If his friends play LOL and he plays HON he'll take shit for it. Honestly, I think HON and DOTA2 are far better games than LOL, but there's peer pressure here, and no one likes playing a game alone, if a few of their friends are playing some other game.
Kids need to try, fail, and learn. Your trying to put him on a bicycle in full body armor and rig some sort of support system that holds him up if the bike falls over. Let him scrape his knee once.
I've seen first hands how fast kids learn when the reward is their favorite game working and or working faster. Minecraft alone has been responsible for an entire new generation of hackers who w/o it never would have figured out (or needed to) how to unpack a jar file, make a change, and repack it.
If I look back on my life in computers, my drive to learn and understand them was always driven by games. From C64 days of figuring out how to load and run games, to the DOS hell days of having to figure out how to eek out a few extra bytes of conventional memory to run the latest game.
Add into this, the meta-game of keeping your OS running, of finding out you have a virus because your performance is going down and you learn to pin down the process that shouldn't be in your process list. All of this exploration is fertile ground of new minds.
Just given them the laptop and the win7 license, and let them figure it out..
Something was still off between those two on communications. I think Joe was trying to put him at ease, probably had direct view of his heart rate and other things we couldn't see. But I think Felix was having a fight or flight moment. I actually worried something with his suit pressure was wrong because he was acting like he had nitrogen narcosis ( or the equivalent at opposite extremes of pressure). He was slow to respond, and sometimes didn't respond or acknowledge at all. I can't help to think if this was a NASA or military exercise, they would have stopped the egress checklist and switched to a "is our pilot ok" checklist. It was painful to watch.
I get the sense he didn't have the level of discipline with regards to the checklist procedure as say a military trained pilot or astronaut. He became silent, uncommunicative, and did things out of order. I get the sense this was just a really really tall BASE jump for him. I kept waiting for him to jump out with a hose still attached, because he kept putting the vent hose back in after the checklist told him to remove it.
That was a bit akward. Not sure if it was a communication issue or nerves, but he was not responding to the request to begin the egress checklist and said something I couldn't hear that definitely didn't sound like confidence. Looks like he eventually pulled it together, and you could hear the relief in the communication managers voice.
Was watching some show recently which depicted late 1800's London, and the guy was in his horse drawn buggy headed to the country on a small road and was asleep. And I thought to myself, at some point we transitioned from intelligent vehicles which reacted to the enviornment around them, and had basic collision avoidance and guidance, to mechanical systems where were we sit directly in the loop all of the time. Nod off on a horse carriage and you'll not likely end up in a tree, try doing it in your car.
I can't help but now read these comments of people who are afraid of the coming autonomous vehicles as the same people 100 years ago that would have been afraid of the change to mechanical vehicles.
From the OP: "a car using CarSpeak's MAC-based communications was able to stop with a maximum average delay of 0.45 seconds"
This acronym 'MAC' is not used or explained anywhere else in TFS, so it's unclear whether they mean Media Access Control from the IEEE 802 spec (which probably is employed in moving data wirelessly from car to car, but has little to do with the specific problem of detecting or responding to safety hazards) or something else entirely.
They explain MAC right in the paper ( which is linked in the article ). It's MAC just like you think MAC is (Media Access Control).
Really, the gist of the paper, is instead of each car being the source or identity of a packet, via normal MAC 'addressing' and trying to communicate some important information ( like soft squish target...er.. human at X,Y,Z moving Z-> Y-> Z-> at such and such a rate ) via the full OSI model ( like packaging that info in UDP or TCP), You instead break down the 3D space around the car ( and other cars do the same thing ) using an octree graph ( just like visibility systems in 3D game engines), and send out this info with the MAC layer altered to show which region of the octree your information is pertinent too.
So if you are Car A, and Car B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I are all in your broadcast range, and they are dumping out gigabytes of network aware info based on their laser scanners, you can quickly and at a very low level (hardware) pick out the packets that are important to you (from the air).
tl;dr: It's a clustered index for wireless packets based on GPS location of events stuffed into the MAC (data link) layer. It's a complicated QOS scheme that has been crafted around a specific engineering latency problem.
>...I didn't know what to do... Did you ever try thinking?
It's my default gear. Some would argue I do it too much. But standing in line, waiting, the problem with 'thinking', unless it was just for entertainment in which case I'd call it 'day dreaming' was that thinking lead to questions, and the questions necessitated answers. Not having reference material around me, or other sources to query, I could never get an answer to whatever I was pondering.
Now, standing in line, when I think of something and I'm curious about it, I get to look at my phone and find ( most of the time ) an answer. I do this quite a lot. I wonder why the manhole covers I walked over on the way to the doctors office all said 'made in India'. I'd think about the cost of shipping them from India, about the conditions where they were made, about where the raw materials came from and how much of it does India have... and whether or not India meant The India or if it was some play on words...
Cue my smartphone, and the answer, and some article about it ( I wasn't the first to wonder ). This is better than just thinking. This is being able to run little experiments in your head and validate a result in seconds.
I can remember waiting awkwardly in line with other people with nothing more to do then stare at some advertisement or products around me. I, and certainly no one around me, wanted to start up a random stranger dialogue and shoot the shit. This alone caused me to be anxious. I hated waiting because I didn't know what to do, shuffle shuffle shuffle, hands in pockets, out of pockets, sigh, yawn... shuffle.
I welcome the soft glow of my phone. It makes DMV, Passport agency, and anything in a municipal building _just a bit better_. Likely a few years from now an anthropologist will do a study about how fewer people are going 'postal' while waiting in line for some bureaucracy. How after waiting in line a few hours, the ability to play angry birds kept them from thinking about how much money they were going to be docked when they got back to work. It just may save someone's life.
Also, lets not drone on about this 'habitual stimulation' always being entertainment. I see people on the subway who somehow manage to play games and watch videos, but I see just as many reading. Not to say reading can't be entertainment ( or that games and video can't be learning tools ). Just grouping everything people do with their smartphones into 'entertainment' is wrong.
I read the full article, I have to say, I was a bit disappointed. Nothing really of interest. The LED encoding has been done, before, and better. The "Display without Borders" has also been done, before, and much better. And the digital signage was a gimmick. Even as a prototype, it's silly. Yes, you took 18 androids, put them in cases, and glued them to a display rack. Presto, digital signage. Please....
I find it more interesting to read up on the research.microsoft.com projects, or MIT Media lab.
List of Supported Models I still have an old Toshiba Gigabeat, that has easily over 9 hours of life when just playing music. It also has a cable ( in-line headphone jack ) remote that supports volume, mute, next/prev track, pause, and play. Image of headphone remote. Also, the gigabeat dock has it's own USB host, power, and other things. The dock would be the only thing you need to certify, as it's the only thing mounted. The gigabeats you'd just bring with you and clip in each flight.
Rockbox has open support for handling those remote buttons anyway you like.
The assumption here is the page referenced by robots.txt simply dumps *all* this information. I'm not sure that's the case.
This page allows its affiliates to see how many loan applicants they recruited and how much money they made. Not only was this page unsecured, it was actually referenced in their robots.txt file (Bad, bad move, guys).
While it's possible this page just dumps everyone's info, it's more likely that it dumps for a specific affiliate account. I feel like there had to be some SQL injection or some other attack to pull what they infer they got.
I think GP was talking about Selective Availability (SA). Basically an intentional error that limited accuracy of commercial GPS to 30-100m. It was turned off 5/2/2000. Ever since then we've had 95% 10m accuracy, but the DOD has the ability to selectively re-enable SA on individual satellites. The thought being, if we see a couple of cruise missiles ( or a missile boat ) within range of the US, we can disrupt GPS so it can't be used against us. As a defensive layer, this ability no longer packs the same punch as it did back in the day. Terrain contour matching ( TERCOM ) is cheap and 'easy' these days with the processors and power available to avionic packages. I don't doubt if you google for it, someone's built a TERCOM system for their hobby RC plane by now.
Either way, it wasn't about _terrorism_ so much as it was about nation vs nation war.
Anyone found to have used hacked saves, modded games, or other exploits to gain an unfair advantage in Max Payne 3 Multiplayer, or to circumvent the leaderboards will be quarantined from all other players into a "Cheaters Pool", where they'll only be able to compete in multiplayer matches with other confirmed miscreants
Which smells to me like they had poorly implemented server side checks, and people who modified their save games or other client in memory vars, were able to rocket to the top or run around invincible. That's just plain bad server-side programming on their end. I don't doubt with the right queries into their server storage they could identify accounts that bypassed something they were supposed to spend time on or accrue. If they had the right amount of auditing sprinkled in.
If you see anyone in Max Payne 3 multiplayer using invincibility hacks, infinite adrenaline, score cheating or doing anything else suspicious, just send us an email at maxpayne3.banhammer@rockstargames.com and include the following: -Platform (PC, PS3 or Xbox 360) -Cheater’s Gamertag / ID -Description of the violation -If possible, please include concrete evidence, such as a video or a screenshot
Wow, again, very scary. So the server trust the client for things like invincibility, adrenaline, _actual score_..etc. Is this a FPS from 1993?
Will this find aimbots, wallhacks or radar? No. It never will and never can. If you have to trust the client to run your 'aimbot detection code' then you already lost that battle. ( sure, statistically you can find weak cheats, or push down new detection code to try and catch them off guard, but the good ones have checks in place for that ).
All and all, this is part PR ( "Hey we're really mad at those darn cheaters and we'll try and make a difference!" ) and part cover up ( "Oh, we fucked up and let you do crappy memory hacks to rule our leader boards, we were in a rush and couldn't get all the server state checks done in time, plus it was so laggy, so we just decided to trust the client. Now we know better, have more time on our heads, so we'll retroactively try and determine people that cheated and remove them from the leader board")
As an observation, based on 20 years of IRC, then Vent, and a spattering of 4chan like forums, I can tell you that racism ( and sexism and many other 'isms ) go from near zero to well over the majority when anonymity or pseudo-anonymity is involved ( no doubt, see the above 5 posts in this articles response for affirmation). Often times, this occurs with 'minorities' or targets of the attacks in the channel or on the board (or in fact listening in vent). At the same time, having got to know some of these people over the course of 20 years, I recognize the racism/sexism/anti-Semitic as benign and often used simply for trolling. In fact the more vitriolic the person is the less likely ( based on my knowledge of that person ) they are to in fact truly 'feel' that way.
So, I have no doubt that if you crawled the web and pulled out all the racist comments from different forums and chat logs the number would be absurdly high compared to what you see in phone interviews or direct interviews.
Am I the only one that is less concerned with copyrighted GPL code being in this rather humane and elegant attack against a country trying to develop nuclear weapons, and more upset with how and why the information about the program was leaked?
I can't help but feel at some point this is going to be a big deal. Hearings, testimony, etc. One or more people are going to lose their jobs, future security clearance, and possibly face jail time. There's just no way this recent and this active a program should have been briefed to the New York Times.
Hello? Thomas Paine published Common Sense anonymously. James Madison published The Federalist Papers anonymously, and Ben Franklin published a whole host of material anonymously. Anonymous political discourse was absolutely instrumental in creating the United States.
This. Grandparent post is mostly wrong. Sure people standing up and being held accountable for their view point certainly helped change the world, but before that flash point were many anonymous letters and meetings...
Apparently Geek.com has it's own problems with editors & science....
This article is completely incorrect.
The total equation for oxygenic photosynthesis is: 6CO2 + 12H2O + light C6H12O6 + 6O2 + 6H2O Broken down, the equations are: water + light -> chemical energy and gaseous oxygen (a waste product)
(Historically called the "light reactions" because they require light. Photosystem II drives this light capture.)
That chemical energy is then used to capture carbon dioxide to make carbohydrates or sugars: chemical energy from photosynthesis + carbon dioxide -> carbohydrates
(Historically called the "dark reactions" because the two processes can be uncoupled. The enzyme Rubisco uses the chemical energy from photosynthesis to capture CO2, which goes on to make sugars, etc.)
The carbohydrates can then be used for cellular functions OR as an energy source by the mitochondria, just like we as people use sugar as energy.These algae (What kind are they? I can't even find Pierre Calleja's research page. All I get is mixotrophic algae, which could be any number of algae. I'm assuming that it is a eukaryote like Chlamydomonas, but it could be a prokaryote like Synechocystis.) do NOT use carbon dioxide as an energy source. By definition, a mixotrophic algae CAN use carbon as an energy source, but NOT in the form of CO2, it must be in the form of sugar, acetate, etc.Furthermore, these lamps are NOT powered by the algae themselves. These lamps are powered by electricity to give the algae light to grow. That light then gives the algae the energy to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Point is, it's as likely that the film you bite down on and the plastic it's covered in turns out to be carcinogenic. We're talking a very small amount of radiation here.
You can also edit the source directly ( click the </> on the bottom right) and they don't do much checking. You can make a track with 50 points, 200 long. Basically a hover conveyor belt to the output.
Also, many people don't realize you can move the input and output gates.
It's incredibly easy to access data on a phone that isn't using device level encryption. And even then, it's not impossible.
First off, if this isn't some device level encryption option ( which some android phones do have ) all they have to do is hook it up with a usb cable, use ADB and root it. I don't know any android phone that can't be rooted currently.
If it is fully encrypted, and the bootloader is somewhat secure ( like the moto razr's ), then just social engineer the guy. Give him a phone that looks exactly like his real phone, but is a trojan. Tell him he's been allowed by the state to make phone calls using it. Wait for him to unlock it it, and then take the device from him.
All in all, i hope were missing some information. This makes the FBI looks like newbs. Maybe they just did this first because they wantto save money, in which case fine.
Obviously, the most expensive way to solve this is to remove the built in storage, solder it into a SD card or wahtever it happens to be, and plug it into a pc. Then mount it.
It's built using the MS Speech platform. Their may be a port for Mac ( Office for Mac have TTS? ), but in general for a PBX system to use this, this part of the system has to be running windows.
That said, the voices have been free. You can buy MS Speech voices from 3rd parties for lots of money if you want some more natural voices. This seems like a step towards the eventually downfall of highly trained specialized voices. The concept here is, hire a new voice actress, spend an hour, and translate her into multiple languages.
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If his friends play LOL and he plays HON he'll take shit for it. Honestly, I think HON and DOTA2 are far better games than LOL, but there's peer pressure here, and no one likes playing a game alone, if a few of their friends are playing some other game.
This this this.
Kids need to try, fail, and learn. Your trying to put him on a bicycle in full body armor and rig some sort of support system that holds him up if the bike falls over.
Let him scrape his knee once.
I've seen first hands how fast kids learn when the reward is their favorite game working and or working faster. Minecraft alone has been responsible for an entire new generation of hackers who w/o it never would have figured out (or needed to) how to unpack a jar file, make a change, and repack it.
If I look back on my life in computers, my drive to learn and understand them was always driven by games. From C64 days of figuring out how to load and run games, to the DOS hell days of having to figure out how to eek out a few extra bytes of conventional memory to run the latest game.
Add into this, the meta-game of keeping your OS running, of finding out you have a virus because your performance is going down and you learn to pin down the process that shouldn't be in your process list. All of this exploration is fertile ground of new minds.
Just given them the laptop and the win7 license, and let them figure it out..
Something was still off between those two on communications. I think Joe was trying to put him at ease, probably had direct view of his heart rate and other things we couldn't see. But I think Felix was having a fight or flight moment. I actually worried something with his suit pressure was wrong because he was acting like he had nitrogen narcosis ( or the equivalent at opposite extremes of pressure). He was slow to respond, and sometimes didn't respond or acknowledge at all. I can't help to think if this was a NASA or military exercise, they would have stopped the egress checklist and switched to a "is our pilot ok" checklist. It was painful to watch.
I get the sense he didn't have the level of discipline with regards to the checklist procedure as say a military trained pilot or astronaut. He became silent, uncommunicative, and did things out of order. I get the sense this was just a really really tall BASE jump for him. I kept waiting for him to jump out with a hose still attached, because he kept putting the vent hose back in after the checklist told him to remove it.
That was a bit akward. Not sure if it was a communication issue or nerves, but he was not responding to the request to begin the egress checklist and said something I couldn't hear that definitely didn't sound like confidence. Looks like he eventually pulled it together, and you could hear the relief in the communication managers voice.
Was watching some show recently which depicted late 1800's London, and the guy was in his horse drawn buggy headed to the country on a small road and was asleep. And I thought to myself, at some point we transitioned from intelligent vehicles which reacted to the enviornment around them, and had basic collision avoidance and guidance, to mechanical systems where were we sit directly in the loop all of the time. Nod off on a horse carriage and you'll not likely end up in a tree, try doing it in your car.
I can't help but now read these comments of people who are afraid of the coming autonomous vehicles as the same people 100 years ago that would have been afraid of the change to mechanical vehicles.
The paper references IEEE 1609.2 for trust based system. Such that all inter-vehicular networks use digital signatures and verify all messages.
Still, it's outside the scope of the paper.
From the OP: "a car using CarSpeak's MAC-based communications was able to stop with a maximum average delay of 0.45 seconds"
This acronym 'MAC' is not used or explained anywhere else in TFS, so it's unclear whether they mean Media Access Control from the IEEE 802 spec (which probably is employed in moving data wirelessly from car to car, but has little to do with the specific problem of detecting or responding to safety hazards) or something else entirely.
They explain MAC right in the paper ( which is linked in the article ). It's MAC just like you think MAC is (Media Access Control).
Really, the gist of the paper, is instead of each car being the source or identity of a packet, via normal MAC 'addressing' and trying to communicate some important information ( like soft squish target...er.. human at X,Y,Z moving Z-> Y-> Z-> at such and such a rate ) via the full OSI model ( like packaging that info in UDP or TCP), You instead break down the 3D space around the car ( and other cars do the same thing ) using an octree graph ( just like visibility systems in 3D game engines), and send out this info with the MAC layer altered to show which region of the octree your information is pertinent too.
So if you are Car A, and Car B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I are all in your broadcast range, and they are dumping out gigabytes of network aware info based on their laser scanners, you can quickly and at a very low level (hardware) pick out the packets that are important to you (from the air).
tl;dr:
It's a clustered index for wireless packets based on GPS location of events stuffed into the MAC (data link) layer. It's a complicated QOS scheme that has been crafted around a specific engineering latency problem.
It's my default gear. Some would argue I do it too much. But standing in line, waiting, the problem with 'thinking', unless it was just for entertainment in which case I'd call it 'day dreaming' was that thinking lead to questions, and the questions necessitated answers. Not having reference material around me, or other sources to query, I could never get an answer to whatever I was pondering.
Now, standing in line, when I think of something and I'm curious about it, I get to look at my phone and find ( most of the time ) an answer. I do this quite a lot. I wonder why the manhole covers I walked over on the way to the doctors office all said 'made in India'. I'd think about the cost of shipping them from India, about the conditions where they were made, about where the raw materials came from and how much of it does India have... and whether or not India meant The India or if it was some play on words...
Cue my smartphone, and the answer, and some article about it ( I wasn't the first to wonder ). This is better than just thinking. This is being able to run little experiments in your head and validate a result in seconds.
Just 'thinking' is so 80s....
I can remember waiting awkwardly in line with other people with nothing more to do then stare at some advertisement or products around me. I, and certainly no one around me, wanted to start up a random stranger dialogue and shoot the shit. This alone caused me to be anxious. I hated waiting because I didn't know what to do, shuffle shuffle shuffle, hands in pockets, out of pockets, sigh, yawn... shuffle.
I welcome the soft glow of my phone. It makes DMV, Passport agency, and anything in a municipal building _just a bit better_. Likely a few years from now an anthropologist will do a study about how fewer people are going 'postal' while waiting in line for some bureaucracy. How after waiting in line a few hours, the ability to play angry birds kept them from thinking about how much money they were going to be docked when they got back to work. It just may save someone's life.
Also, lets not drone on about this 'habitual stimulation' always being entertainment. I see people on the subway who somehow manage to play games and watch videos, but I see just as many reading. Not to say reading can't be entertainment ( or that games and video can't be learning tools ). Just grouping everything people do with their smartphones into 'entertainment' is wrong.
tl;dr: anthropologist overreacts.
I read the full article, I have to say, I was a bit disappointed. Nothing really of interest. The LED encoding has been done, before, and better. The "Display without Borders" has also been done, before, and much better. And the digital signage was a gimmick. Even as a prototype, it's silly. Yes, you took 18 androids, put them in cases, and glued them to a display rack. Presto, digital signage. Please....
I find it more interesting to read up on the research.microsoft.com projects, or MIT Media lab.
This.
List of Supported Models
I still have an old Toshiba Gigabeat, that has easily over 9 hours of life when just playing music. It also has a cable ( in-line headphone jack ) remote that supports volume, mute, next/prev track, pause, and play. Image of headphone remote. Also, the gigabeat dock has it's own USB host, power, and other things. The dock would be the only thing you need to certify, as it's the only thing mounted. The gigabeats you'd just bring with you and clip in each flight.
Rockbox has open support for handling those remote buttons anyway you like.
ditto this. My Logitech Revue has been pretty glitchy lately, would love to just run XBMC to do 99% of what I want Revue for.
<Waves his hands in front of your face> This is not the news site you are looking for.
The assumption here is the page referenced by robots.txt simply dumps *all* this information. I'm not sure that's the case.
While it's possible this page just dumps everyone's info, it's more likely that it dumps for a specific affiliate account. I feel like there had to be some SQL injection or some other attack to pull what they infer they got.
I think GP was talking about Selective Availability (SA). Basically an intentional error that limited accuracy of commercial GPS to 30-100m. It was turned off 5/2/2000. Ever since then we've had 95% 10m accuracy, but the DOD has the ability to selectively re-enable SA on individual satellites. The thought being, if we see a couple of cruise missiles ( or a missile boat ) within range of the US, we can disrupt GPS so it can't be used against us. As a defensive layer, this ability no longer packs the same punch as it did back in the day. Terrain contour matching ( TERCOM ) is cheap and 'easy' these days with the processors and power available to avionic packages. I don't doubt if you google for it, someone's built a TERCOM system for their hobby RC plane by now.
Either way, it wasn't about _terrorism_ so much as it was about nation vs nation war.
The details of this system are scary.
First, this is designed for:
Which smells to me like they had poorly implemented server side checks, and people who modified their save games or other client in memory vars, were able to rocket to the top or run around invincible. That's just plain bad server-side programming on their end. I don't doubt with the right queries into their server storage they could identify accounts that bypassed something they were supposed to spend time on or accrue. If they had the right amount of auditing sprinkled in.
Wow, again, very scary. So the server trust the client for things like invincibility, adrenaline, _actual score_..etc. Is this a FPS from 1993?
Will this find aimbots, wallhacks or radar? No. It never will and never can. If you have to trust the client to run your 'aimbot detection code' then you already lost that battle. ( sure, statistically you can find weak cheats, or push down new detection code to try and catch them off guard, but the good ones have checks in place for that ).
All and all, this is part PR ( "Hey we're really mad at those darn cheaters and we'll try and make a difference!" ) and part cover up ( "Oh, we fucked up and let you do crappy memory hacks to rule our leader boards, we were in a rush and couldn't get all the server state checks done in time, plus it was so laggy, so we just decided to trust the client. Now we know better, have more time on our heads, so we'll retroactively try and determine people that cheated and remove them from the leader board")
As an observation, based on 20 years of IRC, then Vent, and a spattering of 4chan like forums, I can tell you that racism ( and sexism and many other 'isms ) go from near zero to well over the majority when anonymity or pseudo-anonymity is involved ( no doubt, see the above 5 posts in this articles response for affirmation). Often times, this occurs with 'minorities' or targets of the attacks in the channel or on the board (or in fact listening in vent). At the same time, having got to know some of these people over the course of 20 years, I recognize the racism/sexism/anti-Semitic as benign and often used simply for trolling. In fact the more vitriolic the person is the less likely ( based on my knowledge of that person ) they are to in fact truly 'feel' that way.
So, I have no doubt that if you crawled the web and pulled out all the racist comments from different forums and chat logs the number would be absurdly high compared to what you see in phone interviews or direct interviews.
Am I the only one that is less concerned with copyrighted GPL code being in this rather humane and elegant attack against a country trying to develop nuclear weapons, and more upset with how and why the information about the program was leaked?
I can't help but feel at some point this is going to be a big deal. Hearings, testimony, etc. One or more people are going to lose their jobs, future security clearance, and possibly face jail time. There's just no way this recent and this active a program should have been briefed to the New York Times.
GPL Code in it? Who cares.
Hello? Thomas Paine published Common Sense anonymously. James Madison published The Federalist Papers anonymously, and Ben Franklin published a whole host of material anonymously. Anonymous political discourse was absolutely instrumental in creating the United States.
This. Grandparent post is mostly wrong. Sure people standing up and being held accountable for their view point certainly helped change the world, but before that flash point were many anonymous letters and meetings...
Apparently Geek.com has it's own problems with editors & science....
Point is, it's as likely that the film you bite down on and the plastic it's covered in turns out to be carcinogenic. We're talking a very small amount of radiation here.
You can also edit the source directly ( click the </> on the bottom right) and they don't do much checking. You can make a track with 50 points, 200 long. Basically a hover conveyor belt to the output.
Also, many people don't realize you can move the input and output gates.
This.
It's incredibly easy to access data on a phone that isn't using device level encryption. And even then, it's not impossible.
First off, if this isn't some device level encryption option ( which some android phones do have ) all they have to do is hook it up with a usb cable, use ADB and root it. I don't know any android phone that can't be rooted currently.
If it is fully encrypted, and the bootloader is somewhat secure ( like the moto razr's ), then just social engineer the guy. Give him a phone that looks exactly like his real phone, but is a trojan. Tell him he's been allowed by the state to make phone calls using it. Wait for him to unlock it it, and then take the device from him.
All in all, i hope were missing some information. This makes the FBI looks like newbs. Maybe they just did this first because they wantto save money, in which case fine.
Obviously, the most expensive way to solve this is to remove the built in storage, solder it into a SD card or wahtever it happens to be, and plug it into a pc. Then mount it.
It's built using the MS Speech platform. Their may be a port for Mac ( Office for Mac have TTS? ), but in general for a PBX system to use this, this part of the system has to be running windows.
That said, the voices have been free. You can buy MS Speech voices from 3rd parties for lots of money if you want some more natural voices. This seems like a step towards the eventually downfall of highly trained specialized voices. The concept here is, hire a new voice actress, spend an hour, and translate her into multiple languages.