My wife has been with Voicestream/T-Mo in the US since about 2000, and she's never had to get a new SIM card - her old one works fine in all locked TMo phones. They must either be able to reprogram the sim card or give the locked phone a list of sim card network identifiers.
Typically import duty and associated collection charge will dwarf sales tax.
In the European Union you pay the sales tax of the country which the product was purcahsed in. If i'm in the UK and buy something from Finland over the net, then i'll pay 22% finnish sales tax and nothing to the british government. Even though the british rate is only 17.5%.
This works in europe since it's an EU wide practise.
If this is implemented on a state-by-state basis, then it'll generate revenue for the states who implement it first at the expense of eroding their online businesses. It'll have the effect of forcing a large chunk of e-commerce into the states with no sales tax. This already happens in Europe.
As such, it's much more desirable for states to collect tax revenue on products which are shipped TO their state, but this greatly complicates the merchants end.
I see the output of a PHP application to be much like the output of a compiler.
If i modify GCC to target a new platform, then i can use it in house all I like without releasing the source. I can even take binary output and give it to people. I only have to release the source if i want to start distributing my new compiler.
It's weird how the US used to lead the world. I remember in 98 being stuck on a 56k dialup while the americans all had cable modems. Now i'm in the US on a 3mbit microwave link and wishing i could get uk style connectivity:(
Seems odd to use RSA to negotiate a private key. Obviously it can be implemented securely that way, but it sounds like someone chasing buzzwords.
RSA suggests that the client is preprogrammed with the server's public key, and perhaps their key-exchange involves the client making up the key, encrypting it with the servers public key and sending it to the server. In which case a trojan client might easily be made to connect to a man in the middle.
Weird, I've never really thought about it but i never imagined microwave links would be secure. I figured you'd do it with a higher tower further away, or perhaps a baloon... but i guess that's just one example.
However, i'm certain there's no difference to the disk whether i read it in my laptop or kept the vob files to watch later. Of course time-shifting is probably permissable so they'd have to prove that i didn't delete the vobs in a reasonable time period or that i burned another copy.
Also, i fear that blockbuster are not on the cutting edge of forensic analysis.
Just thought it was an interesting mindgame to start by convincing the staff, without informing the customers of anything.
A friend worked at blockbuster for a year or two (in the UK) and she was adamant that they could know if a disc they rented out had been copied by the renter.
When they'd find someone with suspicious renting patterns, they'd collect all the discs he returned and send them off for "analysis"
It's an interesting idea to convince your employees and even store managers that you are capable of doing something technically impossible, presumably with the hope that it'll trick your customers too.
You can certainly argue that a nuclear sub has a power station, or even that my car has a power station. However I think this article means "the sort of power station that sits on a grid"
Not very clear, but with a bit of qualification then their point probably stands.
Makes me wonder about htat little reactor that powered the US antartic ops.. It was probably on a boat yet did provide power to buildings and research facilities.
I've often wondered if eye sight has started to degrade. In the hunter-gatherer days, surely good eyesight would have been required to provide for your family.
As such i'd imagine that those with excellent eyesight would reproduce more.
However, with corrective lenses, poor eyesight is no longer the hinderance it was, and i'm sure that those with poor eyesight reproduce at the same rate as everyone else.
Hide a linux lapatop with wireless in a closet somewhere and use vnc to access it. Hell, just use a disk on your neighbours wlan.
You can find clues of these things though. Look at the vnc history, try pinging the broadcast address on the subnet, look in the arp cache, see if there are clues in the registry that another drive was mounted.
I suspect it would be very hard to thwarte a computer forensics expert, but i'm sure the VAST majority of petty criminals can be caught by someone with a weeks worth of training.
In some states, parole for sex offenders can require that they don't look at pornography.
Their parole office will drop by periodically and check their PC. They have some sort of forensic software that does this.
I've heard some jurisdictions require that you only run Windows on your computer as a condition of your parole. Logically this translates to going back to prison for owning a knoppix cd.
There simply aren't the resources to train all parole officers in computer forensics, expose them to various obscure operating systems, or to perform regular offline analysis of offenders hard drives.
The resources are (probably) there for big cases, but when there are probably close to half a million sex offenders on parole - it's just not practical.
I used to live in Kinross in scotland, and the pool there has a section with a moveable floor.
It uses some sort of hydraulic arrangement to vary the pool depth, so it can do anything from a diving pool to a 6in deep baby pool.
It may not be fast enough in this situation, but i see no reason why it couldn't just push the pool floor all the way up until the unconcious individual is out of the water.
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I'd be surprised if pretzels fall into the staple food bracket.
You definitely pay vat on cookies, soda, candy etc...
In the UK you dont pay VAT on food, shelter, medicine and childrens clothes.
You pay a lesser VAT (5% iirc) on fuel oil and natural gas, though much higher taxes on gasoline.
It's largely a tax on luxury items, although for the middle class that's a fair chunk of their spending.
My wife has been with Voicestream/T-Mo in the US since about 2000, and she's never had to get a new SIM card - her old one works fine in all locked TMo phones. They must either be able to reprogram the sim card or give the locked phone a list of sim card network identifiers.
Typically import duty and associated collection charge will dwarf sales tax.
In the European Union you pay the sales tax of the country which the product was purcahsed in. If i'm in the UK and buy something from Finland over the net, then i'll pay 22% finnish sales tax and nothing to the british government. Even though the british rate is only 17.5%.
This works in europe since it's an EU wide practise.
If this is implemented on a state-by-state basis, then it'll generate revenue for the states who implement it first at the expense of eroding their online businesses. It'll have the effect of forcing a large chunk of e-commerce into the states with no sales tax. This already happens in Europe.
As such, it's much more desirable for states to collect tax revenue on products which are shipped TO their state, but this greatly complicates the merchants end.
I see the output of a PHP application to be much like the output of a compiler.
If i modify GCC to target a new platform, then i can use it in house all I like without releasing the source. I can even take binary output and give it to people. I only have to release the source if i want to start distributing my new compiler.
Or did i miss something?
T-Mobile UK seem happy to unlock phones once you are out of service, but when i signed up there they accidentally gave me an unlocked phone.
Likewise T-Mobile US seem happy to unlock your handset if you've been a customer for more than 6 months.
The biggest surprise i had is that you cant put a T-Mobile UK sim into a locked T-Mobile US phone... not allowing that seems ridiculous.
Fricking lasers
Just keep using whatever version of Azerus you have right now.
Blueyonder are rolling out a 10Mbit service, and they are one of the biggest uk broadband isps.
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It's weird how the US used to lead the world. I remember in 98 being stuck on a 56k dialup while the americans all had cable modems. Now i'm in the US on a 3mbit microwave link and wishing i could get uk style connectivity
It's much cheaper to acquire a company that has something cool and proven than invest in your own projects which may or may not be succesful.
Google seems to keep a good balance between the two.
Seems odd to use RSA to negotiate a private key. Obviously it can be implemented securely that way, but it sounds like someone chasing buzzwords.
RSA suggests that the client is preprogrammed with the server's public key, and perhaps their key-exchange involves the client making up the key, encrypting it with the servers public key and sending it to the server. In which case a trojan client might easily be made to connect to a man in the middle.
I suspect most vhs pirates probably made a lot of copies in the few days that they had the rental, which would show up as extensive wear on the tape.
:)
If they did a before and after analysis then they could probably infer that the video was read hundreds of times.
Of course that doesn't work for dvd - but still
Weird, I've never really thought about it but i never imagined microwave links would be secure. I figured you'd do it with a higher tower further away, or perhaps a baloon... but i guess that's just one example.
However, i'm certain there's no difference to the disk whether i read it in my laptop or kept the vob files to watch later. Of course time-shifting is probably permissable so they'd have to prove that i didn't delete the vobs in a reasonable time period or that i burned another copy.
Also, i fear that blockbuster are not on the cutting edge of forensic analysis.
Just thought it was an interesting mindgame to start by convincing the staff, without informing the customers of anything.
A friend worked at blockbuster for a year or two (in the UK) and she was adamant that they could know if a disc they rented out had been copied by the renter.
When they'd find someone with suspicious renting patterns, they'd collect all the discs he returned and send them off for "analysis"
It's an interesting idea to convince your employees and even store managers that you are capable of doing something technically impossible, presumably with the hope that it'll trick your customers too.
at 5c/kW this thing is going to output 200000/0.5 = 4GW of power.
I suspect chernobyl probably got close to that power output, just not for very long.
You can certainly argue that a nuclear sub has a power station, or even that my car has a power station. However I think this article means "the sort of power station that sits on a grid"
Not very clear, but with a bit of qualification then their point probably stands.
Makes me wonder about htat little reactor that powered the US antartic ops.. It was probably on a boat yet did provide power to buildings and research facilities.
/running right after you
I've often wondered if eye sight has started to degrade. In the hunter-gatherer days, surely good eyesight would have been required to provide for your family.
As such i'd imagine that those with excellent eyesight would reproduce more.
However, with corrective lenses, poor eyesight is no longer the hinderance it was, and i'm sure that those with poor eyesight reproduce at the same rate as everyone else.
Just a thought...
Unbeknownst to me, my math teacher sent me off to find a counter-example to Femat's last theorem. Certainly kept me quiet for a few hours.
It's far easier to blame bots for your failure than admit that you suck.
Unless the bots have multiple players colluding at one table then they shouldn't really do well against a decent human player.
Hide a linux lapatop with wireless in a closet somewhere and use vnc to access it. Hell, just use a disk on your neighbours wlan.
You can find clues of these things though. Look at the vnc history, try pinging the broadcast address on the subnet, look in the arp cache, see if there are clues in the registry that another drive was mounted.
I suspect it would be very hard to thwarte a computer forensics expert, but i'm sure the VAST majority of petty criminals can be caught by someone with a weeks worth of training.
Why dont they make the tool do the search, make the tool look at when the url history was reset.
They can also make the tool look in the registry to see the last files opened in photoshop/realplayer/windows media.
It's quicker than doing it all by hand
90% of the people you encounter do nothing to hide their tracks - except maybe erasing browser histories.
If you take basic precautions then you should be safe, unless of course you do something really bad like try to steal money from a large company.
In some states, parole for sex offenders can require that they don't look at pornography.
Their parole office will drop by periodically and check their PC. They have some sort of forensic software that does this.
I've heard some jurisdictions require that you only run Windows on your computer as a condition of your parole. Logically this translates to going back to prison for owning a knoppix cd.
There simply aren't the resources to train all parole officers in computer forensics, expose them to various obscure operating systems, or to perform regular offline analysis of offenders hard drives.
The resources are (probably) there for big cases, but when there are probably close to half a million sex offenders on parole - it's just not practical.
I used to live in Kinross in scotland, and the pool there has a section with a moveable floor.
It uses some sort of hydraulic arrangement to vary the pool depth, so it can do anything from a diving pool to a 6in deep baby pool.
It may not be fast enough in this situation, but i see no reason why it couldn't just push the pool floor all the way up until the unconcious individual is out of the water.