The kit consists of a dedicated SM (secure mobile) card reader/writer and verification software. When the appropriate function (Personal Function 31) on the EOS-1D Mark II or EOS-1Ds is activated, a code based on the image contents is generated and appended to the image. When the image is viewed, the data verification software determines the code for the image and compares it with the attached code. If the image contents have been manipulated in any way, the codes will not match and the image cannot be verified as the original.
So the upshot is that they use a memory card which has some additional security functionality. This additional functionality can only be accessed by the card reader and the camera.
The the crackers simply need to break that functionality or bypass it. This could be accomplished by breaking the camera's firmware (or the card reader) and changing it, or sitting between the USB reader and the computer (software or hardware wise) and changing the data as it goes along. Alternately it woud not be impossible to modify the camera so it gets the image from a computer instead of an image sensor.
The ultimate, however, would be to break the protocol and keys between the reader and card or camera and card. Hopefully they are using a good encryption algorithm with fully secured sessions and a long key. I'd hate to see this broken in less than a few months time.
I imagine the only reason you know about this is because you haven't given them direct access to set up and delete email accounts, or to change the passwords on them. Here is my advice:
If the email is addressed to their registered domain, then they own the email.
If the email is addressed to your registered domain, then who owns the email depends on the agreement you had with them. If you did not have a written agreement which discloses ownership of email sent to the addresses the agreement is written for then run don't walk, directly to your lawyer. At this point it becomes a you said/they said type of issue.
You could simply tell them what your policy is after the fact, and follow through with your new 'policy' but if you favor your relative they may sue you, if you favor them your relative may sue you, so at this point it's best to stop and get advice from someone who can represent you if their advice goes awry.
Lastly, send out a new terms of service to all current 'customers' explicitly stating your terms of service. Tell them that if after 30 days they are still hosting with you then that act shows they agree to the new terms of service.
In the company I work for I regularily forward email accounts to the employee who is either taking over the old position or the employee who is handling most of the added workload. The simple fact is that a lot of work-related (and contract work at that) email is always in the pipeline, and a customer is not going to take, "We fired the employee and deleted their email for privacy" as an excuse for why we didn't respond to their request in a timely manner. Our employees understand this when they come and when they go. This forwarding is only active for a month or so, and we prevent any outgoing emails from being created in that person's name from our mailserver.
The skills you need to obtain and keep a job in the USA are not the technical skills you learn in a CS or EE or CE or whatever program. The skills you need are
1) The ability to network
2) The ability to detect and understand business trends within your company and within your industry
3) The ability to put forth convincing proposals for your solution, whether that solution is buying particular hardware, settling on a platform, or selling yourself
4) The skill of shopping yourself around constantly, even if you are satisfied with your current position
5) etc.
The key here is not that companies are shipping your jobs to other countries, it is that they are making a product for the lowest cost possible, which is what they must do to sell it to consumers or other businesses. If you can present yourself as a low cost/return ratio, then you will always have a job if you are constantly and consistantly involved in looking for one.
Don't buy into all this nonsense about your ideal work being shipped out. Understand that it will be, and then become the person that the company must hire in order to manage that outsorcing. You can spin this is many ways, but there's always a job for a good worker, or at least a good communicator.
If you have the $$$ there is nothing stopping you from getting a T1. You can get a T1 just about anywhere. The local telco may not like it, but they have to provide it.
That should read:
The local telco may charge so much for it that it ends up in their annual profit report, but they have to provide it.
T1, just like ISDN, regular phone, etc cost more the further the wire. However, it does come with a service level agreement. You could charge it to OSDN by providing a tertiary DNS server for them.
Call me what you will, but there was nothing in Episode 1 that was truly memorable. There were no lines that are worthy of geeks repeating.
Unlike, I suppose, the other three movies which are teeming with lines such as Wedge! Pull out! You're not doing any good back there! and Grab me, Chewie. I'm slipping -- hold on. Grab it, almost... you almost got it. Gently now, all right, easy, easy, hold me Chewie.
It doesn't have to be a downer. Remember, it ends with the death of most of the Jedi -- So we've got a real big "End of the Good," then we discover that there are yet two born who can reclaim the Jedi.
I'm not sure how he's going to put this together, but to most humans, and especially to the crowd which grew up with the original series, having kids is going to be a big "upper." Just right to end the story on, and pick up later in the later movies.
I never made a dime from my obviously useful program, and therefore will not work on it any further because I need to feed myself and my family.
Because I'm so bitter about it, I'm completely closing up shop, and denying anyone any further benefit from my, until recently, free contribution to society.
As far as I'm concerned, you moochers can all go suck it, I'm through.
I don't blame him, he did a lot of work, it was obviously being used by many people who could have afforded hima few luxuries.
But on the other hand, if you don't want to give something away for free, then don't. If you do, then you can't complain about getting nothing in return later - that's simply shortsighted.
The linux router project guy is the epitome of the, "I didn't mean to get nothing back from something I gave away" pitiful rants.
The real problem is not the existance and use of a particular weapon, it's simply that most maps make sniping very profitable, with large open areas with little cover.
There are ways to dumb down sniping (breathing, reloading, bullet speed, etc), but the reality is that a level with few walls and a few good hiding spots favor the sniper. In a real war they would be favored. In a real war those spots would be covered by other snipers and artillary
So, yes, snipers suck on maps which favor them. What's new?
Fortunately for me, and the vast majority of other Mozilla users, this problem rarely, if ever, occurs.
This is NOT a "Major Bug," especially so since it has an easy work around.
Obviously if you spend many hours a day filling in web forms, then yeah, this would be crazy annoying. Or perhaps you keep a particular website open in your browser all day that has javascript onblur in their form code and it's always on the main page. Apparently this is a major issue for you, but again you have to look at each bug and not only consider the severity of the problem, but also the % of users who run into it or vote to have it fixed.
The number of comments and votes on your bug is so low that it's unlikely it will ever float to the top of the bugfix list. If it comes close enough it may get fixed, but you may have to research and fix it yourself if you want any action anytime soon.
I bet you could find some developer on the mailing list willing to work on it for you for a small fee. Free lunches aren't, after all.
"Many" is not a fractional reqresentation. Like "several" "many" can simply be satisfied by a large number.
In this case, it would be trivial to find 100 homes in each state that were sold in the last few years over $700k. I would consider 5000 homes over $700k to be "many", regardless of that slice being small compared to the number of homes in the US.
Every time we get a [peta,tera]byte in a box story, I like to quantify the cost of a [peta,tera]byte:
Data from Pricewatch.
You can buy hard drive space for $0.61 per GB (160GB for $98)
The cheapest TB array would run you only $660, with 10 100GB drives at $66 each.
For $16 more you can equip with 4 250GB drives at $676 total, or $169 each (less than the cost of the extra power supply you'd need for the previous array, not to mention drive controllers, etc)
So we can easily get 1TB for under $700.
A 1PT (peta byte, or 1,000,000 GB) drive is now $612,500.00 - easily less than the cost of many of today's houses, while consuming vastly more power.
There are english geeks who understand how to create new pleasing word in the english language, but they don't reside among us computer geeks in great numbers. Part of the reason has to do with laziness, and another part is famiarity. This is why companies have both an engineering dept and marketting dept, rather than one group that does it all.
When engineers are given a spec, they don't have a name for it. Eventually, in order to ease communication, shortcuts are created which bear some resemblance to what the project is or does, or is just a pet name. Mozilla was one such name in the development cycle of netscape early on. If the engineers were in charge of naming, because it was so familiar to them, they would choose the pet name regardless of market perception. By default is not generally the best way to name a product.
Furthermore, it's hard to come up with a name which is both easy (and obvious) to pronounce, and produces a pleasing effect.
"Tlorg" is a bad name because you do not start an english word with the TL combination. Battle is a word where TL is used, so it's not a bad combination, it's simply not acceptable at the beginning.
"Blarg" is easy and fairly obvious to pronounce. But the effect of the word is not something you'd associate with a succesful, useful, and powerful product.
The X-Band Phased Array Antenna has one major benefit. Phased array antennas are meant to mimic the directivity and gain of a parabolic antenna, with the ability to aim it, in an array of antennas that does not move and is flat.
So basicly you take a bunch of flat antennas, do some 'magic' between the array and the signal source (or destination) and you can effectively aim the antenna as though you were actually moving a parabolic antenna.
Since the antenna on spirit is aimed mechanically, and phased array antennas are, IIRC, still pretty power hungry, then it may be that they are not using a phased array. However, it would make a lot of sense to use a phased array for fine control aiming and the machanical link for coarse control.
Well, you can't indemnify someone without contract of some sort, and buying and installign software with a EULA that has that clause would be a good way to do it.
But in all fairness I officially downgrade Novell from an alert level of Double Plus Good to Plus Good. The SCO alert level remains fixed at Double Plus Ungood. Verner's is still tasty. Further news as events warrant.
I suspect that it's simply a patch antenna. For the size and weight, it's hard to beat the gain of a patch antenna.
Here is an example for 802.11b of which the author notes, "What's nice about the patch antenna over the "cantenna" is its broad beamwidth. The cantenna has to be pointed very precisely at the AP to get anything at that range, but the patch can be tilted several degrees and still get a signal." The Spirit's antenna was estimated to be 2 degrees off aim at the initial connect attempt, but they said they should still get good data at up to 4 degrees off, and beyond that they would still get carrier.
While the frequency is different, you'll find that these people sell patch antennas which compare favorably in signal strength with their parabolic antennas, but with a wider beam spread.
But we all know they're simply using the technology they've been using for years to practice mind control on us.
IIRC, the Microsoft Speech SDK has just such an example application which is fairly full featured. It should not be difficult to add more features to it if it is inadequate.
Since it's free, you'll lose nothing except some hard drive space and download time (68MB) to try it out. It's been a year since I've last played with it, so YMMV.
It probably doesn't plug into the accessability utility included in XP (press windows + U), but I imagine that there are some out there which do.
Did I mention that my key has reinforced cutting edges? I would like to add a broken cast iron key to my collection, where shall we meet? You might want to bring a wrist brace, I've been practicing by removing lug nuts with my hands.
We've got lots of competition. I'm using sbc dsl now, 1.5mb/256kb for $25/month. If I don't like it, then I'll switch to another of the many DSL people who keep advertising here. If you want cable you have to go with Comcast. I never had a problem with it when I had it, but got DSL because it was cheaper (You have to have cable, or pay extra $$, and they don't want to offer basic, no frills, analog cable in my area anymore.)
Well duh. If it were rocket science, they'd have done it, they are rocket scientists. You have to wait for the 2D and 3D imaging specialists to come in, puke upon viewing the pictures, and whip out their workstations for some old fashioned image manipulation.
Since these pictures are mainly for publicity (the scientific uses of the image data do not lend themselves to this format - they view the data differently) then they aren't going to spend a lot of time on this part of the mission, only as much as is needed to get the necessary funding so they can make another one next year.
By refocussing NASA toward this ludicrous (and despite the peanut gallery's comments, at this point it is ludicrous) project to the exclusion of unmanned probes, he sets up NASA's eventual dismantlement for failing to deliver what even NASA must know they cannot deliver.
From the peanut gallery:
DNA - 1953, First heart transplant - 1967, etc
If I had more time I could list hundreds or thousands of things that were impossible for humans to do.
With that, I'll simply state that those who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of those doing it.
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How it works
The kit consists of a dedicated SM (secure mobile) card reader/writer and verification software. When the appropriate function (Personal Function 31) on the EOS-1D Mark II or EOS-1Ds is activated, a code based on the image contents is generated and appended to the image. When the image is viewed, the data verification software determines the code for the image and compares it with the attached code. If the image contents have been manipulated in any way, the codes will not match and the image cannot be verified as the original.
So the upshot is that they use a memory card which has some additional security functionality. This additional functionality can only be accessed by the card reader and the camera.
The the crackers simply need to break that functionality or bypass it. This could be accomplished by breaking the camera's firmware (or the card reader) and changing it, or sitting between the USB reader and the computer (software or hardware wise) and changing the data as it goes along. Alternately it woud not be impossible to modify the camera so it gets the image from a computer instead of an image sensor.
The ultimate, however, would be to break the protocol and keys between the reader and card or camera and card. Hopefully they are using a good encryption algorithm with fully secured sessions and a long key. I'd hate to see this broken in less than a few months time.
-Adam
I imagine the only reason you know about this is because you haven't given them direct access to set up and delete email accounts, or to change the passwords on them. Here is my advice:
If the email is addressed to their registered domain, then they own the email.
If the email is addressed to your registered domain, then who owns the email depends on the agreement you had with them. If you did not have a written agreement which discloses ownership of email sent to the addresses the agreement is written for then run don't walk, directly to your lawyer. At this point it becomes a you said/they said type of issue.
You could simply tell them what your policy is after the fact, and follow through with your new 'policy' but if you favor your relative they may sue you, if you favor them your relative may sue you, so at this point it's best to stop and get advice from someone who can represent you if their advice goes awry.
Lastly, send out a new terms of service to all current 'customers' explicitly stating your terms of service. Tell them that if after 30 days they are still hosting with you then that act shows they agree to the new terms of service.
In the company I work for I regularily forward email accounts to the employee who is either taking over the old position or the employee who is handling most of the added workload. The simple fact is that a lot of work-related (and contract work at that) email is always in the pipeline, and a customer is not going to take, "We fired the employee and deleted their email for privacy" as an excuse for why we didn't respond to their request in a timely manner. Our employees understand this when they come and when they go. This forwarding is only active for a month or so, and we prevent any outgoing emails from being created in that person's name from our mailserver.
-Adam
The skills you need to obtain and keep a job in the USA are not the technical skills you learn in a CS or EE or CE or whatever program. The skills you need are
1) The ability to network
2) The ability to detect and understand business trends within your company and within your industry
3) The ability to put forth convincing proposals for your solution, whether that solution is buying particular hardware, settling on a platform, or selling yourself
4) The skill of shopping yourself around constantly, even if you are satisfied with your current position
5) etc.
The key here is not that companies are shipping your jobs to other countries, it is that they are making a product for the lowest cost possible, which is what they must do to sell it to consumers or other businesses. If you can present yourself as a low cost/return ratio, then you will always have a job if you are constantly and consistantly involved in looking for one.
Don't buy into all this nonsense about your ideal work being shipped out. Understand that it will be, and then become the person that the company must hire in order to manage that outsorcing. You can spin this is many ways, but there's always a job for a good worker, or at least a good communicator.
-Adam
If you have the $$$ there is nothing stopping you from getting a T1. You can get a T1 just about anywhere. The local telco may not like it, but they have to provide it.
That should read:
The local telco may charge so much for it that it ends up in their annual profit report, but they have to provide it.
T1, just like ISDN, regular phone, etc cost more the further the wire. However, it does come with a service level agreement. You could charge it to OSDN by providing a tertiary DNS server for them.
-Adam
Call me what you will, but there was nothing in Episode 1 that was truly memorable. There were no lines that are worthy of geeks repeating.
Unlike, I suppose, the other three movies which are teeming with lines such as
Wedge! Pull out! You're not doing any good back there!
and
Grab me, Chewie. I'm slipping -- hold on. Grab it, almost... you almost got it. Gently now, all right, easy, easy, hold me Chewie.
-Adam
It doesn't have to be a downer. Remember, it ends with the death of most of the Jedi -- So we've got a real big "End of the Good," then we discover that there are yet two born who can reclaim the Jedi.
I'm not sure how he's going to put this together, but to most humans, and especially to the crowd which grew up with the original series, having kids is going to be a big "upper." Just right to end the story on, and pick up later in the later movies.
-Adam
I should have stated more clearly that my post is a synopsis, ie - my shortened version of his text.
-Adam
Here's a brief synopsis:
I never made a dime from my obviously useful program, and therefore will not work on it any further because I need to feed myself and my family.
Because I'm so bitter about it, I'm completely closing up shop, and denying anyone any further benefit from my, until recently, free contribution to society.
As far as I'm concerned, you moochers can all go suck it, I'm through.
I don't blame him, he did a lot of work, it was obviously being used by many people who could have afforded hima few luxuries.
But on the other hand, if you don't want to give something away for free, then don't. If you do, then you can't complain about getting nothing in return later - that's simply shortsighted.
The linux router project guy is the epitome of the, "I didn't mean to get nothing back from something I gave away" pitiful rants.
-Adam
The real problem is not the existance and use of a particular weapon, it's simply that most maps make sniping very profitable, with large open areas with little cover.
There are ways to dumb down sniping (breathing, reloading, bullet speed, etc), but the reality is that a level with few walls and a few good hiding spots favor the sniper. In a real war they would be favored. In a real war those spots would be covered by other snipers and artillary
So, yes, snipers suck on maps which favor them. What's new?
Build your own map.
-Adam
Fortunately for me, and the vast majority of other Mozilla users, this problem rarely, if ever, occurs.
This is NOT a "Major Bug," especially so since it has an easy work around.
Obviously if you spend many hours a day filling in web forms, then yeah, this would be crazy annoying. Or perhaps you keep a particular website open in your browser all day that has javascript onblur in their form code and it's always on the main page. Apparently this is a major issue for you, but again you have to look at each bug and not only consider the severity of the problem, but also the % of users who run into it or vote to have it fixed.
The number of comments and votes on your bug is so low that it's unlikely it will ever float to the top of the bugfix list. If it comes close enough it may get fixed, but you may have to research and fix it yourself if you want any action anytime soon.
I bet you could find some developer on the mailing list willing to work on it for you for a small fee. Free lunches aren't, after all.
-Adam
Yeah, but the last three movies are going to be a re-write of LotR.
Here's hoping for another Return of the King!
-Adam
"Many" is not a fractional reqresentation. Like "several" "many" can simply be satisfied by a large number.
In this case, it would be trivial to find 100 homes in each state that were sold in the last few years over $700k. I would consider 5000 homes over $700k to be "many", regardless of that slice being small compared to the number of homes in the US.
-Adam
Uh, make that 1*1024^4...
-Adam
Oh, and for those who think a 1 TB drive should have 1*1024^5 bytes, it'll cost you not much more at $686 for 7 160GB drives.
Every time we get a [peta,tera]byte in a box story, I like to quantify the cost of a [peta,tera]byte:
Data from Pricewatch.
You can buy hard drive space for $0.61 per GB (160GB for $98)
The cheapest TB array would run you only $660, with 10 100GB drives at $66 each.
For $16 more you can equip with 4 250GB drives at $676 total, or $169 each (less than the cost of the extra power supply you'd need for the previous array, not to mention drive controllers, etc)
So we can easily get 1TB for under $700.
A 1PT (peta byte, or 1,000,000 GB) drive is now $612,500.00 - easily less than the cost of many of today's houses, while consuming vastly more power.
-Adam
Sorry, forgot the obvious blarg reference.
-Adam
There are english geeks who understand how to create new pleasing word in the english language, but they don't reside among us computer geeks in great numbers. Part of the reason has to do with laziness, and another part is famiarity. This is why companies have both an engineering dept and marketting dept, rather than one group that does it all.
When engineers are given a spec, they don't have a name for it. Eventually, in order to ease communication, shortcuts are created which bear some resemblance to what the project is or does, or is just a pet name. Mozilla was one such name in the development cycle of netscape early on. If the engineers were in charge of naming, because it was so familiar to them, they would choose the pet name regardless of market perception. By default is not generally the best way to name a product.
Furthermore, it's hard to come up with a name which is both easy (and obvious) to pronounce, and produces a pleasing effect.
"Tlorg" is a bad name because you do not start an english word with the TL combination. Battle is a word where TL is used, so it's not a bad combination, it's simply not acceptable at the beginning.
"Blarg" is easy and fairly obvious to pronounce. But the effect of the word is not something you'd associate with a succesful, useful, and powerful product.
-Adam
The X-Band Phased Array Antenna has one major benefit. Phased array antennas are meant to mimic the directivity and gain of a parabolic antenna, with the ability to aim it, in an array of antennas that does not move and is flat.
So basicly you take a bunch of flat antennas, do some 'magic' between the array and the signal source (or destination) and you can effectively aim the antenna as though you were actually moving a parabolic antenna.
Since the antenna on spirit is aimed mechanically, and phased array antennas are, IIRC, still pretty power hungry, then it may be that they are not using a phased array. However, it would make a lot of sense to use a phased array for fine control aiming and the machanical link for coarse control.
-Adam
Let me guess:
Novell's trying to cash in on SCO's bad manners!
Well, you can't indemnify someone without contract of some sort, and buying and installign software with a EULA that has that clause would be a good way to do it.
But in all fairness I officially downgrade Novell from an alert level of Double Plus Good to Plus Good. The SCO alert level remains fixed at Double Plus Ungood. Verner's is still tasty. Further news as events warrant.
-Adam
I suspect that it's simply a patch antenna. For the size and weight, it's hard to beat the gain of a patch antenna.
Here is an example for 802.11b of which the author notes, "What's nice about the patch antenna over the "cantenna" is its broad beamwidth. The cantenna has to be pointed very precisely at the AP to get anything at that range, but the patch can be tilted several degrees and still get a signal." The Spirit's antenna was estimated to be 2 degrees off aim at the initial connect attempt, but they said they should still get good data at up to 4 degrees off, and beyond that they would still get carrier.
While the frequency is different, you'll find that these people sell patch antennas which compare favorably in signal strength with their parabolic antennas, but with a wider beam spread.
But we all know they're simply using the technology they've been using for years to practice mind control on us.
-Adam
IIRC, the Microsoft Speech SDK has just such an example application which is fairly full featured. It should not be difficult to add more features to it if it is inadequate.
Since it's free, you'll lose nothing except some hard drive space and download time (68MB) to try it out. It's been a year since I've last played with it, so YMMV.
It probably doesn't plug into the accessability utility included in XP (press windows + U), but I imagine that there are some out there which do.
Good luck!
-Adam
Did I mention that my key has reinforced cutting edges? I would like to add a broken cast iron key to my collection, where shall we meet? You might want to bring a wrist brace, I've been practicing by removing lug nuts with my hands.
-Adam
We've got lots of competition. I'm using sbc dsl now, 1.5mb/256kb for $25/month. If I don't like it, then I'll switch to another of the many DSL people who keep advertising here. If you want cable you have to go with Comcast. I never had a problem with it when I had it, but got DSL because it was cheaper (You have to have cable, or pay extra $$, and they don't want to offer basic, no frills, analog cable in my area anymore.)
-Adam
It's not rocket science, after all...
Well duh. If it were rocket science, they'd have done it, they are rocket scientists. You have to wait for the 2D and 3D imaging specialists to come in, puke upon viewing the pictures, and whip out their workstations for some old fashioned image manipulation.
Since these pictures are mainly for publicity (the scientific uses of the image data do not lend themselves to this format - they view the data differently) then they aren't going to spend a lot of time on this part of the mission, only as much as is needed to get the necessary funding so they can make another one next year.
-Adam
By refocussing NASA toward this ludicrous (and despite the peanut gallery's comments, at this point it is ludicrous) project to the exclusion of unmanned probes, he sets up NASA's eventual dismantlement for failing to deliver what even NASA must know they cannot deliver.
From the peanut gallery:
DNA - 1953, First heart transplant - 1967, etc
If I had more time I could list hundreds or thousands of things that were impossible for humans to do.
With that, I'll simply state that those who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of those doing it.
-Adam