You misunderstand me. I'm not saying that such a device is silly - I'm saying that asking Slashdot how to DIY is.
As a practical matter, any establishment large enough to have 16 live video feeds that they want to monitor in real-time is not going to stake it on some geek's homegrown DVR cluster. They'll buy a professional solution backed by serious support. Or, like I said, they're already fucked.
Furthermore, Ask Slashdot is supposed to be a forum that is both thought-intriguing and productive. If you can find your answer with 5 minutes of Google searching, it shouldn't be an Ask Slashdot question.
I'm sorry, but what is the point of 'Ask Slashdot' if the question is going to be absolutely silly? I've farted out more useful questions than this one.
A PVR that can record 16 channels at once? Get real. Unless you're operating a TV station, you don't need that many channels. And if you do operate a TV station and you're asking Slashdot how to build video equipment - you're fucked.
Here's a tip kid. Quit jerking off thinking about recording 16 TV shows at once and go outside.
Not that I think people should be kicked out of jobs by robots.
Why not? Automation is a good thing. Do you think that we should still be using switchboard operators and elevator attendants? As the level of automation in the world increases, the total amount of manual labor that mankind must perform decreases. Ideally, we should get to the point where the only work we're doing is maintaining/improving the robots.
Besides, if these magnetic docking systems put a few longshoremen out of work, so what? Is it really such a terrible thing that they better themselves and learn a new trade?
It's so much simpler to poison a well rather than figure out how to use it to make money and satisfy your "customers".
You have to understand their point of view. The Internet will destroy the profit margins that they are currently enjoying. Period.
Previously, the barrier to entry in the recording industry was fairly high. You had to be able to mass produce a physical product and have a massive marketing machine to push it. The music industry turned into an oligopoly and was able to keep music prices artificially elevated. With the advent of the Internet as we know it, it became possible to distribute music without any physical production whatsoever. It's therefore much easier for competition to enter, and more competition means lower prices.
If I were a record company executive, I'd be forestalling this new distribution medium as long as I could too. To act like they should welcome it with open arms is silly. Would you welcome a pay cut?
What are they made of? They seem ceramic, not even metal.
My guess would be a glass or ceramic. The first time I opened up a hard drive I assummed the platters were metal because of their reflectivity. After trying to bend one of them and having it shatter into a million pieces in my face, I discovered that they are not.
Nope. A magnetic field that would be strong enough to erase a hard drive would probably also compress it into a lump of twisted metal.
Hmm - I believe that.
A few years ago I was in charge of erasing a bunch of hard drives before the machines went to auction. My first idea was to degauss them. So, I found the strongest magnet I could (from an old speaker, I believe) and stuck it on the side of one of the hard drives for more than 24 hours. Then I popped the hard drive back into the machine and to my amazement found absolutely zero corruption of the data.
Heh - and to think I used to worry about using magnetized screwdrivers when working on computers.
You're right, my apologies. Nothing like a little pseudo-anonymity to bring out the jerkyness in one.
Anyway, no I'm not in the security field, just a lowly net admin. But the reason I think public WiFi is spooky is because my neighbor has a wide-open access point that I happened to discover by accident.
What is to stop me from sitting in my home, pointing a "cantennae" at his house, and proceeding to gather up an ungodly horde of zombie machines for some massive DoS attack? Nothing. Even the local authorities would have no idea how to track me down.
What keeps me from launching this same attack from my home cable modem? The fact that eventually I'd get discovered and at the very least my ISP would yank my account.
Endorsing scary shit like Carnivore is one thing, but I don't think it's too much to ask that we try not to give completely anonymous Internet access to the public, or if you do limit it to non-dangerous protocols (HTTP, SMTP, etc.).
How do you run a Cyber Cafe (that takes cash), a Public Library network
Ideally these systems aren't so insecure that you can run any software you want to on them. Besides, many of them have security cameras installed.
an anonymous remailer, an anonymous non-logging proxy
What the hell kind of damage are you going to do with an email or a web browser?
an insecure home computer running Windows BackOrifice
Any script kiddie toying with home machines still has to exercise some restraint. There's no way of knowing whether or not the FBI is sitting there sniffing your every move.
Anonymous wireless access isn't any more or less a "threat" than the same situation in the insecure-by-default, unaccountable wired world.
Yes it is. Wireless is truly anonymous. Unless the NSA is on the scene triangulating your position, you are 100% anonymous. And with that kind of access you don't have to exercise the slightest bit of restraint.
Do you also think that those evil anonymous postcards with no return address should be banned too? I mean... what if some scr1ptk1ddie terrorist laced it with acid and you accidentally licked it?!
You're a moron. Email me when you get out of high school and we'll continue this discussion.
Our friends at Homeland Security view the uncontrolled internet access [...] as a *major* problem.
From your post I have a little trouble figuring out your stance on this. Do you disagree with HomeSec?
Completely anonymous high-speed Internet access *is* dangerous. What prevents some script kiddie from pulling up in his Honda Civic (with a huge spoiler of course) and using a public hotspot to launch every known attack against any site on the Internet?
At least with a cable modem or DSL there is the possibility of digging through log files and turning up an IP address. If he's using a public WiFi point then all you'll get is the WiFi owner's IP and the script kiddie will be long gone.
How do you host a public WiFi hotspot yet avoid being used as a script-kiddie (or spam) portal?
Well, you can do what I did and plunk down $200 for the Lifetime subscription. Mine's already paid for itself (I've had it for two years), depending on your luck, yours may or may not. You definitely want to buy a primo surge protector if you lifetime sub your machine.
Of course that brings the price of a 40 hour TiVo from $199 to $399. Which , coincidentally, is in the neighborhood of comparable ReplayTVs which don't require a subscription.
It could be enough for someone to snag the SSH private keys for a connection.
How do you figure? Why would someone's NIC be broadcasting their private SSH key in the first place? It can only read information that was transmitted earlier.
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I don't think so. Potheads don't play racquetball.
Heh - at least be glad they patented it. That way we only have to look out for crap from *one* company instead of a hundred.
Heh. I was wondering the exact same thing as I watched the comment go through the roof. I'm just going to make that my sig.
Shit, by the time her kids are teenagers I'm hoping Britney Spears will have moved on to porn. *fingers crossed*
You misunderstand me. I'm not saying that such a device is silly - I'm saying that asking Slashdot how to DIY is.
As a practical matter, any establishment large enough to have 16 live video feeds that they want to monitor in real-time is not going to stake it on some geek's homegrown DVR cluster. They'll buy a professional solution backed by serious support. Or, like I said, they're already fucked.
Furthermore, Ask Slashdot is supposed to be a forum that is both thought-intriguing and productive. If you can find your answer with 5 minutes of Google searching, it shouldn't be an Ask Slashdot question.
I'm sorry, but what is the point of 'Ask Slashdot' if the question is going to be absolutely silly? I've farted out more useful questions than this one.
A PVR that can record 16 channels at once? Get real. Unless you're operating a TV station, you don't need that many channels. And if you do operate a TV station and you're asking Slashdot how to build video equipment - you're fucked.
Here's a tip kid. Quit jerking off thinking about recording 16 TV shows at once and go outside.
[And yes, I've got Karma to burn.]
What's it called when a city practices nepotism, except without the relatives?
It's called "keeping the money in the city" and it's actually what local governments should do.
I was asked why I made 12 visits to the coffee machine in one day (all drinks were free) and why I once spent more than 10 minutes in the toilet.
Uh - if you're hitting the coffee machine 12 times a day, I think I can understand why you'd spend more than 10 minutes in the john.
Yeah, but they have permanent magnets too. Not sure why - I've never really thought about it.
So it's society's responsibility to ensure that you don't get bumped off your gravy train?
Not that I think people should be kicked out of jobs by robots.
Why not? Automation is a good thing. Do you think that we should still be using switchboard operators and elevator attendants? As the level of automation in the world increases, the total amount of manual labor that mankind must perform decreases. Ideally, we should get to the point where the only work we're doing is maintaining/improving the robots.
Besides, if these magnetic docking systems put a few longshoremen out of work, so what? Is it really such a terrible thing that they better themselves and learn a new trade?
It's so much simpler to poison a well rather than figure out how to use it to make money and satisfy your "customers".
You have to understand their point of view. The Internet will destroy the profit margins that they are currently enjoying. Period.
Previously, the barrier to entry in the recording industry was fairly high. You had to be able to mass produce a physical product and have a massive marketing machine to push it. The music industry turned into an oligopoly and was able to keep music prices artificially elevated. With the advent of the Internet as we know it, it became possible to distribute music without any physical production whatsoever. It's therefore much easier for competition to enter, and more competition means lower prices.
If I were a record company executive, I'd be forestalling this new distribution medium as long as I could too. To act like they should welcome it with open arms is silly. Would you welcome a pay cut?
They should have taken a page from Swordfish and let the contestants receive blowjobs as they hacked. That would of spiced things up.
What are they made of? They seem ceramic, not even metal.
My guess would be a glass or ceramic. The first time I opened up a hard drive I assummed the platters were metal because of their reflectivity. After trying to bend one of them and having it shatter into a million pieces in my face, I discovered that they are not.
Nope. A magnetic field that would be strong enough to erase a hard drive would probably also compress it into a lump of twisted metal.
Hmm - I believe that.
A few years ago I was in charge of erasing a bunch of hard drives before the machines went to auction. My first idea was to degauss them. So, I found the strongest magnet I could (from an old speaker, I believe) and stuck it on the side of one of the hard drives for more than 24 hours. Then I popped the hard drive back into the machine and to my amazement found absolutely zero corruption of the data.
Heh - and to think I used to worry about using magnetized screwdrivers when working on computers.
And other engines such as WiseNut, Teoma, and FAST now mimic Google's 'popularity placement technology.
Sounds like what Scubacuda is looking for is a software patent. If Google's process was patented, would you guys boycott them the way you do Amazon?
Damn, I would have had first post if I wasn't using Mozilla.
You're right, my apologies. Nothing like a little pseudo-anonymity to bring out the jerkyness in one.
Anyway, no I'm not in the security field, just a lowly net admin. But the reason I think public WiFi is spooky is because my neighbor has a wide-open access point that I happened to discover by accident.
What is to stop me from sitting in my home, pointing a "cantennae" at his house, and proceeding to gather up an ungodly horde of zombie machines for some massive DoS attack? Nothing. Even the local authorities would have no idea how to track me down.
What keeps me from launching this same attack from my home cable modem? The fact that eventually I'd get discovered and at the very least my ISP would yank my account.
Endorsing scary shit like Carnivore is one thing, but I don't think it's too much to ask that we try not to give completely anonymous Internet access to the public, or if you do limit it to non-dangerous protocols (HTTP, SMTP, etc.).
And again, I apologize for the personal attack.
How do you run a Cyber Cafe (that takes cash), a Public Library network
Ideally these systems aren't so insecure that you can run any software you want to on them. Besides, many of them have security cameras installed.
an anonymous remailer, an anonymous non-logging proxy
What the hell kind of damage are you going to do with an email or a web browser?
an insecure home computer running Windows BackOrifice
Any script kiddie toying with home machines still has to exercise some restraint. There's no way of knowing whether or not the FBI is sitting there sniffing your every move.
Anonymous wireless access isn't any more or less a "threat" than the same situation in the insecure-by-default, unaccountable wired world.
Yes it is. Wireless is truly anonymous. Unless the NSA is on the scene triangulating your position, you are 100% anonymous. And with that kind of access you don't have to exercise the slightest bit of restraint.
Do you also think that those evil anonymous postcards with no return address should be banned too? I mean... what if some scr1ptk1ddie terrorist laced it with acid and you accidentally licked it?!
You're a moron. Email me when you get out of high school and we'll continue this discussion.
Our friends at Homeland Security view the uncontrolled internet access [...] as a *major* problem.
From your post I have a little trouble figuring out your stance on this. Do you disagree with HomeSec?
Completely anonymous high-speed Internet access *is* dangerous. What prevents some script kiddie from pulling up in his Honda Civic (with a huge spoiler of course) and using a public hotspot to launch every known attack against any site on the Internet?
At least with a cable modem or DSL there is the possibility of digging through log files and turning up an IP address. If he's using a public WiFi point then all you'll get is the WiFi owner's IP and the script kiddie will be long gone.
How do you host a public WiFi hotspot yet avoid being used as a script-kiddie (or spam) portal?
Last year, I started measuring the temperature of the water in my toilet tank.
Wow - and I thought I was the only one.
Yeah, but the charity is for record company executives that are starving because of Gnutella.
Well, you can do what I did and plunk down $200 for the Lifetime subscription. Mine's already paid for itself (I've had it for two years), depending on your luck, yours may or may not. You definitely want to buy a primo surge protector if you lifetime sub your machine.
Of course that brings the price of a 40 hour TiVo from $199 to $399. Which , coincidentally, is in the neighborhood of comparable ReplayTVs which don't require a subscription.
Got Sirius, not interested.
We know. And as an owner of a VCR, you don't want a TiVo either.
It could be enough for someone to snag the SSH private keys for a connection.
How do you figure? Why would someone's NIC be broadcasting their private SSH key in the first place? It can only read information that was transmitted earlier.