The clone hack has been around since at less late '70s. Yes the 70's!!! It was done to BART cards using a cassette tape recorder. Since the card carried all information - like today - you copy it once and return the value every few days. With a commute being the cost daily, the machine just keep over typing. BART stationed people to look at the cards as the popped out of ticket machine (they popped straight up) looking for heavy over printing.
The value hack is again simple. If you ever read credit cards normally, the logic and layout is simple. Designed for the 4bit world of Zon Jr. All that information is out there. The only hard part is mapping unknown track layouts. A couple identical value cards running the same stops - would show datetimes and other "changing" information.
To make this harder to crack would be two encryptions both with check sums, one over checksum is data to other. Even using 2 16bit independent CRCs, so the changing data changes all bits. Also if any one tries to change data, one of the two will catch the error, then writes back a bad data in the track fully re-encrypt, so the mapping process will cost. Will stop it completely - but really slows it down.
I love Mag Track but you have learn from the past!
My wife being helpful bought the TSA approved locks, simple 3 dail lock with a TSA pass key in bottom. It was cut off in Houston Airport AFTER clearing US Customs.
Same airport that did not want to follow the TSA rules on screening medically impaired passengers.
So we are back to placing innocents in jail. You get 75% there and go find (or make) a window treatment to make your case. Instead of making your case based on real evidence.
It is the birthday problem since when talking about DNA, we NEVER talk about the whole DNA, just some markers (data points) that someone guessed to have statical meaning. The problem here like in Birthday problem, lost of data makes it work.
Yes, I said lost of data. With the Birthday problem we are dropping the year and going the other way hour and minute. So with the reduced data points, only month and day, we have 23 people to break even. Image how few if we drop the day.;-)
Today's DNA test drop the thousands of gene segments in DNA to a manageable known few, of course there will matches. The FBI knows this but does not talk about. There is same error built into finger prints. Last I heard there is still no science to prove they work accutally.
dain this case, is almost the same as talking blood type. It is limited but the number of marker points. Blood we a talk about 8 "points": A+,A-,B+,B-,AB+,AB-,O+,O-. Yes there is
Just because they had a ticket to show and matching DNA proves nothing. What about the maintenance crew, the camera guy, the people with tickets to other shows, the guy that stayed in the bathroom from an earlier showing,...
This stuff is again only useful to exclude.
Include may be helpful, but there are too many unknowns, even in your simple example.
Unless the crime labs start encoding the full DNA sequence, even then identical twins will duplicate, the best DNA, for that matter finger prints, can do is prove it is *NOT* that person.
Since "What Dreams May Come" is a movie about the dead and afterlife was film very nicely, maybe Vincent Ward would make a good director.
Remember "UBIK" is not about time travel, as some have said, or other high SciFi topics. It is about what life is and one's perceptions. The story is mainly from a view point of someone that is in the half-life world, discovering first that they are "dead", and second how to stay "alive". Then you throw in a "vampire".;-)
There is another book call "Job: A Comedy of Justice" by Robert Heinlein that is equal strange with "reality-shifts" starting from page 1 like "UBIK", but that one in the end goes down the religion-hole, hence the name Job.
The point to redesign the router with wall-wart in the first place.
1) Redesign Wall-Wart with "Alarm-Circuit". So the power is cut off right there. Would require a "communitation channel" between wart and router to set and execute the "Alarm-Circuit".
2) Dump wart - move all circuits back into router to build better unit.
3) move router to solar - no wall wart.
Anyway, the logic is to lower the power use from the wall.
You better measure it. Think how long a digital watch runs on single tiny battery (alarm circuit). Now compare that to a router with a wall wart. There is big difference.
80% efficiency is better than the cold start/stop of those plan designs. let alone the efficiency of plant themselves.
"Fired" Plants can not just be turned on/off. Oil, Coal, Geothermal, Nuclear, and Solar, all have long start up and shutdown times. "Mechanical" Plants: Gas Turbine and Diesel Generators can be brought on and off line quickly. "Hydro" Plants which is based on static storage water can handle the need to buffer excess capacity such as Solar creates to be used at other times. Batteries "Chemical Storage" have been used many in Alaska to handle buffering requirements for small towns, but not major Mega Watts.
The cost is fixed versus truly variable. The water storage is there to balance the load over 24hrs. The only reason people call night power generation is "cheap" is that there is excess power being generating can going anywhere, ie being wasted, since electric power must be used immediately. Water Storage gives a method to time shift this excess power.
TIVOs can truly turn off. An "alarm clock" circuit running on rechargeable batteries, can be use to bring the system back on line with time to spare to record a show. Use a WAKE-ON-LAN for network activation.
Home routers can be built the same way. With flash memory holding the last on-image a quick reload can happening as needed. Power down after say 5 minutes of not activity.
Remove wireless circuit to again be battery powered. With auto-activation for re-charge when they run low. This way, they are low power usage for long periods with all short recharge. Though there was a/. in last day or so, talking about solar for wireless, Self maintaining without power grid. Currently done for volcano monitoring stations.
Connect two lakes and pump up from lower to higher on off hours. Flow down generating electric power for demand periods. Already done in MO and CA.
This would also work well with large sun "fired" plants. They create power when sun in sky, create too much, and pump water during day. Generated electric power during the dark hours.
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Is there truly a price difference? Cost of oil is constant in oil fired plant. Yes, cost is rising but the morning oil is no more costly than evening oil. Cost of coal is constant in coal fired plant. Cost of nuclear is constant. Cost of water is constant. But can also support reverse electric --> water potential. Cost of geothermal is constant. Cost of sun is constant. Cost of wind is constant.
What is not constant is usage. By making demand even over 24hrs, makes starting and stopping plant a non-issue. Just as stop and go traffic used more gas than highway, stopping and starting a plant uses / wastes energy. So if you store energy instead and it is quickly reversible, then you have a method to handle peak load and run all plants at maximum efficiency. Only water to date has method to store electric power.
I was in area they were changing everyone's meter out of a smart meter (that was 8 years ago). They were wiring them into the cable system.
Great Idea - wire the cable to power grid, so when the lighting hits power line (every high probability was shown for underground power) it jumps across the meter and then takes out your TV, Computers and rest. The $2k you spent on lighting arresting your power panels was for not.
I had them remove it the day they installed it. Had managers coming out to talking to talk me out of it. I would only agree they gave me letter stating that they were responsible for all replace costs. They refused to back their technology.
Florida has the same, it saves you ~$10 per month for the power company to turn off high current items like - Air Conditioners. I had that cut, because of at home mom w/ 2 little ones. The house temperature hit over hundred, then it took up to 3hr to bring it back down 78, every evening. Where once it was cut (yes, they come out a cut a wire) house stayed even all day long, and our power bill dropped because the A/C worked less. Also mom and kids were not roasting all day, or driving to mall to keep cool (and spending money).
Number Nine did this to me many years ago. The box stated one thing and the software card did another. Then if you wait 6months you could down load the "new" driver off of their BBS. I turned them into California's AG and store took back my card and removed Number Nine's other cards off the shelf.
I have stopped buying Soundblaster years ago, when a working card would not work in a new OS and there was no driver for that card FOR ANY OS on their site.
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The clone hack has been around since at less late '70s. Yes the 70's!!! It was done to BART cards using a cassette tape recorder. Since the card carried all information - like today - you copy it once and return the value every few days. With a commute being the cost daily, the machine just keep over typing. BART stationed people to look at the cards as the popped out of ticket machine (they popped straight up) looking for heavy over printing.
The value hack is again simple. If you ever read credit cards normally, the logic and layout is simple. Designed for the 4bit world of Zon Jr. All that information is out there. The only hard part is mapping unknown track layouts. A couple identical value cards running the same stops - would show datetimes and other "changing" information.
To make this harder to crack would be two encryptions both with check sums, one over checksum is data to other. Even using 2 16bit independent CRCs, so the changing data changes all bits. Also if any one tries to change data, one of the two will catch the error, then writes back a bad data in the track fully re-encrypt, so the mapping process will cost. Will stop it completely - but really slows it down.
I love Mag Track but you have learn from the past!
If you are not Windows or Mac, there is no web broadcast.
Gets me thinking, how did a Slashdoter view the web broadcast... Is someone using Windows?
My wife being helpful bought the TSA approved locks, simple 3 dail lock with a TSA pass key in bottom. It was cut off in Houston Airport AFTER clearing US Customs.
Same airport that did not want to follow the TSA rules on screening medically impaired passengers.
Throw out Triggers???
Junk-in and Junk-out with bloat code on top trying to validate and synchronize very thing.
I guess it the '70s all over again.
So we are back to placing innocents in jail. You get 75% there and go find (or make) a window treatment to make your case. Instead of making your case based on real evidence.
It is the birthday problem since when talking about DNA, we NEVER talk about the whole DNA, just some markers (data points) that someone guessed to have statical meaning. The problem here like in Birthday problem, lost of data makes it work.
Yes, I said lost of data. With the Birthday problem we are dropping the year and going the other way hour and minute. So with the reduced data points, only month and day, we have 23 people to break even. Image how few if we drop the day. ;-)
Today's DNA test drop the thousands of gene segments in DNA to a manageable known few, of course there will matches. The FBI knows this but does not talk about. There is same error built into finger prints. Last I heard there is still no science to prove they work accutally.
dain this case, is almost the same as talking blood type. It is limited but the number of marker points. Blood we a talk about 8 "points": A+,A-,B+,B-,AB+,AB-,O+,O-. Yes there is
Still sloppy.
Just because they had a ticket to show and matching DNA proves nothing. What about the maintenance crew, the camera guy, the people with tickets to other shows, the guy that stayed in the bathroom from an earlier showing, ...
This stuff is again only useful to exclude.
Include may be helpful, but there are too many unknowns, even in your simple example.
Unless the crime labs start encoding the full DNA sequence, even then identical twins will duplicate, the best DNA, for that matter finger prints, can do is prove it is *NOT* that person.
There is a Hobbit movie!?! You spoiled that for me!
Since "What Dreams May Come" is a movie about the dead and afterlife was film very nicely, maybe Vincent Ward would make a good director.
;-)
Remember "UBIK" is not about time travel, as some have said, or other high SciFi topics. It is about what life is and one's perceptions. The story is mainly from a view point of someone that is in the half-life world, discovering first that they are "dead", and second how to stay "alive". Then you throw in a "vampire".
There is another book call "Job: A Comedy of Justice" by Robert Heinlein that is equal strange with "reality-shifts" starting from page 1 like "UBIK", but that one in the end goes down the religion-hole, hence the name Job.
The point to redesign the router with wall-wart in the first place.
1) Redesign Wall-Wart with "Alarm-Circuit". So the power is cut off right there. Would require a "communitation channel" between wart and router to set and execute the "Alarm-Circuit".
2) Dump wart - move all circuits back into router to build better unit.
3) move router to solar - no wall wart.
Anyway, the logic is to lower the power use from the wall.
You better measure it. Think how long a digital watch runs on single tiny battery (alarm circuit). Now compare that to a router with a wall wart. There is big difference.
80% efficiency is better than the cold start/stop of those plan designs. let alone the efficiency of plant themselves.
"Fired" Plants can not just be turned on/off. Oil, Coal, Geothermal, Nuclear, and Solar, all have long start up and shutdown times.
"Mechanical" Plants: Gas Turbine and Diesel Generators can be brought on and off line quickly.
"Hydro" Plants which is based on static storage water can handle the need to buffer excess capacity such as Solar creates to be used at other times.
Batteries "Chemical Storage" have been used many in Alaska to handle buffering requirements for small towns, but not major Mega Watts.
The cost is fixed versus truly variable. The water storage is there to balance the load over 24hrs. The only reason people call night power generation is "cheap" is that there is excess power being generating can going anywhere, ie being wasted, since electric power must be used immediately. Water Storage gives a method to time shift this excess power.
TIVOs can truly turn off. An "alarm clock" circuit running on rechargeable batteries, can be use to bring the system back on line with time to spare to record a show. Use a WAKE-ON-LAN for network activation.
/. in last day or so, talking about solar for wireless, Self maintaining without power grid. Currently done for volcano monitoring stations.
Home routers can be built the same way. With flash memory holding the last on-image a quick reload can happening as needed. Power down after say 5 minutes of not activity.
Remove wireless circuit to again be battery powered. With auto-activation for re-charge when they run low. This way, they are low power usage for long periods with all short recharge. Though there was a
There is better choice for peak demand plants:
Connect two lakes and pump up from lower to higher on off hours. Flow down generating electric power for demand periods. Already done in MO and CA.
This would also work well with large sun "fired" plants. They create power when sun in sky, create too much, and pump water during day. Generated electric power during the dark hours.
--
Is there truly a price difference?
Cost of oil is constant in oil fired plant. Yes, cost is rising but the morning oil is no more costly than evening oil.
Cost of coal is constant in coal fired plant.
Cost of nuclear is constant.
Cost of water is constant. But can also support reverse electric --> water potential.
Cost of geothermal is constant.
Cost of sun is constant.
Cost of wind is constant.
What is not constant is usage. By making demand even over 24hrs, makes starting and stopping plant a non-issue. Just as stop and go traffic used more gas than highway, stopping and starting a plant uses / wastes energy. So if you store energy instead and it is quickly reversible, then you have a method to handle peak load and run all plants at maximum efficiency. Only water to date has method to store electric power.
I was in area they were changing everyone's meter out of a smart meter (that was 8 years ago). They were wiring them into the cable system.
Great Idea - wire the cable to power grid, so when the lighting hits power line (every high probability was shown for underground power) it jumps across the meter and then takes out your TV, Computers and rest. The $2k you spent on lighting arresting your power panels was for not.
I had them remove it the day they installed it. Had managers coming out to talking to talk me out of it. I would only agree they gave me letter stating that they were responsible for all replace costs. They refused to back their technology.
Florida has the same, it saves you ~$10 per month for the power company to turn off high current items like - Air Conditioners. I had that cut, because of at home mom w/ 2 little ones. The house temperature hit over hundred, then it took up to 3hr to bring it back down 78, every evening. Where once it was cut (yes, they come out a cut a wire) house stayed even all day long, and our power bill dropped because the A/C worked less. Also mom and kids were not roasting all day, or driving to mall to keep cool (and spending money).
CAPTHA are already dumping people with color issues, not blind but do not have the ability to perceive color differences.
Others are using letters / numbers that after distortion could be a,d,9,g for example.
Personal, I give a site two tries before I give up and dump them.
Or they show up in FBI jackets and run to a "hi-jacked plane". With security's help, of course.
It is called insurance.
Just send one though each lane. Some always get thought and the cost goes up for the "overhead".
Number Nine did this to me many years ago. The box stated one thing and the software card did another. Then if you wait 6months you could down load the "new" driver off of their BBS. I turned them into California's AG and store took back my card and removed Number Nine's other cards off the shelf.
I have stopped buying Soundblaster years ago, when a working card would not work in a new OS and there was no driver for that card FOR ANY OS on their site.
And here is from http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=740701 talking about Target and Amazon both having the same pricing mistake.
No, it is called am "On Ramp".
They do not need a key...
The better phase is: "Please unlock this door or we will break it down."
Actually it is both.
Its a plus because the human recount can be healed.
Its a minus because a large pile of paper needs to tracked, moved, stored and finally discarded once all is said an done.
The punch was better in the last case, since it was just smaller.