The lawyer had spent quite a while getting the person in the right position to get a case-making statement to be made when a juror's phone went off, giving the witness 45 seconds to prepare their answer.
Interesting. So if you are on the stand being asked questions, and you take a moment to verbalize your answer mentally, it is automatically assumed you are lying?
But in the end making, hosting, and maintaining a website does cost money. And no service is free.
Bullshit.
I am one of those from the BBS days the GP mentions, and ran a free board with no advertising to the users back in the 80s.
Even today I run an IRC network at a decent expense for servers and time from myself and my other administrator, yet zero cost for our users and no advertising. Purely for the fun of it, because it is what we enjoy doing.
I am far from alone in this.
EFnet is one of the largest IRC networks still to this day run by similar minded people, provided free to the users simply because we enjoy doing so. There are many other networks run exactly the same way, at one point hundreds of networks and thousands of servers and administrators doing the same.
There are even plenty of hobbyist websites with no advertising or banners run the same. Most all Linux distros are put together and hosted/administered by the same ideals.
Usenet used to be run in a similar fashion not too very long ago, and I have no doubt there are a ton of other services run under the same ideals that I am forgetting or even have no idea about.
Obviously these are in the minority these days, but to say Nothing is free is not at all true.
You are going to have them thinking you are a Wikileaks supporter.
And it is pretty obvious you are very very against the idea of anyone wanting to support or help wikileaks.
In the last thread alone, due to the fact you are 'Friend of a Friend', I saw 18 posts from you that I counted that had the exact same content. Pretty much the same content as this post. After the first 5 it became annoying trying to skip so many dupes in a row which was the only reason i noticed.
It's one thing to warn others of the dangers you might perceive to be true, but it's another for what you have been doing, which is being actively against any wikileaks support.
You can clearly do as you wish, but I highly suspect your motives of 'just warning others' at this point.
No American citizen here has any control over what our government does. So Americans and non-Americans both have zero fault (aka equal)
Or, if you truly believe a single American citizen has control over each and everything our government does, well the same would be true for you and your countries government right?
So in that case, I don't see your government going to war with America to stop them, and as you say this is completely and totally your fault personally since you single handedly did not cause your government to start that war.
Pick which ever you would like to believe, but in both cases you are equally at fault and just as responsible for these things as we are.
Unless the government is going to open mail and remove checks (I suppose that COULD happen) wikileaks will get support.
Recently a congressman pushed in a bill that would officially/legally classify wikileaks as a terrorist organization. If this bill passes, it would be a federal crime to donate money to them in the US, one that carries a jail sentence.
The government would then not only be allowed to block mail to them (including checks), but arrest those that sent the checks in the first place, to discourage others from doing the same.
I was just thinking along those lines, for if they actually made the key unextractable.
One could emulate the CCD with an FPGA to feed it any image.
For the location data, you just spoof the low grade GPS signals from a few transmitters. As far as I am aware, only the higher precision military code is encrypted/signed to prevent spoofing.
I would imagine they also get the time data from the same GPS signal. If so it will be adjusted along with the location. If they use some high precision clock source that's internal (yet can't be synced with anything or manually changed), one could still time stamp a picture in the future just not in the past, simply by waiting.
The best way to go about doing this is prevent the camera from being opened without damage. Private key in RAM, with the battery mounted in such a way that it loses contact if the casing is disturbed.
ROM chips can be sanded down and with a microscope mapped out in 3d, then have its data reconstructed. So a second key (or a part of a key that needs combined with the part in the ram chip above) could be encoded in the CPU chip itself. Makes it a lot harder to extract this way.
There really isn't a way to make extracting the key impossible. All one can hope for is slowing someone down. If they make the cameras expire before the time it would take to get the key, it would work, but wow would that be expensive!
There are a few dangerously destructive ways I can think of to protect a chip, but I would fear the damage it would cause if someone triggered it, or it went off accidentally or by mistake. Plus I doubt it would be legal to put thermite in one;}
That's actually a pretty good idea. Nor can I recall any existing software that does that.
Like you say, caching servers are common, but they typically expire entries after a short time. Even if you bump that expire time up to many years, they still replace older data with current data, so by the time you notice you need the old IP, it is gone.
Version control and time stamping the changes would do the same trick I was thinking, but being DNS it wouldn't be limited to just the web browser.
If a host no longer resolves, it can simply revert to the last IP it knew automatically. An interface could let you manually change to different IPs or time stamps, in the case of DNS being hijacked and pointed elsewhere (As I hear they do in certain raids lately)
I really wish I had the time to code something like that up:(
Perhaps this is a solid reminder that we are becoming too reliant on 'domain names' and not doing enough to track and keep actual IP addresses. Perhaps it's time for a review of some of our habits, bookmarking, browsing history and, address finding
Sounds like what we need is a browser plugin that logs the IP of a website when bookmarked, or perhaps even in history, along with the name.
In future requests, it could only lookup DNS to check for changes, and prompt for action (update or not)
If the domain ever disappears, it could use the IP from the log to reach the site, and the original domain name to send as a Host: header (For virtual hosts where just using the IP alone won't get you to the right website)
Also, we should all hold hands while singing love songs while everyone does work for free
That's like the 5th time you posted championing ads, even after at least twice being informed people are willing to pay to not see ads. Do you work in the advertisement business or something?
If you don't even provide a payment option for money, you sorta lose the right to complain about not making money.
How hard could it possibly be to convert an ad view with a dollar amount? I and many others would love to pay into an account with cash at Google/YouTube, and have that account debited the correct amount each time to not have an ad show. Once it reaches zero (or below one ad view worth), they can display ads again until the account is paid up.
If I went to my car mechanic, and he informed me that paying cash for his services is no longer an option and the only way to pay him was to watch ads, not only would I never go there again, but I would not shed a single tear for him not making any money, while actively refusing money.
If they'd add phone capabilities to the iPad (a bluetooth earpiece and adding a CDMA radio would do it) then I wouldn't even need a "phone" per se.
While not exactly native cell phone functionality, I have had great success with whisper voip on my iPad using the normal headphones and mic. If you have a 3G enabled iPad, you can then install either My3G or VoIPover3G too. Then you can place and receive calls over wifi, 3g, or bluetooth.
Whisper even has a 'free' option if you don't mind listening to an ad. (Good for testing purposes anyway.)
I'm sure there are other VOIP clients out there with different services and price plans. Even Skype with My3G would do the trick, if you already have an account with them or don't mind setting one up with a public phone number.
I must admit I only installed Whisper to play around with. I still prefer the smaller form factor for a cell phone myself. It was still impressive none the less. At the very least, it should be worth the funny looks from holding an iPad to your head like an over-sized iPhone while having a conversation;}
Hey it passed the spell checker, I think you're expecting a bit much from slashdot editors;}
I mean at least he linked to the original source instead of some blog... oh wait.
Well, at least they didn't attribute credit for the idea to Apple, while claiming Microsoft was granted a patent on it! That's gotta count for something right?
"Whereas the 2007 guidelines said that an idea is considered obvious if it consisted of '[predictable] variations [...] the new guidelines do away with those tests."
Sweet, no more prior art test.
Time to actually submit a patent on the method of submitting a patent, and do away with this mess. Thankfully the fact that method has been in use for a long time no longer matters!
I used to consistently do the same thing except for tiny VMs that didn't matter much. If you use Windows Vista or 7 as the host, say goodbye to physical disk access:/
Apparently there was some attack vector on windows where one could inject an unsigned driver by writing to the raw disk as administrator. Microsoft solution was to make it so only kernel drivers can do that anymore, nothing from userland can touch the raw disks.
This probably only matters if you migrate VMs, or use Windows as the host primarily, but was a big surprise and annoyance for me.
That is how Deep Freeze works at least. Not a partition, but a cache file on the disk, that is held encrypted.
I'm not exactly sure the method SteadyState uses, but as it is more intended to reduce infections and users changing stuff, so it might very well be open to raw disk scanning to get at previous data.
"1. The process takes entirely too long and if the person doesn't wait and walks away or just turns it off, the thief could still get the data. They used rdist when I was in college for campus kiosk computers. It was fucking miserable to wait for one of these bastards to boot or shutdown in the case of there being a problem which required a reboot (at the time a frequent necessity)."
Eww, yea that's not the best way to do it at all (Having to wait on anything that is.)
For Windows XP I use a program called Windows SteadyState, which unfortunately Microsoft seems to be discontinuing as so far as not supporting any OS past XP 32bit.
There is also a commercial solution known as Deep Freeze that does the same task but for a lot more operating systems.
Basically all your root drive / C drive changes are held in memory in a separate copy-on-write partition that appears merged with the real data. None of the FAT entries are maintained for that outside of RAM however, so even yanking the plug will do the same thing as a normal shutdown, and there is no waiting beyond what you wait now to reboot. All changes to the drive just instantly disappear and the drive space is reclaimed.
I find it difficult to believe it's intentional, as it makes it difficult to quote someone.
That would go hand in hand with the meta-moderation page ripping out both the quote and i tags, so when you quote someone, the quoted text appears that You are saying it, and thus you get modded whatever the parent post should be/is.
Wow it must be late. My eyes totally skipped that word. Well don't I feel silly.
Even more reason to believe it is totally artistic and not a meaningful translation of anything though, as coat of arms and crests tend to do that sort of thing over the entire imagery, typically only exception for items added in later, which doesn't seem to be the case here.
Still, it's amusing to think how many people will spend their Monday trying to decode this heh
The first thing I notice is the binary string is a palindrome, the same forwards or backwards.
Being 33 digits, that is just strange. Dropping the first 1 to make 32 would be more fitting, but the first digit is still a 1, so unless he is into ANSI art, I doubt this is ascii encoding.
Just the fact it is the same both ways leads me to think an artist designed it, a lot more so than it converts to anything meaningful.
"So where is the (completely legal under US law) software that the Library of Congress can use to back up Blu-Rays that have been released recently? Or, indeed, legal (Under US law) software that they can use to back up DVDs?"
Slashdot Mirror
The lawyer had spent quite a while getting the person in the right position to get a case-making statement to be made when a juror's phone went off, giving the witness 45 seconds to prepare their answer.
Interesting. So if you are on the stand being asked questions, and you take a moment to verbalize your answer mentally, it is automatically assumed you are lying?
But in the end making, hosting, and maintaining a website does cost money. And no service is free.
Bullshit.
I am one of those from the BBS days the GP mentions, and ran a free board with no advertising to the users back in the 80s.
Even today I run an IRC network at a decent expense for servers and time from myself and my other administrator, yet zero cost for our users and no advertising. Purely for the fun of it, because it is what we enjoy doing.
I am far from alone in this.
EFnet is one of the largest IRC networks still to this day run by similar minded people, provided free to the users simply because we enjoy doing so. There are many other networks run exactly the same way, at one point hundreds of networks and thousands of servers and administrators doing the same.
There are even plenty of hobbyist websites with no advertising or banners run the same.
Most all Linux distros are put together and hosted/administered by the same ideals.
Usenet used to be run in a similar fashion not too very long ago, and I have no doubt there are a ton of other services run under the same ideals that I am forgetting or even have no idea about.
Obviously these are in the minority these days, but to say Nothing is free is not at all true.
You are going to have them thinking you are a Wikileaks supporter.
And it is pretty obvious you are very very against the idea of anyone wanting to support or help wikileaks.
In the last thread alone, due to the fact you are 'Friend of a Friend', I saw 18 posts from you that I counted that had the exact same content. Pretty much the same content as this post. After the first 5 it became annoying trying to skip so many dupes in a row which was the only reason i noticed.
It's one thing to warn others of the dangers you might perceive to be true, but it's another for what you have been doing, which is being actively against any wikileaks support.
You can clearly do as you wish, but I highly suspect your motives of 'just warning others' at this point.
It's just as much your fault as it is his.
No American citizen here has any control over what our government does. So Americans and non-Americans both have zero fault (aka equal)
Or, if you truly believe a single American citizen has control over each and everything our government does, well the same would be true for you and your countries government right?
So in that case, I don't see your government going to war with America to stop them, and as you say this is completely and totally your fault personally since you single handedly did not cause your government to start that war.
Pick which ever you would like to believe, but in both cases you are equally at fault and just as responsible for these things as we are.
Unless the government is going to open mail and remove checks (I suppose that COULD happen) wikileaks will get support.
Recently a congressman pushed in a bill that would officially/legally classify wikileaks as a terrorist organization.
If this bill passes, it would be a federal crime to donate money to them in the US, one that carries a jail sentence.
The government would then not only be allowed to block mail to them (including checks), but arrest those that sent the checks in the first place, to discourage others from doing the same.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/congressman-calls-for-anti-wikileaks-offensive.ars
I was just thinking along those lines, for if they actually made the key unextractable.
One could emulate the CCD with an FPGA to feed it any image.
For the location data, you just spoof the low grade GPS signals from a few transmitters.
As far as I am aware, only the higher precision military code is encrypted/signed to prevent spoofing.
I would imagine they also get the time data from the same GPS signal. If so it will be adjusted along with the location.
If they use some high precision clock source that's internal (yet can't be synced with anything or manually changed), one could still time stamp a picture in the future just not in the past, simply by waiting.
The best way to go about doing this is prevent the camera from being opened without damage.
Private key in RAM, with the battery mounted in such a way that it loses contact if the casing is disturbed.
ROM chips can be sanded down and with a microscope mapped out in 3d, then have its data reconstructed. So a second key (or a part of a key that needs combined with the part in the ram chip above) could be encoded in the CPU chip itself. Makes it a lot harder to extract this way.
There really isn't a way to make extracting the key impossible. All one can hope for is slowing someone down.
If they make the cameras expire before the time it would take to get the key, it would work, but wow would that be expensive!
There are a few dangerously destructive ways I can think of to protect a chip, but I would fear the damage it would cause if someone triggered it, or it went off accidentally or by mistake. Plus I doubt it would be legal to put thermite in one ;}
That's actually a pretty good idea. Nor can I recall any existing software that does that.
Like you say, caching servers are common, but they typically expire entries after a short time.
Even if you bump that expire time up to many years, they still replace older data with current data, so by the time you notice you need the old IP, it is gone.
Version control and time stamping the changes would do the same trick I was thinking, but being DNS it wouldn't be limited to just the web browser.
If a host no longer resolves, it can simply revert to the last IP it knew automatically.
An interface could let you manually change to different IPs or time stamps, in the case of DNS being hijacked and pointed elsewhere (As I hear they do in certain raids lately)
I really wish I had the time to code something like that up :(
Why not?
For a virtual server, you just connect to the shared IP, and send a Host: www.domain.com header to the server so it knows what website you want.
I clearly addressed that very point in my post.
Perhaps this is a solid reminder that we are becoming too reliant on 'domain names' and not doing enough to track and keep actual IP addresses. Perhaps it's time for a review of some of our habits, bookmarking, browsing history and, address finding
Sounds like what we need is a browser plugin that logs the IP of a website when bookmarked, or perhaps even in history, along with the name.
In future requests, it could only lookup DNS to check for changes, and prompt for action (update or not)
If the domain ever disappears, it could use the IP from the log to reach the site, and the original domain name to send as a Host: header (For virtual hosts where just using the IP alone won't get you to the right website)
Also, we should all hold hands while singing love songs while everyone does work for free
That's like the 5th time you posted championing ads, even after at least twice being informed people are willing to pay to not see ads.
Do you work in the advertisement business or something?
If you don't even provide a payment option for money, you sorta lose the right to complain about not making money.
How hard could it possibly be to convert an ad view with a dollar amount?
I and many others would love to pay into an account with cash at Google/YouTube, and have that account debited the correct amount each time to not have an ad show.
Once it reaches zero (or below one ad view worth), they can display ads again until the account is paid up.
If I went to my car mechanic, and he informed me that paying cash for his services is no longer an option and the only way to pay him was to watch ads, not only would I never go there again, but I would not shed a single tear for him not making any money, while actively refusing money.
Sonofa, oops... My mistake
Whisper is a chat client. The app I meant to share is Whistle!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whistle-phone/id322326573?mt=8
If they'd add phone capabilities to the iPad (a bluetooth earpiece and adding a CDMA radio would do it) then I wouldn't even need a "phone" per se.
While not exactly native cell phone functionality, I have had great success with whisper voip on my iPad using the normal headphones and mic.
If you have a 3G enabled iPad, you can then install either My3G or VoIPover3G too. Then you can place and receive calls over wifi, 3g, or bluetooth.
Whisper even has a 'free' option if you don't mind listening to an ad. (Good for testing purposes anyway.)
I'm sure there are other VOIP clients out there with different services and price plans.
Even Skype with My3G would do the trick, if you already have an account with them or don't mind setting one up with a public phone number.
I must admit I only installed Whisper to play around with. I still prefer the smaller form factor for a cell phone myself. It was still impressive none the less. ;}
At the very least, it should be worth the funny looks from holding an iPad to your head like an over-sized iPhone while having a conversation
Hey it passed the spell checker, I think you're expecting a bit much from slashdot editors ;}
I mean at least he linked to the original source instead of some blog... oh wait.
Well, at least they didn't attribute credit for the idea to Apple, while claiming Microsoft was granted a patent on it! That's gotta count for something right?
</sarcastic>
What do you think I'm thinking right now?
You are greatly concerned that we will not find a place that sells chap pants at this time of night.
"Whereas the 2007 guidelines said that an idea is considered obvious if it consisted of '[predictable] variations [...] the new guidelines do away with those tests."
Sweet, no more prior art test.
Time to actually submit a patent on the method of submitting a patent, and do away with this mess.
Thankfully the fact that method has been in use for a long time no longer matters!
Just a heads up about physical disks...
I used to consistently do the same thing except for tiny VMs that didn't matter much. :/
If you use Windows Vista or 7 as the host, say goodbye to physical disk access
Apparently there was some attack vector on windows where one could inject an unsigned driver by writing to the raw disk as administrator. Microsoft solution was to make it so only kernel drivers can do that anymore, nothing from userland can touch the raw disks.
This probably only matters if you migrate VMs, or use Windows as the host primarily, but was a big surprise and annoyance for me.
I think you meant to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJOVUF-HaDw#t=0m40s
"The whole problem with the "the universe is a simulation" gig is that it doesn't answer any questions or solve any problems."
It does answer the question of "Does smaddox have a sense of humor while replying to a joke" ;}
That is how Deep Freeze works at least. Not a partition, but a cache file on the disk, that is held encrypted.
I'm not exactly sure the method SteadyState uses, but as it is more intended to reduce infections and users changing stuff, so it might very well be open to raw disk scanning to get at previous data.
"1. The process takes entirely too long and if the person doesn't wait and walks away or just turns it off, the thief could still get the data. They used rdist when I was in college for campus kiosk computers. It was fucking miserable to wait for one of these bastards to boot or shutdown in the case of there being a problem which required a reboot (at the time a frequent necessity)."
Eww, yea that's not the best way to do it at all (Having to wait on anything that is.)
For Windows XP I use a program called Windows SteadyState, which unfortunately Microsoft seems to be discontinuing as so far as not supporting any OS past XP 32bit.
There is also a commercial solution known as Deep Freeze that does the same task but for a lot more operating systems.
Basically all your root drive / C drive changes are held in memory in a separate copy-on-write partition that appears merged with the real data.
None of the FAT entries are maintained for that outside of RAM however, so even yanking the plug will do the same thing as a normal shutdown, and there is no waiting beyond what you wait now to reboot. All changes to the drive just instantly disappear and the drive space is reclaimed.
I find it difficult to believe it's intentional, as it makes it difficult to quote someone.
That would go hand in hand with the meta-moderation page ripping out both the quote and i tags, so when you quote someone, the quoted text appears that You are saying it, and thus you get modded whatever the parent post should be/is.
The plot thickens...
Wow it must be late. My eyes totally skipped that word.
Well don't I feel silly.
Even more reason to believe it is totally artistic and not a meaningful translation of anything though, as coat of arms and crests tend to do that sort of thing over the entire imagery, typically only exception for items added in later, which doesn't seem to be the case here.
Still, it's amusing to think how many people will spend their Monday trying to decode this heh
And after reading the article, it seems they noticed the same thing!
Wonder why that option was left out of the summary, as it seems the most likely. Silly editors
The first thing I notice is the binary string is a palindrome, the same forwards or backwards.
Being 33 digits, that is just strange. Dropping the first 1 to make 32 would be more fitting, but the first digit is still a 1, so unless he is into ANSI art, I doubt this is ascii encoding.
Just the fact it is the same both ways leads me to think an artist designed it, a lot more so than it converts to anything meaningful.
Which is a shame really, but not unexpected.
"So where is the (completely legal under US law) software that the Library of Congress can use to back up Blu-Rays that have been released recently? Or, indeed, legal (Under US law) software that they can use to back up DVDs?"
http://www.opencloner.com/
http://dvd-copy-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
http://www.blue-cloner.com/
http://www.blu-ray-soft.com/blu-ray_copy/
Or Indeed
http://www.google.com/#q=dvd+copy About 85,300,000 results (0.22 seconds)
http://www.google.com/#q=bluray+copy About 3,990,000 results (0.24 seconds)