The person writing the FAQ should probably read the box it comes in, and differentiate between the bundled software's supported conversion formats and the device's native playback formats.
Here's a summary:
OGG, MP3, WMA, WAV and ASF playback USB 2.0 Backlit LCD(white) and joystick(blue) SRS WOW Surround Sound Preset and custom equalizer modes FM radio with MP3 recording Line in MP3 recording Microphone WAV recording 22x56x23mm 30g without battery 20 hours playback
I just threw an ogg on it and it played back fine.
Everything is configurable, right down to the backlight and turn-off delays.
My 1Gb Samsung Yepp has all that, plus line-in MP3 recording and WAV voice notes from the microphone. One AAA battery for 20 hours playback, and it's as big as my thumb. Firmware upgradeable, it's a standard USB mass storage device and has a standard mini-usb socket. The joystck makes for a surprisingly easy to navigate the comprehensive UI.
It also costs a whole lot less - $169 Australian for the 1Gb model, which should be about $115 US.
This device is the best designed personal audio device I've ever seen. The marketing department was obviously boarded up in their offices until the last minute.;-)
I stopped listening to the radio about five years ago, when I started to not hear music on the way to and from work.
Instead, I got a series of advertisments, including the station self-promotional ones, periodically interrupted by a pair of ADD sufferers who seem to be under the mistaken impression that I might be interested in what happened to one of them last night at the grocery store, or, for that matter, find it amusing.
The standard CD player in my car meets my needs quite nicely.
So now MS is moving into the bicycle lighting business sector.
I can't say that I understand their self motivation, but then again, this is just the start of the product cycle and they have to gear up to be competitive.
When the officer came, he noticed that the bills all had sequential serial numbers - apparently a common sign in counterfeit currency.
Identical numbers is believable, for a simple copying setup, but sequential? Whatever mechanism a counterfeiter has to add serial numbers to the unnumbered bills coming off the copier/printer, making it a non-repeating psuedo-random sequence, or simply adding 4357 instead of 1 for each cycle, is trivial.
There's been several posts already about putting readers on corners etc. I see this as an extremely wasteful and inefficient deployment of what are, when you get down to it, antennas. They are already in place, and even if their resonant frequency is wrong, regular replacement for wear and tear should have them up to scratch in a couple of years. The existing data network linking them back in to a city's traffic monitoring system can be used, and even if the vehicle's body shields the windscreen tag from the antennas buried in the road at every traffic light, they can just as easily read the tags buried in your tyres.
I really wish it was required that they put the price I have to pay when I get to the counter on the price tag (I know CompUSA is notorious for this, not sure about Best Buy).
Are you serious? Here in AU, a price tag is an offer to sell, and is legally binding. If the price tag does not have "after rebate" or any other condition written on it, then that's the price you pay.
The ACCC jumps on misleading and deceptive advertising quite enthusiastically.
Nothing in my comment even mentions the government doing anything with any information. I'm discussing the fact that here is a document which you will be required to carry under some circumstances and which holds a uniquely-identifyable-anyone-readable number, which third parties(ie the commercial sector) can use to track you throughout your daily life.
And when the duty free shop/hotel/etc counter has an RFID reader tied to the credit card machine, your "anonymous" unique number(or hash!) has just been tied to identifying information. It won't take long to cross-reference information, and then the tags in your toothbrush, razor, shoes(readers in the floor solves the range problem), tyres, etc can be used to track you anywhere you go.
Hell, most car keys have transponders in them. You carry them around all the time, and it's you carrying your keyring 99.999% of the time. How long will it take to build a database when people pay for fuel with credit cards? Door frames and counters make great reader locations.
Unique numbers are only anonymous if they can never be associated with any other information.
So, to copy it, you have to do two scans. Each of which contains just over half of that pattern, with the little bit of overlap to assist in pasting them back together in $PAINT_PROGRAM.
With all the patterns and stuff they like to throw in there, it should be trivially easy. Someone care to try?
Kinda like the armoured knights that Egg Shen and Lo Pan manifested in the pre-climactic free for all melee in the underground throne room/wedding hall?
Some movies don't need millions of dollars of CGI. Flying elementals, midair swordfights and great big floating eyeballs. Now that's a work of Art!
Thanks for the info, I had no idea whether it was done or not, just that the Copyright Act makes provision for it. I read the relevent bits because our users were losing/damaging CDs constantly. Now we make a working copy and keep the original locked up.:-)
We can't even make backup copies of software we own, mix CDs of music we've bought, or record (most) things off TV without breaking copyright law.
Yes, we can make copies of software for backup, archival, compatibility and bugfix purposes. That is explicitly allowed under the Copyright Act.
Artistic works, on the other hand(video, audio, etc) may only be duplicated by the National Archives and under very strict circumstances for research purposes by accredited educational institutions.
A software product containing artistic works(Encyclopaedia CDROM for example) would probably be treated as software as long as the product was treated as a whole and not broken down into it's components or the artistic works extracted.
An artistic work containing software(Audio CDROM with data track ala EMI) would probably be treated as (an) artistic work(s).
Hopefully our courts would treat these gray areas with common sense.....
"getting a duck" or "out for a duck" is a cricket reference for being dismissed without scoring a run, a "golden duck" being dismissed on the first ball faced.
"broke our duck" is not, and has never been, any kind of phrase whatsoever. Someone has made it up to try to sound like a true blue dinkum cobber.
I went in with blurry vision and came out with 40/20 vision. Me? Happy? You bet!
There were three of us done that evening, of all of us the only problems were my alergy to the antibiotic eyedrops, and one guy managed to rub his eye in the night and displace the meniscus. I was given a different eyedrop and he was scolded and given a poke with a q-tip.
The first one of these I heard of was built into a DB25 backshell on a VT102. It was a 68HC08 and was powered off the handshaking lines. The beauty of this was that it saw data going both ways and only captured the keystrokes immediately after seeing "Login:" and "Password:" sent to the terminal.
Nowdays, you don't know when to capture, so you have to capture everything. Of course, knowing a person's username and coding that into the device could work, as would [Ctrl][Alt][Del].
Also, it would be childs play to hack one of these into the actual keyboard itself, so there would be no visible sign.
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The person writing the FAQ should probably read the box it comes in, and differentiate between the bundled software's supported conversion formats and the device's native playback formats.
Here's a summary:
OGG, MP3, WMA, WAV and ASF playback
USB 2.0
Backlit LCD(white) and joystick(blue)
SRS WOW Surround Sound
Preset and custom equalizer modes
FM radio with MP3 recording
Line in MP3 recording
Microphone WAV recording
22x56x23mm
30g without battery
20 hours playback
I just threw an ogg on it and it played back fine.
Everything is configurable, right down to the backlight and turn-off delays.
My 1Gb Samsung Yepp has all that, plus line-in MP3 recording and WAV voice notes from the microphone. One AAA battery for 20 hours playback, and it's as big as my thumb. Firmware upgradeable, it's a standard USB mass storage device and has a standard mini-usb socket. The joystck makes for a surprisingly easy to navigate the comprehensive UI.
;-)
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It also costs a whole lot less - $169 Australian for the 1Gb model, which should be about $115 US.
This device is the best designed personal audio device I've ever seen. The marketing department was obviously boarded up in their offices until the last minute.
I stopped listening to the radio about five years ago, when I started to not hear music on the way to and from work.
Instead, I got a series of advertisments, including the station self-promotional ones, periodically interrupted by a pair of ADD sufferers who seem to be under the mistaken impression that I might be interested in what happened to one of them last night at the grocery store, or, for that matter, find it amusing.
The standard CD player in my car meets my needs quite nicely.
So now MS is moving into the bicycle lighting business sector.
I can't say that I understand their self motivation, but then again, this is just the start of the product cycle and they have to gear up to be competitive.
When the officer came, he noticed that the bills all had sequential serial numbers - apparently a common sign in counterfeit currency.
Identical numbers is believable, for a simple copying setup, but sequential? Whatever mechanism a counterfeiter has to add serial numbers to the unnumbered bills coming off the copier/printer, making it a non-repeating psuedo-random sequence, or simply adding 4357 instead of 1 for each cycle, is trivial.
There's been several posts already about putting readers on corners etc. I see this as an extremely wasteful and inefficient deployment of what are, when you get down to it, antennas. They are already in place, and even if their resonant frequency is wrong, regular replacement for wear and tear should have them up to scratch in a couple of years. The existing data network linking them back in to a city's traffic monitoring system can be used, and even if the vehicle's body shields the windscreen tag from the antennas buried in the road at every traffic light, they can just as easily read the tags buried in your tyres.
At the very least I want to know how to generate a stream of random numbers that reproduces this effect
Any stream of random numbers will work. If a *special* stream is required, then it's not random...
We want to measure the real-world user, not the system. The driver interfaces with a sensor plugged into your most available artery.
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They're both imaginary.
Here in AU, the first item is free and subsequent of the same item are at the lower price(Duh!).
I really wish it was required that they put the price I have to pay when I get to the counter on the price tag (I know CompUSA is notorious for this, not sure about Best Buy).
Are you serious? Here in AU, a price tag is an offer to sell, and is legally binding. If the price tag does not have "after rebate" or any other condition written on it, then that's the price you pay.
The ACCC jumps on misleading and deceptive advertising quite enthusiastically.
Nothing in my comment even mentions the government doing anything with any information. I'm discussing the fact that here is a document which you will be required to carry under some circumstances and which holds a uniquely-identifyable-anyone-readable number, which third parties(ie the commercial sector) can use to track you throughout your daily life.
And when the duty free shop/hotel/etc counter has an RFID reader tied to the credit card machine, your "anonymous" unique number(or hash!) has just been tied to identifying information. It won't take long to cross-reference information, and then the tags in your toothbrush, razor, shoes(readers in the floor solves the range problem), tyres, etc can be used to track you anywhere you go.
Hell, most car keys have transponders in them. You carry them around all the time, and it's you carrying your keyring 99.999% of the time. How long will it take to build a database when people pay for fuel with credit cards? Door frames and counters make great reader locations.
Unique numbers are only anonymous if they can never be associated with any other information.
So, to copy it, you have to do two scans. Each of which contains just over half of that pattern, with the little bit of overlap to assist in pasting them back together in $PAINT_PROGRAM.
With all the patterns and stuff they like to throw in there, it should be trivially easy. Someone care to try?
Kinda like the armoured knights that Egg Shen and Lo Pan manifested in the pre-climactic free for all melee in the underground throne room/wedding hall?
Some movies don't need millions of dollars of CGI. Flying elementals, midair swordfights and great big floating eyeballs. Now that's a work of Art!
Yeah, like glaziers go around throwing bricks through people's windows.
Thanks for the info, I had no idea whether it was done or not, just that the Copyright Act makes provision for it. I read the relevent bits because our users were losing/damaging CDs constantly. Now we make a working copy and keep the original locked up. :-)
In the gun that would be used for home defense, I use Winchester Silvertips.
Are werewolves a problem in your neck of the woods?
We can't even make backup copies of software we own, mix CDs of music we've bought, or record (most) things off TV without breaking copyright law.
Yes, we can make copies of software for backup, archival, compatibility and bugfix purposes. That is explicitly allowed under the Copyright Act.
Artistic works, on the other hand(video, audio, etc) may only be duplicated by the National Archives and under very strict circumstances for research purposes by accredited educational institutions.
A software product containing artistic works(Encyclopaedia CDROM for example) would probably be treated as software as long as the product was treated as a whole and not broken down into it's components or the artistic works extracted.
An artistic work containing software(Audio CDROM with data track ala EMI) would probably be treated as (an) artistic work(s).
Hopefully our courts would treat these gray areas with common sense.....
"getting a duck" or "out for a duck" is a cricket reference for being dismissed without scoring a run, a "golden duck" being dismissed on the first ball faced.
"broke our duck" is not, and has never been, any kind of phrase whatsoever. Someone has made it up to try to sound like a true blue dinkum cobber.
We had an ultra 10 in a roll-along case. I opened it up one day to swap some drives and found the heatsink lying on the bottom of the case.
I went in with blurry vision and came out with 40/20 vision. Me? Happy? You bet!
There were three of us done that evening, of all of us the only problems were my alergy to the antibiotic eyedrops, and one guy managed to rub his eye in the night and displace the meniscus. I was given a different eyedrop and he was scolded and given a poke with a q-tip.
The first one of these I heard of was built into a DB25 backshell on a VT102. It was a 68HC08 and was powered off the handshaking lines. The beauty of this was that it saw data going both ways and only captured the keystrokes immediately after seeing "Login:" and "Password:" sent to the terminal.
Nowdays, you don't know when to capture, so you have to capture everything. Of course, knowing a person's username and coding that into the device could work, as would [Ctrl][Alt][Del].
Also, it would be childs play to hack one of these into the actual keyboard itself, so there would be no visible sign.
Now that's unfair! The remote exploit feature is the most well-documented feature there is!