He was a nicely complicated villain in Thor - kept you guessing right to the end which side he was on, with his double-cross approach. He's a planner, not a fighter.
Fine for the public safety side, useless for the free-speech side. If you start speaking in code on amateur in even a fairly free country such as the US, the FCC will revoke your license - it's expressly illegal. A relic from the cold war days, I think. There's also issues of contention - you can't share a frequency very well with voice - and no effective means to exchange maps, notices, or anything more than just talking. It's also a high-skill network, dependent upon having experienced operators on hand - a really effective disaster-tolerant network needs to allow anyone to go through a half-hour training course, turn on their hardware and be instantly connected, keeping all the complexities hidden so the user is free to concentrate on getting their ambulance through the rubble.
The more extreme they are forced to go in censorship, the more the backlash they will provoke. Even the people will no interest in politics are going to get annoyed when the government jams their garage door opener and the keyless entry on their car.
I'd hope to introduce a CAN element, running in parallel - it's far more efficient than the usual packet-switching approach for disseminating data, fault-tolerant, censor-resistant and neither source nor destination nodes even need an address. You'd still need a conventional network too, but with CAN handling the big transfers of images and video you have a lot more resources available for your IP traffic. The two approaches compliment each other.
As for addressing, I wonder if geography can help? Give each node an address with part corresponding to approximate lat/long location. If there is a need to forward a packet and the destination is unknown, just send it to the known node which is closest geographically. Once it gets close enough, the packet wi'll come across a node that does know the optimal route.
The only case I can think of would be if an especially nasty ISP deliberately gave you exactly one IPv6 address in order to cripple your connection to one device only.
It used to be a fairly common practice for ISPs to forbid the use of NAT routers in their t&c, back when most families were lucky to have one computer for the household, because they'd specced their networks and business on the 'one customer, one computer' assumption. Those people running multiple computers on one connection were taking far more capacity than had been anticipated. I can imagine that in the IPv6 age ISPs might have similar business reasons to limit the addresses they make available - to stop tech-heavy households from running their six IPTVs all day streaming video, or prevent people from getting together with their neighbours to share one domestic connection between several households.
"should be the _default_ configuraiton in most businesses and organizaitons, simply to reduce the constant external vulnerability scanning of any host directly connected to the Internet."
Sure, so long as they don't expect to ever need an outside-compatible VoIP solution, video conferencing, incoming remote-operation connections from a company to provide tech support, IM software (Yes, it has business uses!), that sort of thing. NAT is an ugly hack. It only works as well as it does because almost all protocols now include some sort of ugly hack of their own to work around it.
Because interception turns from 'one techie and a laptop' into 'small army of computer scientists and hundred-million-dollar datacenter network.' If they are going to be monitoring communications, make them work for it.
It's +- a lot more than 0.4V depending on charge. One of the problems with li-ions is the substantial difference between charged and discharged voltages, requiring devices be able to operate efficiently right across the range.
I've seen li-ions/lipo rated from around 3.2 to 3.9 volts nominal, depending just upon the exact design of the cell - there are a few variations of the chemistry in use. They all function much the same, and the vast majority of cells are labeled 3.6 or 3.7.
"Because lithium-sulfur batteries deliver about half the voltage of lithium-ion versions"
Li-ion is around 3.7V (+-0.4, depending on exact design). So this is about a 1.8V battery. So for a reasonable approximation, multiply by about 7 for a 12v version. That puts a 12v, 1.2AH version at 175g. Plus a little more for the casing. Not bad at all. Add case, and your 30AH battery can be replaced with a five-kilo battery. A bit heavy for a pocket, but but by much.
I'm also surprised that we found out about it. It came with the NSL-standard 'Don't tell anyone we asked, not even your lawyer, or we'll throw you in jail' clause. Someone must have had either the ideological conviction or reckless stupidity to defy the gag order and leak it.
Someone will be losing their job for that, and probably never working in the communications industry again. Hopefully McDonald's is hiring.
To harm China diplomatically and economically. If they get a reputation for underhanded spy games then businesses will be more reluctant to do business there for fear of having their designs shamelessly copied and research stolen, and nations will be less willing to allow free trade if it is known that China seeks to favor domestic industry by impeding the operations of overseas competition.
I do hope that means a second space race. If China seriously looked like they were about to set the first man on Mars, or establish a long-term moon base, I think America would have to devote billions of dollars to doing it first just to defend their national ego. Again.
You're got to look at it from a business perspective. Microsoft is a 'traditional' software company: They make a product and sell it. They have no model for continuing to make money from their product post-sale, so they are highly dependent upon keeping customers continually upgrading. An increasingly difficult task - Windows XP remained popular for many years after MS intended it to die. Compare to Apple or Google: They don't just make products, but make an ecosystem around it - iTunes, , the app stores, tie-ins to other services, advertising. Every iPhone and Android device is a revenue stream to Apple or Google well after the initial sale.
Microsoft wants to copy that. It's a great business idea. Not always good for end-users though - the factor that enables the ecosystem business model is device usage restrictions. Apple couldn't make money off the iPhones if people were able to install just anything from anywhere, without the App Store taking a cut.
Passed when manufactured. The fridge could be decades old - it's quite possible the brushes were worn down to next-to-nothing. There's no assurance this was a high-quality fridge designed for long life - it could be just the cheapest junk the factories of China could put out capable of making beer colder.
Once the full mechanism is understood, how could it be manipulated?
- The 'love potion' - slip this into your rich boyfriend's dinner and give the romance a little aid. - The 'love poison' - need to discredit a politician or public figure? A little of this and a bit of time, one affair made to order. - The 'love killer' - falling in love, but need to focus on your career? Take a shot of this stuff and the love of your life becomes just another notch on the bedpost. - Added bonus: Kid dating the wrong kind of girl? Tell him to take a love killer before it gets too serious. - Been abusing your partner, but afraid she'll go to the police or family? Dose her with this and she'll be loyal as a dog.
You underestimate the human capacity for denial. Even if you could come up with an absolutely perfect, mathematically sound, undeniable proof that all events are predetermined... most people would refuse to believe it, and those who did believe wouldn't do anything differently.
How do the pedophiles manage to agree on these codewords? If they have a secure communications channel already to agree on codewords, they don't need to sneakily post on porn forums.
I suspect this claim about secret pedophile codes is made up. But as such words would be far too dangerous to reveal to the public for investigation, we shall just have to take it on faith that our politician overlords wouldn't lie to us.
Mobile phone internet access in the UK is already filtered by default - to get an unfiltered connection you need to explicitly request it, and provide proof of age.
Students get around this by just taking naked pictures of themselves and emailing/mmsing/facebooking them around.
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He was a nicely complicated villain in Thor - kept you guessing right to the end which side he was on, with his double-cross approach. He's a planner, not a fighter.
Fine for the public safety side, useless for the free-speech side. If you start speaking in code on amateur in even a fairly free country such as the US, the FCC will revoke your license - it's expressly illegal. A relic from the cold war days, I think. There's also issues of contention - you can't share a frequency very well with voice - and no effective means to exchange maps, notices, or anything more than just talking. It's also a high-skill network, dependent upon having experienced operators on hand - a really effective disaster-tolerant network needs to allow anyone to go through a half-hour training course, turn on their hardware and be instantly connected, keeping all the complexities hidden so the user is free to concentrate on getting their ambulance through the rubble.
The more extreme they are forced to go in censorship, the more the backlash they will provoke. Even the people will no interest in politics are going to get annoyed when the government jams their garage door opener and the keyless entry on their car.
I'd hope to introduce a CAN element, running in parallel - it's far more efficient than the usual packet-switching approach for disseminating data, fault-tolerant, censor-resistant and neither source nor destination nodes even need an address. You'd still need a conventional network too, but with CAN handling the big transfers of images and video you have a lot more resources available for your IP traffic. The two approaches compliment each other.
As for addressing, I wonder if geography can help? Give each node an address with part corresponding to approximate lat/long location. If there is a need to forward a packet and the destination is unknown, just send it to the known node which is closest geographically. Once it gets close enough, the packet wi'll come across a node that does know the optimal route.
The only case I can think of would be if an especially nasty ISP deliberately gave you exactly one IPv6 address in order to cripple your connection to one device only.
It used to be a fairly common practice for ISPs to forbid the use of NAT routers in their t&c, back when most families were lucky to have one computer for the household, because they'd specced their networks and business on the 'one customer, one computer' assumption. Those people running multiple computers on one connection were taking far more capacity than had been anticipated. I can imagine that in the IPv6 age ISPs might have similar business reasons to limit the addresses they make available - to stop tech-heavy households from running their six IPTVs all day streaming video, or prevent people from getting together with their neighbours to share one domestic connection between several households.
"should be the _default_ configuraiton in most businesses and organizaitons, simply to reduce the constant external vulnerability scanning of any host directly connected to the Internet."
Sure, so long as they don't expect to ever need an outside-compatible VoIP solution, video conferencing, incoming remote-operation connections from a company to provide tech support, IM software (Yes, it has business uses!), that sort of thing. NAT is an ugly hack. It only works as well as it does because almost all protocols now include some sort of ugly hack of their own to work around it.
Because interception turns from 'one techie and a laptop' into 'small army of computer scientists and hundred-million-dollar datacenter network.' If they are going to be monitoring communications, make them work for it.
It's +- a lot more than 0.4V depending on charge. One of the problems with li-ions is the substantial difference between charged and discharged voltages, requiring devices be able to operate efficiently right across the range.
I've seen li-ions/lipo rated from around 3.2 to 3.9 volts nominal, depending just upon the exact design of the cell - there are a few variations of the chemistry in use. They all function much the same, and the vast majority of cells are labeled 3.6 or 3.7.
"Because lithium-sulfur batteries deliver about half the voltage of lithium-ion versions"
Li-ion is around 3.7V (+-0.4, depending on exact design). So this is about a 1.8V battery. So for a reasonable approximation, multiply by about 7 for a 12v version. That puts a 12v, 1.2AH version at 175g. Plus a little more for the casing. Not bad at all. Add case, and your 30AH battery can be replaced with a five-kilo battery. A bit heavy for a pocket, but but by much.
"Assuming a 40,000 pound salary for one expert employee"
Hah.
I'm also surprised that we found out about it. It came with the NSL-standard 'Don't tell anyone we asked, not even your lawyer, or we'll throw you in jail' clause. Someone must have had either the ideological conviction or reckless stupidity to defy the gag order and leak it.
Someone will be losing their job for that, and probably never working in the communications industry again. Hopefully McDonald's is hiring.
To harm China diplomatically and economically. If they get a reputation for underhanded spy games then businesses will be more reluctant to do business there for fear of having their designs shamelessly copied and research stolen, and nations will be less willing to allow free trade if it is known that China seeks to favor domestic industry by impeding the operations of overseas competition.
I do hope that means a second space race. If China seriously looked like they were about to set the first man on Mars, or establish a long-term moon base, I think America would have to devote billions of dollars to doing it first just to defend their national ego. Again.
Not true. The file is illegal now. Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003, section 296ZG.
You'd have to go straight to geostationary, without using a transfer orbit. Doable in theory, but much less efficient.
You're got to look at it from a business perspective. Microsoft is a 'traditional' software company: They make a product and sell it. They have no model for continuing to make money from their product post-sale, so they are highly dependent upon keeping customers continually upgrading. An increasingly difficult task - Windows XP remained popular for many years after MS intended it to die. Compare to Apple or Google: They don't just make products, but make an ecosystem around it - iTunes, , the app stores, tie-ins to other services, advertising. Every iPhone and Android device is a revenue stream to Apple or Google well after the initial sale.
Microsoft wants to copy that. It's a great business idea. Not always good for end-users though - the factor that enables the ecosystem business model is device usage restrictions. Apple couldn't make money off the iPhones if people were able to install just anything from anywhere, without the App Store taking a cut.
Passed when manufactured. The fridge could be decades old - it's quite possible the brushes were worn down to next-to-nothing. There's no assurance this was a high-quality fridge designed for long life - it could be just the cheapest junk the factories of China could put out capable of making beer colder.
You criticised the DMCA. Of course you get a +5. It's automatic.
Once the full mechanism is understood, how could it be manipulated?
- The 'love potion' - slip this into your rich boyfriend's dinner and give the romance a little aid.
- The 'love poison' - need to discredit a politician or public figure? A little of this and a bit of time, one affair made to order.
- The 'love killer' - falling in love, but need to focus on your career? Take a shot of this stuff and the love of your life becomes just another notch on the bedpost.
- Added bonus: Kid dating the wrong kind of girl? Tell him to take a love killer before it gets too serious.
- Been abusing your partner, but afraid she'll go to the police or family? Dose her with this and she'll be loyal as a dog.
You underestimate the human capacity for denial. Even if you could come up with an absolutely perfect, mathematically sound, undeniable proof that all events are predetermined... most people would refuse to believe it, and those who did believe wouldn't do anything differently.
That is all.
Alan Davies.
I despise it too. Along with 'information superhighway' and anything using 'cyber-' as a prefix.
How do the pedophiles manage to agree on these codewords? If they have a secure communications channel already to agree on codewords, they don't need to sneakily post on porn forums.
I suspect this claim about secret pedophile codes is made up. But as such words would be far too dangerous to reveal to the public for investigation, we shall just have to take it on faith that our politician overlords wouldn't lie to us.
Mobile phone internet access in the UK is already filtered by default - to get an unfiltered connection you need to explicitly request it, and provide proof of age.
Students get around this by just taking naked pictures of themselves and emailing/mmsing/facebooking them around.