There are 4 simple rules that will help you to avoid this type of identification: 1. Be brief 2. Write seldom 3. Plagiarize! 4. Do not write in your mother tongue.
First of all, this statement needs proof. Yes, I know that the proper application of a taser device can prove almost anything, but... She can always say that she wanted these iPhones just to decorate the christmas tree.
I am really sorry, but I've got a book, printed in mid-80s that suggests nearly the same method for identificating hardware. Turn off DRAM regeneration of a memory block for a while, then read the contents. These methods are really useful for, to say, identification of a stolen notebook.
Iranian news agency took a story from The Onion. Now we can read about this from The Onion (CNN has the screenshot, but no actual link). I think that fake news websites have a great future. You know, all that Zen technics: sit quietly and wait until the whole world will change according to the news you make.
This is complete nonsense. Classical music performance are usually very expensive. It requires large halls with good acoustics, lots of people involved, very precise recording equipment. It costs far more money to record 9th of Bethoven than to record punk-rock disk. Performance and recording of classical music is usually sponsored by government or private institutions. In Germany for example, classical music recordings costs sufficiently less than rock music recording. That means that every copy made by people saves sponsor's money. Free copying of sponsored music recordings allows to invest more money into performance and recording, rather than printing disks and boxes. DRM itself costs money too - so you need to throw away more tax and charity money.
This is normal "marketing model" of classical music, being used for centuries. Why not use it for other kinds of music too ?
Can somebody explain me, how exactly DRM will increase the consumer value of a particular music piece. Let's take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beeth oven) Symphony No. 9 as a very good music and well-known example.
Well, I'm not Steve Jobs and it seems that nobody will answer...
FC = Fake Card, FT = Fake Terminal, C = Card, T=Terminal
1. Simplest
C: Hello, I'm card T: Really ? Then we'll check how fast can you respond. Ping! C: Pong! T: 6ns, good time. Now let's shake hands...
Fake is obvious
2. More complicated C: Hello, I'm card T: Let's see. When I say, tell me your number, ready ? Ping! C: 12345! T: 20ns, looks like you're real !
Fake is also simple, the FT should first get the number from the card, then transmit it to FC. Anyway, all needed information is stored on card, terminal is just asking it.
3. Improbable C: Hello, I'm card T: Let's see. I'll give you a number, you encrypt it and tell back. 12345! C: Er.. well.. I need time to think...
4. More Secure
C: Hello, I'm card T: Let's see. I'll give you a number, you tell it back to me at once. 12345! C: 12345! T: 20ns, and now we'll use this number as a base for the handshake./* please note, there's not a SINGLE BIT transmitted from a terminal */
5. Really secure C: Hello, I'm card T: Good, and how fast can you do DES ? C: 1000 clock cycles T: Perfect. Let's synchronize clocks. 1-2-3-4! Now encrypt this number 12345. C: (after EXACTLY 1000 clock cycles): 54321! T: OK, let's go on./* note that in this case it is impossible to use any Ethernet-like network - it cannot be synchronous */
The method, proposed in the article is meaningless. If the timing check is really 1-bit, the fake card can respond by itself, without relaying any data. Is it on purpose ?
Much safer way is to measure time while performing a handshake. Yes, there ARE some technical problems, but it would be a real check.
Yes, indeed. Another fact that I know is that pain causes the similar effect. Actually pain is nothing more than an information about malfunction of some body part. Pain causes increase in brain activity, very much like more complicated brain work, such as solving problems.
BTW the easiest way to fool the lie detector is to make something moderately painful to yourself. Bite your tongue, press your fingernail into your palm.
I wonder whether the modern EEG devices can distinguish one from another.
There are many non-mainstream authors in Russia. They are making their CDs, that often are home-burnt, and selling them. This 'undergound' music is priced about 1.5 to 3 times more than bootleg records, but all money goes directly to the authors.
People are buying these discs - no problems with the price. Probably they just do not want to pay for the nasty advertising and stupid shows ?
In US extra $$ paid to the music recording label is not a problem, but in Russia it is.
Another fact is that NO ONE of those independent records has ever been pirated.
Wrong. I tell you, the sufficient part, about 15% of my own music collection are perfectly legal CDs. Yes, some of them were purchased with BIG discounts, some are from 'cheap classic music' series, but the fact is : it is possible to buy licensed music in Russia.
Stores with legal copies sells music that is hard to find in bootlegs. They almost divided the market and coexist in peace (a sort of).
Broadband ? We do have broadband. Not so 'broad', but anyway... it's ADSL. Advertised everywhere, cost is $24 per month.
Pulse-dialing ? Yes, it is the default. Call the phone company and they'll change it to tone dialing.
There is only one sad thing - all this is in Moscow and St.Petersburg. The rest of the country is still unconnected.
> The only place a North Korean hacker is not going to stick out, or the only place he can afford to live, is China.
Well, I do not want to inflate the hype, just to share information. Russia. I can see North Koreans sometimes - it is easy to distinguish them by pins with Kim Chen Ihr portraits. Russia HAS Internet access, and those filters, if exist, are working BACKWARD. Not like China.
Also we have some high quality hackers here, good general IT infrastructure and, everywhere except Moscow, cheap life.
However, I do not think that those hackers are a big threat. There are many hackers already in the world, much more than those 600. To be true, much more than even 6000. But the Internet is still here.
You are BUYING them ? Really ?
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I do not know much about term papers and other things like that in English, but in Russian there are thousands of them in the Internet. For free. Hordes of students are downloading them in huge amounts that allows the site owners to sell not papers themself, but advertisement only. How do they get it ? Easily. Students nowadays are writing they papers using computers, so it is not a problem to share their work. Also some sites provides more detailed information - the name of the college(s) and of the professor(s) where the paper appeared, and grades it received. It is a big trouble indeed. I do not have a diploma myself, but when I am in duty of interviewing young people looking for a job, I can not trust their diploma. However, these papers have a lot of useful information that could be used.
What's going on ? When I was a student, our teachers offered highest marks in system programming to everyone who could hack the department network. A student had a choice : to study everything or just to prove himself capable. After each sucessful break in, the hole was patched and the network became more protected.
This is the proper way. But making the unprotected network and call police... it's a degradation.
Now they invented a new way - make a 4 head single CPU computer and sell it to developing countries... instead of knives and mirrors... for the price of 4 non-brand computers.
AFAIK, South Africa is not the poorest African Country.
If you really really want to do something good, make a cheap monitor, compliant to all health standards, harmless to children. It is easy to do nowadays, since nobody wants CRT monitors anymore (except for special cases).
As for everything else - many companies would gladly pay to you for taking away their outdated equipment, which is still good for schools and is definitely more powerful than 1/4 of cheap HP.
Old monitors are bad for eyes, it's the only thing that needed. And no HP, please.
That's true. "Idea man" is not able to make something working out of his idea. The problem is not only in 'business abilities'.
Few years ago I started a project out of nothing. We made several kinds of electronic devices. We could sell enough of them to be able not to die of starvation, but not enough to continue development. Eventualy our enterprise (two people company) decayed back to nothing.
The problem is : the most useful and profitable are the most crazy ideas. They are also the most risky AND they have the biggest chance to remain unnoticed.
Who could ever think that it is possible to transfer voice via wires ?
Another serious problem is that the new technology becomes more and more complicated. It was easy to make gadgets working with RS-232, but it is not so easy with USB or FireWire. To make your idea into iron you need not an individual, but a group of specialists. What if this idea won't work ?
BTW I had a funny experience. In one of our projects I've got no role because there were no microcontrollers inside. Instead, they told me just to 'think about it'. After a week I came to conclusion that the whole project is physically impossible:-) They just got some misconceptions about Re and Im parts of some expression.
As for me, after several years of useless attempts I stopped remembering new ideas. I think it's a natural process. Or should I try with that blog ? No, it is closed now...
In non-English speaking countries "Lindows" and "Windows" are different names. One trade mark could be considered similar to another only if their written styles are looking similar.
In Russia Microsoft can win the case easily by bribing jury, but not normal way.
BTW, Xerox already lost their case. "Xerox" can not be a trade mark in Russia any more, because it is a "generic term". Not "Windows", however...
>I personally don't see any real reason to use embedded NT in favor of embedded linux
I do. Most of the top-level software works under Windows (I mean in SCADA systems, not in stand-alone embedded systems). Control software, accounting software... It is much more effective to have two teams - one for embedded part, second for SCADA - that are speaking the same (Windows) language.
Things like OPC or NetDDE were developed for Windows.
It's embedded systems. Today, Microsoft has Embedded NT 4.0 which is too expensive, WinXP that is too heavy for most embedded computers, and WinCE embedded which is a kind of a joke.
What we really need for those PC104 and other small boards is an OS with the following features:
open-source and configurable
reliable and stable
small resources requirements
working from ROM
Win32 compatible, supporting DCOM and MS-style networking.
There is no need for DirectX, scanner support and such. It looks much like that despite Microsoft declares embedded systems support as one of their primary goals, they just do not know what to do. WinCE is for PDAs, not for industrial systems.
As I can understand your definition, science studies not nature, but facts that are:
repeatable by nature, and
were not apriori declared as 'supernatural' by someone.
This still leaves a lot of possibilities for study, but completely throws away, for example, astronomy. Astronomy is not a science by your definition, because many things that it studies are not repeatable. Before asking for someone who "can consistantly read minds before you", try to repeat the "Big Bang".
Astronomy IS science, so your point is incorrect, and we can make a conclusion : science studies things that were declared as 'scientific' and does not study 'unscientific' things.
>An idea that can not be disproved through experimentation becomes an accepted truth if and only if that idea had some method by which it could be disproved
This is true, but not about experimentation. It's about theory. Experiment can not be 'disproved'. It could possibly be falsified, but this is not the case we are talking about.
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There are 4 simple rules that will help you to avoid this type of identification:
1. Be brief
2. Write seldom
3. Plagiarize!
4. Do not write in your mother tongue.
First of all, this statement needs proof. Yes, I know that the proper application of a taser device can prove almost anything, but...
She can always say that she wanted these iPhones just to decorate the christmas tree.
What do you mean by "going back" ? We are already there.
This was really interesting. And now I am waiting .... for a first bug report.
I am really sorry, but I've got a book, printed in mid-80s that suggests nearly the same method for identificating hardware. Turn off DRAM regeneration of a memory block for a while, then read the contents. These methods are really useful for, to say, identification of a stolen notebook.
Iranian news agency took a story from The Onion. Now we can read about this from The Onion (CNN has the screenshot, but no actual link). I think that fake news websites have a great future. You know, all that Zen technics: sit quietly and wait until the whole world will change according to the news you make.
This is complete nonsense. Classical music performance are usually very expensive.
It requires large halls with good acoustics, lots of people involved, very precise
recording equipment. It costs far more money to record 9th of Bethoven than to record
punk-rock disk. Performance and recording of classical music is usually sponsored
by government or private institutions. In Germany for example, classical music recordings
costs sufficiently less than rock music recording. That means that every copy made
by people saves sponsor's money. Free copying of sponsored music recordings allows
to invest more money into performance and recording, rather than printing disks and
boxes. DRM itself costs money too - so you need to throw away more tax and charity money.
This is normal "marketing model" of classical music, being used for centuries. Why not
use it for other kinds of music too ?
> DRM increases not decreases consumer value
h oven)
Can somebody explain me, how exactly DRM will increase the consumer value of
a particular music piece. Let's take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beet
Symphony No. 9 as a very good music and well-known example.
Well, I'm not Steve Jobs and it seems that nobody will answer...
I see several possible scenarios :
/* please note, there's not a SINGLE BIT transmitted from a terminal */
/* note that in this case it is impossible to use any Ethernet-like network - it cannot be synchronous */
FC = Fake Card, FT = Fake Terminal, C = Card, T=Terminal
1. Simplest
C: Hello, I'm card
T: Really ? Then we'll check how fast can you respond. Ping!
C: Pong!
T: 6ns, good time. Now let's shake hands...
Fake is obvious
2. More complicated
C: Hello, I'm card
T: Let's see. When I say, tell me your number, ready ? Ping!
C: 12345!
T: 20ns, looks like you're real !
Fake is also simple, the FT should first get the number from the card, then transmit it to FC.
Anyway, all needed information is stored on card, terminal is just asking it.
3. Improbable
C: Hello, I'm card
T: Let's see. I'll give you a number, you encrypt it and tell back. 12345!
C: Er.. well.. I need time to think...
4. More Secure
C: Hello, I'm card
T: Let's see. I'll give you a number, you tell it back to me at once. 12345!
C: 12345!
T: 20ns, and now we'll use this number as a base for the handshake.
5. Really secure
C: Hello, I'm card
T: Good, and how fast can you do DES ?
C: 1000 clock cycles
T: Perfect. Let's synchronize clocks. 1-2-3-4! Now encrypt this number 12345.
C: (after EXACTLY 1000 clock cycles): 54321!
T: OK, let's go on.
The method, proposed in the article is meaningless. If the timing
check is really 1-bit, the fake card can respond by itself, without
relaying any data. Is it on purpose ?
Much safer way is to measure time while performing a handshake.
Yes, there ARE some technical problems, but it would be a real check.
Yes, indeed. Another fact that I know is that pain causes the similar effect. Actually pain is nothing more than an information about malfunction of some body part. Pain causes increase in brain activity, very much like more complicated brain work, such as solving problems.
BTW the easiest way to fool the lie detector is to make something moderately painful to yourself.
Bite your tongue, press your fingernail into your palm.
I wonder whether the modern EEG devices can distinguish one from another.
What's your problem ? Just take the money and still make that lawsuit. I bet MS won't ask you to return the money.
Or just take it and run away.
$9.75m will make you nice life in any 3rd world country.
I do not see any sense in playing fair with a partner that has proven himself untrustworthy.
There are many non-mainstream authors in Russia. They are making their CDs, that often are home-burnt, and selling them. This 'undergound' music is priced about 1.5 to 3 times more than bootleg records, but all money goes directly to the authors.
People are buying these discs - no problems with the price. Probably they just do not want to pay for the nasty advertising and stupid shows ?
In US extra $$ paid to the music recording label is not a problem, but in Russia it is.
Another fact is that NO ONE of those independent records has ever been pirated.
Wrong. I tell you, the sufficient part, about 15% of my own music collection are perfectly legal CDs. Yes, some of them were purchased with BIG discounts, some are from 'cheap classic music' series, but the fact is : it is possible to buy licensed music in Russia.
Stores with legal copies sells music that is hard to find in bootlegs. They almost divided the market and coexist in peace (a sort of).
Broadband ? We do have broadband. Not so 'broad', but anyway... it's ADSL. Advertised everywhere, cost is $24 per month.
Pulse-dialing ? Yes, it is the default. Call the phone company and they'll change it to tone dialing.
There is only one sad thing - all this is in Moscow and St.Petersburg. The rest of the country is still unconnected.
> The only place a North Korean hacker is not going to stick out, or the only place he can afford to live, is China.
Well, I do not want to inflate the hype, just to share information. Russia. I can see North Koreans sometimes - it is easy to distinguish them by pins with Kim Chen Ihr portraits. Russia HAS Internet access, and those filters, if exist, are working BACKWARD. Not like China.
Also we have some high quality hackers here, good general IT infrastructure and, everywhere except Moscow, cheap life.
However, I do not think that those hackers are a big threat. There are many hackers already in the world, much more than those 600. To be true, much more than even 6000. But the Internet is still here.
I do not know much about term papers and other things like that in English, but in Russian there are thousands of them in the Internet. For free.
Hordes of students are downloading them in huge amounts that allows the site owners to sell not papers themself, but advertisement only. How do they get it ? Easily. Students nowadays are writing they papers using computers, so it is not a problem to share their work. Also some sites provides more detailed information - the name of the college(s) and of the professor(s) where the paper appeared, and grades it received.
It is a big trouble indeed. I do not have a diploma myself, but when I am in duty of interviewing young people looking for a job, I can not trust their diploma.
However, these papers have a lot of useful information that could be used.
What's going on ? When I was a student, our teachers offered highest marks in system programming to everyone who could hack the department network. A student had a choice : to study everything or just to prove himself capable. After each sucessful break in, the hole was patched and the network became more protected.
This is the proper way. But making the unprotected network and call police... it's a degradation.
I suggest using CRTs, not old ones, but modern and good ones. In first-world countries demand for CRTs decreases, but in Africa it would be OK
Everything else could be taken from the second-hand market. Bring them old equipment, but not old monitors. Is this clear ?
HP and low price are incompatible terms.
Now they invented a new way - make a 4 head single CPU computer and sell it to developing countries... instead of knives and mirrors... for the price of 4 non-brand computers.
AFAIK, South Africa is not the poorest African Country.
If you really really want to do something good, make a cheap monitor, compliant to all health standards, harmless to children. It is easy to do nowadays, since nobody wants CRT monitors anymore (except for special cases).
As for everything else - many companies would gladly pay to you for taking away their outdated equipment, which is still good for schools and is definitely more powerful than 1/4 of cheap HP.
Old monitors are bad for eyes, it's the only thing that needed. And no HP, please.
That's true. "Idea man" is not able to make something working out of his idea. The problem is not only in 'business abilities'.
:-) They just got some misconceptions about Re and Im parts of some expression.
Few years ago I started a project out of nothing. We made several kinds of electronic devices. We could sell enough of them to be able not to die of starvation, but not enough to continue development. Eventualy our enterprise (two people company) decayed back to nothing.
The problem is : the most useful and profitable are the most crazy ideas. They are also the most risky AND they have the biggest chance to remain unnoticed.
Who could ever think that it is possible to transfer voice via wires ?
Another serious problem is that the new technology becomes more and more complicated. It was easy to make gadgets working with RS-232, but it is not so easy with USB or FireWire. To make your idea into iron you need not an individual, but a group of specialists. What if this idea won't work ?
BTW I had a funny experience. In one of our projects I've got no role because there were no microcontrollers inside. Instead, they told me just to 'think about it'. After a week I came to conclusion that the whole project is physically impossible
As for me, after several years of useless attempts I stopped remembering new ideas. I think it's a natural process. Or should I try with that blog ? No, it is closed now...
Anyway, next time trying to capture movie in a cinema
check whether it already exists in P2P networks
bring an IR laser with you. Very effective in eliminating those night goggles.
take a smaller camcorder
run faster
In non-English speaking countries "Lindows" and "Windows" are different names. One trade mark could be considered similar to another only if their written styles are looking similar.
In Russia Microsoft can win the case easily by bribing jury, but not normal way.
BTW, Xerox already lost their case. "Xerox" can not be a trade mark in Russia any more, because it is a "generic term". Not "Windows", however...
>I personally don't see any real reason to use embedded NT in favor of embedded linux
I do. Most of the top-level software works under Windows (I mean in SCADA systems, not in stand-alone embedded systems). Control software, accounting software... It is much more effective to have two teams - one for embedded part, second for SCADA - that are speaking the same (Windows) language.
Things like OPC or NetDDE were developed for Windows.
What we really need for those PC104 and other small boards is an OS with the following features:
open-source and configurable
reliable and stable
small resources requirements
working from ROM
Win32 compatible, supporting DCOM and MS-style networking.
There is no need for DirectX, scanner support and such. It looks much like that despite Microsoft declares embedded systems support as one of their primary goals, they just do not know what to do.
WinCE is for PDAs, not for industrial systems.
studies not nature, but facts that are
repeatable by nature, and
were not apriori declared as 'supernatural' by someone.
This still leaves a lot of possibilities for study, but completely throws away, for example, astronomy. Astronomy is not a science by your definition, because many things that it studies are not repeatable. Before asking for someone who "can consistantly read minds before you", try to repeat the "Big Bang".
Astronomy IS science, so your point is incorrect, and we can make a conclusion : science studies things that were declared as 'scientific' and does not study 'unscientific' things.
>An idea that can not be disproved through experimentation becomes an accepted truth if and only if that idea had some method by which it could be disproved
This is true, but not about experimentation. It's about theory. Experiment can not be 'disproved'.
It could possibly be falsified, but this is not the case we are talking about.