Intent doesn't really matter in the RF relm. If you're radiating whether you know it or not you're reponsible for keeping your signal source within it's authorized bounds. Signal splash to the point that it exceeds the unlicensed power limit on any band is illegal... and there's no exceptions to that.
Part 15 is the part that specifies the power limits for non-licensed users to protect the licensed users.
So, it all comes down to what frequencies the car alarm makers are expecting to use. If they pick a miliatary frequency and are trying to use it at low power, then they can't really complain when a miliatary ship comes by and blows them out of the water bandwidth-wise. However, if they pick a frequency open to the public like the 900mHz band, then it's the military transmitting too strong on a low-power band, even if it's just the result signal splash from their attempt to use their assigned band at high power.
So, in a sense, Part 15 does protect your keyless entry system from the miliatary. They're supposed to keep their RF operations away from your space just as much as you're supposed to stay away from theirs.
Security is in some ways a binary state. Your OS only needs to have one flaw capable of giving remote root, and you're insecure. The other security flaws are just extras that make it harder to get back to secure when patching things up... so long as there's one way to get total control, you can be 0wned and the rest just doesn't matter at that point.
ActiveX will never die because it's also the platform for gettng other programs to do the heavy lifting for you in Visual Basic, and is still supported in VB.net.
In short, ActiveX lets you write a component for a Win32 executable and IE at the same time. Of course, the flaw is that a full.exe is usually given total security freedom, while the ActiveX control in IE should limited but isn't effectively.
Putting aside the policial luggage Greenpeace carries with it... just why is this story on Slashdot?
It's really nothing more than your typical distant-WiFi setup, with a few repeaters to cover hard-to-reach parts of the metal ship. Nothing really groundbreaking to report...
Part of Greenpeace's credibility problem is it's just plain impossible to figure out who they are and who they aren't sometimes. That is, they don't do a good job of screaming "That's not us!" when somebody committs a crime in their name.
There's a legit political group somewhere in the core... but with so many radical fringes operating under the same name, it's hard to take that group seriously.
+3 Troll seems about where the parent post belongs...
Greenpeace isn't exactly an organization that makes sense. They oppose the use of technology that's bad for the environment, but then they turn around and use technology when it suits them. Still they have their backers and it's quite a vocal group.
I'm a little surprised Slashdot would bother posting this article... it's flamebait from the start.
Given nVidia's historic support of Linux, I wonder if they'll ship with all of the features available on Linux as well? So far, ATI's TV products have simply ignored that market.
I don't think ATI's ever supplied a full Linux driver for their TV tuner products. They simply have never bothered to write a version of their ATI Multimedia Center for Linux. I'm sure people have tried to come up with an open source version, but since they're working from the outside in they have the deck stacked against them.
As the review points out, ATI's software is now designed to take advantage of finding an AIW and a TV Wonder PCI card in the same machine, such as picture-in-picture and having both tuners record at the same time. In addition, ATI's TV products for quite a while have shipped with Gemstar's Guide+ software that provides TV listings that are integrated with ATI's software.
This combination is about as good as it gets for people who get their signals by analog cable... but if you have digital cable or DBS, it can't control your tuner box yet. They've got to work on that issue...
One of my complaints with earlier AIW models is that they didn't support dual display setups fully because the TV window couldn't draw on the additional monitors. The double-VGA support take appears care of this issue, but I'm not sure how it'd handle having an additional PCI card for a third monitor.
In fact, Britney, *NSYNC and the like makes most of thier money from touring as well. They get no more per-CD sold than any other artist, they just get bigger advances because they have better anticipated sales.
Britney took a major finacial hit by having to bail out of her tour this year. Artists make more touring then they ever see from a record label.
It's interesting to go into the current events section at any major bookstore and see that most books being stocked these days are anti-Bush or pro-Kerry, with at best two or three pro-Bush books in the bunch, with no anti-Kerry leaners to be found anywhere.
If books were ballots, Bush would be losing in a landslide.
Likewise, Clear Channel owns a lot of outdoor billboards here in the USA. Usually, they like to collect billboards in the same cities that they own radio stations so that the same sales team can sell both to the same customers in a joint presentation.
Clear Channel owns tons of radio stations. Clear Channel also operates a concert promotion arm as well. Concert singers don't exactly need album sales as much as they need radio play...
So maybe CC should get into the business of finding artists and signing them to a concert deal before they even have a recording deal. Give them a couple recording sessions to create a few radio-ready singles... and off they go. CC can make money with no need for the CD to be in wide release. In fact, give the MP3s away... it just serves to promote the artist's concerts.
Because I don't think there's any third-party service that can come up with reliable numbers of downloads of free songs... at least with iTunes or Napster 2.0 there's a man in the middle keeping a score.
It'd also mean that the broadcasters would have to do the work of deciding who's listenable and who's not. Then again, Simon Cowell does Pop Idol over there in the same format as American Idol here.
The radio industry doesn't particularly care about the recording industry... they just want to play the kind of music people want to hear when they're on-the-go or looking for new artists they haven't heard of yet.
Is that why F9-11 was the number 1 movie in the US for the past week?
F9-11 could be accused on winning last weekend by default. That is to say, no other high-profile movie opened last week so F9-11 was the biggest thing out there. This week, Spiderman 2 is out and that should be an interesting benchmark to compare this movie to.
1355 Americans gave it a "1". 93 gave it a "2". I'm not sure what to think of those numbers. Of course, any accusation of "voting by principle" can also be applied to the other end of the scale.
I have to say that the IMDB poll on this movie is likely useless infomation because there will be some Democrats giving the movie a "10" and some Republicans giving the movie a "1" despite neither group having ever actually seen the film.
Since it's impossible to sort out those biases from people who really saw the movie, it's impossible to correct the number.
Well, what is there to download of F911 at this point? The DVD release hasn't come out yet... so the only digital copies "in the wild" right now are going to be of that kind of bootleg.
"I don't think there's really a single actor or director in the world who does not believe that if you don't combat piracy, it will devour you in the future."
Blockbuster stars and directors might hate piracy because it cuts into their multimillion dollar paydays, but smaller stars are willing to work for "hollywood minimum wage" just to get seen in a movie or TV show in the hopes that exposure will lead to those big paydays in the future...
Michaeal Moore as an agent of the company which owns the copyright has authorized the duplication of the said work.
Nope. Moore doesn't work for his distributor. He sold his copyright rights to his distributor. If he had made his statement before selling his rights, then his public statement might hold water... but it doesn't bind Lions Gate to anything now.
What's interesting is that Lions Gate is choosing to say "no comment" rather than get into a public conflict with Moore. They can't explicitly authorize downloading and hope to be able to distribute the movie on DVD, but now if they go after anybody for pirating they're going to have a public fight with their star director... what a sticky situation for them.
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The article deals with RF-based keyless entry systems, not the RFID-like chip on keys. Two completely different technologies...
Intent doesn't really matter in the RF relm. If you're radiating whether you know it or not you're reponsible for keeping your signal source within it's authorized bounds. Signal splash to the point that it exceeds the unlicensed power limit on any band is illegal... and there's no exceptions to that.
Part 15 is the part that specifies the power limits for non-licensed users to protect the licensed users.
So, it all comes down to what frequencies the car alarm makers are expecting to use. If they pick a miliatary frequency and are trying to use it at low power, then they can't really complain when a miliatary ship comes by and blows them out of the water bandwidth-wise. However, if they pick a frequency open to the public like the 900mHz band, then it's the military transmitting too strong on a low-power band, even if it's just the result signal splash from their attempt to use their assigned band at high power.
So, in a sense, Part 15 does protect your keyless entry system from the miliatary. They're supposed to keep their RF operations away from your space just as much as you're supposed to stay away from theirs.
Because he gives bribes to everybody he monitors.
Security is in some ways a binary state. Your OS only needs to have one flaw capable of giving remote root, and you're insecure. The other security flaws are just extras that make it harder to get back to secure when patching things up... so long as there's one way to get total control, you can be 0wned and the rest just doesn't matter at that point.
ITMS does in fact allow the Indies to get involved... It's just a matter of them signing up.
ActiveX will never die because it's also the platform for gettng other programs to do the heavy lifting for you in Visual Basic, and is still supported in VB.net.
.exe is usually given total security freedom, while the ActiveX control in IE should limited but isn't effectively.
In short, ActiveX lets you write a component for a Win32 executable and IE at the same time. Of course, the flaw is that a full
Putting aside the policial luggage Greenpeace carries with it... just why is this story on Slashdot?
It's really nothing more than your typical distant-WiFi setup, with a few repeaters to cover hard-to-reach parts of the metal ship. Nothing really groundbreaking to report...
Part of Greenpeace's credibility problem is it's just plain impossible to figure out who they are and who they aren't sometimes. That is, they don't do a good job of screaming "That's not us!" when somebody committs a crime in their name.
There's a legit political group somewhere in the core... but with so many radical fringes operating under the same name, it's hard to take that group seriously.
+3 Troll seems about where the parent post belongs...
Greenpeace isn't exactly an organization that makes sense. They oppose the use of technology that's bad for the environment, but then they turn around and use technology when it suits them. Still they have their backers and it's quite a vocal group.
I'm a little surprised Slashdot would bother posting this article... it's flamebait from the start.
Given nVidia's historic support of Linux, I wonder if they'll ship with all of the features available on Linux as well? So far, ATI's TV products have simply ignored that market.
I don't think ATI's ever supplied a full Linux driver for their TV tuner products. They simply have never bothered to write a version of their ATI Multimedia Center for Linux. I'm sure people have tried to come up with an open source version, but since they're working from the outside in they have the deck stacked against them.
As the review points out, ATI's software is now designed to take advantage of finding an AIW and a TV Wonder PCI card in the same machine, such as picture-in-picture and having both tuners record at the same time. In addition, ATI's TV products for quite a while have shipped with Gemstar's Guide+ software that provides TV listings that are integrated with ATI's software.
This combination is about as good as it gets for people who get their signals by analog cable... but if you have digital cable or DBS, it can't control your tuner box yet. They've got to work on that issue...
One of my complaints with earlier AIW models is that they didn't support dual display setups fully because the TV window couldn't draw on the additional monitors. The double-VGA support take appears care of this issue, but I'm not sure how it'd handle having an additional PCI card for a third monitor.
In fact, Britney, *NSYNC and the like makes most of thier money from touring as well. They get no more per-CD sold than any other artist, they just get bigger advances because they have better anticipated sales.
Britney took a major finacial hit by having to bail out of her tour this year. Artists make more touring then they ever see from a record label.
It's interesting to go into the current events section at any major bookstore and see that most books being stocked these days are anti-Bush or pro-Kerry, with at best two or three pro-Bush books in the bunch, with no anti-Kerry leaners to be found anywhere.
If books were ballots, Bush would be losing in a landslide.
Likewise, Clear Channel owns a lot of outdoor billboards here in the USA. Usually, they like to collect billboards in the same cities that they own radio stations so that the same sales team can sell both to the same customers in a joint presentation.
Here's one way to think about a mega-company...
Clear Channel owns tons of radio stations. Clear Channel also operates a concert promotion arm as well. Concert singers don't exactly need album sales as much as they need radio play...
So maybe CC should get into the business of finding artists and signing them to a concert deal before they even have a recording deal. Give them a couple recording sessions to create a few radio-ready singles... and off they go. CC can make money with no need for the CD to be in wide release. In fact, give the MP3s away... it just serves to promote the artist's concerts.
Because I don't think there's any third-party service that can come up with reliable numbers of downloads of free songs... at least with iTunes or Napster 2.0 there's a man in the middle keeping a score.
It'd also mean that the broadcasters would have to do the work of deciding who's listenable and who's not. Then again, Simon Cowell does Pop Idol over there in the same format as American Idol here.
The radio industry doesn't particularly care about the recording industry... they just want to play the kind of music people want to hear when they're on-the-go or looking for new artists they haven't heard of yet.
Is that why F9-11 was the number 1 movie in the US for the past week?
F9-11 could be accused on winning last weekend by default. That is to say, no other high-profile movie opened last week so F9-11 was the biggest thing out there. This week, Spiderman 2 is out and that should be an interesting benchmark to compare this movie to.
1355 Americans gave it a "1". 93 gave it a "2". I'm not sure what to think of those numbers. Of course, any accusation of "voting by principle" can also be applied to the other end of the scale.
I have to say that the IMDB poll on this movie is likely useless infomation because there will be some Democrats giving the movie a "10" and some Republicans giving the movie a "1" despite neither group having ever actually seen the film.
Since it's impossible to sort out those biases from people who really saw the movie, it's impossible to correct the number.
Well, what is there to download of F911 at this point? The DVD release hasn't come out yet... so the only digital copies "in the wild" right now are going to be of that kind of bootleg.
"I don't think there's really a single actor or director in the world who does not believe that if you don't combat piracy, it will devour you in the future."
Blockbuster stars and directors might hate piracy because it cuts into their multimillion dollar paydays, but smaller stars are willing to work for "hollywood minimum wage" just to get seen in a movie or TV show in the hopes that exposure will lead to those big paydays in the future...
Michaeal Moore as an agent of the company which owns the copyright has authorized the duplication of the said work.
Nope. Moore doesn't work for his distributor. He sold his copyright rights to his distributor. If he had made his statement before selling his rights, then his public statement might hold water... but it doesn't bind Lions Gate to anything now.
What's interesting is that Lions Gate is choosing to say "no comment" rather than get into a public conflict with Moore. They can't explicitly authorize downloading and hope to be able to distribute the movie on DVD, but now if they go after anybody for pirating they're going to have a public fight with their star director... what a sticky situation for them.