Actually, IBM 80-column punched cards have lasted almost this long (since 1928) as a readable format, although it would take a HUGE number of cards to do color motion video.
If you're going to use punch cards, you'd be better off printing each video frame on a card and building a flip-book as someone suggested earlier. Much better data density.
I was going to suggest something like this, but maybe with an iPad or other simple tablet. But the issue becomes supplying power to it. I have no idea if USB will even be around when this time capsule is opened, so you'd possibly want to include a schematic showing how to power the device.
It'd be awfully surprising if the knowledge of Volt as a unit of measurement will be lost to the world in 100 years (assuming that society hasn't collapsed), so supplying power shouldn't be a problem. I'd be surprised if the data lasts on on the flash drive that long. Maybe an old school burnt ROM chip (not EEPROM) would be safer. And make sure to leave instructions for replacing other components that might degrade, like capacitors.
When you upload it to your computer, give it a unique filename (a GUID would be good), then leave a note in the time capsule instructing them to ask the NSA to recover a copy of the file from their archives.
To me, this stinks of home made stunt to get attention. The guy's reddit name, the shit build quality, the lack of any detail as to how it was found... etc etc etc. It's a millennial cry for attention, for whatever reason.
I have to agree on the build quality -- that soldering is not very professional looking, unless some unskilled tech at the police department (or where ever) builds their own devices, that screams out "home made". The white/brown wires are barely soldered to the pad on the back side of the board.
Affix one of these to a police helicopter and that will be the end of police chases. Pinpointing the hood of fleeing vehicle for take out will be trivial.
Put one of these in the hands of criminals, and it'll be the end of police helicopters -- it's got to be easier to take down a lightweight fiberglass clad helicopter than a car.
I spent a month in Japan with a Korean friend and we didn't have any problems, though we stayed mainly in the cities, perhaps things would have been different in smaller towns.
That type of logic is flawed. It basically comes down to "this is worse than that so why bother with that?". It is used in many instances such as comparing murders with traffic violations; Why is that cop pulling me over when he should be out catching murderers? Different departments have different priorities. In this case Border Services has nothing to do with internet traffic but they do have responsibility for who and what come physically across the border. The fact that everything on the internet is not searched has nothing to do with the investigation techniques at the border.
I thought it was more of a case "That is allowed, so why not this?" If the government required that all internet communications into the country were decrypted for inspection, then sure, it would be logical to require that personal storage devices be decrypted as well.
But I don't see why data is subject to inspection when you're carrying it, but not when you're sending it electronically. Why is it fine to send a private email to your drug dealer while you're standing in line at customs, but as soon as you reach the agent, you have to decrypt the storage you're holding in your hand?
Terabytes (Petabytes?) of encrypted data enters the country every day from across the world via the internet, yet Border Services thinks they need to inspect the data on everyone's phones?
But seriously, that's pretty fun. I hope they don't screw it up.
I tried it but it wasn't that fun, my Mistress just said "What are you doing!? That's disgusting, pull your pants back up!", then she slapped me across the face and walked out -- she's quite harsh.
Two hours for a one-way commute? That doesn't sound like a very good life balance. I think if that was our teams that we'd end up doing a mixed online/f2f meeting as if some of the team were remote.
That's why we have flex-hours and most people work from home most of the week. Right now, we don't even have enough desk space for everyone if they come to work at the same time.
In this area, it's not just work-life balance, but housing-work balance -- the farther you drive, the cheaper your house, which can make the difference between being able to afford living in the area or not. Even if you can afford the mortgage on a $750K starter house, not everyone can cover the downpayment, and when making offers they are competing against people paying cash.
If he "requires" that and consents, the trial will be held behind closed doors without the promised cameras
Then he's just proven to the world that the USA is not to be trusted.
If he can safely stay in Russia, he'd be well-advised to do so. If not, it would still be better to try to disappear to some other place. Going to the US, no matter the promises, is suicidal.
If it were me, that's what I'd do, but I'd lay low and stay out of the news.
How about just tell them to be in the room when you do the standup? This solution is simple and costs absolutely nothing.
Unless your employees live in the same building as your office, there's a non-zero cost to having everyone in the office for meetings. At my office, even though employees are all "local", depending on traffic it can take up to 2 hours for some of them to get to the office.
Also conference phone numbers like Webex at all so lots of people can call in, if you need that sort of thing.
This is not a new or unsolvable problem, this is "standard office gear" since the 1990s.
Exactly, we have a 30 seat conference room with a polycom and 2 extension mikes. For company meetings, remote employees dial-in to the conference bridge, and the phone works surprisingly well, everyone in the room can be heard. (it does get confused though when more than one person speaks at once -- it doesn't know which microphone to use, so the two voices fade in and out)
No need to ditch working solutions just because they are "old school" -- most of our remote users use some VOIP solution to reach the conference bridge (google hangouts, skype, etc)
Snowden has no bargaining power. Nobody can trust any agreement he offers to make - the crime he committed was breaching an oath. Plus, he has repeatedly said that he no longer has the information he stole in his possession.
Once he's in custody, it's physically impossible for him to refuse to accept the results of a "fair trial".
As part of his re-patriation agreement, he should require cameras to be rolling throughout the entire trial with a live uncensored feed available to any organization that wants it (News organizations, EFF, ACLU, etc). If the government shuts down the cameras for any reason, then the agreement is null and void and the USA guarantees his return to Russia.
Then the american people can decide if the trial is "fair" -- if the government tries to redact all of the evidence due to national security reasons, then it's hard to see how the trial can be called "fair".
I realize that the USA will likely ignore the agreement once he's on american soil, but at least it demonstrates that the USA government can't be trusted to abide by its own agreements and it validates Snowden's reason for fleeing to Russia.
Why trust users to know what file extensions are "safe" and which are not? Surely the same computer that shows "ImportantFile.doc" to the user when it's really "ImportantFile.doc.exe" can be smart enough to pop up a message when someone clicks on it: "Hey, this filename *looks* like a document, but it's really an executable so instead of opening a document, I'm going to run it. It's probably a terrible idea to run it, so I'm not going to do it, you'll have to rename it to something less ambiguous if you really want to run it. But you should't do that. Really. I'm not kidding."
I never understood why Windows hides file extensions by default. Doing so makes Windows much more difficult to use. Changing that setting is literally the first thing I do with Windows. Hiding file extensions was one of the worst decisions made for Windows.
The people that find visible file extensions to be useful are the same people that know how to change the default setting to show them -- for the rest of the world, file extensions are meaningless, they'd rather see the MS Excel icon on Excel Docs than have to remember what file extensions will open into an Excel doc.
According to the article, they seized more than 4 times more child porn than the Library of Congress has.
But unlike past investigations into the distribution of child porn, which typically involve targeting suspects individually, police have instead seized over 1.2 petabytes of data—more than four times the amount of data in the US Library of Congress
I'm kind of surprised that all congress could only manage to accumulate 300TB of child porn.
The summary says "Reads and large writes run at about the same speed as on a conventional drive, and at $280 it costs less than a pair of decent 4TB drives", one of the 7 links in the summary mentions a 5TB model. 5TB for the price of two 4TB drives doesn't sound that great.
So I wonder if all of this excess interference means that a Stingray detector could be created? Privacy minded volunteers could run a SDR that looks for an increase in the noise floor or other indications that a Stingray is in use, and update a central repository for a real-time map of everywhere a Stingray is in use.
If Law Enforcement won't reveal when they are using it, maybe citizens can find out out their own.
Well, to quote the summary: "Ikea's introduction of wireless charging functionality on some of its new furniture heats up the battle for a global wireless charging standard"
Although you can get up into the 80% range (short distance between emitter and receiver, good axial alignment, well-tuned resonance frequencies, and proper shielding), you are more likely to be in the 50-75% efficiency range. That's for the inductive portion; there is also a loss in converting the 120/220V power from the wall. [I speak from professional experience developing a Qi-charged medical device. It was a good solution for the problem, as it allowed the case to be fully sealed, but turned me off the idea of using it for everything that needs charging.] For 5-10 W of actual charge power in the device, your losses from grid to device will be close to that amount This is about as bad as the 50-60 Hz wall wart transformers that we have recently gotten away from.
My phone battery has around 8 watt-hours of capacity. Round it up to 10 watt-hours, and that's around 3.6KWh/year to charge my phone every day, so even if I'm wasting another 3.6KWh/year, that's only costing me around 50 cents/year of electricity, which is well worth the convenience of just putting my phone on the side table when I go to bed and not having to fumble with wires in the dark to connect it to a charger.
Can anyone explain to me the appeal of xkcd comics? A lot of people think they're great, but I don't see why.
The joke is never funny if someone has to explain it to you, you'll just have to continue going through life wondering why people find it funny. And some people will never understand what *you* think is funny.
A "maser" attack?? I do not think that work means what you think it means. While you are looking up "maser" look up "Dunning -Kruger" as well. The opposite of "insightful":(
Nobody is stopping people in the US from doing business with mega. Send an international money order. People do it all the time. And if you trust them so much, you can always send cash.
It's not so much trust in the business on the other end that keeps me from sending cash through the mail, it's all the people in the middle that are handling the cash-filled mail. The business has a huge incentive to not rip off their customers since a customer that doesn't get what he paid for will soon be an ex-customer.
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Actually, IBM 80-column punched cards have lasted almost this long (since 1928) as a readable format, although it would take a HUGE number of cards to do color motion video.
If you're going to use punch cards, you'd be better off printing each video frame on a card and building a flip-book as someone suggested earlier. Much better data density.
I was going to suggest something like this, but maybe with an iPad or other simple tablet. But the issue becomes supplying power to it. I have no idea if USB will even be around when this time capsule is opened, so you'd possibly want to include a schematic showing how to power the device.
It'd be awfully surprising if the knowledge of Volt as a unit of measurement will be lost to the world in 100 years (assuming that society hasn't collapsed), so supplying power shouldn't be a problem. I'd be surprised if the data lasts on on the flash drive that long. Maybe an old school burnt ROM chip (not EEPROM) would be safer. And make sure to leave instructions for replacing other components that might degrade, like capacitors.
When you upload it to your computer, give it a unique filename (a GUID would be good), then leave a note in the time capsule instructing them to ask the NSA to recover a copy of the file from their archives.
To me, this stinks of home made stunt to get attention. The guy's reddit name, the shit build quality, the lack of any detail as to how it was found... etc etc etc. It's a millennial cry for attention, for whatever reason.
I have to agree on the build quality -- that soldering is not very professional looking, unless some unskilled tech at the police department (or where ever) builds their own devices, that screams out "home made". The white/brown wires are barely soldered to the pad on the back side of the board.
Use one of the N services that does SMS. You will have to pay for it.
Twilio is one provider that provides this service.
Affix one of these to a police helicopter and that will be the end of police chases. Pinpointing the hood of fleeing vehicle for take out will be trivial.
Put one of these in the hands of criminals, and it'll be the end of police helicopters -- it's got to be easier to take down a lightweight fiberglass clad helicopter than a car.
If you were a Korean you wouldn't feel that way.
I spent a month in Japan with a Korean friend and we didn't have any problems, though we stayed mainly in the cities, perhaps things would have been different in smaller towns.
That type of logic is flawed. It basically comes down to "this is worse than that so why bother with that?". It is used in many instances such as comparing murders with traffic violations; Why is that cop pulling me over when he should be out catching murderers? Different departments have different priorities. In this case Border Services has nothing to do with internet traffic but they do have responsibility for who and what come physically across the border. The fact that everything on the internet is not searched has nothing to do with the investigation techniques at the border.
I thought it was more of a case "That is allowed, so why not this?" If the government required that all internet communications into the country were decrypted for inspection, then sure, it would be logical to require that personal storage devices be decrypted as well.
But I don't see why data is subject to inspection when you're carrying it, but not when you're sending it electronically. Why is it fine to send a private email to your drug dealer while you're standing in line at customs, but as soon as you reach the agent, you have to decrypt the storage you're holding in your hand?
Terabytes (Petabytes?) of encrypted data enters the country every day from across the world via the internet, yet Border Services thinks they need to inspect the data on everyone's phones?
I sincerely hope he wins the case.
But seriously, that's pretty fun. I hope they don't screw it up.
I tried it but it wasn't that fun, my Mistress just said "What are you doing!? That's disgusting, pull your pants back up!", then she slapped me across the face and walked out -- she's quite harsh.
Two hours for a one-way commute? That doesn't sound like a very good life balance. I think if that was our teams that we'd end up doing a mixed online/f2f meeting as if some of the team were remote.
That's why we have flex-hours and most people work from home most of the week. Right now, we don't even have enough desk space for everyone if they come to work at the same time.
In this area, it's not just work-life balance, but housing-work balance -- the farther you drive, the cheaper your house, which can make the difference between being able to afford living in the area or not. Even if you can afford the mortgage on a $750K starter house, not everyone can cover the downpayment, and when making offers they are competing against people paying cash.
If he "requires" that and consents, the trial will be held behind closed doors without the promised cameras
Then he's just proven to the world that the USA is not to be trusted.
If he can safely stay in Russia, he'd be well-advised to do so. If not, it would still be better to try to disappear to some other place. Going to the US, no matter the promises, is suicidal.
If it were me, that's what I'd do, but I'd lay low and stay out of the news.
How about just tell them to be in the room when you do the standup? This solution is simple and costs absolutely nothing.
Unless your employees live in the same building as your office, there's a non-zero cost to having everyone in the office for meetings. At my office, even though employees are all "local", depending on traffic it can take up to 2 hours for some of them to get to the office.
Pretty much every company ever has already solved this problem with polycom (or similar) conferencing phones(ranging from a few hundred dollars on up)
http://www.polycom.com/product...
Also conference phone numbers like Webex at all so lots of people can call in, if you need that sort of thing.
This is not a new or unsolvable problem, this is "standard office gear" since the 1990s.
Exactly, we have a 30 seat conference room with a polycom and 2 extension mikes. For company meetings, remote employees dial-in to the conference bridge, and the phone works surprisingly well, everyone in the room can be heard. (it does get confused though when more than one person speaks at once -- it doesn't know which microphone to use, so the two voices fade in and out)
No need to ditch working solutions just because they are "old school" -- most of our remote users use some VOIP solution to reach the conference bridge (google hangouts, skype, etc)
Snowden has no bargaining power. Nobody can trust any agreement he offers to make - the crime he committed was breaching an oath. Plus, he has repeatedly said that he no longer has the information he stole in his possession.
Once he's in custody, it's physically impossible for him to refuse to accept the results of a "fair trial".
As part of his re-patriation agreement, he should require cameras to be rolling throughout the entire trial with a live uncensored feed available to any organization that wants it (News organizations, EFF, ACLU, etc). If the government shuts down the cameras for any reason, then the agreement is null and void and the USA guarantees his return to Russia.
Then the american people can decide if the trial is "fair" -- if the government tries to redact all of the evidence due to national security reasons, then it's hard to see how the trial can be called "fair".
I realize that the USA will likely ignore the agreement once he's on american soil, but at least it demonstrates that the USA government can't be trusted to abide by its own agreements and it validates Snowden's reason for fleeing to Russia.
Why trust users to know what file extensions are "safe" and which are not? Surely the same computer that shows "ImportantFile.doc" to the user when it's really "ImportantFile.doc.exe" can be smart enough to pop up a message when someone clicks on it: "Hey, this filename *looks* like a document, but it's really an executable so instead of opening a document, I'm going to run it. It's probably a terrible idea to run it, so I'm not going to do it, you'll have to rename it to something less ambiguous if you really want to run it. But you should't do that. Really. I'm not kidding."
I never understood why Windows hides file extensions by default. Doing so makes Windows much more difficult to use. Changing that setting is literally the first thing I do with Windows. Hiding file extensions was one of the worst decisions made for Windows.
The people that find visible file extensions to be useful are the same people that know how to change the default setting to show them -- for the rest of the world, file extensions are meaningless, they'd rather see the MS Excel icon on Excel Docs than have to remember what file extensions will open into an Excel doc.
1.2 pedobytes.
According to the article, they seized more than 4 times more child porn than the Library of Congress has.
But unlike past investigations into the distribution of child porn, which typically involve targeting suspects individually, police have instead seized over 1.2 petabytes of data—more than four times the amount of data in the US Library of Congress
I'm kind of surprised that all congress could only manage to accumulate 300TB of child porn.
The summary says "Reads and large writes run at about the same speed as on a conventional drive, and at $280 it costs less than a pair of decent 4TB drives", one of the 7 links in the summary mentions a 5TB model. 5TB for the price of two 4TB drives doesn't sound that great.
So I wonder if all of this excess interference means that a Stingray detector could be created? Privacy minded volunteers could run a SDR that looks for an increase in the noise floor or other indications that a Stingray is in use, and update a central repository for a real-time map of everywhere a Stingray is in use.
If Law Enforcement won't reveal when they are using it, maybe citizens can find out out their own.
Well, to quote the summary: "Ikea's introduction of wireless charging functionality on some of its new furniture heats up the battle for a global wireless charging standard"
Although you can get up into the 80% range (short distance between emitter and receiver, good axial alignment, well-tuned resonance frequencies, and proper shielding), you are more likely to be in the 50-75% efficiency range. That's for the inductive portion; there is also a loss in converting the 120/220V power from the wall. [I speak from professional experience developing a Qi-charged medical device. It was a good solution for the problem, as it allowed the case to be fully sealed, but turned me off the idea of using it for everything that needs charging.] For 5-10 W of actual charge power in the device, your losses from grid to device will be close to that amount This is about as bad as the 50-60 Hz wall wart transformers that we have recently gotten away from.
My phone battery has around 8 watt-hours of capacity. Round it up to 10 watt-hours, and that's around 3.6KWh/year to charge my phone every day, so even if I'm wasting another 3.6KWh/year, that's only costing me around 50 cents/year of electricity, which is well worth the convenience of just putting my phone on the side table when I go to bed and not having to fumble with wires in the dark to connect it to a charger.
Can anyone explain to me the appeal of xkcd comics? A lot of people think they're great, but I don't see why.
The joke is never funny if someone has to explain it to you, you'll just have to continue going through life wondering why people find it funny. And some people will never understand what *you* think is funny.
A "maser" attack?? :(
I do not think that work means what you think it means.
While you are looking up "maser" look up "Dunning -Kruger" as well.
The opposite of "insightful"
I looked up maser as you suggested, and one of the uses of a maser is: Masers are being used by a few countries as directed-energy weapons. So what do you think "maser" means? Oh wait, I get it, you are the one suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect. Clever.
Nobody is stopping people in the US from doing business with mega. Send an international money order. People do it all the time. And if you trust them so much, you can always send cash.
It's not so much trust in the business on the other end that keeps me from sending cash through the mail, it's all the people in the middle that are handling the cash-filled mail. The business has a huge incentive to not rip off their customers since a customer that doesn't get what he paid for will soon be an ex-customer.
http://www.masslive.com/news/i...
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
http://www.wickedlocal.com/art...
If postal workers knew that every envelope addressed to Mega had cash in it, they'd be a huge theft target.