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Thanks to crying mothers telling sob stories of teenagers getting into crashes, in most US states, 16 now gets you a learner's permit, but you need to be 17 to drive without your parent sitting next to you.
Furthermore, restrictive licenses given to young drivers in most states make carpooling with fellow high school students illegal... at my high school, 50 more cars showed up the day that law went into effect in 1998 and every day thereafter...
We're already worried about terrorist websites hiding messages in pictures... the idea of hiding the data within a porn picture so that it's accessed by thousands of people, only a few dozen of which know to run it through the right de-steno program to get the coded message. That logic could very well translate to P2P...
How many police busts over the years came as a result of a court-order wiretap allowing the police to overhear plans of a crime? In the case of terrorism, we've got intercept attacks before they happen... there's no need to catch the murderers after the crime, they're already dead.
Technologies that leave absolutely no way to be snooped on might be great for you to use, but when they're used against you they can get scary.
Yep, and therefore trying to go after the end customers based on the purchase alone is not enough... they've also got to prove they used to device to steal cable.
Don't forget you've just been handed a nice unemployment claim since your job loss was an eliminaton of your position rather than any actual misconduct on your part.
If your boss wasn't smart enough to see through their sham, that they always recommend firing the admin of record and hiring them instead, then your boss likely didn't deserve your talent anyway...
Nah, I think that just indicates that the submittor included an iWon hyperlink for the AP article, when really there are many less-obtrusive sources for the same content...
Actually, advertised traffic cameras have been found to have a worse side effect... drivers choosing to suddenly stop when they should have gone through, leading to the car behind them hitting their read end...
There's no reason why tech needs to wait while the other groups originaize their systems. In fact, having good communications in place would likely help the people taking care of food and water get their job done.
Yep... the transition definitely would need to happen at a complete stop, with the human doing something to indicate they'd like to move now. (Any human caught sleeping would presumably be awoken by a a horn from the driver behind them...)
Lots of complicated steps in getting this done... but at least the "On which frequencies?" question now has an answer.
Anything that helps the internal highways flow faster and avoid crashes that close the roadway better secures the homeland. The Interstate highway system was funded by the Federal government in part because it created high-speed ready roadways with a realtively small number of entry points... which in the event of a mainland war could easily be blocked off by local authorites to all traffic other than millitary vehicles. The Army would then be able to have convoys operate with whatever highway they needed all to themselves at high speeds to move whatever needed to be transported from City A to City B fast.
Think about a chemical attack on any given city... the highways between the city where the cure for that chemical is stored to the city where that attack hit could be completely closed so that the Army can move the cure to the place that it's needed with local defenses able to make sure nobody is able to interfere with the delivery.
I don't think you can complete automate the end to end ride... the main applicaition is going to be automating the highways. You get yourself to the onramp the old fashioned way, then get in the special line for autopilot cars, and then the autopilot takes over. You travel in a specially marked autopilot lane at 100 MPH with only other autopilot cars until you reach your appointed offramp where you're dropped off and the car goes back to your own control.
For most commuters, that takes out the longest and most boring segment of their commute, and saves the driver's strength for when they're most needed with the more complex driving. If a car actively using autopilot hits a non-autopilot car, it's automatically the non-autopilot car's fault for being in a lane they knew they shouldn't have gone into.
Such autopilot cars will likely also depend on having magnets built into the center of the road so that they have a benchmark for where exactly the lane is... and not having such markings would indicate that the road is autopilot-accepting so you can't enable it on a street where you have to use common-car mode.
The main use of British RDS is to automate the switching of fequencies during long drives so that as a signal gets weak the radio can switch to another station that is airing the same program at the same time... basically it means every radio station broadcasts the identies of any adjacent stations who are airing the same network program. As synchronized network radio programs are not as common here as they are there, that's just not quite as useful...
And why not? The real point in car-to-car communication on a highway is to keep everybody moving at roughly the same rate of speed so that there are no crashes, because a crash slows everybody down.
That's the principal behind most automated highway systems... everybody goes at the same high speed in tight formation until somebody indicates they want to leave... at which point the cars ahead speed up, the cars behind slow down to create space, the departing car departs, then the lead cars slow and the trailing cars accelerate so that the formation is reformed.
Highways are a great situation where the tragedy of the commons come into play. Somebody wants to go faster than everybody else, faster than they themselves can go, and as a result causes a crash that ruins the ride home for everybody behind them.
1) It doesn't replace the people actually DRIVING the vehicle needing to be at their utmost alert. We've all seen what cellphones and driving do to people.
No, that's a possible use of this bandwidth... car-to-car communications about the exact location and speed and its planned future actions is the key element in an auto-driving network system.
This doesn't come anywhere close to completing such a technology, but it gives people developing such a technology a piece of bandwith that they'll be sure will be free of interference from non-car applications. Running such a system on 2.4 GHz would be a risky bet because you never know when somebody's WiFi might jam you. Now, they have a relatively quiet bandwidth space where they can do their work.
The failure in those traffic light control systems was they totally forgot to authenticate the requests. They just let a plaintext signal tell the lights what to do, and there wasn't even yet a law saying unauthorizedly issuing such a signal was illegal!
Stupid design... and fixed in future releases. Let's face it, any form of user-authentication protocol could have done the trick here.
Read what I wrote... MP3 is lossless if you allow it to use many more bits than you ever had in the original source AAC.
128 kbps AAC -> WAV -> AIFF -> 128 times X kbps MP3...
The MP3 can't possibly deliver the true quality you'd normally expect from such a overly-high quality rip because you never had that quality to begin with. The bit bloat you allow for gives it X times the space to express the sound... and as a result you're to the point where additional samples become wasted. You'll have to experiment from genre to genre to find out what that "X" factor is, but there is always one out there.
In a sense, you're defeating the compression because the "compressed" result is in truth much bigger than the original source file. You'll end up with an MP3 so big, you'll be able to clearly hear the original AAC artifacts if you could notice them before.
download song > burn to CD > rip to DRM-free mp3 > enjoy
Of course, I agree in practice, as this eats CD-Rs like mad, and adds at least $0.02 per track, not including time-costs.
Seems like that's all the copyright police are really demanding. Not that it be impossible to de-DRM stuff, or even hard to understand, just annoying. You can't even say that this is an analog hole attack, because that entire path starts digital and stays digital.
Quality loss? Nope... just byte bloat in that path. You could make a perfect copy to an uncompressed.wav from the CD with no loss. You compress to a higher-quality-than-you-ever-had-in-AAC bitrate MP3 with no loss. If you're already using 128kbps MP3s, you've already said you're willing to trade a little quality for bit savings...
So really, saying you're boycotting anything that has any DRM at all is throwing a baby out with the bathwater. This is DRM that's so easy to defeat you can't call it a respectable hack.
You've over reached on the non-free software idea... this is a library, not a store. This has to be a nonprofit operation... and let the library have their markup on the CDs... they need the money.
Schools these days have their main entryways set far, far back from any public road. The kids will already be up to full speed in a car by the time they reach any point where you could stand without tresspassing.
The default assumption will be that your giveaway is not on the level, and that's a pure security stand because schools are now very hardened against intrusion of all kinds. If you want your CDs distributed, you'll have to go through the school administration. It's not impossible, commercial interests succeed all the time getting their materials through the system. (See class ring makers, yearbook publishers, etc.)
The fact is, as much as open source is a cause for good, there are plenty of other causes, some upstanding, some questionable, that would want to bully their way into schools too. Everybody's gotta go through the system...
Copiers with libraries work because it's easy to tell when somebody is copying a whole book because it takes so long and their copy is very far from perfect. A CD-distribution project would be seen as much less of a possible legal hazard if it was write-only by design.
It'd also be extremely easy to create a 40 GB hard disk ISO image partitioned exactly so it's one CD ISO per partition, and a simple Linux shell with some sort of point and click interface so that from library to library the offering would be standardized.
Libraries could sell single blank CD-Rs for $2-3, a suitable markup for having them right where you need them and because a library should be able to do a little fundraising, but patrons should be invited to bring in their own CD-Rs.
There should be some sort of upgrade functionality so that outdated releases are refreshed, and I think the best way to do that is for the project maintainers to send out a specifically designed CD that would authenticate itself to the OS, and proceed to load in the new ISO in the place of the old one. Sending out a release of 1,000 or so CDs is expensive, but it's a whole lot cheaper and faster than asking some rural libraies to use their dial-up connection. (Those places are the most important, if the library can't afford broadband, nobody in the area can. Open source software would be really useful in those places...)
By my estimation, all that really is needed is a low-end computer with a CD-R (no need for RW) drive and a monitor and mouse (no need for a keyboard). Such a setup likely could be mass produced for about $250-$300 a box...
It could be argued that the trouble in Taiwan is mostly China's making. This kind of retoric is usually heard from the Taiwanese candidates during an election cycle, it's China's reaction to it that's stronger than usual.
Both China and North Korea are reading that the USA is busy in Iraq... and I think they're ready test our shaky claims that we're always ready to fight war on two fronts. We're certainly not ready to fight on three, and Iraq is far from settled. Iraq would colapse into an Al Queda haven if we were to leave now.
Not so simple. The mere existance of a Taiwan government provokes China. China's viewpoint is that Taiwan is simply a rebel republic, and that's why the USA can't establish formal relations with Taiwan for fear of upseting China.
This wasn't a technical hack by any means... they brought a fake ID with the name of a real person on the guest list, and they got that person's badge issued to them. From that point on, they had as much clearance as that real person had, not surprising at all.
Just goes to show the inherent insecurity in demanding only a government-issued ID when many governments are involved. Any given state's drivers license has many anti-forgery features, but unless you have an inch-thick book with all of the features of every acceptable ID listed, an international event is gonna have a hard time relying on that alone.
Still, what's newsworthy about this failure? It happened at an important-to-the-Internet event, but it didn't really cause and damage...
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Thanks to crying mothers telling sob stories of teenagers getting into crashes, in most US states, 16 now gets you a learner's permit, but you need to be 17 to drive without your parent sitting next to you.
Furthermore, restrictive licenses given to young drivers in most states make carpooling with fellow high school students illegal... at my high school, 50 more cars showed up the day that law went into effect in 1998 and every day thereafter...
We're already worried about terrorist websites hiding messages in pictures... the idea of hiding the data within a porn picture so that it's accessed by thousands of people, only a few dozen of which know to run it through the right de-steno program to get the coded message. That logic could very well translate to P2P...
How many police busts over the years came as a result of a court-order wiretap allowing the police to overhear plans of a crime? In the case of terrorism, we've got intercept attacks before they happen... there's no need to catch the murderers after the crime, they're already dead.
Technologies that leave absolutely no way to be snooped on might be great for you to use, but when they're used against you they can get scary.
Which in translation says that this program's killer app is in evading law enforcement... copyright and homeland security implications be damned.
Yep, and therefore trying to go after the end customers based on the purchase alone is not enough... they've also got to prove they used to device to steal cable.
Don't forget you've just been handed a nice unemployment claim since your job loss was an eliminaton of your position rather than any actual misconduct on your part.
If your boss wasn't smart enough to see through their sham, that they always recommend firing the admin of record and hiring them instead, then your boss likely didn't deserve your talent anyway...
Nah, I think that just indicates that the submittor included an iWon hyperlink for the AP article, when really there are many less-obtrusive sources for the same content...
Actually, advertised traffic cameras have been found to have a worse side effect... drivers choosing to suddenly stop when they should have gone through, leading to the car behind them hitting their read end...
There's no reason why tech needs to wait while the other groups originaize their systems. In fact, having good communications in place would likely help the people taking care of food and water get their job done.
Yep... the transition definitely would need to happen at a complete stop, with the human doing something to indicate they'd like to move now. (Any human caught sleeping would presumably be awoken by a a horn from the driver behind them...)
Lots of complicated steps in getting this done... but at least the "On which frequencies?" question now has an answer.
Anything that helps the internal highways flow faster and avoid crashes that close the roadway better secures the homeland. The Interstate highway system was funded by the Federal government in part because it created high-speed ready roadways with a realtively small number of entry points... which in the event of a mainland war could easily be blocked off by local authorites to all traffic other than millitary vehicles. The Army would then be able to have convoys operate with whatever highway they needed all to themselves at high speeds to move whatever needed to be transported from City A to City B fast.
Think about a chemical attack on any given city... the highways between the city where the cure for that chemical is stored to the city where that attack hit could be completely closed so that the Army can move the cure to the place that it's needed with local defenses able to make sure nobody is able to interfere with the delivery.
I don't think you can complete automate the end to end ride... the main applicaition is going to be automating the highways. You get yourself to the onramp the old fashioned way, then get in the special line for autopilot cars, and then the autopilot takes over. You travel in a specially marked autopilot lane at 100 MPH with only other autopilot cars until you reach your appointed offramp where you're dropped off and the car goes back to your own control.
For most commuters, that takes out the longest and most boring segment of their commute, and saves the driver's strength for when they're most needed with the more complex driving. If a car actively using autopilot hits a non-autopilot car, it's automatically the non-autopilot car's fault for being in a lane they knew they shouldn't have gone into.
Such autopilot cars will likely also depend on having magnets built into the center of the road so that they have a benchmark for where exactly the lane is... and not having such markings would indicate that the road is autopilot-accepting so you can't enable it on a street where you have to use common-car mode.
The main use of British RDS is to automate the switching of fequencies during long drives so that as a signal gets weak the radio can switch to another station that is airing the same program at the same time... basically it means every radio station broadcasts the identies of any adjacent stations who are airing the same network program. As synchronized network radio programs are not as common here as they are there, that's just not quite as useful...
And why not? The real point in car-to-car communication on a highway is to keep everybody moving at roughly the same rate of speed so that there are no crashes, because a crash slows everybody down.
That's the principal behind most automated highway systems... everybody goes at the same high speed in tight formation until somebody indicates they want to leave... at which point the cars ahead speed up, the cars behind slow down to create space, the departing car departs, then the lead cars slow and the trailing cars accelerate so that the formation is reformed.
Highways are a great situation where the tragedy of the commons come into play. Somebody wants to go faster than everybody else, faster than they themselves can go, and as a result causes a crash that ruins the ride home for everybody behind them.
1) It doesn't replace the people actually DRIVING the vehicle needing to be at their utmost alert. We've all seen what cellphones and driving do to people.
No, that's a possible use of this bandwidth... car-to-car communications about the exact location and speed and its planned future actions is the key element in an auto-driving network system.
This doesn't come anywhere close to completing such a technology, but it gives people developing such a technology a piece of bandwith that they'll be sure will be free of interference from non-car applications. Running such a system on 2.4 GHz would be a risky bet because you never know when somebody's WiFi might jam you. Now, they have a relatively quiet bandwidth space where they can do their work.
The failure in those traffic light control systems was they totally forgot to authenticate the requests. They just let a plaintext signal tell the lights what to do, and there wasn't even yet a law saying unauthorizedly issuing such a signal was illegal!
Stupid design... and fixed in future releases. Let's face it, any form of user-authentication protocol could have done the trick here.
Read what I wrote... MP3 is lossless if you allow it to use many more bits than you ever had in the original source AAC.
128 kbps AAC -> WAV -> AIFF -> 128 times X kbps MP3...
The MP3 can't possibly deliver the true quality you'd normally expect from such a overly-high quality rip because you never had that quality to begin with. The bit bloat you allow for gives it X times the space to express the sound... and as a result you're to the point where additional samples become wasted. You'll have to experiment from genre to genre to find out what that "X" factor is, but there is always one out there.
In a sense, you're defeating the compression because the "compressed" result is in truth much bigger than the original source file. You'll end up with an MP3 so big, you'll be able to clearly hear the original AAC artifacts if you could notice them before.
download song > burn to CD > rip to DRM-free mp3 > enjoy
.wav from the CD with no loss. You compress to a higher-quality-than-you-ever-had-in-AAC bitrate MP3 with no loss. If you're already using 128kbps MP3s, you've already said you're willing to trade a little quality for bit savings...
Of course, I agree in practice, as this eats CD-Rs like mad, and adds at least $0.02 per track, not including time-costs.
Seems like that's all the copyright police are really demanding. Not that it be impossible to de-DRM stuff, or even hard to understand, just annoying. You can't even say that this is an analog hole attack, because that entire path starts digital and stays digital.
Quality loss? Nope... just byte bloat in that path. You could make a perfect copy to an uncompressed
So really, saying you're boycotting anything that has any DRM at all is throwing a baby out with the bathwater. This is DRM that's so easy to defeat you can't call it a respectable hack.
You've over reached on the non-free software idea... this is a library, not a store. This has to be a nonprofit operation... and let the library have their markup on the CDs... they need the money.
Schools these days have their main entryways set far, far back from any public road. The kids will already be up to full speed in a car by the time they reach any point where you could stand without tresspassing.
The default assumption will be that your giveaway is not on the level, and that's a pure security stand because schools are now very hardened against intrusion of all kinds. If you want your CDs distributed, you'll have to go through the school administration. It's not impossible, commercial interests succeed all the time getting their materials through the system. (See class ring makers, yearbook publishers, etc.)
The fact is, as much as open source is a cause for good, there are plenty of other causes, some upstanding, some questionable, that would want to bully their way into schools too. Everybody's gotta go through the system...
As a libertarian, are you also opposed to the mere existance of public libraries since they're mostly funded by taxpayer dollars?
Copiers with libraries work because it's easy to tell when somebody is copying a whole book because it takes so long and their copy is very far from perfect. A CD-distribution project would be seen as much less of a possible legal hazard if it was write-only by design.
It'd also be extremely easy to create a 40 GB hard disk ISO image partitioned exactly so it's one CD ISO per partition, and a simple Linux shell with some sort of point and click interface so that from library to library the offering would be standardized.
Libraries could sell single blank CD-Rs for $2-3, a suitable markup for having them right where you need them and because a library should be able to do a little fundraising, but patrons should be invited to bring in their own CD-Rs.
There should be some sort of upgrade functionality so that outdated releases are refreshed, and I think the best way to do that is for the project maintainers to send out a specifically designed CD that would authenticate itself to the OS, and proceed to load in the new ISO in the place of the old one. Sending out a release of 1,000 or so CDs is expensive, but it's a whole lot cheaper and faster than asking some rural libraies to use their dial-up connection. (Those places are the most important, if the library can't afford broadband, nobody in the area can. Open source software would be really useful in those places...)
By my estimation, all that really is needed is a low-end computer with a CD-R (no need for RW) drive and a monitor and mouse (no need for a keyboard). Such a setup likely could be mass produced for about $250-$300 a box...
It could be argued that the trouble in Taiwan is mostly China's making. This kind of retoric is usually heard from the Taiwanese candidates during an election cycle, it's China's reaction to it that's stronger than usual.
Both China and North Korea are reading that the USA is busy in Iraq... and I think they're ready test our shaky claims that we're always ready to fight war on two fronts. We're certainly not ready to fight on three, and Iraq is far from settled. Iraq would colapse into an Al Queda haven if we were to leave now.
Not so simple. The mere existance of a Taiwan government provokes China. China's viewpoint is that Taiwan is simply a rebel republic, and that's why the USA can't establish formal relations with Taiwan for fear of upseting China.
This wasn't a technical hack by any means... they brought a fake ID with the name of a real person on the guest list, and they got that person's badge issued to them. From that point on, they had as much clearance as that real person had, not surprising at all.
Just goes to show the inherent insecurity in demanding only a government-issued ID when many governments are involved. Any given state's drivers license has many anti-forgery features, but unless you have an inch-thick book with all of the features of every acceptable ID listed, an international event is gonna have a hard time relying on that alone.
Still, what's newsworthy about this failure? It happened at an important-to-the-Internet event, but it didn't really cause and damage...