Congratulations on (re)inventing noise cancellation!
Yes, the concept is extraordinarily simple - but like so many things, the engineering and execution is anything but. That's why it took so long for noise cancelling headphones to come to market, and why they're still relatively uncommon.
I appreciate that this has been implemented many times (and reletaivley inexpensive headphones can be bought using the technique). My suggestion came from the fact that I dislike wearing headphones so I assumed (dangeous) this person would feel the same. I was thinking a box in the room that when turned on (partially) cancelled out noise for the entire room. I see problems with doing this thus not sensible. 1 you need to match the signal strenghthswhich potentially means lots of power. 2 You unless you are vey close to the box you and the box will experiance a diffrent signals, your box will be less effective and will not produce the right output execept by carful tuning. The op-amp will have a delay meaning you will not match the input exactly, as said above this is not a problem with LF (engine noise etc..) but may be a problem with higer Fs such as voices and going higher will make it worse. An LPF will stop the system getting worse (and reduce KTRB in the system) but would stop the box doing what it needs to in this case.
I do not know if there are comercially availible room level oise cancelation setups - if there are I imagine that the system would be expensive and out of the price range of a student. But being a slashdotter and a student I assumed that putting somthing together might not be to difficult. Although designing anything without first knowing (ballpark) what the problem is quantivily will never get somthing that works well.
Probably not a sensible idea, but I think I have often wonderd if a microphone an op-amp and a speaker could be employed to cancel out noise. Seems like it should work but the delay may just make it worse.
The circuit should be easy to but together though all you need is a a couple of resistors a decent modern op-amp (not a 741), somthing with a decent BW (~70dB) and a decent DR should do it. and a couple of a half decent resitors. the PSU may be more difficult you need to keep noise down and ensure you can push enough power to intefere with the original signal.
Concept is simple. If it will work it won't it will just make it worse. If it's slow it may just add to the amplitude of the sound.
The adverts listed in the smoosh article seem to conflate female sexuality with objectification of women I would argue that a woman has the right to use her sexuality in a way that is to there advantage. I consider it sexist to censor women and there sexuality in such a way. This is not a simple matter as many advertising firms do use the the sexual objectification of women as a meketing ploy, some of these adverts do some don't. Some use the image of female sexuallity and the strength that gives them.
Going though the adverts:
Got Milk/PMS: I would agree that there is sexist suggestion in this. The idea tha women are incapable of rational and or reasonable thought while experiancing PMS is wrong. So yes sexist.
Hunky Dorys: This one is more difficult yes the women are clearly sexualised in this advert, But they are portrayed playing a male dominated sportand. All in All I think this advert portrays women sexually for the benefit of a crass pun and probably does fall down on the side of sexist
BK 7"My initial response to this was also that the woman was being portrayed in a sexist way with the, with the obvious nod to felatio and a woman looking in shock/awe at a oversized phallus/ but then I thought about the opposite advertisment. If an attractive man was was pictured looking in awe at a pair of watermelons then the advert may also be considerd sexist. possible more so as the advert would directly equate female wort with the size of there breasts. So looking at it the other way maybe this advert is sexist maybe it suggests that the primary judgment of a mans self worth is penis length. I'm pretty certain the woman here is not being objectified (well no more than any person in an advert)
Che first off sorry about the lack of accent but screw it. I do not see how this woman has been objectified at all, yes the woman is extreamly sexulised but this seems to be her choice, to me the woman in the advert is strong and aware of her sexuallity, she has not cowtowed to the traditinol meek woman and is not afraid of her feminiity and is prepared to do what she want to get where she wants. In this case she is advertising for suiters by offering out phone numbers with an enticement of her bueaty in this way she can have a series of men competing for her affection. So this image puts the woman in the position of power.
Dale Wurfel OK I think this is sexist but possible not for the imdiatley obvious reason. I would consider the frannkness of the woman and how comfortable she can be with her previous sexual encounters shows a strong woman, the suggested lack of competion a healthy response to sex. I do have a problem with the effective equation of this woman with a car. This advert is weird the catch image and suggestion are fine but the attepmt to tie it to the product changes it from a portrayel of a strong sexually liberated woman to a sexually objectified woman. saddly sexist.
BMW The suggestion that a man could find a machine more sexually desireable than a woman is not inhearently sexist (well maybe it is in that it portrays a subset of men as materiaLastic). Apprillia adverts did it better though the inclusion of a seminaked woman (without a face) probably tips this into sexist.
Stil VodkaWithout context this advert is difficult but the suggestion of russian brides, who are culturally seen as thing that are bought and the idea of a woman as a gift (perminatly) does seem to equate to slavery. Possible sexist but I think far more alarming than that a brand thought slavery (of any description) a suitible topic for a joke to base there brand on. Sexist but so much more wrong than that.
Vouge Vanity A woman is being held down and brutalised by law enforcment officers. Unless the the idea was that the cause of this was she was a woman, or that the officers had a right to do this because she was a woman then I do not see this as a problem. In fact the image I see is of a woman who has defied unjus
I'm not sure what your suggesting here. Are you suggesting having an encrption system in the flash drive using you finger scan as the key or do you mean a flash drive that will not access the memory chip without first having you scan (i.e. the storage is in the clear but you need to swipe to connect the storage chip to the USB bus).
The first is sensible if the scanner can accuratley remake the key from the thumb print. Which may be possible but would require some tricks to get over the fact that thumb prints can change over a matter of hours. - I don't want to give myself a paper cut and find that I cant access my data until it's fully healed (if it fully heals and I get an identicle finger print).
The second just smacks of being a bad idea it seems to suggest that there is no possible way to access infomation on the flash chip than to use the pre-packaged connector. - This is just plain false if the NAND flash chip is seperate (as most are) then it is a reletivley simple matter for some one skilled in the art of soldering to remove it and put it on a new carrier board, possible the same model as it came from. There are things you can do (wipe on case open, SiP, SoC) but these can usually be circumvented with a little thought. OK this solution will stop your wife/girlfriend mother finding thos file you don't want them to see but not any determind attacker. Which makes it little more than a toy solution.
I have not watched the video but judging by other comments this product seems sensible in that it encrypts the data passed on a keyed entry key. I'm sure I have seen this tech before though just not sure where, maybe I dreemed it, it seems obviouse now someone says it.
There is nothing fundermentally wrong with an app store. The problem comes when a sole appstore is the only method to load software onto your device
A device can come with any appstore with any bend you other a barrel TOS, and it is OK by me as long as there is a (supported way) to either side load software or add an alternative store/repository. It's important that this is in some way supported by the manufactureer of the device. For example if the the device comes with only pulling software from the "official" app store, but there is a toggle button allowing other software sources to be enabled or even better a list of appstore address that can be added to/enabled/disabled/deleated, and proritised (like sourses.list in apt systems)that would be great. Fine for a device to come out the shop locked down (in some ways better for the masses), but give people who know/care a proper way to add knew sources.
Having to jailbreak or run an exploit to get this functionallity is not acctepable so I will not have an iOS device. I do not know the situation when it comes to WP7/8.
Well, what you say sounds reasonable if the assumption is that all the students have the best interests of the other students and the university at heart. This is a ridiculous assumption in today's world.
Apart from the fact that the students prior response to the vulnrabillity which was reasonable in reporting it. This to me suggests that the student real intention was to get the system fixed and not to exploit it for perosnal gain/mayhem. If he had wanted to profit from it he could have sold the hole on the black market or stolen the student info himself.
Sounds like the university took appropriate steps when they were informed that their student was continuing to exploit the vulnerability. It doesn't matter what the student might have said in his defense at that point because he could be assumed to not be acting in the best interests of the other students or the university.
Clearly fixing the problem was outside of the scope of the university. They could wait for the vendor to eventually fix things and all the time wonder how much was going on with one or more students exploiting the vulnerablity, or they could get rid of the student so that hopefully he would stop exploiting their system.
Seems pretty obvious to me. The problem starts with the students not having the best interests of the university or other students in mind. That puts everyone on a adversarial footing and obviously the student is going to be the weaker party.
Both the universitys response and the respone of the vendor seem disproportionate when considering both the crime and the intent. The students primary concern seems to his (and possible his fellow students) privacy. Al-khabaz did a stupid thing in running pen-test software against someone elses server (from his own IP as well). I can't help but feel that this could all of been handled in a better way that did not require the same legal recourse. I have suggested one way where all parties could have sat down and talked and everyone could have bennefitted but the company demanded that he sign an NDA under threat of calling the police, and the university kicked him out.
OK this guy was 20 and should have known better what he was doing was illigal and he should have had the implecations stressed to him however I really feel the University should have had a quite word and told him how this would not be tollerated in future.
Having said that the story does not add up perfectly. Apparently he first found the hole while trying to make an app to interface with the system (which I assume he was aloud to do). So why was he running pen-test software to work out if the hole had been closed or not why not just run the original code, some justification could come from the if there not doing x how do I know there doing y but it dosen't quite stack. It also does not fit in mind mibnd that 14/15 of his academic tutors would want him gone for this, as it seems to be as much about saving face for the company as anything else, unless the uni was getting a sweet deal on the software and the company threatend to up the rates if they did not have his head, even so I would not expect faculty staff to kneel so quickly to the person in charge of IT budget. especially for a "top" student.
We only have half the story here but it really does read that the company and universty massivley overreacted to the situation. I would have hoped that that the university would be pushing the vendor for a fix not for discipline of the student.
I also found Tazo's response of all software has bug even from big companies like MS and Google really anoying. If a major securityey bug is found in a peice of software I would expect all companies (no matter the size) to rush out a fix as quickly as possible, even if it was just a patch job. Once the system is secure then they can find a better fix. After this I would not buy stuff from Skytech it's clear there more intrested in pushing blame off somwhere else than offering essential security support to there clients.
Ahmed Al-Khabaz started off doing the correct thing by alerting the University (who then escalated it to the vendor) about the security hole. The vendor said they would fix it and as far as I can tell did not give any further infomation to the finder of the hole who was also had personal infomation hosted on the service. The company should have given him updates and told him when it was fixed, It would even be beneficial for them if they got him to run the exploit from his location given that he had discoverd it and clearly wanted it fixed.
The use of an NDA seemed appropriate though as he had access to confidential infomation of other users, and I understand the company needed time to patch this before the exploit was released into the wild, the NDA should have allowed him to speak to a some defined people namely some representeive of the university and work with them to get this problem fixed, up to this point everything seems to be going how it should.
After this all parties seem to make mistakes, first Al-Khabaz should not have just re-run the exploit as it he should have first seekd permission, if permission was not given he should have reported the situation the university who should have gotten proof that the hole was patched including the abillity to do independent verification (which the university could have got Al-Khabiz to do possible for a nominal fee.
The next mistake was the choice of the Skytech to come down so heavy handed they seem to have gone all out defensive rather than looked for a sensible way around it. Maybe they could have offerd Al-Khabaz a short period of [pro-bono] work pen-testing that he could put on his CV. Students need these mentions and the company could have delt with what is a PR disater and helped a student with there future career with next to no outlay by being a bit more cooperative rather than throwing lega threats around
Oh and I know that there are peopl who are against students doing work for free in exchange for being able to write somthing on there resume but this is a fact of life now, although a nominal charge of $100 for the test and a simple report documenting what he had done and that the holwe had been fixed would seem acceptable as well.
If you were a Jew or a Muslim, having pork or horse in what should be a kosher/halal dish is no good. Neither pork nor horse is permitted by Jewish or Islamic dietary rules.
Cetainly true but there is some protection to the strict followers of these religions. For meat to be considerd Halal it dosent only have to come from a halal animal but also slaughterd in a specific way which includes a specific method of slaughter and a religious cerimony (Dhabihah), I assume there is somthing close with the preperation of Kosher food. As the entire process from slaughter to preperation need to be run in a halal style and the people running these supply chains are muslims they should have [halal] traceabillity. This will at least help in that the you would of thought the people running these opperations have a respect for there own religious laws, but I suppose money can corrupt enven the faithful.
First off I have never [knowingly] eaten horse meat.
I do not have a problem with it though. If someone wants to sell me a horse steak or burger (or a burger containing horse) I would try it.
However the real issue here is the fact that there was nowt in the product description saying there was horse in it that is where the real scandal is. If I buy a burger at the supermarket I expect to be able to read the ingredients and make an informed decision about weather I want to eat it or not. When considered like this the fact that there was pork in the burgers is as bad as the horse.
There is an issue with eating horse though, the problem lies with the fact that horse is very difficult to trace as most of it comes from the USA where the animals primary function is either racing or a pet, these animals are usually sent north to Canada or south to Mexico and tractability is often lost. OK I have absolutely no problem with eating pets, my grandfather gave me a rabbit to look after which was the prepared and served to me as a pie (I think this was meant to be a life lesson about livestock), I never had a problem with this. The problem is these animals are given (large amounts of) drugs that are really bad for humans, the classic case is Bute which is an anti-inflammatory for horses. Bute is a carcinogen at not suitable for use in humans nor any live stock that will go into the food of humans.
Having said al that, the suggestion that these burgers have 29% horse meat is as I understand is completely wrong. The findings state that 29% of the DNA is horse. This is probably due to a dried protein (which has a higher density of DNA than meat) that has been made from horse. I believe the protein is used to help stabilise the added water and make it something like a burger. (I only found out about this part today on BBC Radio4's food programme - which I consider a reliable source).
The inverse square law only holds if the the transmitted signal is divergent. If you imaginge a singlepoint that transmits power in all directions equally then you can imagine the power delived as being a series of concentric spheres then the the total power is equal for each sphere. but the power density is the total power divided by the area of the sphere.
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collectable power = (area of pick up device*Power transmited)/4*Pi*distance from the transmitter^2
However if you can make a beam like transmission path the then the area never diverges your power density will never drop. I have no idea how you would even start to do this but if you had a transmitter that sent out a cone rather than a sphere then you could make significant improvements.
collectable power (area of pick up device*power transmitted/Pi (Tan(1/2 theta) * distance to transmitter)^2.
When working with code written by more than one person you need rules. It helps with code review and helps new people intergrate into the project more easily. The larger the program and the more people involved the more stringent they have to be.
Of course many of the rules can be applied by the IDE/editor or post processed this is fine as long as submitted code is up to speck. It's genrally better to do it right from the beginning though.
The precise rules themselves don't make much diffrence as long as they are sensible. Consitency is key.
So what? If people's lives are improved, does it really matter what motivations are behind it? If this increases Apple's profit, that is a good thing, because it will set a good example for other corporations.
Improved living conditions are of course good.
This however is (I believe the correct) corporate decision. People, and not just those on Slashdot had started commenting on the conditions of foxconn workers. This is buying good public image. On the other hand this may be an example of capitalism working. Apple saw a danger of losing sales unless they improved their image over the issue. I'm assuming they looked at the best way to improve there image, and doing something to fix the problem was the best solution.
I have recently decided to leave FB partially due to privacy reasons and partially because I'm bored of my inbox being full of messages from people on Facebook asking why I haven't been on Facebook in a week or so. So I updated my status saying that I would soon be leaving permanently. I don't like Facebook and I wish I could just stop using it but friends use it to invite me to partys and nights ou,t so is if I don't use it I will end up sitting at home alone. I have now told them (using there preferred contact method) that I'm off and all the people who I really care about staying in contact with will either have my contact details or be able to get hold of them in the next week or two.
Hopefully this time next month I will not have a Facebook account at all.
This looks awful the demo desktop looked cluttered and I can't see it making life easier or more productive. If anything I think it looks worse than what we have at the moment. I'm not against change in desktops and I realise that sometimes it just takes time to get used to but there seems to be a trend recently for making 3D desktops that just look flashy and not adding anything to the usefulness of the tool (in some cases detracting from it). This is not the first time I have thought this about new desktops (I don't find having a spinning cube/cylinder/hexagonal prism any more useful than having multiple v-desktops). Having all these "piles" on my desktop just seems like a way of loosing things quickly and ending up with muddled files with no structure.
The multi touch looks good though and I think this might be what google is buying. It could just be a way to have gestures for the ChromeOS/Android UI without apple saying that they own them. I just hope they don't take the "piles" as directorys/folders, symlinks/shortcuts and indexing produce a much better system.
My dads probably got more music (excluding the stuff he downloads) than he will ever get round to listening to. He is almost 50 and I seriously doubt he will double that and his entire basement manages to fit 2x chair + HI-FI + 90% record collection + 75% CD collection. If I go stay the rest of the records and some CDs make it impossible to get into my bed without knocking a stack over.
This is all after getting rid of tapes/MD and quite a lot of the vinyl/CD sometime I think he hold up the entire UK music scene on his own.
My point is you don't need to download to have to much music just spend all your time in record shops.
George Mason. Within about a year they'll come to the harsh realization that *designing* videogames is a helluva lot different than *playing* videogames. Shortly after your first C++ midterm, your numbers should stabilize a bit.
I accidentally applied for a BA in computer games design at university of Wales college Newport. I Intended to apply for there Video Games Development. The former was mainly about writing stories and drawing pictures that people who actually knew how to program.
I was actually impressed at there facilitates for the design course but the development coarse seemed to be run very badly. and although I was offered to change my application I decided not to. In the end I elected to do a BEng in Electronic Engineering in Manchester.
My point is UWN games design coarse required no C++ knowledge but also would be nothing like playing video games
You could electrically isolate the control circuitry from the rest of the car. LEDs and phototransistors can be used to comunicate with the controller. I know this system is used to isolate large power devices from there controller.
I'm not sure changed the statistics box from browser version to browser and IE is still top
IE8 and IE7 have 20% each according to TFA
scarier still IE6 has 16%.
All I think this shows is that Firefox users (which make up 32% of the market are more likely to upgrade to the latest version than IE users (who make up 56% of the market)
Sorry but it seems to early to be celebrating victory yet.
PS: How do the compilers of this data cope with people using User Agent Switching.
Every time you listen to a song for free on the radio or on the street, an RIAA lawyer gets an ulcer.
In that case we all have a duty to listen to the radio. There can only be a finite number of lawyers, lets give as many as we can ulcers.
Note: above statement only includes RIAA lawyers and not lawyers in general.
OOcalc allows sctipting in OObasic, Python, Beanshell and Javascript.
I dont know about linking to shared objects etc with OObasic as I use python which has all functionality of regular python.
These can be saved in either mymacros, oomacros or the document itself.
Whiskeys don't change there flavour extremely once bottled and sealed. The age on the bottle represents the time spent in the cask(which has previously been used for sherry or bourbon) the bottled date then tells you how long its been in this sealed state.
Citation: The Edinburgh whiskey museum via my memory
The price of these old whiskeys is due to status, rarity and the lack of particularly tainted barrels (esp for sherry whiskeys)
Personally I like 12yo Laphroaig Quarter cask which is even peatier than the reg stuff
£139.50 is current BBC [colour) licence fee in the United kingdom. You have to pay it if your house has a TV powered off mains electricity (battery powered portables are exempt). For this you get to watch the terestrial TV channels 5 analog and about 30 digital, Including the BBC channels (2 analog and about 8 digital)
The BBC chanels are not aloud to broadcast adverts or "product place" in shows.
The BBC is sponserd exclusivly by the licence fee and some govement payouts.
So no If you download from BBC you do not remove advertising revenue from the program maker.
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I did, but now I've forgotten C++. Thanks a bunch!
And nothing of value was lost ;-)
Congratulations on (re)inventing noise cancellation!
Yes, the concept is extraordinarily simple - but like so many things, the engineering and execution is anything but. That's why it took so long for noise cancelling headphones to come to market, and why they're still relatively uncommon.
I appreciate that this has been implemented many times (and reletaivley inexpensive headphones can be bought using the technique). My suggestion came from the fact that I dislike wearing headphones so I assumed (dangeous) this person would feel the same. I was thinking a box in the room that when turned on (partially) cancelled out noise for the entire room. I see problems with doing this thus not sensible. 1 you need to match the signal strenghthswhich potentially means lots of power. 2 You unless you are vey close to the box you and the box will experiance a diffrent signals, your box will be less effective and will not produce the right output execept by carful tuning. The op-amp will have a delay meaning you will not match the input exactly, as said above this is not a problem with LF (engine noise etc..) but may be a problem with higer Fs such as voices and going higher will make it worse. An LPF will stop the system getting worse (and reduce KTRB in the system) but would stop the box doing what it needs to in this case.
I do not know if there are comercially availible room level oise cancelation setups - if there are I imagine that the system would be expensive and out of the price range of a student. But being a slashdotter and a student I assumed that putting somthing together might not be to difficult. Although designing anything without first knowing (ballpark) what the problem is quantivily will never get somthing that works well.
Probably not a sensible idea, but I think I have often wonderd if a microphone an op-amp and a speaker could be employed to cancel out noise. Seems like it should work but the delay may just make it worse.
The circuit should be easy to but together though all you need is a a couple of resistors a decent modern op-amp (not a 741), somthing with a decent BW (~70dB) and a decent DR should do it. and a couple of a half decent resitors. the PSU may be more difficult you need to keep noise down and ensure you can push enough power to intefere with the original signal.
Concept is simple. If it will work it won't it will just make it worse. If it's slow it may just add to the amplitude of the sound.
The adverts listed in the smoosh article seem to conflate female sexuality with objectification of women I would argue that a woman has the right to use her sexuality in a way that is to there advantage. I consider it sexist to censor women and there sexuality in such a way. This is not a simple matter as many advertising firms do use the the sexual objectification of women as a meketing ploy, some of these adverts do some don't. Some use the image of female sexuallity and the strength that gives them.
Going though the adverts:
Got Milk/PMS: I would agree that there is sexist suggestion in this. The idea tha women are incapable of rational and or reasonable thought while experiancing PMS is wrong. So yes sexist.
Hunky Dorys: This one is more difficult yes the women are clearly sexualised in this advert, But they are portrayed playing a male dominated sportand. All in All I think this advert portrays women sexually for the benefit of a crass pun and probably does fall down on the side of sexist
BK 7"My initial response to this was also that the woman was being portrayed in a sexist way with the, with the obvious nod to felatio and a woman looking in shock/awe at a oversized phallus/ but then I thought about the opposite advertisment. If an attractive man was was pictured looking in awe at a pair of watermelons then the advert may also be considerd sexist. possible more so as the advert would directly equate female wort with the size of there breasts. So looking at it the other way maybe this advert is sexist maybe it suggests that the primary judgment of a mans self worth is penis length. I'm pretty certain the woman here is not being objectified (well no more than any person in an advert)
Che first off sorry about the lack of accent but screw it. I do not see how this woman has been objectified at all, yes the woman is extreamly sexulised but this seems to be her choice, to me the woman in the advert is strong and aware of her sexuallity, she has not cowtowed to the traditinol meek woman and is not afraid of her feminiity and is prepared to do what she want to get where she wants. In this case she is advertising for suiters by offering out phone numbers with an enticement of her bueaty in this way she can have a series of men competing for her affection. So this image puts the woman in the position of power.
Dale Wurfel OK I think this is sexist but possible not for the imdiatley obvious reason. I would consider the frannkness of the woman and how comfortable she can be with her previous sexual encounters shows a strong woman, the suggested lack of competion a healthy response to sex. I do have a problem with the effective equation of this woman with a car. This advert is weird the catch image and suggestion are fine but the attepmt to tie it to the product changes it from a portrayel of a strong sexually liberated woman to a sexually objectified woman. saddly sexist.
BMW The suggestion that a man could find a machine more sexually desireable than a woman is not inhearently sexist (well maybe it is in that it portrays a subset of men as materiaLastic). Apprillia adverts did it better though the inclusion of a seminaked woman (without a face) probably tips this into sexist.
Stil VodkaWithout context this advert is difficult but the suggestion of russian brides, who are culturally seen as thing that are bought and the idea of a woman as a gift (perminatly) does seem to equate to slavery. Possible sexist but I think far more alarming than that a brand thought slavery (of any description) a suitible topic for a joke to base there brand on. Sexist but so much more wrong than that.
Vouge Vanity A woman is being held down and brutalised by law enforcment officers. Unless the the idea was that the cause of this was she was a woman, or that the officers had a right to do this because she was a woman then I do not see this as a problem. In fact the image I see is of a woman who has defied unjus
I'm not sure what your suggesting here. Are you suggesting having an encrption system in the flash drive using you finger scan as the key or do you mean a flash drive that will not access the memory chip without first having you scan (i.e. the storage is in the clear but you need to swipe to connect the storage chip to the USB bus).
The first is sensible if the scanner can accuratley remake the key from the thumb print. Which may be possible but would require some tricks to get over the fact that thumb prints can change over a matter of hours. - I don't want to give myself a paper cut and find that I cant access my data until it's fully healed (if it fully heals and I get an identicle finger print).
The second just smacks of being a bad idea it seems to suggest that there is no possible way to access infomation on the flash chip than to use the pre-packaged connector. - This is just plain false if the NAND flash chip is seperate (as most are) then it is a reletivley simple matter for some one skilled in the art of soldering to remove it and put it on a new carrier board, possible the same model as it came from. There are things you can do (wipe on case open, SiP, SoC) but these can usually be circumvented with a little thought. OK this solution will stop your wife/girlfriend mother finding thos file you don't want them to see but not any determind attacker. Which makes it little more than a toy solution.
I have not watched the video but judging by other comments this product seems sensible in that it encrypts the data passed on a keyed entry key. I'm sure I have seen this tech before though just not sure where, maybe I dreemed it, it seems obviouse now someone says it.
The best app store is no app store.
There is nothing fundermentally wrong with an app store. The problem comes when a sole appstore is the only method to load software onto your device
A device can come with any appstore with any bend you other a barrel TOS, and it is OK by me as long as there is a (supported way) to either side load software or add an alternative store/repository. It's important that this is in some way supported by the manufactureer of the device. For example if the the device comes with only pulling software from the "official" app store, but there is a toggle button allowing other software sources to be enabled or even better a list of appstore address that can be added to/enabled/disabled/deleated, and proritised (like sourses.list in apt systems)that would be great. Fine for a device to come out the shop locked down (in some ways better for the masses), but give people who know/care a proper way to add knew sources.
Having to jailbreak or run an exploit to get this functionallity is not acctepable so I will not have an iOS device. I do not know the situation when it comes to WP7/8.
Well, what you say sounds reasonable if the assumption is that all the students have the best interests of the other students and the university at heart. This is a ridiculous assumption in today's world.
Apart from the fact that the students prior response to the vulnrabillity which was reasonable in reporting it. This to me suggests that the student real intention was to get the system fixed and not to exploit it for perosnal gain/mayhem. If he had wanted to profit from it he could have sold the hole on the black market or stolen the student info himself.
Sounds like the university took appropriate steps when they were informed that their student was continuing to exploit the vulnerability. It doesn't matter what the student might have said in his defense at that point because he could be assumed to not be acting in the best interests of the other students or the university.
Clearly fixing the problem was outside of the scope of the university. They could wait for the vendor to eventually fix things and all the time wonder how much was going on with one or more students exploiting the vulnerablity, or they could get rid of the student so that hopefully he would stop exploiting their system.
Seems pretty obvious to me. The problem starts with the students not having the best interests of the university or other students in mind. That puts everyone on a adversarial footing and obviously the student is going to be the weaker party.
Both the universitys response and the respone of the vendor seem disproportionate when considering both the crime and the intent. The students primary concern seems to his (and possible his fellow students) privacy. Al-khabaz did a stupid thing in running pen-test software against someone elses server (from his own IP as well). I can't help but feel that this could all of been handled in a better way that did not require the same legal recourse. I have suggested one way where all parties could have sat down and talked and everyone could have bennefitted but the company demanded that he sign an NDA under threat of calling the police, and the university kicked him out.
OK this guy was 20 and should have known better what he was doing was illigal and he should have had the implecations stressed to him however I really feel the University should have had a quite word and told him how this would not be tollerated in future.
Having said that the story does not add up perfectly. Apparently he first found the hole while trying to make an app to interface with the system (which I assume he was aloud to do). So why was he running pen-test software to work out if the hole had been closed or not why not just run the original code, some justification could come from the if there not doing x how do I know there doing y but it dosen't quite stack. It also does not fit in mind mibnd that 14/15 of his academic tutors would want him gone for this, as it seems to be as much about saving face for the company as anything else, unless the uni was getting a sweet deal on the software and the company threatend to up the rates if they did not have his head, even so I would not expect faculty staff to kneel so quickly to the person in charge of IT budget. especially for a "top" student.
We only have half the story here but it really does read that the company and universty massivley overreacted to the situation. I would have hoped that that the university would be pushing the vendor for a fix not for discipline of the student.
I also found Tazo's response of all software has bug even from big companies like MS and Google really anoying. If a major securityey bug is found in a peice of software I would expect all companies (no matter the size) to rush out a fix as quickly as possible, even if it was just a patch job. Once the system is secure then they can find a better fix. After this I would not buy stuff from Skytech it's clear there more intrested in pushing blame off somwhere else than offering essential security support to there clients.
Ahmed Al-Khabaz started off doing the correct thing by alerting the University (who then escalated it to the vendor) about the security hole. The vendor said they would fix it and as far as I can tell did not give any further infomation to the finder of the hole who was also had personal infomation hosted on the service. The company should have given him updates and told him when it was fixed, It would even be beneficial for them if they got him to run the exploit from his location given that he had discoverd it and clearly wanted it fixed.
The use of an NDA seemed appropriate though as he had access to confidential infomation of other users, and I understand the company needed time to patch this before the exploit was released into the wild, the NDA should have allowed him to speak to a some defined people namely some representeive of the university and work with them to get this problem fixed, up to this point everything seems to be going how it should.
After this all parties seem to make mistakes, first Al-Khabaz should not have just re-run the exploit as it he should have first seekd permission, if permission was not given he should have reported the situation the university who should have gotten proof that the hole was patched including the abillity to do independent verification (which the university could have got Al-Khabiz to do possible for a nominal fee.
The next mistake was the choice of the Skytech to come down so heavy handed they seem to have gone all out defensive rather than looked for a sensible way around it. Maybe they could have offerd Al-Khabaz a short period of [pro-bono] work pen-testing that he could put on his CV. Students need these mentions and the company could have delt with what is a PR disater and helped a student with there future career with next to no outlay by being a bit more cooperative rather than throwing lega threats around
Oh and I know that there are peopl who are against students doing work for free in exchange for being able to write somthing on there resume but this is a fact of life now, although a nominal charge of $100 for the test and a simple report documenting what he had done and that the holwe had been fixed would seem acceptable as well.
If you were a Jew or a Muslim, having pork or horse in what should be a kosher/halal dish is no good. Neither pork nor horse is permitted by Jewish or Islamic dietary rules.
Cetainly true but there is some protection to the strict followers of these religions. For meat to be considerd Halal it dosent only have to come from a halal animal but also slaughterd in a specific way which includes a specific method of slaughter and a religious cerimony (Dhabihah), I assume there is somthing close with the preperation of Kosher food. As the entire process from slaughter to preperation need to be run in a halal style and the people running these supply chains are muslims they should have [halal] traceabillity. This will at least help in that the you would of thought the people running these opperations have a respect for there own religious laws, but I suppose money can corrupt enven the faithful.
First off I have never [knowingly] eaten horse meat.
I do not have a problem with it though. If someone wants to sell me a horse steak or burger (or a burger containing horse) I would try it.
However the real issue here is the fact that there was nowt in the product description saying there was horse in it that is where the real scandal is. If I buy a burger at the supermarket I expect to be able to read the ingredients and make an informed decision about weather I want to eat it or not. When considered like this the fact that there was pork in the burgers is as bad as the horse.
There is an issue with eating horse though, the problem lies with the fact that horse is very difficult to trace as most of it comes from the USA where the animals primary function is either racing or a pet, these animals are usually sent north to Canada or south to Mexico and tractability is often lost. OK I have absolutely no problem with eating pets, my grandfather gave me a rabbit to look after which was the prepared and served to me as a pie (I think this was meant to be a life lesson about livestock), I never had a problem with this. The problem is these animals are given (large amounts of) drugs that are really bad for humans, the classic case is Bute which is an anti-inflammatory for horses. Bute is a carcinogen at not suitable for use in humans nor any live stock that will go into the food of humans.
Having said al that, the suggestion that these burgers have 29% horse meat is as I understand is completely wrong. The findings state that 29% of the DNA is horse. This is probably due to a dried protein (which has a higher density of DNA than meat) that has been made from horse. I believe the protein is used to help stabilise the added water and make it something like a burger. (I only found out about this part today on BBC Radio4's food programme - which I consider a reliable source).
The inverse square law only holds if the the transmitted signal is divergent. If you imaginge a singlepoint that transmits power in all directions equally then you can imagine the power delived as being a series of concentric spheres then the the total power is equal for each sphere. but the power density is the total power divided by the area of the sphere.
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collectable power = (area of pick up device*Power transmited)/4*Pi*distance from the transmitter^2
However if you can make a beam like transmission path the then the area never diverges your power density will never drop. I have no idea how you would even start to do this but if you had a transmitter that sent out a cone rather than a sphere then you could make significant improvements.
collectable power (area of pick up device*power transmitted/Pi (Tan(1/2 theta) * distance to transmitter)^2.
This would all work with an infinatly big plane.
When working with code written by more than one person you need rules. It helps with code review and helps new people intergrate into the project more easily. The larger the program and the more people involved the more stringent they have to be.
Of course many of the rules can be applied by the IDE/editor or post processed this is fine as long as submitted code is up to speck. It's genrally better to do it right from the beginning though.
The precise rules themselves don't make much diffrence as long as they are sensible. Consitency is key.
So what? If people's lives are improved, does it really matter what motivations are behind it? If this increases Apple's profit, that is a good thing, because it will set a good example for other corporations.
Improved living conditions are of course good.
This however is (I believe the correct) corporate decision. People, and not just those on Slashdot had started commenting on the conditions of foxconn workers. This is buying good public image. On the other hand this may be an example of capitalism working. Apple saw a danger of losing sales unless they improved their image over the issue. I'm assuming they looked at the best way to improve there image, and doing something to fix the problem was the best solution.
No need to wait for your birthday to role around.
I have recently decided to leave FB partially due to privacy reasons and partially because I'm bored of my inbox being full of messages from people on Facebook asking why I haven't been on Facebook in a week or so. So I updated my status saying that I would soon be leaving permanently. I don't like Facebook and I wish I could just stop using it but friends use it to invite me to partys and nights ou,t so is if I don't use it I will end up sitting at home alone. I have now told them (using there preferred contact method) that I'm off and all the people who I really care about staying in contact with will either have my contact details or be able to get hold of them in the next week or two.
Hopefully this time next month I will not have a Facebook account at all.
This looks awful the demo desktop looked cluttered and I can't see it making life easier or more productive. If anything I think it looks worse than what we have at the moment. I'm not against change in desktops and I realise that sometimes it just takes time to get used to but there seems to be a trend recently for making 3D desktops that just look flashy and not adding anything to the usefulness of the tool (in some cases detracting from it). This is not the first time I have thought this about new desktops (I don't find having a spinning cube/cylinder/hexagonal prism any more useful than having multiple v-desktops). Having all these "piles" on my desktop just seems like a way of loosing things quickly and ending up with muddled files with no structure.
The multi touch looks good though and I think this might be what google is buying. It could just be a way to have gestures for the ChromeOS/Android UI without apple saying that they own them. I just hope they don't take the "piles" as directorys/folders, symlinks/shortcuts and indexing produce a much better system.
My dads probably got more music (excluding the stuff he downloads) than he will ever get round to listening to. He is almost 50 and I seriously doubt he will double that and his entire basement manages to fit 2x chair + HI-FI + 90% record collection + 75% CD collection. If I go stay the rest of the records and some CDs make it impossible to get into my bed without knocking a stack over.
This is all after getting rid of tapes/MD and quite a lot of the vinyl/CD sometime I think he hold up the entire UK music scene on his own.
My point is you don't need to download to have to much music just spend all your time in record shops.
George Mason. Within about a year they'll come to the harsh realization that *designing* videogames is a helluva lot different than *playing* videogames. Shortly after your first C++ midterm, your numbers should stabilize a bit.
I accidentally applied for a BA in computer games design at university of Wales college Newport. I Intended to apply for there Video Games Development. The former was mainly about writing stories and drawing pictures that people who actually knew how to program.
I was actually impressed at there facilitates for the design course but the development coarse seemed to be run very badly. and although I was offered to change my application I decided not to. In the end I elected to do a BEng in Electronic Engineering in Manchester.
My point is UWN games design coarse required no C++ knowledge but also would be nothing like playing video games
You could electrically isolate the control circuitry from the rest of the car. LEDs and phototransistors can be used to comunicate with the controller. I know this system is used to isolate large power devices from there controller.
I'm not sure changed the statistics box from browser version to browser and IE is still top
IE8 and IE7 have 20% each according to TFA
scarier still IE6 has 16%.
All I think this shows is that Firefox users (which make up 32% of the market are more likely to upgrade to the latest version than IE users (who make up 56% of the market)
Sorry but it seems to early to be celebrating victory yet.
PS: How do the compilers of this data cope with people using User Agent Switching.
Every time you listen to a song for free on the radio or on the street, an RIAA lawyer gets an ulcer.
In that case we all have a duty to listen to the radio. There can only be a finite number of lawyers, lets give as many as we can ulcers. Note: above statement only includes RIAA lawyers and not lawyers in general.
I imagine it would be a good way to fork the development or have it optional. know I'd switch it off. Or help with a fork.
OOcalc allows sctipting in OObasic, Python, Beanshell and Javascript.
I dont know about linking to shared objects etc with OObasic as I use python which has all functionality of regular python.
These can be saved in either mymacros, oomacros or the document itself.
Whiskeys don't change there flavour extremely once bottled and sealed. The age on the bottle represents the time spent in the cask(which has previously been used for sherry or bourbon) the bottled date then tells you how long its been in this sealed state.
Citation: The Edinburgh whiskey museum via my memory
The price of these old whiskeys is due to status, rarity and the lack of particularly tainted barrels (esp for sherry whiskeys)
Personally I like 12yo Laphroaig Quarter cask which is even peatier than the reg stuff
The Soviet computer is called Guardian - when they connect together they become Unity.
£139.50 is current BBC [colour) licence fee in the United kingdom. You have to pay it if your house has a TV powered off mains electricity (battery powered portables are exempt). For this you get to watch the terestrial TV channels 5 analog and about 30 digital, Including the BBC channels (2 analog and about 8 digital)
The BBC chanels are not aloud to broadcast adverts or "product place" in shows.
The BBC is sponserd exclusivly by the licence fee and some govement payouts.
So no If you download from BBC you do not remove advertising revenue from the program maker.