I upgraded my Tivo with an 80 GB hard drive and have @120 hours capacity. The interface doesn't bother me, as I can page around pretty quickly. Tivo arranges the playlist by time, so the newest stuff is up at the top. The only problem I have is that the new drive is quite noisy. You can hear the thing in the next room. I've probably got a notch in my hearing at that frequency now.
Try suggesting to the NEA that particular teaching specialities like science or math should receive higher pay than others. Their position is that these teachers should be paid more and so should every other teacher as well. Any pay disparity due to specialization is 'unfair,' and the only legitimate factor in pay disparity is longevity on the job, according to them. The only hope for problems like this is true competition. School vouchers.
If monitoring worries you, use Freedom from Zeroknowledge Systems. It encrypts everything from your computer on out, and routes your connections thru one or more proxies so that the other end has no idea who is connecting to them. It won't handle all protocols, but those that it does are secure against snooping.
The first thing I did when I got my @Home cable modem was to bypass their proxy server and connect 'direct'. No only does it speed things up, but it makes monitoring more difficult. They could still do monitoring at the gateways, but I'm betting that they don't since most people don't know enough to bypass the proxy.
The problem I have is, if the RIAA actually does manage to shut down the streaming servers and the many heirs to Napster's throne, I will have no way to find new cool stuff to buy.
Newsgroup alt.binaries.sounds.mp3. Almost everything will get posted there sooner or later. Sooner if you request it (but in your case, you're not going to know to request it, so you'll just have to wait and watch).
"If you want to connect to my node, send me your snail mailing address and I will hand-deliver your IP address and routing information in a sealed envelope."...and other such quirky verification processes. There's very little a cracker could do about a policy like that.
An, ahem, acquaintence of mine once attached an extra mailbox for a nonexistent unit to an apartment building and received 'materials' there for a while.
The cops claim that the database consists of only 30,000 wanted felons and people excluded from those areas. So the question remains: is that a lie, or do they have the ability to post-facto match a picture against the entire driver's license database?
Moral of the story: when you move to a new state, keep the license from your old one. The new one then won't have your license image to digitize and add to the database.
In the movie, the computer graphics technology develops to the point to where actors are unnecessary. They can render perfect models of actors. Therefore, in order to have a monopoly, they start killing off all the "perfect" actors and actresses.
One laughable aspect was that they rendered the actors over a real background. A camera would pan across an empty set, then in post production they would insert computer generated actors. The obvious flaw is that you could render the background set much easier than the actors themselves.
It was also silly that they had to start with 'perfect' actors to begin with. With that technology, they could have turned a scan of Rosie O'Donnell into Sharon Stone (ok, this is Slashdot. Natalie Portman), assuming they needed scans of real humans at all. Guess they needed some bogus plot premise like that to have a story, though. (I want one of those 'flasher' thingys the bad guys had that put people into a stupor.)
I get lots of spam and it's because I have a 3-character ID for my account at a large ISP. Spammers will shotgun their crap at all combinations of 1-, 2-, or 3-character IDs at larger ISPs, on the theory that many folks will be using their initials or single-character names for convenience.
The only way my statement can be a rhetorical pretzel is if you assume that police abuse simply does not exist. In that case, police internal affairs departments must never identify a bad cop. Two words: Rodney King.
I'll recount a local story to you. Two cops stopped a black man who was walking through a parking lot with his girlfriend. The cops had been staking out a stolen car to see if the thief would return to it. This guy did nothing more than pass by it, but the decided to stop him anyway. As it turns out, the guy was a well-known (at least, to people besides the cops) athlete here and there happened to be an off-duty cameraman for the local TV station nearby. Noticing the commotion, the cameraman grabbed his camera and started shooting the scene. One of the cops grabbed the camera and shoved the cameraman over a railing and tumbling down an embankment. The cop put the camera, still runnning, in his patrol car. No charges were filed against the cameraman, since the tape made clear that there was no wrongdoing on his part. That cop is still on the force.
There was also an earlier case where two cops started beating a black man with nightsticks because he refused to remove his license from his wallet before handing it to them. He was a martial arts expert and managed to get the upper hand and shot both of them with one of their guns, one dying. He was acquitted on murder charges (self defense), and the judge in the trial blasted the police department for the original beating and for its conduct in court. The surviving cop was put back on the force.
So yes, police abuse does exist. And goes unpunished.
Sure you can. You can have it dismantled/examined by an independent party, and have them confirm that it is working as described. You can take the testimony of the people that set up the system, and acquired/retrieved the film/data.
Nope. Here in San Diego, the judges wouldn't issue subpoenas for the camera specifications, installation details, and technical data. Lockheed Martin, installer/operator of our red light cameras, has even threatened a lawsuit against some lawyers if they persisted in their efforts to subpoena the technical details of these cameras. It's only been through the persistence and effort of a couple of dedicated attorneys that details of the red light camera scam have finally begun to appear. Lockheed Martin deliberately misplaced the sensors, resulting in thousands of unjustified tickets. They also handpicked intersections with short yellow lights (as opposed to intersections that had the worst problems) to maximize revenues. Because of these abuses, the cameras are shut down. For now. The city is doing everything in its power to get them back up because it makes millions every year from these tickets. What's really funny is before the shutdown, it was discovered that peace officers weren't being issued red light tickets like normal folks. This embarrassed the city, which began issuing tickets to them. Their union then started screaming, and saying the red light tickets are illegal under California law! It's priceless.
I'm friends with four police officers in Massachusetts, three of which I see on a weekly basis. All of them are nice people, and none of them abuse their power.
Then ask them this: If you saw a fellow officer abuse someone, would you report it? If they're truthful, they'll say no. Cops who turn in other cops are labeled rats and punks and shunned within the force. Their commanders nitpick their work and use any excuse to fire them. As a result, few cops will report abuse by another cop, which lets the abusive ones get away with it, the result being the public attitude you're complaining about.
If you call Microsoft, turn off the caller ID on your phone -> no reverse lookup.
Unfortunately, if you're calling a toll-free number, there's no way to disable caller ID. In fact, the 800-number caller-id can contain (depending on whether they're willing to pay for it) not only the number you're calling from, but your name as well. All they have to do is suck it into their database. Ever wonder why your new credit card wants you to call an 800 number to activate it? That's so they can harvest the phone number you do it from. I always do it from payphones now, just to be difficult.
This is great! Now I can sell a little scanner that a strong-arm robber can use on a potential victim before wasting his time. If I can make it long-range enough, thieves can even see how much is in the till before knocking over a convenience store. Crime has been very resistant to productivity increases. Maybe this will end that problem.
I've heard the 7-11 convenience stores here in the U.S. are now selling prepaid debit cards that can be used just like a credit card, except anonymously. So when you go on the lam, get one of those.
For this go-'round, the faces and identities will not be saved after matching (or so they say). However, it's a short step from the present system to archiving your whereabouts forever.
Time to get out your Rhode & Schwartz spectrum analyzer and check out what's goin down in your airspace;). Maybe a neighbor has his experimental microwave weapon pointed at you.
I'm afraid that you may be right. It wouldn't surprise me to find that somebody has a raft of 2.4 GHz stuff running next door. Might need to deploy my anti-radiation missiles. What I was actually thinking of doing was to cobble together a crude yagi out of wire, just to see if directionality might help. The location of the WAP is in one corner of the house, so if I could get a fat lobe going diagonally, it might help. If that worked, then I could consider a commercial antenna.
External 'diversity' antennas? Is that when there are two omni's, one on either side of the unit? Gah.
Do they have internal or external antennae? Do you have any other 2.4Ghz products? Cordless phone? Video transmitter?
Does your microwave leak?
The WAP has dual external 'diversity' antennas. The PC Card (Linksys WPC11. Not sure of its output power.) has an internal antenna. Orientation is a problem. I can occasionally get a weak signal if I orient the card vertically (by holding the laptop up), so I may try a card with a vertical external antenna instead. I tried putting the WAP antennae horizontal to attempt to match the polarization of the PC Card, but no luck. I've got several 2.4 GHz products, but I've tried shutting them down, to no apparent effect. The microwave isn't in use.
what's the wall made of?
Standard stud-and-drywall. My 2.4 GHz video link goes thru it like it isn't there (admittedly, it has a directional antenna and probably more power).
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If you'd like to see just how much an ISP cares about policing its network, go to grc.com and read his account of tracking down Denial of Service attacks on his system. He had clear evidence of hacked machines running as zombies, hijacked dial-in accounts, etc. and got exactly zero interest from the ISPs on whose customers were being exploited. The entire story is a fascinating read on how he tracked down the perpetrators of these sort of attacks and got it stopped (no thanks to the ISPs or law enforecment).
I'd just like 802.11b to work 30 stinking feet in my house. It has to go through one lousy wall and it's impenetrable (no, no metal in there). Even in the same room with no intervening objects, a 20-foot separation cuts the signal strength in half, according to the software 'meter'. I must have a bitch of an RFI problem or something. Either that or Linksys products are crap (my router works great, though).
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I upgraded my Tivo with an 80 GB hard drive and have @120 hours capacity. The interface doesn't bother me, as I can page around pretty quickly. Tivo arranges the playlist by time, so the newest stuff is up at the top. The only problem I have is that the new drive is quite noisy. You can hear the thing in the next room. I've probably got a notch in my hearing at that frequency now.
Maybe I just have low standards, but low quality is plenty good enough for me. The only time I even notice anything is during rapid screen changes.
Last I heard, they hadn't activated the second tuner. Have they finally done so?
The ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon has S-video output. I can't say how it looks, as I've never used that feature of the card.
Try suggesting to the NEA that particular teaching specialities like science or math should receive higher pay than others. Their position is that these teachers should be paid more and so should every other teacher as well. Any pay disparity due to specialization is 'unfair,' and the only legitimate factor in pay disparity is longevity on the job, according to them. The only hope for problems like this is true competition. School vouchers.
If monitoring worries you, use Freedom from Zeroknowledge Systems. It encrypts everything from your computer on out, and routes your connections thru one or more proxies so that the other end has no idea who is connecting to them. It won't handle all protocols, but those that it does are secure against snooping.
The first thing I did when I got my @Home cable modem was to bypass their proxy server and connect 'direct'. No only does it speed things up, but it makes monitoring more difficult. They could still do monitoring at the gateways, but I'm betting that they don't since most people don't know enough to bypass the proxy.
Well, cool, it's already crashed. I suspect the original SlashDot is going to get stressed more by all of the "banjo's down" posts.
Newsgroup alt.binaries.sounds.mp3. Almost everything will get posted there sooner or later. Sooner if you request it (but in your case, you're not going to know to request it, so you'll just have to wait and watch).
An, ahem, acquaintence of mine once attached an extra mailbox for a nonexistent unit to an apartment building and received 'materials' there for a while.
Moral of the story: when you move to a new state, keep the license from your old one. The new one then won't have your license image to digitize and add to the database.
It was also silly that they had to start with 'perfect' actors to begin with. With that technology, they could have turned a scan of Rosie O'Donnell into Sharon Stone (ok, this is Slashdot. Natalie Portman), assuming they needed scans of real humans at all. Guess they needed some bogus plot premise like that to have a story, though. (I want one of those 'flasher' thingys the bad guys had that put people into a stupor.)
I get lots of spam and it's because I have a 3-character ID for my account at a large ISP. Spammers will shotgun their crap at all combinations of 1-, 2-, or 3-character IDs at larger ISPs, on the theory that many folks will be using their initials or single-character names for convenience.
does this qualify me to drive in the carpool lane?
I'll recount a local story to you. Two cops stopped a black man who was walking through a parking lot with his girlfriend. The cops had been staking out a stolen car to see if the thief would return to it. This guy did nothing more than pass by it, but the decided to stop him anyway. As it turns out, the guy was a well-known (at least, to people besides the cops) athlete here and there happened to be an off-duty cameraman for the local TV station nearby. Noticing the commotion, the cameraman grabbed his camera and started shooting the scene. One of the cops grabbed the camera and shoved the cameraman over a railing and tumbling down an embankment. The cop put the camera, still runnning, in his patrol car. No charges were filed against the cameraman, since the tape made clear that there was no wrongdoing on his part. That cop is still on the force.
There was also an earlier case where two cops started beating a black man with nightsticks because he refused to remove his license from his wallet before handing it to them. He was a martial arts expert and managed to get the upper hand and shot both of them with one of their guns, one dying. He was acquitted on murder charges (self defense), and the judge in the trial blasted the police department for the original beating and for its conduct in court. The surviving cop was put back on the force.
So yes, police abuse does exist. And goes unpunished.
Nope. Here in San Diego, the judges wouldn't issue subpoenas for the camera specifications, installation details, and technical data. Lockheed Martin, installer/operator of our red light cameras, has even threatened a lawsuit against some lawyers if they persisted in their efforts to subpoena the technical details of these cameras. It's only been through the persistence and effort of a couple of dedicated attorneys that details of the red light camera scam have finally begun to appear. Lockheed Martin deliberately misplaced the sensors, resulting in thousands of unjustified tickets. They also handpicked intersections with short yellow lights (as opposed to intersections that had the worst problems) to maximize revenues. Because of these abuses, the cameras are shut down. For now. The city is doing everything in its power to get them back up because it makes millions every year from these tickets. What's really funny is before the shutdown, it was discovered that peace officers weren't being issued red light tickets like normal folks. This embarrassed the city, which began issuing tickets to them. Their union then started screaming, and saying the red light tickets are illegal under California law! It's priceless.
Then ask them this: If you saw a fellow officer abuse someone, would you report it? If they're truthful, they'll say no. Cops who turn in other cops are labeled rats and punks and shunned within the force. Their commanders nitpick their work and use any excuse to fire them. As a result, few cops will report abuse by another cop, which lets the abusive ones get away with it, the result being the public attitude you're complaining about.
Unfortunately, if you're calling a toll-free number, there's no way to disable caller ID. In fact, the 800-number caller-id can contain (depending on whether they're willing to pay for it) not only the number you're calling from, but your name as well. All they have to do is suck it into their database. Ever wonder why your new credit card wants you to call an 800 number to activate it? That's so they can harvest the phone number you do it from. I always do it from payphones now, just to be difficult.
This is great! Now I can sell a little scanner that a strong-arm robber can use on a potential victim before wasting his time. If I can make it long-range enough, thieves can even see how much is in the till before knocking over a convenience store. Crime has been very resistant to productivity increases. Maybe this will end that problem.
I've heard the 7-11 convenience stores here in the U.S. are now selling prepaid debit cards that can be used just like a credit card, except anonymously. So when you go on the lam, get one of those.
For this go-'round, the faces and identities will not be saved after matching (or so they say). However, it's a short step from the present system to archiving your whereabouts forever.
I'm afraid that you may be right. It wouldn't surprise me to find that somebody has a raft of 2.4 GHz stuff running next door. Might need to deploy my anti-radiation missiles. What I was actually thinking of doing was to cobble together a crude yagi out of wire, just to see if directionality might help. The location of the WAP is in one corner of the house, so if I could get a fat lobe going diagonally, it might help. If that worked, then I could consider a commercial antenna.
External 'diversity' antennas? Is that when there are two omni's, one on either side of the unit? Gah.
Yep, that's the setup.
The WAP has dual external 'diversity' antennas. The PC Card (Linksys WPC11. Not sure of its output power.) has an internal antenna. Orientation is a problem. I can occasionally get a weak signal if I orient the card vertically (by holding the laptop up), so I may try a card with a vertical external antenna instead. I tried putting the WAP antennae horizontal to attempt to match the polarization of the PC Card, but no luck. I've got several 2.4 GHz products, but I've tried shutting them down, to no apparent effect. The microwave isn't in use.
what's the wall made of?
Standard stud-and-drywall. My 2.4 GHz video link goes thru it like it isn't there (admittedly, it has a directional antenna and probably more power).
If you'd like to see just how much an ISP cares about policing its network, go to grc.com and read his account of tracking down Denial of Service attacks on his system. He had clear evidence of hacked machines running as zombies, hijacked dial-in accounts, etc. and got exactly zero interest from the ISPs on whose customers were being exploited. The entire story is a fascinating read on how he tracked down the perpetrators of these sort of attacks and got it stopped (no thanks to the ISPs or law enforecment).
I'd just like 802.11b to work 30 stinking feet in my house. It has to go through one lousy wall and it's impenetrable (no, no metal in there). Even in the same room with no intervening objects, a 20-foot separation cuts the signal strength in half, according to the software 'meter'. I must have a bitch of an RFI problem or something. Either that or Linksys products are crap (my router works great, though).