If you are interested in actually learning more about such techniques I would suggest typing "call spoofing" into your favorite search engine.
Thanks for the reminder. Congresswoman Annie Kuster has been robocalling us with the CallerID spoofed to 'WIRELESS CALLER' in the past few days - been meaning to look that up.
Not that I should dare to question my betters, of course.
For the last generation, "Serve and Protect" has become "Cover your ass" and "Everyone is a perp."
But that's exactly the problem - everybody *is* a perp. We have so many laws and every goddamn things has been criminalized, either by statute or regulation, that we'll all felons now - it's just a matter of who is having the laws enforced against them.
Disabled man shot up for having a seizure? That's OK, he was a perp anyway.
I did some dumb things too as a kid, but not 30 times over...
That's OK, you just have to do them three times now, and then be unlucky - we sentence on "three strikes" rules now, because, you know, baseball and also "tough on crime!".
The low-information voters and low-information journalists
Some of the reporters are probably dupes, but don't think for a minute that the owners and their cohorts, who own the seaside mansions, aren't going to do everything in their power to take money from the working poor to protect their investments. External (or existential) threat is the universal motivator and government action is the universal solution.
Yeah, we're in an upswing. That's what everybody who studies the glaciation cycles has known for decades. Are humans bumping it along? Perhaps, but it's going that way whether humans do so or not, so get used to it. But maybe we'll all chip in for another seawall to get Mr. Burns through for his lifetime. Our grandkids can build his grandkids an even bigger seawall.
That too complicated a concept, or just not enough money in it?
Funny thing about the web - I get to decide where I go and what I see and when.
Fine, write your own browser.
Mozilla is facing their $300M/yr revenue stream from Google going away as of December. Perhaps you can offer and execute a better plan for continuing to provide a good, secure, public-interest browser?
Heaven forbid they sell some ads and give people the option to turn that off... it's worse than kidnapping little girls, I tell you!
Mozilla, don't listen to the haters - do what you need to to keep Firefox & Thunderbird alive and libre.
The results will likely be awful, but the decision appears legally correct.
Which, if we had proper activist judges, would cause that part of the copyright regime to be struck down as unconstitutional.
It says right in the Constitution that the purpose of these monopoly grants is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. If the law causes harm in that regard, then the law is wrong.
Remember, the power flows: People -> Constitution -> Government -> Statutes. Well, that's the fairly tale, anyway - if nobody acutally follows it, is it really true? Anyway, that's the logic that got this government authorized in the first place - perhaps it was a con-game, but "fool me once" and all that.
This needs a coder boycott of anything Oracle until Oracle stands up and pubclically disavows this ruling and claims the court was wrong.
We've all known that Oracle is a corporate asshole for ages, but realize that they are only the complaintant here. Nobody from Oracle is going to bust down your door and haul you off to a cage if you implement a java-compatible language and tell them to pound sand.
Oracle is a symptom here - you can address the symptom but don't expect to do a whole lot of good if you're not going after the cause.
Now then, the shareholders at Sun are quite happy about this, because access to Google's database patents vis-a-vis the Java suit is probably the only reason Oracle bought Sun in the first place. This ruling vindicates that strategy and raises the odds that Oracle will continue to be around to create additional civil atrocities.
I have never seen an electrical outage not related to a major disaster that kept everyone out of the building anyway
Oh, man, that must be nice. In the USA we have outages every few months as there's no redundancy on the grid.
and that IT should get more appreciation than it does, which is questionable at best
While it's silly to need such appreciation, humans do. Do they want to get accolates from the CEO? Just tell him that employees who feel very appreciated will work for up to 20% less. True story - it's fiscally irresponsible to allow any of your employees to feel unappreciated as they will demand more money and have lower productivity. And also it's not very kind, but if your CEO is a high-functioning psychopath, that doesn't carry much water.
Personally, I feel you should just give up on headphones. You're never going to get good bass response
I agree with everything you've said, but it's worth noting that if you need to use headphones, better is still better than not better. I recently picked up a Motorola S11 Flex HD bluetooth headset, to listen to podcasts while exercising and doing yardwork, and I found that it takes far less mental concentration to listen to voices when the bass is better (the last headset I had had awful bass). I don't know if the additional frequencies are activating more neurons or what, but listening feels very natural, vs. strained on my old headset.
I'm also very impressed by the amount of bass that they can squeeze of of the little buggers, especially given its very modest power budget. I own a 15" subwoofer too, so I'm not pretending here, but that's harder to carry on the bike.
Actually, this is necessary in order for it to fulfill its primary mission, which is to convince other ISPs that they can make money in the gigabit business.
I agree it's the primary mission, but a real secondary benefit we're seeing is that everybody who is claiming that Comcast or the ILEC or whatever is a "natural monopoly" (that somehow still needs protection from competition) and that last-mile competition is folly - well, they're full of shit, or just shills for the incumbents. Google comes in, has a viable business model, and not only can they make money doing it, the competition kicks the other players in the ass, and they start competing and providing better service to customers.
Not that anybody with a modicum of rational economic thought and without a religious devotion to central planning would have ever told you otherwise, but that's what they're teaching kids in school these days.
Looks like the '09's aren't in production now. The 7506 appears to be the most popular, accurately reproduces 20-20, can fold, and has decent sound isolation. From what I'm reading on a bunch of reviews, if you need a half dozen studio headsets, you go buy a box of these and scatter them around and everybody is happy. I put a 7510 on my wishlist, though - better sound isolation, more comfort, 5-40 response, and - and this is something you learn over time - the word "Professional" is much smaller on the 7510 than on the 7506 - the bigger such labels, the less true it tends to be. It should be noted that I'm just looking for good sound, either for sound editing at home or to drown out the noise while traveling. 7510 fits my needs, but the 7506 is probably better for a kid who wants to have good headphones (now that Beats has made that popular again apparently) without spending a fortune. Speaking of fortunes, everybody thinks that the 7520 is better than the 7510 if you have $379 to drop on headphones, but from the specs, that makes the 7510 a fantastic deal as they're nearly as good for a third of the price.
Beats are a fashion accessory, not a critical listening device.
Which is why iPods became so popular. The trouble here is that Apple is spending $3 biiilion dollars chasing somebody else's fashion, trying to relive their past, rather than spending $3B inventing the future. The iPod's stature stemmed from its merit (and certainly a lot of advertising). The phrase "out of ideas" comes to mind.
The trouble there is that the iMessage stuff is all based on key escrow by Apple (obvious results are obvious) but also troubing is keychain sync - look there on Page 24 - they're having the user sign it with ECC P256 which everybody knows is broken and an NSA setup.
This iOS security document is probably the best they can do to warn us, given a gag order. Given that the rest of the document proudly calls out P25519 usage (smart) and then the one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other-ones moment is the keychain sync, that seems to point to that being the target of the Bullrun operation at Apple.
If I were trying to be secure on iOS (hypothetically) I'd have turned off keychain sync by now.
There is literally nothing in the contract agreements for Uber or even at the government regulatory level that would prevent what essentially amounts to 4chan on wheels from picking you up, driving you to the middle of nowhere, and kicking you out covered in mustard without saying a word.
I thought Uber has a reputation system? Does it not have a reputation system? Customer regulation is always more effective than contractual or governmental regulation if the systems are in place to make it work. Did Uber die out in Oz because everybody was getting sprayed with condiments or did it get shut down by a crony government because it was too successful?
What makes driving someone around such as special case or any other service?
Governments have people brainwashed into thinking that people can only drive with the bureaucrats' blessing and that they have deserve control over every aspect of motor vehicle operations.
It's very lucrative for those governments to have the people believe such things.
The clumsy way they scraped without even trying to conceal their user agent indicates incompetence, rather than malice.
I had an intern try a thing like this, ten years back or so. He was tired of the slow internet connection so he tried to scrape Wolfram's math tutorial website overnight and found the company's IP blocked in the morning. I sent a note to their admins saying I'd talked to the boy and that took care of it. It happens.
But that talk was a "be nice" one, not a "you tried to avoid paying for a commerical product" one, which is different.
But there's something odd about what OSVDB is saying. Here's the log snippet they show:
Every two seconds - bad form. Your 2000 requests would have have been finished over a weekend if you rate limited to once a minute, to be nice to their servers.
But, their blog says:
They made 2,219 requests between 06:25:24 on May 4 and 21:18:26 on May 6. Excuse us, you clearly didnâ(TM)t want to try our service back then.
Which indicates an average rate of 1.7 minutes per request. There's something OSVDB isn't telling us.
It's also odd to see, on a post from May 7, something that happened on May 4th referred to as "back then". It's sounding rather "he-said", so I expect we'll soon hear the "she-said", at least from Intel. The S21Sec guys seem to have used an aggressive scraping-tool with anti-countermeasures deployed, so it's harder to expect them to have a good retort.
It's not even clear to me that OSVDB has any copyright claim on a database - looking at a random entry I see text that could have come from the vendor or have been written by an OSVDB staffer - it's unclear what is what. If they are writing prose, then they get copyright protection on that. If it's just aggregating data, then what it's basically down to is clickwrap license enforceability, which is very unclear.
The best way to solve it, without giving the state any new regulatory powers, would be to require ISPs to be only ISPs
Your third clause contradicts your second.
Sometimes you just can't patch bad code with more bad code anymore and expect the product to still work. Refactors happen, and they have to. If the project leader is being a dick, then the community has to fork.
it is reasonable for a libertarian to support net neutrality as a compromise
And that's why libertarians fail. They look to find the best government solutions to maximize liberty. It's like a gazelle negotiating with a lion for protection.
The last two hundred years of history illustrate the problem. But it's not like Jefferson, et. al. were in the dark about its nature, they just didn't see a better option.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -Thomas Jefferson
There are now visible better options than he could have known.
As soon as that spineless fuck Tom Wheeler stops threatening to knock them all down to Title II and actually does it, we can only expect this to escalate.
Stop pretending that he's not a corrupt bureaucrat. Your language paints him as a coward, but one who has good intentions. There is no factual basis for such an assumption and it just harms the issue - Wheeler will do what he was sent there to do and nobody is going to do anything about it. Now who's spineless?
Oligarchies have no incentive to listen. My question still is how do we take an Oligarchy and transform it into a Technocracy because this is exactly what would solve the problem. How is it possible without all hell breaking loose?
Go check out a fair this summer. Notice the lack of people stabbing each other in the neck to get to be first in line to some fried dough treats. Or if it's winter on your side of the world, head down to the skating rink (where a room full of people strap sharpened metal blades on their feet and move at high speeds on ice) and stand in the middle and try to coordinate everybody's actions. It's much too dangerous to let everybody work things out on their own.
If the assumption is that we need controls to keep people "in line" then we have to ask what the costs are of those controls. Oh, hai, it's 2014 and we're solving the coordination problem without relying on power and murder.
We could let other ISP's compete in the last mile and things would still be OK, despite the self-interested protestations of the Public Utilities Commission. Perhaps better. c.f. Google Fiber.
Just keepin' 'em honest - if they can do some kind of quantum tunneling of electrons, I'd be willing to forgive the deBroglie height of their waves and call it 2D, if there's to be any useful application of such a term within our view of the universe.
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If you are interested in actually learning more about such techniques I would suggest typing "call spoofing" into your favorite search engine.
Thanks for the reminder. Congresswoman Annie Kuster has been robocalling us with the CallerID spoofed to 'WIRELESS CALLER' in the past few days - been meaning to look that up.
Not that I should dare to question my betters, of course.
For the last generation, "Serve and Protect" has become "Cover your ass" and "Everyone is a perp."
But that's exactly the problem - everybody *is* a perp. We have so many laws and every goddamn things has been criminalized, either by statute or regulation, that we'll all felons now - it's just a matter of who is having the laws enforced against them.
Disabled man shot up for having a seizure? That's OK, he was a perp anyway.
I did some dumb things too as a kid, but not 30 times over...
That's OK, you just have to do them three times now, and then be unlucky - we sentence on "three strikes" rules now, because, you know, baseball and also "tough on crime!".
The low-information voters and low-information journalists
Some of the reporters are probably dupes, but don't think for a minute that the owners and their cohorts, who own the seaside mansions, aren't going to do everything in their power to take money from the working poor to protect their investments. External (or existential) threat is the universal motivator and government action is the universal solution.
Yeah, we're in an upswing. That's what everybody who studies the glaciation cycles has known for decades. Are humans bumping it along? Perhaps, but it's going that way whether humans do so or not, so get used to it. But maybe we'll all chip in for another seawall to get Mr. Burns through for his lifetime. Our grandkids can build his grandkids an even bigger seawall.
Privatize profits, socialize losses.
Capitalism and communism, finally united in harmony.
Again.
For pushing the boundaries. There wouldn't have been an implosion if they weren't pushing it to the edge.
Some people just don't have an appetite for exploration anymore - I say "job well done."
That too complicated a concept, or just not enough money in it?
Funny thing about the web - I get to decide where I go and what I see and when.
Fine, write your own browser.
Mozilla is facing their $300M/yr revenue stream from Google going away as of December. Perhaps you can offer and execute a better plan for continuing to provide a good, secure, public-interest browser?
Heaven forbid they sell some ads and give people the option to turn that off ... it's worse than kidnapping little girls, I tell you!
Mozilla, don't listen to the haters - do what you need to to keep Firefox & Thunderbird alive and libre.
Most like suspended or deactivated Bitlocker. That, and perhaps removed it from the domain and back into workgroup mode.
Nah, neither of those things would have make patient information available over the World Wide Web.
It sounds like nonsense, frankly.
Probably to protect the anaesthesiologist. Oh, did the article not say it was an anaesthesiologist? But it always is.
The results will likely be awful, but the decision appears legally correct.
Which, if we had proper activist judges, would cause that part of the copyright regime to be struck down as unconstitutional.
It says right in the Constitution that the purpose of these monopoly grants is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. If the law causes harm in that regard, then the law is wrong.
Remember, the power flows: People -> Constitution -> Government -> Statutes. Well, that's the fairly tale, anyway - if nobody acutally follows it, is it really true? Anyway, that's the logic that got this government authorized in the first place - perhaps it was a con-game, but "fool me once" and all that.
This needs a coder boycott of anything Oracle until Oracle stands up and pubclically disavows this ruling and claims the court was wrong.
We've all known that Oracle is a corporate asshole for ages, but realize that they are only the complaintant here. Nobody from Oracle is going to bust down your door and haul you off to a cage if you implement a java-compatible language and tell them to pound sand.
Oracle is a symptom here - you can address the symptom but don't expect to do a whole lot of good if you're not going after the cause.
Now then, the shareholders at Sun are quite happy about this, because access to Google's database patents vis-a-vis the Java suit is probably the only reason Oracle bought Sun in the first place. This ruling vindicates that strategy and raises the odds that Oracle will continue to be around to create additional civil atrocities.
I have never seen an electrical outage not related to a major disaster that kept everyone out of the building anyway
Oh, man, that must be nice. In the USA we have outages every few months as there's no redundancy on the grid.
and that IT should get more appreciation than it does, which is questionable at best
While it's silly to need such appreciation, humans do. Do they want to get accolates from the CEO? Just tell him that employees who feel very appreciated will work for up to 20% less. True story - it's fiscally irresponsible to allow any of your employees to feel unappreciated as they will demand more money and have lower productivity. And also it's not very kind, but if your CEO is a high-functioning psychopath, that doesn't carry much water.
Personally, I feel you should just give up on headphones. You're never going to get good bass response
I agree with everything you've said, but it's worth noting that if you need to use headphones, better is still better than not better. I recently picked up a Motorola S11 Flex HD bluetooth headset, to listen to podcasts while exercising and doing yardwork, and I found that it takes far less mental concentration to listen to voices when the bass is better (the last headset I had had awful bass). I don't know if the additional frequencies are activating more neurons or what, but listening feels very natural, vs. strained on my old headset.
I'm also very impressed by the amount of bass that they can squeeze of of the little buggers, especially given its very modest power budget. I own a 15" subwoofer too, so I'm not pretending here, but that's harder to carry on the bike.
Actually, this is necessary in order for it to fulfill its primary mission, which is to convince other ISPs that they can make money in the gigabit business.
I agree it's the primary mission, but a real secondary benefit we're seeing is that everybody who is claiming that Comcast or the ILEC or whatever is a "natural monopoly" (that somehow still needs protection from competition) and that last-mile competition is folly - well, they're full of shit, or just shills for the incumbents. Google comes in, has a viable business model, and not only can they make money doing it, the competition kicks the other players in the ass, and they start competing and providing better service to customers.
Not that anybody with a modicum of rational economic thought and without a religious devotion to central planning would have ever told you otherwise, but that's what they're teaching kids in school these days.
like the venerable Sony MDR-7509s
Looks like the '09's aren't in production now. The 7506 appears to be the most popular, accurately reproduces 20-20, can fold, and has decent sound isolation. From what I'm reading on a bunch of reviews, if you need a half dozen studio headsets, you go buy a box of these and scatter them around and everybody is happy. I put a 7510 on my wishlist, though - better sound isolation, more comfort, 5-40 response, and - and this is something you learn over time - the word "Professional" is much smaller on the 7510 than on the 7506 - the bigger such labels, the less true it tends to be. It should be noted that I'm just looking for good sound, either for sound editing at home or to drown out the noise while traveling. 7510 fits my needs, but the 7506 is probably better for a kid who wants to have good headphones (now that Beats has made that popular again apparently) without spending a fortune. Speaking of fortunes, everybody thinks that the 7520 is better than the 7510 if you have $379 to drop on headphones, but from the specs, that makes the 7510 a fantastic deal as they're nearly as good for a third of the price.
Beats are a fashion accessory, not a critical listening device.
Which is why iPods became so popular. The trouble here is that Apple is spending $3 biiilion dollars chasing somebody else's fashion, trying to relive their past, rather than spending $3B inventing the future. The iPod's stature stemmed from its merit (and certainly a lot of advertising). The phrase "out of ideas" comes to mind.
The trouble there is that the iMessage stuff is all based on key escrow by Apple (obvious results are obvious) but also troubing is keychain sync - look there on Page 24 - they're having the user sign it with ECC P256 which everybody knows is broken and an NSA setup.
This iOS security document is probably the best they can do to warn us, given a gag order. Given that the rest of the document proudly calls out P25519 usage (smart) and then the one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other-ones moment is the keychain sync, that seems to point to that being the target of the Bullrun operation at Apple.
If I were trying to be secure on iOS (hypothetically) I'd have turned off keychain sync by now.
There is literally nothing in the contract agreements for Uber or even at the government regulatory level that would prevent what essentially amounts to 4chan on wheels from picking you up, driving you to the middle of nowhere, and kicking you out covered in mustard without saying a word.
I thought Uber has a reputation system? Does it not have a reputation system? Customer regulation is always more effective than contractual or governmental regulation if the systems are in place to make it work. Did Uber die out in Oz because everybody was getting sprayed with condiments or did it get shut down by a crony government because it was too successful?
What makes driving someone around such as special case or any other service?
Governments have people brainwashed into thinking that people can only drive with the bureaucrats' blessing and that they have deserve control over every aspect of motor vehicle operations.
It's very lucrative for those governments to have the people believe such things.
The clumsy way they scraped without even trying to conceal their user agent indicates incompetence, rather than malice.
I had an intern try a thing like this, ten years back or so. He was tired of the slow internet connection so he tried to scrape Wolfram's math tutorial website overnight and found the company's IP blocked in the morning. I sent a note to their admins saying I'd talked to the boy and that took care of it. It happens.
But that talk was a "be nice" one, not a "you tried to avoid paying for a commerical product" one, which is different.
But there's something odd about what OSVDB is saying. Here's the log snippet they show:
161.69.163.20 â" - [04/May/2014:07:22:14 -0500]
161.69.163.20 â" - [04/May/2014:07:22:16 -0500]
161.69.163.20 â" - [04/May/2014:07:22:18 -0500]
161.69.163.20 â" - [04/May/2014:07:22:20 -0500]
Every two seconds - bad form. Your 2000 requests would have have been finished over a weekend if you rate limited to once a minute, to be nice to their servers.
But, their blog says:
Which indicates an average rate of 1.7 minutes per request. There's something OSVDB isn't telling us.
It's also odd to see, on a post from May 7, something that happened on May 4th referred to as "back then". It's sounding rather "he-said", so I expect we'll soon hear the "she-said", at least from Intel. The S21Sec guys seem to have used an aggressive scraping-tool with anti-countermeasures deployed, so it's harder to expect them to have a good retort.
It's not even clear to me that OSVDB has any copyright claim on a database - looking at a random entry I see text that could have come from the vendor or have been written by an OSVDB staffer - it's unclear what is what. If they are writing prose, then they get copyright protection on that. If it's just aggregating data, then what it's basically down to is clickwrap license enforceability, which is very unclear.
You want a simulated universe? Just look around (but don't peek between 10^-26 and 10^-35 - ours cheats there).
Remember when the 54G had craptastic insecure firmware, but interesting hardware?
If this thing is already running linux, X, and doing opportunistic wifi, there's a bunch of projects that are calling its name.
The best way to solve it, without giving the state any new regulatory powers, would be to require ISPs to be only ISPs
Your third clause contradicts your second.
Sometimes you just can't patch bad code with more bad code anymore and expect the product to still work. Refactors happen, and they have to. If the project leader is being a dick, then the community has to fork.
it is reasonable for a libertarian to support net neutrality as a compromise
And that's why libertarians fail. They look to find the best government solutions to maximize liberty. It's like a gazelle negotiating with a lion for protection.
The last two hundred years of history illustrate the problem. But it's not like Jefferson, et. al. were in the dark about its nature, they just didn't see a better option.
There are now visible better options than he could have known.
As soon as that spineless fuck Tom Wheeler stops threatening to knock them all down to Title II and actually does it, we can only expect this to escalate.
Stop pretending that he's not a corrupt bureaucrat. Your language paints him as a coward, but one who has good intentions. There is no factual basis for such an assumption and it just harms the issue - Wheeler will do what he was sent there to do and nobody is going to do anything about it. Now who's spineless?
Oligarchies have no incentive to listen. My question still is how do we take an Oligarchy and transform it into a Technocracy because this is exactly what would solve the problem. How is it possible without all hell breaking loose?
Go check out a fair this summer. Notice the lack of people stabbing each other in the neck to get to be first in line to some fried dough treats. Or if it's winter on your side of the world, head down to the skating rink (where a room full of people strap sharpened metal blades on their feet and move at high speeds on ice) and stand in the middle and try to coordinate everybody's actions. It's much too dangerous to let everybody work things out on their own.
If the assumption is that we need controls to keep people "in line" then we have to ask what the costs are of those controls. Oh, hai, it's 2014 and we're solving the coordination problem without relying on power and murder.
We could let other ISP's compete in the last mile and things would still be OK, despite the self-interested protestations of the Public Utilities Commission. Perhaps better. c.f. Google Fiber.
Pedant Headline Fail, eh?
Just keepin' 'em honest - if they can do some kind of quantum tunneling of electrons, I'd be willing to forgive the deBroglie height of their waves and call it 2D, if there's to be any useful application of such a term within our view of the universe.