The same kind of overexcited journalists makes such assumptions. "Oh, the new shiny will be everywhere now!"
By the way - take your time to read comments while they last - many good commenters (called "audience" by/. owners) will go away when Beta is forcefully rammed down our eyes.
If it works like that for "visually judging speed" in USA, then agreed.
Each country has its own gritty formal details, I guess.
Here you cannot be ticketed for speed unless this measurement comes from a certified system that has a valid and current certificate etc. People have disputed tickets successfully in the past, although now police learned how to fulfill all those formal requirements. Also if you have a camera in your car, it will not be considered a legal proof, because it is not a legally certified device. You need to get validation from a court-approved specialist before you can use it in court.
For non-technical things word of policeman is by default truth, so if your version is different than police, with lack of other evidence or people, your position is lost.
PS: cheers to 5-digits, with Beta enforcement I'm outta here.
Your car is not legally equipped to measure speed of oncoming vehicles. Therefore you have no basis to know if they go below or above speed limit, and no basis to make decision to warn them.
Now, if they were going in the same direction as you, just driving much faster than you driving at legal speed limit, this explanation might be plausible and probably accepted, it's not the discussed case though.
It all comes down to how smart/intent on giving you the ticket the policeman is. As others noticed, you can also dispute the ticket, but it will take your time and effort, especially if you have to drive a long way to appear before the judge, and do it more than once - sometimes this is also intentional by a policeman:-/
I am surprised that Police accused him of warning the others with high beams. This just doesn't fly, as judge has shown.
What happens elsewhere is that you are sometimes (lawfully) ticketed for using high beams against allowed exceptions such as: - only at night (dusk till dawn), - only if it doesn't blind other drivers or pedestrians, - only if there is no car coming from other direction, and no car in front (could be blinded through mirror reflection), - in other conditions only to warn other drivers about DANGER. Police speedtrap is not considered danger by the law.
I suppose USA road law has similar rules for use of high beams. "Flashing lights" means something different as far as I could find, and the rest of road law is too complicated to find applicable section quickly.
Thank you for taking time to reply and adding interesting information!
Regardless of bauds/bits (and 1200 bits/s is more impressive than 1200 baud), Codec2 is a very interesting development in voice area. It also demonstrates how much has changed on endpoints when it comes to processing power and capabilites, while bandwidth (that in Hz and that in bit/s) still remains limited.
> When was the last time you installed a "specially crafted" bdf font from anywhere?
I got a very nice BDF font recently from a guy who said he can't say where he works or doesn't work. It installed very nicely, and it is signed "specially crafted" indeed! Font file also has a "Made by ANToN of eSsAy" attribution. Nice handle!
Ryszard Kuklinski defected Poland to provide a trove of strategic Warsaw Pact defense information to USA. He was (technically) a traitor of not only his own country but undermined security of the whole group of countries, yet he was hailed hero by USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Kukli%C5%84ski
Snowden defeated USA to provide a trove of information about breaking the law to the public. He was (technically) a traitor of his own country, yet he is not hailed hero by USA.
Basic hypocrisy? Kali steals cow = good deed. Someone steals cow from Kali = bad deed.
Kuklinski was eventually pardoned many years later based on "acting for a higher need under special circumstances".
Same can happen with Snowden in, say, 50 years (it will likely take much longer for that highly marketed CHANGE to happen in USA than it did in USSR).
NSA did not backdoor Microsoft/Cisco/Huawei... but did the most simple thing, same as worms/hackers do - they used exploits on various devices:
"it exploits the technical weaknesses of the IT industry, from Microsoft to Cisco and Huawei"
Backdooring was not wholesale for all equipment/software from a given vendor (which is what summary implies), but was installed for specific end users:
" intercept shipping deliveries. If a target person [...] agents carefully open the package in order to load malware onto the electronics, or even install hardware components that can provide backdoor access for the intelligence agencies."
Slashdot editing jumped so many sharks it's largely worthless to read anymore, except for some insightful comments by users.
Article does not exactly say Cisco is compromised.
It says that Cisco, just like a wild variety of other vendors( including Juniper, Apple, VMware, Brocade, Intel and IBM) used BSAFE encryption library in some of their products. If you read further, you will find that their implementation chose to not use DRBG algorithm but much more popular AES.
Whether one believes it or not, you have to hand one thing to Cisco - they are pretty open about those things. Including publishing security advisories and all other kinds of information out there. It's as much as you can get from a vendor.
Agreed about NSA's "obsessive hoarding" though, it's almost as if they employed people who are heroes of that TLC "Obsessive Compulsive Hoarders" series;-)
Last time I was in Belgium Telecom, public transport and other activities (brewing real beer) were handled competently. I am inclined to argue that your comment must be due to malice...
_Can_ blame editors for not being up to date with English though. Editors are people supposed to make sure the summary is not confusing, and paid for that.
It was enough to title story "A Belgian Telecom..." (which implies one of many Belgian telecom companies) instead of "Belgian Telecom" (which is a specific company, Belgian Telecom).
Telecom name is also not confusing by far. In European countries telecom providers held monopoly for a long time, and such companies were simply called "Belgian Telecom", "Deutsche Telecom", "France Telecom", "Polish Telecom", "Makedonski Telecom", "British Telecom", "Magyar Telecom", "OtherCountry Telecom". Basic fact, google or wikipedia it.
Today many of them still hold these names, and for people in Europe "Country Telecom" means a very specific company.
I also welcome your personal comment about "reflecting on you". Nothing like turning proffessional matter (ability of paid editors to provide proper information) into a personal matter. I am glad to have been instructed and enlightened on why your point of view should prevail.
"All in one"? ALL? Those 'inventors' live in 80's or what? Unless you provide proper modern card functionality, you can't claim ALL. Heck, your card does not support anything mildly innovative, such as displaying your account balance.
This questionable invention seems to be limited to markets with no security (USA) which want to remain in Dark Ages, or to scammers who want to impersonate people from those countries.
This is even worse than UK card terminals that attempt offline PIN authorisation, yet another security risk.
There are already ads for local email and web services based on recently revealed truth about USA.
Don't want 'friends' to read your communication? Use {local brand name}.
Of course if you use them, things will be still read by your country's services, but at least they are your compatriotes, not foreigners, they fall under your law, not USA twisted law (except where some corporation long hands will reach for you), and you might be arrested by friendlies, not by illegally invading Seals or Rabbits.
"Paypal does not really work internationally. I've tried."
This is misunderstanding of "international" in the context that is discussed.
It works internationally, I've made countless purchases and payments to various countries.
Using PP you can pay a company based, say, in Germania when you are based in Roslandia. This means that a company in one country can accept shipments from multiple different countries and is not limited to the same country only. This is international, and this is how a local company can raise funds internationally (as with MailPile).
What you describe is rather a (crude yet effective) security measure against using stolen CC data. Also if a company does not want to handle international shipping, they can refuse to accept payments from outside their country or region. Companies also sometimes refuse shipping to address different than PP/card billing address.
Please advise which other widely available service you recommend?
It needs to work internationally, accept various methods of payments, does not require you to do extensive paperwork and have cost low enough that it is feasible for users on both sides (paying and receiving).
LEDs used too much power to be lighted up all time, so you had to press a button to check time. Everyone simply got used to it, as at the time these watches were not only a novelty but also forefront of technology.
Later on LCD allowed for continuous display on electronic watch.
Samsung "watch" is in a way on the forefront of technology, so it will take time to make it better. Meanwhile people are fairly spoiled and expect 100 year batter life with built-in projector showing time on the ceiling.
One good thing that Samsung did here is calling this an accessory, not a watch. This is very smart in multiple ways.
He passed Top Secret Warsaw Pact documents to USA. Not about crimes, but secret military documents about tactics, strategy, and also blueprints of advanced weapons. He was a traitor ot his own country, that's technically obvious.
USA considered him a hero (!), and after 2000 also Poland changed their mind, mostly on patriotic level - because he made damage to Russians, not only to his own country. He is still very controversial figure.
Now you have people like Manning and Snowden who expose commited crimes and wrongdoings of their country. It is not as clear as with Kuklinski to say they are traitors, maybe whistleblowers, line is much more blurred.
Guess what! Kali's morality here on behalf of USA governement!
Foreigner gives secret documents to USA - GOOD! USA guy reveals USA crimes to world - BAAAAD!
Hypocrisy, plain and obvious.
Mother, should I run for president? Mother, should I trust the government? Mother, will they put me in the firing line? Mother, do you think they'll try to break my balls?
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for putting that information in concise way.
One more group that has to be added is government/army services involved in electronic warfare:
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
The same kind of overexcited journalists makes such assumptions. "Oh, the new shiny will be everywhere now!"
By the way - take your time to read comments while they last - many good commenters (called "audience" by /. owners) will go away when Beta is forcefully rammed down our eyes.
Been there at the beginnings. /. is but a platform, staff is not even capable of editing submissions properly.
Beta /. platform is an abomination.
Community is key - see you guys elsewhere when Beta ./ is enforced upon us.
If it works like that for "visually judging speed" in USA, then agreed.
Each country has its own gritty formal details, I guess.
Here you cannot be ticketed for speed unless this measurement comes from a certified system that has a valid and current certificate etc. People have disputed tickets successfully in the past, although now police learned how to fulfill all those formal requirements.
Also if you have a camera in your car, it will not be considered a legal proof, because it is not a legally certified device. You need to get validation from a court-approved specialist before you can use it in court.
For non-technical things word of policeman is by default truth, so if your version is different than police, with lack of other evidence or people, your position is lost.
PS: cheers to 5-digits, with Beta enforcement I'm outta here.
Your car is not legally equipped to measure speed of oncoming vehicles. Therefore you have no basis to know if they go below or above speed limit, and no basis to make decision to warn them.
Now, if they were going in the same direction as you, just driving much faster than you driving at legal speed limit, this explanation might be plausible and probably accepted, it's not the discussed case though.
It all comes down to how smart/intent on giving you the ticket the policeman is. As others noticed, you can also dispute the ticket, but it will take your time and effort, especially if you have to drive a long way to appear before the judge, and do it more than once - sometimes this is also intentional by a policeman :-/
I am surprised that Police accused him of warning the others with high beams. This just doesn't fly, as judge has shown.
What happens elsewhere is that you are sometimes (lawfully) ticketed for using high beams against allowed exceptions such as:
- only at night (dusk till dawn),
- only if it doesn't blind other drivers or pedestrians,
- only if there is no car coming from other direction, and no car in front (could be blinded through mirror reflection),
- in other conditions only to warn other drivers about DANGER. Police speedtrap is not considered danger by the law.
I suppose USA road law has similar rules for use of high beams. "Flashing lights" means something different as far as I could find, and the rest of road law is too complicated to find applicable section quickly.
Just don't get caught.
Thank you for taking time to reply and adding interesting information!
Regardless of bauds/bits (and 1200 bits/s is more impressive than 1200 baud), Codec2 is a very interesting development in voice area. It also demonstrates how much has changed on endpoints when it comes to processing power and capabilites, while bandwidth (that in Hz and that in bit/s) still remains limited.
Even codec2 authors wrote "1200 and 2400 bits per second".
Nowadays with QAM64/256 and other modern techniques one symbol is not equal to one bit, and 1200 baud can be many times more bits/second.
Already in 1990s V.32 standard transmitted 4800 bits/s over 1200 baud line, using symbols with 4 bits.
Come on, this used to be technology geek site.
> When was the last time you installed a "specially crafted" bdf font from anywhere?
I got a very nice BDF font recently from a guy who said he can't say where he works or doesn't work. It installed very nicely, and it is signed "specially crafted" indeed! Font file also has a "Made by ANToN of eSsAy" attribution. Nice handle!
Some food for thought.
Ryszard Kuklinski defected Poland to provide a trove of strategic Warsaw Pact defense information to USA. He was (technically) a traitor of not only his own country but undermined security of the whole group of countries, yet he was hailed hero by USA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Kukli%C5%84ski
Snowden defeated USA to provide a trove of information about breaking the law to the public. He was (technically) a traitor of his own country, yet he is not hailed hero by USA.
Basic hypocrisy?
Kali steals cow = good deed.
Someone steals cow from Kali = bad deed.
Kuklinski was eventually pardoned many years later based on "acting for a higher need under special circumstances".
Same can happen with Snowden in, say, 50 years (it will likely take much longer for that highly marketed CHANGE to happen in USA than it did in USSR).
Another fail at reading and at editing.
NSA did not backdoor Microsoft/Cisco/Huawei... but did the most simple thing, same as worms/hackers do - they used exploits on various devices:
"it exploits the technical weaknesses of the IT industry, from Microsoft to Cisco and Huawei"
Backdooring was not wholesale for all equipment/software from a given vendor (which is what summary implies), but was installed for specific end users:
" intercept shipping deliveries. If a target person [...] agents carefully open the package in order to load malware onto the electronics, or even install hardware components that can provide backdoor access for the intelligence agencies."
Slashdot editing jumped so many sharks it's largely worthless to read anymore, except for some insightful comments by users.
Things seem to have really gone down since my experiences then.
As I look at your list though, it looks familiar though. Almost as if modern systems get too complicated to operate nominally.
Thanks for the link, did not find it before.
Article does not exactly say Cisco is compromised.
It says that Cisco, just like a wild variety of other vendors( including Juniper, Apple, VMware, Brocade, Intel and IBM) used BSAFE encryption library in some of their products. If you read further, you will find that their implementation chose to not use DRBG algorithm but much more popular AES.
Whether one believes it or not, you have to hand one thing to Cisco - they are pretty open about those things. Including publishing security advisories and all other kinds of information out there. It's as much as you can get from a vendor.
Agreed about NSA's "obsessive hoarding" though, it's almost as if they employed people who are heroes of that TLC "Obsessive Compulsive Hoarders" series ;-)
It does matter.
Last time I was in Belgium Telecom, public transport and other activities (brewing real beer) were handled competently. I am inclined to argue that your comment must be due to malice...
_Can_ blame editors for not being up to date with English though. Editors are people supposed to make sure the summary is not confusing, and paid for that.
It was enough to title story "A Belgian Telecom..." (which implies one of many Belgian telecom companies) instead of "Belgian Telecom" (which is a specific company, Belgian Telecom).
Telecom name is also not confusing by far. In European countries telecom providers held monopoly for a long time, and such companies were simply called "Belgian Telecom", "Deutsche Telecom", "France Telecom", "Polish Telecom", "Makedonski Telecom", "British Telecom", "Magyar Telecom", "OtherCountry Telecom". Basic fact, google or wikipedia it.
Today many of them still hold these names, and for people in Europe "Country Telecom" means a very specific company.
I also welcome your personal comment about "reflecting on you". Nothing like turning proffessional matter (ability of paid editors to provide proper information) into a personal matter. I am glad to have been instructed and enlightened on why your point of view should prevail.
> Cisco compromised already documented.
Documented where?
Belgian Telecom is one company.
Mobile Vikings is another company.
Title is confusing, editors did not do a proper job there.
You know, that transmission thingy using IP.
Internet Protocol.
"All in one"? ALL?
Those 'inventors' live in 80's or what? Unless you provide proper modern card functionality, you can't claim ALL. Heck, your card does not support anything mildly innovative, such as displaying your account balance.
This questionable invention seems to be limited to markets with no security (USA) which want to remain in Dark Ages, or to scammers who want to impersonate people from those countries.
This is even worse than UK card terminals that attempt offline PIN authorisation, yet another security risk.
There are already ads for local email and web services based on recently revealed truth about USA.
Don't want 'friends' to read your communication?
Use {local brand name}.
Of course if you use them, things will be still read by your country's services, but at least they are your compatriotes, not foreigners, they fall under your law, not USA twisted law (except where some corporation long hands will reach for you), and you might be arrested by friendlies, not by illegally invading Seals or Rabbits.
People use up all their energy to write a comment on Slashdot.
There is nothing left to perform actual protest.
"Paypal does not really work internationally. I've tried."
This is misunderstanding of "international" in the context that is discussed.
It works internationally, I've made countless purchases and payments to various countries.
Using PP you can pay a company based, say, in Germania when you are based in Roslandia. This means that a company in one country can accept shipments from multiple different countries and is not limited to the same country only. This is international, and this is how a local company can raise funds internationally (as with MailPile).
What you describe is rather a (crude yet effective) security measure against using stolen CC data. Also if a company does not want to handle international shipping, they can refuse to accept payments from outside their country or region. Companies also sometimes refuse shipping to address different than PP/card billing address.
Please advise which other widely available service you recommend?
It needs to work internationally, accept various methods of payments, does not require you to do extensive paperwork and have cost low enough that it is feasible for users on both sides (paying and receiving).
Early electronic watch with LED display.
LEDs used too much power to be lighted up all time, so you had to press a button to check time. Everyone simply got used to it, as at the time these watches were not only a novelty but also forefront of technology.
Later on LCD allowed for continuous display on electronic watch.
Samsung "watch" is in a way on the forefront of technology, so it will take time to make it better. Meanwhile people are fairly spoiled and expect 100 year batter life with built-in projector showing time on the ceiling.
One good thing that Samsung did here is calling this an accessory, not a watch. This is very smart in multiple ways.
Ryszard Kuklinski was a Polish Colonel, one of Warsaw Pact commandants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Kukli%C5%84ski
He passed Top Secret Warsaw Pact documents to USA. Not about crimes, but secret military documents about tactics, strategy, and also blueprints of advanced weapons. He was a traitor ot his own country, that's technically obvious.
USA considered him a hero (!), and after 2000 also Poland changed their mind, mostly on patriotic level - because he made damage to Russians, not only to his own country. He is still very controversial figure.
Now you have people like Manning and Snowden who expose commited crimes and wrongdoings of their country. It is not as clear as with Kuklinski to say they are traitors, maybe whistleblowers, line is much more blurred.
Guess what!
Kali's morality here on behalf of USA governement!
Foreigner gives secret documents to USA - GOOD!
USA guy reveals USA crimes to world - BAAAAD!
Hypocrisy, plain and obvious.
Mother, should I run for president?
Mother, should I trust the government?
Mother, will they put me in the firing line?
Mother, do you think they'll try to break my balls?