This text is found at the bottom on the iPod Nano site:
"Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and the number of charge cycles vary by use and settings."
Considering the size of this battery and apples track record I would expect simmilar or worse problems that the earlier iPods had....but this time Apple has its ass covered. I like how they don't tell you anywhere how many charge cycles once can expect to get.
It is not true that airbags can go off when a vehicle is not in motion. Airbags usually won't go off unless the car is moving at a minimum of 10-15MPH or so.
Your Toyota was probably in a collision previously but you just don't know it. Those used-car quickie auto-body makeovers are hard to spot sometimes.
The Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions feature in specific versions of Cisco IOS software is vulnerable to a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow condition.
Devices that do not support, or are not configured for Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Services are not affected.
Devices configured with only Authentication Proxy for HTTP and/or HTTPS are not affected.
Only devices running certain versions of Cisco IOS® are affected.
Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability. There are workarounds available to mitigate the effects of the vulnerability.
This means that only equipment that is configured to act as an authenticatoin proxy for FTP and/or telent are affected.
I work with cisco equpment every day and this is not a normal service to have configured. This exploit probably isn't as big of a deal as its being made out to be. Just my 2 cents...
What if the customer had to register the MAC Address of their VOIP adapter (or router) with their provider
This would not work as MAC addresses are only good to the default gateway (usually a router at your ISP). Every time your packet jumps to another network the source and destination MAC addresses are changed to enable the packet to be forwarded to the next hop on the way to its destination.
It would be possible to track by IP address, but what about dynamic IPs and people who take their VOIP router on vacation with them?
It should be noted that it's not the water that kills devices, it's the water shorting out contacts that kills it.
This is not so true. I am a laptop repair technician and have had to service numerous spilled-on laptops.
Normally what seems to leave a laptop in a non-functioning state is the corrision of surface-mount components on the system board.
Also, water can not short out electrical devices. IIRC pure water itself does not conduct electricity. It is the impurities in the water that cause it to.
You are still missing the point: DRM is a fundamentally broken concept. In order to listen to a song your player will need the key to decode it. If the key is on the player itself then someone, somewhere will find a way to get at it and remove the DRM.
Just because someone has a box of fancy RFID tags does not mean that it will be any easier to listen to your music or manage the DRM. In fact, it just gets more difficult as yet another layer so-called security is added.
What happens if you lose your RFID music tags or they get stolen, or lost? Looks like you are back to square-1 buying your music over again, just like the recording industry wants.
Disclaimer: I am not part of the tin-foil-hat crowd that fears all forms of RFID as being fundamentally evil. I simply do not like the idea of having RFIDs used in this fashion.
I expected to see some complicated mod that provided controls for the iPod in the headphones.
This guy simply soldered a headphone jack into his expensive headphones and stuffed his iPod shuffle inside the headphones, which restricts access to the controls.
The headline is an outright lie. Ebay was not even considered when this law drafted. It is not designed to affect ebay or ebay users. In fact, this law couldn't affect ebay users, as they are not the ones doing the actual auctioning; that is left to ebay.
Would this law make it illegal to have an auctioneer auction off some of your property for you? NO! This would only affect someone acting as an auctioneer.
It will, however, be interesting to see if they try to apply this law to ebay, as they (their software) does act as an auctioneer. A $50,000 bond would be a drop in the bucket for ebay, but I'm not sure if the $200 is per auction or a one-time fee for the license.... That could be interesting.
What about ActiveX? Won't any user trying to access a site that uses ActiveX have issues?
I know, I know, ActiveX sucks, but unfortunately there are still a number of sites out there that use it. One site that comes to mind is HP's CSN site.
I have a pretty good idea how the antitheft systems currently in place in most stores and libraries work, and they don't yet use RFID tags; they use some sort of magnetized strip that is then demagnetized by a magnetic pulse or a powerful magnet at the counter (thus the warning not to set credit cards on or near the demagnetizers, lest they be demagnetized too).
Actually these anti-theft tags do not get demagnetized. The way these Sensomatic systems work is much different. The tags are actual 2 think strips of metal separated by a slight gap. A signal is emitted from the sensormatic pedistals which resonates at a certain frequency because of the gap in the tag. This resonance is detected by the sensormatic system which sets off an alarm. The demagnetizer pulse actually just causes the gap in the tag to change, which in turn changes the resonance frequency. for more information on how sensormatic's system works go here: link
an interesting side note: I have found from working as a manager at a certain bankrupt retail chain that there are other ways to deactivate these tags. One such method pioneered by my friend is to place the tag near a large stereo subwoofer and crank it up. The magnetic field from the sub must have the same effect on the tag as the POS deactivators. Bending the tags in half also works quite well:) And for those of you who would like to cause havoc at such a store just peel a sensormatic tag off of an item and hide it somewhere on a shopping cart. It will take the poor cashiers a long time to figure out why the alarm is going off constantly.
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This text is found at the bottom on the iPod Nano site:
"Rechargeable batteries have a limited number of charge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and the number of charge cycles vary by use and settings."
Considering the size of this battery and apples track record I would expect simmilar or worse problems that the earlier iPods had....but this time Apple has its ass covered. I like how they don't tell you anywhere how many charge cycles once can expect to get.
It is not true that airbags can go off when a vehicle is not in motion. Airbags usually won't go off unless the car is moving at a minimum of 10-15MPH or so.
Your Toyota was probably in a collision previously but you just don't know it. Those used-car quickie auto-body makeovers are hard to spot sometimes.
heh
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Summary
The Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions feature in specific versions of Cisco IOS software is vulnerable to a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow condition.
Devices that do not support, or are not configured for Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Services are not affected.
Devices configured with only Authentication Proxy for HTTP and/or HTTPS are not affected.
Only devices running certain versions of Cisco IOS® are affected.
Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability. There are workarounds available to mitigate the effects of the vulnerability.
This means that only equipment that is configured to act as an authenticatoin proxy for FTP and/or telent are affected.
I work with cisco equpment every day and this is not a normal service to have configured. This exploit probably isn't as big of a deal as its being made out to be. Just my 2 cents...
Quit whining and get the 'TargetAlert' extension for firefox.
TargetAlert adds a little icon next to hyperlinks to indicate what type of content they link to.
Waaaaaaaaa
What if the customer had to register the MAC Address of their VOIP adapter (or router) with their provider
This would not work as MAC addresses are only good to the default gateway (usually a router at your ISP). Every time your packet jumps to another network the source and destination MAC addresses are changed to enable the packet to be forwarded to the next hop on the way to its destination.
It would be possible to track by IP address, but what about dynamic IPs and people who take their VOIP router on vacation with them?
This is not so true. I am a laptop repair technician and have had to service numerous spilled-on laptops.
Normally what seems to leave a laptop in a non-functioning state is the corrision of surface-mount components on the system board.
Also, water can not short out electrical devices. IIRC pure water itself does not conduct electricity. It is the impurities in the water that cause it to.
You are dead on.
You are still missing the point: DRM is a fundamentally broken concept. In order to listen to a song your player will need the key to decode it. If the key is on the player itself then someone, somewhere will find a way to get at it and remove the DRM.
.005 cents
Just because someone has a box of fancy RFID tags does not mean that it will be any easier to listen to your music or manage the DRM. In fact, it just gets more difficult as yet another layer so-called security is added.
What happens if you lose your RFID music tags or they get stolen, or lost? Looks like you are back to square-1 buying your music over again, just like the recording industry wants.
Disclaimer: I am not part of the tin-foil-hat crowd that fears all forms of RFID as being fundamentally evil. I simply do not like the idea of having RFIDs used in this fashion.
Just my
If you are running a SMTP service on your network would want a static IP anyways. How useful is an E-mail server that gets a dynamic IP address?
Yes, yes, I know there are thinks like dynamic DNS and such, but come on.
This mod is WEAK!
I expected to see some complicated mod that provided controls for the iPod in the headphones.
This guy simply soldered a headphone jack into his expensive headphones and stuffed his iPod shuffle inside the headphones, which restricts access to the controls.
WEAK.
That could be better than free tax software! Now I just have to figure out where to find some accountants.
Step One: Kidnap accountants
Step Two: Kidnap l337 coders
Step Three: ???
Step Four: Profit!..er..I mean Free tax software
Oh wait, I forgot a step...
Would this law make it illegal to have an auctioneer auction off some of your property for you? NO! This would only affect someone acting as an auctioneer.
It will, however, be interesting to see if they try to apply this law to ebay, as they (their software) does act as an auctioneer. A $50,000 bond would be a drop in the bucket for ebay, but I'm not sure if the $200 is per auction or a one-time fee for the license.... That could be interesting.
Why is it that bloggers feel that the world gives a rats ass about their daily achievements and opinions?
Granted, every once in a while there is a little morsel of content that one could appreciate, the vast majority is utter crap.
Guess I forgot to take my anti-anti-happy pills....I'll stop ranting now.
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Maybe they just made a mistake and put in the wrong item number.
Guess it would have helped to RTFA. But who around here does that anyways?
No, someone in purchasing just happened to find something cheaper that could get the job done.
Move along, nothing to see here. (as usual)
the moon really isn't made of cheese.
And by the way, even a paint fleck moving at that kind of speed presents a risk to the shuttle.
How is the US Goverment going to press charges when its occuring out of its jurisdiction?
Just my 2c...
Come on, just because one guy noticed some GoogleBot activity on his site doesn't tell us squat about Google's future plans.
This is getting almost as bad as Mac Rumors!
Why is it that we never hear about rumors that prove to be false?
(back to my hole I call a server-room)
What about ActiveX? Won't any user trying to access a site that uses ActiveX have issues?
I know, I know, ActiveX sucks, but unfortunately there are still a number of sites out there that use it. One site that comes to mind is HP's CSN site.
Crazy religious fanatics... When will they learn that their 'truth' is only one of the many 'truths' out there.
Why is it that some people can not accept that there are other beliefs out there? Why do they have to try any discredit anyone that disagrees?
Nothing new I guess...
Thats because we have to choose between a Giant Douche Bag and a Turd Sandwich.
Why on earth would you put an already over-priced OS on over-priced hardware?
I have a pretty good idea how the antitheft systems currently in place in most stores and libraries work, and they don't yet use RFID tags; they use some sort of magnetized strip that is then demagnetized by a magnetic pulse or a powerful magnet at the counter (thus the warning not to set credit cards on or near the demagnetizers, lest they be demagnetized too).
Actually these anti-theft tags do not get demagnetized. The way these Sensomatic systems work is much different. The tags are actual 2 think strips of metal separated by a slight gap. A signal is emitted from the sensormatic pedistals which resonates at a certain frequency because of the gap in the tag. This resonance is detected by the sensormatic system which sets off an alarm. The demagnetizer pulse actually just causes the gap in the tag to change, which in turn changes the resonance frequency.
for more information on how sensormatic's system works go here: link
an interesting side note: I have found from working as a manager at a certain bankrupt retail chain that there are other ways to deactivate these tags. One such method pioneered by my friend is to place the tag near a large stereo subwoofer and crank it up. The magnetic field from the sub must have the same effect on the tag as the POS deactivators.
Bending the tags in half also works quite well:)
And for those of you who would like to cause havoc at such a store just peel a sensormatic tag off of an item and hide it somewhere on a shopping cart. It will take the poor cashiers a long time to figure out why the alarm is going off constantly.
Information in this post is for informational purposes only. Using it may land you a free ride with your local police
check out this story [snopes.com] and pictures of a skimmer at work in brazil.
Looks like you forgot to RTFA because those are the same pics.