For most purposes other than things like defense and foreign policy, Hong Kong might as well be a separate country. Hongkongers speak different, look different, and most importantly think differently from their cousins up north. Kinda like Texas, but in a positive way.
For the benefit of the poster, who doesn't seem the type to know what a servo track is:
A servo track is how the hard drive knows where the heads are over the disk. Older hardware could just read the angle of the arm, but with vast increases in density it became necessary to put position data on the platters themselves where more precision is possible.
Why is this modded 5 insightful? I can't believe how Slashdotters' comprehension skills seem to be lacking.
The point of the FA is not that Kingston doesn't make their own parts (that applies to every vendor), but that their authorized distributor delivered an irregular batch of cards that seemingly couldn't even handle being programmed with a ~50 MB firmware. These irregular cards just so happened to use the same controller chip as an obvious fake, which raised the question of how a seemingly reputable brand managed to unexpectedly supply such low-quality parts.
That's how the Great Firewall tells you that something is "inappropriate." search.cn.yahoo.com is located in China, and the GFW is applied to all Internet traffic passing in/out of China, not just consumer machines, so it's not Yahoo that's blocking that particular term but the government.
This isn't necessarily true. Operators can use ciphers of their choice for functions that occur within the SIM card (such as authentication and key derivation), but data sent over the air can only be encrypted with Kasumi or (since UMTS Rel-7) Snow 3G. http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/33102.htm
Not to mention that UMTS phones will prefer the UMTS signal even if a GSM signal is available. Also, it will stop working once GSM goes away and is fully replaced by UMTS (which does authenticate the network), if that does ever happen.
Mobile networks are actually pretty robust, and the standards and protocols are indeed open (GSM/UMTS, OMA).
Nevertheless, mobile phones are usually sold as locked black boxes because: 1. Government regulations require that equipment must not be able to use frequencies other than those they are licensed to; 2. The same regulations require that transmit power be limited to a safe level; and 3. Mobile carriers want to be able to enact anti-competitive measures (SIM locking) and/or screw consumers (disabling software features).
It's absolutely worth noting this is about cloning US Passport Cards, which are completely useless outside the US, not real passports.
Passport Cards use a simple RFID system (EPC) where the chip simply spits its ID number out.
Passports, on the other hand, require a reader to authenticate by passing a hash of (passport number, date of birth, date of expiry). I don't think that's nearly enough information to ensure security, but at least it's better than nothing.
There's absolutely no excuse for banks to not have rolled out a checking system that uses much larger one-time-use account numbers and allows merchants to verify that the check won't bounce. They've been twiddling their thumbs.
These do exist in a way. Some banks offer a service whereby checks presented for payment are cross-referenced (according to check number, amount, and date) with the same information provided by the payer before the check was issued and stopped if there is no match.
Alas, with the name "positive pay" and being typically a component of a "controlled disbursement" service, it's obviously out of reach to individuals and small businesses.
Customs officers, who arrested the man, 38, on Wednesday at his Tuen Mun home, said he uploaded the initial "seeds" - data that can be used to download a movie or music - for Hollywood releases Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality onto the newsgroup bt.newsgroup.com.hk on January 10 or 11.
I know that many more networking equipment manufacturers use GPL'd code in their products. Buffalo's wireless broadband routers use almost the same code as the WRT54G, and earlier Linksys routers used Linux as well.
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They're in Japanese, and all they're really saying is a summary of the article.
For most purposes other than things like defense and foreign policy, Hong Kong might as well be a separate country. Hongkongers speak different, look different, and most importantly think differently from their cousins up north. Kinda like Texas, but in a positive way.
YouTube captions have been searchable since shortly after they were introduced.
For the benefit of the poster, who doesn't seem the type to know what a servo track is:
A servo track is how the hard drive knows where the heads are over the disk. Older hardware could just read the angle of the arm, but with vast increases in density it became necessary to put position data on the platters themselves where more precision is possible.
Shanghai Jiaotong University? Fair enough. But also see Roland Soong's translations about the vocational school.
Why is this modded 5 insightful? I can't believe how Slashdotters' comprehension skills seem to be lacking.
The point of the FA is not that Kingston doesn't make their own parts (that applies to every vendor), but that their authorized distributor delivered an irregular batch of cards that seemingly couldn't even handle being programmed with a ~50 MB firmware. These irregular cards just so happened to use the same controller chip as an obvious fake, which raised the question of how a seemingly reputable brand managed to unexpectedly supply such low-quality parts.
That's how the Great Firewall tells you that something is "inappropriate." search.cn.yahoo.com is located in China, and the GFW is applied to all Internet traffic passing in/out of China, not just consumer machines, so it's not Yahoo that's blocking that particular term but the government.
This will work with any Mainland Chinese site, for example: http://www.mps.gov.cn/Falun%20Gong
This isn't necessarily true. Operators can use ciphers of their choice for functions that occur within the SIM card (such as authentication and key derivation), but data sent over the air can only be encrypted with Kasumi or (since UMTS Rel-7) Snow 3G. http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/33102.htm
Not to mention that UMTS phones will prefer the UMTS signal even if a GSM signal is available. Also, it will stop working once GSM goes away and is fully replaced by UMTS (which does authenticate the network), if that does ever happen.
In the words of US diplomat Dan Fried: nationalism is like cheap alcohol - first it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.
Mobile networks are actually pretty robust, and the standards and protocols are indeed open (GSM/UMTS, OMA).
Nevertheless, mobile phones are usually sold as locked black boxes because:
1. Government regulations require that equipment must not be able to use frequencies other than those they are licensed to;
2. The same regulations require that transmit power be limited to a safe level; and
3. Mobile carriers want to be able to enact anti-competitive measures (SIM locking) and/or screw consumers (disabling software features).
It's absolutely worth noting this is about cloning US Passport Cards, which are completely useless outside the US, not real passports.
Passport Cards use a simple RFID system (EPC) where the chip simply spits its ID number out.
Passports, on the other hand, require a reader to authenticate by passing a hash of (passport number, date of birth, date of expiry). I don't think that's nearly enough information to ensure security, but at least it's better than nothing.
These do exist in a way. Some banks offer a service whereby checks presented for payment are cross-referenced (according to check number, amount, and date) with the same information provided by the payer before the check was issued and stopped if there is no match.
Alas, with the name "positive pay" and being typically a component of a "controlled disbursement" service, it's obviously out of reach to individuals and small businesses.
There is WMP for Mac OS as well (unfortunately)
With iTunes? It doesn't work, it asks you to authorize your computer when you try to play an iTMS file.
That's why I have a 'toy' computer as well that runs Windows to play games.
Also if different icons are associated with mp3s on the user's system the fake mp3 will look out of place...
It's hard to preserve resource forks now anyway, and probably nobody would download MP3s encoded with MacBinary or StuffIt.
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I know that many more networking equipment manufacturers use GPL'd code in their products. Buffalo's wireless broadband routers use almost the same code as the WRT54G, and earlier Linksys routers used Linux as well.
Actually I think that Linksys's BEFSR routers run Linux as well, because there are a few references to eth0 and eth1 in their firmware...
On http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey/
mldonkey currently supports eDonkey2000, BitTorrent, FastTrack (Kazaa), Overnet, Gnutella, Gnutella2 (Shareaza), Soulseek, Direct-Connect and Opennap.
Have you seen real TV cameras? Usually they say "Digital Beta". I've never seen "DVHSC" or "SVHSC" on professional camcorders used by TV crew
This can't be right. Here (Hong Kong) the reception rate of both inter-network SMS and international SMS messages must be at least 99%.