There's a fix already?!
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Cracking GSM
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"The Association said an upgrade to the A5/2 encryption algorithm, available since July 2002, addresses the security weaknesses highlighted by the Israelis."
Okay...The networks can issue new SIMs and update their switches. If they're soft switches, then it should be all the easier of an upgrade. Those of you who have GSM network operators (like Orange, BT, FT, T-Mobile), petition them to take this fix seriously. You pay for a service that they advertise as being secure. However, if you were worried about lawful conversation intercepts, there's already something in place to support this (refer to ETSI TS 101671).
I agree that the "adio" format is unimpressive. But portability is a solvable problem. I've been using vsound and speexenc to make episodes portable (like for listening at work, where I don't have access.)
Re:Oh SCSI DVD Burner, wherefore art thou?
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DVD Burner Round-up
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I would love to purchase a multi-format DVD burner, but it's difficult (read: impossible) to find one with a SCSI interface. (I'm a SCSI purist, at least for one of my machines anyway.) In fact, the only SCSI DVD burners I've been able to find at all are a Pioneer one which only does DVD-R and cost ~$3000 and a Panasonic which costs ~$300 but only burns DVD-RAM.:o(
Buy a firewire drive. High bandwidth, no termination worries, self-addressing bus, cheap controllers, cheap cabling (with IIRC only two different connectors, not umpteen!), more ubiquity than SCSI.
Would you believe that they're trying to go at it the other way around? Mapping "names" (consisting only of numbers) to phone numbers. The benefit is that the phone numbers are already a globally unique addressing system.
Or at least, that's my trivial understanding of enum.
Apparently not...(Did you RTFA?) I had always been against TCPA, but here's an excerpt:
What TCPA is Not
Some of the papers critical of TCPA claim that TCPA is primarily intended to support
Digital Rights Management (DRM), such as the copy protection of music or video data,
on behalf of the content owners. They argue that TCPA would take away user rights on
their own machines, preventing backup, time and space shifting of legally purchased
content. Debating the merits of DRM is a complex, controversial topic, and won't be
covered here.... (Personally, I
do not believe it is possible do provide effective copy protection at all, but that's another
paper).
The TCPA chip is not particularly suited to DRM....
If you ask me, I would think Linux, et al could leverage whatever benefit provided by well-documented TCPA chips (if any), and ignore the others. You probably already didn't like Microsoft's software anyways, so why waste time worrying how they'll utilize TCPA?
(Now gov't mandating of TCPA hw/sw is some seriously dangerous shit. Let's keep way away from there).
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Re:Let's hear it for legacy free!
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I do speak for myself. For the majority of devices/applications (your homebrew controller perhaps being an exception), RS232-over-usb and parallel-over-usb adapters should do just fine. Granted, they are expensive.
I don't want legacy-free machines just yet... Designing something as simple as a pushbutton for an application or an led status light is trivial with RS232. I can't say the same for USB.
I concur. But I've got a good half dozen computers lying about at a given time. I'd prefer that one of them be legacy free. The most appropriate place that I can see for that would be one of those mini-itx boards, but they don't seem to offer those (yet?).
BIOS on the hard drive? Ugh!
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Flash Memory is no longer quite as precious as it once was. Having 32 or 64 megs of flash onboard would have a marginal impact on a motherboard's price. Why put this data on the hard drive? WTF happens if I try to run the computer diskless?
Let's hear it for legacy free!
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Down with PS/2! Down with RS232! Down with ECP+EPP! Down with floppy disks! Down with ATA/PI! Down with DB15/Analog!
Let's hear it for flash media formats, DVI, USB, SATA, and Firewire!
I'd prefer that my next motherboard contain only modern I/O ports. I wish that more vendors offered them, but they don't. The ones that do, do so at exorbitant prices.
Yeah. It was good, despite the "bubble gum" line. The actor who does the voiceovers you mention got into a long, drawn out fight with Piper. It seemed like some kind of a half-assed, "let's let Piper fight for ten minutes so that he can pretend he's still a wrestler" thing. Why couldn't he just put on the damned sunglasses?
"Monosu--monosih--"
"Monosodium glutamate...You can't even say it!"
"So what? Just because I cannot say 'rat droppings' does not mean I wish to eat them."
"Chiun, you're incredible."
"No..."
-- dramatic pause, fanfare muted.... --
"I am better than that."
Wow...Good pick. I always think of the "citizen's divorce" (only binding in Vienna, of course).
That and "The Jerk" are really good Steve Martin flicks.
How about "Brewster's Millions,", or "The Toy"? Richard Pryor is hysterical.
I e-filed this year (or attempted to *) and I have only good things to report. Mind you, I used TaxCut, not TurboTax (boot-sector evilness avoided!)
* My father-in-law accidentally claimed my wife as a dependent, so that kinda put a kink in the e-filing.
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Anyone else think of Voight-Kampf?
I agree that the "adio" format is unimpressive. But portability is a solvable problem. I've been using vsound and speexenc to make episodes portable (like for listening at work, where I don't have access.)
Dev-C++ is an open source IDE worth trying.
vsound -t -s realplay $url | \ .au - -t .wav - | \
sox -t
speexenc --vbr --nframes 4 --quality 7 Wolfram.spx
Would you believe that they're trying to go at it the other way around? Mapping "names" (consisting only of numbers) to phone numbers. The benefit is that the phone numbers are already a globally unique addressing system.
Or at least, that's my trivial understanding of enum.
(Now gov't mandating of TCPA hw/sw is some seriously dangerous shit. Let's keep way away from there).
Doc: I need fuel. Go ahead, quick, get in the car.
Marty: No no no, Doc, I just got here, okay, Jennifer's here, we're gonna take the new truck for a spin.
Doc: Well, bring her along. This concerns her too.
Marty: Wait a minute, Doc. What are you talking about? What happens to us in the future? What, do we become assholes or something?
Doc: No no no no no, Marty, both you and Jennifer turn out fine. It's your kids, Marty, something has got to be done about your kids.
Marty: Hey, Doc, we better back up, we don't have enough roads to get up to 88.
Doc: Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Refreshing all that memory has got to be hell on the device's battery life. Unless they've devised some clever way to ignore unallocated memory.
Sounds good to me. But it'd probably be called "encephalo-dialysis," right?
Perhaps it is more efficient. I say, let the compiler do it for me. Code like this:is much more readable/maintainable than
Flash Memory is no longer quite as precious as it once was. Having 32 or 64 megs of flash onboard would have a marginal impact on a motherboard's price. Why put this data on the hard drive? WTF happens if I try to run the computer diskless?
Down with PS/2! Down with RS232! Down with ECP+EPP! Down with floppy disks! Down with ATA/PI! Down with DB15/Analog!
Let's hear it for flash media formats, DVI, USB, SATA, and Firewire!
I'd prefer that my next motherboard contain only modern I/O ports. I wish that more vendors offered them, but they don't. The ones that do, do so at exorbitant prices.
I prefer to pair program facing the other programmer, using laptops+VNC to share the user interface.
We learned about auxins and tropisms in Biology class. Isn't this just one of those?
Yeah. It was good, despite the "bubble gum" line. The actor who does the voiceovers you mention got into a long, drawn out fight with Piper. It seemed like some kind of a half-assed, "let's let Piper fight for ten minutes so that he can pretend he's still a wrestler" thing. Why couldn't he just put on the damned sunglasses?
Absolute riot.
"Monosu--monosih--"
"Monosodium glutamate...You can't even say it!"
"So what? Just because I cannot say 'rat droppings' does not mean I wish to eat them."
"Chiun, you're incredible."
"No..."
-- dramatic pause, fanfare muted.... --
"I am better than that."
"You have been recruited by the Star League to defend against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada."
"You're my Juliet... *kiss* my Venus... *kiss*...Do you want me to talk dirty to you now?"
"Do you smell something?"
"Like what?"
"Like a Xa--forget it."
On that note, how about "Lady Hawke"? Good flick indeed. (You were close, it's "Rutger").
Wow...Good pick. I always think of the "citizen's divorce" (only binding in Vienna, of course).
That and "The Jerk" are really good Steve Martin flicks.
How about "Brewster's Millions,", or "The Toy"? Richard Pryor is hysterical.
Why haven't gcc accepted the stack-smashing patch yet? Does it generate unstable code? Sounds like a cool compile flag, if you ask me.
I e-filed this year (or attempted to *) and I have only good things to report. Mind you, I used TaxCut, not TurboTax (boot-sector evilness avoided!) * My father-in-law accidentally claimed my wife as a dependent, so that kinda put a kink in the e-filing.