Well, since Torchwood's new season (and probably the end of the series) just ended, I'd say anyone would be category 1, which is likely "R99 - Ill-defined and unknown cause of mortality"
I like the lamppost options. 3 of them.:)
W2202XA - Walked into lamppost, initial encounter W2202XD - Walked into lamppost, subsequent encounter W2202XS - Walked into lamppost, sequela
But, to answer your question, it doesn't appear to matter, if it were a cat or a hat, nor a clam or a ham. or a boat in a moat. It doesn't matter "Sam I Am"
The important part, frm what I can see in the codes, is that you slipped, tripped, stumbled or fell, and the general category of what you impacted on.
If you tripped, but didn't fall, it could be one of these.
W1840XA - Slipping, tripping and stumbling without falling, unspecified, initial encounter W1840XD - Slipping, tripping and stumbling without falling, unspecified, subsequent encounter W1840XS - Slipping, tripping and stumbling without falling, unspecified, sequela W010XXA - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling without subsequent striking against object, initial encounter W010XXD - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling without subsequent striking against object, subsequent encounter W010XXS - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling without subsequent striking against object, sequela
Aw hell, I'll just post the tripping list instead.
I'm not quite sure why the hell you'd have subsequent encounter with things like power tools. Most people would learn the first time.
W010XXA - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling without subsequent striking against object, initial encounter W010XXD - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling without subsequent striking against object, subsequent encounter W010XXS - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling without subsequent striking against object, sequela W0110XA - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against unspecified object, initial encounter W0110XD - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against unspecified object, subsequent encounter W0110XS - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against unspecified object, sequela W01110A - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against sharp glass, initial encounter W01110D - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against sharp glass, subsequent encounter W01110S - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against sharp glass, sequela W01111A - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against power tool or machine, initial encounter W01111D - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against power tool or machine, subsequent encounter W01111S - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against power tool or machine, sequela W01118A - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against other sharp object, initial encounter W01118D - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against other sharp object, subsequent encounter W01118S - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against other sharp object, sequela W01119A - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against unspecified sharp object, initial encounter W01119D - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against unspecified sharp object, subsequent encounter W01119S - Fall o
There is attorney client privilege. Attorneys are also officers of the court. And by putting your attorney into this position, he may no longer be your attorney, he may be a witness for the prosecution.
So, you have battery backups, automatic backup generator, and an unlimited fuel supply? Gosh, it must be nice in your world. Well, that and perfect hardware that never has a fault, and never a need to move anything.
But when that day comes, you've used such an obscure password that you won't remember it when you do have to shutdown or reboot. That is brilliant disaster planning. Set the password once, and have no way to recover from something as simple as a reboot.
In the last year, I had a motherboard fault, which induced multiple reboots until I changed it. I upgraded the video card twice, memory once, CPU once, and three times needed to clean the CPU, power supply, and exhaust fans.
But in your ideal world, reboots don't happen, right? You don't upgrade. You don't make changes. And you never have disaster planning provisions. That's brilliant. I wish you and your data the best, as you will loose it all soon enough.
I already know your answer. "But I have backups". And for some reason you think a subpoena or warrant won't demand that? Nah, you're the smartest guy in the world, and you don't keep backups. That's fine though, even if your secrets are never given up, and there is probable cause to believe you have done something bad, you'll be on vacation in prison for a while. Lets not forget, it's rather hard to keep a job if you're in jail. By the time you come out, you won't have a house, a job, or a life. Welcome yourself back to the real world, starting back in the real world for nothing.
Exactly. The reason there haven't been successful domestic attacks isn't because of increased security. It's because they haven't needed or wanted to do it right. We've surrendered or otherwise lost our rights to privacy for the sake of the illusion of security (also known as security theater).
There are so many things that can be done, that are virtually impossible to stop. What has been done to stop a repeat of the Oklahoma City bombing? Not much. You can still rent trucks. If you couldn't rent them, you can buy them. You can drive down, or park on streets. You can still buy precursors for very effective improvised explosives.
How about the "Beltway Sniper Attacks"? You can still buy and own guns. If all firearms were outlawed in the United States, they could be smuggled in without too much difficulty. If firearms were outlawed, and smuggling effectively blocked, weapons could be improvised (see "zip guns"). All it would take is one guy with a machine shop that knew what he was doing, and an ancient formula for gunpowder (damn those Chinese).
How about serial killer terrorism, in the style of Jack the Ripper? You can own knives. I'd name more recent serial killers, but the list is too long, and the end result is always the same (dead victim, live killer).
There is no way to fully protect against anything and everything. Even in prison, where it should be impossible to get weapons, and security guards patrol and search all the time, zip guns and shanks are used. Instead of those, chairs and makeshift clubs will do the job.
Humans are an awful species, and they do horrible things. Most will be good. Some will do things that remain a part of our history for generations. Surrendering our rights and living in fear is insanity. It has made quite a few company quite a bit of money though.
You're right. And he's demonstrated that he *can* remember the password, as he uses it every time there is a power loss.
Your mention of legal representation is absolutely correct. I tell people to watch this video, so they will understand why saying anything is a bad thing, until your legal counsel is there to assist you.
Even a question as simple as this is dangerous to answer.
Them: [pointing to a computer on a table] "Is that your computer?"
You: [looking at the computer and realizing it looks like yours] "yes".
My computer is pretty unique. It has a stylized case, a better heatsink visible through the side, etc. Is that *my* computer? I can't answer that. It could be my computer. It could be my computer that someone replaced the hard drive in. It could be another computer that looks just like it picked up while busting a pedophile and child pornographer, and accidentally swapped in the evidence locker. I'm not going to prison for what someone else did, based on the evidence that I affirmed it to be my computer. In another room of my house, I have enough pieces to build an almost identical computer. I also have hard drives from various sources. One company was throwing out a box full of drives. I took them, tested them, and half were still working. Those particular drives were then formatted, and the working ones sold on eBay. There are others floating around my house, from computers I upgraded for people. Do I believe the people who I've upgraded their equipment wouldn't do bad things? Probably. Do I know 100% positively? No. Could they have assumed I dismantled a computer I was doing bad things with, so they "reassembled" it, and found the bad things? Possibly.
The burden of proof is on the state (police, states attorney, etc). Is it my computer? Prove that it is or isn't. Prove that the data on the drive is mine. Prove that it hasn't been tampered with since I last had control over it. Prove that I put whatever they found on it, and that *I* had knowledge of it. Maybe anything they found was placed by malware. Demanding that proof isn't my responsibility. My attorney will use those and more to prove my innocence. Providing them with *any* evidence can ruin you, regardless if you are innocent or guilty. You can be compelled to provide evidence. Your attorney will advise you when to open your mouth.
If the cops raided your house, and you had 10 kilos of heroin on the table in front of you, the right answer is still "I have nothing to say without my attorney present.", and when he's there, he will tell you to STFU. It's the difference between "We found 10 kilos of heroin in his residence" and "he confessed to possessing 10 kilos of heroin".... and for those wondering, no I don't have illegal drugs, data, or anything else that would make me an interesting target for a raid. The only thing interesting are my phone calls, and it's only because most of my phone conversations end up sounding like a strange mix of George Carlin, Jon Stewart, and Penn Jillette.
So you're saying that crush bumpers, crumple zones, padded dashboards, airbags, seatbelts, stronger passenger compartments, crash sensors, OnStar (collision detection and reporting), standardized signs and signals, wider lanes, and better designs for intersections are all from statistics and logical research. Oh, that would make you right. The only factor they haven't removed is the idiots operating the vehicle. But we're not all that far from that now either.
I still see it as, in the 10 years following the 9/11 attacks, there has not been a successful attack on American soil. As has been well noted, post 9/11 security is far from perfect, yet they seem to have a perfect score for defeating subsequent attacks. That tells me that either the attackers continue to use such obvious methods that they are always caught, or there hasn't been a real attempt. But why bother with another attack, when the United States government has continued its own campaign of fear against its population.
The encryption is unlikely to help you if you are included as a defendant in a copyright case (though if you have done something else that might be "misunderstood" then you might still decide that losing such a case is better than showing what's on your hard disk) but there are many other situations where it may help.
Kind of like all the remote access software, IT security audit tools, and hacker tools that one may have on his/her computer.
Them: "He has hacker tools!"
Me: [after check with my legal counsel if I should respond] "Yes, I do network security work."
Sometimes it's advantageous to STFU. They may not find out until discovery that you do work in network security, so anything that they have on you is completely worthless.
You do realize that it wouldn't happen like on TV, right?
(as a side note, I am ignoring the differences between criminal and civil here. Most of it applies to both sides.)
If they've seized your computer, there will be a subpoena compelling you to provide the correct password. It's not like you'll be held in an interrogation with a cop saying "give me the password or else [blah, blah, blah]". It'll be a long, drawn out process. You'll learn the wonderful world of the legal process. Subpoenas, depositions, countless hearings, motions, and eventually you'll actually end up in the court room to testify about stuff.
"I'm stressed, I can't remember it" might (but probably) won't work on day one. By the time you end up in front of a judge, claiming that you can't remember the same password that you had to type every day to unlock your computer, he'll laugh at you, and then you can learn about "contempt of court".
The only thing you should say is "I have nothing to say without my attorney present". When asked questions that are irrelevant or argumentative, your attorney will say so and advise you not to answer. All in all, the more you say is bad. Refusing to do something, like give a password, is bad. Saying "I can't remember" is bad. Asking your attorney "should I answer?" is good. You have legal counsel, because you are not an attorney. Even if you are, you are directly and emotionally involved. Your attorney doesn't really care, except he/she is paid to protect your interests.
Actually, I'd trust the Blackhat ISP more. They'll probably provide statistical graphs on link and uplink utilization, and give you an interface to review your own potential security flaws (we sniffed these passwords from your session on 1/1/2011 at 4am).
What does any major provider give you? At best something resembling bandwidth graphs. If they bill for overages, they won't even provide you with the graphs, they'll just add it to your bill. A friend of mine, on a state-wide ISP (who also owns the phone company in that state) was being charged for usage over his limits. I called for him, and asked for the graphs. Couldn't get them. I asked for any sort of details. All they could tell me is that I (as him) owed $20 more because of my over limit usage.
Since he has exactly one computer, and no wifi, I installed a little bandwidth tracker. Sure enough, for about 3 months after that, they'd claim he owed. He'd tell them his precise usage (which was way under their cap), and told them to fuck off.
And who knows who is working at that place? If a network admin wanted to sniff all the traffic for every email address floating through, or every URL visited, that's trivial. Hell, I do the reverse for my servers. I monitor the server (not desktop) uplink for all requests in and out, so I can double check utilization reports.
I was on an ISP once, where we could tell every time they fired the senior IT guy. Everything would go to shit, and spam would increase by about 1000%. Yup, the only guy who knew how things worked got fired, and he sold the customer list to spammers. I'd call CS about it, they'd tell me about it again, and after a couple weeks, things went back to normal.
So which way do you like to be screwed? By the evil you know, or the evil you don't? I trust my ISP (major provider) so much that i only work over my own VPN to my servers. There you go guys, sniff my encrypted traffic. Well, and this message.:)
If I recall correctly, that was the same company that tried to sue my company for something like 25% to 50% of their gross income. The had a stack of patents which basically covered any transmission of digital audio and/or video. So effectively the patent covered telephones, cable TV, satellite TV, and of course all those pesky Internet companies. Just think, they could nail every Geocities site that had the damned dancing baby, or some crappy song embedded on their home page. Too bad they picked the wrong targets.
They hit the company I worked for. My company hit back, along with a bunch of other ones.
I wasn't following it too closely. Our lawyers got into it, teamed up with the lawyers for several other companies, and tore them a new one. I heard the occasional mention of it, but after the first week they were just a nuisance that would eventually be laughed out of court. I didn't follow it too closely. It was a few months later that they started making the news (like that Forbes story).
Since you obviously know more about their system than me (seriously, not sarcastically), where does the power come from? Oh, never mind, I found the answer.
The NYC subway system is amazing. I, like most people who have used it, know that we get from Point A to Point B rather efficiently.
You did see this, right?:) Perfect for demonstrating what not to do. I suspect the next demonstrations will be firearms safety, and then "How to get nominated for the Darwin Awards in 1 easy step".
I was a long time and devoted Blackberry user. I got an Android tablet, and couldn't tether it with my provider. "Tether" (previously Tetherberry) was great, but it only let me tether Windows laptops. Now I'm on a touchscreen Android. While I miss the physical keys to push, I'm happier with all the other features I get . I know RIM is finally trying to play catch-up with the upcoming Blackberry OSs, but for me, it's too little, too late. Now I have my Android phone, rooted and upgraded Nook Color, and I'm working on my own port of Android for Touchpad (I got 3 in the fire sale). They'll have to make an amazingly good case for me to switch back now.
So now I use the onscreen keyboard with my Android. No home key pips (home key marks, bumps, or whatever you want to call them). No key edges to feel while I'm touch typing (ya, I managed it on their tiny keyboard), but I'm happier now.
The home key pips are almost a necessity for me. I don't retire keyboards when the letters are worn off. I only toss them when they stop working properly, or the pips are gone. Looking at my keyboard right now, A, S, E, H, I, O, P, N, M, C and Ctrl are worn so you can't see the letters at all. It's perfect. People who can't touch type can't use my keyboard.:)
Robin, guessing by your UID, you haven't been around long.:) Don't worry about how people moderate you. You were kind of asking for it with your smart ass post, and attributing the technology to Toyota, when it's been around for longer than Toyota has been around, much less any concept of them building electric (or hybrid) vehicles.
With that said, Say your peace as you feel appropriate. I've had a lot of fun watching some of my posts get modded up and down so many times that it's hard to tell where it will land. Some people mod down because they don't like what you said, or just because they're asses. Sometimes we just click the wrong option. It happens. That's why the moderation system is in place, so others can fix the mistakes, and set the score properly based on a consensus, rather than one person's opinion.
If you're always being modded down, and no one else mods you up, you should consider the content of what you're writing. There are plenty of people who mod up when a post has unfairly been modded down (and vice versa). If you're posting interested, informed, and intellectual posts, on average, you'll end up getting positive mods, and usually decent replies.
Once you've been around for a few years, if you've been giving to the community (i.e., intelligent conversation, not smart ass answers and complaining), you'll find that you have a virtually indestructible karma rating. But you have to earn that. That's why I'm posting this as myself, and not AC. I most likely will be modded down as off-topic, since this clearly is. Will I complain or cry? Nope. It doesn't really matter. And if I can get through to you and a few other lurkers who are afraid of being moderated, it was well worth it. Well, that is assuming you're bringing intellectual conversation to the table.
If you want to complain about moderation, take it to your journal. It's a good place to vent, and it won't interrupt the thread for the topic.
I don't know enough specifics about any given rail system, but...
I am pretty sure they are provided in limited length circuits, so they aren't dependent on a single power source along a long route. This whole conversation is really best suited for the engineers who actually design and maintain those systems, not for us casual observers with our limited knowledge on the subject.
But, I'll continue my casual observer comments anyways.:)
If they're feeding energy from braking back to the 3rd rail, and it can be captured at a station with whatever means (batteries, capacitors, flywheel, or whatever), it could then be used when it starts moving also.
Even if the 3rd rail is only for a few blocks at most, there is a common power grid that it can feed back into. The question would then be, can the power grid support it? They are already geared up for the heavy load of a train starting to move from a stop, but would the introduction of excess energy in such short bursts and high current, be useful or harmful to the grid?
It sounds like a perfect plan. I *LOVE* the idea. It sounds great!
There are exceptions to it though.
The day they start doing it, I could just imagine flashmobs, or even the Anonymous group, going around with pre-printed license plate stickers with the mayors plate number on them. They could slap them on every car they can . Sure, it wouldn't be *every* car in the city, but it would be enough for the Mayor himself to be published as running stop lights thousands of times per day. That, parking tickets, etc, etc.
These printed plates with numbers on them are such old technology, and so prone to counterfeiting, I'm surprised they're still used. They rank right up with paper cheques for transferring money. They're trivial to print for illegitimate uses, once you have the required numbers.
It's long been suspected that "ECHLON" already monitors phone calls, faxes, and emails. But hey, maybe all their gear is just a huge expensive decoration, to distract tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy freaks. The truth is somewhere in the middle.:)
RIM's SMS most likely don't leave their network. Why would they? If I recall correctly, they are encrypted at the phone, so they wouldn't be easy to intercept at the tower.
The same would also apply to cell providers, unless SMS was already easily interceptable when it hit the tower.
Although it would appear safe, are messages sent via https://twitter.com/ really safe? Probably not.
But why would governments have to go through the hassle of intercepting messages at the tower, and decrypting them, when the providers can hand them over, unencrypted, on an E-silver-platter(tm).
Most likely such a meeting isn't to determine if they should or shouldn't do it, but what the pricing will be. I guarantee, if the gov't wants it, the provider will let them pay at greater than cost. It's a lot easier to negotiate for a live feed, than to come back later with a warrant. For god and country only goes so far, but the right price tag will get you anything.
FYI, they just updated the web site. You can order from BestBuy.com now. It appears that they have both the 16GB and 32GB versions available. We just picked up a few.
The sad part as, I was in the market for a tablet. i checked the retail stores, and then compared what they had to the Barnes and Noble Nook Color. The Nook was well worth the money. It only lasted a few hours before I wiped it and put CM7 on. I will say, the Nook is a damned nice tablet, price or otherwise. I'm getting the HP Touchpads on the assumption that I can do something with them. I saw the mention of a group intending to port Android/CM7 over to it, and there may be an Ubuntu something.
I guess worse case, I'm out a few bucks. Best case, it works, and the market isn't saturated with them in the next week or so, and I can resell them on eBay for a profit.:) Most likely, they'll be used by friends and family. They'll pay me for them. I just won't be able to turn a profit on them. I guess the only other case is if I can make them work with a real OS (not WebOS), and I don't get rid of the others, I'll have spares, should mine get broken. I suspect replacement screens and batteries will be rather impossible to get in a few months. If people really get behind it, we'll probably see lots of hard hacks for these things, to upgrade the battery and storage.:) I haven't looked around enough yet to see what they use for storage, but I'd suspect it's built in flash. I already saw that before I bought the Nook Color.
I wouldn't be horribly surprised if he happened to see me.:) I'm in the area. My laptop and phone advertise "NSA Surveillance Van [some number]". And... hmmm... I was parked out near there (by the address in the linked article) not all that long ago, working on the laptop in the back of my vehicle, while waiting for someone at a local business.
If it wasn't me, it was probably someone close by who happened to see my name, or as you said, just picked up the meme.
The article doesn't say anything about the summary though. Are we just yanking stories out of our ass again?
Congrats to him, he successfully outed a neighbor with a sense of humor.
I've also been known to use bank names (preferably one close by), local businesses, and variations on free wifi names. It all depends on the mood I'm in when I bring it up. The laptop and phone advertised names change often enough.
Take a road trip. Fire up netstubler, vistubler, kismet, or whatever your preferred choice in wireless diagnostic tools are. You'll find that something like 25% of the APs are unencrypted. If you stop to try to use quite a few of them, you'll find that they don't work. Either they've enabled MAC filtering, or they do something simple like turn off their cable/dsl modem but leave the AP turned on. Maybe they've disabled DHCP, and set all their machines static. Or some combination of those.
There are ways to decrypt Verizon's DSL/FiOS default WEP key. They've also been deploying newer APs, and forcing upgrades on the old ones. Where I could get in 9 of 10 a year or so ago, now it's like 1 in 30.
If you're on a road trip, do you really have the time to waste (and possible felony charges)? Probably not. If you have an hour to spend on each AP until you find one that works, you could have been hundreds of miles down the road.
But there's coffee shops, hotels, or whatever, right? Well, I've found that most hotels these days are protecting their networks at least to some degree. It may be something trivial like asking for the last name of the person who reserved the room, and the room number. No problem, except it'd help to know that information.
If you're stopped in remote nowhere, and you want to get online, it's nicer to get online, than wait for the next exit. Try I-10 sometime. It's a fun drive, if you like long stretches of nothing. Or as I was warned before my first trip, "Be careful, after the first 10 to 20 hours, you'll swear you saw a coyote chasing a road runner. "
For the fun of it (and being the computer nerd that I am), I broadcast live video of 3 of my last 4 trips across I-10 on my web site. The first trip, probably close to 10 years ago, with a Nextel im1100 was interesting. It worked most of the time from Jacksonville to the Texas border. Then it was hit and miss through San Antonio. After that? Good luck. I didn't have a signal from San Antonio to El Paso.
On a more recent trip with a Verizon device (I can't remember which), I kept a signal for most of the drive. Well, there were no obvious drop outs, just very very slow frame rates. (like 4 frames a minute). All I was sending was a compressed image, and a single text string with some GPS information, which was decoded server-side.
On the first trip, people were SOL if they wanted me to do something. On the last two trips, I was able to stop at any rest area, truck stop, or whatever, and get online, regardless of how far out I was. Sure, some places have wifi. Many don't. And try asking for a Starbucks near Ft. Stockton, Tx. You may as well have been wearing a green jump suit and said "Hi, I'm from Mars. Take us to your leader."
But back to the average day to day. On some trips, where I had a second driver, I've had to get online to fix an issue. It's either spend two hours on the phone explaining to someone what to do, or spend 5 minutes tethered to the phone. It's easy to switch drivers. It's harder to hunt around for the nearest place that may have Wifi for you.
On one of my recent trips, I was stuck at an airport. Great, an airport. One of the major technical advancements of humanity! Well, when there are several thousand people in the terminal, with a stack of delayed flights, you'll find that even resolving a hostname can be troublesome. And yes, we tried calling out. We'd either get all circuits are busy, or the call would drop in the first few seconds. Too many people trying to do the same thing. The gate crew could only tell us "there was an equipment problem, and they're sending another plane." Great, so sometime in the next hour to week we'll be getting on a plane. The person traveling with me was on the airport supplied free Wifi, and spent 10 minutes
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Well, since Torchwood's new season (and probably the end of the series) just ended, I'd say anyone would be category 1, which is likely "R99 - Ill-defined and unknown cause of mortality"
I like the lamppost options. 3 of them. :)
W2202XA - Walked into lamppost, initial encounter
W2202XD - Walked into lamppost, subsequent encounter
W2202XS - Walked into lamppost, sequela
But, to answer your question,
it doesn't appear to matter,
if it were a cat or a hat,
nor a clam or a ham.
or a boat in a moat.
It doesn't matter "Sam I Am"
The important part, frm what I can see in the codes, is that you slipped, tripped, stumbled or fell, and the general category of what you impacted on.
If you tripped, but didn't fall, it could be one of these.
W1840XA - Slipping, tripping and stumbling without falling, unspecified, initial encounter
W1840XD - Slipping, tripping and stumbling without falling, unspecified, subsequent encounter
W1840XS - Slipping, tripping and stumbling without falling, unspecified, sequela
W010XXA - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling without subsequent striking against object, initial encounter
W010XXD - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling without subsequent striking against object, subsequent encounter
W010XXS - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling without subsequent striking against object, sequela
Aw hell, I'll just post the tripping list instead.
I'm not quite sure why the hell you'd have subsequent encounter with things like power tools. Most people would learn the first time.
W010XXA - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling without subsequent striking against object, initial encounter
W010XXD - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling without subsequent striking against object, subsequent encounter
W010XXS - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling without subsequent striking against object, sequela
W0110XA - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against unspecified object, initial encounter
W0110XD - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against unspecified object, subsequent encounter
W0110XS - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against unspecified object, sequela
W01110A - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against sharp glass, initial encounter
W01110D - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against sharp glass, subsequent encounter
W01110S - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against sharp glass, sequela
W01111A - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against power tool or machine, initial encounter
W01111D - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against power tool or machine, subsequent encounter
W01111S - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against power tool or machine, sequela
W01118A - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against other sharp object, initial encounter
W01118D - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against other sharp object, subsequent encounter
W01118S - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against other sharp object, sequela
W01119A - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against unspecified sharp object, initial encounter
W01119D - Fall on same level from slipping, tripping and stumbling with subsequent striking against unspecified sharp object, subsequent encounter
W01119S - Fall o
There is attorney client privilege. Attorneys are also officers of the court. And by putting your attorney into this position, he may no longer be your attorney, he may be a witness for the prosecution.
So, you have battery backups, automatic backup generator, and an unlimited fuel supply? Gosh, it must be nice in your world. Well, that and perfect hardware that never has a fault, and never a need to move anything.
But when that day comes, you've used such an obscure password that you won't remember it when you do have to shutdown or reboot. That is brilliant disaster planning. Set the password once, and have no way to recover from something as simple as a reboot.
In the last year, I had a motherboard fault, which induced multiple reboots until I changed it. I upgraded the video card twice, memory once, CPU once, and three times needed to clean the CPU, power supply, and exhaust fans.
But in your ideal world, reboots don't happen, right? You don't upgrade. You don't make changes. And you never have disaster planning provisions. That's brilliant. I wish you and your data the best, as you will loose it all soon enough.
I already know your answer. "But I have backups". And for some reason you think a subpoena or warrant won't demand that? Nah, you're the smartest guy in the world, and you don't keep backups. That's fine though, even if your secrets are never given up, and there is probable cause to believe you have done something bad, you'll be on vacation in prison for a while. Lets not forget, it's rather hard to keep a job if you're in jail. By the time you come out, you won't have a house, a job, or a life. Welcome yourself back to the real world, starting back in the real world for nothing.
Exactly. The reason there haven't been successful domestic attacks isn't because of increased security. It's because they haven't needed or wanted to do it right. We've surrendered or otherwise lost our rights to privacy for the sake of the illusion of security (also known as security theater).
There are so many things that can be done, that are virtually impossible to stop. What has been done to stop a repeat of the Oklahoma City bombing? Not much. You can still rent trucks. If you couldn't rent them, you can buy them. You can drive down, or park on streets. You can still buy precursors for very effective improvised explosives.
How about the "Beltway Sniper Attacks"? You can still buy and own guns. If all firearms were outlawed in the United States, they could be smuggled in without too much difficulty. If firearms were outlawed, and smuggling effectively blocked, weapons could be improvised (see "zip guns"). All it would take is one guy with a machine shop that knew what he was doing, and an ancient formula for gunpowder (damn those Chinese).
How about serial killer terrorism, in the style of Jack the Ripper? You can own knives. I'd name more recent serial killers, but the list is too long, and the end result is always the same (dead victim, live killer).
There is no way to fully protect against anything and everything. Even in prison, where it should be impossible to get weapons, and security guards patrol and search all the time, zip guns and shanks are used. Instead of those, chairs and makeshift clubs will do the job.
Humans are an awful species, and they do horrible things. Most will be good. Some will do things that remain a part of our history for generations. Surrendering our rights and living in fear is insanity. It has made quite a few company quite a bit of money though.
You're right. And he's demonstrated that he *can* remember the password, as he uses it every time there is a power loss.
Your mention of legal representation is absolutely correct. I tell people to watch this video, so they will understand why saying anything is a bad thing, until your legal counsel is there to assist you.
Even a question as simple as this is dangerous to answer.
Them: [pointing to a computer on a table] "Is that your computer?"
You: [looking at the computer and realizing it looks like yours] "yes".
My computer is pretty unique. It has a stylized case, a better heatsink visible through the side, etc. Is that *my* computer? I can't answer that. It could be my computer. It could be my computer that someone replaced the hard drive in. It could be another computer that looks just like it picked up while busting a pedophile and child pornographer, and accidentally swapped in the evidence locker. I'm not going to prison for what someone else did, based on the evidence that I affirmed it to be my computer. In another room of my house, I have enough pieces to build an almost identical computer. I also have hard drives from various sources. One company was throwing out a box full of drives. I took them, tested them, and half were still working. Those particular drives were then formatted, and the working ones sold on eBay. There are others floating around my house, from computers I upgraded for people. Do I believe the people who I've upgraded their equipment wouldn't do bad things? Probably. Do I know 100% positively? No. Could they have assumed I dismantled a computer I was doing bad things with, so they "reassembled" it, and found the bad things? Possibly.
The burden of proof is on the state (police, states attorney, etc). Is it my computer? Prove that it is or isn't. Prove that the data on the drive is mine. Prove that it hasn't been tampered with since I last had control over it. Prove that I put whatever they found on it, and that *I* had knowledge of it. Maybe anything they found was placed by malware. Demanding that proof isn't my responsibility. My attorney will use those and more to prove my innocence. Providing them with *any* evidence can ruin you, regardless if you are innocent or guilty. You can be compelled to provide evidence. Your attorney will advise you when to open your mouth.
If the cops raided your house, and you had 10 kilos of heroin on the table in front of you, the right answer is still "I have nothing to say without my attorney present.", and when he's there, he will tell you to STFU. It's the difference between "We found 10 kilos of heroin in his residence" and "he confessed to possessing 10 kilos of heroin". ... and for those wondering, no I don't have illegal drugs, data, or anything else that would make me an interesting target for a raid. The only thing interesting are my phone calls, and it's only because most of my phone conversations end up sounding like a strange mix of George Carlin, Jon Stewart, and Penn Jillette.
So you're saying that crush bumpers, crumple zones, padded dashboards, airbags, seatbelts, stronger passenger compartments, crash sensors, OnStar (collision detection and reporting), standardized signs and signals, wider lanes, and better designs for intersections are all from statistics and logical research. Oh, that would make you right. The only factor they haven't removed is the idiots operating the vehicle. But we're not all that far from that now either.
I still see it as, in the 10 years following the 9/11 attacks, there has not been a successful attack on American soil. As has been well noted, post 9/11 security is far from perfect, yet they seem to have a perfect score for defeating subsequent attacks. That tells me that either the attackers continue to use such obvious methods that they are always caught, or there hasn't been a real attempt. But why bother with another attack, when the United States government has continued its own campaign of fear against its population.
Kind of like all the remote access software, IT security audit tools, and hacker tools that one may have on his/her computer.
Them: "He has hacker tools!"
Me: [after check with my legal counsel if I should respond] "Yes, I do network security work."
Sometimes it's advantageous to STFU. They may not find out until discovery that you do work in network security, so anything that they have on you is completely worthless.
You do realize that it wouldn't happen like on TV, right?
(as a side note, I am ignoring the differences between criminal and civil here. Most of it applies to both sides.)
If they've seized your computer, there will be a subpoena compelling you to provide the correct password. It's not like you'll be held in an interrogation with a cop saying "give me the password or else [blah, blah, blah]". It'll be a long, drawn out process. You'll learn the wonderful world of the legal process. Subpoenas, depositions, countless hearings, motions, and eventually you'll actually end up in the court room to testify about stuff.
"I'm stressed, I can't remember it" might (but probably) won't work on day one. By the time you end up in front of a judge, claiming that you can't remember the same password that you had to type every day to unlock your computer, he'll laugh at you, and then you can learn about "contempt of court".
The only thing you should say is "I have nothing to say without my attorney present". When asked questions that are irrelevant or argumentative, your attorney will say so and advise you not to answer. All in all, the more you say is bad. Refusing to do something, like give a password, is bad. Saying "I can't remember" is bad. Asking your attorney "should I answer?" is good. You have legal counsel, because you are not an attorney. Even if you are, you are directly and emotionally involved. Your attorney doesn't really care, except he/she is paid to protect your interests.
Yup. Well, not all that recently, it was back in 2005. http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/gunsafety.asp. And of course, The Video.
But a shot to the foot is far from winning a Darwin award.
Actually, I'd trust the Blackhat ISP more. They'll probably provide statistical graphs on link and uplink utilization, and give you an interface to review your own potential security flaws (we sniffed these passwords from your session on 1/1/2011 at 4am).
What does any major provider give you? At best something resembling bandwidth graphs. If they bill for overages, they won't even provide you with the graphs, they'll just add it to your bill. A friend of mine, on a state-wide ISP (who also owns the phone company in that state) was being charged for usage over his limits. I called for him, and asked for the graphs. Couldn't get them. I asked for any sort of details. All they could tell me is that I (as him) owed $20 more because of my over limit usage.
Since he has exactly one computer, and no wifi, I installed a little bandwidth tracker. Sure enough, for about 3 months after that, they'd claim he owed. He'd tell them his precise usage (which was way under their cap), and told them to fuck off.
And who knows who is working at that place? If a network admin wanted to sniff all the traffic for every email address floating through, or every URL visited, that's trivial. Hell, I do the reverse for my servers. I monitor the server (not desktop) uplink for all requests in and out, so I can double check utilization reports.
I was on an ISP once, where we could tell every time they fired the senior IT guy. Everything would go to shit, and spam would increase by about 1000%. Yup, the only guy who knew how things worked got fired, and he sold the customer list to spammers. I'd call CS about it, they'd tell me about it again, and after a couple weeks, things went back to normal.
So which way do you like to be screwed? By the evil you know, or the evil you don't? I trust my ISP (major provider) so much that i only work over my own VPN to my servers. There you go guys, sniff my encrypted traffic. Well, and this message. :)
Never trust a guy who's hat is too dirty ... or too clean.
Trust in us gray hats. We say don't trust either option. SSL as identification is worthless. :)
If I recall correctly, that was the same company that tried to sue my company for something like 25% to 50% of their gross income. The had a stack of patents which basically covered any transmission of digital audio and/or video. So effectively the patent covered telephones, cable TV, satellite TV, and of course all those pesky Internet companies. Just think, they could nail every Geocities site that had the damned dancing baby, or some crappy song embedded on their home page. Too bad they picked the wrong targets.
They hit the company I worked for. My company hit back, along with a bunch of other ones.
[looking around] Yup, it was them.
I wasn't following it too closely. Our lawyers got into it, teamed up with the lawyers for several other companies, and tore them a new one. I heard the occasional mention of it, but after the first week they were just a nuisance that would eventually be laughed out of court. I didn't follow it too closely. It was a few months later that they started making the news (like that Forbes story).
Nah, it's probably that new metric time. So roughly at 2025.2472500. :)
Since you obviously know more about their system than me (seriously, not sarcastically), where does the power come from? Oh, never mind, I found the answer.
The NYC subway system is amazing. I, like most people who have used it, know that we get from Point A to Point B rather efficiently.
You did see this, right? :) Perfect for demonstrating what not to do. I suspect the next demonstrations will be firearms safety, and then "How to get nominated for the Darwin Awards in 1 easy step".
I was a long time and devoted Blackberry user. I got an Android tablet, and couldn't tether it with my provider. "Tether" (previously Tetherberry) was great, but it only let me tether Windows laptops. Now I'm on a touchscreen Android. While I miss the physical keys to push, I'm happier with all the other features I get . I know RIM is finally trying to play catch-up with the upcoming Blackberry OSs, but for me, it's too little, too late. Now I have my Android phone, rooted and upgraded Nook Color, and I'm working on my own port of Android for Touchpad (I got 3 in the fire sale). They'll have to make an amazingly good case for me to switch back now.
So now I use the onscreen keyboard with my Android. No home key pips (home key marks, bumps, or whatever you want to call them). No key edges to feel while I'm touch typing (ya, I managed it on their tiny keyboard), but I'm happier now.
The home key pips are almost a necessity for me. I don't retire keyboards when the letters are worn off. I only toss them when they stop working properly, or the pips are gone. Looking at my keyboard right now, A, S, E, H, I, O, P, N, M, C and Ctrl are worn so you can't see the letters at all. It's perfect. People who can't touch type can't use my keyboard. :)
Robin, guessing by your UID, you haven't been around long. :) Don't worry about how people moderate you. You were kind of asking for it with your smart ass post, and attributing the technology to Toyota, when it's been around for longer than Toyota has been around, much less any concept of them building electric (or hybrid) vehicles.
With that said, Say your peace as you feel appropriate. I've had a lot of fun watching some of my posts get modded up and down so many times that it's hard to tell where it will land. Some people mod down because they don't like what you said, or just because they're asses. Sometimes we just click the wrong option. It happens. That's why the moderation system is in place, so others can fix the mistakes, and set the score properly based on a consensus, rather than one person's opinion.
If you're always being modded down, and no one else mods you up, you should consider the content of what you're writing. There are plenty of people who mod up when a post has unfairly been modded down (and vice versa). If you're posting interested, informed, and intellectual posts, on average, you'll end up getting positive mods, and usually decent replies.
Once you've been around for a few years, if you've been giving to the community (i.e., intelligent conversation, not smart ass answers and complaining), you'll find that you have a virtually indestructible karma rating. But you have to earn that. That's why I'm posting this as myself, and not AC. I most likely will be modded down as off-topic, since this clearly is. Will I complain or cry? Nope. It doesn't really matter. And if I can get through to you and a few other lurkers who are afraid of being moderated, it was well worth it. Well, that is assuming you're bringing intellectual conversation to the table.
If you want to complain about moderation, take it to your journal. It's a good place to vent, and it won't interrupt the thread for the topic.
That makes me think of the "Gravity train". I know, it isn't what you were referencing, nor quite on topic, but it's a neat (and implausible) idea.
I don't know enough specifics about any given rail system, but ...
I am pretty sure they are provided in limited length circuits, so they aren't dependent on a single power source along a long route. This whole conversation is really best suited for the engineers who actually design and maintain those systems, not for us casual observers with our limited knowledge on the subject.
But, I'll continue my casual observer comments anyways. :)
If they're feeding energy from braking back to the 3rd rail, and it can be captured at a station with whatever means (batteries, capacitors, flywheel, or whatever), it could then be used when it starts moving also.
Even if the 3rd rail is only for a few blocks at most, there is a common power grid that it can feed back into. The question would then be, can the power grid support it? They are already geared up for the heavy load of a train starting to move from a stop, but would the introduction of excess energy in such short bursts and high current, be useful or harmful to the grid?
It sounds like a perfect plan. I *LOVE* the idea. It sounds great!
There are exceptions to it though.
The day they start doing it, I could just imagine flashmobs, or even the Anonymous group, going around with pre-printed license plate stickers with the mayors plate number on them. They could slap them on every car they can . Sure, it wouldn't be *every* car in the city, but it would be enough for the Mayor himself to be published as running stop lights thousands of times per day. That, parking tickets, etc, etc.
These printed plates with numbers on them are such old technology, and so prone to counterfeiting, I'm surprised they're still used. They rank right up with paper cheques for transferring money. They're trivial to print for illegitimate uses, once you have the required numbers.
It's long been suspected that "ECHLON" already monitors phone calls, faxes, and emails. But hey, maybe all their gear is just a huge expensive decoration, to distract tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy freaks. The truth is somewhere in the middle. :)
RIM's SMS most likely don't leave their network. Why would they? If I recall correctly, they are encrypted at the phone, so they wouldn't be easy to intercept at the tower.
The same would also apply to cell providers, unless SMS was already easily interceptable when it hit the tower.
Although it would appear safe, are messages sent via https://twitter.com/ really safe? Probably not.
But why would governments have to go through the hassle of intercepting messages at the tower, and decrypting them, when the providers can hand them over, unencrypted, on an E-silver-platter(tm).
Most likely such a meeting isn't to determine if they should or shouldn't do it, but what the pricing will be. I guarantee, if the gov't wants it, the provider will let them pay at greater than cost. It's a lot easier to negotiate for a live feed, than to come back later with a warrant. For god and country only goes so far, but the right price tag will get you anything.
FYI, they just updated the web site. You can order from BestBuy.com now. It appears that they have both the 16GB and 32GB versions available. We just picked up a few.
The sad part as, I was in the market for a tablet. i checked the retail stores, and then compared what they had to the Barnes and Noble Nook Color. The Nook was well worth the money. It only lasted a few hours before I wiped it and put CM7 on. I will say, the Nook is a damned nice tablet, price or otherwise. I'm getting the HP Touchpads on the assumption that I can do something with them. I saw the mention of a group intending to port Android/CM7 over to it, and there may be an Ubuntu something.
I guess worse case, I'm out a few bucks. Best case, it works, and the market isn't saturated with them in the next week or so, and I can resell them on eBay for a profit. :) Most likely, they'll be used by friends and family. They'll pay me for them. I just won't be able to turn a profit on them. I guess the only other case is if I can make them work with a real OS (not WebOS), and I don't get rid of the others, I'll have spares, should mine get broken. I suspect replacement screens and batteries will be rather impossible to get in a few months. If people really get behind it, we'll probably see lots of hard hacks for these things, to upgrade the battery and storage. :) I haven't looked around enough yet to see what they use for storage, but I'd suspect it's built in flash. I already saw that before I bought the Nook Color.
I wouldn't be horribly surprised if he happened to see me. :) I'm in the area. My laptop and phone advertise "NSA Surveillance Van [some number]". And ... hmmm ... I was parked out near there (by the address in the linked article) not all that long ago, working on the laptop in the back of my vehicle, while waiting for someone at a local business.
If it wasn't me, it was probably someone close by who happened to see my name, or as you said, just picked up the meme.
The article doesn't say anything about the summary though. Are we just yanking stories out of our ass again?
Congrats to him, he successfully outed a neighbor with a sense of humor.
I've also been known to use bank names (preferably one close by), local businesses, and variations on free wifi names. It all depends on the mood I'm in when I bring it up. The laptop and phone advertised names change often enough.
That's more exciting than what I could see. One moon, two TV towers, and an airplane heading west probably at 30K feet or so.
Really? No, not really.
Take a road trip. Fire up netstubler, vistubler, kismet, or whatever your preferred choice in wireless diagnostic tools are. You'll find that something like 25% of the APs are unencrypted. If you stop to try to use quite a few of them, you'll find that they don't work. Either they've enabled MAC filtering, or they do something simple like turn off their cable/dsl modem but leave the AP turned on. Maybe they've disabled DHCP, and set all their machines static. Or some combination of those.
There are ways to decrypt Verizon's DSL/FiOS default WEP key. They've also been deploying newer APs, and forcing upgrades on the old ones. Where I could get in 9 of 10 a year or so ago, now it's like 1 in 30.
If you're on a road trip, do you really have the time to waste (and possible felony charges)? Probably not. If you have an hour to spend on each AP until you find one that works, you could have been hundreds of miles down the road.
But there's coffee shops, hotels, or whatever, right? Well, I've found that most hotels these days are protecting their networks at least to some degree. It may be something trivial like asking for the last name of the person who reserved the room, and the room number. No problem, except it'd help to know that information.
If you're stopped in remote nowhere, and you want to get online, it's nicer to get online, than wait for the next exit. Try I-10 sometime. It's a fun drive, if you like long stretches of nothing. Or as I was warned before my first trip, "Be careful, after the first 10 to 20 hours, you'll swear you saw a coyote chasing a road runner. "
For the fun of it (and being the computer nerd that I am), I broadcast live video of 3 of my last 4 trips across I-10 on my web site. The first trip, probably close to 10 years ago, with a Nextel im1100 was interesting. It worked most of the time from Jacksonville to the Texas border. Then it was hit and miss through San Antonio. After that? Good luck. I didn't have a signal from San Antonio to El Paso.
On a more recent trip with a Verizon device (I can't remember which), I kept a signal for most of the drive. Well, there were no obvious drop outs, just very very slow frame rates. (like 4 frames a minute). All I was sending was a compressed image, and a single text string with some GPS information, which was decoded server-side.
On the first trip, people were SOL if they wanted me to do something. On the last two trips, I was able to stop at any rest area, truck stop, or whatever, and get online, regardless of how far out I was. Sure, some places have wifi. Many don't. And try asking for a Starbucks near Ft. Stockton, Tx. You may as well have been wearing a green jump suit and said "Hi, I'm from Mars. Take us to your leader."
But back to the average day to day. On some trips, where I had a second driver, I've had to get online to fix an issue. It's either spend two hours on the phone explaining to someone what to do, or spend 5 minutes tethered to the phone. It's easy to switch drivers. It's harder to hunt around for the nearest place that may have Wifi for you.
On one of my recent trips, I was stuck at an airport. Great, an airport. One of the major technical advancements of humanity! Well, when there are several thousand people in the terminal, with a stack of delayed flights, you'll find that even resolving a hostname can be troublesome. And yes, we tried calling out. We'd either get all circuits are busy, or the call would drop in the first few seconds. Too many people trying to do the same thing. The gate crew could only tell us "there was an equipment problem, and they're sending another plane." Great, so sometime in the next hour to week we'll be getting on a plane. The person traveling with me was on the airport supplied free Wifi, and spent 10 minutes