There may be some way to sneak a packet through using source routing, but even if that does work all it'd do is result in the government physically unplugging the cables. You won't be routing through that.
But how do you negociate the code beforehand? Or know you can trust the store? And how does the info get out if the internet and international phone service is cut?
With proper use of encryption and anti-tracing measures, it is possible at least to force the government into an all-or-nothing action like shutting down the internet access for the country entirely, which further angers the people.
That's an easy counter-countermeasure. Just have the camera measure the ambient infrared on the sensor too. If it's almost nothing, then it's probably safe to assume the sensor has been covered up.
I can still imagine ways to jam the jammer, like transmitting a sufficiently bright IR modulated on the same frequency from a seperate device, but it's in the 'some geekyness required' level. Any first-year EE student could throw one together, but the average person on the street couldn't.
I would guess that the encoding is something similar to the modulation on IR remotes - a high-frequency square wave ORed with a lower-frequency serial bitstream. If that is the case, then you can completly jam the system by just transmitting a countering signal - a IR LED modulated with a square at the same frequency. Your way is easier, but my way works no matter how much they tamperproof the sensor.
If you add it as an extra protocol, yes. Not out-of-the-box support, which is what we need if the non-techies are ever to get connected. Vista and up support IPv6 by default though.
Because if the client and server both have IPv6 connectivity, many clients will connect by IPv6. As they should. The problem is that just because both have connectivity doesn't mean they have connectivity to each other - the IPv6 part of the internet is still being configured, by admins largely unfamiliar with the new technology and on hardware with had support added as an afterthought. It'll get better, but right now there are still many links that have problems. The IPv4 side has a few too, but it's had a decade for engineers to fix almost all of them.
There are no hard rules for writing pseudocode, so you can be flexible with the grammar, but you got the for() parameters wrong. Your loop would have... hmm. I think never run even once, as the i=0 would itsself return 0, which is usually evaluated as a false.
Because copyright is a major industry, and thus generates lots of tax money. Better yet, it's a net exporter, which strengthens the US in the global economy. Plus it brings political advantages - media companies carry a lot of weight in deciding who gets favorable coverage in the news and thus has an advantage in elections, so it never hurts a career to win their favor.
That depends on the victim, too - upset someone with influence, and they will make sure you suffer. Witness, for example, the password-guesser who was jailed for breaking into Sarah Palin's personal email account. Do you think he'd have been jailed for breaking into the account of just any commoner? No, the government wouldn't even consider him worth the trouble of an investigation.
Works for Saudi Arabia. 0% tax rate - almost the whole country runs off oil money. High unemployment, but people don't care because the benefits are so fantastic. All paid for by the legions of car-drivers around the world.
I'm not a huge comics fan, but didn't they try that already? I think they called the series just "52." It was largely a tidying up of the tangled continuity, and noteable for having the Big Bad be a superintelligent caterpillar. Yes, you have to be a comics fan to see how that works.
"GL might not want to make it, but wait for him to die, and somebody will want more Ferraris and blow."
That's how we got the movies based on the Dr Seuss children's books. The author absolutly refused to let them be made (Apart from the 1966 Grinch movie and a few made-for-TV short movies to promote the books), as a matter of princible - he wrote the books to teach children to read, and to make them into movies would defeat the purpose. There's a reason one of the famous works is nothing but lots of words that rhyme. Then he died in 1991... the rights were inherited by people more susceptable to the wad of cash. Thus we got the new Grinch movie in 2000, Cat in the Hat in 2003, Horton hears a Who in 2008...
Star Trek has had a few continuity problems of it's own. The building of the Enterprise on Earth is actually one of them, but it goes back further than the movie and into the nature of Starfleet. In the old TOS, Starfleet was seen as a multi-cultural force, something akin to the United Nations peacekeeping force. Loyal to federation princibles, open to all, and with command split between all of the Federation's members - no one species having control. Humans were one member among many, and newcomers at that. The headquarters were even located (IIRC) on a starbase, so as not to grant any member the prestige of having the HQ on their homeworld. A coalition of nominal equals.
As time progressed - through TOS, movies, spinoff series - the Federation became more and more Earth-centered. Humans in command, the headquarters in San Francisco along with the Academy. Eventually canon just established that the Federation had been founded entirely not just humans, but Americans, upon American ideals. This revision felt much better with the primarily US audience, playing to patriotism by returning their country to it's rightful place as ruler of the galaxy, but it goes against the original vision.
The construction of Enterprise as established by the series isn't actually far from Earth, but it wasn't on the surface. It was built at a starbase in orbit.
This is why comics fans took to calling them 'graphic novels.' An effort to escape the stigma.
It failed.
It's not the only genre to suffer the problem. The entire field of western animation is stuck in an age trap, with nothing produced except children's programming and no studio willing to make something for older audiences in a medium traditionally regarded as childish. Furries grumble about a similar problem in fantasy - anything with talking animals is regarded as childish in the same way, resulting in such problems as the publisher-mandated edits to Inherit the Earth to strip it of anything that might challenge the thinking of people over twelve. Video games in general used to have just the same problem, being regarded as a children-and-teens medium, but have had much more success in overcoming it as the players matured.
I have a 'porn switch' on my desk that kills the power to the monitors. It's not actually for porn - that's just the excuse. It says a lot that I would find my anime-viewing habbits so embarassing, I'd rather call it the porn-switch.
Fukushima was an obsolete plant with existing safety problems that wouldn't be found in new designs. It still stood up to an earthquake greater than anything in the design expectation with no significent damage, the core shutting down and redundant systems taking over cooling. It took a tsunami to really screw things up shortly after. Nuclear plants are safe - a more modern one would have shrugged that disaster off.
Getting data out is a task for conventional espionage. You can build all the backdoors you want into silicon, but it doesn't provide you with any way to communicate back home. Send packets and you'll be detected. A killswitch is more practical.
A highly visible dish. The government will probably fly a helecopter around every major city from time to time, spot all the dishes, and dispatch whatever police department they have to make people disappear under mysterious circumstances. Even if you use a tiny little antenna (Yes, you can get briefcase-sized sat uplinks), they still leak a little signal - enough for a detector van to pick up and triangulate.
"Maybe the US could try making peace in the Middle East by smuggling in satellite internet and servers."
Could try. But once word got around that the government was looking for antennas and internet users were being held indefinatly without trial, I imagine people would be less than willing to accept them. Hardcore political activists willing to risk themselves for their princibles are a rarity - most people just want to keep their heads down and get on with their lives.
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There may be some way to sneak a packet through using source routing, but even if that does work all it'd do is result in the government physically unplugging the cables. You won't be routing through that.
No. They just look for people with antennas, and send the men with rifles round there.
But how do you negociate the code beforehand? Or know you can trust the store? And how does the info get out if the internet and international phone service is cut?
With proper use of encryption and anti-tracing measures, it is possible at least to force the government into an all-or-nothing action like shutting down the internet access for the country entirely, which further angers the people.
Yes. It's not one of the huge oil producers like, for example, Russia or Saudi Arabia. But it's still a significent exporter.
That's an easy counter-countermeasure. Just have the camera measure the ambient infrared on the sensor too. If it's almost nothing, then it's probably safe to assume the sensor has been covered up.
I can still imagine ways to jam the jammer, like transmitting a sufficiently bright IR modulated on the same frequency from a seperate device, but it's in the 'some geekyness required' level. Any first-year EE student could throw one together, but the average person on the street couldn't.
I would guess that the encoding is something similar to the modulation on IR remotes - a high-frequency square wave ORed with a lower-frequency serial bitstream. If that is the case, then you can completly jam the system by just transmitting a countering signal - a IR LED modulated with a square at the same frequency. Your way is easier, but my way works no matter how much they tamperproof the sensor.
If you add it as an extra protocol, yes. Not out-of-the-box support, which is what we need if the non-techies are ever to get connected. Vista and up support IPv6 by default though.
Because if the client and server both have IPv6 connectivity, many clients will connect by IPv6. As they should. The problem is that just because both have connectivity doesn't mean they have connectivity to each other - the IPv6 part of the internet is still being configured, by admins largely unfamiliar with the new technology and on hardware with had support added as an afterthought. It'll get better, but right now there are still many links that have problems. The IPv4 side has a few too, but it's had a decade for engineers to fix almost all of them.
The anglebracket chopped out a chunk of my fixed code.
*twitch*
I cound two syntax errors and one serious bug on the first line alone...
for(int i=0;i Play_video_link();
Delete_video_link();
There are no hard rules for writing pseudocode, so you can be flexible with the grammar, but you got the for() parameters wrong. Your loop would have... hmm. I think never run even once, as the i=0 would itsself return 0, which is usually evaluated as a false.
Because copyright is a major industry, and thus generates lots of tax money. Better yet, it's a net exporter, which strengthens the US in the global economy. Plus it brings political advantages - media companies carry a lot of weight in deciding who gets favorable coverage in the news and thus has an advantage in elections, so it never hurts a career to win their favor.
That depends on the victim, too - upset someone with influence, and they will make sure you suffer. Witness, for example, the password-guesser who was jailed for breaking into Sarah Palin's personal email account. Do you think he'd have been jailed for breaking into the account of just any commoner? No, the government wouldn't even consider him worth the trouble of an investigation.
Works for Saudi Arabia. 0% tax rate - almost the whole country runs off oil money. High unemployment, but people don't care because the benefits are so fantastic. All paid for by the legions of car-drivers around the world.
I'm not a huge comics fan, but didn't they try that already? I think they called the series just "52." It was largely a tidying up of the tangled continuity, and noteable for having the Big Bad be a superintelligent caterpillar. Yes, you have to be a comics fan to see how that works.
"GL might not want to make it, but wait for him to die, and somebody will want more Ferraris and blow."
That's how we got the movies based on the Dr Seuss children's books. The author absolutly refused to let them be made (Apart from the 1966 Grinch movie and a few made-for-TV short movies to promote the books), as a matter of princible - he wrote the books to teach children to read, and to make them into movies would defeat the purpose. There's a reason one of the famous works is nothing but lots of words that rhyme. Then he died in 1991... the rights were inherited by people more susceptable to the wad of cash. Thus we got the new Grinch movie in 2000, Cat in the Hat in 2003, Horton hears a Who in 2008...
Star Trek has had a few continuity problems of it's own. The building of the Enterprise on Earth is actually one of them, but it goes back further than the movie and into the nature of Starfleet. In the old TOS, Starfleet was seen as a multi-cultural force, something akin to the United Nations peacekeeping force. Loyal to federation princibles, open to all, and with command split between all of the Federation's members - no one species having control. Humans were one member among many, and newcomers at that. The headquarters were even located (IIRC) on a starbase, so as not to grant any member the prestige of having the HQ on their homeworld. A coalition of nominal equals.
As time progressed - through TOS, movies, spinoff series - the Federation became more and more Earth-centered. Humans in command, the headquarters in San Francisco along with the Academy. Eventually canon just established that the Federation had been founded entirely not just humans, but Americans, upon American ideals. This revision felt much better with the primarily US audience, playing to patriotism by returning their country to it's rightful place as ruler of the galaxy, but it goes against the original vision.
The construction of Enterprise as established by the series isn't actually far from Earth, but it wasn't on the surface. It was built at a starbase in orbit.
This is why comics fans took to calling them 'graphic novels.' An effort to escape the stigma.
It failed.
It's not the only genre to suffer the problem. The entire field of western animation is stuck in an age trap, with nothing produced except children's programming and no studio willing to make something for older audiences in a medium traditionally regarded as childish. Furries grumble about a similar problem in fantasy - anything with talking animals is regarded as childish in the same way, resulting in such problems as the publisher-mandated edits to Inherit the Earth to strip it of anything that might challenge the thinking of people over twelve. Video games in general used to have just the same problem, being regarded as a children-and-teens medium, but have had much more success in overcoming it as the players matured.
I have a 'porn switch' on my desk that kills the power to the monitors. It's not actually for porn - that's just the excuse. It says a lot that I would find my anime-viewing habbits so embarassing, I'd rather call it the porn-switch.
Probably because if the box is seven years old, it's already obsolete and they are distributing the successor model now.
Fukushima was an obsolete plant with existing safety problems that wouldn't be found in new designs. It still stood up to an earthquake greater than anything in the design expectation with no significent damage, the core shutting down and redundant systems taking over cooling. It took a tsunami to really screw things up shortly after. Nuclear plants are safe - a more modern one would have shrugged that disaster off.
Getting data out is a task for conventional espionage. You can build all the backdoors you want into silicon, but it doesn't provide you with any way to communicate back home. Send packets and you'll be detected. A killswitch is more practical.
A highly visible dish. The government will probably fly a helecopter around every major city from time to time, spot all the dishes, and dispatch whatever police department they have to make people disappear under mysterious circumstances. Even if you use a tiny little antenna (Yes, you can get briefcase-sized sat uplinks), they still leak a little signal - enough for a detector van to pick up and triangulate.
"Maybe the US could try making peace in the Middle East by smuggling in satellite internet and servers."
Could try. But once word got around that the government was looking for antennas and internet users were being held indefinatly without trial, I imagine people would be less than willing to accept them. Hardcore political activists willing to risk themselves for their princibles are a rarity - most people just want to keep their heads down and get on with their lives.
Do you think they would rather be in charge of a crippled economy, or not-in-charge of a successful economy?
There's an old expression: 'Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.' Looks like it translates across religions quite well.