Do you guys realize how "campy" and staged the summary portions of the show are? The intonations in your voice really put a downer on the fun and scientific aspects of the show. Ever think about filming that segment more like a reality?
(Not that realities aren't somewhat staged, but at least they don't seem so forced and rehearsed.)
That, or maybe send Adam to some acting classes so it doesn't like he is feigning enthusiasm.
But actually having a continuous sheet of metal would be equivalent, or even better.
That's true IFF the metal is an unbroken continuous sheet. [consumer] Microwaves don't really have that option because the cost of insuring that it's properly sealed after being opened is a liability.
The small holes of a Faraday cage will cancel out and reflect back EM waves but a continuous sheet of material will allow the wave to travel over it and it will transfer the wave through the material.
Sat. dishes that have holes can actually ignore the frequencies cancelled out by the wavelength that is essentially ignored due size of the holes in the dish. This means less of a spectrum of signals to worry about and less noise. Allowing elements to pass through are a definite bonus, but probably not the primary feature of the holes. This is assuming that the size of all the holes on the antenna portion are identical and evenly spaced of course.
You are correct that the screen in the door of the microwave (allowing light to pass but microwaves to stay inside) is a convenience measure so that we can see our food cook but a cost savings one, I highly doubt. The cost of remanufacturing all those "holes" is most likely more expensive than buying new sheets of metal from a OEM's point of view.
Also, Faraday cages reduce the need for proper grounding of the conductive plates used as RF shielding. Things like aluminum have to be grounded whereas a F-cage can be free standing.
The "Foil Room" won't help against snooping as you'd like to believe. (Prepare to ditch all your foil hats!!).
To truly block signals, you'd need to build a actual Faraday "cage" built with the smallest possible 'holes' so the waves created inside (be it voice, the sound of you typing or even waves emitted by the blinking LED from your Ethernet card) will be cancelled out. This is the same technology that the intelligence agencies employ against counter intelligence. That with foil (which is properly grounded) will work.
Solid surfaces such as foil can actually act as large AMPLIFIERS if implemented incorrectly since the waves will
Note that your microwave is surrounded by a Faraday cage to protect you from the rays; not foil.
A quick Google to back up my post yielded this page discussing similar topics.
You could possibly sue the corporation (since legally they are 'individuals') for defamation of character, eg. slander.
IANAL and this is not legal advice, but I am taking law classes and if a person was to make a
1) factual 'sounding' statement ("you're a thief! beep beep beep") 2) the statement was defamatory 3) the statement was false 4) the statement was communicated and overheard by others (people in the store?) and 5) the statement caused harm/damage (neighbors, possible business contacts think poorly of me now, lost business)
This would definately be a landmark case if it was won.
Computer cases with clear sides make great hamster cages! Just make sure to file down the really sharp stuff. Add some tubes from case to case and papow! You've got your first Hamster-powered cluster.
It would be interesting if they were 'forced' upon a p2p service (other trojan'd computers could propagate the files) or put up on a curio website for all you voyeurs/exhibitionists out there.
Although, it'd be pretty obvious who takes credit once the paychecks from ad revenue starts rolling in.
I for one will be posing nude infront of my webcam for the next 48 hours hoping that I'm infected.
is if the government started putting leds embedded into the pavement and they could send you messages (eg. accident up ahead, work zone, speed limit changed to XXmph, etc) to you while you're driving having the message pace with your car.
Also, you could make lanes that are dynamic during the day and night. (They already have those with changing street signs).
Real time stopping distance approxomations (are you following too close?). Lane change "handoffs" (the road infront of you goes orange because someone is turning into that lane.)
It's would be the same technology used for those rotating led clocks.
Of course, it'll all be moot when people finally let computers do the driving for them.
Perhaps the infamous Kodak Cap-codes (movies, see here and here) would be a good way to fight these leaks of alpha/beta builds. Maybe not fight them because leaked builds are a good way of getting free testing but you will at least know where your weak links are.
Actually, the device may not be illegal but you can still be cited for it.
I've gotten cited for evading a traffic control device (aka. speed bump). They can also cite you for dangerous driving or endangering the other drivers around you.
Traffic cops have the power to twist almost anything into a citation *if they care to do so.*
Reailzing that the friviolus the citation the more likely it will go to court and face a judge.
I don't think you'll find a judge that will be hard pressed to make the citation stick though and if it does go to court, many judged can trump you with higher (or the highest) fines possible including suspension of drivers license and/or community service.
I built a chrome box a LONG (read ~nine years ago) and it did work but at hardly any intersections near my house. I didn't spend much time testing it because having a big strobe light attached to my dash was somewhat unsightly and I'm not really out to "beat the man." I built it (much like my red box) for novelty purposes and they share the same box (probably now broken) of old radioshack-enabled projects.
Anyway, I wouldn't be suprised if people started getting tickets in the mail for this.
It's not like radar detectors where people can make the case that they want to be able to see when they're being monitored (privacy concerns). This is more along the lines of radar jammers that spit out random RF to confuse the doppler radar devices. Those ARE illegal in most states and I can see these devices soon following suit.
The one saving grace for this contraption is obviously detection and right now, at least in TX-Harris County,(Houston) they can't take a picture of your license plate and send you a ticket. (Not including the tollway violators, those are not contestable).
They can try but it's almost a 98% success rate of 'beating' the ticket in court. The red-light runner cameras are a huge controversy. If these devices get out of hand perhaps those camera tickets will come back into the light.
AAA's Triptiks are great as long as you don't care about ANYTHING beyond the road they want you to take,
Background: AAA will print custom maps for members and even bind them in a nice flip book format. It will often include entries for AAA sponsored hotels, restaurants that are on the way.
However, their feature is sometimes less than favorable. They make the map very easy to use including things like exit numbers on the freeways and new pages for different zooms of the map. One of these featuers, is they cut out all the other roads that might be of use or interest along the way so if you want to or need to take a detour, then you're lost or you're using a tiny area overview map given by AAA.
Didn't anyone realize that $10 CDN is worth approx ~7 USD. It's the infamous 30% American discount due to currency rates.
If you're willing to accept WMV files, the rights to the files will be 33% off. Once you have the rights to the song, perhaps you can download someone else's encoding and just store those files somewhere.
For those of you who actually know more about the topic, I apologize. For those of you who only read the poorly written/. summary of an article, you should do your homework before posting comments.
The MPAA has been putting dots in films (reels) for years now. They serialize where the film came from if it ever shows up somewhere it shouldn't (eg. auction house, different theater, or yes, your home living room).
Disney was one of the initial big backers of this technology. They are particularly careful about who gets their reels of film once the movie runs. The usual answer: "No one."
Production/Distrobution companies own the reels and movie houses (AMC, Cinemarc, etc) only get the rights to show the reels. Typically they don't own them outright and at the end of their lifespan they have to be sent back to be vaulted up or destroyed.
Anyway, these codes are a newer technology based off of 'cap codes.' The dots are usually put in one or two frames near the middle of the print in a 3x3 grid with only some of the dots showing. (Eg. five dots in a 'T' formation).
The move was because with most current compression technologies will make the whole screen get brighter unless those frames are removed before encoding.
The better pirating groups will usually seem them edit them out by either just dumping the frames and copying the ones before it and after it. (at 28/32 FPS, you won't see the effects) or they take a morph of the two and make an 'averaged' frame.
These are much more obtrusive than the original 'cap codes' but they hardly ruin a movie any more than the 'cigarette burns' that show up which are just as noticable.
Newer technologies which have not been implemented involve a form of visual stegonography where they can slightly alter the frame in certain places to do the same thing without the large brown dots. Infact they can do it throughout the entire film which would make it hard to just toss a few frames.
Oh yeah, so since I can't edit my post. What I was getting at is that spidering and harvesting from newsgroups takes a while and professional harvesters don't release data as it comes in, but in big databases (be it flat files, actual dbs, outlook address files, etc, etc).
Release dates come out as soon at once a week for subscription services, and probably every three weeks to a month for large files.
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Dear Mythbusters,
Do you guys realize how "campy" and staged the summary portions of the show are? The intonations in your voice really put a downer on the fun and scientific aspects of the show. Ever think about filming that segment more like a reality?
(Not that realities aren't somewhat staged, but at least they don't seem so forced and rehearsed.)
That, or maybe send Adam to some acting classes so it doesn't like he is feigning enthusiasm.
Loyal Fan,
-dan
But actually having a continuous sheet of metal would be equivalent, or even better.
That's true IFF the metal is an unbroken continuous sheet. [consumer] Microwaves don't really have that option because the cost of insuring that it's properly sealed after being opened is a liability.
The small holes of a Faraday cage will cancel out and reflect back EM waves but a continuous sheet of material will allow the wave to travel over it and it will transfer the wave through the material.
Sat. dishes that have holes can actually ignore the frequencies cancelled out by the wavelength that is essentially ignored due size of the holes in the dish. This means less of a spectrum of signals to worry about and less noise. Allowing elements to pass through are a definite bonus, but probably not the primary feature of the holes. This is assuming that the size of all the holes on the antenna portion are identical and evenly spaced of course.
You are correct that the screen in the door of the microwave (allowing light to pass but microwaves to stay inside) is a convenience measure so that we can see our food cook but a cost savings one, I highly doubt. The cost of remanufacturing all those "holes" is most likely more expensive than buying new sheets of metal from a OEM's point of view.
Also, Faraday cages reduce the need for proper grounding of the conductive plates used as RF shielding. Things like aluminum have to be grounded whereas a F-cage can be free standing.
The "Foil Room" won't help against snooping as you'd like to believe. (Prepare to ditch all your foil hats!!).
To truly block signals, you'd need to build a actual Faraday "cage" built with the smallest possible 'holes' so the waves created inside (be it voice, the sound of you typing or even waves emitted by the blinking LED from your Ethernet card) will be cancelled out. This is the same technology that the intelligence agencies employ against counter intelligence. That with foil (which is properly grounded) will work.
Solid surfaces such as foil can actually act as large AMPLIFIERS if implemented incorrectly since the waves will
Note that your microwave is surrounded by a Faraday cage to protect you from the rays; not foil.
A quick Google to back up my post yielded this page discussing similar topics.
Maybe Dilbert's ill fated office romance can now be released to the public!
You could possibly sue the corporation (since legally they are 'individuals') for defamation of character, eg. slander.
IANAL and this is not legal advice, but I am taking law classes and if a person was to make a
1) factual 'sounding' statement ("you're a thief! beep beep beep")
2) the statement was defamatory
3) the statement was false
4) the statement was communicated and overheard by others (people in the store?) and
5) the statement caused harm/damage (neighbors, possible business contacts think poorly of me now, lost business)
This would definately be a landmark case if it was won.
No, a self driving car should integrate with existing roads and traffic and, for a while, human drivers.
The technology is there to eliminate those unsightly elevated platforms. The thought that they "blend in with any setting" is BS.
Computer cases with clear sides make great hamster cages! Just make sure to file down the really sharp stuff. Add some tubes from case to case and papow! You've got your first Hamster-powered cluster.
Where do these images go?
It would be interesting if they were 'forced' upon a p2p service (other trojan'd computers could propagate the files) or put up on a curio website for all you voyeurs/exhibitionists out there.
Although, it'd be pretty obvious who takes credit once the paychecks from ad revenue starts rolling in.
I for one will be posing nude infront of my webcam for the next 48 hours hoping that I'm infected.
is if the government started putting leds embedded into the pavement and they could send you messages (eg. accident up ahead, work zone, speed limit changed to XXmph, etc) to you while you're driving having the message pace with your car.
Also, you could make lanes that are dynamic during the day and night. (They already have those with changing street signs).
Real time stopping distance approxomations (are you following too close?). Lane change "handoffs" (the road infront of you goes orange because someone is turning into that lane.)
It's would be the same technology used for those rotating led clocks.
Of course, it'll all be moot when people finally let computers do the driving for them.
This joke / page is over a year old.
What's up the really old posts guys?
"which Valenti responds with language inappropriate for the Slashdot homepage"
You mean that works on Windows?
Is everyone prepared for the 'oklahoma-land-rush style' name grabbing?
I'm sure there will be people who will try and speculate a few names for themselves and then sell them just like domain names.
I have a script that refreshes the gmail page daily to try and get a jump on my name but I don't have faith that I'll actually get it.
Now someone should take that data and factor in the coconut. Of course all the different varieties and species of coconut should be considered. =)
Right, tell that to this guy.
http://www.goatse.cx/
It's only a matter of time until some thoughtful person writes enough scripts to make MSH operate like Bash.
Perhaps the infamous Kodak Cap-codes (movies, see here and here) would be a good way to fight these leaks of alpha/beta builds. Maybe not fight them because leaked builds are a good way of getting free testing but you will at least know where your weak links are.
Actually, the device may not be illegal but you can still be cited for it.
I've gotten cited for evading a traffic control device (aka. speed bump). They can also cite you for dangerous driving or endangering the other drivers around you.
Traffic cops have the power to twist almost anything into a citation *if they care to do so.*
Reailzing that the friviolus the citation the more likely it will go to court and face a judge.
I don't think you'll find a judge that will be hard pressed to make the citation stick though and if it does go to court, many judged can trump you with higher (or the highest) fines possible including suspension of drivers license and/or community service.
I built a chrome box a LONG (read ~nine years ago) and it did work but at hardly any intersections near my house. I didn't spend much time testing it because having a big strobe light attached to my dash was somewhat unsightly and I'm not really out to "beat the man." I built it (much like my red box) for novelty purposes and they share the same box (probably now broken) of old radioshack-enabled projects.
Anyway, I wouldn't be suprised if people started getting tickets in the mail for this.
It's not like radar detectors where people can make the case that they want to be able to see when they're being monitored (privacy concerns). This is more along the lines of radar jammers that spit out random RF to confuse the doppler radar devices. Those ARE illegal in most states and I can see these devices soon following suit.
The one saving grace for this contraption is obviously detection and right now, at least in TX-Harris County,(Houston) they can't take a picture of your license plate and send you a ticket. (Not including the tollway violators, those are not contestable).
They can try but it's almost a 98% success rate of 'beating' the ticket in court. The red-light runner cameras are a huge controversy. If these devices get out of hand perhaps those camera tickets will come back into the light.
Ohh yeah.. +5 insightful here I come..
Wow.. I'm sure Nebraska is happy about that.
Go Cornhuskers!
AAA's Triptiks are great as long as you don't care about ANYTHING beyond the road they want you to take,
Background: AAA will print custom maps for members and even bind them in a nice flip book format. It will often include entries for AAA sponsored hotels, restaurants that are on the way.
However, their feature is sometimes less than favorable. They make the map very easy to use including things like exit numbers on the freeways and new pages for different zooms of the map. One of these featuers, is they cut out all the other roads that might be of use or interest along the way so if you want to or need to take a detour, then you're lost or you're using a tiny area overview map given by AAA.
mapsonus was built by the good people at Lucent.
They not only let you store locations, but do a point to point map (A->D with stops in B, and C) which is _really_ nice.
They also have a light integrated yellowpages and you can also look up landmarks on it.
They also have the feature for shortest route, fastest route, avoid freeways, favor freeways, etc.
Mapsonus is definately underrated. You should give it a try.
Didn't anyone realize that $10 CDN is worth approx ~7 USD. It's the infamous 30% American discount due to currency rates.
If you're willing to accept WMV files, the rights to the files will be 33% off. Once you have the rights to the song, perhaps you can download someone else's encoding and just store those files somewhere.
He forgot to say "IANAL" before starting.
For those of you who actually know more about the topic, I apologize. For those of you who only read the poorly written /. summary of an article, you should do your homework before posting comments.
The MPAA has been putting dots in films (reels) for years now. They serialize where the film came from if it ever shows up somewhere it shouldn't (eg. auction house, different theater, or yes, your home living room).
Disney was one of the initial big backers of this technology. They are particularly careful about who gets their reels of film once the movie runs. The usual answer: "No one."
Production/Distrobution companies own the reels and movie houses (AMC, Cinemarc, etc) only get the rights to show the reels. Typically they don't own them outright and at the end of their lifespan they have to be sent back to be vaulted up or destroyed.
Anyway, these codes are a newer technology based off of 'cap codes.' The dots are usually put in one or two frames near the middle of the print in a 3x3 grid with only some of the dots showing. (Eg. five dots in a 'T' formation).
The move was because with most current compression technologies will make the whole screen get brighter unless those frames are removed before encoding.
The better pirating groups will usually seem them edit them out by either just dumping the frames and copying the ones before it and after it. (at 28/32 FPS, you won't see the effects) or they take a morph of the two and make an 'averaged' frame.
These are much more obtrusive than the original 'cap codes' but they hardly ruin a movie any more than the 'cigarette burns' that show up which are just as noticable.
Newer technologies which have not been implemented involve a form of visual stegonography where they can slightly alter the frame in certain places to do the same thing without the large brown dots. Infact they can do it throughout the entire film which would make it hard to just toss a few frames.
This reminds me of my "Toss-a-mac" days.
*sigh* Oh the memories!
Oh yeah, so since I can't edit my post. What I was getting at is that spidering and harvesting from newsgroups takes a while and professional harvesters don't release data as it comes in, but in big databases (be it flat files, actual dbs, outlook address files, etc, etc).
Release dates come out as soon at once a week for subscription services, and probably every three weeks to a month for large files.