A funny thing happened to me. I thought Starbucks had free wireless. I took my laptop in and ordered a cocoa and tried to connect. I hit the T-Mobile login screen and went WTF?? I asked and they informed me it was pay. I sat back down and connected to linksys and downloaded my iso that would have taken forever on dial-up. If you borrow a connection, don't be obvious.
While trying to find a good dial up ISP in a new area, my wife jumped the gun and figured a free 30 day trial would get her online in the meantime.
A week later I picked an ISP and started service. Then came the fun of trying to cancel. My wife tried and failed and asked me to try since I was a guy and could deal with them.
I called and explained how we came by the account. It was never intended as long term. They tried to get me to keep the account. What worked was when I told them I was having trouble using my e-mail client to recieve POP-3 mail and asked how to configure it. They explained they didn't support it. I said I could not continue to use them because they did not meet my requirements. Case closed.
They don't want to let you go if they think they can meet your needs. Be sure your needs are not met by their walled garden.
Unless their system is really fast (detects the sensor and sends out out the beam in the hundredth of a second or so the mirror's up), it's hard to picture it blocking any SLR.
An SLR is not a clandestine camera. It is typicaly large and makes quite a bit of noise.
A better bet is to use your cell phone camera.. Just add a Circular Polarizer. Visit a camera store with your girlfriend (oops this is slashdot;-) ) Ask to see the filters. Take a circular polarizer and place it in front of the mirror in her make up case. It does the same for a reflection from a CCD. Instant stealth. As a bonus, it cuts reflections from trade show display cases.
I'm sure it doesn't work at all if you put the equivilant of mirror glass on the lense.
I'll probably be in some violation of some law, but here goes.. Circular Polarizer. Hint, take one and place it on a mirror.. Neat huh. Works the same on a camera and cuts glare from the display case.
Second hint Overload. Many coats and shoes have reflective trim for safe nighttime use. Get a paper punch and a sheet of 3M reflector sheet. Add a bunch of small round dots to clothing to be safe at night.
The idea is that if the ads are cool you will tell your friends about them, and then they will see them and spread them to their friends, hence viral.
I can mention a couple examples.. Anybody in the US seen the Japanese advert for a paricular tea. Look up Rube Goldberg and you are sure to find it. The other one that comes to mind is one made by Honda. It ran 2 minutes in length and as such was too expensive to air in the US. I have seen it several times and enjoyed it. Do a search for Honda and Cog and you will be sure to find it.
Right up geek alley is the Trojan Olympics. Warning not safe for work but very funny.
All examples are ones not broadcast in my area. I saw them because of viral sharing, not because they were plastered all over a website.
A stoned little dwarf throws a nasty-looking knife at you and misses. What more do you need?
What version of Adventure are you playing. In the version I played on a PDP11/35, the dwarf wasn't stoned and was deadly. Sometimes I was lucky and tossed the axe back killing the dwarf, but I could never get the dwarf. He always dissappeared in a cloud of greasy black smoke.
More like follow the offshore bank accounts, Grand Cayman Islands, etc.
I lived there. Internet access is expensive as it was a government protected monopoly. Check the rates. Cable and Wireless is the company. To visit, see www.candw.ky.
When they first put in internet, they got 2 satelite T1 links for the whole island. Little Cayman and Cayman Brac still did not have internet. They charged $0.25/minute for access on dial up.
Needless to say I didn't get internet until I returned to the states.
They have since gotten a Fiber Optic cable to Jamaca and they now offer DSL. They are running a promotion for $25/month for the first year. That is CI $ not USD. The price is close to US $30/month. Restrictions such as can't compete with the phone company by using VOIP is the norm. The plan appears to be capped at 256K unless you upgrade to a faster plan. For example the 1024 plan is CI $74. The 512 plan is $59.
Cayman Islands is a nice place to go for diving and sun, but not for internet based business.
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Here in France we have very cheap broadband, but doesn't seem like France is producing much zombie spam.
Read past the headline.. Look to the part where they mention ISP's are slow to disconnect. I imagine in France, most ISP's are quick to disconnect a bot spewing stuff.
Allofmp3.com is not a legal service either in Russia or anywhere else.
I just visited the home page. If they provided content from the Russian music industry which they have license to, then the clam may be valid.
However they mostly have content that is not from Russia. The home page lists bands such as The Backstreet Boys, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chilli Pepers, Dixie Chicks, etc. Their use of content without an agreement is why to some it looks pretty clear they are pirating the content. I doubt they have contracts with the above bands or their record companies.
If they had only Russian content for use inside Russa, I could see their claim as valid. Using other content without an agreement crosses the line.
The breakage being the main one -- record companies make extra profit due to this, not less.
Yes however by taking the breakage money without providing an exchange damaged media for a new copy policy, they have killed the golden goose.
DRM'ed stuff that can't be legaly backed up and breaks is a lesson in the value of the product. This lesson is remembered for a long time. It is one reason older people (over 30) simply stop buying perishable content. I've been here long enough to know there were two types of 8 track tapes. Those that have tangled and those that are about to. That was followed with Compact Cassettes and VHS tape. Now it's CD rot and DRM.
They wonder why I rip everything? Look no further than I want the content and it's lisence to outlive the distribution media.
By visual inspection alone, it is impossible to look at a CD and know whether it is of the "corrupt" ilk.
I look for the Philips Compact Disc logo. If it's missing, then the product may be incompatible. I wish more people refused to buy stuff without the logo. It would enforce a standard upon the industry. Use the logo or don't sell.
The logo use requires technical standards to be met. When the standards are met, then it should play with no issues an any compliant device.
Look for the logo. Get the clerk to help you look.
I would be really upset having to use this, I would want to get my orders on shortwave where I can sit at home with my earphones on.
You may be safe but the location of the transmitter will be known within a short distance in just a few seconds.
A new VOIP phone doesn't announce itself to the world like a new broadcast on shortwave. Fewer people would notice a posting of the number on a website and understand it than those interested in a new shortwave station transmitting numbers.
I know it's the first thing that comes to mind but I'm sure They can monitor who calls ("tunes into") that phone number regularily. Broadcasts are anonymous and many people own shortwave radios, VOIP can be traced to a subscriber so what gives?
You are thinging traditional VOIP subscriber. Buy an adaptor at ______ with cash. Activate it with a stolen card and ID. Hook it directly to a wireless access point in client mode. Wardrive near hotels. Park nearby for a couple days.
It's much harder to pinpoint the source than a radio signal. RF Direction equipment can triangulate a HF signal quite quickly.
Frankly the only reason I think that network hard drives are so popular is that people are terrified of cracking open their PCs to install a hard drive, and they don't really understand the difference between the various external types.
You missed that one. I have a foster home. I load the MP3's, drivers, and photos on a NAS instead of on some local drive. I also put the My Documents on the NAS. The shares are password protected and I can use any machine handy to access it. Sometimes I use a laptop. Sometimes I use a desktop with a CD burner for a change of tunes for the car. All the special drivers for the various machines are on the NAS. It helps in a rebuild as I don't have to find all the driver disks for everything. Sometimes I'm out in the garage and want some tunes other than what the local DJ wants to dribble all over. A laptop with wireless brings the tunes out. A NAS makes a lot of sence if you are not a bachlor with a single PC. It is a whole lot cheaper than buying a bunch of 160 Gig drives for all the PC's. I can keep the machines running on the 15-60 Gig drives they already have.
My NAS draws 15 watts and the hard drive powers down after 20 minutes of inactivity. It has no fan. Why would I want to leave a PC on 24X7 to share a few files. The NAS is also encrypted. If it is stolen, the removal of power unmounts the encrypted partition. It can only be remounted by providing the encryption key through a password protected web interface. It is much safer than data on a local drive. The NAS box is blocked from the WEB by my NAT router. It can't be directly attacked from the WEB. An attacker would have to compromise one of the other machines first. It adds a layer of security to the data.
It's probably firstly because Unix printing support is still a HUGE fucking pain in the ass, and secondly because the average consumer has no need whatsoever for something like that.
Who cares. Most of the Linux appliances don't care. The printer driver is installed on the Windows clients and the Linux box (NAS/Printserver) simply spools the data. The NAS doesn't need print drivers. It has no print jobs to create.
I have Linksys, Hawking printservers and a Simple Tech NAS which supports USB printing. They don't use printdrivers. They only emulate a new hardware port to the Windows machines.
I am in the market for a solar powered air conditioner that is environmetally friendly.
You are looking for a very large array. Bring lots of bucks. You are looking for a large battery to cover overcast days. Bring lots of bucks. You are looking for a high effeciency air conditioner to reduce the size of the needed solar panels and battery. Visit Home Depot. You are looking for an effecient way to get the DC power to AC power with little power lost. Bring lots of bucks and look up Outback Power Systems.
Do research of off grid living. Most people off grid look to better insulation and other cooling methods instead of a large energy sucking heat pump to remove unwanted heat. Reducing heat build-up in the first place is the first step. Start with effecient appliances and lighting. Use a laptop. Use heat storage to keep daytime heat peaks down.
to hack mySpace but not to devise a better way to transfer the pay-off?
Greed goes a long way. They got led into believing they would collect if they followed the money. I think they took up an offer. They didn't set and stick to firm secure terms. This was not a Western Union transfer out of the country.
Even if the site itself never made money (which I doubt, as they advertise heavily and widely) - the data they collect is worth millions upon millions of dollars.
Too bad the data is not verifiable. I have foster kids. They have accounts. I visited My Space and found the minimum age is 14.
I think My Space has a lot of 14 year old accounts that won't be 14 for several more years. I know of 3 that are really 12.
With some of the content on the site, I wish they had a way to verify the age of it's members. I've also heard some of the 15 year old girls are neither girls or under 25.
This might be good to potty train kids but I don't see its function in a rest stop.
Knowing my kids, this would hardly be used to improve hygene. When they run out of proper game tokens, they will move on to other things to continue the game such as fingers. Somehow having the kids play games with the touch screen in a urnal does not seem like a way to improve hygene.
Does that stop you from downloading them too, or just buying them?
If it has DRM and compressed to sound loud instead of preserving dynamic range, I have no use for it. CD's used to have dynamic range. Now much stuff hits over 95% of peak within the first few seconds into a song and remains there for the rest of the song. CD's used to have dynamic range and used good engineering pratices for low distortion, low noise and good fidelity.
Now much stuff is over compressed to the point where the drums amplitude modulate the rest of the stuff. The term the engineers used is pump it up. Yuck. I would rather have a linear recording so I could crank it up if I wanted and compress it to pump it up if I wanted.
Downloading DRM lossy compressed files is not an investment in music.
Lossy compressed files are ok for finding new artists. The video that made the rounds of the crazy annimated Christmas lights is a good example. I haden't heard of the Trans Siberian Orchestra up to that point.
Too bad the RIAA's position on the video is piracy of the soundtrack even though the band loved his show and gave him free tickets to their concert.
The band has the right ideas of proper fair use. If you try the same thing and don't pay royalties, you could really get into legal hot water for that type video.
Yeah, but would they admit not finding evidence or would the AP owner have to prove it?
When they do a raid, they have to prove what files you were sharing. If they aren't there, you would have a good shot when pointing out the wireless. I have no filesharing application installed. I have none of the songs you claimed I was sharing. I have some songs, but they are from my own ripped CD's. Here are the originals. They were not shared on e-donkey.
(I checked my amule this morning: had 1800+ items. I quickly unshared everything older than 100 days, and now I'm down to 96).
You may have already been detected. Best bet is to burn everything to CD and toss them in a suitcase and put it in your storage unit. Then delete all the files and the filesharing program. Then if you get raided, let them know you heard of the campaign and stopped and deleted everyting. The raid will show everything was deleted.
Those crazy Europeans paid VAT taxes on all blank media because people just kind of assumed it would be used for piracy.
I know in some places they have royalty fees on blank media. For example there is one on audio CDR discs. I think that is why they don't bother the downloaders. They are trying to cut off the uploaders. They don't want their product diluted. They taxed the media for when you make a copy of a CD you already own for your car.
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A funny thing happened to me. I thought Starbucks had free wireless. I took my laptop in and ordered a cocoa and tried to connect. I hit the T-Mobile login screen and went WTF?? I asked and they informed me it was pay. I sat back down and connected to linksys and downloaded my iso that would have taken forever on dial-up. If you borrow a connection, don't be obvious.
While trying to find a good dial up ISP in a new area, my wife jumped the gun and figured a free 30 day trial would get her online in the meantime.
A week later I picked an ISP and started service. Then came the fun of trying to cancel. My wife tried and failed and asked me to try since I was a guy and could deal with them.
I called and explained how we came by the account. It was never intended as long term. They tried to get me to keep the account. What worked was when I told them I was having trouble using my e-mail client to recieve POP-3 mail and asked how to configure it. They explained they didn't support it. I said I could not continue to use them because they did not meet my requirements. Case closed.
They don't want to let you go if they think they can meet your needs. Be sure your needs are not met by their walled garden.
Unless their system is really fast (detects the sensor and sends out out the beam in the hundredth of a second or so the mirror's up), it's hard to picture it blocking any SLR.
;-) ) Ask to see the filters. Take a circular polarizer and place it in front of the mirror in her make up case. It does the same for a reflection from a CCD. Instant stealth. As a bonus, it cuts reflections from trade show display cases.
An SLR is not a clandestine camera. It is typicaly large and makes quite a bit of noise.
A better bet is to use your cell phone camera.. Just add a Circular Polarizer. Visit a camera store with your girlfriend (oops this is slashdot
I'm sure it doesn't work at all if you put the equivilant of mirror glass on the lense.
I'll probably be in some violation of some law, but here goes.. Circular Polarizer. Hint, take one and place it on a mirror.. Neat huh. Works the same on a camera and cuts glare from the display case.
Second hint Overload. Many coats and shoes have reflective trim for safe nighttime use. Get a paper punch and a sheet of 3M reflector sheet. Add a bunch of small round dots to clothing to be safe at night.
Have fun.
The idea is that if the ads are cool you will tell your friends about them, and then they will see them and spread them to their friends, hence viral.
I can mention a couple examples.. Anybody in the US seen the Japanese advert for a paricular tea. Look up Rube Goldberg and you are sure to find it. The other one that comes to mind is one made by Honda. It ran 2 minutes in length and as such was too expensive to air in the US. I have seen it several times and enjoyed it. Do a search for Honda and Cog and you will be sure to find it.
Right up geek alley is the Trojan Olympics. Warning not safe for work but very funny.
All examples are ones not broadcast in my area. I saw them because of viral sharing, not because they were plastered all over a website.
A stoned little dwarf throws a nasty-looking knife at you and misses. What more do you need?
What version of Adventure are you playing. In the version I played on a PDP11/35, the dwarf wasn't stoned and was deadly. Sometimes I was lucky and tossed the axe back killing the dwarf, but I could never get the dwarf. He always dissappeared in a cloud of greasy black smoke.
More like follow the offshore bank accounts, Grand Cayman Islands, etc.
I lived there. Internet access is expensive as it was a government protected monopoly. Check the rates. Cable and Wireless is the company. To visit, see www.candw.ky.
When they first put in internet, they got 2 satelite T1 links for the whole island. Little Cayman and Cayman Brac still did not have internet. They charged $0.25/minute for access on dial up.
Needless to say I didn't get internet until I returned to the states.
They have since gotten a Fiber Optic cable to Jamaca and they now offer DSL. They are running a promotion for $25/month for the first year. That is CI $ not USD. The price is close to US $30/month. Restrictions such as can't compete with the phone company by using VOIP is the norm.
The plan appears to be capped at 256K unless you upgrade to a faster plan. For example the 1024 plan is CI $74. The 512 plan is $59.
Cayman Islands is a nice place to go for diving and sun, but not for internet based business.
Here in France we have very cheap broadband, but doesn't seem like France is producing much zombie spam.
Read past the headline.. Look to the part where they mention ISP's are slow to disconnect. I imagine in France, most ISP's are quick to disconnect a bot spewing stuff.
Seems like an already lost cause when you consider iTunesMS supports Win & Mac (sadly Linux is still missing...)
Even more missing is Panasonic, Teac, Kenwood, Toshiba, Hitachi, RCA, Yamaha, Bose, Real, SONY,...
If it won't play in my living room DVD/MP3 player, Car CD/MP3 player, and flash portable MP3 player, it's DOA.
Allofmp3.com is not a legal service either in Russia or anywhere else.
I just visited the home page. If they provided content from the Russian music industry which they have license to, then the clam may be valid.
However they mostly have content that is not from Russia. The home page lists bands such as The Backstreet Boys, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chilli Pepers, Dixie Chicks, etc. Their use of content without an agreement is why to some it looks pretty clear they are pirating the content. I doubt they have contracts with the above bands or their record companies.
If they had only Russian content for use inside Russa, I could see their claim as valid. Using other content without an agreement crosses the line.
The breakage being the main one -- record companies make extra profit due to this, not less.
Yes however by taking the breakage money without providing an exchange damaged media for a new copy policy, they have killed the golden goose.
DRM'ed stuff that can't be legaly backed up and breaks is a lesson in the value of the product. This lesson is remembered for a long time. It is one reason older people (over 30) simply stop buying perishable content. I've been here long enough to know there were two types of 8 track tapes. Those that have tangled and those that are about to. That was followed with Compact Cassettes and VHS tape. Now it's CD rot and DRM.
They wonder why I rip everything? Look no further than I want the content and it's lisence to outlive the distribution media.
I looked at a sampling of CDs at Future Shop recently and the only one I found with the CD Audio logo was U2's "The Joshua Tree", which is from 1987
That in a nutshell is why I no longer go to record stores. They don't display Compact Discs for sale. I can't find them.
By visual inspection alone, it is impossible to look at a CD and know whether it is of the "corrupt" ilk.
I look for the Philips Compact Disc logo. If it's missing, then the product may be incompatible. I wish more people refused to buy stuff without the logo. It would enforce a standard upon the industry. Use the logo or don't sell.
The logo use requires technical standards to be met. When the standards are met, then it should play with no issues an any compliant device.
Look for the logo. Get the clerk to help you look.
I would be really upset having to use this, I would want to get my orders on shortwave where I can sit at home with my earphones on.
You may be safe but the location of the transmitter will be known within a short distance in just a few seconds.
A new VOIP phone doesn't announce itself to the world like a new broadcast on shortwave. Fewer people would notice a posting of the number on a website and understand it than those interested in a new shortwave station transmitting numbers.
I know it's the first thing that comes to mind but I'm sure They can monitor who calls ("tunes into") that phone number regularily. Broadcasts are anonymous and many people own shortwave radios, VOIP can be traced to a subscriber so what gives?
You are thinging traditional VOIP subscriber. Buy an adaptor at ______ with cash. Activate it with a stolen card and ID. Hook it directly to a wireless access point in client mode. Wardrive near hotels. Park nearby for a couple days.
It's much harder to pinpoint the source than a radio signal. RF Direction equipment can triangulate a HF signal quite quickly.
Frankly the only reason I think that network hard drives are so popular is that people are terrified of cracking open their PCs to install a hard drive, and they don't really understand the difference between the various external types.
You missed that one. I have a foster home. I load the MP3's, drivers, and photos on a NAS instead of on some local drive. I also put the My Documents on the NAS. The shares are password protected and I can use any machine handy to access it. Sometimes I use a laptop. Sometimes I use a desktop with a CD burner for a change of tunes for the car. All the special drivers for the various machines are on the NAS. It helps in a rebuild as I don't have to find all the driver disks for everything. Sometimes I'm out in the garage and want some tunes other than what the local DJ wants to dribble all over. A laptop with wireless brings the tunes out. A NAS makes a lot of sence if you are not a bachlor with a single PC. It is a whole lot cheaper than buying a bunch of 160 Gig drives for all the PC's. I can keep the machines running on the 15-60 Gig drives they already have.
My NAS draws 15 watts and the hard drive powers down after 20 minutes of inactivity. It has no fan. Why would I want to leave a PC on 24X7 to share a few files. The NAS is also encrypted. If it is stolen, the removal of power unmounts the encrypted partition. It can only be remounted by providing the encryption key through a password protected web interface. It is much safer than data on a local drive. The NAS box is blocked from the WEB by my NAT router. It can't be directly attacked from the WEB. An attacker would have to compromise one of the other machines first. It adds a layer of security to the data.
It's probably firstly because Unix printing support is still a HUGE fucking pain in the ass, and secondly because the average consumer has no need whatsoever for something like that.
Who cares. Most of the Linux appliances don't care. The printer driver is installed on the Windows clients and the Linux box (NAS/Printserver) simply spools the data. The NAS doesn't need print drivers. It has no print jobs to create.
I have Linksys, Hawking printservers and a Simple Tech NAS which supports USB printing. They don't use printdrivers. They only emulate a new hardware port to the Windows machines.
I am in the market for a solar powered air conditioner that
is environmetally friendly.
You are looking for a very large array. Bring lots of bucks. You are looking for a large battery to cover overcast days. Bring lots of bucks. You are looking for a high effeciency air conditioner to reduce the size of the needed solar panels and battery. Visit Home Depot. You are looking for an effecient way to get the DC power to AC power with little power lost. Bring lots of bucks and look up Outback Power Systems.
Do research of off grid living. Most people off grid look to better insulation and other cooling methods instead of a large energy sucking heat pump to remove unwanted heat. Reducing heat build-up in the first place is the first step. Start with effecient appliances and lighting. Use a laptop. Use heat storage to keep daytime heat peaks down.
to hack mySpace but not to devise a better way to transfer the pay-off?
Greed goes a long way. They got led into believing they would collect if they followed the money. I think they took up an offer. They didn't set and stick to firm secure terms. This was not a Western Union transfer out of the country.
Even if the site itself never made money (which I doubt, as they advertise heavily and widely) - the data they collect is worth millions upon millions of dollars.
Too bad the data is not verifiable. I have foster kids. They have accounts. I visited My Space and found the minimum age is 14.
I think My Space has a lot of 14 year old accounts that won't be 14 for several more years. I know of 3 that are really 12.
With some of the content on the site, I wish they had a way to verify the age of it's members. I've also heard some of the 15 year old girls are neither girls or under 25.
This might be good to potty train kids but I don't see its function in a rest stop.
Knowing my kids, this would hardly be used to improve hygene. When they run out of proper game tokens, they will move on to other things to continue the game such as fingers. Somehow having the kids play games with the touch screen in a urnal does not seem like a way to improve hygene.
Does that stop you from downloading them too, or just buying them?
If it has DRM and compressed to sound loud instead of preserving dynamic range, I have no use for it. CD's used to have dynamic range. Now much stuff hits over 95% of peak within the first few seconds into a song and remains there for the rest of the song. CD's used to have dynamic range and used good engineering pratices for low distortion, low noise and good fidelity.
Now much stuff is over compressed to the point where the drums amplitude modulate the rest of the stuff. The term the engineers used is pump it up. Yuck. I would rather have a linear recording so I could crank it up if I wanted and compress it to pump it up if I wanted.
Downloading DRM lossy compressed files is not an investment in music.
Lossy compressed files are ok for finding new artists. The video that made the rounds of the crazy annimated Christmas lights is a good example. I haden't heard of the Trans Siberian Orchestra up to that point.
Too bad the RIAA's position on the video is piracy of the soundtrack even though the band loved his show and gave him free tickets to their concert.
The band has the right ideas of proper fair use. If you try the same thing and don't pay royalties, you could really get into legal hot water for that type video.
Yeah, but would they admit not finding evidence or would the AP owner have to prove it?
When they do a raid, they have to prove what files you were sharing. If they aren't there, you would have a good shot when pointing out the wireless. I have no filesharing application installed. I have none of the songs you claimed I was sharing. I have some songs, but they are from my own ripped CD's. Here are the originals. They were not shared on e-donkey.
(I checked my amule this morning: had 1800+ items. I quickly unshared everything older than 100 days, and now I'm down to 96).
You may have already been detected. Best bet is to burn everything to CD and toss them in a suitcase and put it in your storage unit. Then delete all the files and the filesharing program. Then if you get raided, let them know you heard of the campaign and stopped and deleted everyting. The raid will show everything was deleted.
Those crazy Europeans paid VAT taxes on all blank media because people just kind of assumed it would be used for piracy.
I know in some places they have royalty fees on blank media. For example there is one on audio CDR discs. I think that is why they don't bother the downloaders. They are trying to cut off the uploaders. They don't want their product diluted. They taxed the media for when you make a copy of a CD you already own for your car.