Yes, but now you have to fear being slaughtered for your English skills. Decimation literally meant the Roman practice of killing every tenth man of an army legion that defected. It means to reduce by one-tenth (thus the roots decimus and decem.) Reducing by 97% would be much worse than decimation.
Then I think you don't understand Cydia. Cydia itself has no apps. It is nothing but a front end to a set of repositories. Cydia does come with some pre-installed repositories. But if you want other apps, you have to discover new repositories and add them to access the apps they offer. And like the various Android marketplaces, some repositories are more deserving of your trust than others. If you connect to a warez repository, well, you were warned.
Once Cydia is installed, yes, it's seamless to access apps from any of the repositories you added. But you still have to hunt for the repositories with the "interesting" apps.
Don't kid yourself. They're military grade, and they're military-grade priced. And the tech inside is all American sourced chips, as they don't trust foreign chip foundries for this kind of stuff.
But a few ounces of thermite or C4 are cheap insurance. Not being remote commanded while inside enemy airspace? Blow it up.
The Iranians didn't remotely operate this device. They might have jammed its frequencies, as that's within their technical capabilities. But nobody's breaking the military encryption. It's not a Panasonic web cam being remotely operated and subject to URL tampering.
What I don't understand is why they didn't have it wired to self-destruct, at least the internal systems if not the entire aircraft.
AFAIK, manned Air Force aircraft are equipped with labels on the sensitive avionics and components saying something like "in case of imminent capture, shoot here to destroy." I'd think that self-destruct would be an absolute requirement for a drone.
I mean, the USAF is pretty darn good at destroying things. You'd think if you were flying it over hostile territory you'd at least equip it with enough thermite to make the electronics and optics go away should the drone lose contact with HQ for longer than some preset time period.
Or maybe that's what happened in a kinder, gentler fashion. Maybe a self-destruct did happen to the internals, including the flight controllers. The "my-controller-has-melted" control-arm position might be preset to a glide configuration so that it will cause the least amount of civilian damage if it goes down.
Or maybe it was deliberate. Maybe it's a Trojan horse with a secret compartment filled with VX or anthrax or something, on a remote control that can be triggered by an operator when Ahmadenijad gets close enough to gloat. "Remember the tooth."
No. Capitalism is only about maximizing profit. We consumers desire competition because it limits the prices we pay. Should those prices rise beyond our value, we'll stop paying them. Sure, if those prices are below our value, but far enough above the cost of goods, a competitor may try to offer a substitute. But they won't do it if the profit is too low. And they won't survive if the monopolist temporarily drops their price to kill them.
It's not the job of anyone in a capitalist economy to control the market. If consumers are unhappy, they'll probably have to unionize somehow to oppose the monopoly. Swear oaths to never buy from the monopoly. Donate to libraries. They may even print their own books. But don't be surprised if the monopoly treats you as the competition you represent.
in that case ebooks should cost 10% less than the paperback edition when it comes out, and 10% less than the hardcover before the paperback comes out.
And maybe they do "cost" 10% less. However, that's their cost. Their price to you, on the other hand, should be whatever they think you'll pay that gives them the most profit. It's how capitalism works: buy low, sell high. It really is that simple.
If they think you'll pay an extra $3 for the convenience of sitting on your butt while having the book whisked over the aether to your Kindle, then they'll happily collect it from you. If they think you'll pay an extra $5 for the smell of a dead tree, they'll be even more happy to collect that. And if they think you'll pay $79 for a Kindle today that will lock you into an investment of $15 DRM'd books, they're ecstatic.
The only part of the equation that matters is what the largest number of consumers are willing to pay in order to maximize profits to the stockholders. Nothing else, not fairness, not reasonableness, not public opinion, not whiny authors, not abusive commenters in the Amazon reviews, nor the public good, matters. Never forget that.
The 300HS is my current point and shoot camera, and my recommendation, especially for someone who wants to start getting into photography.
I have owned several subminiature cameras, and I have loved them all. They are great for convenience. The ELPH is smaller than my iPhone. I toss it in my pocket for family gatherings like birthday parties, and it's always accessible. A larger point and shoot, like the Canon A series, just isn't as small and carryable.
The next plus is simplicity. My wife has no problem using the ELPH, but doesn't want to learn how to use the DSLR. I can put the ELPH into manual mode to fine tune the settings. A really nice feature for someone just learning is that you can let the camera be as automatic as possible and still take good shots, or you can switch everything to manual mode and take really good (and really bad) shots.
And the optics on the Canon are really good for the size. I don't use digital zoom (there's not much reason to crop in the camera) so having a good quality optical zoom is important to me.
Over the years I've also owned a series of SLR film cameras, and I currently own a fairly decent DSLR (Canon EOS 40D.) The DSLR is great for the really nice shots: portraits, landscapes, anything where people are going to pose for a photo. But bringing the DSLR is a production: it usually means a tripod, lighting, a flash head, a couple of lenses, way more than I want to carry to Thanksgiving at the in-laws. On the plus side, people seem to associate a DSLR with Serious Photography, so they're more ready to pose for you.
I also keep my older SD750 ELPH in my backpack, just to have something for those shots at work or on the go; although with the quality of the pictures from the iPhone 4 I haven't really used the old ELPH much anymore.
As far as brand, I've owned several, but when I bought my first digital I went with Canon, and have never regretted that choice. Check the brands out for yourself, but you'll find that some are much easier to use than others. I think the Sony menu navigation system is possibly the worst consumer interface in the marketplace, yet other people obviously love them. Something else to consider is shutter release lag - the difference between when you press the button and when the circuitry takes the picture. With a slow camera you'll find yourself pressing the button, then lowering your hands before it actually takes the picture. All the Canons I've used are very fast. Battery life and technology are another decision point: the AA batteries are easy to replace on the go, but make the camera really bulky. Also consider your friends and family: if they have experience with certain brands, they might be better able to help you when you're struggling to figure something out.
GSM encryption capabilities may exist everywhere, but that doesn't mean it is permitted everywhere.
Last I heard, the world's largest democracy, India, outlawed encrypted phone conversations. Phones have to respect the laws of the countries they're in. So international-capable phones are designed to handle this. And while there is a SIM card flag saying "pop up a dialog box warning me if the phone call is not encrypted", iPhones don't even respect the flag because they don't want to annoy users who travel to India.
The reason this is important to hackers is the spoofed GSM cell tower attack that Chris Paget demonstrated at DEFCON 18 was based around the tower being in control of the protocol. It was able to tell the phone "don't encrypt because it is illegal here." In the GSM protocol, the phones respect the authority of the towers, so by controlling the tower he was able to trick the phones into not encrypting the phone calls.
France also long had problems with encryption, prohibiting the import of strong encryption like PGP, but I don't know how they are today. They may have modernized, they may not.
I don't disagree, just pointing out that using any network connectivity gives up privacy, as does carrying a continually broadcasting RF transmitter. The cave is truly the best option for privacy, it's just not a terribly social way to live. ( 'Course, with the cave option you have to have your lackeys bring you porn videos, and there's always the pissed off Marines who don't like that you aren't carrying a cell phone...)
Anyway, his real first step toward privacy should be installing AdBlock, NoScript, and Ghostery on his mobile browser.
Either fill in the [citation needed] or you're just spouting very tired 10-year-old anti-MS FUD; which quite frankly is a boring topic these days.
At least do enough research to tell us what security holes Windows Phone 7 suffers from, or tell us from which tank of thin air you pulled the statistic "2 people in north america" from.
OK, so you say you're concerned about the security of your list of contact phone numbers and addresses. Yet when you want to call the contact, you ask your cellular provider via the GSM network to establish the connection. When you email the contact you use the 4G network to access the internet, and send your email to them, secured only on the hop between your phone and your SMTP server, but otherwise probably being transmitted in cleartext. When you bring up their address in the map, you give Google the locations of every place you view. And every where you go, whether it be to a calendar appointment or just out for a stroll, the cell phone is broadcasting your identity and approximate location to anyone interested in such things.
I think distrusting Google wouldn't be first on the list of privacy actions to take.
Not having a cell phone would go a lot further protecting your privacy, but you said you don't want the cave option. Get a Kindle Fire (wi-fi only, only when you want it), root it, and add only GPL software you trust, including a SIP client. Carry a Sprint wi-fi hotspot, turning it on only on your terms. Or carry a dumb phone (Sony Ericsson makes one) then use Bluetooth to tether the smart device. Instead of the Kindle Fire, you could use an iPod touch.
You could even carry an iPhone. To the best of my knowledge, Apple isn't scraping my contact list. Yet. I think.
What about changing the VFD's parameters directly? Why couldn't you remotely set the parameters such that the VFD's maximum torque was at a value well beyond the pump's motor's limit, set the sensor limits to max values like 9999, and then set the pump to operate at 100%? It seems to me that it would burn out in short order.
I don't know why you claim physical access to the VFD is required, as Stuxnet conclusively demonstrated that a piece of malware certainly had the capability to directly alter the behavior of the VFDs driving Iran's centrifuges. And I have no problem believing that not every water pump in America is perfectly protected.
Wow. Not a relevant word in that document about security, isolation, or protection. And it was written in March of 2010! It's not like it's from 1998 when malware meant the GOOD TIMES virus in your inbox.
That would really disturb me if I thought it would impact me in any meaningful way. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go figure out why the water isn't working.
That only shows you a particular file probably contains a truecrypt volume. The magic of truecrypt is that the unused bytes of the partition are either random data or not.
Say you have a 10GB truecrypt file. If you use the right password, you mount a new partition, and it shows 6GB of files on a 10GB volume. What's in the other 4GB? Is it another encrypted truecrypt filesystem? Is it random data? Don't know, can't tell.
Let's say you have a second truecrypt volume in the random data, with a second super-secret password. Type in the right password, and your 4GB volume appears with 3GB of super secret data. What's in the last 1GB? Don't know, can't tell.
As a suspect being investigated, even if they beat you with rubber hoses, you can tell them there's no more data hidden in the 1GB of free space, that there's not a third volume. But you can't prove it to them.
Of course, this comes with a price. If you are working in the 6GB volume and add more data, it overwrites some of the random data in the remaining 4GB. Did it overwrite your super secret 3GB volume? Well, where else is it going to go? You only find out after entering the super secret password and seeing if your 3GB volume is intact. Truecrypt itself doesn't know if you're using the random data.
So Duqu is estimated to have infected about 50 machines. It's a piece of scouting software that collects and maps information, but doesn't attack. It doesn't even phone home yet. It's obviously not news because of its impact to the broad population of computers on the Internet.
So what exactly is this story telling us? Panic now, because the Stuxnet authors are still on the loose and writing malware? Don't panic at all, because Duqu is obviously targeting an Enemy of the State (like Iran) and not generic PCs? Buy Symantec or Kaspersky antivirus software because their detection has gotten better since Stuxnet?
I second the suggestion of audio books and also recommend the Daisy consortium. My grandmother-in-law has macular degeneration that has progressed from impaired to blind over the course of a couple of years, so last year I decided to read her an audiobook for a Christmas present (it was a local history book that wasn't present in the audiobook library.) There was a lot to learn, and it took a surprising amount of time and effort to get started and organized. Actually recording the book was only half the work!
First, I had to learn about the readers. Grandma has a Digital Talking Book (DTB) player that she got for free from the National Library Service of the Library of Congress. Here's the player description: http://www.loc.gov/nls/businessplan/playerdescription.html . These players now take USB memory, instead of the old cassettes.
The USB memory cartridge is a standard USB mass storage device in a specially shaped accessible plastic carrier. I bought mine from one of the links from the NLS page (the vendor was Perkins) for $14.00 for a 2GB device. I also bought the $5 cable thinking it was something special that I'd need to interface to the cartridge (having never seen a cartridge before), but it turned out to be nothing more than an ordinary USB extension cable. A cable is needed because the plastics of the cartridge carrier shield the USB connection so it won't plug directly into a laptop or PC port; but if you already have an extension cord laying around, you don't have to buy another one.
Then I had to learn what digital format the book should be recorded in. While the DTBs can play raw WAVs, MP3s, and other audio formats, I learned they work best with books described in the DAISY format. Daisy is an XML description of the audio book. It permits audio navigation by section (chapter), skip ahead and skip back by phrase (paragraph or sentence), and is specially designed for this purpose.
There were several commercial products you can use to record a book, and you can spend just about any amount of money you want on them. I wanted to use GPL software to help me record the book, as this isn't an area where I want to support profiteering. I found the Obi software from the Daisy consortium. http://www.daisy.org/obi It can do the recording capture as well as assemble the recorded fragments into the DAISY 3 format. It has algorithms that help you easily break up a recording into phrases. By inserting pauses while you speak, the software can identify those as separate phrases. And it's java, so it runs on any platform that supports audio.
Apart from that you need a quiet room to record in, a clear voice, a decent headset and microphone, and enough time to read the book. It took me quite a while. I'd say it was about 8 hours of recording to capture a two hour book, but it was my first attempt. And I got faster as I progressed, with fewer "umms" and "ahhs" that required me to go back and rerecord a phrase. Rather than try to read the whole book straight through and break it up later, I recorded and edited the audio on a chapter by chapter basis. This let me hear how I was doing so I could improve. I think a practiced speaker could do it much more quickly than I did, and in one take with just a few retakes for mistakes, but I'm certainly not that good yet.
When it was done, I exported the book in the Daisy 3 format, then copied the book files to the cartridge. I gave it to her for Christmas, never even having the chance to test it on a real DTB reader, but it worked fine. I asked her about it after Christmas, and she simply said she had read it one morning. All the work I had done with sections and phrases, none of that mattered to her, and she used none of it. A cassette tape would have sufficed for her. (She has no idea how much effort goes into producing an audio book, nor is she interested.) But I now have a DTB version of the book that is ready for distribution. I still need to contact the book's publisher to see if they're interested in it.
Anybody maintaining old flex apps may want to keep their old stuff viable until they can justify the effort to port to HTML5. For some organizations, this might be really expensive.
Please don't feed your small child very much 3D TV programming.
Her brain is just now building up neural pathways for stereoscopic vision. It is incorporating all kinds of visual inputs to understand distance. This includes the angular separation of images (what you get from 3D TV) as well as focal cues based on distance (what you do NOT get from 3D TV.)
Her brain needs to understand both are important together, which is a skill she can never get from the television. Establishing the neural paths based on faulty inputs could impair her stereoscopic abilities for the rest of her life. And if that's due to early childhood 3D TV, that's just sad.
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Yes, but now you have to fear being slaughtered for your English skills. Decimation literally meant the Roman practice of killing every tenth man of an army legion that defected. It means to reduce by one-tenth (thus the roots decimus and decem.) Reducing by 97% would be much worse than decimation.
Then I think you don't understand Cydia. Cydia itself has no apps. It is nothing but a front end to a set of repositories. Cydia does come with some pre-installed repositories. But if you want other apps, you have to discover new repositories and add them to access the apps they offer. And like the various Android marketplaces, some repositories are more deserving of your trust than others. If you connect to a warez repository, well, you were warned.
Once Cydia is installed, yes, it's seamless to access apps from any of the repositories you added. But you still have to hunt for the repositories with the "interesting" apps.
Don't kid yourself. They're military grade, and they're military-grade priced. And the tech inside is all American sourced chips, as they don't trust foreign chip foundries for this kind of stuff.
But a few ounces of thermite or C4 are cheap insurance. Not being remote commanded while inside enemy airspace? Blow it up.
The Iranians didn't remotely operate this device. They might have jammed its frequencies, as that's within their technical capabilities. But nobody's breaking the military encryption. It's not a Panasonic web cam being remotely operated and subject to URL tampering.
I'd prefer us have no guns at all... Yeah, that will fix everything...
It sure will. You first.
What I don't understand is why they didn't have it wired to self-destruct, at least the internal systems if not the entire aircraft.
AFAIK, manned Air Force aircraft are equipped with labels on the sensitive avionics and components saying something like "in case of imminent capture, shoot here to destroy." I'd think that self-destruct would be an absolute requirement for a drone.
I mean, the USAF is pretty darn good at destroying things. You'd think if you were flying it over hostile territory you'd at least equip it with enough thermite to make the electronics and optics go away should the drone lose contact with HQ for longer than some preset time period.
Or maybe that's what happened in a kinder, gentler fashion. Maybe a self-destruct did happen to the internals, including the flight controllers. The "my-controller-has-melted" control-arm position might be preset to a glide configuration so that it will cause the least amount of civilian damage if it goes down.
Or maybe it was deliberate. Maybe it's a Trojan horse with a secret compartment filled with VX or anthrax or something, on a remote control that can be triggered by an operator when Ahmadenijad gets close enough to gloat. "Remember the tooth."
No. Capitalism is only about maximizing profit. We consumers desire competition because it limits the prices we pay. Should those prices rise beyond our value, we'll stop paying them. Sure, if those prices are below our value, but far enough above the cost of goods, a competitor may try to offer a substitute. But they won't do it if the profit is too low. And they won't survive if the monopolist temporarily drops their price to kill them.
It's not the job of anyone in a capitalist economy to control the market. If consumers are unhappy, they'll probably have to unionize somehow to oppose the monopoly. Swear oaths to never buy from the monopoly. Donate to libraries. They may even print their own books. But don't be surprised if the monopoly treats you as the competition you represent.
in that case ebooks should cost 10% less than the paperback edition when it comes out, and 10% less than the hardcover before the paperback comes out.
And maybe they do "cost" 10% less. However, that's their cost. Their price to you, on the other hand, should be whatever they think you'll pay that gives them the most profit. It's how capitalism works: buy low, sell high. It really is that simple.
If they think you'll pay an extra $3 for the convenience of sitting on your butt while having the book whisked over the aether to your Kindle, then they'll happily collect it from you. If they think you'll pay an extra $5 for the smell of a dead tree, they'll be even more happy to collect that. And if they think you'll pay $79 for a Kindle today that will lock you into an investment of $15 DRM'd books, they're ecstatic.
The only part of the equation that matters is what the largest number of consumers are willing to pay in order to maximize profits to the stockholders. Nothing else, not fairness, not reasonableness, not public opinion, not whiny authors, not abusive commenters in the Amazon reviews, nor the public good, matters. Never forget that.
The 300HS is my current point and shoot camera, and my recommendation, especially for someone who wants to start getting into photography.
I have owned several subminiature cameras, and I have loved them all. They are great for convenience. The ELPH is smaller than my iPhone. I toss it in my pocket for family gatherings like birthday parties, and it's always accessible. A larger point and shoot, like the Canon A series, just isn't as small and carryable.
The next plus is simplicity. My wife has no problem using the ELPH, but doesn't want to learn how to use the DSLR. I can put the ELPH into manual mode to fine tune the settings. A really nice feature for someone just learning is that you can let the camera be as automatic as possible and still take good shots, or you can switch everything to manual mode and take really good (and really bad) shots.
And the optics on the Canon are really good for the size. I don't use digital zoom (there's not much reason to crop in the camera) so having a good quality optical zoom is important to me.
Over the years I've also owned a series of SLR film cameras, and I currently own a fairly decent DSLR (Canon EOS 40D.) The DSLR is great for the really nice shots: portraits, landscapes, anything where people are going to pose for a photo. But bringing the DSLR is a production: it usually means a tripod, lighting, a flash head, a couple of lenses, way more than I want to carry to Thanksgiving at the in-laws. On the plus side, people seem to associate a DSLR with Serious Photography, so they're more ready to pose for you.
I also keep my older SD750 ELPH in my backpack, just to have something for those shots at work or on the go; although with the quality of the pictures from the iPhone 4 I haven't really used the old ELPH much anymore.
As far as brand, I've owned several, but when I bought my first digital I went with Canon, and have never regretted that choice. Check the brands out for yourself, but you'll find that some are much easier to use than others. I think the Sony menu navigation system is possibly the worst consumer interface in the marketplace, yet other people obviously love them. Something else to consider is shutter release lag - the difference between when you press the button and when the circuitry takes the picture. With a slow camera you'll find yourself pressing the button, then lowering your hands before it actually takes the picture. All the Canons I've used are very fast. Battery life and technology are another decision point: the AA batteries are easy to replace on the go, but make the camera really bulky. Also consider your friends and family: if they have experience with certain brands, they might be better able to help you when you're struggling to figure something out.
Good luck, and have fun.
Seconded. (It's what I came here to post.) Probably the most interesting museum I have ever been to.
If you get the opportunity, have a docent give you a guided tour. Most of them are retired NSA workers.
My favorite:
"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve your life, please press 3."
GSM encryption capabilities may exist everywhere, but that doesn't mean it is permitted everywhere.
Last I heard, the world's largest democracy, India, outlawed encrypted phone conversations. Phones have to respect the laws of the countries they're in. So international-capable phones are designed to handle this. And while there is a SIM card flag saying "pop up a dialog box warning me if the phone call is not encrypted", iPhones don't even respect the flag because they don't want to annoy users who travel to India.
The reason this is important to hackers is the spoofed GSM cell tower attack that Chris Paget demonstrated at DEFCON 18 was based around the tower being in control of the protocol. It was able to tell the phone "don't encrypt because it is illegal here." In the GSM protocol, the phones respect the authority of the towers, so by controlling the tower he was able to trick the phones into not encrypting the phone calls.
France also long had problems with encryption, prohibiting the import of strong encryption like PGP, but I don't know how they are today. They may have modernized, they may not.
I don't disagree, just pointing out that using any network connectivity gives up privacy, as does carrying a continually broadcasting RF transmitter. The cave is truly the best option for privacy, it's just not a terribly social way to live. ( 'Course, with the cave option you have to have your lackeys bring you porn videos, and there's always the pissed off Marines who don't like that you aren't carrying a cell phone...)
Anyway, his real first step toward privacy should be installing AdBlock, NoScript, and Ghostery on his mobile browser.
Either fill in the [citation needed] or you're just spouting very tired 10-year-old anti-MS FUD; which quite frankly is a boring topic these days.
At least do enough research to tell us what security holes Windows Phone 7 suffers from, or tell us from which tank of thin air you pulled the statistic "2 people in north america" from.
Yet you defend these people.
Maybe he am these people?
OK, so you say you're concerned about the security of your list of contact phone numbers and addresses. Yet when you want to call the contact, you ask your cellular provider via the GSM network to establish the connection. When you email the contact you use the 4G network to access the internet, and send your email to them, secured only on the hop between your phone and your SMTP server, but otherwise probably being transmitted in cleartext. When you bring up their address in the map, you give Google the locations of every place you view. And every where you go, whether it be to a calendar appointment or just out for a stroll, the cell phone is broadcasting your identity and approximate location to anyone interested in such things.
I think distrusting Google wouldn't be first on the list of privacy actions to take.
Not having a cell phone would go a lot further protecting your privacy, but you said you don't want the cave option. Get a Kindle Fire (wi-fi only, only when you want it), root it, and add only GPL software you trust, including a SIP client. Carry a Sprint wi-fi hotspot, turning it on only on your terms. Or carry a dumb phone (Sony Ericsson makes one) then use Bluetooth to tether the smart device. Instead of the Kindle Fire, you could use an iPod touch.
You could even carry an iPhone. To the best of my knowledge, Apple isn't scraping my contact list. Yet. I think.
"Deploy airbag: Cancel or Allow?"
What about changing the VFD's parameters directly? Why couldn't you remotely set the parameters such that the VFD's maximum torque was at a value well beyond the pump's motor's limit, set the sensor limits to max values like 9999, and then set the pump to operate at 100%? It seems to me that it would burn out in short order.
I don't know why you claim physical access to the VFD is required, as Stuxnet conclusively demonstrated that a piece of malware certainly had the capability to directly alter the behavior of the VFDs driving Iran's centrifuges. And I have no problem believing that not every water pump in America is perfectly protected.
Wow. Not a relevant word in that document about security, isolation, or protection. And it was written in March of 2010! It's not like it's from 1998 when malware meant the GOOD TIMES virus in your inbox.
That would really disturb me if I thought it would impact me in any meaningful way. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go figure out why the water isn't working.
That only shows you a particular file probably contains a truecrypt volume. The magic of truecrypt is that the unused bytes of the partition are either random data or not.
Say you have a 10GB truecrypt file. If you use the right password, you mount a new partition, and it shows 6GB of files on a 10GB volume. What's in the other 4GB? Is it another encrypted truecrypt filesystem? Is it random data? Don't know, can't tell.
Let's say you have a second truecrypt volume in the random data, with a second super-secret password. Type in the right password, and your 4GB volume appears with 3GB of super secret data. What's in the last 1GB? Don't know, can't tell.
As a suspect being investigated, even if they beat you with rubber hoses, you can tell them there's no more data hidden in the 1GB of free space, that there's not a third volume. But you can't prove it to them.
Of course, this comes with a price. If you are working in the 6GB volume and add more data, it overwrites some of the random data in the remaining 4GB. Did it overwrite your super secret 3GB volume? Well, where else is it going to go? You only find out after entering the super secret password and seeing if your 3GB volume is intact. Truecrypt itself doesn't know if you're using the random data.
That's what's meant by deniable encryption.
So Duqu is estimated to have infected about 50 machines. It's a piece of scouting software that collects and maps information, but doesn't attack. It doesn't even phone home yet. It's obviously not news because of its impact to the broad population of computers on the Internet.
So what exactly is this story telling us? Panic now, because the Stuxnet authors are still on the loose and writing malware? Don't panic at all, because Duqu is obviously targeting an Enemy of the State (like Iran) and not generic PCs? Buy Symantec or Kaspersky antivirus software because their detection has gotten better since Stuxnet?
I second the suggestion of audio books and also recommend the Daisy consortium. My grandmother-in-law has macular degeneration that has progressed from impaired to blind over the course of a couple of years, so last year I decided to read her an audiobook for a Christmas present (it was a local history book that wasn't present in the audiobook library.) There was a lot to learn, and it took a surprising amount of time and effort to get started and organized. Actually recording the book was only half the work!
First, I had to learn about the readers. Grandma has a Digital Talking Book (DTB) player that she got for free from the National Library Service of the Library of Congress. Here's the player description: http://www.loc.gov/nls/businessplan/playerdescription.html . These players now take USB memory, instead of the old cassettes.
The USB memory cartridge is a standard USB mass storage device in a specially shaped accessible plastic carrier. I bought mine from one of the links from the NLS page (the vendor was Perkins) for $14.00 for a 2GB device. I also bought the $5 cable thinking it was something special that I'd need to interface to the cartridge (having never seen a cartridge before), but it turned out to be nothing more than an ordinary USB extension cable. A cable is needed because the plastics of the cartridge carrier shield the USB connection so it won't plug directly into a laptop or PC port; but if you already have an extension cord laying around, you don't have to buy another one.
Then I had to learn what digital format the book should be recorded in. While the DTBs can play raw WAVs, MP3s, and other audio formats, I learned they work best with books described in the DAISY format. Daisy is an XML description of the audio book. It permits audio navigation by section (chapter), skip ahead and skip back by phrase (paragraph or sentence), and is specially designed for this purpose.
There were several commercial products you can use to record a book, and you can spend just about any amount of money you want on them. I wanted to use GPL software to help me record the book, as this isn't an area where I want to support profiteering. I found the Obi software from the Daisy consortium. http://www.daisy.org/obi It can do the recording capture as well as assemble the recorded fragments into the DAISY 3 format. It has algorithms that help you easily break up a recording into phrases. By inserting pauses while you speak, the software can identify those as separate phrases. And it's java, so it runs on any platform that supports audio.
Apart from that you need a quiet room to record in, a clear voice, a decent headset and microphone, and enough time to read the book. It took me quite a while. I'd say it was about 8 hours of recording to capture a two hour book, but it was my first attempt. And I got faster as I progressed, with fewer "umms" and "ahhs" that required me to go back and rerecord a phrase. Rather than try to read the whole book straight through and break it up later, I recorded and edited the audio on a chapter by chapter basis. This let me hear how I was doing so I could improve. I think a practiced speaker could do it much more quickly than I did, and in one take with just a few retakes for mistakes, but I'm certainly not that good yet.
When it was done, I exported the book in the Daisy 3 format, then copied the book files to the cartridge. I gave it to her for Christmas, never even having the chance to test it on a real DTB reader, but it worked fine. I asked her about it after Christmas, and she simply said she had read it one morning. All the work I had done with sections and phrases, none of that mattered to her, and she used none of it. A cassette tape would have sufficed for her. (She has no idea how much effort goes into producing an audio book, nor is she interested.) But I now have a DTB version of the book that is ready for distribution. I still need to contact the book's publisher to see if they're interested in it.
What are you using for bait? Herring? Garlic? Garlic infused herring?
Oh, you meant bated breath. Never mind.
Anybody maintaining old flex apps may want to keep their old stuff viable until they can justify the effort to port to HTML5. For some organizations, this might be really expensive.
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Please don't feed your small child very much 3D TV programming.
Her brain is just now building up neural pathways for stereoscopic vision. It is incorporating all kinds of visual inputs to understand distance. This includes the angular separation of images (what you get from 3D TV) as well as focal cues based on distance (what you do NOT get from 3D TV.)
Her brain needs to understand both are important together, which is a skill she can never get from the television. Establishing the neural paths based on faulty inputs could impair her stereoscopic abilities for the rest of her life. And if that's due to early childhood 3D TV, that's just sad.