"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost... in time, like... tears... in rain. Time...to die..." The monologue gives me chills to this day.
Close behind that is Alien. And Avatar. OK, I need to stop now.
Very practical idea for the many people who don't believe in the IoT. Thanks. Am I missing something or is this a spectacularly bad and abusable security design problem by Google? Or stated another way, who is paying Google to open this hole?
Excellent idea. This is my last-ditch maneuver if there is no user-selectable preference box to 'Disable Chrome browser access to Bluetooth devices.' Do I have to wear the matching tinfoil hat for this to work?
How long before the criminals use the Bluetooth connection to turn off various important household systems? When it's -10 degrees F/ -23 C in the upper Midwest of the US and in Canada it is highly inconvenient to get a message to the effect that "Your Carrier Xfinity Furnace has been turned off and locked by us by remotely disabling the furnace control board firmware. To receive the code to unlock it and restore heat in your house, please submit 2 Bitcoin (about US$ 2000) to the following account before your pipes and your family freeze. And by the way, we also opened your garage door for your convenience and more rapid cooling."
I would be very interested to know how to disable the Bluetooth API in the new versions of Chrome/Chromium. (I run both).
I am an anesthesiologist who takes care of adults primarily. I did about 9 months of pediatric anesthesia in my 36 month residency after medical school. The pediatric anesthesiologist I trained under were spectacular and caring clinicians. I think you might be generalizing in your post. Until the late 1980s, doctors did not anesthetize boys routinely for *circumcision*. For other operations, infants and children were anesthetized similarly to adults. Studies came out around that time (late 1980s, IIRC) on the levels of circulating stress hormones like cortisol during circumcisions that proved the infants were responding physiologically exactly like older children and adults feeling pain. That was the end of the 'babies don't feel pain' hypothesis, which no one subscribes to any more.
Remember that anesthesiologists are parents too. A lot has changed in medicine and anesthesia in 30 years. Undergoing anesthesia can be as scary as needing surgery in the first place, so I wanted to say anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists study a long time (and are tested repeatedly!) to make sure we know how to get patients through surgery without feeling pain in the OR. If you or your child needs surgery, talk to the anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist!
I can barely handle the smart kids I already have...and got them without tilting the odds. Do you know what it's like to lose an argument to your four-year-old?
I much prefer the thoughtful posts prior to yours that helped me understand the limitation of current e-book technology such as formatting problems and other limitations, such as expiration of access to the electronic textbook. You chose to call me a moron. That really doesn't advance the discussion. As far as "19-century technology," I am talking about the modern idea of mass-produced textbooks for use in schools, with machine-made bindings, pages of paper, not velum or papyrus, along with layouts, graphics, tables of contents, indices, that we would recognize. I'm not talking about Gutenberg's Bible.
If you're such an expert on the textbook publishing business, please enlighten us with your gift of knowledge. I do know this: textbooks as currently conceived are an anachronism and will be largely supplanted by electronic media in some form in the next 50 years. Anachronism. That's a big word. You might want to look it up. Unless you work for a big publishing house, in which case you don't want to know what that means, because you have a vested interest in ass-raping a few more generations of college students. Amazon may have it's disadvantages, but watching it eat the lunch of self-serving dicks like you is quite satisfying.
My only reaction to this piece is: why is Amazon investing and 're-inventing' 19th-century technology? Why do major universities of the world even have paper textbooks? Their professors' course material should all be online, and in many cases it already is. That way it is accessible to everyone who needs it and pays for it. (no back orders!) The other benefit is that the author can update the text to reflect new information, and everyone has the new version instantaneously. And no more rapacious profits for publishing companies who push new, trivially updated editions of standard textbooks upon academic departments which then force students to buy them.
I went to the site, added two sets of the 999 silver coins to my Cart. Went to pay for it, and noticed the website was NOT secure. No "https" in the address line. This NZ Mint appears to be completely clueless about security OR the entire thing is a giant SCAM. It's actually hilarious: the place in NZ that MAKES THE MONEY does not know how to secure an online order form. Maybe they don't have criminals down there? BUYER BEWARE. I canceled my order, and my 11-yr-old will never know what he almost got for his birthday.
Did anyone else notice this? I'm in the US using Chrome 13.0.782.112 (the latest) on OS X Snow Leopard, fully updated. (Chrome is very clear when a secure page has been loaded)
Can anyone with relevant experience at a major ISP give an estimate of how big the 90-day rolling logfile would be for even one company? Would it be terabytes/million subscribers and exabytes for an entire country?
Do any of the major ISPs have the infrastructure to store this much information at the moment? Imagine the electrical power needed to store this much (mostly useless) information--not exactly environmentally friendly.
Perhaps a Beowulf cluster could... (ducks)
Good point, no theory can even be brought forward without rigorous math behind it and the GPP's theory is not expressed mathematically. My post was more to encourage smart people who aren't necessarily trained physicists to pursue unconventional ideas because that's where the next breakthrough in physics will come from. And when I say pursue, I mean, take their ideas and see if it can be expressed mathematically in a way that connects to the standard model. That's what AE did.
BTW, why are you posting such coherent replies AC?
You forget Einstein was a Patent Office Examiner in Switzerland in 1905 when he published four papers that revolutionized physics. One of those articles won him a Nobel prize. When he wrote those articles he was not yet a physicist; he only held a teaching diploma and had been unable to find a teaching post. He received his doctorate in 1905 at which point he was a physicist. Here's a quote from wiki about his breakthrough articles:
During 1905, in his spare time, he wrote four articles that participated in the foundation of modern physics, without much scientific literature to which he could refer or many scientific colleagues with whom he could discuss the theories.
Based on the current state of disarray of string theory, wherein there is not yet a single testable hypothesis, I would recommend you not sneer quite so much at people thinking outside the box.
You are misunderstanding what I'm trying to tell Crispy. Please refer to that post. You are technically correct that to ACCURATELY approximate, let's say, a sine wave, the sampling frequency must be greater than the sine wave (analog) frequency. But that's not what Crispy was talking about. He was equating the analog signal frequency and sampling frequency and scoffing because no one can hear a 96kHz sound. Duh! I think you need to reread Crispy's original post, assuming you are not also Crispy.
Secondly, I never said the 24-bit depth was the same as or equal to the frequency and the word amplitude did not occur in my post. That was not a topic under discussion. I fully realize the digitization process does not directly record amplitude, which you correctly point out is an analog term. But again, Crispy was not talking about that. He was confusing 24-bit depth (a digital concept) and dynamic range (an analog concept).
Why are you defending Crispy's egregiously misinformed and confused post? I was trying to shed some light on the subject, and you are obscuring other people's understanding with technically correct but irrelevant "corrections" to what I wrote, for instance by writing "Again, no." Unless you have something helpful to add, at least refrain from being unhelpful. Sheesh.
You are mixing your frequencies badly. When a digital sample has a 96kHz designation, that's the SAMPLING FREQUENCY. That's how many times per second the Analog to Digital converter took a reading of the analog signal. It has nothing to do with the frequency of the analog sound being digitized. Hence, the higher the sampling rate, the more bits and the larger the file. The 24-bit designation refers to the depth of sound and has NOTHING to do with dynamic range. Each sample (1/96,000s) has a value for the frequency at that instant. The depth refers to how many individual values can be seen at that instant. 24-bit means that there are 16.8 Million possible values for each 1/96,000s slice of time.
Humans can hear about 20Hz to about 20kHz, although with age that high end decreases significantly. Modern speakers and headphones come extremely close to responding accurately in that range.
So in light of this, your comment makes no sense at all. Unfortunately, "semi-coherent rambling" is not an available mod on/. (You qualify.)
Your quaint supply/demand notions about doctors really are amusing. It has been conclusively shown multiple times that adding physicians does only one thing: increase total health care expenditures. Physicians' fees are part of it, but those are only a modest fraction of the total health care bill. What do doctors do? They order tests. They order CT scans. They write prescriptions. They admit people to hospital. All of that costs money and together constitutes the majority of health care expenditures in the US.
And you may not believe this fact about physician supply, but the US Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services certainly does.
And if you live here in the US, your suggestion of potentially quadrupling the supply of doctors would lead to a massive increase in your taxes for another reason. Why? Because resident physicians are paid in large part by Medicare in a complex arrangements with the States and individual residency training programs.
The entire American medical delivery system is indeed broken, but after 17 years working in the medical field, I know your simplistic, mildly delusional views on the AMA and physician supply are just not helpful.
Why not focus on the administrative overhead? In private health care plans and insurance it eats up 30% of expenditures in the US. For all its many faults, on the other hand, the Medicare system delivers to many more patients while spending about 5% for administration of the system. By no means is nationalized health care in anyone's interest here, but this kind of analysis could lead to some real progress.
Thanks for the input. I was ranting a bit... This is very OT, but I managed to achieve CUPS to CUPS printing finally by editing for the 5th time the cupsd.conf file. In the security options section the order already was allow, deny, but the only thing that worked was to change all the "deny from" lines to "none." Then left the "allow from" lines as they were, i.e., allowing my home network. You were right that Debian is locked down very tight by default.
I really agree that this is one of the remaining things that must be fixed for linux to make further inroads on the desktop.
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I have just spent about 4 days trying to get my debian machine to print to my other debian machine, which acts as a print server, attached to a well-known HPLaserjet printer.
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How can anyone make any sense out of the following:
Printing from Firefox, via Xprint, to CUPS, via SAMBA to the print server, which uses the foomatic-hpijs driver? And what are gimp-print and cupsomatic, anyway?
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Xprint is the most user-unfriendly, inscrutable, and hard to configure software I've ever seen in Linux. (Been here since Caldera OpenLinux 2.4) If you read the Xprint website, it does everything, apparently including world peace. Tried Xpp, did not work.
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What is amazing is that my OS X Powerbook prints to the Linux print server perfectly, and setup was no big deal. I can't get my debian machine to do the same.[/P]
I have read all the Howtos, googled and still have wasted several days and still can't print. I fear there is no hope for Linux ever "making it big."
This ruling leaves Diebold exposed at least to civil liabililty in the US. This is from the DMCA text:
''(f) MISREPRESENTATIONS.--Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section--
''(1) that material or activity is infringing, or
''(2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by the alleged infringer...
From my read, the DMCA does NOT require the signer of the Take-Down letter to state "under penalty of perjury" or similar language regarding their ownership of the copyright of the work in question, only that he/she is authorized to represent the copyright owner.
The question remains whether a prosecutor with jurisdiction wishes to pursue the issue now that a judge has determined that Diebold could not reasonably have believed they owned the copyright of the documents in question.
Some states in the US have barratry laws as well, so if one of the recipients of the fraudulent DMCA Take-Down letters is located in one of them, that might apply, but IANAL.
I applaud this ruling; sanity is starting to creep into the use of DMCA here in the US. We have a long way to go, however. Is there a similar trend going on in Australia, NZ or Europe?
You post and the one above it makes me think the slowness may be related to un-optimized binaries. As a veteran of RH 7.1, then Gentoo, and most recently Libranet 2.8.1 (Debian), I just have this feeling that your binaries were not compiled for your processor. There are multiple flags that need to be set. For instance -i386 or -i686: the first will compile code that will run on any i386 processor, but the latter will compile binaries that are optimized for newer Pentiums.
IIRC, the AMD K6 chip had certain specific optimizations that needed to be set to get the best performance. Can you check to see what flags your binaries were compiled with in either Slack or SuSE?
I wish it was as simple as you describe. The Remote Access was designed to allow someone outside to administer the router/AP. To get to that same admin page you reach at 192.168.1.1 from inside your LAN, an outside person has to know or randomly hit your external IP address on port 80 (or in some cases 443). The external IP address is usually assigned to you by your broadband provider.
And think for a minute: there is no point in having Remote Administration if it is only available on an unroutable IP address.
I tested this exploit on my WRT54G and got to the login/password page on port 80 (but not on 443) by entering my external IP into the browser address window. Entered the login/passwd an I was in, just like the article describes. And yes, my Remote Management is Disabled. And Anonymous Internet Requests are Blocked.
Your post may have given people an unfounded sense of security. Until this is patched, tighten up the passwords and route http on ports 80 and 443 to non-existent client machines. I did this on my AP/router and can still browse the web fine on all my boxes (Linux, OS X, and XP)
Correction of above: HIV infects lymphocytes through the CD4+ receptor. It does not infect spermatozoa (cells with squiggly tails). HIV is found in semen, not sperm because semen contains lymphocytes, along with several other kinds of cells. Some HIV is found floating free in the seminal fluid.
Hence, a seropositive male almost always produces seronegative offspring, assuming the mother is not infected. It would be unusual for a fetus ever to acquire HIV infection directly from the father. The developing embryo simply does not have the CD4+ receptor that HIV latches on to, until much later in development.
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost... in time, like... tears... in rain. Time...to die..." The monologue gives me chills to this day. Close behind that is Alien. And Avatar. OK, I need to stop now.
Interesting idea. The password request would be a reminder that it's a modified version of chromium.
Very practical idea for the many people who don't believe in the IoT. Thanks. Am I missing something or is this a spectacularly bad and abusable security design problem by Google? Or stated another way, who is paying Google to open this hole?
Excellent idea. This is my last-ditch maneuver if there is no user-selectable preference box to 'Disable Chrome browser access to Bluetooth devices.' Do I have to wear the matching tinfoil hat for this to work?
How long before the criminals use the Bluetooth connection to turn off various important household systems? When it's -10 degrees F/ -23 C in the upper Midwest of the US and in Canada it is highly inconvenient to get a message to the effect that "Your Carrier Xfinity Furnace has been turned off and locked by us by remotely disabling the furnace control board firmware. To receive the code to unlock it and restore heat in your house, please submit 2 Bitcoin (about US$ 2000) to the following account before your pipes and your family freeze. And by the way, we also opened your garage door for your convenience and more rapid cooling." I would be very interested to know how to disable the Bluetooth API in the new versions of Chrome/Chromium. (I run both).
I am an anesthesiologist who takes care of adults primarily. I did about 9 months of pediatric anesthesia in my 36 month residency after medical school. The pediatric anesthesiologist I trained under were spectacular and caring clinicians. I think you might be generalizing in your post. Until the late 1980s, doctors did not anesthetize boys routinely for *circumcision*. For other operations, infants and children were anesthetized similarly to adults. Studies came out around that time (late 1980s, IIRC) on the levels of circulating stress hormones like cortisol during circumcisions that proved the infants were responding physiologically exactly like older children and adults feeling pain. That was the end of the 'babies don't feel pain' hypothesis, which no one subscribes to any more. Remember that anesthesiologists are parents too. A lot has changed in medicine and anesthesia in 30 years. Undergoing anesthesia can be as scary as needing surgery in the first place, so I wanted to say anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists study a long time (and are tested repeatedly!) to make sure we know how to get patients through surgery without feeling pain in the OR. If you or your child needs surgery, talk to the anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist!
I can barely handle the smart kids I already have...and got them without tilting the odds. Do you know what it's like to lose an argument to your four-year-old?
Is 'Steaming Pile of Shit' already taken?
I much prefer the thoughtful posts prior to yours that helped me understand the limitation of current e-book technology such as formatting problems and other limitations, such as expiration of access to the electronic textbook. You chose to call me a moron. That really doesn't advance the discussion. As far as "19-century technology," I am talking about the modern idea of mass-produced textbooks for use in schools, with machine-made bindings, pages of paper, not velum or papyrus, along with layouts, graphics, tables of contents, indices, that we would recognize. I'm not talking about Gutenberg's Bible. If you're such an expert on the textbook publishing business, please enlighten us with your gift of knowledge. I do know this: textbooks as currently conceived are an anachronism and will be largely supplanted by electronic media in some form in the next 50 years. Anachronism. That's a big word. You might want to look it up. Unless you work for a big publishing house, in which case you don't want to know what that means, because you have a vested interest in ass-raping a few more generations of college students. Amazon may have it's disadvantages, but watching it eat the lunch of self-serving dicks like you is quite satisfying.
My only reaction to this piece is: why is Amazon investing and 're-inventing' 19th-century technology? Why do major universities of the world even have paper textbooks? Their professors' course material should all be online, and in many cases it already is. That way it is accessible to everyone who needs it and pays for it. (no back orders!) The other benefit is that the author can update the text to reflect new information, and everyone has the new version instantaneously. And no more rapacious profits for publishing companies who push new, trivially updated editions of standard textbooks upon academic departments which then force students to buy them.
I went to the site, added two sets of the 999 silver coins to my Cart. Went to pay for it, and noticed the website was NOT secure. No "https" in the address line. This NZ Mint appears to be completely clueless about security OR the entire thing is a giant SCAM. It's actually hilarious: the place in NZ that MAKES THE MONEY does not know how to secure an online order form. Maybe they don't have criminals down there? BUYER BEWARE. I canceled my order, and my 11-yr-old will never know what he almost got for his birthday. Did anyone else notice this? I'm in the US using Chrome 13.0.782.112 (the latest) on OS X Snow Leopard, fully updated. (Chrome is very clear when a secure page has been loaded)
Can anyone with relevant experience at a major ISP give an estimate of how big the 90-day rolling logfile would be for even one company? Would it be terabytes/million subscribers and exabytes for an entire country? Do any of the major ISPs have the infrastructure to store this much information at the moment? Imagine the electrical power needed to store this much (mostly useless) information--not exactly environmentally friendly. Perhaps a Beowulf cluster could... (ducks)
BTW, why are you posting such coherent replies AC?
During 1905, in his spare time, he wrote four articles that participated in the foundation of modern physics, without much scientific literature to which he could refer or many scientific colleagues with whom he could discuss the theories.
Based on the current state of disarray of string theory, wherein there is not yet a single testable hypothesis, I would recommend you not sneer quite so much at people thinking outside the box.
Secondly, I never said the 24-bit depth was the same as or equal to the frequency and the word amplitude did not occur in my post. That was not a topic under discussion. I fully realize the digitization process does not directly record amplitude, which you correctly point out is an analog term. But again, Crispy was not talking about that. He was confusing 24-bit depth (a digital concept) and dynamic range (an analog concept).
Why are you defending Crispy's egregiously misinformed and confused post? I was trying to shed some light on the subject, and you are obscuring other people's understanding with technically correct but irrelevant "corrections" to what I wrote, for instance by writing "Again, no." Unless you have something helpful to add, at least refrain from being unhelpful. Sheesh.
Humans can hear about 20Hz to about 20kHz, although with age that high end decreases significantly. Modern speakers and headphones come extremely close to responding accurately in that range.
So in light of this, your comment makes no sense at all. Unfortunately, "semi-coherent rambling" is not an available mod on /. (You qualify.)
Your quaint supply/demand notions about doctors really are amusing. It has been conclusively shown multiple times that adding physicians does only one thing: increase total health care expenditures. Physicians' fees are part of it, but those are only a modest fraction of the total health care bill. What do doctors do? They order tests. They order CT scans. They write prescriptions. They admit people to hospital. All of that costs money and together constitutes the majority of health care expenditures in the US.
And you may not believe this fact about physician supply, but the US Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services certainly does.
And if you live here in the US, your suggestion of potentially quadrupling the supply of doctors would lead to a massive increase in your taxes for another reason. Why? Because resident physicians are paid in large part by Medicare in a complex arrangements with the States and individual residency training programs.
The entire American medical delivery system is indeed broken, but after 17 years working in the medical field, I know your simplistic, mildly delusional views on the AMA and physician supply are just not helpful.
Why not focus on the administrative overhead? In private health care plans and insurance it eats up 30% of expenditures in the US. For all its many faults, on the other hand, the Medicare system delivers to many more patients while spending about 5% for administration of the system. By no means is nationalized health care in anyone's interest here, but this kind of analysis could lead to some real progress.
Thanks for the input. I was ranting a bit...
This is very OT, but I managed to achieve CUPS to CUPS printing finally by editing for the 5th time the cupsd.conf file. In the security options section the order already was allow, deny, but the only thing that worked was to change all the "deny from" lines to "none." Then left the "allow from" lines as they were, i.e., allowing my home network. You were right that Debian is locked down very tight by default.
I really agree that this is one of the remaining things that must be fixed for linux to make further inroads on the desktop. [/P] I have just spent about 4 days trying to get my debian machine to print to my other debian machine, which acts as a print server, attached to a well-known HPLaserjet printer. [/P] How can anyone make any sense out of the following: Printing from Firefox, via Xprint, to CUPS, via SAMBA to the print server, which uses the foomatic-hpijs driver? And what are gimp-print and cupsomatic, anyway? [/P] Xprint is the most user-unfriendly, inscrutable, and hard to configure software I've ever seen in Linux. (Been here since Caldera OpenLinux 2.4) If you read the Xprint website, it does everything, apparently including world peace. Tried Xpp, did not work. [/P] What is amazing is that my OS X Powerbook prints to the Linux print server perfectly, and setup was no big deal. I can't get my debian machine to do the same.[/P] I have read all the Howtos, googled and still have wasted several days and still can't print. I fear there is no hope for Linux ever "making it big."
This ruling leaves Diebold exposed at least to civil liabililty in the US. This is from the DMCA text:
''(f) MISREPRESENTATIONS.--Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section--
''(1) that material or activity is infringing, or
''(2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by the alleged infringer...
From my read, the DMCA does NOT require the signer of the Take-Down letter to state "under penalty of perjury" or similar language regarding their ownership of the copyright of the work in question, only that he/she is authorized to represent the copyright owner.
The question remains whether a prosecutor with jurisdiction wishes to pursue the issue now that a judge has determined that Diebold could not reasonably have believed they owned the copyright of the documents in question.
Some states in the US have barratry laws as well, so if one of the recipients of the fraudulent DMCA Take-Down letters is located in one of them, that might apply, but IANAL.
I applaud this ruling; sanity is starting to creep into the use of DMCA here in the US. We have a long way to go, however. Is there a similar trend going on in Australia, NZ or Europe?
LOL! Apparently some of the moderators today are humour impaired. Where are my mod points when I need them?? The Canadians?!!! Awesome.
Good Question! From various sources, US patents are valid for 20 years from date of filing. Probably the RLE patent expires Oct. 5, 2007. Bummer.
IIRC, the AMD K6 chip had certain specific optimizations that needed to be set to get the best performance. Can you check to see what flags your binaries were compiled with in either Slack or SuSE?
And think for a minute: there is no point in having Remote Administration if it is only available on an unroutable IP address.
I tested this exploit on my WRT54G and got to the login/password page on port 80 (but not on 443) by entering my external IP into the browser address window. Entered the login/passwd an I was in, just like the article describes. And yes, my Remote Management is Disabled. And Anonymous Internet Requests are Blocked.
Your post may have given people an unfounded sense of security. Until this is patched, tighten up the passwords and route http on ports 80 and 443 to non-existent client machines. I did this on my AP/router and can still browse the web fine on all my boxes (Linux, OS X, and XP)
Hence, a seropositive male almost always produces seronegative offspring, assuming the mother is not infected. It would be unusual for a fetus ever to acquire HIV infection directly from the father. The developing embryo simply does not have the CD4+ receptor that HIV latches on to, until much later in development.
HIV transmission is not like Mendelian genetics.