Nobody is this stupid. This is the internet version of calling up the beer company saying you found a dead mouse in a bottle of their product and please send one million dollars to ease the mental anguish.
He's got open-source projects under his belt with rubberhose (which, at the time was pretty cool), and boring stuff like NNTP caching. He's did a fair amount of work in the security / privacy computer sciences.
And if you think about it, his impact on the world with wikileaks has been greater than essentially everything he did before it. And he's remained true to his ideals consistently, he didn't just hop on the web2.0 'lets start a wiki' thing out of no-where. It's an extension of his political and ethical belief system.
As a skeptical person who usually maintains a scientific 'prove your crazy theory if you expect my buy in' ideology...
I have to say if you had to bet money on what wireless technology actually WILL cause cancer and your options are cell phone, wireless access point or wireless PCIe sounds, I think wireless PCIe would win.
Unless every writer on the site does it for free with absolutely no compensation for their effort -- then they too are advertising -- 'themselves'.
Granted the pepsiblog would probably have been terrible, but it's just another form of advertising.. But before you get all high and mighty, consider National Geographic, which regularly has _TERRIBLE_ borderline scam advertisements (Amish fake-fireplace, $2 bills for $10 + 5/s&h..) they still have great content that is basically subsidized by the worst elements of marketing.
It's easy to get all pissed off at someone for wanting to cash in a little bit, but if it means the difference between them providing a service, or providing no service.. there's not a lot of ways it can go unless they start charging YOU for reading their content.
The issue is that the SoCs have different internal components for which there is no standardized interface. The SoC is a complete system, but the definition of what a 'complete system' is depends entirely on the feature set -- the feature sets vary from manufacturer to manufacturer and even chip to chip for a single manufacturer as the SoC solutions are tailored for specific applications, the memory maps change based on what features are available which are in a lot of cases just 'cut and pastes' of system components on the chip.
Some SoCs have real time clocks built in, some don't but provide external connections, some SoCs have not only a full ARM processor but also a dedicated DSP chip (TI OMAP-L137). The ethernet device for a SoC varies from mfg to mfg because it's their own device on die.
Most of this never becomes a problem for end-users of embedded systems as any system producer that utilizes SoCs will have to build a custom u-boot that kickstarts the chip and starts the components in the correct order, then you need Linux kernel drivers for each of the features.. It's a pain in the butt if you're a company developing a custom SoC based product (I work for one and had to do u-boot and kernel porting for two ARM chips now, and it's not fun)
The awesome fall-out of this is that u-boot essentially replaces BIOS, so there's no need to plumb for what devices are part of your system, so you can get insane boot times (1 second from power up to login prompt) if you do it right.
Or wanting to avoid having to deal with ad revenue generating sites run by students?
There's a bunch of stuff here that could easily point to 'reasonable request'.
However, the Uni are a bunch of sissies. Back in the day we would have just rm'd his site, blocked it on the border routers and claimed a server crashed.
Saying that google 'secretly collected' wirelessly transmitted data that people were broadcasting is like saying I 'secretly' hear people when they stand in front of me and talk.
No. Due diligence would have been contacting the person who lost the iphone, which he had information for -- including the phone number, name, and facebook page of. Or dropping by the police station, filing a report with them and giving them the prototype.
The guy who did this knew exactly what he was doing -- gizmodo knew exactly what they were doing.
If you ask me, this is sweet karma for Gizmodo posting the name of the guy who lost it in the first place.
If they knew who owned it, they'd also know they don't have permission to take it apart and inspect it you'd think. But they knew that too.
Apple doesn't want people to write apps that run on multiple OSs, because it will drive commoditization of the handset hardware. Adobe doesn't want people to be able to create rich web animations with anything but its products, because it will drive commoditization of the authoring software. It's really just that simple.
Except that Apple's offered alternative to Flash is HTML5 and it's open-source WebKit? Javascript and HTML5 is pretty much a Flash killer.
I was in love with Flex Builder/Flash Builder when it came out, but after seeing recent HTML5 demos the only thing that prevents HTML5/Javascript from blowing Flash out of the water is a good development environment. I _much_ prefer the open standards of WebKit and HTML5 to the closed standard of Flash.
While this is probably written sarcastically.. It's worth noting that anyone who wants to donate time to open source can usually find some work to do. In process, you can learn about things you wouldn't otherwise encounter. You'd be surprised how helpful people can be once you've helped them first.
Back when OpenBSD started out I can't remember but I did something for Theo and in return he walked me through installing it over the phone.. (true story)
You never know what gestures that may seem easy to you will reap rewards later on.
f you blink, you might miss it.. But I think this backs up my original assertion..
Section 76.640:
(iii) Ensure that these cable operator-provided high definition set-top boxes shall comply with ANSI/SCTE 26 2001 (formerly DVS 194): ? Home Digital Network Interface Specification with Copy Protection? (incorporated by reference, see 76.602), with transmission of bit-mapped graphics optional, and shall support the CEA? 931? A:
?Remote Control Command Pass-through Standard for Home Networking? (incorporated by reference, see 76.602), pass through control commands: tune function, mute function, and restore volume function. In addition these boxes shall support the power control commands (power on, power off, and status inquiry) defined in A/VC Digital Interface Command Set General Specification Version 4.0 (as referenced in ANSI/SCTE 26 2001 (formerly DVS 194): ? Home Digital Network Interface Specification with Copy Protection? (incorporated by reference, see 76.602)).
Digital cable boxes by law in the US (last time I checked) are required to have firewire ports to allow for unprotected content recording -- i.e. anything you can get over-the-air can be recorded via firewire stream. Incidentally, many basic cable channels are unprotected as well.
But, more importantly, you can change the channel through the firewire port.
It's woefully out of date, but channel changing worked when I put it together. It would stand to reason that this feature would work for any firewire client unless they've disabled that as well.
For anyone who complains that the main-stream (or alternative media) aren't doing their job, perhaps you should make a donation too. The truth needs to be known and if wikileaks is the only entity out there willing to take that risk, the least we can do is support them.
If you really want a kid to learn how computers work, put a filter between them in the internet. They'll figure out a way to circumvent it if they're smart. And if they're too stupid to break out, think of it as a your-kid filter for the internet and not an internet filter for your kid.
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How else would combating the epidemic of micro-penis be economically feasible?
Nobody is this stupid. This is the internet version of calling up the beer company saying you found a dead mouse in a bottle of their product and please send one million dollars to ease the mental anguish.
Also, dude looks like a lady.
'A media whore with shady beginnings' ? Hardly..
He's got open-source projects under his belt with rubberhose (which, at the time was pretty cool), and boring stuff like NNTP caching. He's did a fair amount of work in the security / privacy computer sciences.
And if you think about it, his impact on the world with wikileaks has been greater than essentially everything he did before it. And he's remained true to his ideals consistently, he didn't just hop on the web2.0 'lets start a wiki' thing out of no-where. It's an extension of his political and ethical belief system.
Haters gonna hate..
Go read up on the sendmail worm and burn your CISSP certificate.
in fact a big reason why successful malware "in the wild" is all but unheard-of on this platform?
Are you joking? The reason they call them 'rootkits' is because they get you root access.
Here, let me google that for you.
http://www.gm.com/vehicles/hybrids-and-electric/hybrids/
As a skeptical person who usually maintains a scientific 'prove your crazy theory if you expect my buy in' ideology...
I have to say if you had to bet money on what wireless technology actually WILL cause cancer and your options are cell phone, wireless access point or wireless PCIe sounds, I think wireless PCIe would win.
Unless every writer on the site does it for free with absolutely no compensation for their effort -- then they too are advertising -- 'themselves'.
Granted the pepsiblog would probably have been terrible, but it's just another form of advertising.. But before you get all high and mighty, consider National Geographic, which regularly has _TERRIBLE_ borderline scam advertisements (Amish fake-fireplace, $2 bills for $10 + 5/s&h..) they still have great content that is basically subsidized by the worst elements of marketing.
It's easy to get all pissed off at someone for wanting to cash in a little bit, but if it means the difference between them providing a service, or providing no service.. there's not a lot of ways it can go unless they start charging YOU for reading their content.
.. as if millions of trolls suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
The issue is that the SoCs have different internal components for which there is no standardized interface. The SoC is a complete system, but the definition of what a 'complete system' is depends entirely on the feature set -- the feature sets vary from manufacturer to manufacturer and even chip to chip for a single manufacturer as the SoC solutions are tailored for specific applications, the memory maps change based on what features are available which are in a lot of cases just 'cut and pastes' of system components on the chip.
Some SoCs have real time clocks built in, some don't but provide external connections, some SoCs have not only a full ARM processor but also a dedicated DSP chip (TI OMAP-L137). The ethernet device for a SoC varies from mfg to mfg because it's their own device on die.
Most of this never becomes a problem for end-users of embedded systems as any system producer that utilizes SoCs will have to build a custom u-boot that kickstarts the chip and starts the components in the correct order, then you need Linux kernel drivers for each of the features.. It's a pain in the butt if you're a company developing a custom SoC based product (I work for one and had to do u-boot and kernel porting for two ARM chips now, and it's not fun)
The awesome fall-out of this is that u-boot essentially replaces BIOS, so there's no need to plumb for what devices are part of your system, so you can get insane boot times (1 second from power up to login prompt) if you do it right.
1999 called and wants its meme back.
hoist on my own petard. :(
You win this round, internet user.
Or too little bandwidth?
Or wanting to avoid having to deal with ad revenue generating sites run by students?
There's a bunch of stuff here that could easily point to 'reasonable request'.
However, the Uni are a bunch of sissies. Back in the day we would have just rm'd his site, blocked it on the border routers and claimed a server crashed.
I'm 35 years old, I've been fed up with Microsoft since about Windows XP SP2 although previously not much of a fan before that.
But at this point it's just like you guys are picking on the autistic kid.
We get it. Microsoft sucks. Give it back it's helmet.
Saying that google 'secretly collected' wirelessly transmitted data that people were broadcasting is like saying I 'secretly' hear people when they stand in front of me and talk.
No. Due diligence would have been contacting the person who lost the iphone, which he had information for -- including the phone number, name, and facebook page of. Or dropping by the police station, filing a report with them and giving them the prototype.
The guy who did this knew exactly what he was doing -- gizmodo knew exactly what they were doing.
If you ask me, this is sweet karma for Gizmodo posting the name of the guy who lost it in the first place.
If they knew who owned it, they'd also know they don't have permission to take it apart and inspect it you'd think. But they knew that too.
Apple doesn't want people to write apps that run on multiple OSs, because it will drive commoditization of the handset hardware. Adobe doesn't want people to be able to create rich web animations with anything but its products, because it will drive commoditization of the authoring software. It's really just that simple.
Except that Apple's offered alternative to Flash is HTML5 and it's open-source WebKit? Javascript and HTML5 is pretty much a Flash killer.
I was in love with Flex Builder/Flash Builder when it came out, but after seeing recent HTML5 demos the only thing that prevents HTML5/Javascript from blowing Flash out of the water is a good development environment. I _much_ prefer the open standards of WebKit and HTML5 to the closed standard of Flash.
While this is probably written sarcastically.. It's worth noting that anyone who wants to donate time to open source can usually find some work to do. In process, you can learn about things you wouldn't otherwise encounter. You'd be surprised how helpful people can be once you've helped them first.
Back when OpenBSD started out I can't remember but I did something for Theo and in return he walked me through installing it over the phone.. (true story)
You never know what gestures that may seem easy to you will reap rewards later on.
Bah. The PDF in question.. http://www.fcc.gov/mb/engineering/part76.pdf
f you blink, you might miss it.. But I think this backs up my original assertion..
Section 76.640:
(iii) Ensure that these cable operator-provided high definition set-top boxes shall comply with ANSI/SCTE 26 2001 (formerly DVS 194): ? Home Digital Network Interface Specification with Copy Protection? (incorporated by reference, see 76.602), with transmission of bit-mapped graphics optional, and shall support the CEA? 931? A:
?Remote Control Command Pass-through Standard for Home Networking? (incorporated by reference, see 76.602), pass through control commands: tune function , mute function, and restore volume function. In addition these boxes shall support the power control commands (power on, power off, and status inquiry) defined in A/VC Digital Interface Command Set General Specification Version 4.0 (as referenced in ANSI/SCTE 26 2001 (formerly DVS 194): ? Home Digital Network Interface Specification with Copy Protection? (incorporated by reference, see 76.602)).
Digital cable boxes by law in the US (last time I checked) are required to have firewire ports to allow for unprotected content recording -- i.e. anything you can get over-the-air can be recorded via firewire stream. Incidentally, many basic cable channels are unprotected as well.
But, more importantly, you can change the channel through the firewire port.
I hacked together a really, really poor example of this for OSX using Apple's Firewire SDK -- http://www.remix.net/wiki/Clover
It's woefully out of date, but channel changing worked when I put it together. It would stand to reason that this feature would work for any firewire client unless they've disabled that as well.
For anyone who complains that the main-stream (or alternative media) aren't doing their job, perhaps you should make a donation too. The truth needs to be known and if wikileaks is the only entity out there willing to take that risk, the least we can do is support them.
In theory.. The only way bittorrent knows you're uploading is if you tell the cloud you are, or someone reports you are. Both of which could be fake.
The only way someone knows if you downloaded something _for sure_ is if you downloaded it directly from them.
I'm sure the subtlety of this technical aspect will be completely lost during any litigation.. but it's a fact.
COLD HARD DELICIOUS FACTS.
Sounds like someone's having some trouble getting past the internet filter..
Keep banging those rocks together!
If you really want a kid to learn how computers work, put a filter between them in the internet. They'll figure out a way to circumvent it if they're smart. And if they're too stupid to break out, think of it as a your-kid filter for the internet and not an internet filter for your kid.
Everybody wins!