I always assumed I was the only one with the problem because nobody else seemed to know what I was talking about. All of my posts were generally met with either "You're an idiot, your hard drives can't achieve gigabit speeds" (actually, they come damn close -- thanks RAID0) or "Buy a new network card."
Whenever I have Media Center or WMP open (not even playing anything), my gigabit network speed drops to ~10% -- 100baseT speed. Close Media Center, and it jumps to full speed, sometimes. But not always. Hopefully they fix this, because the only time I really care about gigabit speeds is when I'm transferring large files to my HTPC, which generally has Media Center open all the time. So I either have to go manually close it, or do a remote desktop connection which closes Media Center automatically. In either case I have to manually restart it. None of that is particularly onerous, but it's an absurd requirement, intended or not.
You're confusing two different technologies, which is understandable, since they are similar. There's a transmitter with the typical long range you're thinking of. It's a one-way communication from the remote to the vehicle, and it's activated when you push one of the buttons on the keyfob.
Second, there's an RFID-type device embedded in the remotes for push-button start vehicles such as BMW, Lexus, and some Toyotas (and others). The car emits a field that senses the remote, the remote's "signature", and its location -- interior, immediately exterior, or near the trunk. This is the part they've "cracked", which is possible because the device responds to the query from the vehicle. The crackers emulate the request and then (presumably) brute force part of the key pair. The range on this is extremely small.. several feet. There are no less than 5 sensors on the interior of the vehicles to ensure complete coverage the cabin. In other words, an attacker would have to be sitting right next to you for an extended period of time, hence my argument above. Of course, I should have known better than to try to interject facts in a slashdot thread.
In BMWs and some Toyotas/all Lexuses, there is no physical key to start the car.
The problem is, anyone who's likely to have access to someone else for an hour could more easily just use the keys. Where could you sit next to a complete stranger for 1 hour unnoticed? And it has to be close -- the range on these things is 5 feet. Mass transit is about the only situation I can think of, and you'd have to hope they didn't get off at the next stop, AND you'd have to follow them home. Meanwhile a pick-pocket could take his keys, wallet, and checkbook in a few seconds; a good car thief could pop the window and hotwire it, and a smart car thief would just tow the fscker.
Call me when I can send out a pulse on my WiFi-enabled phone and unlock every car in a 100yd radius.
First and foremost, it appears to fall into the "illicit downloads = lost sales" fallacy, the view that each song obtained over a P2P network is a lost purchase.'
Second and foresecond, it appears to fall into the "let go = no workey no more" fallacy; the view that each person who loses his or her job never gets a new one.
game developer and makers of the much-anticipated upcoming title Crysis, Crytek, are considering leaving the country in anticipation of a new restrictive law. Said one local, "I am so filled with anticipation that my genitals have sucked up into my body cavity."
That's not actually true. There are lots of bases that get protested, and the military is trained to take it, but to be ready for threats. (Lots of people getting riled up can cause a few people to go too far). There are no "first amendment zones" around military bases; the protests typically take place at the main gate. The guards have to A) ensure that traffic in and out of the base isn't impeded, and B) be ready for threats ranging from thrown items to a full scale assault.
What you describe is a civilian issue (yes, politicians are civilians, and the military is run by a civilian, in the US at least), and civilian authorities (state and local police) are responsible for what happens at, say, the UN building. That said, the right to free speech and freedom of assembly, in my opinion, does not equate to the right to physically interfere in the affairs of others. What's the difference between blocking access to the UN building and blocking access to an abortion clinic, except that you may happen to agree with one and disagree with the other? I vehemently disagree with "free speech" zones, but I'm also against blocking access to a facility, if for no other reason than safety -- if someone needed to leave in a hurry because of fire, or a medical emergency, or whatever, they'd be screwed. We could argue morality all day, but the legal and public safety issues are clear: blocking access is unacceptable. Again, the right to free speech is the right to say what you want, not the right to do what you want, or to force people to listen to you.
All of that said, I'm also against superfluous and/or potentially abusive Federal programs, and I won't lose any sleep over the shutdown of this database. Almost every jurisdiction requires a group to file permits in advance of a large protest or gathering, and most events (G8 summit) are guaranteed to attract protesters. It's not like anybody's caught off guard by these things.
You might not be able to sue the lodge if you twist your ankle, but if you injure yourself because of a defect in the product they provided to you -- if the bindings broke, for example -- I doubt any clause in the contract would shield them from liability. I'm sure they have insurance to protect against the same.
I know *I* would trust an unsolicited request to redirect all of my internet traffic through an unknown, pseudonymous third party. What could possibly go wrong?!?
15.6 billion kilometers is so hard to conceptualize. If only we had some measure of distance to give proper context; some sort of scale relative to the distance from the earth to another significant celestial body. A unit of measure large enough for "astronomical" purposes. Then we could say the probe is, oh, I don't know.. let's just pick a number and say the probe is 104 of these units away, instead of billions of kilometers. If only...
Not necessarily.. built in wireless, optical S/PDIF connector, dual gigabit ports, and 5 SATA-II ports with RAID support. That's why I bought the P5B, and I'm happy with it in my HTPC. GP doesn't mention what MB he bought, but I'm guessing it was a no-frills bargain model. He's right though.. the system is more than just the CPU.
Additionally, he overclocked his CPU to obtain similar performance. Overclocking is a horrible way to "save money." There are 2 types of people: those who have trashed CPUs (or other components) by overclocking, and people who haven't OC'd. I'm convinced that the 3rd group, "people who have never had a problem overclocking" is statistically insignificant.
Frankly, if I saw someone standing in line by themselves overtly displaying a full spectrum of emotions for no apparent reason, I'd feel a lot better if they were stopped and questioned. Sorry.
That sounds like a Denial of Service vulnerability to me. Broadcast BT/KAD packets to other IPs on your subnet, and suddenly people can't check their e-mail, surf the web, etc. Of course they could refine their filters to only start blocking after a connection is established, but if you're correct that the block is triggered by an incoming packet, then that's a problem.
This is Slashdot: Your facts and truths are not welcome here. Everyone else please settle down.. you can continue using your composite video cable to view HD, and anyone who says otherwise is just a naysayer!
Which raises the question of why PPV and VOD aren't supported in CableCard specs (if that's true). It's not as if some secondary industry created the CableCard -- the specifications are a product of Cable Labs, the same folks who brought us DOCSIS and VOD.
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I always assumed I was the only one with the problem because nobody else seemed to know what I was talking about. All of my posts were generally met with either "You're an idiot, your hard drives can't achieve gigabit speeds" (actually, they come damn close -- thanks RAID0) or "Buy a new network card."
Whenever I have Media Center or WMP open (not even playing anything), my gigabit network speed drops to ~10% -- 100baseT speed. Close Media Center, and it jumps to full speed, sometimes. But not always. Hopefully they fix this, because the only time I really care about gigabit speeds is when I'm transferring large files to my HTPC, which generally has Media Center open all the time. So I either have to go manually close it, or do a remote desktop connection which closes Media Center automatically. In either case I have to manually restart it. None of that is particularly onerous, but it's an absurd requirement, intended or not.
You're confusing two different technologies, which is understandable, since they are similar. There's a transmitter with the typical long range you're thinking of. It's a one-way communication from the remote to the vehicle, and it's activated when you push one of the buttons on the keyfob.
Second, there's an RFID-type device embedded in the remotes for push-button start vehicles such as BMW, Lexus, and some Toyotas (and others). The car emits a field that senses the remote, the remote's "signature", and its location -- interior, immediately exterior, or near the trunk. This is the part they've "cracked", which is possible because the device responds to the query from the vehicle. The crackers emulate the request and then (presumably) brute force part of the key pair. The range on this is extremely small.. several feet. There are no less than 5 sensors on the interior of the vehicles to ensure complete coverage the cabin. In other words, an attacker would have to be sitting right next to you for an extended period of time, hence my argument above. Of course, I should have known better than to try to interject facts in a slashdot thread.
Ha! There are no yards in Tokyo, front or back! Nice try...
In BMWs and some Toyotas/all Lexuses, there is no physical key to start the car.
The problem is, anyone who's likely to have access to someone else for an hour could more easily just use the keys. Where could you sit next to a complete stranger for 1 hour unnoticed? And it has to be close -- the range on these things is 5 feet. Mass transit is about the only situation I can think of, and you'd have to hope they didn't get off at the next stop, AND you'd have to follow them home. Meanwhile a pick-pocket could take his keys, wallet, and checkbook in a few seconds; a good car thief could pop the window and hotwire it, and a smart car thief would just tow the fscker.
Call me when I can send out a pulse on my WiFi-enabled phone and unlock every car in a 100yd radius.
Ha-ha!
Every time somebody places a wager, an angel loses its wings.
First and foremost, it appears to fall into the "illicit downloads = lost sales" fallacy, the view that each song obtained over a P2P network is a lost purchase.'
Second and foresecond, it appears to fall into the "let go = no workey no more" fallacy; the view that each person who loses his or her job never gets a new one.
Clearly the next steps are Google Fire and Google Water.
game developer and makers of the much-anticipated upcoming title Crysis, Crytek, are considering leaving the country in anticipation of a new restrictive law. Said one local, "I am so filled with anticipation that my genitals have sucked up into my body cavity."
Google it. I can't make this shit up.
That's not actually true. There are lots of bases that get protested, and the military is trained to take it, but to be ready for threats. (Lots of people getting riled up can cause a few people to go too far). There are no "first amendment zones" around military bases; the protests typically take place at the main gate. The guards have to A) ensure that traffic in and out of the base isn't impeded, and B) be ready for threats ranging from thrown items to a full scale assault.
What you describe is a civilian issue (yes, politicians are civilians, and the military is run by a civilian, in the US at least), and civilian authorities (state and local police) are responsible for what happens at, say, the UN building. That said, the right to free speech and freedom of assembly, in my opinion, does not equate to the right to physically interfere in the affairs of others. What's the difference between blocking access to the UN building and blocking access to an abortion clinic, except that you may happen to agree with one and disagree with the other? I vehemently disagree with "free speech" zones, but I'm also against blocking access to a facility, if for no other reason than safety -- if someone needed to leave in a hurry because of fire, or a medical emergency, or whatever, they'd be screwed. We could argue morality all day, but the legal and public safety issues are clear: blocking access is unacceptable. Again, the right to free speech is the right to say what you want, not the right to do what you want, or to force people to listen to you.
All of that said, I'm also against superfluous and/or potentially abusive Federal programs, and I won't lose any sleep over the shutdown of this database. Almost every jurisdiction requires a group to file permits in advance of a large protest or gathering, and most events (G8 summit) are guaranteed to attract protesters. It's not like anybody's caught off guard by these things.
You might not be able to sue the lodge if you twist your ankle, but if you injure yourself because of a defect in the product they provided to you -- if the bindings broke, for example -- I doubt any clause in the contract would shield them from liability. I'm sure they have insurance to protect against the same.
...and Baby Jesus cry.
Classic.
The good news is that they already have a toilet-specific firewall.
(A quite good firewall, in all seriousness).
I know *I* would trust an unsolicited request to redirect all of my internet traffic through an unknown, pseudonymous third party. What could possibly go wrong?!?
I could have sworn I heard about something like that somewhere before...
You can have great fuel economy right here on earth too, if you're willing to wait 30 years to get to your destination!
15.6 billion kilometers is so hard to conceptualize. If only we had some measure of distance to give proper context; some sort of scale relative to the distance from the earth to another significant celestial body. A unit of measure large enough for "astronomical" purposes. Then we could say the probe is, oh, I don't know.. let's just pick a number and say the probe is 104 of these units away, instead of billions of kilometers. If only...
Not necessarily.. built in wireless, optical S/PDIF connector, dual gigabit ports, and 5 SATA-II ports with RAID support. That's why I bought the P5B, and I'm happy with it in my HTPC. GP doesn't mention what MB he bought, but I'm guessing it was a no-frills bargain model. He's right though.. the system is more than just the CPU.
Additionally, he overclocked his CPU to obtain similar performance. Overclocking is a horrible way to "save money." There are 2 types of people: those who have trashed CPUs (or other components) by overclocking, and people who haven't OC'd. I'm convinced that the 3rd group, "people who have never had a problem overclocking" is statistically insignificant.
Frankly, if I saw someone standing in line by themselves overtly displaying a full spectrum of emotions for no apparent reason, I'd feel a lot better if they were stopped and questioned. Sorry.
That sounds like a Denial of Service vulnerability to me. Broadcast BT/KAD packets to other IPs on your subnet, and suddenly people can't check their e-mail, surf the web, etc. Of course they could refine their filters to only start blocking after a connection is established, but if you're correct that the block is triggered by an incoming packet, then that's a problem.
Bah passports.. I'll just show my military ID. If they question it, I'll just say I'm bringing democracy to Yosemite.
This is Slashdot: Your facts and truths are not welcome here. Everyone else please settle down.. you can continue using your composite video cable to view HD, and anyone who says otherwise is just a naysayer!
Which raises the question of why PPV and VOD aren't supported in CableCard specs (if that's true). It's not as if some secondary industry created the CableCard -- the specifications are a product of Cable Labs, the same folks who brought us DOCSIS and VOD.
Which would still be okay, if only it were Pretty and Little.