Unfortunately, our society has been stopping technological progress in favor of the idea that everything must be "safe". So much so, that dangers are percieved where none exist. What people *want* is a Star Trek technology that glosses over how dangerous that much power actually is.
Eh? Are you kidding? It seems like in every other episode of Star Trek that I watched the ship's Warp Core was going to self-destruct and needed to be fixed before it had to be ejected... or there was a matter/anti-matter collision explosion somewhere in engineering. (Granted, they used the latter more often in the original series). Hell, even their phasers were always overloading and being left somewhere to explode, killing a red-shirt or to.
No sirree, I don't think people want a Star Trek technology world at all.:)
Thankfully, it works on 100 - 120 VAC, 50/60Hz. So it is compatable with US line voltage.
I did, however, swap it's power cord with my Compaq EVO N610c notebook. Ironically, they use the same power cord, except the notebook had a grounded (3-prong) plug and the Panny AE500 had a two-prong one. It seems the Japanese don't use 3-prong outlets.
I used a 4x8 sheet of Parkland Plastic wallboard that I purchased at Lowes for $14. It was a bit hard to find, I had to get the SKU number from avsforum.com and call half the Lowes in the area to find it. However, it looks great!
(since I own one and all)
Why does no one make p0rn in 16:9 aspect ratio, damnit!?!?
FWIW- The bulbs for mine are about $250 and at 2000 hours a bulb that's $.13 an hour which is fine by me. $.26 to watch Monday Night Football on a 100" screen in high-def (or LOTR in my private home theater) is quite worth it, thank you!
Hey, I just bought the AE-500 and my friend has the AE-200 so we did some comparasons. There are also some great reviews over at avsforums.com.
Long and short of it is this:
The AE-500 is much brighter, has better contrast, and no "screen door effect" in comparason to the AE-200. However, many of these improvements were seen in the AE-300 as well so it appears the AE-300 to AE-500 jump is very incremental.
The biggest new improvements on the Panasonic AE-500 are this:
- Native 1280x720 resolution. (ROCKS as a computer display with a 1280x720 video card.)
- DVI Input. (Cleaner than VGA at 1280x720)
- "AI Lamp Modulation". Improves contrast, but is annoying in computer mode. Thankfully it can be disabled per input type.
Downside:
- JAPANESE ONLY setup menus
For me, that's just funny. They got tired of Americans undercutting Panasonic-USA's distributors by importing the AE series instead of buying the more expensive (and identical) USA PT series, so they locked the menus into Japanese.
As it turns out it's not a problem at all. The menus are very intuitive and you only need them once to set up brightness / contrast / etc. Plus, when I hit the "Menu" button to check the mode it's in or something I get laughs from non-geeks and automatic cool-factor points from geeks.:-) I get to say "Yeah, I imported this model from Japan because it's superior to the projectors available in the USA for the same price."
Overall, I'm pleased with mine. It has a couple of "lazy pixels" though, which show up as light green when they aren't supposed to. I'm not willing to pay the round-trip shipping to replace it since they are only visible in certain colors and I almost never notice them. (They don't show up in white, black, or green... only in skin-tones or similar beige colors. Oh well.)
I just bought (4 weeks ago) the Japanese-only Panasonic AE-500 projector for $1700US including shipping from PriceJapan. (Be sure to read his terms and conditions carefully before ordering from him- he's only a broker, not a reseller.)
Let me just say I _LOVE_ this projector. It does native 16:9 1280x720 resolution and makes a great computer display in addition to being a great home theater projector. I have it projected on a homemade 100" diag screen! (7.1' wide, 4' tall) and it's very usable. Video games are unbelievable, web sites are HUGE, and WinAmp visualizations are absolutely breathtaking.
With ANY projector though- a light-controlled environment is KEY. Sunlight completely destroys the picture, so be sure you have a decent size room with no windows or are willing to cover the windows with something if you use it during the day.
The Sanyo Z2 / Panasonic AE-500 use the same LCD array, so either one would be an excellent choice for the/. crowd.
It's been around for a long time but as far as I know this security issue hasn't been abused yet.
You, clearly, do not run a dedicated Unreal Tournament server. Or maybe you thought the occasional "runaway-process" that eats all your memory and disk-space before crashing was just a random benign bug?
I had to run ucc-bin in an unprivledged environment and put "ulimit" guard rails around it on my linux server to keep it from taking the OS with it when it was attacked. Now it's just the game that crashes.
And then, when I had a cron job to detect and bring the server back up- some very unscrupulous players would use the crash-and-restart "feature" to kick other players off the server and have their friends rejoin.
So- now when some id10t crashes the server, it stays down for up to 4 hours. That way the skr1pt k1dd13s get bored and go f--- up someone elses server.
No, I'd say it's been abused. Any dedicated server operator has known about these holes for years. It's nice to see it get acknowledged. There isn't an original UT patch yet. Now let's just hope there's a patch BEFORE there's a whole new slew of exploits.
nor are they particularly important parts of the movie. If that "ruins the movie" for you, well...
Uhh, dude? There are large parts of the image misframed that even appear in the "TV" version. Yes, that would ruin the movie for me, too.
It doesn't ruin the movie for you? Wow.
I have a 1986 Sony Trinitron television you can buy, it works great but there's this permanent 3" black bar across the top of the screen. None of the "particularly important parts" of the TV shows are ever on the top 3", so it shouldn't ruin the shows for you. It's all yours for $100!
Umm, if I remember correctly, the three Matrix movies were written as a single story told in three parts also. The writer wrote the screenplay for all three before starting production on the first movie.
The reason the second two films have taken so long is that halfway through filming of the second movie one of the lead actors died in a plane crash and they had to start over to remain true to the original screenplay.
It would be a lot more fun to sit at the sensor and go back and forward...
Oh c'mon, that's what pogo sticks are for! When I was 14 I bounced on one of those pneumatic car-sensor tubes at a dry-cleaner in my neighborhood with a pogo stick... I think the entire staff came out looking for me, and they were carrying big sticks.:-)
I have a copy of the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) right in front of me:
US Department of Transportation: Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR)
Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR)
Subpart B - First-Class Airman Medical Certificate 67.103 Eye.
Eye standards for a first-class airman medical certificate are:
(a) Distant visual acuity of 20/20 or better in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses. If corrective lenses (spectacles or contact lenses) are necessary for 20/20 vision, the person may be elegible only on the condition that corrective lenses are worn while excercising the privileges of an airman certificate.
(b) Near vision of 20/40 or better, Snellen equivalent, at 16 inches in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses (&etc..)
(c) Ability to percieve those colors necessary for the safe performance of airman duties
(d) Normal fields of vision.
(e) No acute or chronic pathological condition of either eye or adnexa that interferes with the proper function of an eye, that may reasonably be expected to progress to that degree, or that may reasonably be expected to be aggravated by flying.
(f) Bifoveal fixation and vergence-phoria relationship sufficent to prevent a break in fusion under conditions that may reasonably be expected to occur in performing airman duties. Tests for the factors named in this paragraph are not required (&etc..)
-----
No mention in the entire FAR section, or in the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) about having had surgery in the past. If you pass the tests, then you can get your medical. If you get your medical, then you meet the qualifications.
If you are flying under a First Class medical certificate (Part 135 Regs) for an air-carrier, then you have to have your medical retested every 6 months anyway, so any degredation would hopefully disqualify you for a 1st class medical before it became dangerous.
A third class medical (for General Aviation flying, for instance) is even more forgiving that that.
If anyone knows of any documented reference against LASIK by the FAA, then let me know. I'd be interested to know where they keep undocumented medical rules like that. (Seriously.)
To anybody involved in information security, this is probably not a revelation. But just because this is an aspect of infosec, does not mean it naturally falls in to the physical security realm.
Ideally I wish the first sentence were true, but it's not. I've been working in information security for almost 10 years, and most of the "security experts" I meet know a lot about one particular operating system, possibly a lot about network vulnerabilities or firewalls, and never even consider the idea of risk valuation or exposure assessment.
They tend to harp on and on about "but this is insecure" or "that will get you hacked" but can't even begin to describe the business justification for or against mitigating it.
I think ISC^2 is doing the information security industry a great service by exposing people who claim to be "Information Security Professionals" to the whole picture.
BTW - I totally agree with your points, just because you have to understand the structure of a building to put out a fire doesn't mean that you should use architects as firefighters either.:-) It's just nice to see the "big picture" finally getting some exposure to a largely immature industry.
... as the article points out. To me, the bigger relevation to "geeks" here should be that information security is about a lot more than OS vulnerabilities and firewalls.
The International Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium (ISC^2) defines ten domains of information security.
Physical Security is one of them... a big one. So is network security, auditing, forensics, and liability, amongst other things.
Anyone interested in the relations of risk management and physical/information security should aim their research towards ISC^2 related documentation.. in addition to being fairly comprehensive you will be better prepared when you become experienced enough to apply for your CISSP certification.;-)
I disagree with your assessment of risk, there Bitman.
"some non-obscure disease" is exactly what we should be worried about. Have you taken your anti-malaria pills recently? Oh- you don't have to where you live... yet..
Osama Bin Laden owns the copyright and IP to his own image. Do you have a video clip of him on your computer? Well he would be able to hack in and destroy the file if he had a reasonable belief that you were harvesting his files.
WRONG! According to the bill, Osama would be able to perform Denial-of-Service attacks or otherwise impair your ability to distribute the image over a peer-to-peer network. That's all. He wouldn't be protected against attacking the integrity of your computer or any of the data stored on it. That's specifically prohibited in subsections (b) and (c) of the bill.
There are a couple of other points to consider if you are going to compare this to the aviation industry:
1. Flight Data Recorders ("black boxes") are not installed in all aircraft. In fact, they tend to only be installed in very large commercial jets operated under part 135 regulations. For the most part, general aviation aircraft do not have them. This would be akin to only having them installed in large busses and trucks, not individual passenger cars.
2. The aviation industry saw the need a long time ago to start correlating accident or violation data to determine why things go wrong sometimes. It was understood by all that a voluntary reporting form was required to allow pilots to report errors, mistakes, or possible rule violations and why they happened.
Well, obviously nobody wants to fill out a form and send it in to the FAA or NTSB saying "yeah, I broke this major rule yesterday and I thought you should know about it..." So, the FAA and NTSB decided to appoint NASA to do the job. It's called the Aviation Safety Reporting System, and it's completely anonymous.
The reason I bring all this up is to demonstrate that there are other options for gathering, analyzing, and correlating data to determine why accidents happen.
As someone previously pointed out - we pretty much know why car accidents happen. The money would be better spent on better education and a more consistent set of regulations and enforcement for automobile use.
If you crash an airplane into anything you may lose your license. At any rate, you have to answer very seriously for why it happened. We need a similar system for automobiles, because the stakes aren't really that much lower.
- P.M.
"But that's just my opinion, and what do I know?" - Dennis Miller
I hit the wrong "reply to this" button.. I wasn't intending to respond to your message- which actually (unfortunately for me) contains a well thought out reply.:-)
I work somewhere where fark AND porn are ok. as long as shit gets done, i'm free to use the t1 as I see fit... if only the pay was decent it would be a perfect job!
You're allowed to spend your time (and company resources) surfing for p0rn, and you wonder why the pay isn't decent?
We can, however, figure if someone is watching their skies like we do, they would eventually see this sucker whipping through deep-space all alone and emitting radio signals.
You, my friend, have a common misconception of the volume of empty space out there. We can't see shit, metaphorically speaking. Given the distances involved in comparison with (1) the size of voyager and (2) the speed of voyager I really think it would be akin to releasing a dandilion seed on the continent of africa and hoping someone on the other side sees it one day.
Check the numbers for the sizes and distances of the sun, the earth, and pluto.. then boil it down to scales we can see. If the sun was a basketball - how far away would the earth be from it, and how large would it be? What about pluto? Now, how far away from those objects is the next closest star?
Given those distances and sizes, how big would voyager be and how fast is it moving?
Not to pick nits, but it would have been much clearer if this had read odometer instead of speedometer. (I know, most people consider them together simply because they are grouped together... but I equate that to calling your PC a modem.)
I kept re-reading the description wondering "why do I care how fast he was going at each mile?"
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Eh? Are you kidding? It seems like in every other episode of Star Trek that I watched the ship's Warp Core was going to self-destruct and needed to be fixed before it had to be ejected... or there was a matter/anti-matter collision explosion somewhere in engineering. (Granted, they used the latter more often in the original series). Hell, even their phasers were always overloading and being left somewhere to explode, killing a red-shirt or to.
No sirree, I don't think people want a Star Trek technology world at all. :)
- P.M.
I did, however, swap it's power cord with my Compaq EVO N610c notebook. Ironically, they use the same power cord, except the notebook had a grounded (3-prong) plug and the Panny AE500 had a two-prong one. It seems the Japanese don't use 3-prong outlets.
Nope, I'm in downtown Atlanta. Sorry.
I used a 4x8 sheet of Parkland Plastic wallboard that I purchased at Lowes for $14. It was a bit hard to find, I had to get the SKU number from avsforum.com and call half the Lowes in the area to find it. However, it looks great!
FWIW- The bulbs for mine are about $250 and at 2000 hours a bulb that's $.13 an hour which is fine by me. $.26 to watch Monday Night Football on a 100" screen in high-def (or LOTR in my private home theater) is quite worth it, thank you!
- PM
Long and short of it is this:
The AE-500 is much brighter, has better contrast, and no "screen door effect" in comparason to the AE-200. However, many of these improvements were seen in the AE-300 as well so it appears the AE-300 to AE-500 jump is very incremental.
The biggest new improvements on the Panasonic AE-500 are this:
- Native 1280x720 resolution. (ROCKS as a computer display with a 1280x720 video card.)
- DVI Input. (Cleaner than VGA at 1280x720)
- "AI Lamp Modulation". Improves contrast, but is annoying in computer mode. Thankfully it can be disabled per input type.
Downside:
- JAPANESE ONLY setup menus
For me, that's just funny. They got tired of Americans undercutting Panasonic-USA's distributors by importing the AE series instead of buying the more expensive (and identical) USA PT series, so they locked the menus into Japanese.
As it turns out it's not a problem at all. The menus are very intuitive and you only need them once to set up brightness / contrast / etc. Plus, when I hit the "Menu" button to check the mode it's in or something I get laughs from non-geeks and automatic cool-factor points from geeks. :-) I get to say "Yeah, I imported this model from Japan because it's superior to the projectors available in the USA for the same price."
Overall, I'm pleased with mine. It has a couple of "lazy pixels" though, which show up as light green when they aren't supposed to. I'm not willing to pay the round-trip shipping to replace it since they are only visible in certain colors and I almost never notice them. (They don't show up in white, black, or green... only in skin-tones or similar beige colors. Oh well.)
- PhreakMonkey
Let me just say I _LOVE_ this projector. It does native 16:9 1280x720 resolution and makes a great computer display in addition to being a great home theater projector. I have it projected on a homemade 100" diag screen! (7.1' wide, 4' tall) and it's very usable. Video games are unbelievable, web sites are HUGE, and WinAmp visualizations are absolutely breathtaking.
With ANY projector though- a light-controlled environment is KEY. Sunlight completely destroys the picture, so be sure you have a decent size room with no windows or are willing to cover the windows with something if you use it during the day.
The Sanyo Z2 / Panasonic AE-500 use the same LCD array, so either one would be an excellent choice for the /. crowd.
- P.M.
You, clearly, do not run a dedicated Unreal Tournament server. Or maybe you thought the occasional "runaway-process" that eats all your memory and disk-space before crashing was just a random benign bug?
I had to run ucc-bin in an unprivledged environment and put "ulimit" guard rails around it on my linux server to keep it from taking the OS with it when it was attacked. Now it's just the game that crashes.
And then, when I had a cron job to detect and bring the server back up- some very unscrupulous players would use the crash-and-restart "feature" to kick other players off the server and have their friends rejoin.
So- now when some id10t crashes the server, it stays down for up to 4 hours. That way the skr1pt k1dd13s get bored and go f--- up someone elses server.
No, I'd say it's been abused. Any dedicated server operator has known about these holes for years. It's nice to see it get acknowledged. There isn't an original UT patch yet. Now let's just hope there's a patch BEFORE there's a whole new slew of exploits.
- PM
... I guess we know which one you are.
Uhh, dude? There are large parts of the image misframed that even appear in the "TV" version. Yes, that would ruin the movie for me, too.
It doesn't ruin the movie for you? Wow.
I have a 1986 Sony Trinitron television you can buy, it works great but there's this permanent 3" black bar across the top of the screen. None of the "particularly important parts" of the TV shows are ever on the top 3", so it shouldn't ruin the shows for you. It's all yours for $100!
- P.M.
The reason the second two films have taken so long is that halfway through filming of the second movie one of the lead actors died in a plane crash and they had to start over to remain true to the original screenplay.
- PM
Oh c'mon, that's what pogo sticks are for! When I was 14 I bounced on one of those pneumatic car-sensor tubes at a dry-cleaner in my neighborhood with a pogo stick... I think the entire staff came out looking for me, and they were carrying big sticks.
Ah, the good 'ol days....
US Department of Transportation: Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR)
Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR)
Subpart B - First-Class Airman Medical Certificate
67.103 Eye.
Eye standards for a first-class airman medical certificate are:
(a) Distant visual acuity of 20/20 or better in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses. If corrective lenses (spectacles or contact lenses) are necessary for 20/20 vision, the person may be elegible only on the condition that corrective lenses are worn while excercising the privileges of an airman certificate.
(b) Near vision of 20/40 or better, Snellen equivalent, at 16 inches in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses (&etc..)
(c) Ability to percieve those colors necessary for the safe performance of airman duties
(d) Normal fields of vision.
(e) No acute or chronic pathological condition of either eye or adnexa that interferes with the proper function of an eye, that may reasonably be expected to progress to that degree, or that may reasonably be expected to be aggravated by flying.
(f) Bifoveal fixation and vergence-phoria relationship sufficent to prevent a break in fusion under conditions that may reasonably be expected to occur in performing airman duties. Tests for the factors named in this paragraph are not required (&etc..)
-----
No mention in the entire FAR section, or in the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) about having had surgery in the past. If you pass the tests, then you can get your medical. If you get your medical, then you meet the qualifications.
If you are flying under a First Class medical certificate (Part 135 Regs) for an air-carrier, then you have to have your medical retested every 6 months anyway, so any degredation would hopefully disqualify you for a 1st class medical before it became dangerous.
A third class medical (for General Aviation flying, for instance) is even more forgiving that that.
If anyone knows of any documented reference against LASIK by the FAA, then let me know. I'd be interested to know where they keep undocumented medical rules like that. (Seriously.)
- PM
Ideally I wish the first sentence were true, but it's not. I've been working in information security for almost 10 years, and most of the "security experts" I meet know a lot about one particular operating system, possibly a lot about network vulnerabilities or firewalls, and never even consider the idea of risk valuation or exposure assessment.
They tend to harp on and on about "but this is insecure" or "that will get you hacked" but can't even begin to describe the business justification for or against mitigating it.
I think ISC^2 is doing the information security industry a great service by exposing people who claim to be "Information Security Professionals" to the whole picture.
BTW - I totally agree with your points, just because you have to understand the structure of a building to put out a fire doesn't mean that you should use architects as firefighters either. :-) It's just nice to see the "big picture" finally getting some exposure to a largely immature industry.
- PM
The International Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium (ISC^2) defines ten domains of information security.
Physical Security is one of them... a big one. So is network security, auditing, forensics, and liability, amongst other things.
Anyone interested in the relations of risk management and physical/information security should aim their research towards ISC^2 related documentation.. in addition to being fairly comprehensive you will be better prepared when you become experienced enough to apply for your CISSP certification. ;-)
(ISC^2 can be found here)
-PM
"some non-obscure disease" is exactly what we should be worried about. Have you taken your anti-malaria pills recently? Oh- you don't have to where you live... yet..
WRONG! According to the bill, Osama would be able to perform Denial-of-Service attacks or otherwise impair your ability to distribute the image over a peer-to-peer network. That's all. He wouldn't be protected against attacking the integrity of your computer or any of the data stored on it. That's specifically prohibited in subsections (b) and (c) of the bill.
- P.M.
1. Flight Data Recorders ("black boxes") are not installed in all aircraft. In fact, they tend to only be installed in very large commercial jets operated under part 135 regulations. For the most part, general aviation aircraft do not have them. This would be akin to only having them installed in large busses and trucks, not individual passenger cars.
2. The aviation industry saw the need a long time ago to start correlating accident or violation data to determine why things go wrong sometimes. It was understood by all that a voluntary reporting form was required to allow pilots to report errors, mistakes, or possible rule violations and why they happened.
Well, obviously nobody wants to fill out a form and send it in to the FAA or NTSB saying "yeah, I broke this major rule yesterday and I thought you should know about it..." So, the FAA and NTSB decided to appoint NASA to do the job. It's called the Aviation Safety Reporting System, and it's completely anonymous.
The reason I bring all this up is to demonstrate that there are other options for gathering, analyzing, and correlating data to determine why accidents happen.
As someone previously pointed out - we pretty much know why car accidents happen. The money would be better spent on better education and a more consistent set of regulations and enforcement for automobile use.
If you crash an airplane into anything you may lose your license. At any rate, you have to answer very seriously for why it happened. We need a similar system for automobiles, because the stakes aren't really that much lower.
- P.M.
"But that's just my opinion, and what do I know?" - Dennis Miller
-pm
D'oh!
Why don't you read the rest of the summary (not to mention the actual paper itself) before posting.
You're allowed to spend your time (and company resources) surfing for p0rn, and you wonder why the pay isn't decent?
Geez. Glad you don't work here. :=)
You, my friend, have a common misconception of the volume of empty space out there. We can't see shit, metaphorically speaking. Given the distances involved in comparison with (1) the size of voyager and (2) the speed of voyager I really think it would be akin to releasing a dandilion seed on the continent of africa and hoping someone on the other side sees it one day.
Check the numbers for the sizes and distances of the sun, the earth, and pluto.. then boil it down to scales we can see. If the sun was a basketball - how far away would the earth be from it, and how large would it be? What about pluto? Now, how far away from those objects is the next closest star?
Given those distances and sizes, how big would voyager be and how fast is it moving?
it boggles the mind, it does! :-)
You can find it at most herbal stores, and some drug stores.
I kept re-reading the description wondering "why do I care how fast he was going at each mile?"