You are not understanding the nature of the attack. You statements are only true if there is no better attack on the encryption algorithm than brute force. Unfortunately that is exactly what this is. Go read up on ciphertext attacks.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if you browsed a website with Content Security Policy headers on a Comcast public Wi-Fi hotspot.
The technology is new enough that the injection technology might not handle it and thus the browser would block the ad. But if they did, by changing the CSP headers, the website might have a stronger case for suing Comcast since they would be explicitly bypassing a security technology.
Are you familiar with the discussion around Full disclosure? There are good reasons to publicly release vulnerabilities and if people were made legally liable for doing that, it would probably decrease our security in the long run. Assuming the information Renderman released points to an actual vulnerability, the FAA response shows the exact reason why full disclosure is necessary.
Except that the source code does not seem to actually be available. The download page that is linked from the license page does not say anything about source code except how it is licensed. Looking at the source of the page shows a commented out section that talks about how to get the source code and links here. However the link to the source code on that page is dead.
Also, the license has an exception for the GPC code, which is free for non-commercial use only. Admittedly, I don't know how much functionality it enables in Paint.Net.
So I would say an MIT license without any actual source code available is less than free.
32-bit Tortoise doesn't even run on 64-bit Windows - so I'm stuck.
It may not show up in the 64-bit explorer shell, but it does install and run. I believe a lot of people install both so that they can see TSVN options in the open dialog of their 32-bit apps.
I've been wondering what happened to the project. I upgraded from pchdtvr about a month ago and shortly thereafter the project was deleted from sourceforge. Is that even normally possible? I though I had heard comments to the contrary. His web page is also gone. The only remaining info that I can find is here.
The software is not bad, but I've found it a bit buggy, especially compared to pchdtvr, which was pretty solid. It is surprising that he would do this now, pchdtvr has been out since at least 2005. I notice that it is still available from pchdtv.com.
Ok, there is a good amount of misinformation and ignorance in this post, I feel the need to respond.
Tivo is also owned by Phillips.
I'm pretty sure that is not the case. A few companies had large stakes in Tivo, but no one owns them.
Tivo willfully shares your Tivo data with others. That is a pretty small story you linked to. And if you had read the full story you would know that customers have to specifically agree to be part of the Neilson program.
Tivo has violated their privacy agreement with you a number of times. They
changed their privacy policy to allow them to share your data without notifying
their customers. The link they provided in their manual still made you click
through on about 3 or 4 links before actually getting to the policy. I know
of many Tivo owners who were concerned about their privacy were in an absolute
uproar about this.
There has been a number debates about Tivo's privacy policy, but I believe they have done a very good job. I don't know what event you are refering to, but I don't believe it to be true. If you could provide a link I could make an intelligent responce.
Replay TV refused to share your private information and were almost forced
to do so. They paid lawyers
to keep my information to themselves.
Yes, good for them. But to my knowledge Tivo has never shared personal viewing information with anyone. They do share aggregate data, and have always been up front about this.
Replay TV has allowed for me to access
my Replay TV from anywhere with an internet connection. I have heard that
Tivo has also adopted this. Not sure though.
Tivo currently doesn't provide this feature, but it looks like they are planning to do this in the future. However if you hack your Tivo, you can get TivoWeb, which I imagine has more capabilities than myreplaytv simply because of how it works.
Replay TV gave me the 30
second skip so that I can easily bypass commercials. I believe Tivo has
also snagged this feature as well?
Yes, but you have to press a few buttons to active a backdoor to get this feature.
One thing that Tivo has over Replay is that it was the first to let you can
hack it to add larger drives.
Yes, and a lot of other hacks too.
ReplayTV does now too.
Overall, features on both are very similar, though the methodology to record
shows is a little different. Replay gives you more pause time as it isn't just
recording things it THINKS you MIGHT like. Replay makes you be specific about
what you want to record, though they have theme recording channels. Tivo is
programed to make certain assumptions about what you want it to record in addition
to what you specifically specify.
This is a rather misleading statement. You have full control over what your tivo records. Although you can argue the merits of the different systems. The suggestions that tivo finds, only records to any extra space you have, and will never delete or preempt anything you have told it to record. And you can turn off suggestions if you want.
Bottom, line, do the math and find yourself the best deal. Even if one or both
went out of business, we'd make a hack to grab the programing information anyway. Agreed
Shameless plug. The Tivo Web Project is designed to give you a web interface to your TiVo. And it does, the TCL branch allows you to browse, edit, create, delete entries in now showing, todo, season passes, browse the channel guide, look at suggestions, preferences (thumbs ratings), etc. It's themable, modular, runs directly on the TiVo and is pretty mature.
The last time I posted on a tivo article the TCL branch wasn't released, and I haven't seen as many downloads as I would expect so far. So have fun.:)
You are obviously talking out your ass. TiVolutionary IS an official rep for the company and has posted to the AVS forum a lot and been very helpful to TiVo users.
You can not revert to 1.3 from 2.0. While the old 1.3 software is on an alternate set of partitions, the database format has been changed and 1.3 will definetly NOT work with it. His only option is to restore from a backup or possibly exchange it for a another tivo with 1.3 on it.
Being heavily into the TiVo underground scene (tivo.lightn.org), I thought I'd share some information about the situation.
While I am generally a supporter of TiVo, I have to agree with this guy. TiVo stated that TiVos that upgraded from 1.3 to 2.0 would still be able to manually record shows (boxes that ship with 2.0 are limited to the 30 minute buffer period). While this was technically true, they certainly downgraded functionality that people paid for.
The one touch recording was supposedly removed because it was causing confusion since it would just automatically start recording that 30 min block. So it wasn't too useful to begin with, but certainly useful in certain situations.
I think the now playing changes are the most significant, as they represent a direct effort to remove functionality from 1.3 software.
The "nag screen" is not new. Few people on the avsforum new about it in the beginning when everyone subscribed, but when it came to people's attention, there was some heated debate, with me against TiVo. I never felt they gave an adequate responce to how having a nag screen makes the subscription to the service completely "optional."
The backdoor to the 1.3 software is known and the method to set the clock is also, although it is certainly not user friendly. Check tivo.samba.org (I think the input format is the same as the date command arguement).
Downgrading is impossible short of a complete backup of the Tivo harddrive. The database format and structure has changed and there is no easy way back. Although a lot of people did backups when they upgraded their tivo's hard drive. Just don't restore from an image from another brand or to a lesser version of software than the tivo shipped with! And some people are working on being able to do a complete drive setup on any sized disk from scratch.
There is a EULA in the manual, but I think it only applies when you subscribe to the service. The same debate about loss of functionality was made when people saw of the changes in 2.0 as negative (no matter how minor). The general consensus was that TiVo couldn't support multiple versions economically, so if you subscribed to the service you had to accept the changes in functionality that came with software upgrades. This situation is certainly less clear...
Also, it is general held that until recently (and maybe still), TiVo paid manufactures a certain amount of money for each box sold. And they certainly spend a lot to obtain each user (advertising money, check the financial reports). Most of their income comes from subscription fees. To some that just indicates a bad business model and they won't care, others might.
First, I understand it was ment to be funny, but I thought it was a point worth making.
Second, I'm not so sure. They use UUNet pops if one is available or a 1-800 number otherwise. I'm not sure if different numbers in the same city would use the different IPs or not. But assuming they use the same IP space, the max you could determine would be the the city. And they already break it down by zip code.
Third, crypted doesn't really matter as it is sent over phone lines whick are hard to sniff. And we have hacked to box and can see what data they are collected before it is encrypted.
Forth, while that may be true, they have always had a strong privacy policy and strong commitment to keep it. And assuming they can't currently match data to individuals, that would only apply to future data, not to what is currently stored.
TiVo has actually gone to lengths to make sure they CAN'T associate the data. The uploaded logs include a randomized number instead of the serial number and is stripped of all identifying information. About the only way they could, would be to get the call logs from the UUNet dialups and associate them to the uploaded data. And hopefully those logs aren't kept around very long.
Just wanted to plug my Tivo Web Project. It is designed to give you a web interface to you TiVo that is more powerful than the native interface. And look for a release supporting 2.0 soon.
If you had read what he said, it also uses a neural net to detect your mood. So maybe you don't want to hear the song now, but you want to hear it when you are feeling different. Plus, you can hit skip on a bunch of upcoming songs, not just the current one that is playing, like with your method.
**: (ok, yea, in one sense religion is like a virus in that they both try to spread themselves, however religion can only spread if the person it is spreading to accepts it: religious beliefs can not really be forced on someone as a virus can, so it isn't really a virus.)
Just a quick thing: What would you call teaching religion to children? For it not to be forced parents would have to teach the kids critical thinking skills and present their beliefs after they are capable of critical thinking. And how many parents do this? 1% ?
And this is one of the huge problems, people are brought up to believe in whatever their parents believe in. And it's a locked in cycle, they are taught not to question religion, thus ensuring the next generation believes in the same. And then, all these people without critical thinking skills get attracted to the easiest answers, thus the rise of fundamentalism. And I hope we can agree this is a bad thing.
Some of this is rough and maybe offensive to you, but I'm tired and hope you interpret it appropriately.
I live in Kansas, and as a member of a freethought group on my campus, I have been following this very carefully.
First, I would like to give some background on how the Christian Fundamenatists have been operating. They used to try to get Creation taught along side evolution under some kind of equal time idea. That was struck down numerous time by courts, including the Supreme Court. So now they are settling for not teaching evolution in school. In Alabama they mandated that all biology used in the state school system include a warning label that says evolution is "a controversial theory... No one was present when life appeared. Therefore any statement about life's origins should be considered a theory and not a fact." Texas almost got it's biology books replaced by ones published by fundamentalist institutions that contain no reference to evolution.
"Evolution is only a theory" has become their party line. They come up will all kinds of BS about how it is controversial, cite fundamentalist science text that question evolution's validity, and "since no one has seen macro-evolution occur" we can not consider it fact (they don't consider micro-evolution to be such a threat). They also cite defeciencies in the fossil and such.
They take the whole idea of what a scientific theory is and twist it. Last year the National Academy of Sciences stated evolution must be taught in public schools if biology is to understood at all. They also stated that "There is no debate within the scientific community over whether evolution has occured, and there is no evidence that evolution has not occured."
Last year the Kansas Board of Education voted to adopt a new statewide science curriculum based on standards from the National Academy of Science. Which lists evolution as one of the "five concepts uniting all scientific disciplines." A 27 member state committee of science teachers and professors wrote the original standards based on this.
Conservatives however did not like the prominent display of evolution and so they took it upon themselves to write a revised draft that removes most references to evolution, changes its definition, and adds a definition for "intelligent design." It leaves most of the micro-evolution reference intact though. It also restructures the main concepts that students need to learn from a more theoretical, and how-it-works method, to an applied science type of deal. The person responsible is board member Steve Abram from Arkansas City. It was written by a local creation-science organization earlier this year.
It would not ban teaching of macro-evolution, but would leave it up to local school districts to decide what to teach. It would also remove questions on macro-evolution off of the state science examinitions. Which will favor teaching something that is in standard to macro-evolution. Unfortunately college entrance exams will contain them, thus screwing Kansas students.
Recently a letter was sent to the Board from the presidents of 6 universities in Kansas. It basically states that they have a responsibility to teach evolution and that it would be better to leave the previous standards in place then to replace them with Abram's draft.
The Kansas Board of Education Members are split 5-5 along Moderate-Conservative lines. This is caused numerous deadlocks in the past. The board vowed not to deadlock on this issue, and because of the religious conservatives stuborness, their version might pass. A "compromise" was recently presented, but it doesn't sound like much of a compromise. However it seems to have gained a moderate board memeber's support.
So it sounds like students in Kansas will be getting the short end of the stick until we get some competent (non-fundamentalist) board memebers.
But if he stole it, he can't do anything legal with it anyway. It seems the same as breaking the license terms to me, except that you would go about prosecution differently...
I have not seen on 2600 that he had priors, but I have seen them say the delay was at the request of the lawyers. However, the government was late in delivering the evidence, and the judge would not allow for another continuance...
The major thing that is going one though, is that he gets put in solitary for supposedly trying to create a communication device from an AM radio, and then has to aggree to waive a bail hearing to get out.
He is also the victim of misleading testimony from a guard or something at the prison and is getting only VERY limited access to a computer to review the evidence against him.
Another one of the other things that apparently happened is that the government has encrypted files that they can't crack, but won't give them to the defense.
And then there is the whole thing about the book deal and movie thing that paints Mitnick an Evil Super-hacker that blows things way out of proportion and all kinds includes all kinds of stuff he didn't do...
I have seen this mentioned, but I want to ask a direct question. Does the design of GTK facilitate Speech recognition integration?
If we could get ViaVoice (or any other speech recognition software) to interface with the GTK toolkit well, you could suddenly have a huge number of applications that are speech enabled. Instead of having to make every application compliant... (or have to make it compliant to work WELL)
Integration into the Window Manager was one of the criteria that was discussed in some essay a while back about creating a flexible UI for the future.
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It wasn't just a few bad certs, there was a whole set of issues. Here is Mozilla's list: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Wo...
Check out issue N, it is particularly bad.
You are not understanding the nature of the attack. You statements are only true if there is no better attack on the encryption algorithm than brute force. Unfortunately that is exactly what this is. Go read up on ciphertext attacks.
I don't think we should cede the rhetorical battle by letting them call it "header enrichment."
I say we call it "tracking injection."
It would be interesting to see what would happen if you browsed a website with Content Security Policy headers on a Comcast public Wi-Fi hotspot.
The technology is new enough that the injection technology might not handle it and thus the browser would block the ad. But if they did, by changing the CSP headers, the website might have a stronger case for suing Comcast since they would be explicitly bypassing a security technology.
Here is a good rebuttal article: http://www.intactamerica.org/aap2012_response
Are you familiar with the discussion around Full disclosure? There are good reasons to publicly release vulnerabilities and if people were made legally liable for doing that, it would probably decrease our security in the long run. Assuming the information Renderman released points to an actual vulnerability, the FAA response shows the exact reason why full disclosure is necessary.
Except that the source code does not seem to actually be available. The download page that is linked from the license page does not say anything about source code except how it is licensed. Looking at the source of the page shows a commented out section that talks about how to get the source code and links here. However the link to the source code on that page is dead.
Also, the license has an exception for the GPC code, which is free for non-commercial use only. Admittedly, I don't know how much functionality it enables in Paint.Net.
So I would say an MIT license without any actual source code available is less than free.
32-bit Tortoise doesn't even run on 64-bit Windows - so I'm stuck.
It may not show up in the 64-bit explorer shell, but it does install and run. I believe a lot of people install both so that they can see TSVN options in the open dialog of their 32-bit apps.
The software is not bad, but I've found it a bit buggy, especially compared to pchdtvr, which was pretty solid. It is surprising that he would do this now, pchdtvr has been out since at least 2005. I notice that it is still available from pchdtv.com.
Ok, there is a good amount of misinformation and ignorance in this post, I feel the need to respond.
Tivo is also owned by Phillips.
I'm pretty sure that is not the case. A few companies had large stakes in Tivo, but no one owns them.
Tivo willfully shares your Tivo data with others.
That is a pretty small story you linked to. And if you had read the full story you would know that customers have to specifically agree to be part of the Neilson program.
Tivo has violated their privacy agreement with you a number of times. They changed their privacy policy to allow them to share your data without notifying their customers. The link they provided in their manual still made you click through on about 3 or 4 links before actually getting to the policy. I know of many Tivo owners who were concerned about their privacy were in an absolute uproar about this.
There has been a number debates about Tivo's privacy policy, but I believe they have done a very good job. I don't know what event you are refering to, but I don't believe it to be true. If you could provide a link I could make an intelligent responce.
Replay TV refused to share your private information and were almost forced to do so. They paid lawyers to keep my information to themselves.
Yes, good for them. But to my knowledge Tivo has never shared personal viewing information with anyone. They do share aggregate data, and have always been up front about this.
Replay TV has allowed for me to access my Replay TV from anywhere with an internet connection. I have heard that Tivo has also adopted this. Not sure though.
Tivo currently doesn't provide this feature, but it looks like they are planning to do this in the future. However if you hack your Tivo, you can get TivoWeb, which I imagine has more capabilities than myreplaytv simply because of how it works.
Replay TV gave me the 30 second skip so that I can easily bypass commercials. I believe Tivo has also snagged this feature as well?
Yes, but you have to press a few buttons to active a backdoor to get this feature.
One thing that Tivo has over Replay is that it was the first to let you can hack it to add larger drives.
Yes, and a lot of other hacks too. ReplayTV does now too.
Overall, features on both are very similar, though the methodology to record shows is a little different. Replay gives you more pause time as it isn't just recording things it THINKS you MIGHT like. Replay makes you be specific about what you want to record, though they have theme recording channels. Tivo is programed to make certain assumptions about what you want it to record in addition to what you specifically specify.
This is a rather misleading statement. You have full control over what your tivo records. Although you can argue the merits of the different systems. The suggestions that tivo finds, only records to any extra space you have, and will never delete or preempt anything you have told it to record. And you can turn off suggestions if you want.
Bottom, line, do the math and find yourself the best deal. Even if one or both went out of business, we'd make a hack to grab the programing information anyway.
Agreed
The last time I posted on a tivo article the TCL branch wasn't released, and I haven't seen as many downloads as I would expect so far. So have fun. :)
Hahaha, nice use of whois. Fortunately that number is not mine anymore, so your troll won't work very well.
You are obviously talking out your ass. TiVolutionary IS an official rep for the company and has posted to the AVS forum a lot and been very helpful to TiVo users.
You can not revert to 1.3 from 2.0. While the old 1.3 software is on an alternate set of partitions, the database format has been changed and 1.3 will definetly NOT work with it. His only option is to restore from a backup or possibly exchange it for a another tivo with 1.3 on it.
Being heavily into the TiVo underground scene (tivo.lightn.org), I thought I'd share some information about the situation.
While I am generally a supporter of TiVo, I have to agree with this guy. TiVo stated that TiVos that upgraded from 1.3 to 2.0 would still be able to manually record shows (boxes that ship with 2.0 are limited to the 30 minute buffer period). While this was technically true, they certainly downgraded functionality that people paid for.
The one touch recording was supposedly removed because it was causing confusion since it would just automatically start recording that 30 min block. So it wasn't too useful to begin with, but certainly useful in certain situations.
I think the now playing changes are the most significant, as they represent a direct effort to remove functionality from 1.3 software.
The "nag screen" is not new. Few people on the avsforum new about it in the beginning when everyone subscribed, but when it came to people's attention, there was some heated debate, with me against TiVo. I never felt they gave an adequate responce to how having a nag screen makes the subscription to the service completely "optional."
The backdoor to the 1.3 software is known and the method to set the clock is also, although it is certainly not user friendly. Check tivo.samba.org (I think the input format is the same as the date command arguement).
Downgrading is impossible short of a complete backup of the Tivo harddrive. The database format and structure has changed and there is no easy way back. Although a lot of people did backups when they upgraded their tivo's hard drive. Just don't restore from an image from another brand or to a lesser version of software than the tivo shipped with! And some people are working on being able to do a complete drive setup on any sized disk from scratch.
There is a EULA in the manual, but I think it only applies when you subscribe to the service. The same debate about loss of functionality was made when people saw of the changes in 2.0 as negative (no matter how minor). The general consensus was that TiVo couldn't support multiple versions economically, so if you subscribed to the service you had to accept the changes in functionality that came with software upgrades. This situation is certainly less clear...
Also, it is general held that until recently (and maybe still), TiVo paid manufactures a certain amount of money for each box sold. And they certainly spend a lot to obtain each user (advertising money, check the financial reports). Most of their income comes from subscription fees. To some that just indicates a bad business model and they won't care, others might.
First, I understand it was ment to be funny, but I thought it was a point worth making.
Second, I'm not so sure. They use UUNet pops if one is available or a 1-800 number otherwise. I'm not sure if different numbers in the same city would use the different IPs or not. But assuming they use the same IP space, the max you could determine would be the the city. And they already break it down by zip code.
Third, crypted doesn't really matter as it is sent over phone lines whick are hard to sniff. And we have hacked to box and can see what data they are collected before it is encrypted.
Forth, while that may be true, they have always had a strong privacy policy and strong commitment to keep it. And assuming they can't currently match data to individuals, that would only apply to future data, not to what is currently stored.
TiVo has actually gone to lengths to make sure they CAN'T associate the data. The uploaded logs include a randomized number instead of the serial number and is stripped of all identifying information. About the only way they could, would be to get the call logs from the UUNet dialups and associate them to the uploaded data. And hopefully those logs aren't kept around very long.
Just wanted to plug my Tivo Web Project. It is designed to give you a web interface to you TiVo that is more powerful than the native interface. And look for a release supporting 2.0 soon.
I would like to take this opportunity to point people to my TiVo Web Project. I've been working on this for a while and it can do quite a lot.
If you had read what he said, it also uses a neural net to detect your mood. So maybe you don't want to hear the song now, but you want to hear it when you are feeling different. Plus, you can hit skip on a bunch of upcoming songs, not just the current one that is playing, like with your method.
**: (ok, yea, in one sense religion is like a virus in that they both try to spread themselves, however religion can only spread if the person it is spreading to accepts it: religious beliefs can not really be forced on someone as a virus can, so it isn't really a virus.)
Just a quick thing: What would you call teaching religion to children? For it not to be forced parents would have to teach the kids critical thinking skills and present their beliefs after they are capable of critical thinking. And how many parents do this? 1% ?
And this is one of the huge problems, people are brought up to believe in whatever their parents believe in. And it's a locked in cycle, they are taught not to question religion, thus ensuring the next generation believes in the same. And then, all these people without critical thinking skills get attracted to the easiest answers, thus the rise of fundamentalism. And I hope we can agree this is a bad thing.
Some of this is rough and maybe offensive to you, but I'm tired and hope you interpret it appropriately.
I live in Kansas, and as a member of a freethought group on my campus, I have been following this very carefully.
First, I would like to give some background on how the Christian Fundamenatists have been operating. They used to try to get Creation taught along side evolution under some kind of equal time idea. That was struck down numerous time by courts, including the Supreme Court. So now they are settling for not teaching evolution in school. In Alabama they mandated that all biology used in the state school system include a warning label that says evolution is "a controversial theory... No one was present when life appeared. Therefore any statement about life's origins should be considered a theory and not a fact." Texas almost got it's biology books replaced by ones published by fundamentalist institutions that contain no reference to evolution.
"Evolution is only a theory" has become their party line. They come up will all kinds of BS about how it is controversial, cite fundamentalist science text that question evolution's validity, and "since no one has seen macro-evolution occur" we can not consider it fact (they don't consider micro-evolution to be such a threat). They also cite defeciencies in the fossil and such.
They take the whole idea of what a scientific theory is and twist it. Last year the National Academy of Sciences stated evolution must be taught in public schools if biology is to understood at all. They also stated that "There is no debate within the scientific community over whether evolution has occured, and there is no evidence that evolution has not occured."
Last year the Kansas Board of Education voted to adopt a new statewide science curriculum based on standards from the National Academy of Science. Which lists evolution as one of the "five concepts uniting all scientific disciplines." A 27 member state committee of science teachers and professors wrote the original standards based on this.
Conservatives however did not like the prominent display of evolution and so they took it upon themselves to write a revised draft that removes most references to evolution, changes its definition, and adds a definition for "intelligent design." It leaves most of the micro-evolution reference intact though. It also restructures the main concepts that students need to learn from a more theoretical, and how-it-works method, to an applied science type of deal. The person responsible is board member Steve Abram from Arkansas City. It was written by a local creation-science organization earlier this year.
It would not ban teaching of macro-evolution, but would leave it up to local school districts to decide what to teach. It would also remove questions on macro-evolution off of the state science examinitions. Which will favor teaching something that is in standard to macro-evolution. Unfortunately college entrance exams will contain them, thus screwing Kansas students.
Recently a letter was sent to the Board from the presidents of 6 universities in Kansas. It basically states that they have a responsibility to teach evolution and that it would be better to leave the previous standards in place then to replace them with Abram's draft.
The Kansas Board of Education Members are split 5-5 along Moderate-Conservative lines. This is caused numerous deadlocks in the past. The board vowed not to deadlock on this issue, and because of the religious conservatives stuborness, their version might pass. A "compromise" was recently presented, but it doesn't sound like much of a compromise. However it seems to have gained a moderate board memeber's support.
So it sounds like students in Kansas will be getting the short end of the stick until we get some competent (non-fundamentalist) board memebers.
But if he stole it, he can't do anything legal with it anyway. It seems the same as breaking the license terms to me, except that you would go about prosecution differently...
I have not seen on 2600 that he had priors, but I have seen them say the delay was at the request of the lawyers. However, the government was late in delivering the evidence, and the judge would not allow for another continuance...
The major thing that is going one though, is that he gets put in solitary for supposedly trying to create a communication device from an AM radio, and then has to aggree to waive a bail hearing to get out.
He is also the victim of misleading testimony from a guard or something at the prison and is getting only VERY limited access to a computer to review the evidence against him.
Another one of the other things that apparently happened is that the government has encrypted files that they can't crack, but won't give them to the defense.
And then there is the whole thing about the book deal and movie thing that paints Mitnick an Evil Super-hacker that blows things way out of proportion and all kinds includes all kinds of stuff he didn't do...
I have seen this mentioned, but I want to ask a direct question. Does the design of GTK facilitate Speech recognition integration?
If we could get ViaVoice (or any other speech recognition software) to interface with the GTK toolkit well, you could suddenly have a huge number of applications that are speech enabled. Instead of having to make every application compliant... (or have to make it compliant to work WELL)
Integration into the Window Manager was one of the criteria that was discussed in some essay a while back about creating a flexible UI for the future.