I remember seeing a four legged running robot on Nova. It to a VAX to control it. At the time I thought "well that is useless it takes a freaking VAX". Well now that I have the power of many VAXen in my cell phone it doesn't seem that bad of an idea at all. We have so much computing power in our hands that things like this are getting much easier. Of course I do not think we will ever see Mechs for the simple reason that a tank is a much smaller target and can probably be better armored.
That is the problem. They are not allowed to profile out of fear of being called racist. I swear this is an actual conversation I had with someone at my office that considers themselves a liberal. "It isn't being racist it is just just logical that you would check a young person from the middle east more closely than an 80 year old grandmother from Idaho that has never left the US." Reply "No that is raciest and then the terrorists will just start recruiting 80 year old grandmothers from Idaho!" I kid you not and this is from a college educated person.
Pascal was my first programing language. I learned Basic after Pascal. Of course I was lucky enough to have used the good old Commodore SuperPET which came with Interpreted Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, APL, and BASIC. We didn't really get into the FORTRAN or COBOL but I did play with APL which at the time was really cool. Frankly I would say that the SuperPET was the best computer for learning about programing available around 1982. We even had a primitive network that allowed us to share drives. I would love to find the manual for the MUPPET yes that is what the sharing device was called that we used.
I would add Java. The Java haters will hate but Sun created a great set of tutorials to teach people how to use Java and they are still available on the web. Eclipse.org and Netbeans are great free IDEs that you can download. I would also suggest Squeak. If you are on the mac Objective C is available but may be a bit much for people just getting started. You also have Ruby, Perl, and Free Pascal which is really a good choice as well. Of course you could go with the real replacement for Basic. PHP! Easy to use and abuse and will do nothing to teach you good programing skills just like basic. Truth is that back in the C-64,Apple II, TRS-80, 99/4a, Atari 800/400, Coco, and Sinclair days we all used Basic because that is what we had. Some times you could find an Assembler or believe it or not a machine language monitor but real programing languages where expensive and hard to come by. I was so excited when a friend gave me a copy of COMAL. Now you can get just about any language you want.
Could be as simple as a keylogger or could be a hardware hack. Find the model of keyboard they are using and replace their board with one with some custom firmware and an SD card. Could even just swap the electronics so that they don't notice. You do seal the screws on you keyboard and check them don't you? Way back when I worked in a place with real security. People have no idea how hard real security is. If you even tried to take in or out a keyboard or screw driver in that place things got real complicated real fast.
It isn't the CIA,NSA, or MI5 sending out those. But do you think that people can could build the SR-71 using slide rules and 1950s tech,the Corona and Keyhole satellites, and tap underseas phone cables in the USSRs backyard using nuclear subs couldn't find LulzSec if it the wanted too? As I said the only way to not be under their thumb is not to get their attention. List of open proxies, Tor nodes, and IRC channels are not hard to find. A few thousand taps on those sites using man in the middle attacks is very easy for them. About the only way is if all the members are in unfriendly nations and using proxies in those nations but even that wouldn't be impossible. If they are distributing SSH keys by sneaker net and keeping their keys on their own PC then it will be much harder to tap them but then again you will have the risk of people knowing each other so when one turns all is lost. The question is only if the idiots in LulzSec are worth the trouble or not. They may just be fun low hanging fruit for the Spooks to play with or even good training. To think that LulzSec really can pull the crap they are pulling and not get caught is just arrogance. The best part is how they call themselves a Hydra. Chop off a head and more will grow back. Kind of sucks if you are one of the heads that gets chopped off. Chop a few of them off and they will learn to keep down and out of site. Jail isn't full of Lulz after all.
What? Are you still living with the 4th grade idea that the high pressure area under the wing pushes the wing up in to the low pressure area caused by the curve of the wing? Ahh no. All heavier than air craft fly by pushing air "on in the case of a rocket gas" down. The surfaces of a wing deflect air down that is how they fly. Same as a prop except that it deflects it back. Same as rotor. They are all in effect wings, even the blades on most fans. That whole Bernoulli effect is just a pleasant fiction and really isn't how wings, props, or rotors work at all. If you want proof just pick up any cheap balsa glider and check out the wing. They are rectangular in cross section but they still fly. It is a real shame how many people are actually learn that whole curved top flat bottom crap in school and believe it. It is both a classic case of terrible science education and really bad thinking skills. Just one look at a cheap balsa glider or even the sight of a plane flying inverted should cause people to go huh????? Take a look at the many wings that have an under camber or even a flat top and curved bottom like most super critical sections. As far as knowing what one is talking about... Well everyone makes mistakes it is just important that you learn from them.
Would you like "big complicated fan"? They are blades that spin and move air. Yes they can change pitch but then so can a lot of propellers. They can do have cyclic and well as collective pitch control which does is a difference and they often have hinges as well to help with the retreating blade issue but a lot of them are now called ridged but in effect they are really just fans at the simplest level. And there is very little difference between the "tail" rotor and any other prop except that it is used to counter the main rotor. Frankly to go into all the complexities and dynamics of a helicopter is just a bit too long of a subject for a Slashdot post. The prop of a plane and the rotor of a helicopter are at their heart fans for moving air.
b A rotor and a propeller are much the same thing. The rotor on a helicopter is a little bit more complex because it also acts like a wing. That is why the are also called rotary wing aircraft but really they are a big fan just like a prop. As to it being the norm not really but now that the V-22 is in service is isn't a crazy stunt anymore. And as to efficient this lift device also is not very efficient just take a look at the specs on the helicopter I included that can carry much more weight with less than half the power. c. Even that is a very iffy use case. The problem with thrusting down on the ship is the danger to the crew. You will still need to secure the craft and with it thrusting that sound very risky. The other issue is how fast can you reverse the thrust? If it takes even on second you could be in a very bad spot as you go from hover to down thrust in a storm. The current solution is I think is called bear trap in Canada or RAST in the US. The helicopter hovers well above the ship. They drop a line that is then attached to a winch. The helicopter goes to full up thrust and they just crank it down. The real issue with landing at sea in bad weather isn't really staying on the deck but that fact that the deck is moving. The cable method means that the helicopter moves with the deck and when it is on the deck it is already secured to the deck. The reverse thrust is a solution in search of a problem unless you really want to go down fast. Now what this would be cool for is maybe a drone flying in a city or forest. Places where a large rotor would be to restrictive. But the hype was..... Well makes this worthy of being called trash.
Not magic but they have more resources and frankly talent that you can imagine. All it will take is one slip up and it is over as it may already be. But you can see how easy it is since we started off with "I will just use someone else's wifi" to now using several proxies. So what makes you think that they have not comprised those proxies with a man in the middle attack? Do you honestly think that any security organisation with access to the telecom infrastructures allows open proxies that are not monitored? I mean do you honestly think that they are not on every IRC channel and board and have access to the same list of proxies as the hacker community does? They just ignore most of the traffic because it isn't a threat to nation security. Now that they have made threats things may have changed. The only why really to avoid getting caught is to stay below the radar and not get their attention. None of this is magic just the way it is in the intelligence community. They tech they have is amazing as is the tallent and that is a good thing IMHO. I am in the LulzSec is nothing but vigilantes category the sooner they and Anon are crushed the better.Right now the smart members are sitting in their basements curled up in a ball hoping to be lucky. The dumb ones think they can not be caught.
And you are also expecting that they never use a TOR exit node that was a honey pot. It doesn't take many mistakes to get caught if you are playing with the big dogs. These are the same people that built the SR-71, used nuclear subs to tap underwater phone cables, and build and run the Keyhole and Lacross birds. It will take just one to track them down and as the link suggests http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/22/1236215/Authorities-Closing-On-LulzSec more than one member may have already been turned. You really don't want to go to be a big enough problem to get on these groups radar. I find the fandom and ego trips about LulzSec's abilities to be far more amusing then their little stunts. It is too bad the they don't know the rule "don't poke the bear". LulzSec and Anon are dumb enough to think they are the bear.
So you are saying that they are like a wing of a plane. We all know that planes can not fly inverted correct? And that maneuvers like an outside loop are impossible.
Actually helicopter rotors tend to use symmetrical airfoils. What stops them from trusting upwards is that the blades flex and would hit the structure of the helicopter. Plus there really is almost no need to ever thrust down. Just setting the rotor to zero pitch would be good enough but the tend to want to keep a little lift on the rotors on landing just to keep them for bouncing around and being a danger.
a. It isn't a new kind of engine. It is using a standard piston engine. It is a new kind of impeller, rotor, b. Propeller engines can't hover? What? I guess you have never seen a helicopter? Or any 3d model aircraft? Or ever been to an air show and seen a and Extra hang on it's prop? With a high enough power to weight ratio yes they can and do. And of course the V-22 Osprey does it on a regular basis. c. Trusting up? Talk about being of very limited value. Just going to zero lift on landing is usually good enough. Using engine power to pin the craft to the ground has very limited utility.
Over all this is mildly interesting and could be really good for drones that need to fly in areas too tight for rotors. The claims of high lift and other claims are really out there. The performance is rather unspectacular. Here is a home built aircraft you can buy that has less then half the HP and carries a much bigger payload. http://www.innovator.mosquito.net.nz/mbbs2/specs.asp
Not really in this case. It is mainly to do with water rights. As one person pointed out that the largest water rights holders in are actually in California and Arizona. The idea is that you have first rights to the water that falls on your ground but that you do not second or third rights. For example it is also illegal to use gray water to water your own plants. So after making your pasta that water must go down to sink. It is also illegal in some places to wash your own car. They are actually amending the law on rain barrels or trying to because they realize that it is a bit silly for the average home owner.
That is why we have operating systems to hid the differences. As an application developer I don't care if I am writing to an SCSI, SATA, or a USB Flash drive. I would love to see standard interfaces for things like GPIO, A2D, CAN, SPI, and i2c. It would be great to have the option to just us say a printer port on a PC to act as GPIO and SPI and then write your code on the PC and debug it then throw it on a Linux SBC and have it run. You kind can do it now. Yes I know that you will still be dealing with things at a lower level than the average applications programmer but some standard APIs would be nice to use.
You would be wrong. "Verizon and Sprint had unlimited data plans as long as they were offering ghetto phones (Android, Samsung, etc). " So yes Android was mentioned.
If a GPS can locate you down to a few inches they could locate a wifi to an apartment. With the right stuff you can use TOF and since wifi is in the Ghz band off the self military sigint stuff will do the job. Breaking in and planting bugs is not that unusual and even SSH is vulnerable to a man in the middle attack if you are using passwords and not ssh keys. As to not chasing Lulzsec? Don't bet on it at this point. They are making some outlandish threats. At this point the scary people may decided that they will go after them for the Lulz. Not to mention the recruitment. If you prove a challenge to catch then you may get an offer than would be unpleasant to refuse. And even more amusing is the idea that these guys will not turn over the password to their true-crypt volumes so fast it will make your head spin. "We have enough to put you away for 20 years and when you get out you will have a very hard time finding a job, wife, or making any real life for yourself. So how about you just give us that password and we will see what we can do. You may get just a slap on the wrist if you help us catch the big fish". It really is a simple as that. A 19 year old will spill his guts in a second... as he should.
Yes. So you are going to access the network using a cracked or open wifi. Well then you are sending to that wifi with no real encryption. You will be vulnerable to a someone sniffing the connection. Once they tack you back to that open wifi point they just put some wifi sensor on the power poles near your house to sniff your wifi signal and locate it to your house. Then they use those sensor to record all your data. Then they get a court order and put a GPS tracker on your car or in the UK just us their cameras to track you. While your out of your house they get in and plant a hacked version of Truecrypt that gets your password. Yes your basic security measures are pretty useless to stop Mi-5, CIA, FBI, or NSA. That is what is so funny seeing "1337" posts on Slashdot. The level of arrogance involved. The real tech folks at the CIA, FBI, NSA and probably Mi-5 are every bit as smart as the best hackers and have a crap load more resources. The NSA has it's own fab for goodness sakes. They really are the brightest boys with the biggest toys.
ghetto phones? I hate summer because the kids are out and have nothing to do but post on Slashdot. I chose my Evo 4G on Sprint over going with an iPhone or AT&T.
Because attacking a PBS website because they broadcast a story you didn't like makes all of us safer. I mean no need in hearing any news story that might upset us now is there? I hope the catch as many as possible. They have attacked freedom of speech and freedom of the press. They have hurt many innocent consumers if not out right hurt them all for the lulz. You have a really odd idea what good work is.
Of course after a fair hearing. Thing is that if he is guilty then they will make an example of him and get him to turn in others. After a few dozen of the LulzSec minions are sitting in prison the rest will follow. It is funny that so many people on Slashdot really thought that LulzSec was going to get away with taunting world governments. They have their own really bright folks and lots of resources. As long as Anon and Lulz where just messing with companies like Sony and generally being juvenile they where not worth the effort. Now they are worth the effort...
Only if the results you want is less freedom and more anti-hacking laws. They will not manage to hack any CIA secure data that the CIA doesn't want hacked. Nope it is like a hamster attacking a tiger. Just make it easier for the Tiger to find and yet you... If you are worth the effort.
last time I looked there was also no real standard SPI device, no standard for A2Ds, or GPIO. I2C does at least have a standard system and com ports are well supported. I have no idea how well the CAN buss is supported but up till now embedded ARM seems to have been well on the back burner after servers, HPC, and the Desktop.
Actually I must say that I am sorry for that. I was speaking in general about the Slashdot posters and forgot that I was replying to an individual. That was terrible offensive and not polite at all and was just my anger speaking. Thing is that the results of these attacks will be more really bad laws past and frankly LulzSec and Anon have done nothing of any value. They just threaten people and yes the attack on PBS was an attack on Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech. So again please forgive me for flying off the handle and forgetting that you were on the other side of the post.
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I remember seeing a four legged running robot on Nova. It to a VAX to control it. At the time I thought "well that is useless it takes a freaking VAX". Well now that I have the power of many VAXen in my cell phone it doesn't seem that bad of an idea at all.
We have so much computing power in our hands that things like this are getting much easier. Of course I do not think we will ever see Mechs for the simple reason that a tank is a much smaller target and can probably be better armored.
That is the problem. They are not allowed to profile out of fear of being called racist. I swear this is an actual conversation I had with someone at my office that considers themselves a liberal.
"It isn't being racist it is just just logical that you would check a young person from the middle east more closely than an 80 year old grandmother from Idaho that has never left the US."
Reply "No that is raciest and then the terrorists will just start recruiting 80 year old grandmothers from Idaho!"
I kid you not and this is from a college educated person.
Pascal was my first programing language. I learned Basic after Pascal. Of course I was lucky enough to have used the good old Commodore SuperPET which came with Interpreted Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, APL, and BASIC. We didn't really get into the FORTRAN or COBOL but I did play with APL which at the time was really cool. Frankly I would say that the SuperPET was the best computer for learning about programing available around 1982. We even had a primitive network that allowed us to share drives. I would love to find the manual for the MUPPET yes that is what the sharing device was called that we used.
I would add Java. The Java haters will hate but Sun created a great set of tutorials to teach people how to use Java and they are still available on the web. Eclipse.org and Netbeans are great free IDEs that you can download. I would also suggest Squeak. If you are on the mac Objective C is available but may be a bit much for people just getting started. You also have Ruby, Perl, and Free Pascal which is really a good choice as well.
Of course you could go with the real replacement for Basic.
PHP!
Easy to use and abuse and will do nothing to teach you good programing skills just like basic.
Truth is that back in the C-64,Apple II, TRS-80, 99/4a, Atari 800/400, Coco, and Sinclair days we all used Basic because that is what we had. Some times you could find an Assembler or believe it or not a machine language monitor but real programing languages where expensive and hard to come by. I was so excited when a friend gave me a copy of COMAL. Now you can get just about any language you want.
Could be as simple as a keylogger or could be a hardware hack. Find the model of keyboard they are using and replace their board with one with some custom firmware and an SD card. Could even just swap the electronics so that they don't notice. You do seal the screws on you keyboard and check them don't you?
Way back when I worked in a place with real security. People have no idea how hard real security is. If you even tried to take in or out a keyboard or screw driver in that place things got real complicated real fast.
It isn't the CIA,NSA, or MI5 sending out those. But do you think that people can could build the SR-71 using slide rules and 1950s tech ,the Corona and Keyhole satellites, and tap underseas phone cables in the USSRs backyard using nuclear subs couldn't find LulzSec if it the wanted too?
As I said the only way to not be under their thumb is not to get their attention. List of open proxies, Tor nodes, and IRC channels are not hard to find. A few thousand taps on those sites using man in the middle attacks is very easy for them. About the only way is if all the members are in unfriendly nations and using proxies in those nations but even that wouldn't be impossible.
If they are distributing SSH keys by sneaker net and keeping their keys on their own PC then it will be much harder to tap them but then again you will have the risk of people knowing each other so when one turns all is lost.
The question is only if the idiots in LulzSec are worth the trouble or not. They may just be fun low hanging fruit for the Spooks to play with or even good training. To think that LulzSec really can pull the crap they are pulling and not get caught is just arrogance. The best part is how they call themselves a Hydra. Chop off a head and more will grow back. Kind of sucks if you are one of the heads that gets chopped off. Chop a few of them off and they will learn to keep down and out of site. Jail isn't full of Lulz after all.
What? Are you still living with the 4th grade idea that the high pressure area under the wing pushes the wing up in to the low pressure area caused by the curve of the wing? Ahh no. All heavier than air craft fly by pushing air "on in the case of a rocket gas" down.
The surfaces of a wing deflect air down that is how they fly. Same as a prop except that it deflects it back. Same as rotor. They are all in effect wings, even the blades on most fans. That whole Bernoulli effect is just a pleasant fiction and really isn't how wings, props, or rotors work at all. If you want proof just pick up any cheap balsa glider and check out the wing. They are rectangular in cross section but they still fly.
It is a real shame how many people are actually learn that whole curved top flat bottom crap in school and believe it. It is both a classic case of terrible science education and really bad thinking skills. Just one look at a cheap balsa glider or even the sight of a plane flying inverted should cause people to go huh?????
Take a look at the many wings that have an under camber or even a flat top and curved bottom like most super critical sections.
As far as knowing what one is talking about... Well everyone makes mistakes it is just important that you learn from them.
Would you like "big complicated fan"? They are blades that spin and move air. Yes they can change pitch but then so can a lot of propellers. They can do have cyclic and well as collective pitch control which does is a difference and they often have hinges as well to help with the retreating blade issue but a lot of them are now called ridged but in effect they are really just fans at the simplest level. And there is very little difference between the "tail" rotor and any other prop except that it is used to counter the main rotor.
Frankly to go into all the complexities and dynamics of a helicopter is just a bit too long of a subject for a Slashdot post.
The prop of a plane and the rotor of a helicopter are at their heart fans for moving air.
b A rotor and a propeller are much the same thing. The rotor on a helicopter is a little bit more complex because it also acts like a wing. That is why the are also called rotary wing aircraft but really they are a big fan just like a prop. As to it being the norm not really but now that the V-22 is in service is isn't a crazy stunt anymore. And as to efficient this lift device also is not very efficient just take a look at the specs on the helicopter I included that can carry much more weight with less than half the power.
c. Even that is a very iffy use case. The problem with thrusting down on the ship is the danger to the crew. You will still need to secure the craft and with it thrusting that sound very risky. The other issue is how fast can you reverse the thrust? If it takes even on second you could be in a very bad spot as you go from hover to down thrust in a storm. The current solution is I think is called bear trap in Canada or RAST in the US. The helicopter hovers well above the ship. They drop a line that is then attached to a winch. The helicopter goes to full up thrust and they just crank it down. The real issue with landing at sea in bad weather isn't really staying on the deck but that fact that the deck is moving. The cable method means that the helicopter moves with the deck and when it is on the deck it is already secured to the deck. The reverse thrust is a solution in search of a problem unless you really want to go down fast.
Now what this would be cool for is maybe a drone flying in a city or forest. Places where a large rotor would be to restrictive. But the hype was..... Well makes this worthy of being called trash.
Not magic but they have more resources and frankly talent that you can imagine. All it will take is one slip up and it is over as it may already be. But you can see how easy it is since we started off with "I will just use someone else's wifi" to now using several proxies. So what makes you think that they have not comprised those proxies with a man in the middle attack? Do you honestly think that any security organisation with access to the telecom infrastructures allows open proxies that are not monitored? I mean do you honestly think that they are not on every IRC channel and board and have access to the same list of proxies as the hacker community does? They just ignore most of the traffic because it isn't a threat to nation security. Now that they have made threats things may have changed. The only why really to avoid getting caught is to stay below the radar and not get their attention. None of this is magic just the way it is in the intelligence community. They tech they have is amazing as is the tallent and that is a good thing IMHO. I am in the LulzSec is nothing but vigilantes category the sooner they and Anon are crushed the better.Right now the smart members are sitting in their basements curled up in a ball hoping to be lucky. The dumb ones think they can not be caught.
And you are also expecting that they never use a TOR exit node that was a honey pot. It doesn't take many mistakes to get caught if you are playing with the big dogs. These are the same people that built the SR-71, used nuclear subs to tap underwater phone cables, and build and run the Keyhole and Lacross birds. It will take just one to track them down and as the link suggests http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/22/1236215/Authorities-Closing-On-LulzSec more than one member may have already been turned.
You really don't want to go to be a big enough problem to get on these groups radar. I find the fandom and ego trips about LulzSec's abilities to be far more amusing then their little stunts. It is too bad the they don't know the rule "don't poke the bear". LulzSec and Anon are dumb enough to think they are the bear.
So you are saying that they are like a wing of a plane. We all know that planes can not fly inverted correct? And that maneuvers like an outside loop are impossible.
Actually helicopter rotors tend to use symmetrical airfoils. What stops them from trusting upwards is that the blades flex and would hit the structure of the helicopter. Plus there really is almost no need to ever thrust down. Just setting the rotor to zero pitch would be good enough but the tend to want to keep a little lift on the rotors on landing just to keep them for bouncing around and being a danger.
a. It isn't a new kind of engine. It is using a standard piston engine. It is a new kind of impeller, rotor,
b. Propeller engines can't hover? What? I guess you have never seen a helicopter? Or any 3d model aircraft? Or ever been to an air show and seen a and Extra hang on it's prop? With a high enough power to weight ratio yes they can and do. And of course the V-22 Osprey does it on a regular basis.
c. Trusting up? Talk about being of very limited value. Just going to zero lift on landing is usually good enough. Using engine power to pin the craft to the ground has very limited utility.
Over all this is mildly interesting and could be really good for drones that need to fly in areas too tight for rotors. The claims of high lift and other claims are really out there. The performance is rather unspectacular. Here is a home built aircraft you can buy that has less then half the HP and carries a much bigger payload. http://www.innovator.mosquito.net.nz/mbbs2/specs.asp
Not really in this case. It is mainly to do with water rights. As one person pointed out that the largest water rights holders in are actually in California and Arizona. The idea is that you have first rights to the water that falls on your ground but that you do not second or third rights. For example it is also illegal to use gray water to water your own plants. So after making your pasta that water must go down to sink. It is also illegal in some places to wash your own car. They are actually amending the law on rain barrels or trying to because they realize that it is a bit silly for the average home owner.
True in some places in Colorado things like rain barrels are illegal. Which doesn't make much sense to me at all but there you go.
That is why we have operating systems to hid the differences. As an application developer I don't care if I am writing to an SCSI, SATA, or a USB Flash drive.
I would love to see standard interfaces for things like GPIO, A2D, CAN, SPI, and i2c. It would be great to have the option to just us say a printer port on a PC to act as GPIO and SPI and then write your code on the PC and debug it then throw it on a Linux SBC and have it run. You kind can do it now.
Yes I know that you will still be dealing with things at a lower level than the average applications programmer but some standard APIs would be nice to use.
You would be wrong. "Verizon and Sprint had unlimited data plans as long as they were offering ghetto phones (Android, Samsung, etc). "
So yes Android was mentioned.
If a GPS can locate you down to a few inches they could locate a wifi to an apartment. With the right stuff you can use TOF and since wifi is in the Ghz band off the self military sigint stuff will do the job. Breaking in and planting bugs is not that unusual and even SSH is vulnerable to a man in the middle attack if you are using passwords and not ssh keys. As to not chasing Lulzsec? Don't bet on it at this point. They are making some outlandish threats. At this point the scary people may decided that they will go after them for the Lulz. Not to mention the recruitment. If you prove a challenge to catch then you may get an offer than would be unpleasant to refuse. And even more amusing is the idea that these guys will not turn over the password to their true-crypt volumes so fast it will make your head spin. "We have enough to put you away for 20 years and when you get out you will have a very hard time finding a job, wife, or making any real life for yourself. So how about you just give us that password and we will see what we can do. You may get just a slap on the wrist if you help us catch the big fish".
It really is a simple as that. A 19 year old will spill his guts in a second... as he should.
Yes.
So you are going to access the network using a cracked or open wifi. Well then you are sending to that wifi with no real encryption. You will be vulnerable to a someone sniffing the connection. Once they tack you back to that open wifi point they just put some wifi sensor on the power poles near your house to sniff your wifi signal and locate it to your house. Then they use those sensor to record all your data. Then they get a court order and put a GPS tracker on your car or in the UK just us their cameras to track you. While your out of your house they get in and plant a hacked version of Truecrypt that gets your password.
Yes your basic security measures are pretty useless to stop Mi-5, CIA, FBI, or NSA. That is what is so funny seeing "1337" posts on Slashdot. The level of arrogance involved. The real tech folks at the CIA, FBI, NSA and probably Mi-5 are every bit as smart as the best hackers and have a crap load more resources. The NSA has it's own fab for goodness sakes. They really are the brightest boys with the biggest toys.
ghetto phones? I hate summer because the kids are out and have nothing to do but post on Slashdot.
I chose my Evo 4G on Sprint over going with an iPhone or AT&T.
Because attacking a PBS website because they broadcast a story you didn't like makes all of us safer. I mean no need in hearing any news story that might upset us now is there?
I hope the catch as many as possible. They have attacked freedom of speech and freedom of the press. They have hurt many innocent consumers if not out right hurt them all for the lulz. You have a really odd idea what good work is.
Of course after a fair hearing. Thing is that if he is guilty then they will make an example of him and get him to turn in others. After a few dozen of the LulzSec minions are sitting in prison the rest will follow. It is funny that so many people on Slashdot really thought that LulzSec was going to get away with taunting world governments. They have their own really bright folks and lots of resources. As long as Anon and Lulz where just messing with companies like Sony and generally being juvenile they where not worth the effort. Now they are worth the effort...
Only if the results you want is less freedom and more anti-hacking laws. They will not manage to hack any CIA secure data that the CIA doesn't want hacked. Nope it is like a hamster attacking a tiger. Just make it easier for the Tiger to find and yet you... If you are worth the effort.
last time I looked there was also no real standard SPI device, no standard for A2Ds, or GPIO. I2C does at least have a standard system and com ports are well supported. I have no idea how well the CAN buss is supported but up till now embedded ARM seems to have been well on the back burner after servers, HPC, and the Desktop.
Actually I must say that I am sorry for that. I was speaking in general about the Slashdot posters and forgot that I was replying to an individual. That was terrible offensive and not polite at all and was just my anger speaking.
Thing is that the results of these attacks will be more really bad laws past and frankly LulzSec and Anon have done nothing of any value. They just threaten people and yes the attack on PBS was an attack on Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech.
So again please forgive me for flying off the handle and forgetting that you were on the other side of the post.