Presumably it will start with the classic laptop and then they will gradually close the edge case loopholes you mention so that everyone will be bored on flights just like before we had portable computing devices.
That's a standard piece of signal conditioning - I've used it a lot over the years for example to "de-bounce" the signal coming from mechanical switches on pumps. You could use it the other way, to decrease the frequency at which a lamp (LED, whatever) can flicker.
Yeah, you need to add a resistor and a capacitor to the data line, and you'd only decrease, not prevent the flickering which carries the signal. So, small benefit. Personally, I'd put the black boxes into an opaque cabinet. Problem eliminated. If the network stops responding... then that's when you call the IT department, who have the keys to the cabinet. Which would solve some other issues too. For example, you want to write some data to a USB drive? Fine! The USB port for your floor is in the cabinet, call IT. Want to play your favourite CD? Sure! The CD drive for your floor is in the cabinet, call IT.
Anyways you can get ad free TV here, it's called Netflix, HBO Now, and bittorrent.
What is their annual fee, compared to the Beeb? As I said, the Beeb costs GBP145/yr (USD ~187), while the lowest range of the commercial providers is about GBP 450/yr (USD, about 600).
Really, it does surprise me the the Beeb hasn't made greater efforts to secure (and supply) people outside Britain and the external territories. I smell the smell of politicians being pressurised by for-profit media companies. Murdoch - I'm looking at YOU!
Of course a single backup is not adequate. Rotate full- and incremental- backups between onsite and offsite. More frequent incrementals than fulls, but a mix of both. Prove your backup system by a bare-metal restore. We know the procedures and mindsets to apply. The issue is that you have to have that mindset.
Single storage device soldered to a board? The only person who could possibly have come up with that idea is a marketing arsehole who calculated that the number of tech-savvy users they'd lose would be less than the profit from tech-non-savvy users who brought multiple devices. Now... where does that sound like? Smells like Apple to me. AmIrite? (I honestly don't know, because I've not considered getting an Apple device since I got rid of my Mac after several years - didn't like the user interface.)
As an example as to how that can be accomplished, intrinsically, all common laser printers exhibit banding artifacts.
Unnecessarily complicated. For a document sent as text+layout information, then you could do things like messing with the horizontal character spacing to encode data. For images,... hmm, that's harder. But I'm sure still doable.
Plugging in a cell phone to charge, to a USB port, will likely get both devices confiscated.
Carrying a fucking cell phone onto a "secure" site should be a "detain and investigate" event. And how would people know? Because it'd be fucking obvious when you step out of the changing lockers in your pocket-free close-fitting coveralls and go through the metal detector that restricts entry to the "secure" part of the site.
and it's very likely the cellular service inside a secured building is monitored.
Spelling mistake. In this context, "monitored" is spelt "non-existent".
If you don't want information leaving your site without your knowledge, then blocking construction of mobile phone towers anywhere near enough to be effective is a relatively easy thing for government-level organisations. As is metal film on non-openable windows (if you have windows at all)... well many places have that for AC reasons anyway. Enough steelwork in the walls of the building to attenuate signals from distant towers further.
if Trump is finally implicated, impeached, convicted, tried, convicted and hanged.
Do any American butchery states still use the rope?
Probably best to not have him tried in one of those states. I want him to have to suffer the cognitive dissonance of having to prey that Europe keeps it's tight hold on death-by-lethal-injection drugs, so that he stays alive for a few days more.
I believe that it's called "cruel and unusual punishment". As an alternative to execution. Or as a supplement.
I can't believe no one here is being more skeptical of this.
You're right to be sceptical. Maybe most of the sceptics aren't bothering to post, for whatever reason.
The contractor and the Intercept should have known about the watermarks.
Oh fuck aye. Of course they should, if they were competent at InfoSec, an had been aware for the 15-odd years that this technology has been deployed.
All they had to do was transcribe the documents into a plain text document.
Ah, you don't understand how it works. There is nothing in the document that stores this watermarking information. It is ADDED to the document BY the printer, AFTER the printer has rendered the provided information to being an image. In fact, one of the methods promoted years ago for identifying which printers did this (and for obtaining enough information to crack their steganography encoding), was to print a blank document on pale blue paper - which made the contrast of the pale yellow dots much more visible.
The information in the steg encoding included the printer's serial number, date and time, and quite conceivably, the printer-user's network authentication. Which I assume is how they nailed the perpetrator.
As a corollary, whoever was publicising this should have known to photocopy the documents provided onto monochrome (ie black/white, not grey-scale) output, then burned the originals. Precisely to avoid having to hand over such steg to agents.
iTunes the Application? I like it, I just don't like that they removed coverflow and that it is used for backing up iPads and iPhones.
iTunes the Store? What is wrong with the store?
Fucktifiknwo. All I know is that when "iTunes" tried to install on my daughter's computer when she was given an iPod, she couldn't feed it with a credit card number and tried to back out of the installation (she was several years under the age at which she could have a credit card), so it trashed her hard drive. When I got bck to the country, it took me 3 evenings to recover the data from her machine, re-image the laptop back to the factory discs and restore the data.
I've never touched iTunes (either sense) since. And I feel no need to either. What little music I want, I have already on my hard drive. Some months I listen to one or two tracks. Very occasionally, three tracks.
The right to free travel doesn't jive well with illegal searches.
As illegal as you consider searches to be, it doesn't by one iota infringe on your right of free travel. It doesn't stop you from getting on your stereotypical horse and riding across the horizon to wherever you want to go.
If you want the convenience of fast travel, then you also get the inconvenience of being searched. [SHRUG] I'm searching for the worlds tiniest violin, and a Spinal Tap amplifier turned to "-1", so I can properly appreciate the sad music.
I remember, in the dim and distant years following my attaining majority, there was a song entitled "57 channels and nothing on".
So, in 30 or so years (I honestly forget when that song came out), there has either been a 1000% improvement. Or 0% change. Or both.
I've lost the comment from someone who was complaining about advertising time on the TV. That's been a [SHRUG] to me since I re-entered the TV market a little over a decade ago (after 1.8 decades out of it. There is advertising-fed TV available, if you care to watch it. I don't; I prefer to pay the £145/ year ($US 187.5/year) to legally watch some of the best programming in the world (even Americans admit to that), without adverts. And the Ad-funded TV is restricted to 4x2.5 minute slots/hour. Which I fast-forward, on those very rare occasions they produce something worth watching.
Outside the motorbike racing, is there sport on TV? Why?
That's what I took away from TFS too. Though I wouldn't be so sure about the absence of a membrane - that mention of "porous media" makes me think that's where they've put their membrane - on the (perfectly reasonable) grounds that a slab of ceramic plate is likely to handle industrial construction better than something that actually looks membranous. Alternatively, if your two immiscible fluids react to form a membrane on contact (including within the pores of a "porous medium", but also at a leak point), then that'd work well too. You've performed the classical synthesis of nylon as a membrane at the interface of two immiscible liquids - well, who hasn't, it's infant school chemistry? Same sort of thing, but with the properties (conductivity, selective permeability) needed for the membrane in a flow battery.
Interesting, possibly innovative, chemistry. Well done. Pumping chemicals into and out of tanks at your "fuelling station" is a challenge the transport infrastructure is well set up for - it would just increase the number of fluids needing tankage and shipping from 2 to 4.
They'll have issues on maintaining purity of the chemicals; how to stop idiots (non-PC spelling for "users") from putting the wrong fluid in the wrong tank; recycling / recharging ; cleanup from tank leaks (which the hydrocarbon industry does pretty badly too). Plenty of challenges. but worth a try.
blame Rotten Tomatoes, with Pirates 5 and Baywatch respectively earning 32% and 19% Rotten.
If Tit, Bum and Wet Swimsuit Watch (Transferred From Telly) is scoring considerably "fresher" than Pirates 5 (The Oceans 11 Pre-Pre-Pre-Pre-Prequel), then Pirates 5 must be an absolute stinker. No wonder they didn't pay the ransomware last week. Probably hoped it would snk without trace.
Then again, having seen interminable trailers and adverts for other Pirates films, maybe I shouldn't be surprised. Because Tit, Bum and Wet Swimsuit Watch does (probably) have tits and bums and really wet swimsuits. Even if the tits are floppy and over-injected with silicone.
America doesn't have to be best at everything to be a great country. It just has to not be below a certain badness threshold in any area.
While the original post posits:
seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality,
I notice that you don't answer your own point by actually challenging the evidence that the original writer posted. Which makes me suspect that you can't challenge those points because they're substantially true. Certainly, the low ratings of America in math and science education are matters that discussed here every few months, and those sort of figures are routinely cited. The mediocre levels of literacy are no surprise in the light of general poor American educational effort and attainment. The low ratings of America in terms of life expectancy and infant mortality are equally no surprise (though they might be to rich Americans, who read the phrase "health service" and hear the idea "huge profit potential").
Of course, you're free to take the line that education and lifespan are unimportant matters. Personally, I couldn't give a flying fuck about infant mortality, because I'm not an infant. But other people might consider it an area of importance.
(why is 'facebook' not yet a word in slashdot's spell checker?)
Slashdot has a spell checker?
Do you mean your browser's spell checker, or your mobile device's spell checker? (does Slashdot have a dedicated app? I've never been motivated to ask) And in either case, the answer is "because you haven't put it there".
Loading, aircraft balancing (centre of gravity) and fuel load calculations ARE.
And unless I misunderstood the lessons of that plane which came down because of loading X pounds of fuel which the pilot logged as X kilograms of fuel... it is the absolute duty of the pilot commanding to personally check such calculations. Whether they do it with an abacus, or with a piece of chalk on the runway, it's their responsibility to check the sums are right. and if the IT system that usually does it is up shit creek, then you-the-pilot still have the personal responsibility to do the calculations some other way and get it right. Or don't take off. Don't even taxi anywhere.
Planes have weight sensors in the wheel mounts. Because that is the data that the pilot needs for doing those calculations.
The flight incident (a.k.a "good landing") was the Gimli Glider.
costs of a full double redundant geographically diverse scheduling system.
The system(s) under discussion were not geographically diverse. They're all somewhere a little SW of London - probably fairly close to but not at Heathrow. Just one data centre.
we are gravely concerned that any such legislation would deeply tarnish Texas' reputation
I mena, hell, we're talking about Texas here. If it was some third-world shithole ful of gun-nuts and shit running down the street then it'd have some sort of reputation which could be tarnished. But Texas, FFS? What are you going to do to dirty up it's reputation? House Dubya bush there, or something?
And in practical terms, the only consequence of this is that all new build (and any significant reconstruction) will only have unisex toilets installed. No urinals, no logos of people wearing pants or triangular skirts on the doors, just a logo of a shit can. Hand basins in the completely public areas, or hand basin in the individual stall. And no gabbling over the lipstick or whatever it is women-identifiers do in there. Because no building management wants to have to deal with the toxic shit that will come from both direction if the continue to have "gender-identified" toilets.
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They're banning books too?
Yeah, you need to add a resistor and a capacitor to the data line, and you'd only decrease, not prevent the flickering which carries the signal. So, small benefit. Personally, I'd put the black boxes into an opaque cabinet. Problem eliminated. If the network stops responding ... then that's when you call the IT department, who have the keys to the cabinet. Which would solve some other issues too. For example, you want to write some data to a USB drive? Fine! The USB port for your floor is in the cabinet, call IT. Want to play your favourite CD? Sure! The CD drive for your floor is in the cabinet, call IT.
What is their annual fee, compared to the Beeb? As I said, the Beeb costs GBP145/yr (USD ~187), while the lowest range of the commercial providers is about GBP 450/yr (USD, about 600).
Really, it does surprise me the the Beeb hasn't made greater efforts to secure (and supply) people outside Britain and the external territories. I smell the smell of politicians being pressurised by for-profit media companies. Murdoch - I'm looking at YOU!
Single storage device soldered to a board? The only person who could possibly have come up with that idea is a marketing arsehole who calculated that the number of tech-savvy users they'd lose would be less than the profit from tech-non-savvy users who brought multiple devices. Now ... where does that sound like? Smells like Apple to me. AmIrite? (I honestly don't know, because I've not considered getting an Apple device since I got rid of my Mac after several years - didn't like the user interface.)
Unnecessarily complicated. For a document sent as text+layout information, then you could do things like messing with the horizontal character spacing to encode data. For images, ... hmm, that's harder. But I'm sure still doable.
Carrying a fucking cell phone onto a "secure" site should be a "detain and investigate" event. And how would people know? Because it'd be fucking obvious when you step out of the changing lockers in your pocket-free close-fitting coveralls and go through the metal detector that restricts entry to the "secure" part of the site.
Or was this not actually a very secure site?
So, you couldn't change your name to "Prince", for example?
(Or was that his sage name, but not his "real" name? Wierdo music fuckwit.)
Was this as a shibboleth for detecting fake Filipinos?
Or, do you use deliberately insecure currency?
Yet.
That would be that well known 1990s spy, Aldrich Ames?
Spelling mistake. In this context, "monitored" is spelt "non-existent".
If you don't want information leaving your site without your knowledge, then blocking construction of mobile phone towers anywhere near enough to be effective is a relatively easy thing for government-level organisations. As is metal film on non-openable windows (if you have windows at all) ... well many places have that for AC reasons anyway. Enough steelwork in the walls of the building to attenuate signals from distant towers further.
That probably wouldn't help. The printer would still print the steg anyway.
Do any American butchery states still use the rope?
Probably best to not have him tried in one of those states. I want him to have to suffer the cognitive dissonance of having to prey that Europe keeps it's tight hold on death-by-lethal-injection drugs, so that he stays alive for a few days more.
I believe that it's called "cruel and unusual punishment". As an alternative to execution. Or as a supplement.
You're right to be sceptical. Maybe most of the sceptics aren't bothering to post, for whatever reason.
Oh fuck aye. Of course they should, if they were competent at InfoSec, an had been aware for the 15-odd years that this technology has been deployed.
Ah, you don't understand how it works. There is nothing in the document that stores this watermarking information. It is ADDED to the document BY the printer, AFTER the printer has rendered the provided information to being an image. In fact, one of the methods promoted years ago for identifying which printers did this (and for obtaining enough information to crack their steganography encoding), was to print a blank document on pale blue paper - which made the contrast of the pale yellow dots much more visible.
The information in the steg encoding included the printer's serial number, date and time, and quite conceivably, the printer-user's network authentication. Which I assume is how they nailed the perpetrator.
As a corollary, whoever was publicising this should have known to photocopy the documents provided onto monochrome (ie black/white, not grey-scale) output, then burned the originals. Precisely to avoid having to hand over such steg to agents.
Fucktifiknwo. All I know is that when "iTunes" tried to install on my daughter's computer when she was given an iPod, she couldn't feed it with a credit card number and tried to back out of the installation (she was several years under the age at which she could have a credit card), so it trashed her hard drive. When I got bck to the country, it took me 3 evenings to recover the data from her machine, re-image the laptop back to the factory discs and restore the data.
I've never touched iTunes (either sense) since. And I feel no need to either. What little music I want, I have already on my hard drive. Some months I listen to one or two tracks. Very occasionally, three tracks.
As illegal as you consider searches to be, it doesn't by one iota infringe on your right of free travel. It doesn't stop you from getting on your stereotypical horse and riding across the horizon to wherever you want to go.
If you want the convenience of fast travel, then you also get the inconvenience of being searched. [SHRUG] I'm searching for the worlds tiniest violin, and a Spinal Tap amplifier turned to "-1", so I can properly appreciate the sad music.
So, in 30 or so years (I honestly forget when that song came out), there has either been a 1000% improvement. Or 0% change. Or both.
I've lost the comment from someone who was complaining about advertising time on the TV. That's been a [SHRUG] to me since I re-entered the TV market a little over a decade ago (after 1.8 decades out of it. There is advertising-fed TV available, if you care to watch it. I don't; I prefer to pay the £145/ year ($US 187.5/year) to legally watch some of the best programming in the world (even Americans admit to that), without adverts. And the Ad-funded TV is restricted to 4x2.5 minute slots/hour. Which I fast-forward, on those very rare occasions they produce something worth watching.
Outside the motorbike racing, is there sport on TV? Why?
Interesting, possibly innovative, chemistry. Well done. Pumping chemicals into and out of tanks at your "fuelling station" is a challenge the transport infrastructure is well set up for - it would just increase the number of fluids needing tankage and shipping from 2 to 4.
They'll have issues on maintaining purity of the chemicals; how to stop idiots (non-PC spelling for "users") from putting the wrong fluid in the wrong tank; recycling / recharging ; cleanup from tank leaks (which the hydrocarbon industry does pretty badly too). Plenty of challenges. but worth a try.
If Tit, Bum and Wet Swimsuit Watch (Transferred From Telly) is scoring considerably "fresher" than Pirates 5 (The Oceans 11 Pre-Pre-Pre-Pre-Prequel), then Pirates 5 must be an absolute stinker. No wonder they didn't pay the ransomware last week. Probably hoped it would snk without trace.
Then again, having seen interminable trailers and adverts for other Pirates films, maybe I shouldn't be surprised. Because Tit, Bum and Wet Swimsuit Watch does (probably) have tits and bums and really wet swimsuits. Even if the tits are floppy and over-injected with silicone.
Actually, I take it back slightly. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! was actually worth the entry fee. Maybe they should have carried on in that vein.
While the original post posits :
I notice that you don't answer your own point by actually challenging the evidence that the original writer posted. Which makes me suspect that you can't challenge those points because they're substantially true. Certainly, the low ratings of America in math and science education are matters that discussed here every few months, and those sort of figures are routinely cited. The mediocre levels of literacy are no surprise in the light of general poor American educational effort and attainment. The low ratings of America in terms of life expectancy and infant mortality are equally no surprise (though they might be to rich Americans, who read the phrase "health service" and hear the idea "huge profit potential").
Of course, you're free to take the line that education and lifespan are unimportant matters. Personally, I couldn't give a flying fuck about infant mortality, because I'm not an infant. But other people might consider it an area of importance.
Slashdot has a spell checker?
Do you mean your browser's spell checker, or your mobile device's spell checker? (does Slashdot have a dedicated app? I've never been motivated to ask) And in either case, the answer is "because you haven't put it there".
And unless I misunderstood the lessons of that plane which came down because of loading X pounds of fuel which the pilot logged as X kilograms of fuel ... it is the absolute duty of the pilot commanding to personally check such calculations. Whether they do it with an abacus, or with a piece of chalk on the runway, it's their responsibility to check the sums are right. and if the IT system that usually does it is up shit creek, then you-the-pilot still have the personal responsibility to do the calculations some other way and get it right. Or don't take off. Don't even taxi anywhere.
Planes have weight sensors in the wheel mounts. Because that is the data that the pilot needs for doing those calculations.
The flight incident (a.k.a "good landing") was the Gimli Glider.
The system(s) under discussion were not geographically diverse. They're all somewhere a little SW of London - probably fairly close to but not at Heathrow. Just one data centre.
Cheapskates.
I mena, hell, we're talking about Texas here. If it was some third-world shithole ful of gun-nuts and shit running down the street then it'd have some sort of reputation which could be tarnished. But Texas, FFS? What are you going to do to dirty up it's reputation? House Dubya bush there, or something?
And in practical terms, the only consequence of this is that all new build (and any significant reconstruction) will only have unisex toilets installed. No urinals, no logos of people wearing pants or triangular skirts on the doors, just a logo of a shit can. Hand basins in the completely public areas, or hand basin in the individual stall. And no gabbling over the lipstick or whatever it is women-identifiers do in there. Because no building management wants to have to deal with the toxic shit that will come from both direction if the continue to have "gender-identified" toilets.