Instead, it should be used to enable telnet access for MUDs and SSH for system admins. Or is there no ability for Amazon to monetize what would be made free by a telnet/ssh client?
So you're saying you refuse to do business with the brands that fund the shows you watch? Are you expecting the actors/producers/etc to get money off of some tree?
I don't mind product placement as long as it's not dictating plot lines. In a particularly bad example, Iron Man pissed me off because every other 5 minutes was "Hey look, an American hamburger just happens to be from Burger King. Lets waste viewer time by waiting for that hamburger, meanwhile mentioning it even more." and "Look at my 3 cars sitting there. They're all Audi. You should buy an Audi." and it distracted from the actual plot. But if (insert your favorite character here) happens to be drinking a Coke instead of a generic-named soda, does that really cause you to avoid Coca-cola? Seriously?
Because for security updates, this allows users to find others who don't have the latest patches yet. Just imagine the people watching leecher IPs every time a new remote exploit is patched...
Ask for irrefutable evidence of veracity every time they mention something they think they heard on TV last year? You don't NEED this kind of evidence to have a conversation and learn new things.
You must not have the same kind of friends as me. Mine are usually talking about how California is going to sink into the ocean or how John Glenn was shooting down the Germans because could see them from farther away than previously thought humanly possible.... Yeah. I think it's best to get my friends to tell me where they heard their news from.
I'm not surprised at all. This tool is for people who have no regard for others' computer hardware, so why should they care about computer software either?
But, most surprisingly, the giant penguin's feathers were brown and gray
Clearly that means Ubuntu's color-scheme of brown (older releases) and purple/gray (newer releases) are just devolutions of GNU/Linux into a distribution twice the size of any other. Duh!
I would trust the internet even less if DNS was P2P. I can just imagine trying to look up Bubba: I ask Jack who Bubba is and he says, "a buddy from prison." Then I ask Jill who Bubba is and she says, "My sugardaddy." Sometimes these Bubbas would be the same person, and sometimes they wouldn't.
After being unsatisfied with the article, I did a search for that game. I never had a chance to play on a BBS, and I never registered, but I lost so many hours playing that game...
That game was fun, funny, and classic. And I'm almost tempted to purchase a registration for it now. I kinda wish NETLOD took off, but I also enjoy having a life too...
So you installed the netbook remix because you didn't want netbook crud? I'm failing to see your logic here... Why not use the persistent option from a live USB stick?
All users want that. Isn't that why windoze has it as a default?
And while its borrowing some good design decisions, just get the computer to restart itself whenever updates are auto-applied. Don't worry about processes that may be running, the admin will probably notice on Monday morning.
That solely cites the already-mentioned Wikipedia article, which mentions that its own references may not be reliable. Notice that the only English-language reference is Wired.com?
Let me put it another way:
The inside of his head continued to burn away: all the nerves on the left were gone in two years, paralyzing that side of his face.
The story talks about the particle beam (basically) melting the left side of his face, and the left side of his brain. Why, then, does it continue to talk about him losing control of whatever still existed on the left-side of his face? Is it not common knowledge that the brain does a little switcharoo? You know, the left-brain controls the right side of the body and the right-brain controls the left side of the body... I don't buy that article at all.
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Neither of which will help if you have removed the SIM card in your unlocked smartphone to use it as a PDA.
With the example of iPhone/iPodTouch, they still have EDID (basically ESN) when no SIM is present... And if you never connect the device to a network, the whole reason for having this kind of ID is moot anyway.
I don't understand what you're trying to argue here.
but how is that going to help if this is using your mobile phone internal memory for purchase authentication?
There are already systems in place for that: SIM cards and electronic serial numbers. Neither of those require purposefully breaking read-write memory in a way that provides no benefit over simple ROM, and both are just as "unspoofable" as this is. Not to mention that SIMs/ESNs have a much reduced chance of randomly changing the identity.
What if one more bit goes bad during normal usage..Identity is gone. Any thing tied to it will stop working.."Very much like humans recognize faces: by their defects"..if your son had plastic surgery without your knowledge..you will fail to recognize him?
Especially if that plastic surgery was done unintentionally just by looking at him one time too many.
So let me get this straight... They "create" an ID by writing and rewriting a bunch of bits until they start failing, then mark the whole block bad. To "read" the identity, they set all bits to 0 and see which ones are stuck at 1 and then set all bits to 1 to see which are stuck at 0. The "bad block" ID area has already been written to thousands of times intentionally. What's going to guarantee that by "reading" the bad block ID (with 2 assignments each time), we won't unintentionally be making the final write to an extra bit or two?
Really? I could script automatic commercial insertion with freely available tools in under an hour. Add a little more time and I could have my DNS server pointing you to a region appropriate page to pull a torrent, direct download, or stream with those region appropriate ads from. And unlike now, you wouldn't be sharing revenue from the ads with your distribution method of choice; you would get every penny. Further, you would have a far more accurate count of how many people watched your programming via that method than Nielsen could ever give.
How is a torrent generated by a script for each user at all useful? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the torrent; y'know, to have multiple people share their bandwidth when downloading the same data? Even if you cache the torrents that you're throwing out there, do you really think having one per city would be good? Anything bigger starts to hit the same locality problem as just having a single torrent. And if you don't torrent it, you'll be paying for bandwidth. I'm not in the industry, but I'd expect bandwidth to stream to anybody is a lot more expensive than simply sending it off to a few distributors and letting them put it through their cable system.
[1]: I'm very annoyed that the likes of CBS, Fox, ABC and Comedy Central don't simply provide their own torrents. I'd be much happier if I could simply download legitimate feeds of this stuff, with commercials, than I currently am stealing it commercial-free. I'd even be happy help them distribute it, as is the nature of bittorrent. Alas.
The difference is that you have to download the entire file before you can watch it. You know this. So you should know that anybody can just skip past the ads in anything they downloaded. This is harder to do with streams or broadcast TV.
Further, ads in a torrent like that would be very hard to sell. Most ads are targeted to specific regions. Not all products being advertised are available anywhere in the world. And not all companies wanting to advertise have locations everywhere. Think of an ad for your local used car dealer--but being watched in China. Not very effective, right? I don't imagine they'd create region-specific torrents either because even the idea has tremendous problems.
That's strange, I thought most of the cell companies had customer retention plans for when they screw something up. I have a friend who used Verizon and noticed some minuscule fee increase by $0.25. He'd been having problems with them for a while; calls dropping randomly in areas with excellent signal strength, often hearing messages that all the outgoing lines were busy, etc. So he took the contract in to a store and pointed them to the clause that stated it was void because of unannounced fee increases. They really didn't want him to cancel service with them and gave him a ridiculous plan to stay on. It was something like $40/mo total for 4000 minutes and unlimited text. And his phone also happened to stop having its network problems.
Because the story at micropctalk.com is just a scattered set of forum postings. I did some quick searching and found the pictures from the USB hub here. I'm sure there's other bits of the story elsewhere.
China does not want North Korea to fall simply because of the economic (read: food) drain that would be placed on Northeast China. They don't want 23 million impoverished people flooding in through their border. Would you want 23 million people showing up in your state/province? In that same sense, South Korea (and the US as the stick holding them up) doesn't want that either. Instead, it's financially beneficial for us to let North Korea have a government that keeps them all contained. It just happens to be inconvenient that they want to build nukes and threaten us as well.
I actually met a North Korean guy in China. (He was in China legally; not an escapee) He was cordial though untrusting and thought I was European. We talked in Mandarin real briefly and even with the limited exchange we had it was apparent he was quite proud of Kim Jong-il. He stopped talking to me when I told him I'm American. North Koreans are indoctrinated to believe that the US imperialists' only goal is to destroy their country and kill off their people. If you read any of their news, you'd see this pretty clearly.
I also find it strange that you do not bring up Xinjiang province. That one is in a similar situation as Tibet. Basically, they're another province in China that wants to separate. A migrant worker of Uygher ethnicity in Southeast China lost his factory job and started a rumor that some Han men raped a Uygher woman. The rumor was false as the Uygher man admitted after the resultant riot broke out. That riot burned buses and raped/beat/murdered any member of the Han ethnicity that was living in Urumqi (capital of Xinjiang). It was brutal and senseless. Western media was not given free reign in Urumqi because of the way they spun the Tibetan riot before it. Spun. Western media has a knack for making aggressors look like victims. Tibet instigated violence but was cast as the victim. And remember the recent Georgian/Russian dispute?
So sure, Xinjiang and Tibet both want to be free from China. But is that a good thing? Upon separation, I can guarantee both new countries would be authoritarian--just as China is. The lives of the common people wouldn't improve by a simple political change, and many historical examples show this. The difference is that we don't know who their leaders would be. I'd rather have a stable evil that I understand than a new evil that I know nothing about.
They mention Whispernet as a way of saving the games. That's 24/7 internet access that runs over the Sprint network. Why is that needed to save games?
Instead, it should be used to enable telnet access for MUDs and SSH for system admins. Or is there no ability for Amazon to monetize what would be made free by a telnet/ssh client?
You can also use DenyHOSTS to automatically add rogue hosts to a blacklist.
Just be sure to keep it away from your wife, your kids, and anyone else who has no concerns when spending money they didn't earn for themselves.
So you're saying you refuse to do business with the brands that fund the shows you watch? Are you expecting the actors/producers/etc to get money off of some tree?
I don't mind product placement as long as it's not dictating plot lines. In a particularly bad example, Iron Man pissed me off because every other 5 minutes was "Hey look, an American hamburger just happens to be from Burger King. Lets waste viewer time by waiting for that hamburger, meanwhile mentioning it even more." and "Look at my 3 cars sitting there. They're all Audi. You should buy an Audi." and it distracted from the actual plot. But if (insert your favorite character here) happens to be drinking a Coke instead of a generic-named soda, does that really cause you to avoid Coca-cola? Seriously?
Because for security updates, this allows users to find others who don't have the latest patches yet. Just imagine the people watching leecher IPs every time a new remote exploit is patched...
Yeah, but they're just following in our footsteps. We held up a bunch of people in gitmo for how long?
Ask for irrefutable evidence of veracity every time they mention something they think they heard on TV last year? You don't NEED this kind of evidence to have a conversation and learn new things.
You must not have the same kind of friends as me. Mine are usually talking about how California is going to sink into the ocean or how John Glenn was shooting down the Germans because could see them from farther away than previously thought humanly possible.... Yeah. I think it's best to get my friends to tell me where they heard their news from.
I'm not surprised at all. This tool is for people who have no regard for others' computer hardware, so why should they care about computer software either?
From the summary:
But, most surprisingly, the giant penguin's feathers were brown and gray
Clearly that means Ubuntu's color-scheme of brown (older releases) and purple/gray (newer releases) are just devolutions of GNU/Linux into a distribution twice the size of any other. Duh!
I would trust the internet even less if DNS was P2P. I can just imagine trying to look up Bubba: I ask Jack who Bubba is and he says, "a buddy from prison." Then I ask Jill who Bubba is and she says, "My sugardaddy." Sometimes these Bubbas would be the same person, and sometimes they wouldn't.
I think that's the way OpenFeint and the TapTapRevolution games do it. Make sure to get optionally provided email address for account retrieval...
I except
Coding something that has to do with exceptions lately? I think you meant to say you expect.
After being unsatisfied with the article, I did a search for that game. I never had a chance to play on a BBS, and I never registered, but I lost so many hours playing that game...
That game was fun, funny, and classic. And I'm almost tempted to purchase a registration for it now. I kinda wish NETLOD took off, but I also enjoy having a life too...
So you installed the netbook remix because you didn't want netbook crud? I'm failing to see your logic here... Why not use the persistent option from a live USB stick?
All users want that. Isn't that why windoze has it as a default?
And while its borrowing some good design decisions, just get the computer to restart itself whenever updates are auto-applied. Don't worry about processes that may be running, the admin will probably notice on Monday morning.
The inside of his head continued to burn away: all the nerves on the left were gone in two years, paralyzing that side of his face.
The story talks about the particle beam (basically) melting the left side of his face, and the left side of his brain. Why, then, does it continue to talk about him losing control of whatever still existed on the left-side of his face? Is it not common knowledge that the brain does a little switcharoo? You know, the left-brain controls the right side of the body and the right-brain controls the left side of the body... I don't buy that article at all.