Actually not hard. I have done this with a laptop, the right software and a camera that allows full time preview.
you put the old photo on the screen at a 25% transparent setting and over the cameras live view, move the tripod and adjust zoom until you got the shot. click.
Low tech : print the old photo on a tranparency and hold it in front of the lens until it all lines up.
Because they havent tried. I introduced my daughter to a WW-II vet last week. He served in the army and was in one of the last pushes for Berlin. He had mentioned that he was not much older than her (she is 18) when he was fighting over there.
A lot seperates us between now and then. Countless dead, every family across the planet touched by it. Nobody on this planet has a family that was untouched by that war. Absolutely Everyone lost someone in that war.
Since you know very little about forging, I'll enlighten you.
Most of the time the quality of the graphic has NOTHING to do with the pass ability of the document or id. Most of the time a utterly crappy ID or paperwork will do it;s job great. 99% of the time its your social engineering using the props to get past the checkpoint or door...
Example? sure: I got into a Concert for free, not only free but also bacK stage. I was not authorized to be there, I did not know anyone there. I approached the gate with all my camera gear and my big lanyard full of press badges I made, and some real but from previous years at other venues. I flashed the wad and asked, "where do I go to get back stage" I was pointed the way and not even asked anything... I'm now inside the venue past the gates.
I take a bunch of photos, some really cool ones. I wander over to the backstage entrance and to the 7 foot tall 6 foot wide man mountain placed there to physically throw people. I dont even flash anything but stand in front of him reviewing images, changed batteries and lens, and then asked, "Is it just like last time? I only get 10 minutes on stage to shoot the photos and then back off to the shadows for the rest?"
he looked at me, opened the gate and pointed at the stage manager.. I wandered in talked to the manager and was able to go backstage and take photos of the band getting ready.
I was not supposed to be there, I had no business being there. AND I got photos that nunya got!
It's all in the look, demeanor, and social engineering. Having a high quality replica of a seal is not worth as much as being able to BS your way through.
Your ISP web accelerator is nothing but a cacheing proxy.. click on install to install one under linux. The emulators under linux play everything for atari and NES.. Just because you cant get flash working and refuse to get some help does not mean it's flawed... ask for help kid. iTunes works great. Virtualbox + a win install + itunes works even with the iphone. MS office works under the virtualbox install.. My wife has used it twice... OO.o is what she uses 98% of the time. Who wants windows media encoder? are you insane?
and so on.... I can find an obscure list of apps that dont work under windows 7.
If you are hell bent on finding reasons for it to not work, it will fail for you.
P.S. all of the above my wife did on her own under ubuntu. She even installed wine and has Internet explorer 6 working under wine on her own for dealing with the idiot companies whos websites are poorly designed.
She is not a computer expert... she's an accountant.
1 - the flatbed scanner that he never used under windows and has been sitting there for 3 years under books? Bet you $1000.00 it wont work under windows 7.
2 - GPU driver problems... like the fact that Windows 7 crashes or pixelates when Glass is turned on for many Intel chipsets?
3 - the Wlan card is getting signal just fine... you just cant configure it. give them a usb wlan stick and stop whining.
I have seen all the problems you mention and it's always someone that has a 5+ year old computer with really obscure hardware that instead of buying a new pc they try this linux thingy.
Fact: all the linux problems will exist with windows 7. 99% of all old hardware is not supported under windows 7 because of the lack of drivers. Certain scanner makers are notorious for being assholes like that.... AGFA, we are all looking at you.... And have you tried a Geforce 4 card under Windows 7? AACK!
Then why do they go out and buy with that overtime money a replacement device that they take another 3-4 hours to get working?
Buy a new pc, spend 5 hours minimum getting the crud off of it, or better yet. waste a weekend trying to get your old crap off the old PC to the new PC. 99% of all average joes have zero clue how to do that.
I was smart enough that when I wanted a new webcam I used the internet thingy and searched. I found the Microsoft Lifecam HD works under Windows, Linux and OSX perfectly... yet the box says "WINDOWS ONLY!! HOW DARE YOU ASK ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE!!!!"
I used my brain and made a educated purchase. I guess those that are incapable of doing anything but looking at boxes get to miss out on a lot.
Actually no. I was going to build my own system for my video editor replacement. But I could not touch the price of buying a prebuilt ASUS PC and the parts to upgrade it.
for the exact same hardware I could not buy my i7 processor, motherboard, and 8 gig of ram for the price of the same + case+DVD drive+1TB hard drive + Win7 license..
Either Newegg is price gouging, or the pc makers are really undercutting everyone. Plus I got a Win7 OEM license I was able to sell for $100.00... Oh and ASUS gives you a Microsoft OS install DVD.. and the COA sticker peels off easily because it was too new to set.
I have a better idea.. Why make DELL eat the cost. Microsoft can get off their asses and ship dell 22 billion OS install DVD's Those asshats are raking in the money faster.. How about dell having the balls to tell MSFT to shove it and supply install Discs.
Honestly Michael Dell rolls over for Ballmer every time. Get some ca-hones Mikey! Microsoft will feel it pretty hard if you tell them to go pound sand.
Because hiring competent network people is expensive.
And the cheap MCSE's cant configure Cisco gear because it does not have a GUI.
The real reason most small and medium business networks area utter mess is because the idiots in the executive offices can not understand that hiring at least 1 highly competent person to cover IT and networking is worth every dollar. You only need one part time, if you are a small shop... An no, Timmy the computer guy is not looking for a new toy when he asks for a nice cisco managed switch...
10 years ago? REally? in the year 2000 you had businesses saying that?
Us at comcast must have been cutting edge then with every desktop on the network and using really advanced things called "servers" to store files and even databases.
I've been installing networks for computers for 20 years. Even in 1990 networking computers was a big thing and everyone saw that it was a major business advantage.... Novell utterly ruled back then. 10base2 networks roamed the land and every IT guy had a pocket of BNC T's and Terminators wherever he went...
It's also moot. It is far easier to get inside the building and install a trojan machine. Hell a sheevaplug is $99.00 and with the right stickers can be made to blend in behind any copier or printer silently sitting there collecting data and mapping things out and reporting home.
Hell the dual ethernet one in line with the right printer and it will be fed tons of great documents on the companies secrets that it can email home. sitting there ignored because it has a big HP printing sticker on it and reports as if its the printer... Even a super security guru would miss that one in all their security sweeps.
dude I saw all that at the same time on my drive into work today...
add to that, 2nd motorcyclist on the sidewalk going around traffic, car not stopping for pedestrian (yes that's a law here) and a Semi truck in a no trucks zone.
This is life in a tiny 150,000-225,000 town in the midwest... In NYC I bet I can get 50 laws visibly violated in a single photograph os an intersection.
I strongly second this. It produces far better wide shots images than buying a $3500.00 motorized mount because it can over the course of 36 images remove most of the imager noise.
It produces shots that will have others asking "How the heck did you get that shot?"
They're going to promote you because you are competent at running a business.
I spent a decade in the big corporate world... I pissed myself laughing at that statement.
They most certainly do not promote on competence. I watched several complete nit-wits get promoted to Director of IT and Director of future technology simply because they could kiss ass and take credit of other people's work.
One blatantly took full credit of a project he was not even a part of and could not even answer questions about. But he golfed with the executives, partied with them and had his nose jammed so far up the VP of IT's anus that we could smell what he had for lunch the day before.
Competence typically keeps you in your position. If you are incredibly good at it, you will never get promoted. The ones that get promoted are the ones that are ineffective but take credit for "managing" projects.
to get high up in business does not take education. it takes schmoozing and networking. Get to be good friends with someone high up. and they will drag you up with them. In business it is NOT what you know but WHO you know.
Stop wasting time and money on getting a BS in Business. Join Toastmasters and a lot of other clubs to get exposure to powerful men get to know them and most importantly get them to know you.
If you prove to be a valuable person to them they will accept you into their tribe.
The code (that) is produced is insecure and doesn't work all that well,
I believe quite a few Linux Kernel developers would highly disagree with you.
C is still a highly viable language. Your DVD and BluRay player runs code that is written in C. your car stereo, etc... It's still heavily used in embedded systems.. I would not be surprised that Missie guidance stuff is still in C. I haven't seen a VB.net module for target acquisition.. I have for C.
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Actually not hard. I have done this with a laptop, the right software and a camera that allows full time preview.
you put the old photo on the screen at a 25% transparent setting and over the cameras live view, move the tripod and adjust zoom until you got the shot. click.
Low tech : print the old photo on a tranparency and hold it in front of the lens until it all lines up.
Because they havent tried. I introduced my daughter to a WW-II vet last week. He served in the army and was in one of the last pushes for Berlin. He had mentioned that he was not much older than her (she is 18) when he was fighting over there.
A lot seperates us between now and then. Countless dead, every family across the planet touched by it. Nobody on this planet has a family that was untouched by that war. Absolutely Everyone lost someone in that war.
Since you know very little about forging, I'll enlighten you.
Most of the time the quality of the graphic has NOTHING to do with the pass ability of the document or id. Most of the time a utterly crappy ID or paperwork will do it;s job great. 99% of the time its your social engineering using the props to get past the checkpoint or door...
Example? sure: I got into a Concert for free, not only free but also bacK stage. I was not authorized to be there, I did not know anyone there. I approached the gate with all my camera gear and my big lanyard full of press badges I made, and some real but from previous years at other venues. I flashed the wad and asked, "where do I go to get back stage" I was pointed the way and not even asked anything... I'm now inside the venue past the gates.
I take a bunch of photos, some really cool ones. I wander over to the backstage entrance and to the 7 foot tall 6 foot wide man mountain placed there to physically throw people. I dont even flash anything but stand in front of him reviewing images, changed batteries and lens, and then asked, "Is it just like last time? I only get 10 minutes on stage to shoot the photos and then back off to the shadows for the rest?"
he looked at me, opened the gate and pointed at the stage manager.. I wandered in talked to the manager and was able to go backstage and take photos of the band getting ready.
I was not supposed to be there, I had no business being there. AND I got photos that nunya got!
It's all in the look, demeanor, and social engineering. Having a high quality replica of a seal is not worth as much as being able to BS your way through.
Many better DVD players have a workaround.
Play the dvd. press stop-stop-play
The movie starts at a point after all the BS crud.
this does not work with disney DVD's that are intentionally broken.
Knowing how dimwitted most FBI administrators are? It has the word Wiki in it so it has to be connected to WikiLeaks.
Your ISP web accelerator is nothing but a cacheing proxy.. click on install to install one under linux.
The emulators under linux play everything for atari and NES..
Just because you cant get flash working and refuse to get some help does not mean it's flawed... ask for help kid.
iTunes works great. Virtualbox + a win install + itunes works even with the iphone.
MS office works under the virtualbox install.. My wife has used it twice... OO.o is what she uses 98% of the time.
Who wants windows media encoder? are you insane?
and so on.... I can find an obscure list of apps that dont work under windows 7.
If you are hell bent on finding reasons for it to not work, it will fail for you.
P.S. all of the above my wife did on her own under ubuntu. She even installed wine and has Internet explorer 6 working under wine on her own for dealing with the idiot companies whos websites are poorly designed.
She is not a computer expert... she's an accountant.
1 - the flatbed scanner that he never used under windows and has been sitting there for 3 years under books? Bet you $1000.00 it wont work under windows 7.
2 - GPU driver problems... like the fact that Windows 7 crashes or pixelates when Glass is turned on for many Intel chipsets?
3 - the Wlan card is getting signal just fine... you just cant configure it. give them a usb wlan stick and stop whining.
I have seen all the problems you mention and it's always someone that has a 5+ year old computer with really obscure hardware that instead of buying a new pc they try this linux thingy.
Fact: all the linux problems will exist with windows 7. 99% of all old hardware is not supported under windows 7 because of the lack of drivers. Certain scanner makers are notorious for being assholes like that.... AGFA, we are all looking at you.... And have you tried a Geforce 4 card under Windows 7? AACK!
Then why do they go out and buy with that overtime money a replacement device that they take another 3-4 hours to get working?
Buy a new pc, spend 5 hours minimum getting the crud off of it, or better yet. waste a weekend trying to get your old crap off the old PC to the new PC. 99% of all average joes have zero clue how to do that.
Broadcom anything is really low grade dog-food. Avoid their garbage hardware and chipsets at all cost. They dont work well even under Windows.
My "Made for windows 7" Dell Studio laptop has issues with windows 7. Even the frigging manufacturers of the device cant get it right.
Yet linux runs flawlessly on it with everything working great.
People that can actually research things.
I was smart enough that when I wanted a new webcam I used the internet thingy and searched. I found the Microsoft Lifecam HD works under Windows, Linux and OSX perfectly... yet the box says "WINDOWS ONLY!! HOW DARE YOU ASK ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE!!!!"
I used my brain and made a educated purchase. I guess those that are incapable of doing anything but looking at boxes get to miss out on a lot.
Actually no. I was going to build my own system for my video editor replacement. But I could not touch the price of buying a prebuilt ASUS PC and the parts to upgrade it.
for the exact same hardware I could not buy my i7 processor, motherboard, and 8 gig of ram for the price of the same + case+DVD drive+1TB hard drive + Win7 license..
Either Newegg is price gouging, or the pc makers are really undercutting everyone. Plus I got a Win7 OEM license I was able to sell for $100.00... Oh and ASUS gives you a Microsoft OS install DVD.. and the COA sticker peels off easily because it was too new to set.
I have a better idea.. Why make DELL eat the cost. Microsoft can get off their asses and ship dell 22 billion OS install DVD's Those asshats are raking in the money faster.. How about dell having the balls to tell MSFT to shove it and supply install Discs.
Honestly Michael Dell rolls over for Ballmer every time. Get some ca-hones Mikey! Microsoft will feel it pretty hard if you tell them to go pound sand.
Because hiring competent network people is expensive.
And the cheap MCSE's cant configure Cisco gear because it does not have a GUI.
The real reason most small and medium business networks area utter mess is because the idiots in the executive offices can not understand that hiring at least 1 highly competent person to cover IT and networking is worth every dollar. You only need one part time, if you are a small shop... An no, Timmy the computer guy is not looking for a new toy when he asks for a nice cisco managed switch...
10 years ago? REally? in the year 2000 you had businesses saying that?
Us at comcast must have been cutting edge then with every desktop on the network and using really advanced things called "servers" to store files and even databases.
I've been installing networks for computers for 20 years. Even in 1990 networking computers was a big thing and everyone saw that it was a major business advantage.... Novell utterly ruled back then. 10base2 networks roamed the land and every IT guy had a pocket of BNC T's and Terminators wherever he went...
It's also moot. It is far easier to get inside the building and install a trojan machine. Hell a sheevaplug is $99.00 and with the right stickers can be made to blend in behind any copier or printer silently sitting there collecting data and mapping things out and reporting home.
Hell the dual ethernet one in line with the right printer and it will be fed tons of great documents on the companies secrets that it can email home. sitting there ignored because it has a big HP printing sticker on it and reports as if its the printer... Even a super security guru would miss that one in all their security sweeps.
Or this very rare thing called......
Passengers....
I know it's a stretch and they are incredibly rare, but I have seen them in the wild....
I actually saw 2 people in a Hummer H2 yesterday! No really! I did!
dude I saw all that at the same time on my drive into work today...
add to that, 2nd motorcyclist on the sidewalk going around traffic, car not stopping for pedestrian (yes that's a law here) and a Semi truck in a no trucks zone.
This is life in a tiny 150,000-225,000 town in the midwest... In NYC I bet I can get 50 laws visibly violated in a single photograph os an intersection.
I do...
iAds.
Disable the damn search junk you dont use anyways. IT sped my wifes 3G up a lot.
If there was one thing I wish the jailbreaking community would od is submit a patch to remove the useless search on the iphone.
I strongly second this. It produces far better wide shots images than buying a $3500.00 motorized mount because it can over the course of 36 images remove most of the imager noise.
It produces shots that will have others asking "How the heck did you get that shot?"
They're going to promote you because you are competent at running a business.
I spent a decade in the big corporate world... I pissed myself laughing at that statement.
They most certainly do not promote on competence. I watched several complete nit-wits get promoted to Director of IT and Director of future technology simply because they could kiss ass and take credit of other people's work.
One blatantly took full credit of a project he was not even a part of and could not even answer questions about. But he golfed with the executives, partied with them and had his nose jammed so far up the VP of IT's anus that we could smell what he had for lunch the day before.
Competence typically keeps you in your position. If you are incredibly good at it, you will never get promoted. The ones that get promoted are the ones that are ineffective but take credit for "managing" projects.
and you will fail.
to get high up in business does not take education. it takes schmoozing and networking. Get to be good friends with someone high up. and they will drag you up with them. In business it is NOT what you know but WHO you know.
Stop wasting time and money on getting a BS in Business. Join Toastmasters and a lot of other clubs to get exposure to powerful men get to know them and most importantly get them to know you.
If you prove to be a valuable person to them they will accept you into their tribe.
The code (that) is produced is insecure and doesn't work all that well,
I believe quite a few Linux Kernel developers would highly disagree with you.
C is still a highly viable language. Your DVD and BluRay player runs code that is written in C. your car stereo, etc... It's still heavily used in embedded systems.. I would not be surprised that Missie guidance stuff is still in C. I haven't seen a VB.net module for target acquisition.. I have for C.