Sniffing plaintext packets (no WEP, no WPA/WPA2, etc) of an HTTPS stream (used hopefully for banking/online shopping etc) doesn't give you anything useful -- the protocol itself (HTTPS) encrypts before sending, so what you sniff isn't usable without breaking HTTPS, even with no WiFi protection in place.
If they're not on HTTPS, however, it's all over, as you suggest.
Shoulder surfing is still probably your best bet:)
Re:That is the STUPIDEST solution I have ever seen
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only on slashdot would a post about how to do something right get modded as flamebait...
sure, there may be some internal registers that are 128 bits wide, but that doesnt necessarily make it a 128 bit processor. the fairly large important thing from "64 bit" processors isn't that they have 64 bit registers (woohoo, mmx, oh wait...), but that they _address_ more than 32 bits(4gb), which i doubt ps2's do (though i'm not positive on that). in any event, there's no way a ps2 has more than 4GB of ram, so more addressing is wasted anyway. the only questionable part is addressing the dvd's, which isn't really addressing directly (dvd controller interpretation stuff, just like harddrive controllers).
In a truly cashless society, the cashier is almost not even necessary.
people may get upset about terminating more jobs though(esp with the job market as it is now). Never ever use technology to _eliminate_ a job, only make it mundane so its worker is easy to replace.
i second that. While i agree that a global language would be extremely helpful, English has no reason to be that language, other than being used primarily by the small segment of the population with the most wealth (unsure of numbers). English has too many inconstiencies and deficienties, much like the English measuring systems. i'd pick somethign more uniform, personally.
I'm not sure getting pregnant is always a show if stupidity/ignorance.
I've seen where pregnncy happens due to boredom (although this is way way way more common in highschool than in college), because their natural intelligence carries them faster than their courses, and they lose interest, and try new things.
dunno. it's a tough criteria to diagnose directly perhaps.
Perhaps, but what if he actually uses his system for something? Nuking the bios would pretty much stop his progress Right Now, wheras waiting to see how it works out on (potentially) less critical systems will save some hair pulling in the future.
Of course, this all assumes that the system he's using is actually being used, and that use is worth more than experimental developments. *shrugs*
extending the busses to use standard ddr would probably change the electrical properties of the card's bus (which will require it to run at a lower speed perhaps). that, and if you have banks to plug stuff into, you have chances to have variable loads (depending on whats plugged in and what isnt), which makes the bus specs need to be a bit wider still.
looks like they keep it simple(short, direct traces, no extra loads, etc), and let it go a bit faster (though im not sure how much room they have before they really run into problems).
I second that. I havn't used dual's enough to 'live' on them, but they are very nice. On a similar note, just upping the resolution some has worked wonders for productivity, for me at least. just like you said, it's all in not having to change things/click + sidetrack. Very good point.
I think the only thing to correct this is some 'common carrier' thing, similar to how phone companies arent help liable for script kiddies on dialup and what not. not sure how it would apply to neighbors, but it'd have to be prety similar i'd suspect to be effective.
using any sort of statistics, an extremely small percentage of all flight passengers in any of those catagories. summing up worsst case would still be very small, and probably useless...
im not sure this could be implimented at all with any reliability, privacy and race issues aside.
traces on a system bus at cpu core frequencies would probably be prone to lots of noise, as well as possibly radiating lots of it (depending on their length). electronically, you can't just jack up the clock with larger thigns (wires longer than a few millimeters long) without having to deal with the interferance.
I dont have a great audio set up at the moment, but I've found oggs at ~128kbps to be noticbly better than 128kbps mp3s thru crappy speakers. most of my mp3s are 192 or above though, and there it gets harder to tell (once i get better speakers again, i'll hopefuly be able to tell). all i get now is the added harddrive space:)
it's such a simple solution. In fact, for reliability, they could probably fit 2 or more of their current systems on comodity FPGAs, and then use a couple separate chips, and then run them in parallel. when one doesnt seem to agree with the others, time to reimage or replace. i dont know why this takes such an undue amount of resources...
yeah, same here. i've collected loads of old drives over the years, and i've only had one wd caviar fail. most other brands seemed to crap out after 8 or so years, but i have wd's that are pushing 10 and still working fine. its amazing. too bad my main system is using a maxtor right now =(
Re:Automats == people behind the counter...
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such dreams would be so great, if only people would let them happen... somehow, i doubt we would allow such a thing to happen =(
Re:This book is destined
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agreed. We've recently started using XML for internal things, and I must say it is quite impressive, and has so many applications in the 'Real World.'
i dont really know, but it seems there are more ways to remove screws than unscrewing them. given, they are more messy, but it works. like drilling all around the screw, so it only holds a small piece together. or possibly using a soldiering iron to heat the screw, melting plastic and simply pulling it out with needle nosed pliers. would all of these sorts of methods be reverse-engineering.
or, one could just drill a hole, and use a scope like doctors doing surgery. there are so many ways...
"Butter knives can be USED to intimidate people. That doesn't mean that butter knives are bad."
however, a butter knife has many other uses. the DMCA simply intimidates people from doing research (legal or non) and what not. if butterknives were only used to keep people from driving their cars (you can kill people that way, you know?) or something, with an elaborate system of butterknife holders who threatened everytime someone entered a car, they'd probably be considered bad too.
"Emulators always slow things down, that's why they're best for older games"
You're assuming wine emulates thw whole system, which it does not. it simply executes the program (same cpu => little/no translation), and wraps the windows api calls to something unix can deal with.
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Sniffing plaintext packets (no WEP, no WPA/WPA2, etc) of an HTTPS stream (used hopefully for banking/online shopping etc) doesn't give you anything useful -- the protocol itself (HTTPS) encrypts before sending, so what you sniff isn't usable without breaking HTTPS, even with no WiFi protection in place. If they're not on HTTPS, however, it's all over, as you suggest. Shoulder surfing is still probably your best bet :)
only on slashdot would a post about how to do something right get modded as flamebait...
sure, there may be some internal registers that are 128 bits wide, but that doesnt necessarily make it a 128 bit processor. the fairly large important thing from "64 bit" processors isn't that they have 64 bit registers (woohoo, mmx, oh wait...), but that they _address_ more than 32 bits(4gb), which i doubt ps2's do (though i'm not positive on that). in any event, there's no way a ps2 has more than 4GB of ram, so more addressing is wasted anyway. the only questionable part is addressing the dvd's, which isn't really addressing directly (dvd controller interpretation stuff, just like harddrive controllers).
people may get upset about terminating more jobs though(esp with the job market as it is now). Never ever use technology to _eliminate_ a job, only make it mundane so its worker is easy to replace.
i second that. While i agree that a global language would be extremely helpful, English has no reason to be that language, other than being used primarily by the small segment of the population with the most wealth (unsure of numbers). English has too many inconstiencies and deficienties, much like the English measuring systems. i'd pick somethign more uniform, personally.
I'm not sure getting pregnant is always a show if stupidity/ignorance.
I've seen where pregnncy happens due to boredom (although this is way way way more common in highschool than in college), because their natural intelligence carries them faster than their courses, and they lose interest, and try new things.
dunno. it's a tough criteria to diagnose directly perhaps.
I don't think a bound check on an array will need a whole lot of regression testing, unless it involved some nasty stuff.. *shrugs*
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if(stuff_to_read > length_of_buffer)
read_some();
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Perhaps, but what if he actually uses his system for something? Nuking the bios would pretty much stop his progress Right Now, wheras waiting to see how it works out on (potentially) less critical systems will save some hair pulling in the future.
Of course, this all assumes that the system he's using is actually being used, and that use is worth more than experimental developments. *shrugs*
extending the busses to use standard ddr would probably change the electrical properties of the card's bus (which will require it to run at a lower speed perhaps). that, and if you have banks to plug stuff into, you have chances to have variable loads (depending on whats plugged in and what isnt), which makes the bus specs need to be a bit wider still.
looks like they keep it simple(short, direct traces, no extra loads, etc), and let it go a bit faster (though im not sure how much room they have before they really run into problems).
I think he was talking about stuff from Japan way back when, when most of it too was crap. Now is quite a different story.
Every time i read that book, everything seems 1984ish... it's not just china, my friend.
I second that. I havn't used dual's enough to 'live' on them, but they are very nice. On a similar note, just upping the resolution some has worked wonders for productivity, for me at least. just like you said, it's all in not having to change things/click + sidetrack. Very good point.
I think the only thing to correct this is some 'common carrier' thing, similar to how phone companies arent help liable for script kiddies on dialup and what not. not sure how it would apply to neighbors, but it'd have to be prety similar i'd suspect to be effective.
i think those criteria may be mostly useless?
using any sort of statistics, an extremely small percentage of all flight passengers in any of those catagories. summing up worsst case would still be very small, and probably useless...
im not sure this could be implimented at all with any reliability, privacy and race issues aside.
traces on a system bus at cpu core frequencies would probably be prone to lots of noise, as well as possibly radiating lots of it (depending on their length). electronically, you can't just jack up the clock with larger thigns (wires longer than a few millimeters long) without having to deal with the interferance.
I dont have a great audio set up at the moment, but I've found oggs at ~128kbps to be noticbly better than 128kbps mp3s thru crappy speakers. most of my mp3s are 192 or above though, and there it gets harder to tell (once i get better speakers again, i'll hopefuly be able to tell). all i get now is the added harddrive space :)
it's such a simple solution. In fact, for reliability, they could probably fit 2 or more of their current systems on comodity FPGAs, and then use a couple separate chips, and then run them in parallel. when one doesnt seem to agree with the others, time to reimage or replace. i dont know why this takes such an undue amount of resources...
I too fear this may be the beginning of real drm. All protection on-die.
:)
although, fwiw, i often find the not-for-profit hackers better at most things than suits, except when it comes to user interface design
yeah, same here. i've collected loads of old drives over the years, and i've only had one wd caviar fail. most other brands seemed to crap out after 8 or so years, but i have wd's that are pushing 10 and still working fine. its amazing. too bad my main system is using a maxtor right now =(
such dreams would be so great, if only people would let them happen... somehow, i doubt we would allow such a thing to happen =(
agreed. We've recently started using XML for internal things, and I must say it is quite impressive, and has so many applications in the 'Real World.'
i dont really know, but it seems there are more ways to remove screws than unscrewing them. given, they are more messy, but it works. like drilling all around the screw, so it only holds a small piece together. or possibly using a soldiering iron to heat the screw, melting plastic and simply pulling it out with needle nosed pliers. would all of these sorts of methods be reverse-engineering.
or, one could just drill a hole, and use a scope like doctors doing surgery. there are so many ways...
"Butter knives can be USED to intimidate people. That doesn't mean that butter knives are bad."
however, a butter knife has many other uses. the DMCA simply intimidates people from doing research (legal or non) and what not. if butterknives were only used to keep people from driving their cars (you can kill people that way, you know?) or something, with an elaborate system of butterknife holders who threatened everytime someone entered a car, they'd probably be considered bad too.
Now if only disassembling really gave you comments and helpful function labels...
it'd prolly look more like:
call 0xf7840
"Emulators always slow things down, that's why they're best for older games"
You're assuming wine emulates thw whole system, which it does not. it simply executes the program (same cpu => little/no translation), and wraps the windows api calls to something unix can deal with.