In other words, if a scammer changes the timing of their purchase to occur after the spam has gone out, large profits could still be realized
also it wasn't clear from the article, when they say the stocks show activity before the spam message, wether that is triggered by the spammers, or if that is the trigger the spammers use to help cover their tracks.
IE this could even be triggered by a mutual fund manager that may have held the stock for some time, and just wants to squeeze the last dime out before they sell.
I don't want to have to carry one for work, one for my
I like the guy who put a webcam on all of his secureID cards. IE very difficult for others to find out it is his webcam, then they have to figure out which one does what... So at home, he has physical access to all the FOB's, on the road he still has access in a pinch. They still serve their job since it verified that IT passed the fob. Now, all he needs is to host several honeypot webcams, so if they enter a id from one of them his accounts are alerted.
speaking of Honey Pot, why doesn't anyone provide HoneyPot Credit Cards. IE I know I have a AMEX, and discover, Throw in a go to jail card that is Visa, MasterCard, and Sears/Macys... in my wallet. They steal my wallet, they got over a 50/50 chance of using the fraud alerting card, even before it is reported. So if a thief car jacked, and killed their victim they still wouldn't know which cards are OK, and would get caught.
It's also likely a matter of time before someone figures out what the player keys are.
Actually muslix64 wrote: December 21:
I want to go further in the decryption, so I decide to track down the "Volume unique key" instead of title key. I found it also! I'm preparing BackupHDDVD V1.00, that will support volume key and title keys.
Sounds like he/she posted the title keys as proof it works, but is keeping his/her volume key secret for now.
besides the title key is enough to give the hackers, if they know the key for Serenity, if they own Serenity, then it should be easy with a decent debugger to wait for that key to come across in the memory dump, and build your own scapper from their.
Owners will just need to update their player...the key from a popular hardware player needs to be extracted.
Both just got alot more difficult to protect. The title key cannot be changed for these cracked disks (unless they break backward compitibilty for all new players) So you take the newley released software/player, put in the old disk. watch for the presence of the known key to appear, put in the new disk, look at what shows up their now.
opt for a trial by judge if you were innocent and a trial by jury if you were guilty.
if you have a lawyer on your side, thats probably true. otherwise my experience is opposite (for traffic tickets anyway.) A judge has little incentive to listen to you, a jury is more naturally curious enough to listen no matter how often that same sentance/excuse has been spoken in a court room. Also the DA will actually do research before taking on the cost of a jury, so if you want to have him listen to a plea, or drop the case before trial you need him to take a interest. Good luck getting the attention of a DA in any big city over a traffic ticket outside a courtroom, without the risk of them pay a actually jury, on a innocent verdict.
Although my court experience is just because I think it would be worth higher cost of a lost verdict, than paying the fine, to learn something of the legal system first hand.
The Engineer of course designed them in a metric system. So Mr. Sixpack gets bolts that are
Actually bolts is one of those situations where them imperial system has a better standard than metric. IE a US 1/2" in bolt always requires a 3/4" wrench, for the bolt or the nut. So, the engineer requests a 1/2" bolt of the correct length, and thread. when the enginneer requests a metric bolt, you better have a part number, cause the head sizes will vary (no standard), the nut sizes will change... If setup correctly it does allow one set of wrenches to take appart a joint (no need for 2 wrenches of the same size, to hold the head and the nut.) But if you grab a bolt from the bin, you may have 5 x 12mm bolts, and you have to use a 17, 18, and a 19mm wrench, depending on which bin they pulled from. not to mention the extra stock needed...
Making stupid DRM'd technologies acceptable to the average end user by hacking them really does more harm than good.
as I see it their are two ways to end DRM. 1) follow you advice and hope consumers don't give enough money out anyway (already too late, DVD & HD-DVD drawing millions of dollars, people re-bought movies to have better quality) 2) Break the DRM early and often, and get it to consumers so fast they see what they want, and can play with it. Until the Manufactures realize it's nearly impossible to keep something, and sell it at the same time.
Since #1 is too late, and vague. Since were used to being lied to, and having crippled phones, etc, etc. I am willing to let them try #2
actually GE has advertised their testing of adding a train car clear full of batteries, to locomotives. They still have varying speedlimits, so they slow and speed-up quite a bit. also whenever they go over hills, etc they brake then accell in close succession
That, and the ability to hook multiple locomotives together for more power, are the ONLY reasons, AFAIK.
Actually the best benefits (allthough it is tranny related) is the high precision control, IE every wheel on the train is powered, and any-slip on any wheel can be conter-acted in mSec timing. that would be a royal pain with mechanical linkages. same reason it works to link locos, they can share control with electric easier for the same reasons.
Their is the whole thing of running the engine at it's most efficient speed continuously. the whole electric motors and 0 speed torque is crap. The electro motors we use for propulision have a 50:1 gearing reduction and less climbing abilty than the 30:1 reduction in gear 1 of the equivilent mechanical Diesiel tranny. also electro motors are incredibly in-efficient at stall, and will overheat/burnout quickly if used their for long (but they do have good torque their, without the required slippage of a mechanical link.) The huge torque pay-off is the ability to run a huge gear reduction, and the very wide torque range of electric allows you to do that at a fixed reduction.
Why not have a simple high tax on fuel, and let the market take care of the rest?
I am all for a energy tax, but I fear a fuel tax would promote wasting energy else where. IE you may buy new vehicles that wasted more energy building the new car than they would have ever wasted driving their old car. Or perhaps air travel is less energy efficient, but if it has less tax... Or perhaps they'll choose a bio-diesiel fuel that costs more resources/damage than the non bio-fuel. Also things like over building a city infrustructure because the oil used to build that is not as taxxed. Also you may save more fuel reducing heating costs in your house, but the tax forced you to spend all your money on a new car first.
So if your tax is to save fuel, you need to Tax all oil imports, and all imports that used oil to be produced (other wise you just move the production out of your country.)
All of a sudden it is not a simple un-avoidable tax.
What resources does a vehicle use when it's sitting in a garage with the engine off? Or are you just talking about the resources used to build the thing, in which case where are your numbers?
http://www.ilea.org/lcas/macleanlave1998.html sites a Carnegie mellon study showing energy required to build a car is about double the lifetime fuel useage from driving it. but it just makes sense, everything in the cost of the car required energy to mine, energy to refine, energy to shape, energy to transport, with the discounts the manufactures get on the cost for their energy, I would have guessed a real number in the ball park of ($cost of vehicle new / 3) = #gallons of equivilent energy used to completely build.
basically the big cost is opertunity cost, essentually a unused car is equivilent to having a 3000-5000 gallons of fuel setting in your garage, but it can never be converted to any other use while setting their. So americans households having 2.5 cars just getting rid of that 0.5 car would release 10 years worth of car driving energy, that is wasted sitting, assuming getting those cars out would reduce production, with a excess of cars then available.
You should also count all the other wasted resources also, the extra insurance (IE you have to protect that car from theft/damage, and the garage cost, the cost of the extra property consumed setting) I'll admit newer cars do last setting much better than old, thanks to better metal, and plastics that don't degrade. but I still have problem whenever I wake a sitting vehicle, gas spoils, gaskets rot, tires are ruined, if their not well protected/card for. Which kinda points to the reason to not lock up a car in it's prime, a newer one in 10 years likely cost less resources to build, less resources to run, so locking up a car is a loss their also. (ya ya I like the look of classic cars too...)
at least two "car-share" programs for people who have occasional need of a car
I like that idea, A pain for weekend campers, ie convienince lost, but were going to have to sacrifice eventually. I found it a pain that it is much more difficult to rent a truck, than a car (at least near me).
most people don't need to drive trucks. And no matter how many technoogical improvements are made to make light trucks more fuel-efficent, they'll still be less efficient than a smaller, lighter automobile with the same technology.
It would be better for the environment to own one big Truck/SUV. Than it would be to own a smaller truck, and a electric car. IE it is currently cheaper (thus more resource conservative) and better for the global environment... to drive your truck to work every day, than to leave it sit, and have a second electric car just for commuting.
I do have a suggestion though. I think electric drive trailers would be the answer. IE I need a truck to haul things on a regular basis. If I could pull a trailer that hauled 2000#'s with a small car, then I could own a single 4 door car. I Think that would be very do-able with the proper software, and all-wheel electric drive trailer with battery power. IE it could maximize the power of the pulling vehicle, and always brake/accel in a manner that the handling of the towing car was stable, generating electricity for that up hill haul...
Essentially it would be a autonomous vehicle with a power link to the tow vehicle.
A tow car would have to be different than todays cars, better cooling system, etc; to be able to produce over 100 hp continuously, instead of the 30 hp (max 1 minute of 250hp) they do now.
Files the RIAA has actually downloaded, they can identify with absolute certainty, though I don't know if they actually do so.
Follow up:isn't supplying a "sample", say 6 seconds of a song, for download without any compensation legal? How many continuous sections of your downloaded file actually came from the defendents share? how likely is it that any alleged download from the defendant contained any continuous segment exceeding 6 seconds in length?
in Denmark the company would be forced to ship replacement units should the key be revoked, and let's see how many times you can go do that until the consumers demand their money back
actually they just need to ship a firmware update. Currently their are just a few different HD Players, so that firmware updates could even be included on the HD/blue-ray movie disk. Although once the firmware updates are hacked as well the chase will get ever more difficult.
well not to get any data, the hype anyway is that it will give you a challenge code, that is unique enough to track a passport reliably. Passports without a RF shield could be of use in 2 ways (assuming a dirt cheap reader comes about.)
1, a reader in driveways, they carried their passports out of the house, they must be planning to leaving the country.
2, insider: I learn the challenge string of all potential victims, I can now track when your passports cross any of my readers.
seams a bit far-fetched currently, but if cellphone GPS RFID readers become smaller than a dime, and only $20 or so. And Passports become a necessity at all times... then stash them all over the place, and have data transmitted to my web-log. Knowing device # 5554890 spends most nights at coordinate X,Y,Z With time you can correlate that with a actual person fairly easily.
Doesn't this strike anyone as ironic? The RFID is of no value for official use without first having to read something printed on the inside.
took me some time to grasp the advantage. I think the obvious advantage of the rfid chip is for the entering country to keep a complete record for post/off site processing. It does no good to the US customs for US citizens to give back the info. We already have that in our databases, + more for anyone "interesting" just from their SSN. Essentially the RFID passport is a Tit for Tat jester. To tell the EU, etc we'll force our citizens to give you their data in a nice tight bundle, so that you will return the favor with your citizens data on Entry to the US. obviously easier for a untrained agent to beam all passport data to a offsite FBI agent, then you can have one central surveillance office.
And certainly this pattern of events is neither illegal nor (for most people) immoral.
As you described It, sounds to me, it would be both a violation of copyright law, and a violation of the GPL. Unless you just forget step 2.5 where the company compensates the contributers in some way to get them to sign over the rights of their code to the company.
I know nothing of how riserFS handles their dual license, but the others don't allow bug submissions, or reports, from outside submitters who haven't first agreed (which involved signed, witnessed hard copies of a release.) to assign all rights to the respective company.
Sans the agreement anyone of course is welcome to update the code, and GPL only license the derivative product, but they have to have a agreement from every contributer to every go back to a non gpl compatible license of that derivative.
Thats where the new owner would have to be worried, if they didn't keep the developers (and thus weren't trusted by the community) the GPL only version would soon have all the value, and the company would just have a old version of code many are afraid to use.
I agree, their are much cheaper ways to kill americans than a $500+ single use device. If they made enough of them to cause risk to the average traveler, it would be easy to clean with a high power remote broadcaster from a distance.
to photograph the bar code containing the KEY on the printed page.
True, I have been to barcelona airport at 2am, and could have placed a camera just as easily (unmanned offices), but a camera has a high signal to noise ratio.
rfid scanner gets every bit of info, including a high quality photo, and doesn't have to be hid where visible. With the rfid download, even I could generate all kinds of ID's, drivers license, and passports, easy money with thousands of id's per day I could even be picky taking photos that look reasonably similar to myself.
Also a 200 euro camera couldn't be placed anywhere (must be line of sight to a reasonable place to see a open passport) and it will not automaticaly recognize the barcode, photo..., and won't be able to download a exact duplicate of the ID if it did. the perp would have to have constant WiFi access, to zoom the passport, and grab images, or take gigs of video, to be able to sort out something useable later.
unlike the rfid broadcast, which is the exact 15k bundle of data (just a guess), that any ID thief would want, already sorted out for you.
won't actually respond with the encrypted data unless presented with a request which has (some function of) the key information.
I agree.
Which means you can't just get in the info and brute force it later
only if you are not sniffing a legit exchange. if a box were stuck to the under side of a counter at a passport agency (or within range of the RFID) you simply need to be able to querry your box remotely later, for a download. then you have the querry request, the encrypted data, and time. If your box could perform a man in the middle attack, then you don't even have to un-encrypt anything.
no idea how feasabile a man in the middle would be without the help of the agent, because you would need to block the direct response of the passport getting to the official reader, but still be able to querry the passport your self, so I would want the passport to be (electricaly) closer to your device than the official device.
Well, it's true that if you already possess a passport and want to copy it, it's essentially the same problem with and without an RFID.
I disagree, this opens the same type of security issues as credit cards/bank cards. IE any place that you show your passport to, with a reader, can download and keep a permanent copy of your entire passport in a second, and duplicate later. To copy a non RFID passport, they really need a good photo of the passport, so it needs to be held still with good lighting, and a proper relative position to the camera and light (IE the camera has to be visibile.) With the RFID passport, the passport location anywhere within a couple feet you just need a small black box, powered from batteries, they query the passport with the legit scanner, the il-legit scanner also records the response, now they have a little black box with everyones info who passes the checkpoint. They have everything to produce a exact copy of everyones passport in that box, id-photo, dates, everything, just print the photo onto a passport blank later, fill in the info... They now have something to sell to a ID thief worth thousands of dollars per day. no reason to worry about the RFID portion if you don't want, print out a standard drivers license, or non rfid passport...
Wrong again. The volume of the ice submerged in the water is equal to the volume of the ice if it were water.
you are correct, if their were only ICE in the glaciers. throw any heavier the water object on top of (or inside)the ice, it sinks to the bottom when the water melts, the water level drops.
You see, a car with no microchips of any kind is a car that any regular person can fix.
actually, NO! I work on large Diesiel trucks, when you have a loss of power on your purly mechanical car, most live with it spewing extra gas, and exhaust smoke, lose 10% of economy, oh well old cars do that... Or you get a compression gauge, you check one cylinder at a time, you add a gauge check fuel pressure, add a gauge check radiator pressure... you add a gauge, check head temperatures, exhaust temperature, radiator temperatures, timing light...
So most would just drive until it blows up, wasting resources. now add a computer, it can display/diagnois all these with a single handheld pluged into a port. More often than not the system tells you your low on power, before you know it.
With the systems we put on our vehicles, the operator hits a snapshot button when they vehicle does something goofy, that is sent by email via satalite to our dealer they get a call from the dealer hey looks like you got a clogged injector on cylinder #5, you want someone sent?
So adding a computer to monitor is making it much easier than having to try and add a gauge, and hope to get lucky seeing the problem. Then again diagnoising the computer is VERY difficult if it fails.
now when car manufactures catch on to the internet, and you take a USB drive to your pc, so that any of your buddies, dealers, etc can look at your temps... I think that takes a competitor that does this, so more power to a opensource engine controller, I'll be swapping mine.
The best solution, at least in built up areas, would be to have the national grid fed by solar cells, rather than individual houses having them
NO, get rid of that power robbing, terroist target, lightning rod, ice gathering, bird killing, people killing, expensive ass eye sore.
I don't know how many billions of dollars our federal government spends on that grid every year, but anything to minimilize thing would be sweet, even if it takes more energy to produce a solar panel than it ever produced (fairly certain it doesn't.) I still think it would be worth putting solar panels on every roof just to have a single delivery charge, and not a constant drain.
I do think having developments linked is still a good idea, but if the load can be minimized, then the losses, maintaince, EMI emissions will drop to nothing as well. In Tuson now we have self sufficient communities running from solar, and a central connection for load balancing (I assume a central generator/connection to grid is present as well.) So you can supply the surge loads if a AC, and refridge kick on while running the microwave, and TV. That would be covered by your neighbors solar who are out of town/at work, and yours would do the same for them when your out.
the legal cases about downloading music associated with the sharing/upload of music files?
yes, but when most kids are caught steeling, they have to return to the item they stole. since they only stole bits, shouldn't they have to repay the bandwith by sharing those files back to at least one other person before deleting?
You just may not have enough memory for the last one
bartpe project already boots windows XP from 128MB flash drive (but requires 256MB of ram to run.) so it seams fairly simple to provide for XP on the laptop, now that is sans Iexplorer, etc. so portable firefox and thunderbird, as well as gaim, and openoffice. on a usb drive, if ms provides the drivers for the laptop, then thats all that would be missing from some decent functionality. I am sure MS would be able to quickly replace any of those apps as their own if this catches on.
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also it wasn't clear from the article, when they say the stocks show activity before the spam message, wether that is triggered by the spammers, or if that is the trigger the spammers use to help cover their tracks.
IE this could even be triggered by a mutual fund manager that may have held the stock for some time, and just wants to squeeze the last dime out before they sell.
I like the guy who put a webcam on all of his secureID cards. IE very difficult for others to find out it is his webcam, then they have to figure out which one does what...
So at home, he has physical access to all the FOB's, on the road he still has access in a pinch. They still serve their job since it verified that IT passed the fob. Now, all he needs is to host several honeypot webcams, so if they enter a id from one of them his accounts are alerted.
speaking of Honey Pot, why doesn't anyone provide HoneyPot Credit Cards. IE I know I have a AMEX, and discover, Throw in a go to jail card that is Visa, MasterCard, and Sears/Macys... in my wallet. They steal my wallet, they got over a 50/50 chance of using the fraud alerting card, even before it is reported. So if a thief car jacked, and killed their victim they still wouldn't know which cards are OK, and would get caught.
Actually muslix64 wrote: December 21:
I want to go further in the decryption, so I decide to track down the "Volume unique key" instead of title key.
I found it also! I'm preparing BackupHDDVD V1.00, that will support volume key and title keys.
Sounds like he/she posted the title keys as proof it works, but is keeping his/her volume key secret for now.
besides the title key is enough to give the hackers, if they know the key for Serenity, if they own Serenity, then it should be easy with a decent debugger to wait for that key to come across in the memory dump, and build your own scapper from their.
Both just got alot more difficult to protect. The title key cannot be changed for these cracked disks (unless they break backward compitibilty for all new players) So you take the newley released software/player, put in the old disk. watch for the presence of the known key to appear, put in the new disk, look at what shows up their now.
if you have a lawyer on your side, thats probably true.
otherwise my experience is opposite (for traffic tickets anyway.) A judge has little incentive to listen to you, a jury is more naturally curious enough to listen no matter how often that same sentance/excuse has been spoken in a court room. Also the DA will actually do research before taking on the cost of a jury, so if you want to have him listen to a plea, or drop the case before trial you need him to take a interest. Good luck getting the attention of a DA in any big city over a traffic ticket outside a courtroom, without the risk of them pay a actually jury, on a innocent verdict.
Although my court experience is just because I think it would be worth higher cost of a lost verdict, than paying the fine, to learn something of the legal system first hand.
Actually bolts is one of those situations where them imperial system has a better standard than metric. IE a US 1/2" in bolt always requires a 3/4" wrench, for the bolt or the nut. So, the engineer requests a 1/2" bolt of the correct length, and thread. when the enginneer requests a metric bolt, you better have a part number, cause the head sizes will vary (no standard), the nut sizes will change... If setup correctly it does allow one set of wrenches to take appart a joint (no need for 2 wrenches of the same size, to hold the head and the nut.) But if you grab a bolt from the bin, you may have 5 x 12mm bolts, and you have to use a 17, 18, and a 19mm wrench, depending on which bin they pulled from. not to mention the extra stock needed...
as I see it their are two ways to end DRM.
1) follow you advice and hope consumers don't give enough money out anyway (already too late, DVD & HD-DVD drawing millions of dollars, people re-bought movies to have better quality)
2) Break the DRM early and often, and get it to consumers so fast they see what they want, and can play with it. Until the Manufactures realize it's nearly impossible to keep something, and sell it at the same time.
Since #1 is too late, and vague. Since were used to being lied to, and having crippled phones, etc, etc.
I am willing to let them try #2
7) Threaten to develop nuclear bombs
8) Get the US to build you a nuclear reactor that won't produce fissionible material for free.
You now have all the power you'll ever need for your lan parties, de-salination, and brewing saki.
Actually the best benefits (allthough it is tranny related) is the high precision control, IE every wheel on the train is powered, and any-slip on any wheel can be conter-acted in mSec timing. that would be a royal pain with mechanical linkages. same reason it works to link locos, they can share control with electric easier for the same reasons.
Their is the whole thing of running the engine at it's most efficient speed continuously. the whole electric motors and 0 speed torque is crap. The electro motors we use for propulision have a 50:1 gearing reduction and less climbing abilty than the 30:1 reduction in gear 1 of the equivilent mechanical Diesiel tranny. also electro motors are incredibly in-efficient at stall, and will overheat/burnout quickly if used their for long (but they do have good torque their, without the required slippage of a mechanical link.) The huge torque pay-off is the ability to run a huge gear reduction, and the very wide torque range of electric allows you to do that at a fixed reduction.
I am all for a energy tax, but I fear a fuel tax would promote wasting energy else where. IE you may buy new vehicles that wasted more energy building the new car than they would have ever wasted driving their old car. Or perhaps air travel is less energy efficient, but if it has less tax... Or perhaps they'll choose a bio-diesiel fuel that costs more resources/damage than the non bio-fuel. Also things like over building a city infrustructure because the oil used to build that is not as taxxed. Also you may save more fuel reducing heating costs in your house, but the tax forced you to spend all your money on a new car first.
So if your tax is to save fuel, you need to Tax all oil imports, and all imports that used oil to be produced (other wise you just move the production out of your country.)
All of a sudden it is not a simple un-avoidable tax.
http://www.ilea.org/lcas/macleanlave1998.html
sites a Carnegie mellon study showing energy required to build a car is about double the lifetime fuel useage from driving it. but it just makes sense, everything in the cost of the car required energy to mine, energy to refine, energy to shape, energy to transport, with the discounts the manufactures get on the cost for their energy, I would have guessed a real number in the ball park of ($cost of vehicle new / 3) = #gallons of equivilent energy used to completely build.
basically the big cost is opertunity cost, essentually a unused car is equivilent to having a 3000-5000 gallons of fuel setting in your garage, but it can never be converted to any other use while setting their. So americans households having 2.5 cars just getting rid of that 0.5 car would release 10 years worth of car driving energy, that is wasted sitting, assuming getting those cars out would reduce production, with a excess of cars then available.
You should also count all the other wasted resources also, the extra insurance (IE you have to protect that car from theft/damage, and the garage cost, the cost of the extra property consumed setting) I'll admit newer cars do last setting much better than old, thanks to better metal, and plastics that don't degrade. but I still have problem whenever I wake a sitting vehicle, gas spoils, gaskets rot, tires are ruined, if their not well protected/card for.
Which kinda points to the reason to not lock up a car in it's prime, a newer one in 10 years likely cost less resources to build, less resources to run, so locking up a car is a loss their also. (ya ya I like the look of classic cars too...)
I like that idea, A pain for weekend campers, ie convienince lost, but were going to have to sacrifice eventually.
I found it a pain that it is much more difficult to rent a truck, than a car (at least near me).
It would be better for the environment to own one big Truck/SUV. Than it would be to own a smaller truck, and a electric car.
IE it is currently cheaper (thus more resource conservative) and better for the global environment... to drive your truck to work every day, than to leave it sit, and have a second electric car just for commuting.
I do have a suggestion though. I think electric drive trailers would be the answer. IE I need a truck to haul things on a regular basis. If I could pull a trailer that hauled 2000#'s with a small car, then I could own a single 4 door car. I Think that would be very do-able with the proper software, and all-wheel electric drive trailer with battery power. IE it could maximize the power of the pulling vehicle, and always brake/accel in a manner that the handling of the towing car was stable, generating electricity for that up hill haul...
Essentially it would be a autonomous vehicle with a power link to the tow vehicle.
A tow car would have to be different than todays cars, better cooling system, etc; to be able to produce over 100 hp continuously, instead of the 30 hp (max 1 minute of 250hp) they do now.
Follow up:isn't supplying a "sample", say 6 seconds of a song, for download without any compensation legal?
How many continuous sections of your downloaded file actually came from the defendents share?
how likely is it that any alleged download from the defendant contained any continuous segment exceeding 6 seconds in length?
actually they just need to ship a firmware update. Currently their are just a few different HD Players, so that firmware updates could even be included on the HD/blue-ray movie disk. Although once the firmware updates are hacked as well the chase will get ever more difficult.
well not to get any data, the hype anyway is that it will give you a challenge code, that is unique enough to track a passport reliably. Passports without a RF shield could be of use in 2 ways (assuming a dirt cheap reader comes about.)
1, a reader in driveways, they carried their passports out of the house, they must be planning to leaving the country.
2, insider: I learn the challenge string of all potential victims, I can now track when your passports cross any of my readers.
seams a bit far-fetched currently, but if cellphone GPS RFID readers become smaller than a dime, and only $20 or so. And Passports become a necessity at all times... then stash them all over the place, and have data transmitted to my web-log. Knowing device # 5554890 spends most nights at coordinate X,Y,Z With time you can correlate that with a actual person fairly easily.
took me some time to grasp the advantage. I think the obvious advantage of the rfid chip is for the entering country to keep a complete record for post/off site processing. It does no good to the US customs for US citizens to give back the info. We already have that in our databases, + more for anyone "interesting" just from their SSN.
Essentially the RFID passport is a Tit for Tat jester. To tell the EU, etc we'll force our citizens to give you their data in a nice tight bundle, so that you will return the favor with your citizens data on Entry to the US.
obviously easier for a untrained agent to beam all passport data to a offsite FBI agent, then you can have one central surveillance office.
As you described It, sounds to me, it would be both a violation of copyright law, and a violation of the GPL. Unless you just forget step 2.5 where the company compensates the contributers in some way to get them to sign over the rights of their code to the company.
I know nothing of how riserFS handles their dual license, but the others don't allow bug submissions, or reports, from outside submitters who haven't first agreed (which involved signed, witnessed hard copies of a release.) to assign all rights to the respective company.
Sans the agreement anyone of course is welcome to update the code, and GPL only license the derivative product, but they have to have a agreement from every contributer to every go back to a non gpl compatible license of that derivative.
Thats where the new owner would have to be worried, if they didn't keep the developers (and thus weren't trusted by the community) the GPL only version would soon have all the value, and the company would just have a old version of code many are afraid to use.
then again IANL
I agree, their are much cheaper ways to kill americans than a $500+ single use device. If they made enough of them to cause risk to the average traveler, it would be easy to clean with a high power remote broadcaster from a distance.
True, I have been to barcelona airport at 2am, and could have placed a camera just as easily (unmanned offices), but a camera has a high signal to noise ratio.
rfid scanner gets every bit of info, including a high quality photo, and doesn't have to be hid where visible. With the rfid download, even I could generate all kinds of ID's, drivers license, and passports, easy money with thousands of id's per day I could even be picky taking photos that look reasonably similar to myself.
Also a 200 euro camera couldn't be placed anywhere (must be line of sight to a reasonable place to see a open passport) and it will not automaticaly recognize the barcode, photo..., and won't be able to download a exact duplicate of the ID if it did. the perp would have to have constant WiFi access, to zoom the passport, and grab images, or take gigs of video, to be able to sort out something useable later.
unlike the rfid broadcast, which is the exact 15k bundle of data (just a guess), that any ID thief would want, already sorted out for you.
I agree.
only if you are not sniffing a legit exchange. if a box were stuck to the under side of a counter at a passport agency (or within range of the RFID) you simply need to be able to querry your box remotely later, for a download. then you have the querry request, the encrypted data, and time. If your box could perform a man in the middle attack, then you don't even have to un-encrypt anything.
no idea how feasabile a man in the middle would be without the help of the agent, because you would need to block the direct response of the passport getting to the official reader, but still be able to querry the passport your self, so I would want the passport to be (electricaly) closer to your device than the official device.
I disagree, this opens the same type of security issues as credit cards/bank cards. IE any place that you show your passport to, with a reader, can download and keep a permanent copy of your entire passport in a second, and duplicate later. To copy a non RFID passport, they really need a good photo of the passport, so it needs to be held still with good lighting, and a proper relative position to the camera and light (IE the camera has to be visibile.) With the RFID passport, the passport location anywhere within a couple feet you just need a small black box, powered from batteries, they query the passport with the legit scanner, the il-legit scanner also records the response, now they have a little black box with everyones info who passes the checkpoint. They have everything to produce a exact copy of everyones passport in that box, id-photo, dates, everything, just print the photo onto a passport blank later, fill in the info... They now have something to sell to a ID thief worth thousands of dollars per day. no reason to worry about the RFID portion if you don't want, print out a standard drivers license, or non rfid passport...
you are correct, if their were only ICE in the glaciers. throw any heavier the water object on top of (or inside)the ice, it sinks to the bottom when the water melts, the water level drops.
actually, NO! I work on large Diesiel trucks, when you have a loss of power on your purly mechanical car, most live with it spewing extra gas, and exhaust smoke, lose 10% of economy, oh well old cars do that... Or you get a compression gauge, you check one cylinder at a time, you add a gauge check fuel pressure, add a gauge check radiator pressure... you add a gauge, check head temperatures, exhaust temperature, radiator temperatures, timing light...
So most would just drive until it blows up, wasting resources. now add a computer, it can display/diagnois all these with a single handheld pluged into a port. More often than not the system tells you your low on power, before you know it.
With the systems we put on our vehicles, the operator hits a snapshot button when they vehicle does something goofy, that is sent by email via satalite to our dealer they get a call from the dealer hey looks like you got a clogged injector on cylinder #5, you want someone sent?
So adding a computer to monitor is making it much easier than having to try and add a gauge, and hope to get lucky seeing the problem. Then again diagnoising the computer is VERY difficult if it fails.
now when car manufactures catch on to the internet, and you take a USB drive to your pc, so that any of your buddies, dealers, etc can look at your temps... I think that takes a competitor that does this, so more power to a opensource engine controller, I'll be swapping mine.
NO, get rid of that power robbing, terroist target, lightning rod, ice gathering, bird killing, people killing, expensive ass eye sore.
I don't know how many billions of dollars our federal government spends on that grid every year, but anything to minimilize thing would be sweet, even if it takes more energy to produce a solar panel than it ever produced (fairly certain it doesn't.) I still think it would be worth putting solar panels on every roof just to have a single delivery charge, and not a constant drain.
I do think having developments linked is still a good idea, but if the load can be minimized, then the losses, maintaince, EMI emissions will drop to nothing as well. In Tuson now we have self sufficient communities running from solar, and a central connection for load balancing (I assume a central generator/connection to grid is present as well.) So you can supply the surge loads if a AC, and refridge kick on while running the microwave, and TV. That would be covered by your neighbors solar who are out of town/at work, and yours would do the same for them when your out.
yes, but when most kids are caught steeling, they have to return to the item they stole.
since they only stole bits, shouldn't they have to repay the bandwith by sharing those files back to at least one other person before deleting?