If you travel overseas, go for Global Entry. It costs the same ($100), and it includes PreCheck as a perk. As an added bonus, you get to use kiosks for passport control (never a wait) and the crew line for customs.
I routinely take 8-10 minutes total from deplaning at LAX (Bradley Terminal) to the terminal exit. A bit longer if I have to wait for checked luggage. Worth every cent.
This isn't the same thing. The commuter was blocking cell signals with a jammer. The hotels do not do this, they block WiFi signals instead.
What they do differently is forge deauthentication packets to force WiFi clients to disconnect from the WiFi hotspots and allow connections to a whitelisted batch of MAC addresses. One such tool to do this is called "Omerta".
Cell phones and hotspots work just fine in the venue with the cellular network, just good luck keeping a WiFi device connected to them.
It'd be interesting to see what their argument would be to the FCC. They are not "jamming" the 2.4 or 5 GHz spectrum, they are selectively allowing certain connections and interfering with others. I'd be interested in seeing them prosecuted under computer hacking laws, since they are performing what is essentially a DoS attack on the computers within (and around) their property.
That's the thing. There was no installer. Just an application on a disk image. Drag and drop it into your App folder.
An "Application" on OS X is really a directory with ".app" as an extension with the MacOS binary and supporting files in it. The Transmission binary was altered to launch the payload which was disguised as an rtf file in the directory. This is worse than what I've seen in the past - MPlayerX is a well-known video player that comes packaged with an installer. The author of that decided he wanted more than the donations he was getting and installed malware/adware by packaging the app and "other stuff" in a pkg installer file.
I thought the binary itself was infected (well the app bundle) that required just the app dropped from the dmg file onto the system and executed.
Programs like transmission do not need installers. Anyone looking to put a simple utility on their system should look at.pkg installer files with a great deal of suspicion.
I agree - on the desktop site. Have you seen the mobile site though? Mobile app ads that fill the screen - with four icons. Makes iPhone browsing painful.
While the game was repellent, not a single Indian is killed in Custer's Revenge.
The game consists entirely of a cowboy character trying to move from the left side of the screen to the right, dodging falling arrows to reach the "goal". Once there, you mash a button.
Annoying is that they're not that much cheaper than blu-ray; worse both physical forms on amazon are cheaper than the streaming copy, despite the extra costs to produce and distrubute, someone's getting ripped off in the transaction and it isn't Amazon.
Yes, market forces and competition help force the prices down on DVD's & Blu-ray discs. Hence the reason to get them on "Release Tuesday" when they all go on sale on their street date.
Digital copies have no such market forces - the publishers dictate the price on the digital sites and they have no interest in any price except for MSRP. For example, this is why Game of Thrones Season 2 was around $60 MSRP for the digital download when it hit its street date on iTunes. That same day, you could walk into Best Buy and pick up Season 2 on Blu-Ray (DVD's also included) along with a digital download certificate for the iTunes content for $39.
The same situation exists today, where if you look up the price for a digital download of GoT, it's the same price as the MSRP of the box sets w/digital copies.
Digital downloads have to become a lot cheaper to reflect that they have absolutely no value after the first sale due to DRM. With physical media, there is always some resell value.
The article says that so long as they pay the prevailing wage ($60k/yr in Connecticut, which IIRC is a pricey place to live) they can now legally replace you. Not sure when that changed (probably shortly after the pro-Corporate Republicans took the Senate) but assuming the article isn't lying there's no abuse. It's all nice and legal.
Well I always thought (Thank you, Schoolhouse Rock!) that after Congress and the Senate get through drafting some bill or some such, there's this guy who has to sign it or veto it.
Don't you think he has to bear some of the responsibility as well?
Will Obama give her a blanket pardon? I'm not sure. Especially if there are no charges yet filed.
It's possible.
Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon *before* he was indicted over the Watergate scandal.
Reading the pardon, I can see it as a template for Hillary: it'll take too long for a trial to start, harms the "tranquility of the nation", "for all offenses... committed or may have committed". The pardon does not even need to mention why it is being given (though Ford's does).
The best part about a preemptive pardon (before indictment) is that it stops the whole process cold. No need to further pursue an investigation if there will definitely be no charges filed? Stops the FBI investigation and saves the embarrassment of the spectacle of the DOJ ignoring the FBI report for political reasons. Kills any chance for a possible Republican administration to go after her too.
Hillary can go on proclaiming her innocence and no one can challenge her anymore.
The only problem with that is I (and probably you as well) do not see Obama willing to spend the political capital to do this, even if it is to save the election for his political party.
Easy enough: I'm not a supporter, but I can see the reason.
1. She is what the democrat establishment wants as a nominee. She seems inevitable, so why not toss your support behind the supposed winner?
I do not think she would be that big of a deal if there were another viable "mainstream" candidate in the ring on the D side. Sanders may appear viable now, but he might not have that appeal in a general election. I do not think Sanders appeals to the bulk of rank and file moderate democrats. It's the radical left wing carrying him at this point.
2. She has a "D" next to her name. No matter how bad the candidate, party loyalists would rather hold their nose than to pick a candidate (even a possibly better one) in the opposite party. Not that I am claiming it exists here, but it can.
3. She's untouchable. It's pretty much assumed she'll walk away with at most a fine from this, if not a full, possibly preemptive pardon. it does not matter if she looks dirty, it comes with being a Clinton. It's expected of them.
4. Nothing will pull the democrats together more than the prospect of losing the White House for the next 4-8 years with all those aging Supreme Court justices waiting to keel over.
It's not just the Democrats going through this now. The Republican Party wants its chosen candidates and they get Trump and Cruz instead. Both parties are having to fight popular sentiment to get their candidates in the general election.
Watching both parties try to thwart popular opinion is proving to be quite entertaining, but not nearly as entertaining as a Trump vs Sanders in the general election will be.
Look at the history of things they're well known for:
The iPod: the canonical MP3 player. Not the first, afterall we know it had no wireless and less space than the Nomad (lame!) but by far the most popular and became synonymous with MP player. Due in large part because all the ones before had horrendous interfaces and other awful misfeatures.
The iPod had large "misfeatures" for most at the time it was released: It was firewire and Mac-only.
This is where Apple (or likely: Jobs) show how they were really clever - it generated a huge buzz in the media, suddenly everyone wanted one, and they had to buy a Mac to get it. When the Windows version came out, they managed to do it when the interest in the iPod was still very high, and it was just like printing money.
I used a tool that did this back in 2004 writing a thesis on WiFi security.
Back then there was a nifty software tool called "Omerta". You can whitelist a bunch of access points and it will forge disassociate packets for all the other AP's in range, rendering them useless.
Clients connected to the whitelisted AP have no issues whatsoever.
Evidently you do not know how classified information works.
Yes, information that was previously unclassified can be classified later.
However, information that is generated by classified sources are classified from the moment they are created and they are classified whether they are marked as such or not. Anything generated by a classified system is automatically classified. All classified systems and info need to be brought into accountability.
Even better is when you put classified info on an unclassified system. The whole thing now becomes classified. Her email server at the FBI probably has a TOP SECRET sticker on it by now.
She was pretty high up as far as authority went, and there's a high probability she was presented with raw data that was so time sensitive, it was unmarked.
Even giving her the benefit of the doubt, it does not matter. She should have known better.
Those of us who have handled classified info in the past can easily see the problem with her situation here.
I could have sworn there was a commercial attachment/accessory for the Selectric that turned it into a normal printer. This was around the time where the daisy-wheel typewriters hit the consumer scene (Olivetti and Smith Corona had ball typewriters for a while too) and a considerable amount of them also had Centronics interfaces available as attachments.
Nothing beats the Selectric. Much faster than a daisywheel, and they had that lovely mechanical staccato sound that was music to the ears. The sheer number of them that are still out there (and working) is incredible.
I only pointed out a counter example to an earlier post. I'm not on a mission to convert Android users or get into a pissing match - the choice of OS in this case is just a matter of personal taste.
It's like arguing over speakers. Specs are good and all that, but the best choice ultimately is what sounds good to the buyer.
Since I posted those two examples, another article came up with this very topic. I feel it was rather inflammatory and brings up left-right politics, but it does bring up some points:
In here is the white kid who was expelled for biting aPop-Tart into an "L" shape and expelled for bringing a gun to school. Another was pointing a finger and saying "bang". Yet another I recall was kicked out for saying "bless you" to a student that sneezed.
After all these examples, I think rather than point out the treatment white vs. minority kids get, I think the system as a whole needs a good enema.
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If you travel overseas, go for Global Entry. It costs the same ($100), and it includes PreCheck as a perk. As an added bonus, you get to use kiosks for passport control (never a wait) and the crew line for customs.
I routinely take 8-10 minutes total from deplaning at LAX (Bradley Terminal) to the terminal exit. A bit longer if I have to wait for checked luggage. Worth every cent.
This isn't the same thing. The commuter was blocking cell signals with a jammer. The hotels do not do this, they block WiFi signals instead.
What they do differently is forge deauthentication packets to force WiFi clients to disconnect from the WiFi hotspots and allow connections to a whitelisted batch of MAC addresses. One such tool to do this is called "Omerta".
Cell phones and hotspots work just fine in the venue with the cellular network, just good luck keeping a WiFi device connected to them.
It'd be interesting to see what their argument would be to the FCC. They are not "jamming" the 2.4 or 5 GHz spectrum, they are selectively allowing certain connections and interfering with others. I'd be interested in seeing them prosecuted under computer hacking laws, since they are performing what is essentially a DoS attack on the computers within (and around) their property.
That's the thing. There was no installer. Just an application on a disk image. Drag and drop it into your App folder.
An "Application" on OS X is really a directory with ".app" as an extension with the MacOS binary and supporting files in it. The Transmission binary was altered to launch the payload which was disguised as an rtf file in the directory. This is worse than what I've seen in the past - MPlayerX is a well-known video player that comes packaged with an installer. The author of that decided he wanted more than the donations he was getting and installed malware/adware by packaging the app and "other stuff" in a pkg installer file.
Hacking the installer?
I thought the binary itself was infected (well the app bundle) that required just the app dropped from the dmg file onto the system and executed.
Programs like transmission do not need installers. Anyone looking to put a simple utility on their system should look at .pkg installer files with a great deal of suspicion.
This bit of malware is reported to look for and encrypt/corrupt any Time Machine backups.
I agree - on the desktop site. Have you seen the mobile site though? Mobile app ads that fill the screen - with four icons. Makes iPhone browsing painful.
Downloading content you could otherwise rip via fair use or space shifting is not legal.
See MP3.com and their cloud service which looks a lot like today's Apple's iTunes Match:
Buy a CD, pop it in your computer, download MP3's from MP3.com without having to rip and encode.
They lost because essentially having someone else rip your CD's for you requires permission from the copyright owner. That cost MP3.com $53.4 million.
UMG v. MP3.com
While the game was repellent, not a single Indian is killed in Custer's Revenge.
The game consists entirely of a cowboy character trying to move from the left side of the screen to the right, dodging falling arrows to reach the "goal". Once there, you mash a button.
That's it as far as gameplay is concerned.
Yes, market forces and competition help force the prices down on DVD's & Blu-ray discs. Hence the reason to get them on "Release Tuesday" when they all go on sale on their street date.
Digital copies have no such market forces - the publishers dictate the price on the digital sites and they have no interest in any price except for MSRP. For example, this is why Game of Thrones Season 2 was around $60 MSRP for the digital download when it hit its street date on iTunes. That same day, you could walk into Best Buy and pick up Season 2 on Blu-Ray (DVD's also included) along with a digital download certificate for the iTunes content for $39.
The same situation exists today, where if you look up the price for a digital download of GoT, it's the same price as the MSRP of the box sets w/digital copies.
Digital downloads have to become a lot cheaper to reflect that they have absolutely no value after the first sale due to DRM. With physical media, there is always some resell value.
The article says that so long as they pay the prevailing wage ($60k/yr in Connecticut, which IIRC is a pricey place to live) they can now legally replace you. Not sure when that changed (probably shortly after the pro-Corporate Republicans took the Senate) but assuming the article isn't lying there's no abuse. It's all nice and legal.
Well I always thought (Thank you, Schoolhouse Rock!) that after Congress and the Senate get through drafting some bill or some such, there's this guy who has to sign it or veto it.
Don't you think he has to bear some of the responsibility as well?
Will Obama give her a blanket pardon? I'm not sure. Especially if there are no charges yet filed.
It's possible.
Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon *before* he was indicted over the Watergate scandal.
Reading the pardon, I can see it as a template for Hillary: it'll take too long for a trial to start, harms the "tranquility of the nation", "for all offenses ... committed or may have committed". The pardon does not even need to mention why it is being given (though Ford's does).
The best part about a preemptive pardon (before indictment) is that it stops the whole process cold. No need to further pursue an investigation if there will definitely be no charges filed? Stops the FBI investigation and saves the embarrassment of the spectacle of the DOJ ignoring the FBI report for political reasons. Kills any chance for a possible Republican administration to go after her too.
Hillary can go on proclaiming her innocence and no one can challenge her anymore.
The only problem with that is I (and probably you as well) do not see Obama willing to spend the political capital to do this, even if it is to save the election for his political party.
Easy enough:
I'm not a supporter, but I can see the reason.
1. She is what the democrat establishment wants as a nominee. She seems inevitable, so why not toss your support behind the supposed winner?
I do not think she would be that big of a deal if there were another viable "mainstream" candidate in the ring on the D side. Sanders may appear viable now, but he might not have that appeal in a general election. I do not think Sanders appeals to the bulk of rank and file moderate democrats. It's the radical left wing carrying him at this point.
2. She has a "D" next to her name. No matter how bad the candidate, party loyalists would rather hold their nose than to pick a candidate (even a possibly better one) in the opposite party. Not that I am claiming it exists here, but it can.
3. She's untouchable. It's pretty much assumed she'll walk away with at most a fine from this, if not a full, possibly preemptive pardon. it does not matter if she looks dirty, it comes with being a Clinton. It's expected of them.
4. Nothing will pull the democrats together more than the prospect of losing the White House for the next 4-8 years with all those aging Supreme Court justices waiting to keel over.
It's not just the Democrats going through this now. The Republican Party wants its chosen candidates and they get Trump and Cruz instead. Both parties are having to fight popular sentiment to get their candidates in the general election.
Watching both parties try to thwart popular opinion is proving to be quite entertaining, but not nearly as entertaining as a Trump vs Sanders in the general election will be.
Back in 2002 a giraffe dies at the National Zoo
Even if they turned the key, you can still carry on the human race. All you need is a telepathic dog and you're all set.
Toyota's now discontinued Rav 4 EV was also produced in a partnership with Tesla (battery and powertrain) as well.
Yes, that's why I had it in scare quotes.
I had the 1st generation iPod. Loved the thing, especially the mechanical scroll wheel.
Look at the history of things they're well known for:
The iPod: the canonical MP3 player. Not the first, afterall we know it had no wireless and less space than the Nomad (lame!) but by far the most popular and became synonymous with MP player. Due in large part because all the ones before had horrendous interfaces and other awful misfeatures.
The iPod had large "misfeatures" for most at the time it was released: It was firewire and Mac-only.
This is where Apple (or likely: Jobs) show how they were really clever - it generated a huge buzz in the media, suddenly everyone wanted one, and they had to buy a Mac to get it. When the Windows version came out, they managed to do it when the interest in the iPod was still very high, and it was just like printing money.
I used a tool that did this back in 2004 writing a thesis on WiFi security.
Back then there was a nifty software tool called "Omerta". You can whitelist a bunch of access points and it will forge disassociate packets for all the other AP's in range, rendering them useless.
Clients connected to the whitelisted AP have no issues whatsoever.
Evidently you do not know how classified information works.
Yes, information that was previously unclassified can be classified later.
However, information that is generated by classified sources are classified from the moment they are created and they are classified whether they are marked as such or not. Anything generated by a classified system is automatically classified. All classified systems and info need to be brought into accountability.
Even better is when you put classified info on an unclassified system. The whole thing now becomes classified. Her email server at the FBI probably has a TOP SECRET sticker on it by now.
She was pretty high up as far as authority went, and there's a high probability she was presented with raw data that was so time sensitive, it was unmarked.
Even giving her the benefit of the doubt, it does not matter. She should have known better.
Those of us who have handled classified info in the past can easily see the problem with her situation here.
That's because the 5G service isn't for you.
It's for the carriers. Along with the added bandwidth comes added capacity - especially if it cannot be exploited by the customers due to data caps.
Your requests just get on/off the network faster leaving space for another user to do the same.
I never saw a DisplayWriter.
I could have sworn there was a commercial attachment/accessory for the Selectric that turned it into a normal printer. This was around the time where the daisy-wheel typewriters hit the consumer scene (Olivetti and Smith Corona had ball typewriters for a while too) and a considerable amount of them also had Centronics interfaces available as attachments.
Nothing beats the Selectric. Much faster than a daisywheel, and they had that lovely mechanical staccato sound that was music to the ears. The sheer number of them that are still out there (and working) is incredible.
The Selectric stuff wouldn't interest anyone here.
Au contraire!
I'd love to hear the IBM electomechanical typewriter hacks. Those were the coolest typewriters ever built.
This was a lot like my "magic cat vanisher" when I was in grade school.
It was a simple device, requiring only a 9V battery and a flash cube from a camera.
Walk in room, see cat. Short terminals of flash cube while looking at cat. *FLASH*. When vision returns, cat has vanished.
I only pointed out a counter example to an earlier post. I'm not on a mission to convert Android users or get into a pissing match - the choice of OS in this case is just a matter of personal taste.
It's like arguing over speakers. Specs are good and all that, but the best choice ultimately is what sounds good to the buyer.
Since I posted those two examples, another article came up with this very topic. I feel it was rather inflammatory and brings up left-right politics, but it does bring up some points:
How Ahmed’s clock became a false, convenient tale of racism
and another:
Suspicious Pop-Tart guns versus scientific suitcase clocks
In here is the white kid who was expelled for biting aPop-Tart into an "L" shape and expelled for bringing a gun to school. Another was pointing a finger and saying "bang". Yet another I recall was kicked out for saying "bless you" to a student that sneezed.
After all these examples, I think rather than point out the treatment white vs. minority kids get, I think the system as a whole needs a good enema.