I am quite certain that the show in question was on Global TV, not CITY-TV. There was also a 'night drives' show, where the camera was on a car that would drive through the streets of Toronto late at night.
And - because the entire production, crew, station, not to mention the music and the performers, were all Canadian, Global racked up serious CanCon points for that show!
This is not off topic - this really does look like that show!!
Not only are you right about broadband cellular, you're right about cellular in general. I've done the testing in urban areas at 3AM, and I can tell you that the latency is systemic. You can be in the perfect footprint with nobody else in the cell sector, and you will STILL run 400ms delays. Moreover, this appears to apply to both GSM-based (EDGE) and CDMA-based (1xRTT) networks.
Voice channels likely also have ths latency, but given that the person on the other end can't turn around a conversation in 10ms, you won't notice this during voice calls.
The real killer is that at these high latencies, some applications move beyond poor performance to to become almost unusable. Applications that do many serial connections, or depend on regular DNS lookups will see their performance plummet, possibly to the point of application failure. The detailed info needed to predict which apps will suffer is typically not available, and only thorough testing ($$$) will let you know how well the app/connection combo works.
In general keep needed software and materials off the machine, on usb key only. Ideally, use an OS with no swapping. Keep the USB key in a shielded housing when not in use to prevent locating it due to active components.
Regularly use the machine for innocuous activities, so that there is a record of something. Regularly use an identical usb key with the system, to provide cover in the event you are seen with the device (see below), and to provide a reason for any needed drivers on the machine.
To send...
1) write it in advance 2) PGP it 3) steganographically hide it 4) take it to the cybercafe on a floppy/usb key 5) upload it to a public place where everyone can see, so it is hard to track receipt 6) Afterwards, out-of-band relay to a contact where to find it. If you relay ahead of time, a compromised contact could leak where to look for you. THIS IS THE HARDEST PART. It is effectively your key-exchange process.
For receipt...
1) Beforehand, find out where to look for what. THIS IS THE OTHER HARDEST PART. It is effectively your key-exchange process. 2) at cybercafe, download uninteresting materials 3) at home, de-steg and de-crypt 4) store only if needed on key
Regularly upload and download un-steg (no payload) and random steg (random payload) materials to defeat traffic analysis.
If you have any time left over after all this, you can use it to be a dissident. However, you should regularly do other things such as get a job or have a family to provide a plausible reason for your existence.
Exactly correct. Which is why when my sending ISP ran afoul of running Zope (google: sorbs zope) the first thing I did was notify my sending ISP so that they would know what was going on.
Conveniently, I am also a customer of the receiving ISP. I gave their support team two hours. When I didn't start receiving mail again, I went up to the management layer and asked if they really wanted to continue with a policy of not accepting mail from sites that run Zope.
SORBS is no longer used to block mail at the receiving ISP.
The only problem with attempting to get this to work elsewhere is that you have to know the right people in the receiving ISP.
This is, in some strange sense, exactly like CD copying in Canada. Instead of US$0.02/MB, I pay a levy of C$0.21/CD, and I can copy music from an original CD onto this "levied media". The monies goto the Canadian Private Copying Collective. Note that with the per CD payment, I can copy any original audio music recording, not just Canadian artists. So every artist in the world is part of this compulsory licensing system. (See http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml for the best summary.)
The story goes that some U.S. licensing agencies went to CPCC and demanded their cut. CPCC was prepared to negotiate, but the U.S. groups had no leverage; CPCC wanted the Canadian artists cut from the equivalent U.S. program. Although there is a media levy system in the U.S., it doesn't cover CDs (yet? ever?), so there was no 'equivalent program' in the U.S.
I've always been concerned about sending credit card info to Russia. More to the point, though, I don't need to.
I figure Paypal is more trustworthy than Russia. However, Paypal has been "temporarily unavailable" for some time. However Paypal can be used to purchase a prepaid card from XROST.
Not only does this not cost you money, it SAVES you money. Neither Paypal, XROST, nor AllOfMp3 will charge you for the transfers involved -- and AllOfMp3 right now offers a 10% bonus for using XROST.
Theres a deep lesson buried in there about transitive trust relationships and how money always finds a way....
"and the canadian court system already informed the CRIA (canadian RIAA) that they can take their ideas to sue and stick them where the sun don't"
My impression was that 'their ideas to sue' was about the only part of that case that did survive. But the CRIA (actually the labels) were told that they would have to justify lifting the expectation of privacy given by ISPs, and that they would have to abide by traditional rules of evidence.
The court decision is widely declaimed as terrible by the CRIA and the labels, and even some artists, when in fact it is only terrible for that *one* case. They could go back and produce a much more solid case, because the judge basically gave them a check-off list of things to do. They *could* have produced media spin declaring the case a big win for them; I can only conclude that many artists don't have the legal or technical Internet chops (why would they?) to understand that the CRIA could be actively and usefully defending their copyrights today -- but they are choosing not to.
The paranoid might even think that the CRIA would secretly prefer that the problem get far worse, so that they can get a much bigger legal club to wield against it - say, perhaps, a Canadian DMCA. Current copyright law and case law appears to be quite sufficient, but the CRIA still fails to act.
Your immune system won't protect you because it's lived with (harmless) prions all your life, and sees no threat.
Perhaps not, though. Your immune system does not do a detailed analysis of a protein - it simply is checking for markers that it has been trained to recognize. When you refold a protein, you may hide the original markers ("good protein") and expose different markers which allow immune system to tell the difference ("bad protein").
Protein folding is on the road to suggesting that geometry plays a notable role in protein interactions, and a refolded prion changes the geometry of the protein in question.
It is both an example of the advance in technology and a little sad that my $6 calculator can give the answer...
17/28 + 87/98 = 1 97/196
which is easily converted to 293/196.
In another sad moment, I suspect that the median purchaser of this calculator would not understand how to ask the calculator to execute that function....which goes back to one of the points of this posting. RPN calculators are impenetratable to 98% of the calculator buying market, and thus will be a disappearing niche. Their effectiveness is unfortunately not really relevant to most people.
"...and the salesperson would be on their network."
And this company allows visiting salesmen to use its internal network?
First, emails that claim to be from which are sourced from the network of are *already* suspect. For that reason, if no other, the visiting salesman *should* use authenticated SMTP to connect to his home SMTP server for sending mail.
It is still an extremely rare situation, and getting rarer all the time. Most companies are getting quite careful about who and what they allow on the internal network - nobody wants a secret email relay or illicit music server on the company network. I would be especially careful about allowing salesmen to peruse my internal network.
If you mean 'precisely limited', OK. But PC-Pine knows about attachment types, and happily launches attachments such as pictures. It even lets me edit URLs before launch. It's not too happy with launching executables, though, but that's hardly a bad thing.
> never supported POP3 without extra add-ons > and workarounds
Current one seems to do this just fine. You just have to tell it that it's a POP mailbox, because it is going to assume it is IMAP.
I guess I knew it was over when an episode started with Trip's funeral -- and I already knew he wouldb't be dead. Which he wasn't.
For comparison - if this were a Joss Whedon show, Trip might actually be dead and gone... but we wouldn't be expecting it, and there almost certainly wouldn't be a opening flash-forward telegraphing it.
My other big clue is that the other half of the household can no longer stand to be in the same room as the show...
You didn't deal with TwistedSpring's most important factor. RFID cards and tags have only the tiny amount of power that was beamed to them over the air.
All of your examples are fine, but you are assuming reasonable power is available. It isn't. Note the Amex card (as mentioned in the article) uses challenge-response based on 128-bit encryption. Is 128 bir RSA secure? Or will they be limited to triple-DES - with the key management issues the crop up under symmetric systems?
Schneier is right when he states that higher levels of absolute security does not automatically equate to higher levels of real security. But the converse is NOT true - if you lower the theoretical security of the system (say with smaller keys) eventually you will reach the point where you are no longer sufficiently secure.
IIRC, the RIAA (or some roughly equivalent U.S. organization) did approach the Canadian collective that collects the levies, and asked for a share. The whole thing broke down because the American side wasn't doing a roughly equivalent collection that Canadian artists could share in.
The Bluetooth market looks a whole lot different in Canada and the U.S. We have four major cell carriers in Canada, and there are about two Bluetooth phone models available in the country. The largest carrier doesn't have any at all. To start using Bluetooth on my phone, I'd have to ditch my cellular provider.
Cost is still a huge issue. I can get a cellular phone for about C$50. But if I want a Bluetooth phone, it's about C$500. So I better have a good use for it - like a Bluetooth headset. Which costs another C$180, instead of C$30 for a wired one. Nobody is offering signup deals for high-end phones.
As to your uses - I'm curious as to why you transfer files from one phone to another. Most phones here don't support or need files. As to phone to laptop, if it is part of connecting wirelessly, then that makes sense. But it is increasingly likely that a WiFi hotspot will be nearby, providing higher total bandwidth than the Bluetooth connection can even support. For the rest of the time, a connector cable gets that C$50 phone connected to my laptop acting as a 14.4 modem. Not fast, but there if I need it.
Like you, I'm surprised that this is news. A similar solution was posed some time ago, because archeologists were trying to figure out the use of the "cradles" they occasionally found.
This article - http://www.atse.org.au/publications/focus/focus-pa rry.htm - provides a picture of a cradle found in Egypt, and shows tests, both model and full scale. The full scale tests included raising a 2.5 tonne stone up a 1 in 4 ramp slope. Rampe slope is a critical factor - a 1:4 ramp uses a lot less material than a 1:10 ramp.
This theory is given further backing here - http://www-personal.umich.edu/~imladjov/pyramids.d oc - by the finding that a number of blocks apparently had "this side up" inscribed on them. This supposedly only makes sense if blocks will be rolled in such a way that one could lose track of which side should be up.
It helps to know that no reputable lawyer will ever guarantee that they will win. So, the question is not "can you win" - it's "can you afford to lose".
There are two outcomes:
1) DirectTV loses, pays the costs, says to it's lawyers, "Bad show, guys", and moves on.
2) The individual loses, is now in the hole his fees, plus their fees (say $20,000 on an individual case) and mortgages his house. Wife and kids are at a minimum unhappy, and worst case they are homeless.
DirectTV can afford to lose, the individual can't, DIrectTV knows this, so it isn't exactly a level playing field. Level playing fields are not guaranteed - only access to the court system is.
Note also that the class action suit was not really based on the merits of DirectTVs case - they accused DirectTV of extortion.
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I am quite certain that the show in question was on Global TV, not CITY-TV. There was also a 'night drives' show, where the camera was on a car that would drive through the streets of Toronto late at night.
And - because the entire production, crew, station, not to mention the music and the performers, were all Canadian, Global racked up serious CanCon points for that show!
This is not off topic - this really does look like that show!!
Not only are you right about broadband cellular, you're right about cellular in general. I've done the testing in urban areas at 3AM, and I can tell you that the latency is systemic. You can be in the perfect footprint with nobody else in the cell sector, and you will STILL run 400ms delays. Moreover, this appears to apply to both GSM-based (EDGE) and CDMA-based (1xRTT) networks.
Voice channels likely also have ths latency, but given that the person on the other end can't turn around a conversation in 10ms, you won't notice this during voice calls.
The real killer is that at these high latencies, some applications move beyond poor performance to to become almost unusable. Applications that do many serial connections, or depend on regular DNS lookups will see their performance plummet, possibly to the point of application failure. The detailed info needed to predict which apps will suffer is typically not available, and only thorough testing ($$$) will let you know how well the app/connection combo works.
Just beefing that up a bit...
In general keep needed software and materials off the machine, on usb key only. Ideally, use an OS with no swapping. Keep the USB key in a shielded housing when not in use to prevent locating it due to active components.
Regularly use the machine for innocuous activities, so that there is a record of something. Regularly use an identical usb key with the system, to provide cover in the event you are seen with the device (see below), and to provide a reason for any needed drivers on the machine.
To send...
1) write it in advance
2) PGP it
3) steganographically hide it
4) take it to the cybercafe on a floppy/usb key
5) upload it to a public place where everyone can see, so it is hard to track receipt
6) Afterwards, out-of-band relay to a contact where to find it. If you relay ahead of time, a compromised contact could leak where to look for you. THIS IS THE HARDEST PART. It is effectively your key-exchange process.
For receipt...
1) Beforehand, find out where to look for what. THIS IS THE OTHER HARDEST PART. It is effectively your key-exchange process.
2) at cybercafe, download uninteresting materials
3) at home, de-steg and de-crypt
4) store only if needed on key
Regularly upload and download un-steg (no payload) and random steg (random payload) materials to defeat traffic analysis.
If you have any time left over after all this, you can use it to be a dissident. However, you should regularly do other things such as get a job or have a family to provide a plausible reason for your existence.
Exactly correct. Which is why when my sending ISP ran afoul of running Zope (google: sorbs zope) the first thing I did was notify my sending ISP so that they would know what was going on.
Conveniently, I am also a customer of the receiving ISP. I gave their support team two hours. When I didn't start receiving mail again, I went up to the management layer and asked if they really wanted to continue with a policy of not accepting mail from sites that run Zope.
SORBS is no longer used to block mail at the receiving ISP.
The only problem with attempting to get this to work elsewhere is that you have to know the right people in the receiving ISP.
> we pay a levy on all recordable media
Yes.
> (including hard-drives)
No.
See http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml#what_amount
This is, in some strange sense, exactly like CD copying in Canada. Instead of US$0.02/MB, I pay a levy of C$0.21/CD, and I can copy music from an original CD onto this "levied media". The monies goto the Canadian Private Copying Collective. Note that with the per CD payment, I can copy any original audio music recording, not just Canadian artists. So every artist in the world is part of this compulsory licensing system. (See http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml for the best summary.)
The story goes that some U.S. licensing agencies went to CPCC and demanded their cut. CPCC was prepared to negotiate, but the U.S. groups had no leverage; CPCC wanted the Canadian artists cut from the equivalent U.S. program. Although there is a media levy system in the U.S., it doesn't cover CDs (yet? ever?), so there was no 'equivalent program' in the U.S.
I've always been concerned about sending credit card info to Russia. More to the point, though, I don't need to.
I figure Paypal is more trustworthy than Russia. However, Paypal has been "temporarily unavailable" for some time. However Paypal can be used to purchase a prepaid card from XROST.
Not only does this not cost you money, it SAVES you money. Neither Paypal, XROST, nor AllOfMp3 will charge you for the transfers involved -- and AllOfMp3 right now offers a 10% bonus for using XROST.
Theres a deep lesson buried in there about transitive trust relationships and how money always finds a way....
"and the canadian court system already informed the CRIA (canadian RIAA) that they can take their ideas to sue and stick them where the sun don't"
My impression was that 'their ideas to sue' was about the only part of that case that did survive. But the CRIA (actually the labels) were told that they would have to justify lifting the expectation of privacy given by ISPs, and that they would have to abide by traditional rules of evidence.
The court decision is widely declaimed as terrible by the CRIA and the labels, and even some artists, when in fact it is only terrible for that *one* case. They could go back and produce a much more solid case, because the judge basically gave them a check-off list of things to do. They *could* have produced media spin declaring the case a big win for them; I can only conclude that many artists don't have the legal or technical Internet chops (why would they?) to understand that the CRIA could be actively and usefully defending their copyrights today -- but they are choosing not to.
The paranoid might even think that the CRIA would secretly prefer that the problem get far worse, so that they can get a much bigger legal club to wield against it - say, perhaps, a Canadian DMCA. Current copyright law and case law appears to be quite sufficient, but the CRIA still fails to act.
are you gunna be downloading large files onto your 128mb memory card?
Absolutely not, because you had to take the memory card out to put the WiFi card in...
Your immune system won't protect you because it's lived with (harmless) prions all your life, and sees no threat.
Perhaps not, though. Your immune system does not do a detailed analysis of a protein - it simply is checking for markers that it has been trained to recognize. When you refold a protein, you may hide the original markers ("good protein") and expose different markers which allow immune system to tell the difference ("bad protein").
Protein folding is on the road to suggesting that geometry plays a notable role in protein interactions, and a refolded prion changes the geometry of the protein in question.
It is both an example of the advance in technology and a little sad that my $6 calculator can give the answer...
...which goes back to one of the points of this posting. RPN calculators are impenetratable to 98% of the calculator buying market, and thus will be a disappearing niche. Their effectiveness is unfortunately not really relevant to most people.
17/28 + 87/98 = 1 97/196
which is easily converted to 293/196.
In another sad moment, I suspect that the median purchaser of this calculator would not understand how to ask the calculator to execute that function.
"...and the salesperson would be on their network."
And this company allows visiting salesmen to use its internal network?
First, emails that claim to be from which are sourced from the network of are *already* suspect. For that reason, if no other, the visiting salesman *should* use authenticated SMTP to connect to his home SMTP server for sending mail.
It is still an extremely rare situation, and getting rarer all the time. Most companies are getting quite careful about who and what they allow on the internal network - nobody wants a secret email relay or illicit music server on the company network. I would be especially careful about allowing salesmen to peruse my internal network.
Re: PC-Pine
> integrated horribly with Windows
If you mean 'precisely limited', OK. But PC-Pine knows about attachment types, and happily launches attachments such as pictures. It even lets me edit URLs before launch. It's not too happy with launching executables, though, but that's hardly a bad thing.
> never supported POP3 without extra add-ons
> and workarounds
Current one seems to do this just fine. You just have to tell it that it's a POP mailbox, because it is going to assume it is IMAP.
> and development seems to have stalled on it.
Pine >>> Ver 4.58
PC-Pine >>> Ver 4.58
Check again, please.
At home it's PC-Pine to IMAP.
Away, my ISP hosts Squirrel (to IMAP) over https - those heuristics aren't going to pick up much when it is inside the SSL wrapper.
I guess I knew it was over when an episode started with Trip's funeral -- and I already knew he wouldb't be dead. Which he wasn't.
... but we wouldn't be expecting it, and there almost certainly wouldn't be a opening flash-forward telegraphing it.
For comparison - if this were a Joss Whedon show, Trip might actually be dead and gone
My other big clue is that the other half of the household can no longer stand to be in the same room as the show...
Use this to run the D-Link USB FM radio instead
http://flesko.cz/radiator.htm
You didn't deal with TwistedSpring's most important factor. RFID cards and tags have only the tiny amount of power that was beamed to them over the air.
All of your examples are fine, but you are assuming reasonable power is available. It isn't. Note the Amex card (as mentioned in the article) uses challenge-response based on 128-bit encryption. Is 128 bir RSA secure? Or will they be limited to triple-DES - with the key management issues the crop up under symmetric systems?
Schneier is right when he states that higher levels of absolute security does not automatically equate to higher levels of real security. But the converse is NOT true - if you lower the theoretical security of the system (say with smaller keys) eventually you will reach the point where you are no longer sufficiently secure.
IIRC, the RIAA (or some roughly equivalent U.S. organization) did approach the Canadian collective that collects the levies, and asked for a share. The whole thing broke down because the American side wasn't doing a roughly equivalent collection that Canadian artists could share in.
What's wrong is that /. is mainly a U.S. thing.
The Bluetooth market looks a whole lot different in Canada and the U.S. We have four major cell carriers in Canada, and there are about two Bluetooth phone models available in the country. The largest carrier doesn't have any at all. To start using Bluetooth on my phone, I'd have to ditch my cellular provider.
Cost is still a huge issue. I can get a cellular phone for about C$50. But if I want a Bluetooth phone, it's about C$500. So I better have a good use for it - like a Bluetooth headset. Which costs another C$180, instead of C$30 for a wired one. Nobody is offering signup deals for high-end phones.
As to your uses - I'm curious as to why you transfer files from one phone to another. Most phones here don't support or need files. As to phone to laptop, if it is part of connecting wirelessly, then that makes sense. But it is increasingly likely that a WiFi hotspot will be nearby, providing higher total bandwidth than the Bluetooth connection can even support. For the rest of the time, a connector cable gets that C$50 phone connected to my laptop acting as a 14.4 modem. Not fast, but there if I need it.
>...support The Bean free library, which...
I'll assume that means it's decaffeinated.
> Does it mean I have to buy a jet to listen to Rush CD's ?
Nah - just listen to "YYZ" (that's "why-why-zed").
Like you, I'm surprised that this is news. A similar solution was posed some time ago, because archeologists were trying to figure out the use of the "cradles" they occasionally found.
a rry.htm - provides a picture of a cradle found in Egypt, and shows tests, both model and full scale. The full scale tests included raising a 2.5 tonne stone up a 1 in 4 ramp slope. Rampe slope is a critical factor - a 1:4 ramp uses a lot less material than a 1:10 ramp.
d oc - by the finding that a number of blocks apparently had "this side up" inscribed on them. This supposedly only makes sense if blocks will be rolled in such a way that one could lose track of which side should be up.
This article - http://www.atse.org.au/publications/focus/focus-p
This theory is given further backing here - http://www-personal.umich.edu/~imladjov/pyramids.
It helps to know that no reputable lawyer will ever guarantee that they will win. So, the question is not "can you win" - it's "can you afford to lose".
There are two outcomes:
1) DirectTV loses, pays the costs, says to it's lawyers, "Bad show, guys", and moves on.
2) The individual loses, is now in the hole his fees, plus their fees (say $20,000 on an individual case) and mortgages his house. Wife and kids are at a minimum unhappy, and worst case they are homeless.
DirectTV can afford to lose, the individual can't, DIrectTV knows this, so it isn't exactly a level playing field. Level playing fields are not guaranteed - only access to the court system is.
Note also that the class action suit was not really based on the merits of DirectTVs case - they accused DirectTV of extortion.
>No. Biometrics is something you *are*.
>A card or other token is something you have.
Your finger and your face are "something you are".
But the biometric is something you have.
I can't "be you". But I can have your measurements. You are not your measurements.
Don't forget all the fun stuff that happens inside ADC if you have executed SED.
_ se t.html ...to see the hoops the processor jumps through in decimal mode.
Check out footnote 1 in this reference...
http://www.xmission.com/~trevin/atari/6502_insn