Most modern public service radio systems have used frequency hopping for the last 10 or more years. Consumer-oriented scanners, in general, only lag the latest technology development by a few months; and older scanners can usually be updated to new technology by a software update.
Assuming they are doing it by packet inspection: Just run a strongly encrypted VPN to your home server, and use that internet connection. All Verizon will see is VPN traffic, which is legal.
All schools have great students. All schools also have lousy students. If I needed a lawyer, I'd hire a great student, not one from some particular school.
Yes, if you are law school X, you might want to hire alumni for your legal matters - but more as a part of marketing than anything else. Oh, and avoiding bad press. I've never heard of Cooley before, but now my first impression is that they are idiots.
There is no way a $475 BOM translates into a $999 retail price. $1999, maybe.
Add to the BOM the cost of assembling those materials into a sellable unit; the packaging/documentation; profit for the assembly house; profit for the distributor; profit for the retailer; marketing; and of course profit for the manufacturer. In general 4x to 5x the BOM is a good estimate. At $999, nobody is making any money at all.
On what basis is Aaron Barr a "star" anywhere, much less a conference about computer security??
When your (former) company is the poster child for how not to do security, I would think your main reason for showing up at DefCon would be if you wanted to be publicly humiliated.
If I click on a link, I want it to open in the same window/tab. No new window needed or wanted.
Alternately, I can right click and select "open this link in a new tab" - granting that link (and only that link) permission to open a new tab. Again, no new window should be permitted.
Yes, I know, I know.... I could download the Firefox source, comment out every single occurence but one of "CreateWindow", and comment out every instance of RaiseWindow and LowerWindow... but why isn't that a setup preference??
And, American car companies lost their market when foreign competitors started focusing on *functionality*. So, when is the equivalent browser going to appear?
Creating a browser that blocks popups would be a great first step. Something insanely trivial to implement that everyone on the planet wants.
Verizon spent $9.63 billion on spectrum licenses in the last auction while AT&T spent $6.64 billion
Using 310 million as the current US population, that's about $52.50 for every person in the country. That's over $136 for the average household. If we say that 10% of households will adopt the new technology, then they would need to add $1,360 to the cost of every router.
A computer chip driving a few stepper motors to control the hands. All logic is in the chip; the motors and hands are merely a display device.
Festina makes some models like this, don't know about other manufacturers. The hands can be repurposed - e.g. the second hand can be switched to show the day of the week instead.
Today the government requires VOIP providers to warn people about the unreliability of 911 access by any means other than copper. Now the government wants to take away the copper since it is obsolete. What??
This is a misconception. Your $5 Casio will be off by a tiny fraction; e.g. 1/2 a second per day. But, it will *always* be off by the same amount, so that the error will accumulate - it will be ~3 minutes off after a year.
An analog/mechanical watch such as a Speedmaster - particularly those that are "Certified Chronometers", which are individually tested to a fairly tough standard - will drift. In hot weather they will tend to gain time, in colder weather they will tend to lose (the lubricant changes viscosity with temperature). Time will also vary depending on how often they are worn, and how active the wearer is, and how often and how much they are wound (the more wound they are, the faster they run - only by a microscopic amount, but it is measurable). So, a quality mechanical watch may vary forward and backward by more in a single day than the cheap Casio - but the errors will very often cancel themselves, so that after a year, the Omega may well keep much better time.
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try frequency hopping, or spread spectrum technology, no analog or digital scanner can receive them...
Oh, really?
Most modern public service radio systems have used frequency hopping for the last 10 or more years. Consumer-oriented scanners, in general, only lag the latest technology development by a few months; and older scanners can usually be updated to new technology by a software update.
C) God created Man by throwing rocks at the Earth.
Assuming they are doing it by packet inspection: Just run a strongly encrypted VPN to your home server, and use that internet connection. All Verizon will see is VPN traffic, which is legal.
All schools have great students. All schools also have lousy students. If I needed a lawyer, I'd hire a great student, not one from some particular school.
Yes, if you are law school X, you might want to hire alumni for your legal matters - but more as a part of marketing than anything else. Oh, and avoiding bad press. I've never heard of Cooley before, but now my first impression is that they are idiots.
There is no way a $475 BOM translates into a $999 retail price. $1999, maybe.
Add to the BOM the cost of assembling those materials into a sellable unit; the packaging/documentation; profit for the assembly house; profit for the distributor; profit for the retailer; marketing; and of course profit for the manufacturer. In general 4x to 5x the BOM is a good estimate. At $999, nobody is making any money at all.
On what basis is Aaron Barr a "star" anywhere, much less a conference about computer security??
When your (former) company is the poster child for how not to do security, I would think your main reason for showing up at DefCon would be if you wanted to be publicly humiliated.
Tape it with what?
"Tape" as a verb, meaning 'to record'. Doesn't need to be done on spools of magnetic oxide.
Similarly "ripping a cd" does not mean shredding it into pieces with your hands.
Radio signals can also be blocked by a hand. Just ask any iPhone4 user.
If I click on a link, I want it to open in the same window/tab. No new window needed or wanted.
Alternately, I can right click and select "open this link in a new tab" - granting that link (and only that link) permission to open a new tab. Again, no new window should be permitted.
Yes, I know, I know.... I could download the Firefox source, comment out every single occurence but one of "CreateWindow", and comment out every instance of RaiseWindow and LowerWindow... but why isn't that a setup preference??
And, American car companies lost their market when foreign competitors started focusing on *functionality*. So, when is the equivalent browser going to appear?
Creating a browser that blocks popups would be a great first step. Something insanely trivial to implement that everyone on the planet wants.
This is slashdot. We all live alone in our parent's basement. A 'friend' is someone you know on Facebook, who has their own TV set.
Talking about Google encouraging people to "Do Dumb Things": their senior VP of engineering condones driving while distracted on a Mercedes advert.
Translation: it's okay to drive like a moron, we have software that will save your ass.
Free mode only works for Windows and Mac.
If you're on Linux, minimum is $10/month.
For a sphere floating in outer space, what is the universal reference for "up"?
Since when is a 40 GB project "large"??? If it fits on a single USB thumb drive it ain't large.
Less than 2 TB = fits on a single hard drive = small.
Less than 20 TB = fits on a single RAID = medium.
Once you're up into the hundreds of terabytes (e.g. backing up all source material for a feature film), then yes, you have issues.
are they viewing? Do any sites still support IE6?
T-Mobile's, for one. You cannot pay your T-Mobile bill online with Firefox, so I need to fire up the XP/IE6 partition once a month.
7 days with new hardware, and not even the urge to install linux?
Verizon spent $9.63 billion on spectrum licenses in the last auction while AT&T spent $6.64 billion
Using 310 million as the current US population, that's about $52.50 for every person in the country. That's over $136 for the average household. If we say that 10% of households will adopt the new technology, then they would need to add $1,360 to the cost of every router.
I think I'll stick with 802.11, thanks.
That would be like the world's leading proponent of democracy not allowing their own people to vote for their leader.
Oh, wait....
Ask Slashdot: An Open Handheld Terminal For Retail Stores?
Sure, whether or not a handheld solution is necessary is debatable, but the poster did ask for advice on handheld units.
Better summary "Microsoft's own security web site hacked".
Does anyone really get admitted into Stanford without being able to program already??
A computer chip driving a few stepper motors to control the hands. All logic is in the chip; the motors and hands are merely a display device.
Festina makes some models like this, don't know about other manufacturers. The hands can be repurposed - e.g. the second hand can be switched to show the day of the week instead.
Today the government requires VOIP providers to warn people about the unreliability of 911 access by any means other than copper. Now the government wants to take away the copper since it is obsolete. What??
your $5 Casio keeps better time
This is a misconception. Your $5 Casio will be off by a tiny fraction; e.g. 1/2 a second per day. But, it will *always* be off by the same amount, so that the error will accumulate - it will be ~3 minutes off after a year.
An analog/mechanical watch such as a Speedmaster - particularly those that are "Certified Chronometers", which are individually tested to a fairly tough standard - will drift. In hot weather they will tend to gain time, in colder weather they will tend to lose (the lubricant changes viscosity with temperature). Time will also vary depending on how often they are worn, and how active the wearer is, and how often and how much they are wound (the more wound they are, the faster they run - only by a microscopic amount, but it is measurable). So, a quality mechanical watch may vary forward and backward by more in a single day than the cheap Casio - but the errors will very often cancel themselves, so that after a year, the Omega may well keep much better time.