There was a case in the UK where a competitor to british telecom bought and typed names and phone numbers from the phone book.
I'm pretty sure that was deamed legal and that which BT could copyright their phone books, the information therein was (in general) in the public domain.
I dont doubt he abused his employment contract, but this seems like a very tenuous description of stolen property.
The suggestion is that if data is being hidden in the LSB of a photo then you can use statistical analysis to spot this anomoly.
The problem here seems to be that if you were to compress your hidden data prior to hiding it, then the data inserted would appear random and should thwart statistical analysis. You'd need some redundancy there if you intent to jpeg compress the image, but it might work.
I've toyed with the idea of hiding data in the vectors used in a mpeg file. Exploiting the nature of the compression algorithm rather than the source data.
Maybe pixar could offer to pay a lower rate for a lower priority of job. That way they could suck up all the spare cycles whenever others weren't paying.
I can buy a magstripe writer and copy your details onto my card with my photo... might even make it easier to get away with since my photo is on the card.
I've given up using my smart credit cards because some stupid companies (i'm looking at you Taco Bell) dont train their staff on how to use them.
Usually they swipe my card and the device reads "Error: Use Chip" along with a diagram showing how to insert the chip... and they claim that my card must be chipped and i need to get a new one issued by my bank... sigh.
I've seen people have a lot of trouble with this in the UK - to the point that they start signing 'ASK FOR ID' as their signature just to buy stuff.
Now consider what happens when you are in a non-english speaking country. There aren't many other countries where a minimum wage store clerk will understand what and why you've got that written in place of a signature.
I work on a fairly large website and we are required to block all connctions from iranian domains and prevent anyone with a name on the governments watchlist from creating an account.
Obviously we can't be 100% in our blocking, but we do put in a lot of work to comply with these regulations.
Any company with a US prescence should be required to do the same.
What stops me from setting up a box that says it'll handle calls for 1888WTFBANK and either listening in on the calls or diverting them to some malicious party.
If this gets widespread public adoption (unlikely) then i'm sure some users will try to place confidential calls using the service.
Secondly, what about places that use your phone number to authenticate you. Some pizza places seem to know your address the first time you call - could be useful for prank calling.
What about three-way calling. Ie Person A uses my phone line to call Person B. Then Person C tries to call me on my phone line, and person A dials the appropriate DTMF tones to conference them into the existing call?
I use VoIP and cellphones because i want to avoid the cost of a regular phone line.
While this is an interesting idea, i cant see how it could save me money, and i can see how the quality would be poorer.
Also, the US is the only place i've lived where local calls were free. In the UK i could get cheaper calls to the US than to my next door neighbor at certain times of day.
DTrace is a Solaris Kernel tool. It debugs problems in the Solaris Kernel, and strangely enough the Solaris Kernel only works on Solaris - what would be the point of putting it into linux?
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There was a case in the UK where a competitor to british telecom bought and typed names and phone numbers from the phone book.
I'm pretty sure that was deamed legal and that which BT could copyright their phone books, the information therein was (in general) in the public domain.
I dont doubt he abused his employment contract, but this seems like a very tenuous description of stolen property.
The suggestion is that if data is being hidden in the LSB of a photo then you can use statistical analysis to spot this anomoly.
The problem here seems to be that if you were to compress your hidden data prior to hiding it, then the data inserted would appear random and should thwart statistical analysis. You'd need some redundancy there if you intent to jpeg compress the image, but it might work.
I've toyed with the idea of hiding data in the vectors used in a mpeg file. Exploiting the nature of the compression algorithm rather than the source data.
I think the dark matter is in the mods brain.
Normally using an excessive amount of technology to achieve something pointless is something we love to see here..
It'll require some additional logic and (i suspect) a more powerful CPU. It's not like you'll be able to flash this design and make it more capable.
I tried that site a few years back. It said there were no competitors available in my area (Denver).
Strangely enough both State Farm and American Family were cheaper..?
Maybe pixar could offer to pay a lower rate for a lower priority of job. That way they could suck up all the spare cycles whenever others weren't paying.
I'm wondering if i list my work mailstop if i can get 4 other people to chip in $20..?
Was hard trying not to laugh when the credit card guy had to ask if i'd signed up for a site called BlackCockDown...
I can buy a magstripe writer and copy your details onto my card with my photo... might even make it easier to get away with since my photo is on the card.
I've given up using my smart credit cards because some stupid companies (i'm looking at you Taco Bell) dont train their staff on how to use them.
Usually they swipe my card and the device reads "Error: Use Chip" along with a diagram showing how to insert the chip... and they claim that my card must be chipped and i need to get a new one issued by my bank... sigh.
I've seen people have a lot of trouble with this in the UK - to the point that they start signing 'ASK FOR ID' as their signature just to buy stuff.
Now consider what happens when you are in a non-english speaking country. There aren't many other countries where a minimum wage store clerk will understand what and why you've got that written in place of a signature.
Certainly in my area we went from AT&T Tv and @Home cable internet to Comcast Extortion and Comcast Cable Internet.
I think comcast bought a large part of AT&Ts business. Nothing really changed except the pricing and name.
I'm pretty certain they do.
I work on a fairly large website and we are required to block all connctions from iranian domains and prevent anyone with a name on the governments watchlist from creating an account.
Obviously we can't be 100% in our blocking, but we do put in a lot of work to comply with these regulations.
Any company with a US prescence should be required to do the same.
The US Government requires a specific license to provide any goods or services to anyone in iran.
It's probably the case that the ISP realized they should have asked for this permit first, but to cover their asses they pulled the site asap.
I'm sure the newspaper can host their site in a country with less restrictive export controls - i'm sure they can find somewhere in europe.
What stops me from setting up a box that says it'll handle calls for 1888WTFBANK and either listening in on the calls or diverting them to some malicious party.
If this gets widespread public adoption (unlikely) then i'm sure some users will try to place confidential calls using the service.
Secondly, what about places that use your phone number to authenticate you. Some pizza places seem to know your address the first time you call - could be useful for prank calling.
What about three-way calling. Ie Person A uses my phone line to call Person B. Then Person C tries to call me on my phone line, and person A dials the appropriate DTMF tones to conference them into the existing call?
I use VoIP and cellphones because i want to avoid the cost of a regular phone line.
While this is an interesting idea, i cant see how it could save me money, and i can see how the quality would be poorer.
Also, the US is the only place i've lived where local calls were free. In the UK i could get cheaper calls to the US than to my next door neighbor at certain times of day.
DTrace is a Solaris Kernel tool. It debugs problems in the Solaris Kernel, and strangely enough the Solaris Kernel only works on Solaris - what would be the point of putting it into linux?
t ranscript-SEE-091504.pdf they are already investigating porting zfs to linux.
According to the ZFS Q&A on http://www.sun.com/emrkt/campaign_docs/icee_0703/
Other sun stuff like Java, Star/Openoffice, Netbeans/SunOne Studio, iPlanet etc... are available for a multitude of other OS's.
Should run on Solaris but i'm not sure if this is just on Solaris 10 x86 or whether it applies to sparc too.
However even if you can run IBMs linux binaries on Solaris that doesn't mean they are "supported" it only means that they work.
It might be the best of the free. But vonage sounds a tonne better (on my connection) than skype.
Last i checked, Win XP Pro runs almost half the price of the mini. That doesn't include half the stuff that iLife does.
Dont forget that apple are bundling a solid OS and a decent set of software in with that $499 price.
I think linux is great, and i use it everyday, but i know it's not for everyone.
Hibernate does take care of this nicely, but certainly not with 2 lines of code :)
I've used a lot of VoIP services
Skype just works
I can take my laptop to work and it just works and figures out appropriate proxy settings.
My cisco hardware seems a lot harder to get working and keep working.
True,
But you can still code them up with html so the text of the link starts https://www.bank.com.
The phising url only appears momentarily in the address bar since the javascript reload actually grabs your banks site.
Then i'll start taking my chances in farmers markets
At least until old people get hooked on halo