They can do this using two or more pairs. Most likely it has to do with harmonics, impedance, alloys and compositions and things with molecular structures that my primitive intellect cannot understand.
They are using 4 pairs to achieve that 825 Mbps speed.
Note that 1000BASE-T also uses 4 pairs to achieve 1000Mbit over a shorter 100 meters. I'm curious what maximum range 1000BASE-T will actually work at (100m is guaranteed), and if it were to work at 400m, what the bandwidth would be.
I know he said it in jest, but the devices wouldn't have had any C++ in them at all. Only binaries, generated by assemblers, which took output from the C++ compiler.:) A couple layers of abstraction away is all...
Geez these first posters. Like spammers, always looking for a new attack vector. I'm sure he's been sitting on this particular exploit for a long time, just waiting for his opportunity to strike. You've won today, but we're all onto your trick when you try to (0.999...)st post the next story...
Here's a specific example of what I'm talking about. Here is a post made to my forums in July 2010:
You can choose ‘Micro-ATX’ size motherboard for your HP. That limits the possible range of motherboards deals you will find. My advise is to buy a case that fits full ‘ATX’ form factor motherboards and go from there, many choices. It is depending on money and what you want if your building a good rig for gaming multimedia etc and don't buy a case with power supply. Please choose a separate power supply.
Now here is a post from another website made in 2009:
Your HP case (the cheapest part of the pc!) takes a ‘Micro-ATX’ size motherboard.
That limits the possible range of motherboards\deals you will find. (look for a motherboard\processor package)
Now you are already buying ‘a whole new computer’ except the case, why stop there? (unless you want the small form factor)
My advise (thats why your here!) is to buy a case that fits full ‘ATX’ form factor motherboards and go from there, much more choice.
Depending on money and what you want if your building a good rig for gaming\multimedia etc DON’T buy a case with power supply, they are usually sh*t (cheap\unreliable). Choose a case, choose a separate power supply (after research!)
As someone who deals with forum spam on a daily basis, I'm rather surprised at how intelligent the spambots are becoming.
Of course there's always the blatant, obvious spam (99% of which are video encoding tools for iPad, iPhone, etc). But I've recognized two other types of very covert spambots.
First one will take fragments of sentences from previous posts in the topic and regurgitate them. At first glance it seems on topic, but closer inspection reveals the post doesn't make sense and is just portions of others' posts.
The second type uses a database of sentences harvested from other websites, and attempts to post a sentence that matches keywords in that topic. Usually I can spot those because they aren't exactly on topic to the thread. I've also seen these modify various throw-away words, like adjectives and articles, so the sentence isn't an exact copy of the original source.
Now the key thing with both of these kinds of spambots is that they do not include any links initially. A couple weeks after posting they come back and change their signature, which results in spam links appearing under all of their previous posts.
I've also noticed that the vast majority of spambots use yahoo.com email addresses, so yahoo's captcha must be weaker than gmail / hotmail.
Now on the topic of this story, I don't quite understand. The forums I moderate have a few spambot accounts created daily (using recaptcha and custom implemented captcha). So it's not like there's just a couple spambot accounts causing all the trouble. Over the course of a month it around a hundred different accounts. So I don't see how this hacker is helping anything going after accounts one at a time manually.
I don't agree. Take a look at the NFL logo on the football player's jersey just below his neck. If you zoom in and compare then you'll see the WebP version is crisper.
Are there any specific portions of the images where you feel JPEG has better clarity, so others can compare them as well?
No one knows exactly what it does. More than likely it did target a specific industrial complex with the purpose of physically damaging machinery. However, there could be multiple targets, or the software could be collecting data / signatures of additional hardware which it could be instructed to attack at a later time.
This is purported to be the most advanced, complex and highest quality malware ever discovered. I seriously doubt it would be spreading as far and wide as it has for so long if it was targeting a single machine only. My hunch is it is collecting information, and will be used to simultaneously damage as much hardware as possible once it reaches a certain saturation across Iran's industries, and collected enough information to allow accurate targeting of the types of hardware the operators wish to damage.
If the algorithm can detect 20% with perfection then that must constitute extremely low hanging fruit. That type of vandalism is just annoyance. It is so obvious that the end user readily recognizes it as such and can skip over it or revert the edit.
The real issue is disinformation, which is vastly more subtle. The only defense is fact-checking or seeking out references. If the algorithm is capable of recognizing that kind of vandalism then the developers should have the software writing all the articles in the first place, because it'd have to be pretty spectacular to manage that.
Also, calls don't transfer in, so you'll lose calls as you approach your house. No thanks.
I can see why the carrier wouldn't want calls to be handed off from an official base station to a private station, especially if the end user has no choice or say so. There could be a slew of problems, anything from poor latency, low bandwidth, to potential eavesdropping or monitoring. The carrier would be blamed for the poor connection of a femtocell without the end user even knowing the logistics involved.
The fact is, if you don't have cell service at your house, then you aren't any worse off for those specific calls when you are already on the phone as your approach your home. Just call them back or vice versa once you're at your house. Further, there's a good chance the cellular service will not perfectly overlap your femtocell anyway, so you're going to drop the call before you're in range of your house. Especially if it is a rural / geographical type of situation (which is very common in my area).
Several years ago we had 3 or 4 different pieces of software that each came with a keyboard overlay. The overlay was a big, fancy plastic "toy" that strapped over the keyboard. Interacting with the toy would press specific keys that the software would react to.
One of them was Thomas & Friends Railway Adventures Playset. I must admit it was pretty cool. It requires a standard external PC keyboard, so it won't work on a laptop keyboard or any funky ergonomic ones. Just your plain jane keyboard.
Speaking of laptop, I have 4 kids, the youngest still being a toddler, and every single one of them loved to rip keys off of my laptops at that age. I'm an expert at reassembling those little hinges and keys now, unfortunately. Their little fingers pop those suckers off with ease.
Compared to Windows 3.11 it was the best thing ever created by a human. In that context, Windows 95 was pretty amazing. I always wondered why it took so long for a PC based OS to have a mouse cursor that was actually responsive. I guess my Amiga 1000 set a high standard for me a decade before Windows 95.
It doesn't try to guess what you want to drink, which is about as moronic a concept as those biofeedback quarter machines that tell you your love potential based on your heart rate.
Pick a language and dive right in. If you are proficient in as many languages as you state, then learning "modern" languages will be no problem. Especially if you are familiar with Pascal, which structurally is very similar to the languages you want to learn.
C++, PHP, Java, C# and Javascript are all related structured programming languages, and primarily differ in minor syntax, class definition, data types and strictness. For example, the C code: if (++i > 10) {
j+=5;
i=0; } will execute as-is in all 5 of the languages I mentioned (PHP would have $ signs in front of variable names). So if you are familiar with C, or even Pascal, then you already understand a good portion of modern languages.
"HTML5" - HTML, CSS and Javascript (and throw in PHP for server-side), would represent the largest departure from what you have done in the past, due to the tremendous amount of segregation between what runs on the server versus what happens in the browser. To some extent the entire thing will seem like a big hack, and to a large extent that's what it is.
Still, my point is that if you were able to become proficient over such a wide variety of languages in the past, then you will not have any problem today, especially since many of the modern languages are quite similar.
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They can do this using two or more pairs. Most likely it has to do with harmonics, impedance, alloys and compositions and things with molecular structures that my primitive intellect cannot understand.
They are using 4 pairs to achieve that 825 Mbps speed.
Note that 1000BASE-T also uses 4 pairs to achieve 1000Mbit over a shorter 100 meters. I'm curious what maximum range 1000BASE-T will actually work at (100m is guaranteed), and if it were to work at 400m, what the bandwidth would be.
I know he said it in jest, but the devices wouldn't have had any C++ in them at all. Only binaries, generated by assemblers, which took output from the C++ compiler. :) A couple layers of abstraction away is all...
Geez these first posters. Like spammers, always looking for a new attack vector. I'm sure he's been sitting on this particular exploit for a long time, just waiting for his opportunity to strike. You've won today, but we're all onto your trick when you try to (0.999...)st post the next story...
Here's a specific example of what I'm talking about. Here is a post made to my forums in July 2010:
You can choose ‘Micro-ATX’ size motherboard for your HP. That limits the possible range of motherboards deals you will find. My advise is to buy a case that fits full ‘ATX’ form factor motherboards and go from there, many choices. It is depending on money and what you want if your building a good rig for gaming multimedia etc and don't buy a case with power supply. Please choose a separate power supply.
Now here is a post from another website made in 2009:
Your HP case (the cheapest part of the pc!) takes a ‘Micro-ATX’ size motherboard.
That limits the possible range of motherboards\deals you will find. (look for a motherboard\processor package)
Now you are already buying ‘a whole new computer’ except the case, why stop there? (unless you want the small form factor)
My advise (thats why your here!) is to buy a case that fits full ‘ATX’ form factor motherboards and go from there, much more choice.
Depending on money and what you want if your building a good rig for gaming\multimedia etc DON’T buy a case with power supply, they are usually sh*t (cheap\unreliable). Choose a case, choose a separate power supply (after research!)
As someone who deals with forum spam on a daily basis, I'm rather surprised at how intelligent the spambots are becoming.
Of course there's always the blatant, obvious spam (99% of which are video encoding tools for iPad, iPhone, etc). But I've recognized two other types of very covert spambots.
First one will take fragments of sentences from previous posts in the topic and regurgitate them. At first glance it seems on topic, but closer inspection reveals the post doesn't make sense and is just portions of others' posts.
The second type uses a database of sentences harvested from other websites, and attempts to post a sentence that matches keywords in that topic. Usually I can spot those because they aren't exactly on topic to the thread. I've also seen these modify various throw-away words, like adjectives and articles, so the sentence isn't an exact copy of the original source.
Now the key thing with both of these kinds of spambots is that they do not include any links initially. A couple weeks after posting they come back and change their signature, which results in spam links appearing under all of their previous posts.
I've also noticed that the vast majority of spambots use yahoo.com email addresses, so yahoo's captcha must be weaker than gmail / hotmail.
Now on the topic of this story, I don't quite understand. The forums I moderate have a few spambot accounts created daily (using recaptcha and custom implemented captcha). So it's not like there's just a couple spambot accounts causing all the trouble. Over the course of a month it around a hundred different accounts. So I don't see how this hacker is helping anything going after accounts one at a time manually.
I don't agree. Take a look at the NFL logo on the football player's jersey just below his neck. If you zoom in and compare then you'll see the WebP version is crisper.
Are there any specific portions of the images where you feel JPEG has better clarity, so others can compare them as well?
I don't see that very annoying JPEG halo affect in the WebP image. Compare the blue background around the football player's head.
No one knows exactly what it does. More than likely it did target a specific industrial complex with the purpose of physically damaging machinery. However, there could be multiple targets, or the software could be collecting data / signatures of additional hardware which it could be instructed to attack at a later time.
This is purported to be the most advanced, complex and highest quality malware ever discovered. I seriously doubt it would be spreading as far and wide as it has for so long if it was targeting a single machine only. My hunch is it is collecting information, and will be used to simultaneously damage as much hardware as possible once it reaches a certain saturation across Iran's industries, and collected enough information to allow accurate targeting of the types of hardware the operators wish to damage.
If the algorithm can detect 20% with perfection then that must constitute extremely low hanging fruit. That type of vandalism is just annoyance. It is so obvious that the end user readily recognizes it as such and can skip over it or revert the edit.
The real issue is disinformation, which is vastly more subtle. The only defense is fact-checking or seeking out references. If the algorithm is capable of recognizing that kind of vandalism then the developers should have the software writing all the articles in the first place, because it'd have to be pretty spectacular to manage that.
It's like Digikey, Mouser, a hamfest, Radio Shack and Best Buy all mashed up together. Awesome.
Those little buggers are sure going to be hard to shoot down. Y'all better start skeet shooting right away if the human race is to have any chance!
Also, calls don't transfer in, so you'll lose calls as you approach your house. No thanks.
I can see why the carrier wouldn't want calls to be handed off from an official base station to a private station, especially if the end user has no choice or say so. There could be a slew of problems, anything from poor latency, low bandwidth, to potential eavesdropping or monitoring. The carrier would be blamed for the poor connection of a femtocell without the end user even knowing the logistics involved.
The fact is, if you don't have cell service at your house, then you aren't any worse off for those specific calls when you are already on the phone as your approach your home. Just call them back or vice versa once you're at your house. Further, there's a good chance the cellular service will not perfectly overlap your femtocell anyway, so you're going to drop the call before you're in range of your house. Especially if it is a rural / geographical type of situation (which is very common in my area).
Several years ago we had 3 or 4 different pieces of software that each came with a keyboard overlay. The overlay was a big, fancy plastic "toy" that strapped over the keyboard. Interacting with the toy would press specific keys that the software would react to.
One of them was Thomas & Friends Railway Adventures Playset. I must admit it was pretty cool. It requires a standard external PC keyboard, so it won't work on a laptop keyboard or any funky ergonomic ones. Just your plain jane keyboard.
Speaking of laptop, I have 4 kids, the youngest still being a toddler, and every single one of them loved to rip keys off of my laptops at that age. I'm an expert at reassembling those little hinges and keys now, unfortunately. Their little fingers pop those suckers off with ease.
I knew I had my 20" monitor oriented vertically all this time for an eventual reason - to play this video optimally.
Those are called wildfeeds.
Compared to Windows 3.11 it was the best thing ever created by a human. In that context, Windows 95 was pretty amazing. I always wondered why it took so long for a PC based OS to have a mouse cursor that was actually responsive. I guess my Amiga 1000 set a high standard for me a decade before Windows 95.
Reminds me of something out of Speaker for the dead.
I've seen touchscreen coke machines, where the entire front of the machine is a vertically oriented touchscreen panel, here in the US in malls:
http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/touch_screen_coke_vending_machine_by_sapient.php
It doesn't try to guess what you want to drink, which is about as moronic a concept as those biofeedback quarter machines that tell you your love potential based on your heart rate.
Ahhh, Doom. At my college there were three types of computer labs:
486 PCs: For Doom.
IBM Mainframe terminals: For IRC.
Unix X terminal workstations: For software development.
At least that's what 90% of the people in each type of lab would be doing at any given time.
Nature wins?
Pick a language and dive right in. If you are proficient in as many languages as you state, then learning "modern" languages will be no problem. Especially if you are familiar with Pascal, which structurally is very similar to the languages you want to learn.
C++, PHP, Java, C# and Javascript are all related structured programming languages, and primarily differ in minor syntax, class definition, data types and strictness.
For example, the C code:
if (++i > 10) {
j+=5;
i=0;
}
will execute as-is in all 5 of the languages I mentioned (PHP would have $ signs in front of variable names). So if you are familiar with C, or even Pascal, then you already understand a good portion of modern languages.
"HTML5" - HTML, CSS and Javascript (and throw in PHP for server-side), would represent the largest departure from what you have done in the past, due to the tremendous amount of segregation between what runs on the server versus what happens in the browser. To some extent the entire thing will seem like a big hack, and to a large extent that's what it is.
Still, my point is that if you were able to become proficient over such a wide variety of languages in the past, then you will not have any problem today, especially since many of the modern languages are quite similar.
You don't have to use Objective-C to write iPhone applications, nor should you if portability is a concern.
"Grandpa, you'd better wipe really good because it sounds like you have the runs."
And I bet the two ISPs serve different regions, in which case citizens wouldn't even get to choose between A and B.