And I would like to thank the government of Australia, who, unlike the US, completely cancelled anything and everything remotely related to asteroid research.
First, once again the poster must not actually read most of the stories. The original slashdot article about reconstructing info based on LED's does NOT mean you can spy on someone, instead, it means if you are a spy, you can secretly send information by the blinky LED's on your modem/hub/router whatever....
And if I were a little more ambitious I would post a link to this story that was already on slashdot a month or two ago...
DirecTV has what they claim a billion dollar lose due to pirates, hacking the nice little smart cards. (First the F, now H and HU series, soon to be replaced by the P4 series, which probably isn't hacked, yet....) Writing isn't important, if you can completely dump the card then you can make yourself a cardless emulation system on a PC. (The holy grail of directTv pirates...)
I'm sure they are going to take notice of this technology, if they haven't already, because I am certain there are people on the other side that will be cracking open DTV smart cards to use this method very soon...
Only if you can get the thing up in the first place (doubtful), and then you have to figure out how to get it up AGAIN in two weeks. I'm guessing that the extra 4 million would go up in smoke (literally) trying to get that piece of Russian rust off the ground.
But as a side note, the current method of Russian transportation is still probably better than ours, at least much more cost effective. (Just finished my History of the Russian Space Program class not long ago...)
1) Your car HUD can warn you of drivers who have been "modded down" when you see them on the road.
Only after you view a few ads first, this bad driver brought to you by All state insurance, protecting you from bozos like this.
2) In the store, you can look up reviews of consumer electronics items by scanning the item.
Hmm, no chance for bias there... How many honest reviews do you see in stores now?
3) Email people you walk past on the street if they have made their email public- also dating services can tell you if you are compatible, if they are single etc.
Great, drive by spamming. By the time this happens spam will have taken over email anyway.
Maybe I'm just more cynical, but there is always a way to exploit any new technology, and that trend is only getting worse, much worse.
Umm, California didn't get shafted, California happily gave it self the ready and willing shaft. (Must like they have done with their recent power situation...) Being the largest state is an advantage, only if you aren't a Californian...
Not that Jesse ventura cares, but do the people really want their tax money spent on this?
Ventura recently opposed a plan to give a little money to teachers for retirement, with a paltry cost of $15 million per year. (Star Tribune I guess he had video games in mind instead.
Or maybe you would care to read it from robotstxt.org
Yes you can block robots using a robots.txt file from certain areas. MOST robots I've encountered do follow it also. (This is my job, I should know...) You will also want to specify the meta tags, but from my experience some robots don't care what you have in the meta tags due to abuse.
Has anyone stopped to think that there are actually two forms of music piracy. There is the one that everyone one of us does, downloading a few [thousand] mp3's here or there. Does this article make any reference to that? No...
What is of bigger concern, and I agree, is to take your downloaded mp3's and make a business of it selling CD's. Downloading should be well under most people's moral radar, but selling those for a profit is another story.
I'm almost helping the RIAA, this will be a popular post here on Slashdot!!
I used to work for an insurance company, the rates make sense if you think about it.
Young people (20-40) might have few accidents, but when they do, they make it count. Older people have more accidents, but at much slower speed and less damage. (This of course is just statistical averages, yes there are always cases, but insurance plays the averages)
Used to support OPENPVR/Snapstream and the like, at least until I actually got a UTV. yes, you can do it with a computer, but it isn't going to be nearly as well put together as a stand alone unit. Does it pass the girlfriend/wife test??? There is no computer PVR out there that will come close. (And in some cases, a real PVR might not either, but it comes much closer!!)
Look at the numbers... Most linux installs are for servers and high usage machines. You NEED linux for a reason. Most wireless installs are the for opposite reasons, light duty machines and the non-tech people that don't know the different between a 5 meg wireless link or a 100 meg switched network.
Last week, the RIAA sued Technicolor Inc., one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of music and video programming, for allegedly producing pirated CDs of major artists.
Just a little interesting part of the article, the RIAA is stepping on some major dollars here by screwing with Hollywood's connections. Maybe they aren't working for the same goal after all....
Want to sell? I'm looking for an decently priced one... Most are more expensive than the 11mbs wireless network cards, go figure.... They still have some uses though!
http://balloons.space.edu
Doesn't matter if it is hackable, if it incorporates Microsoft ideas it will be illegal. (great DMCA and others..., can't reverse engineer protection) So basically any hack will be illegal, which will prevent any major use of the hacked (linux) version.
Won't help you Palm fanatics, but it works Ok for PocketPC. Mazingo
It works in a similar manner to Avantgo, has just as many channels, but the only problem I noticed is that it sucks up ALOT of memory, guess that is what happens when you select the movie trailers channels!
It was in reference to pulling up an interactive guide ONLY, nothing about Tivo functions. It is possible with a PC using software included with Windows to view GuidePlus data, and if you do some looking you will see it is not that hard to gather that data yourself either.
In regards to using TvGuide data, GuidePlus data flows across most cable and broadcast systems. It will give you a guide very similar to a DirectTV type system, and yes, you can pull it off with a computer, in fact Microsoft actually gives you software to do it! (Got a 3dfx Voodoo 3500 tv edition laying around that does this wonderfully)!
Check out the HABP page for more details, but this group and many others have been doing long range HAM radio communications for years using balloons. Stick some electronics on a balloon, along with a repeater, and you can get several hundred miles out of radios that would previously give you 20 miles.
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And I would like to thank the government of Australia, who, unlike the US, completely cancelled anything and everything remotely related to asteroid research.
Must have missed the maglev part, or you are doing something amazing to pull it off with no electric wiring on the track, and 2 -12 volt batteries!
Just in case everybody ./'s everyone else's mirror...
http://balloons.space.edu/old_opensource_whitepape r.pdf
And if I were a little more ambitious I would post a link to this story that was already on slashdot a month or two ago...
I'm sure they are going to take notice of this technology, if they haven't already, because I am certain there are people on the other side that will be cracking open DTV smart cards to use this method very soon...
But as a side note, the current method of Russian transportation is still probably better than ours, at least much more cost effective. (Just finished my History of the Russian Space Program class not long ago...)
Maybe I'm just more cynical, but there is always a way to exploit any new technology, and that trend is only getting worse, much worse.
Umm, California didn't get shafted, California happily gave it self the ready and willing shaft. (Must like they have done with their recent power situation...) Being the largest state is an advantage, only if you aren't a Californian...
Ventura recently opposed a plan to give a little money to teachers for retirement, with a paltry cost of $15 million per year. (Star Tribune I guess he had video games in mind instead.
Yes you can block robots using a robots.txt file from certain areas. MOST robots I've encountered do follow it also. (This is my job, I should know...) You will also want to specify the meta tags, but from my experience some robots don't care what you have in the meta tags due to abuse.
ever used robots.txt? apparently not, you can block parts of the site. Enough said....
What is of bigger concern, and I agree, is to take your downloaded mp3's and make a business of it selling CD's. Downloading should be well under most people's moral radar, but selling those for a profit is another story.
I'm almost helping the RIAA, this will be a popular post here on Slashdot!!
I used to work for an insurance company, the rates make sense if you think about it. Young people (20-40) might have few accidents, but when they do, they make it count. Older people have more accidents, but at much slower speed and less damage. (This of course is just statistical averages, yes there are always cases, but insurance plays the averages)
Welcome to the United State of Microsoft. (Or maybe President Bill prefers the Microsoft States of America).
Used to support OPENPVR/Snapstream and the like, at least until I actually got a UTV. yes, you can do it with a computer, but it isn't going to be nearly as well put together as a stand alone unit. Does it pass the girlfriend/wife test??? There is no computer PVR out there that will come close. (And in some cases, a real PVR might not either, but it comes much closer!!)
Look at the numbers... Most linux installs are for servers and high usage machines. You NEED linux for a reason. Most wireless installs are the for opposite reasons, light duty machines and the non-tech people that don't know the different between a 5 meg wireless link or a 100 meg switched network.
Just a little interesting part of the article, the RIAA is stepping on some major dollars here by screwing with Hollywood's connections. Maybe they aren't working for the same goal after all....
Username: dotslash2002 Password: dotslash2002 (had to, no one posted on yet, had to go through the trouble of getting another account registered...)
Want to sell? I'm looking for an decently priced one... Most are more expensive than the 11mbs wireless network cards, go figure.... They still have some uses though! http://balloons.space.edu
I remember a time when people would go to a movie to.. get this... WATCH A MOVIE!!!! What happened to the younger years??
Doesn't matter if it is hackable, if it incorporates Microsoft ideas it will be illegal. (great DMCA and others..., can't reverse engineer protection) So basically any hack will be illegal, which will prevent any major use of the hacked (linux) version.
It works in a similar manner to Avantgo, has just as many channels, but the only problem I noticed is that it sucks up ALOT of memory, guess that is what happens when you select the movie trailers channels!
It was in reference to pulling up an interactive guide ONLY, nothing about Tivo functions. It is possible with a PC using software included with Windows to view GuidePlus data, and if you do some looking you will see it is not that hard to gather that data yourself either.
In regards to using TvGuide data, GuidePlus data flows across most cable and broadcast systems. It will give you a guide very similar to a DirectTV type system, and yes, you can pull it off with a computer, in fact Microsoft actually gives you software to do it! (Got a 3dfx Voodoo 3500 tv edition laying around that does this wonderfully)!
Check out the HABP page for more details, but this group and many others have been doing long range HAM radio communications for years using balloons. Stick some electronics on a balloon, along with a repeater, and you can get several hundred miles out of radios that would previously give you 20 miles.