I can just see how an enemy will hack the pixel array to marquee "ALL YOUR BASE BELONG TO US!" or some animated target and the poor tankies won't know it because they can't see their own thermo picture!
Prevent, maybe not, but monitor yes. The signals have to come back down at some point so governments could try to intercept satellite connections at a ground station. Iridium routes from satellite to satellite and then down to the US (Tempe, Arizona and Wahiawa, Hawaii for the military) so is fairly impregnable from that perspective. Globalstar's satellite are "bent pipes" and beam down immediately to a ground station in Argentina, Australia, Botswana, France, Korea or the United States. Inmarsat is perhaps the most interceptable (in theory) as the ground stations are not owned by Inmarsat and are in a number of countries: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, India, Singapore, US, various EU countries, etc. But there is also signal monitoring equipment like that from Shoghi Communications that can snoop on all the signals. One would use a VPN at that point, but you'd be breaking the law...
Reading Claim 1, of which all the others are dependent, this is for the distribution of music using a user-specific DRM system. Also, the claim is incredibly long which != broad BTW. Remember, do one thing differently and you're golden. Reading the claim and with such specific nuggets like the music having to include a "core" that includes "at least one object identification code, object structure information, a consumer code and an encryption table", and at least one "layer" around the core containing "the actual music information" etc and I wonder if anyone would actually do it that way anyway. That was probably the way PacketVideo did it, who have actually be around for years doing video meida streaming going back to the 56K modem days (and probably before). And they are innovators, not a troll.
My approach is something a security guy from Intel told me - take a phrase you can remember that is unique to you, e.g., "I love Jennie and Maggie my 2 kids" or "We moved to Portland 25 years ago in August" and then just take the first letter of each word and keep the numbers as is. You can also throw in some punctuation or make it a two phrase password as well. Then, when you type, you just say the phrase(s) in your head and tap the first letter. It's very simple. I've been using it to express my angst for years, so maybe there's a few too many "f's" in mine passwords, but there you go.
Fiddlesticks, not this again. Android ain't free. As in beer. It costs a stack of $'s to make Android work on a device because is it *not* a product and it's not delivered to an OEM in any fit state to be put onto a phone as-is sold to a Western carrier. To get Android into shape costs oodles of dollars and hundreds of man hours (and most of that know-how and changes stay in-house BTW). That's not all Android's fault - it all depends on the hardware it's put on and what features you want it to run, but it's definitely not free, the costs are just elsewhere.
It's not a government regulation, but the CTIA and GSMNA introduced the same measure in the US last year (well 2009) and it's a mandatory feature for all new handsets released from the big carriers now. Next step is to stop bundling chargers in the boxes like Apple did on the iPod. Then get rid of all the CDROM's, wired headsets, manuals and other junk accessories - they are almost gone now. Final step will be to get rid of the boxes themselves and ship in bulk to the stores and have them slipped into a (bio-degradable) bag at POS along with the warranty slip and legalese, or even skip the bag.
As a brit living in America I've found that there are some extremely good beers here nowadays, especially around Portland, OR. I just drank a very good IPA from Terminal Gravity - live beer. The yanks have come a loooong way from Bud (which is now EU owned FWIW).
The root cause of this weakness is that whereas the 2G network can authenticate the handset (both the SIM and the ME), the handset cannot authenticate the network. It's assumed the 2G network is trustworthy, which in this case, it isn't. There's a stack load of problems with 2G (GSM) security including unilateral authentication, which leads to network impersonation; weak encryption (short keys and broken algorithms); lack of end-to-end or virtually end-to-end encryption; weak confidentiality; no data integrity algorithms; lack of visibility to the user that encryption is on, etc. A lot of these are fixed in 3G. See http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/tsg_sa/WG3_Security/_Specs/33120-300.pdf and http://www.arib.or.jp/IMT-2000/ARIB-spec/ARIB/21133-310.PDF. In this second PDF, section A.4 Hijacking of services describes this attack.
For H1B's, and I think other visa's the visa is in your passport. This means that you must carry your passport at all times. For green card holders you need to carry it the credit card-like card. Green cards are extremely valuable and I never carried mine except when I had to travel abroad.
This is NOT an Android limit. It is a limit of the flash memory that the manufacturer decides to put in their phones. Moto decided to put just 512MB on their device, probably because that was the biggest size they could stack. Adding more would require a separate chip, like a Samsung MoviNAND (basically an SD card in IC package) that would take up more PCB room. But if they had laid down moviNAND they could have got 2G, 4G, 8G or maybe even more. There will be plenty of multi gigabyte Android devices out there in 2010.
Mod this guy up, the parent doesn't know what he's talking about. Most smartphones use dual cores or bridge architectures where the applications processor and the modem processor are separate and communicate over a serial link, be it USB, shock-horror a UART or shared memory. And even more shock horror, yes they might even use AT commands to do talk to each other - even today!
It's coming out in August! But you need to be in Japan.:-( The Solar Hybrid 936SH, is by Sharp for SoftBank mobile. It has a big solar array up front that'll give you one minute of call time or two hours of standby per 10 minutes of charging. It also has IPX7 water resistance, an 8 megapixel camera, and a full wide VGA display.
Solar and ruggedness go well together. If you're outdoors hiking and in low signal areas, your battery will burn down quicker, and as there aren't any 100V sockets on El Capitan last time I looked, being able to recharge that battery just with the sun makes a whole load of sense. I predict it'll be in the US late 2010.
Actually, it is real - Sharp made them years ago - no glasses required, so if Acer indeed comes out with a 3D laptop then it'll be the world's second manufacturer to do so. Sharp even got to a second generation of them. Here's a link: http://www.physorg.com/news3296.html. It was so successful you can't buy them anymore. The problem was lack of content and you needed to hold you head in the hot-zone of 3D-ness. Even if Acer manages to release a decent 3D screen, and we start watching the latest 3D movies on it, I think they'll have a tough time overcoming the puppet theater effect on such a small screen. It's not such a problem in a huge cinema, but would be in this case.
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With the advent of Android on Linux, OpenMoko can safely retire. There will be a flood of Android hardware out soon in addition to the G1 and at least some of it will be hackable or open enough for developers to delve into the stack if they want. For example, you'll be able to improve the hardware drivers, add functionality left out by the original makers because they feared patent infringement, and take advantage of hardware acceleration that didn't make it into the shipping product. Perhaps the only sacrosanct portion kept off limits will be the radio stack itself, which if hacked could invalidate the CE mark, FCC, GCF, PTCRB, etc.
Actually no. The objects are rotated and at different perspectives, so it's not the same silhouette at all. Also, they throw in a tricky one every so often, like they show you a helicopter but there is only a plane to chose from, i.e. it's a flying object. It might catch some dumb people, but most humans will have a go at a logically similar picture. Also, to those posters who say CAPTCHA's can be overcome by porn site watching humans, well yeah, but a CAPTCHA is by definition a test to tell humans and computers apart (look up the acronym), so if the only way to defeat it is to use humans, then it's still a successful CAPTCHA, even if it is not a successful gatekeeper to a site.
Okay, this is complete speculation but I think it'll be a 6 and 8 gig iPod nano. Then they will announce a 200 song iTunes RAZR Version 2 and get Moto all pissed off again.
You mean, like this? http://www.sharp3d.com/ Sharp put 3D screens onto a lot of cellphones in Japan a few years ago. Apparently some of the most popular content was porn.
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Well, 50% of humans *are* below average intelligence, so it only had to be lucky with the other 9%...
Did you chose those names as a homage to the BBC Micro Model A and Model B?
I can just see how an enemy will hack the pixel array to marquee "ALL YOUR BASE BELONG TO US!" or some animated target and the poor tankies won't know it because they can't see their own thermo picture!
Prevent, maybe not, but monitor yes. The signals have to come back down at some point so governments could try to intercept satellite connections at a ground station. Iridium routes from satellite to satellite and then down to the US (Tempe, Arizona and Wahiawa, Hawaii for the military) so is fairly impregnable from that perspective. Globalstar's satellite are "bent pipes" and beam down immediately to a ground station in Argentina, Australia, Botswana, France, Korea or the United States. Inmarsat is perhaps the most interceptable (in theory) as the ground stations are not owned by Inmarsat and are in a number of countries: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, India, Singapore, US, various EU countries, etc.
But there is also signal monitoring equipment like that from Shoghi Communications that can snoop on all the signals. One would use a VPN at that point, but you'd be breaking the law...
Reading Claim 1, of which all the others are dependent, this is for the distribution of music using a user-specific DRM system. Also, the claim is incredibly long which != broad BTW. Remember, do one thing differently and you're golden. Reading the claim and with such specific nuggets like the music having to include a "core" that includes "at least one object identification code, object structure information, a consumer code and an encryption table", and at least one "layer" around the core containing "the actual music information" etc and I wonder if anyone would actually do it that way anyway. That was probably the way PacketVideo did it, who have actually be around for years doing video meida streaming going back to the 56K modem days (and probably before). And they are innovators, not a troll.
My approach is something a security guy from Intel told me - take a phrase you can remember that is unique to you, e.g., "I love Jennie and Maggie my 2 kids" or "We moved to Portland 25 years ago in August" and then just take the first letter of each word and keep the numbers as is. You can also throw in some punctuation or make it a two phrase password as well. Then, when you type, you just say the phrase(s) in your head and tap the first letter. It's very simple. I've been using it to express my angst for years, so maybe there's a few too many "f's" in mine passwords, but there you go.
This is really great. It's about time someone challenged this crazy ad hoc sales tax system and Amazon has the weight to do it. Well done Jeff.
Fiddlesticks, not this again. Android ain't free. As in beer. It costs a stack of $'s to make Android work on a device because is it *not* a product and it's not delivered to an OEM in any fit state to be put onto a phone as-is sold to a Western carrier. To get Android into shape costs oodles of dollars and hundreds of man hours (and most of that know-how and changes stay in-house BTW). That's not all Android's fault - it all depends on the hardware it's put on and what features you want it to run, but it's definitely not free, the costs are just elsewhere.
It's not a government regulation, but the CTIA and GSMNA introduced the same measure in the US last year (well 2009) and it's a mandatory feature for all new handsets released from the big carriers now. Next step is to stop bundling chargers in the boxes like Apple did on the iPod. Then get rid of all the CDROM's, wired headsets, manuals and other junk accessories - they are almost gone now. Final step will be to get rid of the boxes themselves and ship in bulk to the stores and have them slipped into a (bio-degradable) bag at POS along with the warranty slip and legalese, or even skip the bag.
Not to sound like a broken record (does that phase mean anything to people or did I just show my age)...
A broken record sounds like something Usain Bolt would achieve! Brum, tish - Thanks I'll be here all week...
Note the words "large-scale". Stockholm and Oslo are two cities. Verizon was referring to a continent.
As a brit living in America I've found that there are some extremely good beers here nowadays, especially around Portland, OR. I just drank a very good IPA from Terminal Gravity - live beer. The yanks have come a loooong way from Bud (which is now EU owned FWIW).
The root cause of this weakness is that whereas the 2G network can authenticate the handset (both the SIM and the ME), the handset cannot authenticate the network. It's assumed the 2G network is trustworthy, which in this case, it isn't. There's a stack load of problems with 2G (GSM) security including unilateral authentication, which leads to network impersonation; weak encryption (short keys and broken algorithms); lack of end-to-end or virtually end-to-end encryption; weak confidentiality; no data integrity algorithms; lack of visibility to the user that encryption is on, etc. A lot of these are fixed in 3G. See http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/tsg_sa/WG3_Security/_Specs/33120-300.pdf and http://www.arib.or.jp/IMT-2000/ARIB-spec/ARIB/21133-310.PDF. In this second PDF, section A.4 Hijacking of services describes this attack.
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For H1B's, and I think other visa's the visa is in your passport. This means that you must carry your passport at all times. For green card holders you need to carry it the credit card-like card. Green cards are extremely valuable and I never carried mine except when I had to travel abroad.
This is NOT an Android limit. It is a limit of the flash memory that the manufacturer decides to put in their phones. Moto decided to put just 512MB on their device, probably because that was the biggest size they could stack. Adding more would require a separate chip, like a Samsung MoviNAND (basically an SD card in IC package) that would take up more PCB room. But if they had laid down moviNAND they could have got 2G, 4G, 8G or maybe even more. There will be plenty of multi gigabyte Android devices out there in 2010.
So, Congress didn't make a law prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the press, but capitalism killed it anyway. Hmm.
Mod this guy up, the parent doesn't know what he's talking about. Most smartphones use dual cores or bridge architectures where the applications processor and the modem processor are separate and communicate over a serial link, be it USB, shock-horror a UART or shared memory. And even more shock horror, yes they might even use AT commands to do talk to each other - even today!
It's coming out in August! But you need to be in Japan. :-( The Solar Hybrid 936SH, is by Sharp for SoftBank mobile. It has a big solar array up front that'll give you one minute of call time or two hours of standby per 10 minutes of charging. It also has IPX7 water resistance, an 8 megapixel camera, and a full wide VGA display.
Solar and ruggedness go well together. If you're outdoors hiking and in low signal areas, your battery will burn down quicker, and as there aren't any 100V sockets on El Capitan last time I looked, being able to recharge that battery just with the sun makes a whole load of sense. I predict it'll be in the US late 2010.
Actually, it is real - Sharp made them years ago - no glasses required, so if Acer indeed comes out with a 3D laptop then it'll be the world's second manufacturer to do so. Sharp even got to a second generation of them. Here's a link: http://www.physorg.com/news3296.html. It was so successful you can't buy them anymore. The problem was lack of content and you needed to hold you head in the hot-zone of 3D-ness. Even if Acer manages to release a decent 3D screen, and we start watching the latest 3D movies on it, I think they'll have a tough time overcoming the puppet theater effect on such a small screen. It's not such a problem in a huge cinema, but would be in this case.
With the advent of Android on Linux, OpenMoko can safely retire. There will be a flood of Android hardware out soon in addition to the G1 and at least some of it will be hackable or open enough for developers to delve into the stack if they want. For example, you'll be able to improve the hardware drivers, add functionality left out by the original makers because they feared patent infringement, and take advantage of hardware acceleration that didn't make it into the shipping product. Perhaps the only sacrosanct portion kept off limits will be the radio stack itself, which if hacked could invalidate the CE mark, FCC, GCF, PTCRB, etc.
I don't work for them, but my former employer (a major IC maker) used them all the time. $200 gets it published and printed in a journal.
Actually no. The objects are rotated and at different perspectives, so it's not the same silhouette at all. Also, they throw in a tricky one every so often, like they show you a helicopter but there is only a plane to chose from, i.e. it's a flying object. It might catch some dumb people, but most humans will have a go at a logically similar picture.
Also, to those posters who say CAPTCHA's can be overcome by porn site watching humans, well yeah, but a CAPTCHA is by definition a test to tell humans and computers apart (look up the acronym), so if the only way to defeat it is to use humans, then it's still a successful CAPTCHA, even if it is not a successful gatekeeper to a site.
Okay, this is complete speculation but I think it'll be a 6 and 8 gig iPod nano. Then they will announce a 200 song iTunes RAZR Version 2 and get Moto all pissed off again.
You mean, like this? http://www.sharp3d.com/
Sharp put 3D screens onto a lot of cellphones in Japan a few years ago. Apparently some of the most popular content was porn.