I did this, it works great. The best software I found (free) is from a semi-abandoned Microsoft Research project called WWMX. Get their "location stamper" utility.
Give it a.GPX file from your GPS unit, then give it a bunch of pictures and it will add the location into the EXIF. Does backups of pics if you want -- gives you several options on how to deal with pics that don't match any obvious point in the gpx file.
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Are you saying there's a way to disable *JUST* USB Mass Storage? Because I'd love to know about that.
Asimov's Foundation series is a great choice as well. Not so much with the hacker angle (well, hacking of a different kind, surely) but very interesting.
Surely the ultimate in Social Engineering, both at the society level but also often individuals.
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Free if the transation is entirely in the US and doesn't use credit. One of the big advantages of PayPal is that all it works internationally.
I know I'm taking a risk with PayPal but I don't leave any money in their and wouldn't use it for anything large. However it has allowed me to purchase things internationally from auctioners without having to expose my credit card details to that unknown person.
Rather than complaining about how terrible it is -- why is there no good competition out there? Or for that matter why doesn't PP clean up their act? Are their margins so thin they can't afford more real humans to check suspect transactions?
In Europe (and England) the current is 240v, so if you get shocked, you're close to / are dead.
Quick, someone call my mum -- tell her I'm dead, and have been for years (and killed several times too).
240v will not kill you -- I live in Hong Kong (ex British Colony) and as a kid playing with electrical stuff shocked myself many times. Makes your arm tingle for a few minutes but that's all.
Eventually I did take a firm grip on a PC case support that happened to be live; and that time I got knocked to the floor and before I could recover someone called emergency services so I enjoyed a trip to the hospital for an ECG. No damage done though the scar on my hand is still there!
I've seen plenty of local electricians use a wet finger to touch a cable to see if its live. You sort of get used to it after a while if you do it enough.
I happen to live in a small town where a lot of the population are what we call "fisher people"; meaning that one (or less) generations ago they lived on fishing boats, which are their livelyhood, and had little education.
Today the kids do go to school, and have TV and everything but life is still pretty simple for them and your typical fisher family would not have access to a PC. (though dad probably has some fancy sonar and radar on the boat)
Well our public post offices now have free Internet Kiosks as part of a "internet for all" program; which is great.
The other day I saw a fisher girl of about 6 in front of the terminal. I was rather surprised and had a sneaking peek over her shoulder to see what was going on.
She had just gone to some web site which for some reason had crashed the browser. So not hesitating she brought up the task manager, killed the hung task, and loaded the browser again to continue.
I have desktop support people who work for me in the office who are not as comfortable doing things like that!
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I attended a workshop given by Ed Yourdon and he came off as a very intelligent man who knows how to think hard thoughts. Clearly doesn't mean he can predict the future though.
The fact that he is quite willing to admit he was wrong about previous things and move on must be seen in some regards as a positive thing.
Though Yourden diagrams use his name they are not a process than he NOW finds relevant. He is more interested in Extreme Programming and stuff like that.
If the fobs are available in a credit card form factor (thickness, too!), they'd be easier to keep on your person than the ones we have.
SecurID come as a "card" as well which is the same form factor as a credit card but about twice the thickness. Doesn't fit into a wallet easily but is fine in a jacket pocket which is where mine lives.
However the security offered by these things is pure smoke and mirrors -- it is really only casual security. If the black hats want to get into your account that is protected by SecurID they will do so very easily; even without social engineering.
"Hello is that the corporate helpdesk? The is [insert name of CEO], I'm travelling and I left my securid at home; can you set my account to lost card mode pls and give me a static password? Thanks so much!".
Yeah, but then I have to remember which false information I gave for which site. It would be much nicer if my computer could remember that I told ebay.com that my name was Bill Gates and I was born February 10, 1970, but when I signed up for hotmail.com I used the name Joe Schmoe and the birthdate May 16, 1975.
This is true, the other day we worked out that the three people in our house have about 10 email addresses total -- all in production, not counting dead ones -- and that includes my 4yr old son (ok he only has one).
Logitech cordless keyboard/mouse (it comes as a pair)
I have one of those too and though the cordless-ness is great on the whole I get incredibly annoyed with the thing. It took me a while to realize that it is only one way; there is no "ACK" and so characters get dropped.
This relates to the interference thing because the mouse intefers with the keyboard! Yes even though they are a set, if the mouse is directly in line between the keyboard and the receiver (which I have on the table quite close to the mouse) then the keyboard starts dropping characters.
There is nothing more annoying for a touch typist than to press a key and not have it appear on the screen. Even more annoying when trying to do Ctrl-V and Ctrl-C moving stuff between two windows.
I am just waiting for a Bluetooth wireless keyboard/mouse -- I'm presuming that two-way, and hence error-check, connection would then be possible/cheap enough to do.
For us Americans...
A Telstra spokesman said today the link, laid "donkey's years ago", carried very little of the telco's network traffic before yesterday's cut.
This confused me, until I found the idiom.
What sort of game engine bothers to feed information to the graphics drivers/card that isn't intended to be seen by the player!?
Ok, so sure you may expect the graphics drivers/card to do some clipping and stuff - but actually show where other characters are?
Doesn't this imply an incredibly wasteful game engine that is bothering to calculate what objects look like when they are not even supposed to be seen by the gamer?
If the driver never gets the information about hidden objects, then no amount of funky drivers is going to allow cheating.
I remember that years ago I actually wrote a BBS package for the Apple II (CP/M) - it even had a FidoNet module so it could do email and echos.
Well after a few years I didn't want to do this and stopped, then I tried to use my phone line as a regular line again.
But for YEARS (at least 3) afterwards that line would still ring on weekends with people trying to connect... Even after I had tracked down every BBS list in Hong Kong and got my number removed.
Makes me remember the days of "how much code can you get into one line". I remember running a shooting "video games" in one line of PET BASIC - that was 80 characters!
Of course we could do amazing things in the long lines that Applesoft BASIC gave us - 127 char I think?
I understand the APL programmers were the real stars at "one line of code" though.
As they say - the Lord created the world in 6 days, but an APL programmer could do it in on line.
We already have formats like this. SGML, CGM - they are called ISO formats. "Open" is another good word for them.
I used to work for a company that built large plants that were expected to last 30+ years. We were greatly worried about how we were going to ensure that the original plans, operating procedures, maintenance records and the like were not just readable but usable and updatable down the road.
Basically the answer came back as - use only published, official, open standards. Even though they are not the greatest at least you can always reengineer the reader and the software because the designs are formally published (and not just as source code).
Though I'm English I live in Hong Kong. I don't really find much problem with these cameras in public places. In most English towns it seems that the major squares and streets are covered. I don't find it much different from having a policeman standing on every corner. Yes I feel safer - and I don't feel it takes away from my privacy - after all I am in public at the time - anybody who walks by can see me anyway.
Quite so, I use WinNT4.0 workstation in an office environment and we have machines that have not rebooted in months. We even have machines that have been in a single dial-up RAS session for weeks. Not for any fancy technical reason but just because a user did it from home and it worked (phone calls are free here).
I regularly undock my office laptop, send it into sleep mode - take it home, plug it into my home LAN - type "ipconfig/renew" to get a new IP address (served off the Linux DHCP server) and work from home. Then I unplug and go back into my office, type ipconfig/renew and get an ip address.. And continue working. I do this for weeks sometimes without even logging out let alone rebooting.
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I did this, it works great. The best software I found (free) is from a semi-abandoned Microsoft Research project called WWMX. Get their "location stamper" utility.
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.GPX file from your GPS unit, then give it a bunch of pictures and it will add the location into the EXIF. Does backups of pics if you want -- gives you several options on how to deal with pics that don't match any obvious point in the gpx file.
http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/
Give it a
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; en-us;823732
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Surely the ultimate in Social Engineering, both at the society level but also often individuals.
R.
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**In addition to the $10 transaction fee, any difference between the foreign exchange rate given to you and the foreign exchange rate received by c2itsm Service will be kept by c2it. Click on Fees, Limits and Availability for more information.
c2it and When there's money 2 move are service marks of Citicorp.
Free if the transation is entirely in the US and doesn't use credit. One of the big advantages of PayPal is that all it works internationally.
I know I'm taking a risk with PayPal but I don't leave any money in their and wouldn't use it for anything large. However it has allowed me to purchase things internationally from auctioners without having to expose my credit card details to that unknown person.
Rather than complaining about how terrible it is -- why is there no good competition out there? Or for that matter why doesn't PP clean up their act? Are their margins so thin they can't afford more real humans to check suspect transactions?
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Quick, someone call my mum -- tell her I'm dead, and have been for years (and killed several times too).
240v will not kill you -- I live in Hong Kong (ex British Colony) and as a kid playing with electrical stuff shocked myself many times. Makes your arm tingle for a few minutes but that's all.
Eventually I did take a firm grip on a PC case support that happened to be live; and that time I got knocked to the floor and before I could recover someone called emergency services so I enjoyed a trip to the hospital for an ECG. No damage done though the scar on my hand is still there!
I've seen plenty of local electricians use a wet finger to touch a cable to see if its live. You sort of get used to it after a while if you do it enough.
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Consultant: Someone who will borrow your watch to tell you what time it is, then bill you for the information.
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Is the world so bereft of people who can write English correctly that you have to pay millions to find those rare examples?
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This device was released a few years ago and it is basically a PDA for the younger generation. They go for about $100 CDN here ($65 USD).
No, the Pixter is for like 4 or 5 year olds -- I think this Cybiko is more for young teens.
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Yes, at last! A palm in Purple...
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I happen to live in a small town where a lot of the population are what we call "fisher people"; meaning that one (or less) generations ago they lived on fishing boats, which are their livelyhood, and had little education.
Today the kids do go to school, and have TV and everything but life is still pretty simple for them and your typical fisher family would not have access to a PC. (though dad probably has some fancy sonar and radar on the boat)
Well our public post offices now have free Internet Kiosks as part of a "internet for all" program; which is great.
The other day I saw a fisher girl of about 6 in front of the terminal. I was rather surprised and had a sneaking peek over her shoulder to see what was going on.
She had just gone to some web site which for some reason had crashed the browser. So not hesitating she brought up the task manager, killed the hung task, and loaded the browser again to continue.
I have desktop support people who work for me in the office who are not as comfortable doing things like that!
R.
I attended a workshop given by Ed Yourdon and he came off as a very intelligent man who knows how to think hard thoughts. Clearly doesn't mean he can predict the future though.
The fact that he is quite willing to admit he was wrong about previous things and move on must be seen in some regards as a positive thing.
Though Yourden diagrams use his name they are not a process than he NOW finds relevant. He is more interested in Extreme Programming and stuff like that.
R.
SecurID come as a "card" as well which is the same form factor as a credit card but about twice the thickness. Doesn't fit into a wallet easily but is fine in a jacket pocket which is where mine lives.
However the security offered by these things is pure smoke and mirrors -- it is really only casual security. If the black hats want to get into your account that is protected by SecurID they will do so very easily; even without social engineering.
"Hello is that the corporate helpdesk? The is [insert name of CEO], I'm travelling and I left my securid at home; can you set my account to lost card mode pls and give me a static password? Thanks so much!".
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This is true, the other day we worked out that the three people in our house have about 10 email addresses total -- all in production, not counting dead ones -- and that includes my 4yr old son (ok he only has one).
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I have one of those too and though the cordless-ness is great on the whole I get incredibly annoyed with the thing. It took me a while to realize that it is only one way; there is no "ACK" and so characters get dropped.
This relates to the interference thing because the mouse intefers with the keyboard! Yes even though they are a set, if the mouse is directly in line between the keyboard and the receiver (which I have on the table quite close to the mouse) then the keyboard starts dropping characters.
There is nothing more annoying for a touch typist than to press a key and not have it appear on the screen. Even more annoying when trying to do Ctrl-V and Ctrl-C moving stuff between two windows.
I am just waiting for a Bluetooth wireless keyboard/mouse -- I'm presuming that two-way, and hence error-check, connection would then be possible/cheap enough to do.
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But it is here. With Chinese translation too.
I thought everybody understood this!
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In their system it is for downloading media (aka prOn) -- but the updates to their own software are also distributed using this technique.
While it is true this is never as fast as a single fast server it is a lot better than other p2p systems.
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Ok, so sure you may expect the graphics drivers/card to do some clipping and stuff - but actually show where other characters are?
Doesn't this imply an incredibly wasteful game engine that is bothering to calculate what objects look like when they are not even supposed to be seen by the gamer?
If the driver never gets the information about hidden objects, then no amount of funky drivers is going to allow cheating.
R.
Well after a few years I didn't want to do this and stopped, then I tried to use my phone line as a regular line again.
But for YEARS (at least 3) afterwards that line would still ring on weekends with people trying to connect... Even after I had tracked down every BBS list in Hong Kong and got my number removed.
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Of course we could do amazing things in the long lines that Applesoft BASIC gave us - 127 char I think?
I understand the APL programmers were the real stars at "one line of code" though.
As they say - the Lord created the world in 6 days, but an APL programmer could do it in on line.
R.
I used to work for a company that built large plants that were expected to last 30+ years. We were greatly worried about how we were going to ensure that the original plans, operating procedures, maintenance records and the like were not just readable but usable and updatable down the road.
Basically the answer came back as - use only published, official, open standards. Even though they are not the greatest at least you can always reengineer the reader and the software because the designs are formally published (and not just as source code).
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I regularly undock my office laptop, send it into sleep mode - take it home, plug it into my home LAN - type "ipconfig/renew" to get a new IP address (served off the Linux DHCP server) and work from home. Then I unplug and go back into my office, type ipconfig/renew and get an ip address.. And continue working. I do this for weeks sometimes without even logging out let alone rebooting.
Windows, at least NT, can be perfectly stable.
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