The discussion is the botnets, and I haven't seen any running on Linux. Those are more of one-off, defacing attacks, or somewhere to run an IRC bot. If you intend on running a botnet for spamming, Windows users are the best targets. They'll click on almost anything, and once the malware is on, the user may complain about their machine going slow, but won't do anything about it.
Some of them are nasty. I keep a Windows machine laying around just to try particular things. I got some malware on it (I was doing bad things). It was about 5 seconds between the time I tried what I was doing, and the time I yanked the network cable out. The antivirus didn't catch it. Others that I scanned with couldn't find all of it. I spent the next two days trying to get it out. That was the first time that I ever had to wipe out and reinstall on a Windows machine to get rid of a piece of malware. It's not that I didn't know what I was doing. I've been doing this kind of thing for well over a decade now. I never did identify the problem child, so I can't even say what it was. It just made the machine almost impossible to use. Well, unless waiting 5 to 10 minutes to select a user and enter a password is acceptable, and another 10 to get to the desktop. I know during that period, it was re-propagating the tag-along malwares.
That one piece of malware brough along 40 unique friends in a matter of seconds. It infected files. It infected the MBR. It hooked into everywhere I looked. I knew it was a problem, which is why I took it offline immediately. Most users would leave it plugged in and running, and wait for someone to come fix it.
At least I'm not dependent on the Windows machine working. How many home users have their dependable Linux machine that they do work on, and the Windows machine sitting to the side to play with?
It appears to be similar to FTA, so it would use something small like a DirecTV or DishNetwork antenna. I'm not sure what they use for a LNB, but it may be the same one.
The hard part would be guessing at where the satellites are, but even that isn't impossible. They wouldn't be on the regularly published satellite lists. I did some quick looking for MILSTAR1 and MILSTAR6, and couldn't find their locations. Someone with a vested interest (like the guys who are getting shot at because those planes spot them) would be more interested in spending the time to figure out where those satellites are.
I don't know how directional the antennas on the satellites are, so you may only see the downlink if you're relatively close to the intended destination, and not just from random sites around the planet. At very least, you'd still have to have line of sight to the satellite. I don't know if they're sending the feeds directly to the troops, or if they're routed another way around.
From what I've learned over the years, only some traffic gets encrypted. It depends on the security of the mission. If nothing important is expected, that goes on unsecured channels. If they are doing an important mission, that goes over secured channels. Really, it makes sense. Give the enemy plenty of information that they have to analyze. They'll go nuts with thousands of hours of video showing empty desert, and probably miss the 5 minutes where they were spotted.
They wouldn't stop anyone who was determined to get in, BUT they would slow them down. The general idea was that in the event that one person went a bit mad, they couldn't launch by themselves. There's always someone handy to stop you. I think the more important part of the buddy system was that you always had someone to talk to. Down in a hole all alone, you're more likely to lose it.
Then again, I used to spend hours on end in datacenters by myself. No windows, no idea of how the outside world looked, and very frequently no cell phone service. (not blocked, but not good because of all the metal and electronic noise or location of the facility). It gets lonely, and if the only thing I had to do was wait for a phone call that said "nuke someone", I probably would have lost it. I talked to my servers, and they (in their own way) talked to me.:)
Having been married twice, and having to fight to get my package back both times, let me give you one friendly word of advice. DON'T DO IT!
Love is about love. It's not about getting married. If you two love each other, show each other that you do in better ways. You can live together forever, and be very happy about it. Does she want a wedding party? Throw a wild party with all your friends. Call it your anti-wedding.:) If your friends are real friends, they'll treat you just as if you went through the traumatic experience of getting hitched.
Marriage is a legally binding agreement, which you'll always get fucked on if/when it ends (the odds are in favor of it ending for the last few decades). If you do split, you're obliged to bend over and get fucked for the rest of your life, and you will lose in court. If you don't get married, and you end up with joint property (like, a house), you can agree on your own terms how it can be divided, or go through mediation to get it done. A friend of mine did that recently, after being together for 10 years. It was ugly, but there's no alimony. They split their joint property, and went their separate ways.
There's no obligation to get married. Most states will respect a mutual arrangement for cohabitation (called something different in every state), so you can both enjoy work benefits like health insurance.
And, you'll save a fortune on rings, wedding preparations, etc, etc.. Trust me, it's better for both of you.
If you do manage to stay together forever, more power to you. It's love, not the legally binding contract, that kept you together.
Consider what your choices were then. In 1994, Windows 3.1 wasn't the warm fuzzy "just works" environment either. Maybe OS/2 Warp, but I barely remember using it, so I can't say how it compared for ease of installation and modification.
I won't say Linux was great back then either. Right around then, I was using Slackware 2.0. Redhat wasn't even really a distro, being the 0.9 "Halloween" release. SuSE 1.0 was just a German version of Slackware. Debian was a 0.9. SLS 1.05 was just released. and... well.. lets just say there were a lot of options that came and went. Maybe DEC OSF/1. Maybe Novell UnixWare 1.1. Maybe SCO Unix 3.2v4.1 ODT 3.0. There were options, but the casual user wasn't going to do much more than run what was on there. There was no "Oh, go to this web site, and click the link". There was no downloading drivers from the manufacturer site (but you may have been able to dial up to their BBS)
Ya, just wait til you get married, and she takes it and makes a purse out of it. "We got married, so he didn't need that any more." And no, you don't get it back when you get divorced.:)
You forgot to mention, they change the venue for an advantage. If the court was a few miles from the defendant(s) offices, it would be easy for them to show up. Where they're displacing the hearings from the defendants, it adds a burden on them. It's more likely that they'll weigh the options of settling versus a prolonged legal process.
That's all part of the patent troll game though. What's it worth to the defense to just settle? Is it cheaper to keep the lawyers fighting it for years, at an out of state venue, or just pay $1 million to make it go away? The greedy patent trolls make the news, because they have to go through all the legal hoops. The smart ones just get paid to go away quietly.
I could go on... and on... and on.:) Watch popping unidentified pills, it may not have the intended result. You may find all of them (and more) in the same drug cabinet.
If he's been popping the 5th too often, he may need the 2nd.
He may take the 3rd to keep going with the 5th, but then need the 4th to sleep.
The 1st may be necessary from the beating he's going to get from the husband from the use of the 5th.
Be careful. The method for utilizing the first position in a message exchange system for the purpose of stating unrelated exclamations including but not limited to the phrase "First Post", is patented.
Read the instructions. It works with autorun, but if autorun is disabled you're suppose to use the file manager to browse to the USB device and execute it.
If you really read into the COFEE instructions, you'd see it doesn't give too much up. Well, it says a lot, but not about 3rd party software. It mostly gives standard MS stuff from the registry. Decrypted login passwords, what's set to run at boot time, etc. It would be a good forensic tool for cleaning up after a break in though, which may be more of what it is intended for.
Now, if someone were using a P2P client to download kiddie porn, or a 3rd party mail client to talk to their underage smut peddling friends, it would be worthless. COFEE is very primitive to say the least. It's a start, and I'm sure by version 7 it could be something to worry about. Well, not for me. I don't have any smut peddling friends, and I don't have anything remotely smutty.
I suppose for the lesser educated people who would use the same password for their Windows login as their webmail account, it could be hazardous to their freedoms. I still don't like the idea of people snooping around my computer. Even though I have nothing to hide, I don't like the idea of giving up my privacy.
I think what you're describing is a "tri-wing" screw. I found another reference for another Nintendo unit using what appears to be a double-square screw.
Well, if you've practiced a little, and are aware of your environment, you'll find that pain is worse when you know it's there.
Here's a good example. I gashed my leg open on a broken bottle. My girlfriend's kid put the broken bottle in a trash bag, and put it by the back door. I didn't know it was in there. I accidentally hit it with my leg.
It left a 3/4"x3/4"x2" gash in my shin.
When I hit it, I said "ow", and thought I had hit a can in the bag or something.
About 10 minutes later, I felt something cold dripping on my foot (I was wearing sandals). The front of my jeans were soaked with blood, and the "cold liquid" I felt dripping was the blood that had soaked through my pants.
The "pain" from hitting it lasted about 5 seconds. I didn't think anything of it after that, until I saw the blood.
I stayed focused on anything else. I had to drive to the store to get stuff to clean it up, because we didn't have any at the house.
After I got back, I dumped hydrogen peroxide on it to clean the wound, and then rubbing alcohol just in case.:) That was literally dumped. I poured it in the open wound. Then I pushed the wound closed, and used those special bandaids to hold open wounds shut, and then dressed it properly.
Everyone around me screamed, flinched, or otherwise got freaked out. I treated it like I was working on someone else. BTW, it's very hard to work on your own shin.:) I didn't feel any pain, because I wasn't reacting to it.
I probably should have been freaked out about it. I didn't have health insurance, and couldn't afford the emergency room trip for a few stitches.
Over the next few days, I kept it very clean, and redressed it frequently. Still, since I didn't think about how much it should hurt, it didn't hurt at all.
Now it's years later. It healed with a very minimal scar, which has completely faded. I've tried to show people the mark, but it simply isn't there any more.
So, which hurts worse, pulling a bandage slowly or quickly? I don't know. I opted to not pull out my leghairs by yanking the bandages off, so I did it slowly. That was my only consideration. "Do I want to make this worse? No.", so I was careful when redressing the wound.
People can get nasty cuts, and not know it, if they aren't immediately visible. They complain about the pain afterwards, because they now know that it's there.
I've done plenty of damage to myself over the years, mostly minor. The one that bothered me the worst was a torn ligament in my finger when I was a kid. It didn't hurt, but it freaked me out that my finger didn't move when I expected it to.
I won't say things don't hurt, but all pain is processed by the brain, so if you can convince yourself that it doesn't hurt, then it won't.
I've had a few piercings done, and they didn't hurt because I refused to let them hurt.
Headaches still get me, because it's hard to focus on it not hurting, when your head is already clouded by the headache.
I have a little daughter. When she hurts herself, I tell her that it doesn't hurt. She believes what I tell her, and she'll stop crying about it immediately.
I know. He probably liked the art of every single movement being different.:) I'd like to see it, so I could analyze how he did it, and see if he took any shortcuts. If I did it, I definitely would have cheated it a bit.:)
Those remind me of something I did a long time ago. I wasn't aware of "Decimal time", but it seemed to make sense to make a base10 time. I wrote a little program that would show the localtime and UTC both natively, and converted to decimal time live. It was interesting to look at for a little while, but served no purpose since no one else used it.:)
Without seeing the whole thing, you don't know what he did. For all we know, he only did 60 minutes, and 12 hours (60 one minute videos, and 12 more for the movement of the hour hand). It would seem insane to do every single one of the 720 one minute videos.
I rewatched it, and there's a break at about 53 seconds, where the camera is off to the side, so you can't see if there's a cut between shots.
If I were doing it, I'd have done the 72 video method, and even have some extras, like where he was cleaning the clock face to fill time randomly.:) Most people have a very short attention span, so even if you had a dozen filler movies, they wouldn't see all of them. They'll watch for maybe 1-2 minutes, but very few people will stare at it for 15 minutes looking for duplicated clips.:)
Ya, it could never happen. The majority of nations would never agree to having a law enforcement group that could operate in any of their countries.
But, imagine if they did. they could call it something like "International Criminal Police Organization". They could establish a "National Central Bureau" in each country, where national law enforcement officers of that country would work with their peers in other nations, and help fight crime around the world.
That name is too long though. I bet they could shorten it down. ICPO? Nah, "I see poo" just doesn't sound right. Well, they're doing police work internationally, maybe they could call it "polint". Nah, that don't have a good ring to it. How about "Interpol". Yes, I like that one.... and yes, that was sarcasm. Interpol has been doing their job since 1923, and all but 8 nations are members. They do have a computer crimes unit, among many others. They just don't take a big interest in "Someone hacked by box". Being an international police force, they look at the bigger crimes. Hell, you'd have a hard time getting the FBI, or even the local police interested in the one-off hack.
The matter of extradition still applies. You want them tried in your country, because they did something to you there. There are all kinds of rules regarding that, which have been ashed out between the member nations over the years.
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The discussion is the botnets, and I haven't seen any running on Linux. Those are more of one-off, defacing attacks, or somewhere to run an IRC bot. If you intend on running a botnet for spamming, Windows users are the best targets. They'll click on almost anything, and once the malware is on, the user may complain about their machine going slow, but won't do anything about it.
Some of them are nasty. I keep a Windows machine laying around just to try particular things. I got some malware on it (I was doing bad things). It was about 5 seconds between the time I tried what I was doing, and the time I yanked the network cable out. The antivirus didn't catch it. Others that I scanned with couldn't find all of it. I spent the next two days trying to get it out. That was the first time that I ever had to wipe out and reinstall on a Windows machine to get rid of a piece of malware. It's not that I didn't know what I was doing. I've been doing this kind of thing for well over a decade now. I never did identify the problem child, so I can't even say what it was. It just made the machine almost impossible to use. Well, unless waiting 5 to 10 minutes to select a user and enter a password is acceptable, and another 10 to get to the desktop. I know during that period, it was re-propagating the tag-along malwares.
That one piece of malware brough along 40 unique friends in a matter of seconds. It infected files. It infected the MBR. It hooked into everywhere I looked. I knew it was a problem, which is why I took it offline immediately. Most users would leave it plugged in and running, and wait for someone to come fix it.
At least I'm not dependent on the Windows machine working. How many home users have their dependable Linux machine that they do work on, and the Windows machine sitting to the side to play with?
But Google says I like ads. I want to click.
Well, I use Firefox, with ABP, so I don't see them either. It's nicer this way. :) Their mind trick won't work on me.
YOU HEAR ME GOOGLE?! YOUR TRICKS WON'T WORK ON ME! HA! :)
Their site is dead, but I found this reference elsewhere. These are compatible cards with SkyGrabber.
satellite card SkyStar-1 DVB-S compatible
satellite card Aver DVB-S
satellite card BroadLogic 2030/1030 DVB-S
satellite card GeniaTech DigiStar DVB-S PCI
satellite card Kworld DVB-S 100 compatible (Vstream, Dynavision..... )
satellite card ADS Tech - Instant TV DVB-S (Part Number: PTV-341)
satellite card LifeView FlyDVB
satellite card Netcast DVB-S
satellite card Pinnacle PCTV Sat (driver >=260)
satellite card Technisat SkyStar 2 and SkyStar 3 USB/PCI DVB-S/DVB-S2
satellite card Telemann Skymedia 300 DVB-S (unofficial)
satellite card TwinHan DVB-S/DVB-S2 compatible (VisionDTV,Power Color,Chaintech,...)
satellite card WinTV NOVA (Budget) USB/PCI DVB-S
satellite cards with BDA driver (With some cards problems are possible)
It appears to be similar to FTA, so it would use something small like a DirecTV or DishNetwork antenna. I'm not sure what they use for a LNB, but it may be the same one.
The hard part would be guessing at where the satellites are, but even that isn't impossible. They wouldn't be on the regularly published satellite lists. I did some quick looking for MILSTAR1 and MILSTAR6, and couldn't find their locations. Someone with a vested interest (like the guys who are getting shot at because those planes spot them) would be more interested in spending the time to figure out where those satellites are.
I don't know how directional the antennas on the satellites are, so you may only see the downlink if you're relatively close to the intended destination, and not just from random sites around the planet. At very least, you'd still have to have line of sight to the satellite. I don't know if they're sending the feeds directly to the troops, or if they're routed another way around.
From what I've learned over the years, only some traffic gets encrypted. It depends on the security of the mission. If nothing important is expected, that goes on unsecured channels. If they are doing an important mission, that goes over secured channels. Really, it makes sense. Give the enemy plenty of information that they have to analyze. They'll go nuts with thousands of hours of video showing empty desert, and probably miss the 5 minutes where they were spotted.
Hehe. Not quite what I meant, but still true. Unless you count X on my laptop. :)
[glazing over]
yes, ads are a good thing.
I like ads.
They make me happy.
I want to click.
[snapping out of it]
What? Damned Jedi^H^H^H^HGoogle Mind Trick®
They wouldn't stop anyone who was determined to get in, BUT they would slow them down. The general idea was that in the event that one person went a bit mad, they couldn't launch by themselves. There's always someone handy to stop you. I think the more important part of the buddy system was that you always had someone to talk to. Down in a hole all alone, you're more likely to lose it.
Then again, I used to spend hours on end in datacenters by myself. No windows, no idea of how the outside world looked, and very frequently no cell phone service. (not blocked, but not good because of all the metal and electronic noise or location of the facility). It gets lonely, and if the only thing I had to do was wait for a phone call that said "nuke someone", I probably would have lost it. I talked to my servers, and they (in their own way) talked to me. :)
Having been married twice, and having to fight to get my package back both times, let me give you one friendly word of advice. DON'T DO IT!
Love is about love. It's not about getting married. If you two love each other, show each other that you do in better ways. You can live together forever, and be very happy about it. Does she want a wedding party? Throw a wild party with all your friends. Call it your anti-wedding. :) If your friends are real friends, they'll treat you just as if you went through the traumatic experience of getting hitched.
Marriage is a legally binding agreement, which you'll always get fucked on if/when it ends (the odds are in favor of it ending for the last few decades). If you do split, you're obliged to bend over and get fucked for the rest of your life, and you will lose in court. If you don't get married, and you end up with joint property (like, a house), you can agree on your own terms how it can be divided, or go through mediation to get it done. A friend of mine did that recently, after being together for 10 years. It was ugly, but there's no alimony. They split their joint property, and went their separate ways.
There's no obligation to get married. Most states will respect a mutual arrangement for cohabitation (called something different in every state), so you can both enjoy work benefits like health insurance.
And, you'll save a fortune on rings, wedding preparations, etc, etc.. Trust me, it's better for both of you.
If you do manage to stay together forever, more power to you. It's love, not the legally binding contract, that kept you together.
Consider what your choices were then. In 1994, Windows 3.1 wasn't the warm fuzzy "just works" environment either. Maybe OS/2 Warp, but I barely remember using it, so I can't say how it compared for ease of installation and modification.
I won't say Linux was great back then either. Right around then, I was using Slackware 2.0. Redhat wasn't even really a distro, being the 0.9 "Halloween" release. SuSE 1.0 was just a German version of Slackware. Debian was a 0.9. SLS 1.05 was just released. and ... well .. lets just say there were a lot of options that came and went. Maybe DEC OSF/1. Maybe Novell UnixWare 1.1. Maybe SCO Unix 3.2v4.1 ODT 3.0. There were options, but the casual user wasn't going to do much more than run what was on there. There was no "Oh, go to this web site, and click the link". There was no downloading drivers from the manufacturer site (but you may have been able to dial up to their BBS)
Ya, just wait til you get married, and she takes it and makes a purse out of it. "We got married, so he didn't need that any more." And no, you don't get it back when you get divorced. :)
There isn't much that stops the anonymous envelope from being left, or a briefcase full of cash.
Bribes (err, campaign donations) are made all the time. It's the rare ones that we find out about.
You forgot to mention, they change the venue for an advantage. If the court was a few miles from the defendant(s) offices, it would be easy for them to show up. Where they're displacing the hearings from the defendants, it adds a burden on them. It's more likely that they'll weigh the options of settling versus a prolonged legal process.
That's all part of the patent troll game though. What's it worth to the defense to just settle? Is it cheaper to keep the lawyers fighting it for years, at an out of state venue, or just pay $1 million to make it go away? The greedy patent trolls make the news, because they have to go through all the legal hoops. The smart ones just get paid to go away quietly.
Which "blue pill" would that be?
There are approx 1,200 different "blue pills".
Acetaminophen Hydrocodone 650/10mg - pain killer
Acylcovir 200mg - herpes symptom reducer
Addreal 5mg to 10mg - amphetamine stimulant/ADD treatment
Alazopram 1mg to 2mg - anti-anxiety/sleep aid
Viagra 25mg to 100mg - erectile dysfunction treatment
I could go on ... and on ... and on. :) Watch popping unidentified pills, it may not have the intended result. You may find all of them (and more) in the same drug cabinet.
If he's been popping the 5th too often, he may need the 2nd.
He may take the 3rd to keep going with the 5th, but then need the 4th to sleep.
The 1st may be necessary from the beating he's going to get from the husband from the use of the 5th.
Be careful. The method for utilizing the first position in a message exchange system for the purpose of stating unrelated exclamations including but not limited to the phrase "First Post", is patented.
"Second Post" though, is fair game. :)
Read the instructions. It works with autorun, but if autorun is disabled you're suppose to use the file manager to browse to the USB device and execute it.
If you really read into the COFEE instructions, you'd see it doesn't give too much up. Well, it says a lot, but not about 3rd party software. It mostly gives standard MS stuff from the registry. Decrypted login passwords, what's set to run at boot time, etc. It would be a good forensic tool for cleaning up after a break in though, which may be more of what it is intended for.
Now, if someone were using a P2P client to download kiddie porn, or a 3rd party mail client to talk to their underage smut peddling friends, it would be worthless. COFEE is very primitive to say the least. It's a start, and I'm sure by version 7 it could be something to worry about. Well, not for me. I don't have any smut peddling friends, and I don't have anything remotely smutty.
I suppose for the lesser educated people who would use the same password for their Windows login as their webmail account, it could be hazardous to their freedoms. I still don't like the idea of people snooping around my computer. Even though I have nothing to hide, I don't like the idea of giving up my privacy.
Everything's an engineering challenge, it all depends on how you look at it. :)
Sometimes that's half the fun.
The other half is enjoying the result.
Come on, let your mind sink to the gutter. It's more fun here. :)
There are all kinds of screw heads. That's just a sampling though.
I think what you're describing is a "tri-wing" screw.
I found another reference for another Nintendo unit using what appears to be a double-square screw.
My favorite were always the "security torx"
I thought I'd run into everything, until I needed a #4 phillips. And I thought I had every screwdriver I'd ever need. :)
Well, if you've practiced a little, and are aware of your environment, you'll find that pain is worse when you know it's there.
Here's a good example. I gashed my leg open on a broken bottle. My girlfriend's kid put the broken bottle in a trash bag, and put it by the back door. I didn't know it was in there. I accidentally hit it with my leg.
It left a 3/4"x3/4"x2" gash in my shin.
When I hit it, I said "ow", and thought I had hit a can in the bag or something.
About 10 minutes later, I felt something cold dripping on my foot (I was wearing sandals). The front of my jeans were soaked with blood, and the "cold liquid" I felt dripping was the blood that had soaked through my pants.
The "pain" from hitting it lasted about 5 seconds. I didn't think anything of it after that, until I saw the blood.
I stayed focused on anything else. I had to drive to the store to get stuff to clean it up, because we didn't have any at the house.
After I got back, I dumped hydrogen peroxide on it to clean the wound, and then rubbing alcohol just in case. :) That was literally dumped. I poured it in the open wound. Then I pushed the wound closed, and used those special bandaids to hold open wounds shut, and then dressed it properly.
Everyone around me screamed, flinched, or otherwise got freaked out. I treated it like I was working on someone else. BTW, it's very hard to work on your own shin. :) I didn't feel any pain, because I wasn't reacting to it.
I probably should have been freaked out about it. I didn't have health insurance, and couldn't afford the emergency room trip for a few stitches.
Over the next few days, I kept it very clean, and redressed it frequently. Still, since I didn't think about how much it should hurt, it didn't hurt at all.
Now it's years later. It healed with a very minimal scar, which has completely faded. I've tried to show people the mark, but it simply isn't there any more.
So, which hurts worse, pulling a bandage slowly or quickly? I don't know. I opted to not pull out my leghairs by yanking the bandages off, so I did it slowly. That was my only consideration. "Do I want to make this worse? No.", so I was careful when redressing the wound.
People can get nasty cuts, and not know it, if they aren't immediately visible. They complain about the pain afterwards, because they now know that it's there.
I've done plenty of damage to myself over the years, mostly minor. The one that bothered me the worst was a torn ligament in my finger when I was a kid. It didn't hurt, but it freaked me out that my finger didn't move when I expected it to.
I won't say things don't hurt, but all pain is processed by the brain, so if you can convince yourself that it doesn't hurt, then it won't.
I've had a few piercings done, and they didn't hurt because I refused to let them hurt.
Headaches still get me, because it's hard to focus on it not hurting, when your head is already clouded by the headache.
I have a little daughter. When she hurts herself, I tell her that it doesn't hurt. She believes what I tell her, and she'll stop crying about it immediately.
Puppies are annoying. Now, a room full of kittens, that's nice. :)
But better, a room full of strippers, where the tab was paid in advance, and they were paid for "full service". That makes people really happy. :)
Well, my parents didn't, but I did attend a few schools. I got laid perfectly well on my own, and still do. :)
By attending, I meant at least applying and enrolling. They can't charge you if you never register.
I know. He probably liked the art of every single movement being different. :) I'd like to see it, so I could analyze how he did it, and see if he took any shortcuts. If I did it, I definitely would have cheated it a bit. :)
Those remind me of something I did a long time ago. I wasn't aware of "Decimal time", but it seemed to make sense to make a base10 time. I wrote a little program that would show the localtime and UTC both natively, and converted to decimal time live. It was interesting to look at for a little while, but served no purpose since no one else used it. :)
Without seeing the whole thing, you don't know what he did. For all we know, he only did 60 minutes, and 12 hours (60 one minute videos, and 12 more for the movement of the hour hand). It would seem insane to do every single one of the 720 one minute videos.
I rewatched it, and there's a break at about 53 seconds, where the camera is off to the side, so you can't see if there's a cut between shots.
If I were doing it, I'd have done the 72 video method, and even have some extras, like where he was cleaning the clock face to fill time randomly. :) Most people have a very short attention span, so even if you had a dozen filler movies, they wouldn't see all of them. They'll watch for maybe 1-2 minutes, but very few people will stare at it for 15 minutes looking for duplicated clips. :)
Ya, I like this one a lot better too. It would have been fun to see with a microtime counter on it. :)
Ya, it could never happen. The majority of nations would never agree to having a law enforcement group that could operate in any of their countries.
But, imagine if they did. they could call it something like "International Criminal Police Organization". They could establish a "National Central Bureau" in each country, where national law enforcement officers of that country would work with their peers in other nations, and help fight crime around the world.
That name is too long though. I bet they could shorten it down. ICPO? Nah, "I see poo" just doesn't sound right. Well, they're doing police work internationally, maybe they could call it "polint". Nah, that don't have a good ring to it. How about "Interpol". Yes, I like that one. ... and yes, that was sarcasm. Interpol has been doing their job since 1923, and all but 8 nations are members. They do have a computer crimes unit, among many others. They just don't take a big interest in "Someone hacked by box". Being an international police force, they look at the bigger crimes. Hell, you'd have a hard time getting the FBI, or even the local police interested in the one-off hack.
The matter of extradition still applies. You want them tried in your country, because they did something to you there. There are all kinds of rules regarding that, which have been ashed out between the member nations over the years.