I managed to fool one of the microsoft usb fingerprint readers in a similar way. I made an impression of my thumb in a chunk of clay they poured liquid silicone (the stuff used to make molds) into it. I ended up with a nice little rubber fingertip that fooled the scanner I had with amazing consistency. I then realized that i was running around with a perfect copy of my thumbprint in my pocket and got paranoid and destroyed it. It'd be way too easy to plant someone else's fingerprints somewhere if you wanted to.
I got an hour of detention when I was in Jr High School for giving a friend a tootsie roll in the hallway between classes. It had nothing to do with nutrition however it was a ban on people bringing halloween candy to school. I still think it is one of the stupidest things I experienced in school.
I shared an office with a guy with an egg allergy like that once. I had an egg omlette for breakfast at work and he comes in a while later and freaked out "were you eating eggs in here!??!!"
I don't know how you could live avoiding everything with egg in it.
Shows what you know. The MERCHANTS are the ones that pay for fraud, NOT the credit card companies. If I'm an online merchant and I ship a product to someone and it turns out to be a fraudulent transaction, once the real customer complains the money gets charged back and sucked out of my bank account, along with a hefty fee for letting the transaction go through in the first place. If I actually shipped a product out then I esentially gave it away for free.
I wouldn't be surprised if the credit card companies actually made huge amounts of profit from card theft.
I get up to 70mbytes/sec sustained between vista machines both at home and at work on regular sata disks. What kind of disks do you have? What kind of speeds do they get between local drives? USB 2.0 is NOT 480mbits for storage devices, it is much much less, which is the whole problem it seems that 3.0 is trying to fix. I seem to get about 200mbit disk throughput on usb 2.0, it is crap..
You also have to keep in mind that a huge percentage of Microsoft's "own drivers" are actually 3rd party drivers that are bundled in Windows. Many companies have people on site at MS working on the drivers that end up on the Windows disc, or they are licensed to be put into the product (requiring the company to promise to support it, etc).
Multi processor systems have been around for a LONG time. NT4 worked with multiple processors and Vista is no different. As far as the OS cares your multi core processor is the same as a dual socket system. As long as your OS is running in multple processes/threads you will benefit from multiple CPUs/Cores..
That's because the banks don't eat the cost of fraud, the merchants do. If I have an online store and someon uses a stolen card to buy something from me, I'm the one that gets screwed. The credit card companies reverse the charge, AND charge the merchant a fee for it happening. Then the merchant is out the money, a fee, AND the product they shipped to a thief. The lamest part is the credit card companies don't even provide you the tools to prove that a transaction is legitimate.
I have a T40 series at home as well as a T60 I bought just before the T61 came out. The new machine feels rock solid. They fixed the one issue I had with the older one, and that is the power cable connector getting loose from lots of use and pressure. The new one uses a much bigger power connector that doesn't seem like it will wear out like the old one did.
That's awesome. I did something similiar to the verifone credit card machine at my first job. I changed the "swipe card" prompt to say "access denied" and everyone thought the machine was broken. They didn't think it was nearly as funny as I did.
Yes I have setup a tivo with cablecards. It is a set top box that also happens to record video. You can get OEM windows media center pcs with cablecard tuners in them.
Comcast gave me the cards when I was at their office for a different reason. I just asked and they handed me 2 cards with no hassle whatsoever (that was before I even ordered the Tivo). It was a bit paintful on the phone with them to get it activated though. It took about 30-45 minutes. I haven't had any problem with it whatsoever once the cards were configured. I think cablecard is lame, but it is certainly better than relying on comcast for all your hardware.
A bunch of people bitching on a forum doesn't represent the general population. Maybe you need to grow the brain.
5 stars is certainly not enough for me either. Most movies end up with 4 stars for me, but I'd rather have the option of 6-8 stars, since there is certainly a lot of wiggle room in a 4.
If it was coming from the moon you'd have a much longer time to locate and intercept it than you would if it is fired from a submarine off the coast somewhere.
Yes it is true and will always be true for usb 2.0. Bulk transfers which is what a storage devices uses, cannot actually max out the bus due to the small packet size. Webcams on the other hand (high speed ISOCH transfers) can max out the bus easily.
It may be possible to create a storage device that multiplexes several bulk endpoints but I'm not sure how much faster you could get it.
Actually that is not true. 480mbits is the maximum speed of the bus. A single storage (bulk) endpoint can't use that much bandwidth as the maximum packet size is far too small to max out the bus. High Speed bulk transfers use 512 byte packets, whereas a transfer somewhere in the range of 2 or 3k bytes (I'm too lazy to look it up) is what it'd take to use all the bandwidth.
The "480 mbit!" stuff tattood on all of the USB storage devices out there is misleading at best, since those devices can't get anywhere near a 480 mbit transfer speed and never will.
I just got the new tivo HD yesterday and it took me an hour on the phone with comcast to get the 2 cablecards working. The first one worked fine in a couple of minutes but the second took almost the entire time. Both cards were the first I had picked up, and are both working fine now. I would hate to see the trouble any 'normal' person would have getting these things working. The instructions with the tivo were pretty much nonexistent.
Basically the process is to stick in the card, call the cable co. and read them the IDs off the screen on the tivo. The cable co. sends the signal to your box to program the cards for whatever channels you're supposed to get, then you repeat with any additional cards.
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That won't help you if they decided to take the money back out of your bank account without warning.
Not only that but they charge the merchant fees for doing so. The credit card companies certainly aren't losing any money due to fraud.
I managed to fool one of the microsoft usb fingerprint readers in a similar way. I made an impression of my thumb in a chunk of clay they poured liquid silicone (the stuff used to make molds) into it. I ended up with a nice little rubber fingertip that fooled the scanner I had with amazing consistency. I then realized that i was running around with a perfect copy of my thumbprint in my pocket and got paranoid and destroyed it. It'd be way too easy to plant someone else's fingerprints somewhere if you wanted to.
I got an hour of detention when I was in Jr High School for giving a friend a tootsie roll in the hallway between classes. It had nothing to do with nutrition however it was a ban on people bringing halloween candy to school. I still think it is one of the stupidest things I experienced in school.
I shared an office with a guy with an egg allergy like that once. I had an egg omlette for breakfast at work and he comes in a while later and freaked out "were you eating eggs in here!??!!"
I don't know how you could live avoiding everything with egg in it.
Shows what you know. The MERCHANTS are the ones that pay for fraud, NOT the credit card companies.
If I'm an online merchant and I ship a product to someone and it turns out to be a fraudulent transaction, once the real customer complains the money gets charged back and sucked out of my bank account, along with a hefty fee for letting the transaction go through in the first place. If I actually shipped a product out then I esentially gave it away for free.
I wouldn't be surprised if the credit card companies actually made huge amounts of profit from card theft.
Nothing special just onboard gigabit NICs and a cheapo d-link switch.
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I included the explorer window under it so you can see the speed vista reports the file copy is going. That was a ~2.6 gig file.
My gigabit throughput seems to be about the same speed as my disks. :shrug:
I get up to 70mbytes/sec sustained between vista machines both at home and at work on regular sata disks. What kind of disks do you have? What kind of speeds do they get between local drives?
USB 2.0 is NOT 480mbits for storage devices, it is much much less, which is the whole problem it seems that 3.0 is trying to fix. I seem to get about 200mbit disk throughput on usb 2.0, it is crap..
You also have to keep in mind that a huge percentage of Microsoft's "own drivers" are actually 3rd party drivers that are bundled in Windows. Many companies have people on site at MS working on the drivers that end up on the Windows disc, or they are licensed to be put into the product (requiring the company to promise to support it, etc).
All my games are wine compatible (except online-only games that you can't pause). I just have to be careful not to spill it in my lap.
Multi processor systems have been around for a LONG time. NT4 worked with multiple processors and Vista is no different. As far as the OS cares your multi core processor is the same as a dual socket system. As long as your OS is running in multple processes/threads you will benefit from multiple CPUs/Cores..
That's because the banks don't eat the cost of fraud, the merchants do. If I have an online store and someon uses a stolen card to buy something from me, I'm the one that gets screwed. The credit card companies reverse the charge, AND charge the merchant a fee for it happening. Then the merchant is out the money, a fee, AND the product they shipped to a thief. The lamest part is the credit card companies don't even provide you the tools to prove that a transaction is legitimate.
If you're not a student that isn't any more "license compliant" than just stealing it in the first place.
I have a T40 series at home as well as a T60 I bought just before the T61 came out. The new machine feels rock solid. They fixed the one issue I had with the older one, and that is the power cable connector getting loose from lots of use and pressure. The new one uses a much bigger power connector that doesn't seem like it will wear out like the old one did.
That's awesome. I did something similiar to the verifone credit card machine at my first job. I changed the "swipe card" prompt to say "access denied" and everyone thought the machine was broken. They didn't think it was nearly as funny as I did.
Yes I have setup a tivo with cablecards. It is a set top box that also happens to record video. You can get OEM windows media center pcs with cablecard tuners in them.
Comcast gave me the cards when I was at their office for a different reason. I just asked and they handed me 2 cards with no hassle whatsoever (that was before I even ordered the Tivo). It was a bit paintful on the phone with them to get it activated though. It took about 30-45 minutes. I haven't had any problem with it whatsoever once the cards were configured. I think cablecard is lame, but it is certainly better than relying on comcast for all your hardware.
A bunch of people bitching on a forum doesn't represent the general population. Maybe you need to grow the brain.
Do you have any sources for hd dvd players being subsidized?
I guess you've never heard of Tivo.
If they have cablecard why the hell do they need to have a cable company on board? Please provide sources kthx.
5 stars is certainly not enough for me either. Most movies end up with 4 stars for me, but I'd rather have the option of 6-8 stars, since there is certainly a lot of wiggle room in a 4.
If it was coming from the moon you'd have a much longer time to locate and intercept it than you would if it is fired from a submarine off the coast somewhere.
You must have some old crappy drives. My disks can do upwards of 80mbytes/sec.
Yes it is true and will always be true for usb 2.0. Bulk transfers which is what a storage devices uses, cannot actually max out the bus due to the small packet size. Webcams on the other hand (high speed ISOCH transfers) can max out the bus easily.
It may be possible to create a storage device that multiplexes several bulk endpoints but I'm not sure how much faster you could get it.
Actually that is not true. 480mbits is the maximum speed of the bus. A single storage (bulk) endpoint can't use that much bandwidth as the maximum packet size is far too small to max out the bus. High Speed bulk transfers use 512 byte packets, whereas a transfer somewhere in the range of 2 or 3k bytes (I'm too lazy to look it up) is what it'd take to use all the bandwidth.
The "480 mbit!" stuff tattood on all of the USB storage devices out there is misleading at best, since those devices can't get anywhere near a 480 mbit transfer speed and never will.
I just got the new tivo HD yesterday and it took me an hour on the phone with comcast to get the 2 cablecards working. The first one worked fine in a couple of minutes but the second took almost the entire time. Both cards were the first I had picked up, and are both working fine now. I would hate to see the trouble any 'normal' person would have getting these things working. The instructions with the tivo were pretty much nonexistent.
Basically the process is to stick in the card, call the cable co. and read them the IDs off the screen on the tivo. The cable co. sends the signal to your box to program the cards for whatever channels you're supposed to get, then you repeat with any additional cards.