I used to do sniffing and stuff like this a couple years ago and the biggest hurdle was finding a wireless adapter which would allow promiscuous mode. aircrack sells one that comes with 1st party drivers to allow sniffing. I used a linksys usb adapter since there were 3rd party drivers that allowed it.
unless something has changed I thought most wireless driver didn't support promiscuous mode for sniffing.
looks interesting but i've never found overall ergonomics to be a problem. i have a logitech mx revolution and it feels great actually for me its dam near the perfect mouse if only i could refine it slightly.
but even the average bean shaped mouse is usually ok. what i want is more buttons. its hard to find a good mouse with more than the two thumb buttons with maybe left and right tilt. i wish Logitech had refined the revolution instead of abandoning it, a few tweaks and i would have bought 10 of em and be done with mice forever:-p
is it sad that i never had heard of this meme before. but after reading the the post and noting the specific omissions concluded that it must be some meme i was unaware of.
methinks i've been on the toobs too long it's getting predicable:-p
jokes aside Stuxnet worm is pretty scary. researchers definitely believe it was developed by something with significant backing. it's very sophisticated and extremely targeted. It contained multiple 0 day exploits and was designed specifically to disrupt industrial systems.
though this article contradicts others i have read that say due to its specificity that it wasn't too damaging.
also a note: these systems aren't necessarily internet connected the worm is designed to infect usb drives so it can reach systems which are unconnected for security reasons.
this type of crap scares me because i'm not confident that the US infrastructure is hardened enough o protect against malicious cyber attacks.
while i think many slash-dotters would stand for some piracy, with the games and music its FREE. if i copy some music or games then start burning copies or selling them via the web i think that crosses the line where you become a real pirate and are doing something distasteful.
this is very different from scanning the book and making a torrent. they scanned it re-branded it and now are trying to sell it.
did the GPS coffin thing make no sense to anyone else? mean GPS units don't transmit. did they mean an RF transmitter like they use on wild animals (hardly global)? or do they mean that they record the GPS coordinates and give family's a unit to go find the spot?
throwing your garmin in with grandpa seems a bit silly since he doesn't care where he is and he ain't goin' nowhere
it is tough but done right it can yield great results. i think this simple crowd sourcing of science wild be one fo the best moves for humanity. you may not have a background in a particular field but still see something that the 'experts' missed.
games are a great way to do it too. if its fun people will put tremendous amounts of time an effort into it. imagine if WoW had a deeper scientific undertone or other learning aspect.
personally i had an idea for a programming language RPG. i realized i could memorize complex combos and the stats of hundreds of enemies and dungeon layouts that if the basic mechanic of the game were applicable to something greater would be cool.
i got as far as thinking SQL would be a good start. that the RPG combat elements would be an abstracted form of the SWL language and returning/modifying increasingly complex data sets against your enemies would be how to attack. not too far fetched but if its not "good" nobody will get into it and nobody will learn.
i hate when manufacturers do crap like this to keep peripherals locked into a more profitable licensing agreement. Apples tendency toward total control is one of the things i don't like about them.
tho other manufacturers are just as bad. i will never buy a Dell for my home for the same reasons. at work we had an Out of warranty gx 270 desktop. they were know for their bad capacitors in the power supply. so lo and behold the PS goes out. i have to spec a new one. at first i thought i would hop down to the local PC store and grabe a cheap PS for like $30 would work fine.
found out that the motherboards on those dells had different pin layouts from regular boards. the connector was the same as your usual PS but the lines were scrambled. if you plugged in a PS from the PC store you would fry the mobo. thus i would have to get a new PS from the dell store at a cost of $115..
we opted for a used PS from a 3rd party supplier for $30 instead.
wish companies would back off and be more open. the way things seem to go we're heaed back to the old at&t days when it took a court action just to add a funnel to your telephone handset http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone/
you would think that there would be plenty of applications for a super strong thin glass. i'm guessing it's prohibitively expensive to use compared to other products. either that or corning needs a better marketing team.
the picture of the guy bending a small sheet in the article link is pretty cool.
i agree. I always liked physics made the world look different (like "car breaks are kinetic to thermal energy converters"). never could really get into dynamics though. i remember my teacher describing the the problem of rotational inertia of a deformable object (like a jelly disk) faster you spin the more it changes shape which changes its inertia.
props to the people out there with the knack and persistence to solve crap like that.
actually these days the articles are the only reason to even subscribe.
I received a few playboys last year and flipped through them. the pornographic element of Playboy is so tame/weak compared to what i have access to online (for free) that it seemed pointless. even from an artistic standard the offerings of the web are vastly superior in content quantity quality, availability and price
i can't imagine anyone actually buying Playboy these days strictly for its pornographic content
expensive but appears to have a nice arcade style joystick its pretty expensive though. personally i think my joypad works fine for MAME, an old atari pad would stink for something like street fighter or mortal Kombat anyway
I always thought that dark matter was a hack. "our numbers don't add up.. therefore 90% of the universe is a type of matter that has gravity but doesn't interact with the electromagnetic spectrum, or anything else, also there's none of it near earth, it's like the 90% that's far away." sounds good to me:-p
hardly useless. even a canon 420ex can run more than $100. you can use these with a cheap RF-602 wireless trigger setup and get great off camera lighting on the cheap. you could get like 3 of these and the triggers for less then the cost of one 580exII
1: make more draconian DRM than Spore 2: get your crap pirated like nothing before in protest 3: show new numbers proving that piracy is rampant and killing the industry 4: sue pirates like the IAA's 5: profit!
an interesting solution which essentially allows CCP to snag some profit from the farmers. in the new PLEX model you have users who want to use real money to buy ISK so the purchase a PLEX, you have ISK farmers who have loads of cash offering above market price for players PLEX, then reselling the PLEX at a lower real life cost essentially lowering the price of the monthly subscription for the farmers customers.
PlayerA gets his ISK for RLM, PlayerB saves some money each month the Farmer gets some cash for his time and CCP got in on the action.
Granted most of the web stuff i do isn't critical but lately if its broken in IE6 i don't fix it, actually since you can't parallel install IE i only check 7 on my host and 8 on my VM so i don't even check 6 anymore.
Netflix has a pretty good selection and even some new movies. i have a computer hooked to my TV which i use for streaming but im still waiting for my Netflix Wii channel.
Apple is a niche product. its cool because its the plucky underdog not the monolithic monopoly. If apple were 30 or 50 or 90+ % the hardware manufacturers will call foul. Apple likes to control every aspect of their product, the look the hardware the software and that's just exactly what will be busted up when they get too big.
First legislation to make apple allow OS-X to run on any hardware. then likely legislation to allow upgrading of imacs with different components. then legislation to ban Apple from bundling too much software like the Safari browser:-/
They will have to change OS-X to be more enterprise friendly (from afaik apple doesn't really have any enterprise solutions)
also without a significant opponent to blast in pretentious I'm a mac commercials they will loose an edge on their image and 'think different' become 'resistance is futile'.
in the end a new underdog will replace their niche and things roll on.
actually i think your missing the real point. its not really about who you can threaten.
Apple has a business model which literally cannot take a market majority. the day Apple hits 30% it can no longer be apple anymore. however Linux can go all out.
but even that is an aside in these times of recession people have a vested interest in their hardware. XP is getting long in tooth and vista was a flop if 7 doesn't pony up there will be a huge body of unsatisfied people who cannot afford to go buy a mac but *can* afford to download a Linux distro.
once Linux gets enough of a market foothold support for the platform snowballs. more drivers come out more people get linux etc etc.
People said i was daft to build a short Foucault pendulum. but i built it anyway... it started to precess.. so i built another one. that started to precess. so i built a third one. That one started to precess then fell over and burst into flames. but the FOURTH one worked great. and that's what your getting my lad the shortest Foucault pendulum in the world!
I actually agree. now while it may be true that M$ was bullying the market you have to wonder what the goal is since browsers are effin free. in face we can *thank* MS for that IIRC there were pay versions of navigator way back when IE first came out but even before IE i always wonder what chumps were shelling out money for a web browser
and in today's context its just stupid *not* having a browser would be negligent. i can see the apple adds now. "hi im a pc, oh hello mac let me just drive out to the nearest distribution center and get a CD so i can browse the Internet":-p
While leveraging a Monopoly to kill competition is evil there really wasn't any competent competition to kill. if there were a market a better product would have come out and competed with the bundled IE. i don't recall a whole lot of TV ads for Mozilla browsers.
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I used to do sniffing and stuff like this a couple years ago and the biggest hurdle was finding a wireless adapter which would allow promiscuous mode. aircrack sells one that comes with 1st party drivers to allow sniffing. I used a linksys usb adapter since there were 3rd party drivers that allowed it.
unless something has changed I thought most wireless driver didn't support promiscuous mode for sniffing.
looks interesting but i've never found overall ergonomics to be a problem. i have a logitech mx revolution and it feels great actually for me its dam near the perfect mouse if only i could refine it slightly.
but even the average bean shaped mouse is usually ok. what i want is more buttons. its hard to find a good mouse with more than the two thumb buttons with maybe left and right tilt. i wish Logitech had refined the revolution instead of abandoning it, a few tweaks and i would have bought 10 of em and be done with mice forever :-p
is it sad that i never had heard of this meme before. but after reading the the post and noting the specific omissions concluded that it must be some meme i was unaware of.
methinks i've been on the toobs too long it's getting predicable :-p
jokes aside Stuxnet worm is pretty scary. researchers definitely believe it was developed by something with significant backing. it's very sophisticated and extremely targeted. It contained multiple 0 day exploits and was designed specifically to disrupt industrial systems.
though this article contradicts others i have read that say due to its specificity that it wasn't too damaging.
also a note: these systems aren't necessarily internet connected the worm is designed to infect usb drives so it can reach systems which are unconnected for security reasons.
this type of crap scares me because i'm not confident that the US infrastructure is hardened enough o protect against malicious cyber attacks.
while i think many slash-dotters would stand for some piracy, with the games and music its FREE. if i copy some music or games then start burning copies or selling them via the web i think that crosses the line where you become a real pirate and are doing something distasteful.
this is very different from scanning the book and making a torrent. they scanned it re-branded it and now are trying to sell it.
did the GPS coffin thing make no sense to anyone else? mean GPS units don't transmit. did they mean an RF transmitter like they use on wild animals (hardly global)? or do they mean that they record the GPS coordinates and give family's a unit to go find the spot?
throwing your garmin in with grandpa seems a bit silly since he doesn't care where he is and he ain't goin' nowhere
it is tough but done right it can yield great results. i think this simple crowd sourcing of science wild be one fo the best moves for humanity. you may not have a background in a particular field but still see something that the 'experts' missed.
games are a great way to do it too. if its fun people will put tremendous amounts of time an effort into it. imagine if WoW had a deeper scientific undertone or other learning aspect.
personally i had an idea for a programming language RPG. i realized i could memorize complex combos and the stats of hundreds of enemies and dungeon layouts that if the basic mechanic of the game were applicable to something greater would be cool.
i got as far as thinking SQL would be a good start. that the RPG combat elements would be an abstracted form of the SWL language and returning/modifying increasingly complex data sets against your enemies would be how to attack. not too far fetched but if its not "good" nobody will get into it and nobody will learn.
i hate when manufacturers do crap like this to keep peripherals locked into a more profitable licensing agreement. Apples tendency toward total control is one of the things i don't like about them.
tho other manufacturers are just as bad. i will never buy a Dell for my home for the same reasons. at work we had an Out of warranty gx 270 desktop. they were know for their bad capacitors in the power supply. so lo and behold the PS goes out. i have to spec a new one. at first i thought i would hop down to the local PC store and grabe a cheap PS for like $30 would work fine.
found out that the motherboards on those dells had different pin layouts from regular boards. the connector was the same as your usual PS but the lines were scrambled. if you plugged in a PS from the PC store you would fry the mobo. thus i would have to get a new PS from the dell store at a cost of $115 ..
we opted for a used PS from a 3rd party supplier for $30 instead.
wish companies would back off and be more open. the way things seem to go we're heaed back to the old at&t days when it took a court action just to add a funnel to your telephone handset http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone/
you would think that there would be plenty of applications for a super strong thin glass. i'm guessing it's prohibitively expensive to use compared to other products. either that or corning needs a better marketing team.
the picture of the guy bending a small sheet in the article link is pretty cool.
i agree. I always liked physics made the world look different (like "car breaks are kinetic to thermal energy converters"). never could really get into dynamics though. i remember my teacher describing the the problem of rotational inertia of a deformable object (like a jelly disk) faster you spin the more it changes shape which changes its inertia.
props to the people out there with the knack and persistence to solve crap like that.
can we just start calling them 'M' Class ?
actually these days the articles are the only reason to even subscribe.
I received a few playboys last year and flipped through them. the pornographic element of Playboy is so tame/weak compared to what i have access to online (for free) that it seemed pointless. even from an artistic standard the offerings of the web are vastly superior in content quantity quality, availability and price
i can't imagine anyone actually buying Playboy these days strictly for its pornographic content
if its MAME you're mostly looking at you want this:
http://www.xgaming.com/store/arcade-joysticks-and-game-controllers/product/x-arcade-solo-joystick/?utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_source=googlebase&cvsfa=2340&cvsfe=2&cvsfhu=58474d2d534f4c4f
expensive but appears to have a nice arcade style joystick its pretty expensive though. personally i think my joypad works fine for MAME, an old atari pad would stink for something like street fighter or mortal Kombat anyway
I always thought that dark matter was a hack. "our numbers don't add up.. therefore 90% of the universe is a type of matter that has gravity but doesn't interact with the electromagnetic spectrum, or anything else, also there's none of it near earth, it's like the 90% that's far away." sounds good to me :-p
http://www.xkcd.com/189//
cuz we're all just sims in some grander game.
hardly useless. even a canon 420ex can run more than $100. you can use these with a cheap RF-602 wireless trigger setup and get great off camera lighting on the cheap. you could get like 3 of these and the triggers for less then the cost of one 580exII
1: make more draconian DRM than Spore
2: get your crap pirated like nothing before in protest
3: show new numbers proving that piracy is rampant and killing the industry
4: sue pirates like the IAA's
5: profit!
there fixed it for ya
an interesting solution which essentially allows CCP to snag some profit from the farmers. in the new PLEX model you have users who want to use real money to buy ISK so the purchase a PLEX, you have ISK farmers who have loads of cash offering above market price for players PLEX, then reselling the PLEX at a lower real life cost essentially lowering the price of the monthly subscription for the farmers customers.
PlayerA gets his ISK for RLM, PlayerB saves some money each month the Farmer gets some cash for his time and CCP got in on the action.
Granted most of the web stuff i do isn't critical but lately if its broken in IE6 i don't fix it, actually since you can't parallel install IE i only check 7 on my host and 8 on my VM so i don't even check 6 anymore.
Netflix has a pretty good selection and even some new movies. i have a computer hooked to my TV which i use for streaming but im still waiting for my Netflix Wii channel.
Apple is a niche product. its cool because its the plucky underdog not the monolithic monopoly. If apple were 30 or 50 or 90+ % the hardware manufacturers will call foul. Apple likes to control every aspect of their product, the look the hardware the software and that's just exactly what will be busted up when they get too big.
First legislation to make apple allow OS-X to run on any hardware. then likely legislation to allow upgrading of imacs with different components. then legislation to ban Apple from bundling too much software like the Safari browser :-/
They will have to change OS-X to be more enterprise friendly (from afaik apple doesn't really have any enterprise solutions)
also without a significant opponent to blast in pretentious I'm a mac commercials they will loose an edge on their image and 'think different' become 'resistance is futile'.
in the end a new underdog will replace their niche and things roll on.
actually i think your missing the real point. its not really about who you can threaten.
Apple has a business model which literally cannot take a market majority. the day Apple hits 30% it can no longer be apple anymore. however Linux can go all out.
but even that is an aside in these times of recession people have a vested interest in their hardware. XP is getting long in tooth and vista was a flop if 7 doesn't pony up there will be a huge body of unsatisfied people who cannot afford to go buy a mac but *can* afford to download a Linux distro.
once Linux gets enough of a market foothold support for the platform snowballs. more drivers come out more people get linux etc etc.
Don't ask, Don't tell.
People said i was daft to build a short Foucault pendulum. but i built it anyway... it started to precess .. so i built another one. that started to precess. so i built a third one. That one started to precess then fell over and burst into flames. but the FOURTH one worked great. and that's what your getting my lad the shortest Foucault pendulum in the world!
I actually agree. now while it may be true that M$ was bullying the market you have to wonder what the goal is since browsers are effin free. in face we can *thank* MS for that IIRC there were pay versions of navigator way back when IE first came out but even before IE i always wonder what chumps were shelling out money for a web browser
and in today's context its just stupid *not* having a browser would be negligent. i can see the apple adds now. "hi im a pc, oh hello mac let me just drive out to the nearest distribution center and get a CD so i can browse the Internet" :-p
While leveraging a Monopoly to kill competition is evil there really wasn't any competent competition to kill. if there were a market a better product would have come out and competed with the bundled IE. i don't recall a whole lot of TV ads for Mozilla browsers.