The word defense is a euphemism. The "department of Defense" is equivelent to "military". Wikipedia says: "The Department – headed by the Secretary of Defense – has three subordinate military departments: the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force."
"one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter." To some the people who u would call "insurgent" is some elses "hero".
In regard to "defensive" vs "offensive" technology, there is no difference. The same knowledge that can protect ur technology from attack is the same knowledge which can be exploited in order to attack an enemy who does not protect against this threat.
NSA has to work with Microsoft in order to insert the zero day exploits of their own design. With Linux they are free to modify the code to include back doors and bugs needed to infiltrate PC's of desire. I would love to do a diff on the NSA kernel source code on linux between the one available to the public and the one they use to compile kernels for their own agents. I bet the differences would reavel the holes inserted by the NSA.
99.99% implies that the school has 10,000 children with 1 having an alergy to peanuts. Wikipedia says that in the US about 1% of the population has it, but it is higher in children as the alergy may reduce or go away in adulthood. Anyhow, if the school did have 10,000 children and was in the US, then on average, this school would have 100 children with peanut alergies.
Peanut bans are appropriate at schools with young kids where at least one is identified with a serious peanut alergy... at least before high school (16 years old)
If u have never heard of this... then u do not have a child. And if u cannot sympathise with this... then u do not have a child.
Anyway, it might be fair to say that even as recently as 2000, the consumer tech for the players we enjoy today just wasn't there yet. Having a portable MP3 player back then was functionally equivalent to have a a mix tape or two.
So u say u went out and paid for something u already had and didnt need? I dont think so. The arguement u present is exactly opposite to the real action u made. I mean u put ur money down for the technology, so obviously u wanted the advance in technology that the distribution companies were not supporting. Wasnt the first MP3 makers sued out of business by the distributors? And u cant simply say that because technology is better now that it had no value before. This will always be the case in the beginning... but even in the beginning it was obvious that this was the future and it was being resisted by those in the position and with the money to make it happen. Having a couple mix tapes is not even close to having an instant searchable set of songs. Blank tapes cost money and the source tapes u used to painstakingly make them from had to be purchased with 10 songs on it, when u only really wanted 1. And u had to have two tape players to record the song u wanted. And u had to queue it up to the proper point on both tapes to make a non-perfect copy. And then the tapes were physical and you would have to rewind and fastforward the entire tape occassionally to fix the tension in it. And sometimes the player would "eat" the tape and u lose everything.
You knew all of this at the time and that is why you made a wise and informed purchase when u paid for it. Just because technology is better and cheaper and more functional now, doesnt mean that there was no case for it in the past. I think u may have just forgot what u were thinking back in 2000.
There's only one problem with that argument: Napster.
Exactly. The distribution companies are at a loss to explain why they dont meet the demands of easier access and supply of their content. The simple answer is that they need to continue to justify the huge portion of income they steal from the profits made from the artistic works. Reality is that the process of distribution is now dirt cheap and there is little reason for an artist to choose them when others can do it cheaper and more efficiently. So instead of embracing the revolution in "free" distribution they fight anyone who performs it for them.
There was a time when they needed to make physical products like records, tapes, 8 tracks, CDs, VHS, DVDs and Blue Rays. Then they had to pay trucks and planes to deliver this product to stores. Then they had to market the product and pay radio and tv to create desire in potential consumers. Then they had to cover the cost of the media sitting on the shelf until the customer bought it.
The primary cost of distribution is now entirely paid for by you the consumer. You pay the ISP for Internet access and bandwidth and that is the primary cost of distribution now.
Major distribution companies should and will (IMO) die soon. Or they should reduce themselves to a much smaller portion of profits... as they are no longer the most expensive link in the process. But until artists and consumers understand and expect this, they will fight to continue the process as long as possible and sue the pants off anyone who dares to prove it is true.
The future is either: artists will make a lot more money from their work... or consumers will pay a lot less for content. Either of these outcomes means that there will be less money for distributers and they already know it.
I thought the mention of "coding for the rest of ur life" would offend me the most. It sounds like a prison sentence. I have a feeling whoever wrote this song dislikes microsoft and was making a point about how horrible it must be to work for them.
"Police believe he made the bar codes using his own software skills."
Well I think that if one scans a barcode with a smartphone, uses a sticker sheet and a printer, 'Ol Country Joe could probably do this same scam with "his own software skills" I presume he was scanning cheaper items and just replacing the bar codes on the more expensive ones, he wasn't "Hacking" the target database and changing prices.
I agree that making barcodes is an easy and non-technical issue. I made fake barcodes based on real barcode numbers of products I copied down from boxes in a store. I created these barcodes using the bars of varying width based on the specification of width and ordering for each number. I then printed these faked barcodes. I then took these printouts to the store and scanned them under the price-checker scanner provided for customer usage. They all came up with the product and price for the real products using my faked barcodes. I did this decades ago with an inkjet printer. I realized at this time that it would be super easy to either tape these over real barcodes of similar, but more expensive products and the tellers wouldnt know the difference. Also, I identified a store that did not require a receipt for returned products. I just didnt have the heart to follow through with actually stealing products. But I was well aware at that time it would be very simple to do it.
You dont have to use a camera. You just write down the numbers and then use the proper spacing for each number and recreate it in a image editor. The information for spacing can easily be found on wikipedia... I presume. This way the resulting barcode is "perfect" and visual inspection of it will be difficult to detect that anything is fake. And Im sure there are programs to make barcodes directly from the numbers... although I havent checked... Im sure they are free.
My point is... that what this person did is super easy. And most stores are suseptible to this, because the teller often doesnt know anything about the products they are swiping. If the machine beeps when the barcode passes... there is no further security check.
If the article calls it a "software skill"... then they are ignorant or they are trying to underplay the real danger that this is soo easy to do and it has been for decades. Barcodes are not a technical secret... they are simply a set of black bars at the correct spacing. Trusting them is stupid and a security risk for store owners. The risk is that employees will mistake the convience for a fact.
Keep in mind the old argument that galactic colonization is an exponential process, as each colony sends out a ship, the expansion rate grows. Even with each colony sending out ships at a fairly low constant rate, say every 500 years, it only takes a few million years to colonize the whole galaxy. Yet this clearly has not happened, even though intelligence would have to have arisen only once. With the two major factors I listed above, I don't think the first one alone is sufficient to decimate the chance of this happening as much. It's more likely than not that, given the sheer number of planets in the galaxy, intelligence has appeared before on occasion. But couple in the second factor, and the likelihood is that no one has made it far into space.
How do u know this hasn't already happened? Perhaps we are the evolved seeds from some more advanced distant colony. Perhaps it is easier to transport simple life across the galaxy then intelligence.
Im not suggesting I know anything about how life outside of earth might communicate. But I just wanted to point out that light propigates in a vaccuum. Making it a more ideal mechanism for communication in most of the universe. Whereas sound is limited to a rather small portion of the universe (like 0% in comparison).
Is it possible to power an 18.5" monitor (and a thin client) with POE, even if it's LED backlit?
That's what the article is about.. HP has just developed this.
The article linked above does not specifically say whether the monitor is powered over ethernet, or just the computer. So the question cve posed is valid. The article mentioning that the monitor is included in the 13 Watts is here: http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/424196/new_hp_thin_client_cuts_power_cord and this is probably the article the post should link too. As the specifics about the monitor being POE is probably the most important development here.
Here's another one: did you read about that kid who got locked up for five days and forgotten, and almost died? The law officers who fucked that up royally apologized to the kid. Do you think that was an appropriate apology, or should they have withheld the apology because what they did was not, technically, illegal? [Against procedure, yes; illegal, no, or else we would expect criminal charges against the officers, which nobody expects.]
Maybe u dont expect charges to be laid, but there will likely be a lawsuit. He nearly died and his experience was against human rights laws for torture (Im guessing). Im assuming 5 days without food or water in the custody of the police is entirely illegal. I expect the police force to be sued and I also expect that someone could be fired. If there is a lawsuit, I expect there will be an investigation of responsibility and maybe there would be criminal charges placed. It is illegal to not be responsible for citizens in ur custody
A black friend of mine when I was in the Air Force explained it to me. It comes from the days of slavery: "nigger" meant "slave" and a slave was no more human than a dog or a horse. A slave was considered another farm animal. Just like you have house dogs and working dogs, slave owners had house niggers and field niggers.
So when you call a man "nigger" you're calling him sub-human. The young blacks are using the word 1) because the (white owned) record companies are pushing the word and 2) to piss off the old people.
Well, your friend was wrong. The word "nigger" comes from the latin adjective "niger" meaning "coloured black". It just means "black"... so if the word "black" is an offensive definition, then so is "niger". But words take different meaning over time. I'm saying that words only mean what the speaker intends them to mean. So any word used to describe a group with the intent to offend and belittle will eventually take on the meaning of that intent. It was the repeated usage of the word in a way to describe and treat people in a derogitory way that made the word offensive and eventually politically incorrect.
Im not saying we should continue to use the word at all. I'm just saying that to imply that the original intent of the word was to offend is incorrect. We have just decided to agree to use the term would be to validate the way it was used and the horrible treatment of the people to which it was applied to in the past.
You can search this information for yourself... just check wikipedia, which is the best source of true and useful information in the world (flame bate, but true)
If ur friend was going to guess at the origins of the word, why didnt he guess that it came from the country Nigeria? Being that a "nigger" would be a person who came from Niger-ia? And isnt it strange that we dont we ask the UN to rename the country Nigeria to something else to be more politically correct? I mean it is pretty obvious that the english word is really implying nigeria means: "land of black", "blackia"
Words are not letters or sounds, they are ideas and they only have meaning to how we use and interpret them. Lewis Carroll wrote: "When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less".
My internet went down a couple days ago and I couldnt call the ISP because my phone uses VOIP. So I went to the library to use their internet to make my call. The library was filled with people on the computers and everyone had a laptop sitting at the desks with power. I couldnt get a seat... I had to wait. Now there were other people in the library looking at books and reading... but it was about 50/50. So I would guess that a large portion of those who frequent the library are there because they do not have internet at home and they are not there to check out books.
These things are not easy to tamper with and have everything from gyrometers and other gizmos that will set off alarms even before someone tries to mess with them.
Why is everyone taking about magnets and opening the meters to cheat the system. Didn't you read the article? The changes are made using wireless Infrared communication. Meaning you dont need to touch the device at all to lower your bill
The changes are made in the exact same way a maintenance operator would communicated with your meter... from a nearby distance, and remotely without opening or touching it. The changes are made as if you are an employee, making actual modifications to the settings in its configuration.
...using an optical converter device — such as an infrared light — connected to a laptop that allows the smart meter to communicate with the computer. After making that connection, the thieves changed the settings for recording power consumption using software that can be downloaded from the Internet.
So this story is quite a bit different from all the other manual methods of 'hacking' ur power meter. Its probably fast and also leaves no fingerprints. Further, there is little way to prove that you (the user) were actually the one who did it.
The reason I purchase from a large store instead of saving money by purchasing online is because of their return policy. If they limit their return policy, then there is little value in paying extra for the device. I do purchase from Best Buy because I know I have the option to return without a big shipping fee.
I enjoyed Titanic and I would like to see it in 3d. I think it was well filmed and I would like to see some of those great angles of people falling down the vertical deck in 3d. I dont care if it is cheesy to you... most love stories are just that. I liked the scene where they are dancing and spinning and the camera is pointed at their face while the world spins behind them. So what if it is cheese to all of you. I think Cameron made a great film and took chances by filming it in an unusual way... as he always does. I think that paid off. I would see it in 3d if I had the chance. Also, I like the fact that it was one of the first films I know of to do much of the digital rendering on banks of linux servers.
Main beef of mine: There is this peasant son, never seen the coast let alone a ship, but for some odd reason he knows just exactly where to go and where to be on a sinking ocean liner to maximize your chances for survival, almost like he's some kind of professional ship sinker. It would even be more believable if he just happens to go and be there by pure chance and luck.
Also, given the time and age, if her parents only as much as thought that she could hang out with a guy like him they'd have locked her up in her room never to come out again. But I guess that would have made a very short movie.
That's ur beef? That's it? With plot holes that small, u make it sound like the most solid script ever written. Do u watch many movies?
Boy do I remember those days acoustic coupled cradle modem and a whopping 300bps. Not having any money to get online the next thing to do was build a dialer to get a record of modem pickups and then searching for packet switch networks. after finally finding a suitable gateway it was on to see what you could see.
I remember my father used to bring home terminal machines with reems of paper as there was no screen, and my older brother would call into the university and play some dungeon game printed out one line at a time. He would type something like "go east" and it would describe the new location. The terminal had two big rubber sockets for pushing the phone into it... no line connection.
A couple years later we had some HP terminal, and this one had a CRT with orange text. My brother showed me how to run through a list of phone numbers and so one weekend I told it to go through a thousand phone numbers looking for modems. I got some and called them up on it. It was a bunch of businesses and BBS's and some provided guest accounts. I was suprised to find that even back then, most of the sites I found were about socializing and dating. I guess it is true that as soon as a new technology is discovered... someone will find a way to have/get sex with it
I also recall that just before the Internet came about with companies supporting access, that most "email" was handled by private BBS installations. Local owners of these sites would set up some kind of mail negotiation to transfer email over short hops by calling up each other automatically during the evening and exchange "letters" using something called Fido (I think this was the name of the protocol). In this way email could be delivered coast to coast in a few days. Still even then... it was faster and cheaper then snail mail.
I think the Internet owes a lot to the private BBS community, who proved that there was value and demand in network services before any companies got on board and the larger well connected Internet took hold.
In either case, the torturer deserves the same fate.
...Once they have had their due process, just kill them quickly and humanely and be done with it.
I generally do not support capital punishment. However, when it comes to crimes against humanity and torture... I think public execution is appropriate and called for. Similar to the fate of sadam hussein. Torture is a different game, and those who practice and command it, should be removed from earth quickly.
Forget 'a la carte' channels. I want to only purchase the individual shows I want. Once I can pick my shows and have them on demand when I want plus past airings... I will then consider handing the cable company more money. For now, they get enough money from me for Internet service.
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The word defense is a euphemism. The "department of Defense" is equivelent to "military". Wikipedia says: "The Department – headed by the Secretary of Defense – has three subordinate military departments: the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force."
"one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter." To some the people who u would call "insurgent" is some elses "hero".
In regard to "defensive" vs "offensive" technology, there is no difference. The same knowledge that can protect ur technology from attack is the same knowledge which can be exploited in order to attack an enemy who does not protect against this threat.
NSA has to work with Microsoft in order to insert the zero day exploits of their own design. With Linux they are free to modify the code to include back doors and bugs needed to infiltrate PC's of desire. I would love to do a diff on the NSA kernel source code on linux between the one available to the public and the one they use to compile kernels for their own agents. I bet the differences would reavel the holes inserted by the NSA.
99.99% implies that the school has 10,000 children with 1 having an alergy to peanuts. Wikipedia says that in the US about 1% of the population has it, but it is higher in children as the alergy may reduce or go away in adulthood. Anyhow, if the school did have 10,000 children and was in the US, then on average, this school would have 100 children with peanut alergies.
Peanut bans are appropriate at schools with young kids where at least one is identified with a serious peanut alergy... at least before high school (16 years old)
If u have never heard of this... then u do not have a child. And if u cannot sympathise with this... then u do not have a child.
Anyway, it might be fair to say that even as recently as 2000, the consumer tech for the players we enjoy today just wasn't there yet. Having a portable MP3 player back then was functionally equivalent to have a a mix tape or two.
So u say u went out and paid for something u already had and didnt need? I dont think so. The arguement u present is exactly opposite to the real action u made. I mean u put ur money down for the technology, so obviously u wanted the advance in technology that the distribution companies were not supporting. Wasnt the first MP3 makers sued out of business by the distributors? And u cant simply say that because technology is better now that it had no value before. This will always be the case in the beginning... but even in the beginning it was obvious that this was the future and it was being resisted by those in the position and with the money to make it happen. Having a couple mix tapes is not even close to having an instant searchable set of songs. Blank tapes cost money and the source tapes u used to painstakingly make them from had to be purchased with 10 songs on it, when u only really wanted 1. And u had to have two tape players to record the song u wanted. And u had to queue it up to the proper point on both tapes to make a non-perfect copy. And then the tapes were physical and you would have to rewind and fastforward the entire tape occassionally to fix the tension in it. And sometimes the player would "eat" the tape and u lose everything.
You knew all of this at the time and that is why you made a wise and informed purchase when u paid for it. Just because technology is better and cheaper and more functional now, doesnt mean that there was no case for it in the past. I think u may have just forgot what u were thinking back in 2000.
There's only one problem with that argument: Napster.
Exactly. The distribution companies are at a loss to explain why they dont meet the demands of easier access and supply of their content. The simple answer is that they need to continue to justify the huge portion of income they steal from the profits made from the artistic works. Reality is that the process of distribution is now dirt cheap and there is little reason for an artist to choose them when others can do it cheaper and more efficiently. So instead of embracing the revolution in "free" distribution they fight anyone who performs it for them.
There was a time when they needed to make physical products like records, tapes, 8 tracks, CDs, VHS, DVDs and Blue Rays. Then they had to pay trucks and planes to deliver this product to stores. Then they had to market the product and pay radio and tv to create desire in potential consumers. Then they had to cover the cost of the media sitting on the shelf until the customer bought it.
The primary cost of distribution is now entirely paid for by you the consumer. You pay the ISP for Internet access and bandwidth and that is the primary cost of distribution now.
Major distribution companies should and will (IMO) die soon. Or they should reduce themselves to a much smaller portion of profits... as they are no longer the most expensive link in the process. But until artists and consumers understand and expect this, they will fight to continue the process as long as possible and sue the pants off anyone who dares to prove it is true.
The future is either: artists will make a lot more money from their work... or consumers will pay a lot less for content. Either of these outcomes means that there will be less money for distributers and they already know it.
I thought the mention of "coding for the rest of ur life" would offend me the most. It sounds like a prison sentence. I have a feeling whoever wrote this song dislikes microsoft and was making a point about how horrible it must be to work for them.
The most important question on my mind is: will it last another 40 years? Because if so... then Im good and have little interest.
This is the same thing the a few concerned dinasours were preaching on and on about, but it really didnt matter to the lives of most of them
"Police believe he made the bar codes using his own software skills." Well I think that if one scans a barcode with a smartphone, uses a sticker sheet and a printer, 'Ol Country Joe could probably do this same scam with "his own software skills" I presume he was scanning cheaper items and just replacing the bar codes on the more expensive ones, he wasn't "Hacking" the target database and changing prices.
I agree that making barcodes is an easy and non-technical issue. I made fake barcodes based on real barcode numbers of products I copied down from boxes in a store. I created these barcodes using the bars of varying width based on the specification of width and ordering for each number. I then printed these faked barcodes. I then took these printouts to the store and scanned them under the price-checker scanner provided for customer usage. They all came up with the product and price for the real products using my faked barcodes. I did this decades ago with an inkjet printer. I realized at this time that it would be super easy to either tape these over real barcodes of similar, but more expensive products and the tellers wouldnt know the difference. Also, I identified a store that did not require a receipt for returned products. I just didnt have the heart to follow through with actually stealing products. But I was well aware at that time it would be very simple to do it.
You dont have to use a camera. You just write down the numbers and then use the proper spacing for each number and recreate it in a image editor. The information for spacing can easily be found on wikipedia... I presume. This way the resulting barcode is "perfect" and visual inspection of it will be difficult to detect that anything is fake. And Im sure there are programs to make barcodes directly from the numbers... although I havent checked... Im sure they are free.
My point is... that what this person did is super easy. And most stores are suseptible to this, because the teller often doesnt know anything about the products they are swiping. If the machine beeps when the barcode passes... there is no further security check.
If the article calls it a "software skill"... then they are ignorant or they are trying to underplay the real danger that this is soo easy to do and it has been for decades. Barcodes are not a technical secret... they are simply a set of black bars at the correct spacing. Trusting them is stupid and a security risk for store owners. The risk is that employees will mistake the convience for a fact.
Keep in mind the old argument that galactic colonization is an exponential process, as each colony sends out a ship, the expansion rate grows. Even with each colony sending out ships at a fairly low constant rate, say every 500 years, it only takes a few million years to colonize the whole galaxy. Yet this clearly has not happened, even though intelligence would have to have arisen only once. With the two major factors I listed above, I don't think the first one alone is sufficient to decimate the chance of this happening as much. It's more likely than not that, given the sheer number of planets in the galaxy, intelligence has appeared before on occasion. But couple in the second factor, and the likelihood is that no one has made it far into space.
How do u know this hasn't already happened? Perhaps we are the evolved seeds from some more advanced distant colony. Perhaps it is easier to transport simple life across the galaxy then intelligence.
Im not suggesting I know anything about how life outside of earth might communicate. But I just wanted to point out that light propigates in a vaccuum. Making it a more ideal mechanism for communication in most of the universe. Whereas sound is limited to a rather small portion of the universe (like 0% in comparison).
I'll wait for the WiFi version.
Ok, but u may be waiting a while. Tesla is dead and GE doesnt want to help u.
Is it possible to power an 18.5" monitor (and a thin client) with POE, even if it's LED backlit?
That's what the article is about.. HP has just developed this.
The article linked above does not specifically say whether the monitor is powered over ethernet, or just the computer. So the question cve posed is valid. The article mentioning that the monitor is included in the 13 Watts is here: http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/424196/new_hp_thin_client_cuts_power_cord and this is probably the article the post should link too. As the specifics about the monitor being POE is probably the most important development here.
Here's another one: did you read about that kid who got locked up for five days and forgotten, and almost died? The law officers who fucked that up royally apologized to the kid. Do you think that was an appropriate apology, or should they have withheld the apology because what they did was not, technically, illegal? [Against procedure, yes; illegal, no, or else we would expect criminal charges against the officers, which nobody expects.]
Maybe u dont expect charges to be laid, but there will likely be a lawsuit. He nearly died and his experience was against human rights laws for torture (Im guessing). Im assuming 5 days without food or water in the custody of the police is entirely illegal. I expect the police force to be sued and I also expect that someone could be fired. If there is a lawsuit, I expect there will be an investigation of responsibility and maybe there would be criminal charges placed. It is illegal to not be responsible for citizens in ur custody
A black friend of mine when I was in the Air Force explained it to me. It comes from the days of slavery: "nigger" meant "slave" and a slave was no more human than a dog or a horse. A slave was considered another farm animal. Just like you have house dogs and working dogs, slave owners had house niggers and field niggers.
So when you call a man "nigger" you're calling him sub-human. The young blacks are using the word 1) because the (white owned) record companies are pushing the word and 2) to piss off the old people.
Well, your friend was wrong. The word "nigger" comes from the latin adjective "niger" meaning "coloured black". It just means "black"... so if the word "black" is an offensive definition, then so is "niger". But words take different meaning over time. I'm saying that words only mean what the speaker intends them to mean. So any word used to describe a group with the intent to offend and belittle will eventually take on the meaning of that intent. It was the repeated usage of the word in a way to describe and treat people in a derogitory way that made the word offensive and eventually politically incorrect.
Im not saying we should continue to use the word at all. I'm just saying that to imply that the original intent of the word was to offend is incorrect. We have just decided to agree to use the term would be to validate the way it was used and the horrible treatment of the people to which it was applied to in the past.
You can search this information for yourself... just check wikipedia, which is the best source of true and useful information in the world (flame bate, but true)
If ur friend was going to guess at the origins of the word, why didnt he guess that it came from the country Nigeria? Being that a "nigger" would be a person who came from Niger-ia? And isnt it strange that we dont we ask the UN to rename the country Nigeria to something else to be more politically correct? I mean it is pretty obvious that the english word is really implying nigeria means: "land of black", "blackia"
Words are not letters or sounds, they are ideas and they only have meaning to how we use and interpret them. Lewis Carroll wrote: "When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less".
My internet went down a couple days ago and I couldnt call the ISP because my phone uses VOIP. So I went to the library to use their internet to make my call. The library was filled with people on the computers and everyone had a laptop sitting at the desks with power. I couldnt get a seat... I had to wait. Now there were other people in the library looking at books and reading... but it was about 50/50. So I would guess that a large portion of those who frequent the library are there because they do not have internet at home and they are not there to check out books.
These things are not easy to tamper with and have everything from gyrometers and other gizmos that will set off alarms even before someone tries to mess with them.
Why is everyone taking about magnets and opening the meters to cheat the system. Didn't you read the article? The changes are made using wireless Infrared communication. Meaning you dont need to touch the device at all to lower your bill
The changes are made in the exact same way a maintenance operator would communicated with your meter... from a nearby distance, and remotely without opening or touching it. The changes are made as if you are an employee, making actual modifications to the settings in its configuration.
...using an optical converter device — such as an infrared light — connected to a laptop that allows the smart meter to communicate with the computer. After making that connection, the thieves changed the settings for recording power consumption using software that can be downloaded from the Internet.
So this story is quite a bit different from all the other manual methods of 'hacking' ur power meter. Its probably fast and also leaves no fingerprints. Further, there is little way to prove that you (the user) were actually the one who did it.
The reason I purchase from a large store instead of saving money by purchasing online is because of their return policy. If they limit their return policy, then there is little value in paying extra for the device. I do purchase from Best Buy because I know I have the option to return without a big shipping fee.
Stealing from a neighbour vs stealing from a company are two entirely different things.
I enjoyed Titanic and I would like to see it in 3d. I think it was well filmed and I would like to see some of those great angles of people falling down the vertical deck in 3d. I dont care if it is cheesy to you... most love stories are just that. I liked the scene where they are dancing and spinning and the camera is pointed at their face while the world spins behind them. So what if it is cheese to all of you. I think Cameron made a great film and took chances by filming it in an unusual way... as he always does. I think that paid off. I would see it in 3d if I had the chance. Also, I like the fact that it was one of the first films I know of to do much of the digital rendering on banks of linux servers.
Main beef of mine: There is this peasant son, never seen the coast let alone a ship, but for some odd reason he knows just exactly where to go and where to be on a sinking ocean liner to maximize your chances for survival, almost like he's some kind of professional ship sinker. It would even be more believable if he just happens to go and be there by pure chance and luck.
Also, given the time and age, if her parents only as much as thought that she could hang out with a guy like him they'd have locked her up in her room never to come out again. But I guess that would have made a very short movie.
That's ur beef? That's it? With plot holes that small, u make it sound like the most solid script ever written. Do u watch many movies?
Boy do I remember those days acoustic coupled cradle modem and a whopping 300bps. Not having any money to get online the next thing to do was build a dialer to get a record of modem pickups and then searching for packet switch networks. after finally finding a suitable gateway it was on to see what you could see.
I remember my father used to bring home terminal machines with reems of paper as there was no screen, and my older brother would call into the university and play some dungeon game printed out one line at a time. He would type something like "go east" and it would describe the new location. The terminal had two big rubber sockets for pushing the phone into it... no line connection.
A couple years later we had some HP terminal, and this one had a CRT with orange text. My brother showed me how to run through a list of phone numbers and so one weekend I told it to go through a thousand phone numbers looking for modems. I got some and called them up on it. It was a bunch of businesses and BBS's and some provided guest accounts. I was suprised to find that even back then, most of the sites I found were about socializing and dating. I guess it is true that as soon as a new technology is discovered... someone will find a way to have/get sex with it
I also recall that just before the Internet came about with companies supporting access, that most "email" was handled by private BBS installations. Local owners of these sites would set up some kind of mail negotiation to transfer email over short hops by calling up each other automatically during the evening and exchange "letters" using something called Fido (I think this was the name of the protocol). In this way email could be delivered coast to coast in a few days. Still even then... it was faster and cheaper then snail mail.
I think the Internet owes a lot to the private BBS community, who proved that there was value and demand in network services before any companies got on board and the larger well connected Internet took hold.
In either case, the torturer deserves the same fate.
...Once they have had their due process, just kill them quickly and humanely and be done with it.
I generally do not support capital punishment. However, when it comes to crimes against humanity and torture... I think public execution is appropriate and called for. Similar to the fate of sadam hussein. Torture is a different game, and those who practice and command it, should be removed from earth quickly.
How much time do you think Cheney and Rove should get?
0 time. Put them to death. A public hanging would really scare the remaining torture supporters into reforming their methods.
Even if you only count one apartment building demolished, the F-18 still has a better combat record than the F-22.
(I only joke because there were no fatalities!)
The article does not say there were no casualies. Are you reading a different report then the ones linked above?
Forget 'a la carte' channels. I want to only purchase the individual shows I want. Once I can pick my shows and have them on demand when I want plus past airings... I will then consider handing the cable company more money. For now, they get enough money from me for Internet service.