Of course, this all becomes a non-issue if you assume that an X10 camera would never be used to secure something valuable enough to be of interest to technically-sophisticated thieves who could easily defeat the system.
You don't even need technical sophistication beyond being able to see what the camera sees. In most places that use security cameras, they don't cover every square inch. In most cases it isn't very practical and sometimes it's not even possible.
People who place security cameras tend to focus on the door or on the counter in a liquor store or gas station. But in some cases it may be possible to hide outside the view of the camera -- just long enough to disable or fool it somehow.
You don't always need to be totally sophisticated in disabling the camera, either. If your plan is more of a "smash-and-grab" type robbery, for instance, you may need only to break the camera by throwing a rock at it, or by shooting it with a gun. If you're standing just out of the camera's field of view, you won't be caught on tape doing it.
Security cameras don't usually record every square inch, because in many cases it isn't very practical or cost effective. If you were going to (hypothetically speaking of course) break into a place, you would definitely want to know what the camera *couldn't* see. You'd watch the camera, compare with what you know about the inside of the building, and through the process of elimination -- voila! You now know what the camera doesn't see.
Sometimes people who place security cameras don't think about other possible ways of entering buildings. They usually watch the door. But one could conceivably enter a building through windows or ventilation systems.
Even if you had a camera looking at every possible means of entry, chances are good that one or more of those cameras can be disabled or fooled somehow. Knowing what the camera can and can't see can reveal strategies for disabling or fooling the cameras.
That's the real question: Why isn't there more competition, now that every garage band has access to professional grade production equipment?
Can you say "antitrust violations"? I knew you could.
The RIAA owns the music business, lock stock and barrel. They control the prices, they control the airplay, they control everything except illegal MP3 copying (so far), and that's why they pushed to eliminate Napster, and that's why they're pushing so hard to eliminate Kazaa and company.
Ballmer actually said: "customers will never really know who stands behind this product."
The intent is similar, but it's a subtler shade of meaning here.
Of course, people pay Red Hat and IBM and other companies money to stand behind the code. And you DO know who wrote the code anyways. Their names are all over it.
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The real cost, aside from downtime, is in the integration testing of those patches. If you don't do the integration testing, the cost is potentially even HIGHER because you don't know what those patches could break. Unfortunately, doing proper integration testing means you end up way behind the curve in terms of the patch cycle, which ultimately means an even greater risk of attack.
So you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.
Hey, I know, maybe Microsoft could do this new thing called PROPER BETA TESTING, and then maybe the could get it right THE FIRST TIME!
Maybe there IS something to those tinfoil hats after all! Hmmm...
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Heck, 4-byte number telling the number of 1s, you could write a SECOND 4-byte number telling the number of 0s. Then all you'd have to do with the READ code is figure out what order they go in. Piece of cake.
If you leave your door open and someone walks in, it *is* legal. They are not "breaking and entering." Unless you have some notification of private property, they are not "trespassing," either. Although, when you tell them to leave, if they don't, *then* it's a crime.
Nope. Entering a private home, door open or no, is considered 'unlawful entry'. 'Breaking and entering' is actually two separate crimes: 'breaking' the door (which causes damage to private property), and 'entering' or 'unlawful entry' into a private dwelling.
These are U.S. laws for most states. If you live elsewhere, YMMV.
Damnit why, everytime a new board comes out, overclocking is brought up.
It's a good measure of performance and stability. The clock speed is a function of the crystal driving the CPU. Any CPU can (in theory) run at any clock speed. The label on the chip is a function of what the manufacturer feels is the ideal speed based on their testing.
First, overclocking works decent for a few people, but is not available to the masses for several reasons including technical difficulty and noise issues
Overclocking is fairly easy nowadays. Gigabyte, for instance, sells motherboards (the 7VAXP is one of them) that allow you to set the board to overclock right in the BIOS setup. No soldering or hacking is necessary.
Third, maybe everyone doesnt want their computer to sound like a jet is going off from the cooling needed to overclock
Can you say 'liquid cooled'?:) Quieter than 'standard' cooling even.:)
Of course the biggest reason NOT to overclock is simple: it voids your manufacturer's warranty on the chip and makes your system less stable, even if only a little bit.
For the really paranoid, get one of these keyboards or one of these keyboards and carry it around in your briefcase. Pretty to hard to stick a hardware sniffer in something that's always with you.:)
Hardware keysniffers are easy to take care of. Simply make sure no one has physical access to your keyboard. It's impossible to install a keysniffer on a keyboard that you don't have physical access to.
Heh. Right. Maybe on your Windoze box where you don't know what processes are running, etc., but that's much more difficult to do on Linux box, especially when the Linux box is owned by a Unix sysadmin with more than 10 years of experience (namely me.;)
Tried to sign up for the service, it asked for the "security number" at the end of my credit card number. Everything was correct but it kept telling me that the security number was invalid (it's hard to mistype 3 digits... come on).
The security number typically on the *back* of your credit card. You'll see it on the signature line, next to the last 4 numbers of your CC#. So if your card number is:
1234 4321 4567 9876
You'll see something like:
9876 654
on the back of your card. Those last three numbers are your security number.
Does anyone happen to know if the transaction is even encrypted? What's to stop someone from snooping my account and ordering themself a ton of songs under my name?
Uhhhh....you *do* know how to check if your browser is using SSL for a particular page or not, right? There's usually an icon somewhere on the status line with most browsers.
I don't think most people are using 802.11 wireless because they think wires are ugly.:)
But with a laptop running on battery power, you would be completely wireless unless you use an external mouse. Even then you can get a wireless external mouse. But you have to plug the laptop in SOME time.:)
Ummm...no. First off, look at a Canon ink cart and look at a HP ink cart. They don't even look the same. That's because they aren't the same. HP uses thermoinkjet technology -- the ink is heated, which causes the ink to expand, and which causes it to be expelled through the printhead, which is part of the cartridge.
Canon uses 'bubblejet' technology which works by creating bubbles in the ink, which forces it out the printhead, which is NOT part of the cartridge. Completely different technologies.
Let's not even forget that HP was making inkjet printers before Canon popped onto the scene with their first BubbleJet printer -- anyone else remember the HP PaintJet?
Lexmark ink carts are based on older HP inkjets (ca. DeskJet 500/550). The cartridges are identicalin appearance and might even be plug-compatible. Either HP licensed from Lexmark or Lexmark licensed from HP. Except the former isn't possible because when those cartridges were created, Lexmark didn't even exist yet, at least not as a separate company from IBM.
The Win32 API is a standard, albeit not an open one, but it *is* a standard. The various Windows operating systems (including CE) are implementations of the API, and hence, implementations of the standard. Wine is an alternative implementation of the standard. The underlying OS in each of the Windows versions is very, very different. Windows 9x and Millenium are basically DOS with a 32-bit DOS extender underneath, while Windows NT, 2000, and XP are a ground-up design based on a design similar to VMS. CE is something else altogether. The Win32 API in each of those OSes runs on TOP of that particular OS. Even though all these operating systems are called Windows, each OS is actually a different OS. But because of the Win32 API, they can run common applications.
Wine is an implementation of the Win32 API that runs on top of Linux and X11. Microsoft actually has another implementation of the Win32 API that runs on HP-UX and Solaris and X11. Hence, the HP-UX and Solaris versions of Internet Exploiter and Lookout Express. There also exists an implementation of the Win32 API that runs on OS/2.
The Win32 API is not nearly 'integrated' into the the OS as Microsoft claims, otherwise, it wouldn't run on all these OSes, now would it?
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Of course, this all becomes a non-issue if you assume that an X10 camera would never be used to secure something valuable enough to be of interest to technically-sophisticated thieves who could easily defeat the system.
You don't even need technical sophistication beyond being able to see what the camera sees. In most places that use security cameras, they don't cover every square inch. In most cases it isn't very practical and sometimes it's not even possible.
People who place security cameras tend to focus on the door or on the counter in a liquor store or gas station. But in some cases it may be possible to hide outside the view of the camera -- just long enough to disable or fool it somehow.
You don't always need to be totally sophisticated in disabling the camera, either. If your plan is more of a "smash-and-grab" type robbery, for instance, you may need only to break the camera by throwing a rock at it, or by shooting it with a gun. If you're standing just out of the camera's field of view, you won't be caught on tape doing it.
Even if someone tuned in, so what?
Security cameras don't usually record every square inch, because in many cases it isn't very practical or cost effective. If you were going to (hypothetically speaking of course) break into a place, you would definitely want to know what the camera *couldn't* see. You'd watch the camera, compare with what you know about the inside of the building, and through the process of elimination -- voila! You now know what the camera doesn't see.
Sometimes people who place security cameras don't think about other possible ways of entering buildings. They usually watch the door. But one could conceivably enter a building through windows or ventilation systems.
Even if you had a camera looking at every possible means of entry, chances are good that one or more of those cameras can be disabled or fooled somehow. Knowing what the camera can and can't see can reveal strategies for disabling or fooling the cameras.
That's the real question: Why isn't there more competition, now that every garage band has access to professional grade production equipment?
Can you say "antitrust violations"? I knew you could.
The RIAA owns the music business, lock stock and barrel. They control the prices, they control the airplay, they control everything except illegal MP3 copying (so far), and that's why they pushed to eliminate Napster, and that's why they're pushing so hard to eliminate Kazaa and company.
I don't think so. Evidently, it can even make coffee.
Ballmer actually said: "customers will never really know who stands behind this product."
The intent is similar, but it's a subtler shade of meaning here.
Of course, people pay Red Hat and IBM and other companies money to stand behind the code. And you DO know who wrote the code anyways. Their names are all over it.
The real cost, aside from downtime, is in the integration testing of those patches. If you don't do the integration testing, the cost is potentially even HIGHER because you don't know what those patches could break. Unfortunately, doing proper integration testing means you end up way behind the curve in terms of the patch cycle, which ultimately means an even greater risk of attack.
;)
So you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.
Hey, I know, maybe Microsoft could do this new thing called PROPER BETA TESTING, and then maybe the could get it right THE FIRST TIME!
Nah, that'd be too easy.
Maybe there IS something to those tinfoil hats after all! Hmmm...
Heck, 4-byte number telling the number of 1s, you could write a SECOND 4-byte number telling the number of 0s. Then all you'd have to do with the READ code is figure out what order they go in. Piece of cake.
If you leave your door open and someone walks in, it *is* legal. They are not "breaking and entering." Unless you have some notification of private property, they are not "trespassing," either. Although, when you tell them to leave, if they don't, *then* it's a crime.
Nope. Entering a private home, door open or no, is considered 'unlawful entry'. 'Breaking and entering' is actually two separate crimes: 'breaking' the door (which causes damage to private property), and 'entering' or 'unlawful entry' into a private dwelling.
These are U.S. laws for most states. If you live elsewhere, YMMV.
Damnit why, everytime a new board comes out, overclocking is brought up.
:) Quieter than 'standard' cooling even. :)
It's a good measure of performance and stability. The clock speed is a function of the crystal driving the CPU. Any CPU can (in theory) run at any clock speed. The label on the chip is a function of what the manufacturer feels is the ideal speed based on their testing.
First, overclocking works decent for a few people, but is not available to the masses for several reasons including technical difficulty and noise issues
Overclocking is fairly easy nowadays. Gigabyte, for instance, sells motherboards (the 7VAXP is one of them) that allow you to set the board to overclock right in the BIOS setup. No soldering or hacking is necessary.
Third, maybe everyone doesnt want their computer to sound like a jet is going off from the cooling needed to overclock
Can you say 'liquid cooled'?
Of course the biggest reason NOT to overclock is simple: it voids your manufacturer's warranty on the chip and makes your system less stable, even if only a little bit.
42?
.... :-P
No, wait, that's the meaning of life, that can't be it
Yes... because we humans are the size of a pencil tip. Then again, it's it good that they are not the size of a VW.
.00000001 VW beetles, or about 1,000,000,000 human-hair-widths.
;)
I think a pencil tip is equivalent to
But I could be wrong. I wish they'd just switch to the metric system like the rest of the world!
No, that would be grunk-grok, not grok-grok. :-P
Supported under Linux according to this. I wonder if the drivers are open source (I doubt it.)
... now it's really happening. Life imitates art. ;)
I remember first seeing something like this on Star Wars when I was kid
Actually, Spam [spam.com], has been around for over 100 years...just check the spam museum! [hormel.com]
Actually, that would be, ahem, GNU/Spam.
Or better yet, get one of these keyboards and as an added bonus, cybersex is now 1000% easier. :)
For the really paranoid, get one of these keyboards or one of these keyboards and carry it around in your briefcase. Pretty to hard to stick a hardware sniffer in something that's always with you. :)
It doesn't. That's the point. :)
Hardware keysniffers are easy to take care of. Simply make sure no one has physical access to your keyboard. It's impossible to install a keysniffer on a keyboard that you don't have physical access to.
Heh. Right. Maybe on your Windoze box where you don't know what processes are running, etc., but that's much more difficult to do on Linux box, especially when the Linux box is owned by a Unix sysadmin with more than 10 years of experience (namely me. ;)
Tried to sign up for the service, it asked for the "security number" at the end of my credit card number. Everything was correct but it kept telling me that the security number was invalid (it's hard to mistype 3 digits... come on).
The security number typically on the *back* of your credit card. You'll see it on the signature line, next to the last 4 numbers of your CC#. So if your card number is:
1234 4321 4567 9876
You'll see something like:
9876 654
on the back of your card. Those last three numbers are your security number.
Does anyone happen to know if the transaction is even encrypted? What's to stop someone from snooping my account and ordering themself a ton of songs under my name?
Uhhhh....you *do* know how to check if your browser is using SSL for a particular page or not, right? There's usually an icon somewhere on the status line with most browsers.
I don't think most people are using 802.11 wireless because they think wires are ugly. :)
:)
But with a laptop running on battery power, you would be completely wireless unless you use an external mouse. Even then you can get a wireless external mouse. But you have to plug the laptop in SOME time.
Ummm...no. First off, look at a Canon ink cart and look at a HP ink cart. They don't even look the same. That's because they aren't the same. HP uses thermoinkjet technology -- the ink is heated, which causes the ink to expand, and which causes it to be expelled through the printhead, which is part of the cartridge.
Canon uses 'bubblejet' technology which works by creating bubbles in the ink, which forces it out the printhead, which is NOT part of the cartridge. Completely different technologies.
Let's not even forget that HP was making inkjet printers before Canon popped onto the scene with their first BubbleJet printer -- anyone else remember the HP PaintJet?
Lexmark ink carts are based on older HP inkjets (ca. DeskJet 500/550). The cartridges are identical in appearance and might even be plug-compatible. Either HP licensed from Lexmark or Lexmark licensed from HP. Except the former isn't possible because when those cartridges were created, Lexmark didn't even exist yet, at least not as a separate company from IBM.
Steer clear of Lexmark, then I guess. They're HPs in disguise.
The Win32 API is a standard, albeit not an open one, but it *is* a standard. The various Windows operating systems (including CE) are implementations of the API, and hence, implementations of the standard. Wine is an alternative implementation of the standard. The underlying OS in each of the Windows versions is very, very different. Windows 9x and Millenium are basically DOS with a 32-bit DOS extender underneath, while Windows NT, 2000, and XP are a ground-up design based on a design similar to VMS. CE is something else altogether. The Win32 API in each of those OSes runs on TOP of that particular OS. Even though all these operating systems are called Windows, each OS is actually a different OS. But because of the Win32 API, they can run common applications.
Wine is an implementation of the Win32 API that runs on top of Linux and X11. Microsoft actually has another implementation of the Win32 API that runs on HP-UX and Solaris and X11. Hence, the HP-UX and Solaris versions of Internet Exploiter and Lookout Express. There also exists an implementation of the Win32 API that runs on OS/2.
The Win32 API is not nearly 'integrated' into the the OS as Microsoft claims, otherwise, it wouldn't run on all these OSes, now would it?
I suppose the content managment system is tossing these out, too?
:)
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It *did* come back when I hit reload too... not bad at all, really.