My 8-channel Eurorack UB802 blew up after about 6 months; lots of people report failures. I suspect there are even more failures, but they're so cheap (about $60) that people just replace them with something else and move on.
In my case, a PV8, which includes a 5 year warranty.
When I was a young boy I started doing salt. I figured yea its just salt right? Afterwards I moved on to cracked pepper and eventually later in life started experimenting with parsley, basil and oregeno. Before I knew it I was hooked on Thyme and garlic and I lost everything. My wife, my job, my kids, all gone. Even the dog ran away. Now you will find me lurking on the school grounds giving away free herbs, knowing that once hooked they will never be the same. So please think of the children and avoid my culinary fate.
"How you know you even *got* amiloride-insensitive Na+ receptors from chromosome 17, kid?"
So when you go to a ball game, are you also enraged that you can't bring weapons?
The law does not prohibit you from carrying weapons to ball games in the state where I live. Your local laws may vary.
Otherwise, yes, I'd be enraged. What this has to do with iPhone development I am not sure. Although often I do mull the idea of shooting my computer, and the disposal plan for my awful Blackberry Storm, when the contract is up, definitely includes ammunition.
One of the obvious places to put in a "back door" is in Ethernet controllers. [...]Send the right UDP packets, and you can take over the machine. This would be completely invisible until activated.
Thing is: I don't see that this is very useful since it's in ram or the cpu, and it seems to me to be possible, maybe even likely, to see surreptitious traffic from them heading outwards to the ethernet controller chip.
Piggyback the surreptitious traffic onto legitimate traffic, by also infiltrating the popular, common, ordinary network services that your machine will be connecting to. Encode the traffic so that upon inspection by the network monitor/analyzers that it looks harmless and legitimate. (Think telegraphy here.) The attacker owns the Ethernet chip on your machine, and owns the Cisco routers that you're talking to, and owns Google and owns the Antivirus vendor, and many other sites including much of the cloud, and all of their hardware as well.
How do you know it's loaded? How do you know it's to your specifications?
Because we load it, in the US.
Well, you think you load it. How do you know the circuits are not doing extra things, with preloaded code in a protected area that you and your loader cannot even access?
What are you talking about? The IPCC claimed the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035. They based this on an article, based on an article, based on offhand speculation of a single scientist, who admits is was pure speculation with no supporting fact.
This wasn't a typo. It was damningly shoddy work on the part of the IPCC.
The paragraph starts, "Glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world." Cogley and Michael Zemp of the World Glacier Monitoring System said Himalayan glaciers are melting at about the same rate as other glaciers.
From the AP report:
The mistakes were found not by skeptics like Michaels, but by a few of the scientists themselves, including one who is an IPCC co-author.
The report in question is the second of four issued by the IPCC in 2007 on global warming. This 838-page document had chapters on each continent. The errors were in a half-page section of the Asia chapter. The section got it wrong as to how fast the thousands of glaciers in the Himalayas are melting, scientists said.
"It is a very shoddily written section," said Graham Cogley, a professor of geography and glaciers at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, who brought the error to everyone's attention. "It wasn't copy-edited properly."
Cogley, who wrote a letter about the problems to Science magazine that was published online Wednesday, cited these mistakes:
It says that if the Earth continues to warm, the "likelihood of them disappearing by the 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high." Nowhere in peer-reviewed science literature is 2035 mentioned. However, there is a study from Russia that says glaciers could come close to disappearing by 2350. Probably the numbers in the date were transposed, Cogley said.
The paragraph says: "Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 square kilometers by the year 2035." Cogley said there are only 33,000 square kilometers of glaciers in the Himalayas.
The entire paragraph is attributed to the World Wildlife Fund, when only one sentence came from the WWF, Cogley said. And further, the IPCC likes to brag that it is based on peer-reviewed science, not advocacy group reports. Cogley said the WWF cited the popular science press as its source.
A table says that between 1845 and 1965, the Pindari Glacier shrank by 2,840 meters. Then comes a math mistake: It says that's a rate of 135.2 meters a year, when it really is only 23.5 meters a year.
Your old phone won't stop working in the interim if you don't have the latest whizbang handset the day after its release.
Actually, your old phone might stop working at any point. My Blackberry Storm didn't work when I got it from Verizon, then I downloaded a bootleg/leaked OS release from RIM and it worked well for a while. Then more recently Verizon downloaded their latest OS release onto my phone. The result is that web search no longer works (that is, they disabled the ability to use WP or Google, having signed an exclusive M$ contract to allow only Bing); and also they broke VZ Navigator (all of the functionality of remembering locations such as Home or favorites is totally broken and non-functional now).
Emacs was designed to be used optimally with a special keyboard (which has not been commercially available for about 12 years now, and was attached to a very expensive non-standard non-x86 computer...)
In many jurisdictions (such as mine), wearing a mask in public (except in inclement weather, or as required by a medical condition) is a criminal act in itself.
Yes, that's a crime where I live in the US (Virginia, and probably in Maryland and DC - not sure). However, the other exception is that you can claim a religous purpose. However, it may only be Islam -- no other religions are exempted!
(Which I think is a load of PC-oh-dear-give-the-Muslims-special-rights crap, and unacceptable, obviously).
My observation, when cell phones first came out, was that they obviously caused brain damage. Back then, you didn't even need to have them turned on! People who owned them acted weird. Today, it's an epidemic: just look at how people use cell phones in restaurants, cars, and other settings, and tell me that they are not exhibiting brain damage!
Many companies will say "you're salary, take it or leave it" but that's against the law.
This is very common, and nobody is going to rock the boat and risk getting fired over it. A typical example is: regular hours are 9-5, plus you are assigned on-call duties for 7x24 coverage for a week or two (then off-call for a week). While on-call you must respond within 10 minutes (max) and get on a high-speed Internet computer to do the work. Typically there will be 2 or 3 calls each night ranging from 20 minutes to all-night. You are still required to be present for your 9-5 day shift. There is no compensation beyond salary for any of this. You are an exempt full-time employee. One whose health is seriously impacted. And the money is not good.
I'm thinking of some of the major financial institutions here, as well as small companies. Even though the financial institutions are continuously (and in real-time, even) audited up the yingyang, there doesn't seem to be any interest in whether these employment practices might not be legal.
Whenever I have suggested to my friends that they are being taken advantage of, and that it might even be illegal, they express terror at the prospect of "making trouble" and risking their jobs.
PG&E is using [...]IP and "industry standard crypto" over a two way radio link to a network running their software. It can be remotely tweaked and have software upgrades remotely loaded. (I can hear the cypherpunks booting up already.)
It records and reports high-time-resolution information about the utility use. It can be used to shut the power off in case of "billing trouble".
So rather than break into the control network through a virus or physically, distributed denial of electricity and other games can be played via radio control. It's a good thing they're probably using SSL, since that can't be hacked! Oh, wait...
The funnier part will be when they claim "billing trouble" rather than figuring out that your meter has been attacked by someone with a vendetta, or admitting that they've been massively compromised.
People need to rise up and tell the government that it needs to put an end to shit like this
That would involve finding and funding and voting for candidates that you like. People can hardly be bothered to vote, and they don't bother their elected representatives. They just whine on Slashdot and sit around depressed saying that "they can't do anything". When was the last time anyone arranged to sit down for meeting with their representative?
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My 8-channel Eurorack UB802 blew up after about 6 months; lots of people report failures. I suspect there are even more failures, but they're so cheap (about $60) that people just replace them with something else and move on.
In my case, a PV8, which includes a 5 year warranty.
Thank god for this bill.
When I was a young boy I started doing salt. I figured yea its just salt right? Afterwards I moved on to cracked pepper and eventually later in life started experimenting with parsley, basil and oregeno. Before I knew it I was hooked on Thyme and garlic and I lost everything. My wife, my job, my kids, all gone. Even the dog ran away. Now you will find me lurking on the school grounds giving away free herbs, knowing that once hooked they will never be the same. So please think of the children and avoid my culinary fate.
"How you know you even *got* amiloride-insensitive Na+ receptors from chromosome 17, kid?"
So when you go to a ball game, are you also enraged that you can't bring weapons?
The law does not prohibit you from carrying weapons to ball games in the state where I live. Your local laws may vary.
Otherwise, yes, I'd be enraged. What this has to do with iPhone development I am not sure. Although often I do mull the idea of shooting my computer, and the disposal plan for my awful Blackberry Storm, when the contract is up, definitely includes ammunition.
The government and police lose guns (including machine guns) all the time. It hrdly ever makes the news, it's just a well-known dirty little secret.
Magic mouse is spendy, but it has no moving parts, no balls to gum up with hand lotion and should last a long long while.
I'm not sure what "balls to gum up with hand lotion" means, exactly, but most offices don't allow porn surfing...
DoD is really worried about this.
Everyone seems to be talking about "spying".
How about just worrying over the "HCF" packet that the computer is waiting to receive?
One of the obvious places to put in a "back door" is in Ethernet controllers. [...]Send the right UDP packets, and you can take over the machine. This would be completely invisible until activated.
Thing is: I don't see that this is very useful since it's in ram or the cpu, and it seems to me to be possible, maybe even likely, to see surreptitious traffic from them heading outwards to the ethernet controller chip.
Piggyback the surreptitious traffic onto legitimate traffic, by also infiltrating the popular, common, ordinary network services that your machine will be connecting to. Encode the traffic so that upon inspection by the network monitor/analyzers that it looks harmless and legitimate. (Think telegraphy here.) The attacker owns the Ethernet chip on your machine, and owns the Cisco routers that you're talking to, and owns Google and owns the Antivirus vendor, and many other sites including much of the cloud, and all of their hardware as well.
You'll never see it happening.
How do you know it's loaded? How do you know it's to your specifications?
Because we load it, in the US.
Well, you think you load it. How do you know the circuits are not doing extra things, with preloaded code in a protected area that you and your loader cannot even access?
What are you talking about? The IPCC claimed the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035. They based this on an article, based on an article, based on offhand speculation of a single scientist, who admits is was pure speculation with no supporting fact.
This wasn't a typo. It was damningly shoddy work on the part of the IPCC.
The paragraph starts, "Glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world." Cogley and Michael Zemp of the World Glacier Monitoring System said Himalayan glaciers are melting at about the same rate as other glaciers.
From the AP report:
The mistakes were found not by skeptics like Michaels, but by a few of the scientists themselves, including one who is an IPCC co-author.
The report in question is the second of four issued by the IPCC in 2007 on global warming. This 838-page document had chapters on each continent. The errors were in a half-page section of the Asia chapter. The section got it wrong as to how fast the thousands of glaciers in the Himalayas are melting, scientists said.
"It is a very shoddily written section," said Graham Cogley, a professor of geography and glaciers at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, who brought the error to everyone's attention. "It wasn't copy-edited properly."
Cogley, who wrote a letter about the problems to Science magazine that was published online Wednesday, cited these mistakes:
I think they were also toying with using these types of weapons against the pirates in Somalia.
Not sure that would be effective against light sabers.
There you go, if you're depressed, manic or schizophrenic, it could be one of your ancestors got a brain virus.
Could simply be that your ancestors used Windows a lot...
I don't understand where this droid rage comes from.
Oh, crap. There's a giant robot attacking our secret outposts and we're resorting to recruiting Enders.
Your old phone won't stop working in the interim if you don't have the latest whizbang handset the day after its release.
Actually, your old phone might stop working at any point. My Blackberry Storm didn't work when I got it from Verizon, then I downloaded a bootleg/leaked OS release from RIM and it worked well for a while. Then more recently Verizon downloaded their latest OS release onto my phone. The result is that web search no longer works (that is, they disabled the ability to use WP or Google, having signed an exclusive M$ contract to allow only Bing); and also they broke VZ Navigator (all of the functionality of remembering locations such as Home or favorites is totally broken and non-functional now).
Emacs was designed to be used optimally with a special keyboard (which has not been commercially available for about 12 years now, and was attached to a very expensive non-standard non-x86 computer...)
In many jurisdictions (such as mine), wearing a mask in public (except in inclement weather, or as required by a medical condition) is a criminal act in itself.
Yes, that's a crime where I live in the US (Virginia, and probably in Maryland and DC - not sure). However, the other exception is that you can claim a religous purpose. However, it may only be Islam -- no other religions are exempted!
(Which I think is a load of PC-oh-dear-give-the-Muslims-special-rights crap, and unacceptable, obviously).
My observation, when cell phones first came out, was that they obviously caused brain damage. Back then, you didn't even need to have them turned on! People who owned them acted weird. Today, it's an epidemic: just look at how people use cell phones in restaurants, cars, and other settings, and tell me that they are not exhibiting brain damage!
Many companies will say "you're salary, take it or leave it" but that's against the law.
This is very common, and nobody is going to rock the boat and risk getting fired over it. A typical example is: regular hours are 9-5, plus you are assigned on-call duties for 7x24 coverage for a week or two (then off-call for a week). While on-call you must respond within 10 minutes (max) and get on a high-speed Internet computer to do the work. Typically there will be 2 or 3 calls each night ranging from 20 minutes to all-night. You are still required to be present for your 9-5 day shift. There is no compensation beyond salary for any of this. You are an exempt full-time employee. One whose health is seriously impacted. And the money is not good.
I'm thinking of some of the major financial institutions here, as well as small companies. Even though the financial institutions are continuously (and in real-time, even) audited up the yingyang, there doesn't seem to be any interest in whether these employment practices might not be legal.
Whenever I have suggested to my friends that they are being taken advantage of, and that it might even be illegal, they express terror at the prospect of "making trouble" and risking their jobs.
I'll be enjoying my Chicken Little patty with some ice cold Cokie Mokie!
PG&E is using [...]IP and "industry standard crypto" over a two way radio link to a network running their software. It can be remotely tweaked and have software upgrades remotely loaded. (I can hear the cypherpunks booting up already.)
It records and reports high-time-resolution information about the utility use. It can be used to shut the power off in case of "billing trouble".
So rather than break into the control network through a virus or physically, distributed denial of electricity and other games can be played via radio control. It's a good thing they're probably using SSL, since that can't be hacked! Oh, wait...
The funnier part will be when they claim "billing trouble" rather than figuring out that your meter has been attacked by someone with a vendetta, or admitting that they've been massively compromised.
OK, so before I get flamed, I'm not saying anything like Gates and Ballmer aren't building a DeathStar. I'm not saying anything like that but
You're just asking questions?
When town resident Ethyl Silane was asked her opinion of the dome, she inexplicably ran from her porch screaming "Eee-pah ee-pah eeepaahh!"
On the Internet
No one knows where your dog is
Or maybe they do
People need to rise up and tell the government that it needs to put an end to shit like this
That would involve finding and funding and voting for candidates that you like. People can hardly be bothered to vote, and they don't bother their elected representatives. They just whine on Slashdot and sit around depressed saying that "they can't do anything". When was the last time anyone arranged to sit down for meeting with their representative?
Isn't 50kbps really, really fast for 1969? I was expecting something more like 1200 baud at most
These were dedicated conditioned lines, not regular phone lines like at your house.