A friend of mine had her machine infected with one of the imageshack exploits. It was basically a double extension EXE, labelled like Aphoto.jpg__________________.exe
She wasn't paying much attention and had hit OK when prompted to run the program. So her computer had started sending me MSN links to similar images hosted on ImageShack.
Someone I was chatting with in a technology IRC chatroom had run the virus in a VM, and it apparently has code to detect the presence of a VM, rapes your registry, spreads itself to multiple EXEs across your system, and a bunch of other weird things. The code is apparently run through one of those code masher programs to prevent decompilers.
Just imagine witnessing an infantry division in a parade formation wearing this shit - it would probably be the trippiest thing anyone would witness. Even if the fabric would just adapt to the surrounding colours, it doesn't even need to reproduce a perfect image.
You don't need a device made by a major corporation to do that. All you need is a basic book on radio theory - easily purchased or pirated - you've got the know how for an EMR detector.
I imagine, a simple mod to a cell phone would even work.
There should just be a "robots.txt" or an extension to robots.txt for automated news aggregation sites. If the news service doesn't want it's news aggregated with everyone elses news services, sites like Googles News should respect that. They obviously want to still be indexed by Google, but to have there news articles copy-pasta'd to the front of Google News is a whole other thing.
Exactly - what the fuck is with people submitting stories to this site that need to attack Nokia-Siemens in the summary?
No one would get a contract to put a cell phone network in Iran unless it included a monitoring system - just like every Western country.
If there's any one to blame on this censorship/monitoring technology - blame Western governments - they're the ones that have put these requirements in place years ago. Engineers could have made these networks with sufficient privacy controls at the implementation phase, but no government will accept complete privacy - they always want a way to monitor activity.
If we truly believed in concepts of freedom of speech and expression, we would have voted in political members that would restrict monitoring technology. But our selection in politicians are rather limited, and they seem to lack the creativity to accomplish goals of national security without using highly invasive methods.
It will have a higher power density at higher altitudes though. The beam will continue to diverge as it descends towards Earth, but at higher altitudes, air pressure is lower, and the beam's power density will be higher. That's the risk area I'm talking about.
A phased-array antenna at 2.45 GHz still has a rather wide beam. I would say that a parabolic reflector has a narrower beam than a phased-array antenna - especially at 2.45 GHz. If this were operating at a higher frequency, then sure, you can get a pretty tight beam, but then you start having other atmospheric absorption problems. Rain would be terrible at just about any higher frequency, not to mention oxygen and nitrogen also start absorbing the higher in frequency you go.
Plus - a really tight beam has many negative problems - if you keep a really high power density - the lower air pressure in upper parts of the atmosphere are likely to form plasma. The electric-field strength due to the high power density can cause that flash over to occur, and once that plasma forms - oh shit - all sorts of weird things can happen. The plasma can start reflecting RF energy, it can just keep absorbing it, and it may even let some through - but it's more likely to reflect or absorb once the plasma is formed.
Any way - back to the phased array thing - the main benefit of phased-array transmitters is the ability to steer the beam with no moving parts.
Works great for radar systems - less so - in my opinion for microwave power transfer.
This company really just needs to launch a test satellite first, but you would want to test it at a very high power density, because that's what's needed, as that's when all the weird effects start to happen. Lots of ground experiments would need to be performed, but even then - the whole thing could get launched, and some unforeseen consequence happens, and we've just wasted billions upon billions of dollars.
The signal-to-noise ratio is a ratio of signal power to noise power. This problem is still about power. If the transmitter was "wimpy" - and couldn't provide enough power to overcome the noise, then it just won't work - at all.
Plus - there will always be divergence of the beam - and the longer the wavelength, the more the beam will diverge, reducing the power density of the beam spot. The shorter the wavelength, the more likely it will be attenuated by obstructions and the atmosphere.
And you've seen pictures of radio-telescopes right? REALLY HUGE DISHES. They get the very weak signals detected because they're large, and can focus more radio energy into the receiver. They only tend to have a narrow beam width, because the aperture size is large by comparison to the wavelengths they're dealing with. Technically, within the near-field of a transmitter, the smaller dishes have a narrower beam width than the larger dishes. When you start looking at the far-field however, the smaller dish's beam is diverging much more than that of the larger dish.
bah - This rant is still missing lots of info, I'm going to go look for a job instead of wasting my time here.
No, obviously I can't deny that. But even so, look at that table of military expenditures. Canada's number 16 on that list, I would say, on a per capita basis, we're spending enough.
They should take a look at the Battlefield 2 mod called Project Reality. I find it far more interesting, and playable, than America's Army. Everyone seems to consistently use microphones in-game, people generally work as a team. It's one of the few multiplayer games I've played that people just automatically start working as a team, and following squad leader orders.
Sure - there's no honor system in the game - but that could easily be implemented.
I can't agree with your statement. America seems to have much more visibility, and presence of government than Canada. Just look at the military you have - it dwarfs anything we're doing on a per capita basis. Operating a standing army of that size requires big government. The Food Stamp Program alone is a huge undertaking.
United States - $ 651,163,000,000 USD Canada - $ 17,944,621,100 USD
Considering the United States' population is about 10X that of Canada's, per capita, this is quite significant. To handle that kind of spending, you need a ridiculously sized government to accompany it. Someone needs to rubber stamp forms all day...
Wasn't Senator Hatch against free software licenses like the GPL as well? Didn't he propose a bill or something like that to ban free licenses?
I'm trying to find a post from a few years back, where I took a hex editor to his mp3s, and found they were all encoded using LAME. I think I may have posted that one anonymously though...
"He's probably mad, a little progress since then."
Since Fred A is making a joke, and that the guy is probably at least a little 'mad' since you pretty much have to be to make a big metal robot on your own. You know, the stereotypical Mad Scientist type.
They have a long way to go then as it seems to provide some awfully terrible results. Like check this one out for Roller coasters.
Apparently there's a roller coaster named GhostRider, it has a length of 4,533 ft, height of 118 ft, and it travels past the speed of sound at 1038 mph!!
I think I'll just stick to the basic Google search using quotes, +'s, -'s, AND's and OR's.
It needs a stylus for writing notes, if possible, directly onto a webpage.:-)
I hope a PDF viewer is included. Being able to write on the PDF file would be A++++ awesome.
Just like some simple program that stores what I'm writing into a JPG file, and it gets associated to the file or page I'm viewing. So it gets overlaid on the document.
If it replaces a notepad, while allowing me to surf the net, I'm sold.
That won't be such a problem once police services shift funds towards detection. They'll be far more likely to so once marijuana's been decriminalized/legalized. Personally, I think there's plenty of excellent stoned drivers, but there's the odd one who's terrible at driving stoned. Because of that, I - reluctantly - accept that a road side test is needed. I would hope that most people can accept the compromise of having traffic laws against intoxicated driving, while being allowed to legally smoke weed in public and at home.
And as Jaysyn furthur down mentions - oxycontin - is a legal drug that is odorless, is just swallowed, and will intoxicate someone much worse than marijuana, yet we haven't outright banned public access to the drug.
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A friend of mine had her machine infected with one of the imageshack exploits. It was basically a double extension EXE, labelled like Aphoto.jpg__________________.exe
She wasn't paying much attention and had hit OK when prompted to run the program. So her computer had started sending me MSN links to similar images hosted on ImageShack.
Here's the EXE that I got sent.
Someone I was chatting with in a technology IRC chatroom had run the virus in a VM, and it apparently has code to detect the presence of a VM, rapes your registry, spreads itself to multiple EXEs across your system, and a bunch of other weird things. The code is apparently run through one of those code masher programs to prevent decompilers.
Just imagine witnessing an infantry division in a parade formation wearing this shit - it would probably be the trippiest thing anyone would witness. Even if the fabric would just adapt to the surrounding colours, it doesn't even need to reproduce a perfect image.
Ford as well.
You don't need a device made by a major corporation to do that. All you need is a basic book on radio theory - easily purchased or pirated - you've got the know how for an EMR detector.
I imagine, a simple mod to a cell phone would even work.
There should just be a "robots.txt" or an extension to robots.txt for automated news aggregation sites. If the news service doesn't want it's news aggregated with everyone elses news services, sites like Googles News should respect that. They obviously want to still be indexed by Google, but to have there news articles copy-pasta'd to the front of Google News is a whole other thing.
Yo dawg, we heard you like highly encrypted email, so we put a highly encrypted email in your highly encrypted email.
heh mix cipher types for added fun.
Exactly - what the fuck is with people submitting stories to this site that need to attack Nokia-Siemens in the summary?
No one would get a contract to put a cell phone network in Iran unless it included a monitoring system - just like every Western country.
If there's any one to blame on this censorship/monitoring technology - blame Western governments - they're the ones that have put these requirements in place years ago. Engineers could have made these networks with sufficient privacy controls at the implementation phase, but no government will accept complete privacy - they always want a way to monitor activity.
If we truly believed in concepts of freedom of speech and expression, we would have voted in political members that would restrict monitoring technology. But our selection in politicians are rather limited, and they seem to lack the creativity to accomplish goals of national security without using highly invasive methods.
It will have a higher power density at higher altitudes though. The beam will continue to diverge as it descends towards Earth, but at higher altitudes, air pressure is lower, and the beam's power density will be higher. That's the risk area I'm talking about.
A phased-array antenna at 2.45 GHz still has a rather wide beam. I would say that a parabolic reflector has a narrower beam than a phased-array antenna - especially at 2.45 GHz. If this were operating at a higher frequency, then sure, you can get a pretty tight beam, but then you start having other atmospheric absorption problems. Rain would be terrible at just about any higher frequency, not to mention oxygen and nitrogen also start absorbing the higher in frequency you go.
Plus - a really tight beam has many negative problems - if you keep a really high power density - the lower air pressure in upper parts of the atmosphere are likely to form plasma. The electric-field strength due to the high power density can cause that flash over to occur, and once that plasma forms - oh shit - all sorts of weird things can happen. The plasma can start reflecting RF energy, it can just keep absorbing it, and it may even let some through - but it's more likely to reflect or absorb once the plasma is formed.
Any way - back to the phased array thing - the main benefit of phased-array transmitters is the ability to steer the beam with no moving parts.
Works great for radar systems - less so - in my opinion for microwave power transfer.
This company really just needs to launch a test satellite first, but you would want to test it at a very high power density, because that's what's needed, as that's when all the weird effects start to happen. Lots of ground experiments would need to be performed, but even then - the whole thing could get launched, and some unforeseen consequence happens, and we've just wasted billions upon billions of dollars.
Let me guess - you spent a good portion of your life researching the effects of microwaves on birds, bats, pollen and insects?
Just imagine how much time will be wasted idling on IRC channels.
The signal-to-noise ratio is a ratio of signal power to noise power. This problem is still about power. If the transmitter was "wimpy" - and couldn't provide enough power to overcome the noise, then it just won't work - at all.
Plus - there will always be divergence of the beam - and the longer the wavelength, the more the beam will diverge, reducing the power density of the beam spot. The shorter the wavelength, the more likely it will be attenuated by obstructions and the atmosphere.
And you've seen pictures of radio-telescopes right? REALLY HUGE DISHES. They get the very weak signals detected because they're large, and can focus more radio energy into the receiver. They only tend to have a narrow beam width, because the aperture size is large by comparison to the wavelengths they're dealing with. Technically, within the near-field of a transmitter, the smaller dishes have a narrower beam width than the larger dishes. When you start looking at the far-field however, the smaller dish's beam is diverging much more than that of the larger dish.
bah - This rant is still missing lots of info, I'm going to go look for a job instead of wasting my time here.
A group of - knowledgeable - independent individuals - should attempt to render the monitoring system useless.
No, obviously I can't deny that. But even so, look at that table of military expenditures. Canada's number 16 on that list, I would say, on a per capita basis, we're spending enough.
Of course not - you're supposed to drop out of school.
Bill Gates would not be a billionaire if he didn't drop out of school.
Yeah - they really shouldn't let him join the party. It will undermine everything they're trying to do.
They should take a look at the Battlefield 2 mod called Project Reality. I find it far more interesting, and playable, than America's Army. Everyone seems to consistently use microphones in-game, people generally work as a team. It's one of the few multiplayer games I've played that people just automatically start working as a team, and following squad leader orders.
Sure - there's no honor system in the game - but that could easily be implemented.
I can't agree with your statement. America seems to have much more visibility, and presence of government than Canada. Just look at the military you have - it dwarfs anything we're doing on a per capita basis. Operating a standing army of that size requires big government. The Food Stamp Program alone is a huge undertaking.
Just a basic comparison of military expenditures:
United States - $ 651,163,000,000 USD
Canada - $ 17,944,621,100 USD
Considering the United States' population is about 10X that of Canada's, per capita, this is quite significant. To handle that kind of spending, you need a ridiculously sized government to accompany it. Someone needs to rubber stamp forms all day...
Wasn't Senator Hatch against free software licenses like the GPL as well? Didn't he propose a bill or something like that to ban free licenses?
I'm trying to find a post from a few years back, where I took a hex editor to his mp3s, and found they were all encoded using LAME. I think I may have posted that one anonymously though...
Talk about *whoosh* ...
"He's probably mad, a little progress since then."
Since Fred A is making a joke, and that the guy is probably at least a little 'mad' since you pretty much have to be to make a big metal robot on your own. You know, the stereotypical Mad Scientist type.
Does this make sense now?
Yeah, I'll just need to make the overlay software that will associate itself to the file that's open.
That actually doesn't sound too hard, most of the currently open file information I'd need is available through the command line.
Umm - that thing is like $700!! That's ridiculous.
At that price I'd expect a colour display as well. I'll keep an eye out for it though, hopefully the price comes down quickly.... thanks for the link.
They have a long way to go then as it seems to provide some awfully terrible results. Like check this one out for Roller coasters.
Apparently there's a roller coaster named GhostRider, it has a length of 4,533 ft, height of 118 ft, and it travels past the speed of sound at 1038 mph!!
I think I'll just stick to the basic Google search using quotes, +'s, -'s, AND's and OR's.
It needs a stylus for writing notes, if possible, directly onto a webpage. :-)
I hope a PDF viewer is included. Being able to write on the PDF file would be A++++ awesome.
Just like some simple program that stores what I'm writing into a JPG file, and it gets associated to the file or page I'm viewing. So it gets overlaid on the document.
If it replaces a notepad, while allowing me to surf the net, I'm sold.
That won't be such a problem once police services shift funds towards detection. They'll be far more likely to so once marijuana's been decriminalized/legalized. Personally, I think there's plenty of excellent stoned drivers, but there's the odd one who's terrible at driving stoned. Because of that, I - reluctantly - accept that a road side test is needed. I would hope that most people can accept the compromise of having traffic laws against intoxicated driving, while being allowed to legally smoke weed in public and at home.
And as Jaysyn furthur down mentions - oxycontin - is a legal drug that is odorless, is just swallowed, and will intoxicate someone much worse than marijuana, yet we haven't outright banned public access to the drug.