Wal-Mart, actually. I already had a couple of TOS-Link cables, and then I saw that at Wal-Mart, and couldn't leave the store without it. The good news is that it is about $10-$15.
They are called "RCA HD6HPL Optical Cable with Halo Connectors" for the 6-foot version, and the 3-foot version which apparently costs the same is the "RCA HD3HPL Optical Cable with Halo Connectors"
Another cool thing about this cable is that they connector isn't rectangular, which if you have ever tried to plug a TOSLINK cable into the back of something you will appreciate.
Does TOSLINK optical audio not count as a DIY network? I didn't pay anyone to hook up my AV stuff.
Because my favorite cable is a TOS-LINK cable with a clear sheath, over the fiber optics.
(Yes, I am a nerd with a favorite kind of cable.)
Granted there it is a step up to go from a 6-foot cable to 100 feet, but it isn't that big of a deal. Bi-directional communication is another thing that would be needed to make a real network.
Amazon.com has a bunch of 100-foot fiber optic cables, so I don't think that fiber itself is the issue, getting the network cards cheap enough is more of an issue, I think.
It's assumed that some direct action has to be taken on them to activate them (rather than a timer of some form or another being used). In which case, this measure is sufficient.
What if you throw away two bottles containing chemicals that create a poisonous gas when the liquids mix? If it is an odorless gas, then it will not be noticed until it is too late. Or put a piece of sodium covered in oil into the can, and when it runs into the water, you get fire and other stuff.
Or have a bottle full of a poisonous gas, like chlorine gas, for example, that you open when the security guard tells you to throw it away?
If containers of fluids are dangerous, why are they just thrown away next to the security lines? When the hell is a knife going to help you against a group of 50 angry people in a small enclosed space?
If you search the people getting on the plane, what about the luggage? If luggage handlers can steal stuff from luggage and sneak it out of the airport, what is to prevent that same person from sneaking a bomb into the plane, in place of the stuff they stole? If we are going to search the pilot, why not search the mechanic, and make sure he didn't sabotage the plane?
If you have a security check, then the line to get thorough the check becomes a target. It doesn't matter where you move that check, since it takes time to go through, you have a bunch of people there, and thus a suicide bomber would just blow themselves up there.
Why do Americans not care about their 4th amendment rights to not be searched, and why is simply wanting transportation sufficient cause or not unreasonable?
Airplanes are much easier for a computer to control than a car because the medium that the vehicle is going through is much more consistent. Cars have to deal with constantly changing road surface, angle of the road, and such, while an airplane just has to deal with pressure and turbulence. I am not saying that the airplane is easy to make fully automated, just that doing that in a car is incredibly harder.
Yes, but in terms of making a computer controlled car, a first step is to have something like ABS be enabled or disabled by the computer when it should and shouldn't be, because a car can run just fine with it on or off. Then we can get to fully computer controlled stuff. I really don't have an effective override for ABS, and it fails me quite often, since I drive on ice often.
One example on a car that is currently fully under computer control is the fuel injectors. The ECU can turn them off when you are coasting, and then start them up when you open up the clutch, for example. That is one case where a human wouldn't be able to start the injectors before the engine stalls.
Cars already have several systems that "override the human" in some conditions: ABS, traction control.
The problem is that ABS is very tricky to do right on snow/ice/mud/gravel, where sliding the wheels is just fine and makes the car stop much faster than making sure that the wheels turn.
If they can't even get ABS right, why should I trust GM to get full-car control working correctly? ABS is a very simple mechanism, I would like it if they fixed ABS first so that it know when it should and shouldn't be active, and not just blindly trying to stop any kind of skid.
For now, I just use the manual override: the hand brake.
Your site is much less likely to get indexed if you do an exclude all in your robots.txt. But then how would people find the images to rip them off?
As for CC versus the model release: the license of the photo has nothing to do with the model release. You need a model release if the picture is used commercially, regardless of the license on the photo itself.
What about a microSD card? Those things are so tiny you could easily hide 2GB of storage inside a watch, button, or anything with even a little bit of space inside it.
Trying to have security guards like TSA trying to stop "illegal data" from leaving the country is bound to fail.
The only reason to have TSA look at the data on a laptop is to get around the 4th amendment rights.
I one of the main points of the GPLv3 is that someone like TiVo couldn't take the Linux kernel, modify it, and then use it in the TiVo signed with a key, and then distribute the changes but not the key. That would mean that anyone could make a modified TiVo kernel, but load it onto the device since it isn't signed.
What is the value of letting a company use and modify the Linux kernel if they can legitimitely lock out any usage of a modified kernel on that hardware?
One thing I expected around the 2004 election was a virus/worm that randomly changed the values in Access databases. Don't change the schema, don't delete rows, just change the values that was in there. Not changing the schema and not deleting stuff would make it relatively unnoticeable for as long as possible.
If it used a 0-day exploit, and had a way to get through NATs (piggy back on a website request or something), then you couldn't trust any tallies or votes done on anything that touched the internet.
At this point it doesn't matter if they apologized, the damage is done: opening older Corel documents in Office 2003 is a PITA. Apologizing just gains points with the CTO type people, so there really isn't a downside. Too bad it doesn't dawn on them that before MS was letting them use a "less-secure" method of opening files....
"That Microsoft is allowed to buy out all their competition rather than be forced to produce top notch software in an effort to battle over the market is a farce to me"
I wish people would stop bashing Microsoft, the fact is many of their products are pretty good, even with some bumpy patches here and there (ME), The XP series, XBox, mice (almost every god damn one has been and fairly well made), and keyboards. There's other crap for sure, but the fact is you don't get to be top dog if you totally blow. Fact is, Microsoft knows how to play the capitalist game very well, and make lots of money doing it. They know what technology sells and produces it.
Extreme time compression time lapse video isn't that hard to make. My video here fits August through December into 9 seconds, at about a 2,592,000X speedup. (One frame per day in, 30 frames per second out)
The main annoyance with doing this is that I get about 1 second of video per month, but I do get a normal style webcam out of it.
or mail them, though they have to arrive by the deadline, postmark does not count.
Doesn't that open up a whole bunch of ways to do fraud?
In the post office, possibly: "Here are the votes from the very (hated political party) area" "Put them behind box over there, I will get to them next week" "But they have to be counted by tomorrow" "Yeah, so?
The DRM in blu-ray is less consumer friendly then HD-DVD.
The entire point of DRM is specifically to be consumer un-friendly. It is designed to prevent stuff from not working. You might be correct that the DRM in the HD-DVD spec is more easily broken, but its existence is still consumer unfriendly. For example, AACS specifically prevents anything higher than 480p from being sent over analog outputs. Which sucks if you have an older HDTV that doesn't have HDMI with HDCP.
How about if keyboard manufactures started putting Ctrl in the correct place, left of A. (Photo is from the OLPC XO-1 keyboard, a keyboard layout I really like), left of A.
I know that you can remap the keyboard on most operating systems, but why does Caps Lock deserve such a prominent place when it is hardly used?
And what does replacing the ECU with an aftermarket ECU that has an open-source firmware have to do with changing the firmware that came with the stock ECU?
Yes, that is an open-source ECU, but you have to replace the ECU to get that.
Where is Desktop Switching in Windows? Almost all of the Linux window managers by default have a desktop switcher open, even very simple ones like FVWM. OSX has Exposé, but that isn't quite the same thing.
The best part about linux is that you can configure it, on a per-user basis in ways that windows can't do easily.
Personally I use XFCE, and then instead of a "Start" bar I have a 1-line command line in my task bar. Try getting that to run in Windows. If someone else had a login to this computer they could use KDE or Gnome, and not bother my settings at all.
The point is that the analog hole will work with any drm'd stuff, on any hardware. Videos, audio, books, etc. can all be recorded by pointing the appropriate recording device at the output. The only way to prevent that would be to make the recording devices illegal, or have a chip that recognizes certain patterns (see the EURion Constellation for one pattern that is hard to copy or edit). If you have access to a raw CCD and a digital to analog converter, you can rip any media that is delivered digitally and there is nothing that anyone can do to prevent that.
Yes, but there is the same problems with the government doing surveillance. Tapes can be lost or destroyed, and recordings can be altered (as you said).
What about a normal accusation against a teacher: what if that kid had said that the teacher had sexually assaulted the kid? There is no evidence, nothing to alter, but there is going to be some serious problems for the teacher, especially when that teacher is male. In fact an altered recording would be easier to detect than many other kinds of false allegations.
Yes, recordings can be bad, but not much more so than some other kinds of accusations, and they can be very helpful, just look at all of the tasering videos on YouTube. Most of them don't show the start of the incident, but some show a subject that is completely in custody being tortured with a taser. Would the government release any tapes they had made of those incidents, or would the tapes just be "disappeared"?
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That assumes one thing:
That anyone in congress actually cares about reading any of the bills.
Wal-Mart, actually. I already had a couple of TOS-Link cables, and then I saw that at Wal-Mart, and couldn't leave the store without it. The good news is that it is about $10-$15.
Newegg had them, but they are out of stock.
They are called "RCA HD6HPL Optical Cable with Halo Connectors" for the 6-foot version, and the 3-foot version which apparently costs the same is the "RCA HD3HPL Optical Cable with Halo Connectors"
Another cool thing about this cable is that they connector isn't rectangular, which if you have ever tried to plug a TOSLINK cable into the back of something you will appreciate.
Fine, is this better?
Does TOSLINK optical audio not count as a DIY network? I didn't pay anyone to hook up my AV stuff.
Because my favorite cable is a TOS-LINK cable with a clear sheath, over the fiber optics.
(Yes, I am a nerd with a favorite kind of cable.)
Granted there it is a step up to go from a 6-foot cable to 100 feet, but it isn't that big of a deal. Bi-directional communication is another thing that would be needed to make a real network.
Amazon.com has a bunch of 100-foot fiber optic cables, so I don't think that fiber itself is the issue, getting the network cards cheap enough is more of an issue, I think.
What if you throw away two bottles containing chemicals that create a poisonous gas when the liquids mix? If it is an odorless gas, then it will not be noticed until it is too late. Or put a piece of sodium covered in oil into the can, and when it runs into the water, you get fire and other stuff.
Or have a bottle full of a poisonous gas, like chlorine gas, for example, that you open when the security guard tells you to throw it away?
How about we end the Security Theater?
If containers of fluids are dangerous, why are they just thrown away next to the security lines? When the hell is a knife going to help you against a group of 50 angry people in a small enclosed space?
If you search the people getting on the plane, what about the luggage? If luggage handlers can steal stuff from luggage and sneak it out of the airport, what is to prevent that same person from sneaking a bomb into the plane, in place of the stuff they stole? If we are going to search the pilot, why not search the mechanic, and make sure he didn't sabotage the plane?
If you have a security check, then the line to get thorough the check becomes a target. It doesn't matter where you move that check, since it takes time to go through, you have a bunch of people there, and thus a suicide bomber would just blow themselves up there.
Why do Americans not care about their 4th amendment rights to not be searched, and why is simply wanting transportation sufficient cause or not unreasonable?
What if you registered enough domains that you encoded a song in the domains?
Airplanes are much easier for a computer to control than a car because the medium that the vehicle is going through is much more consistent. Cars have to deal with constantly changing road surface, angle of the road, and such, while an airplane just has to deal with pressure and turbulence. I am not saying that the airplane is easy to make fully automated, just that doing that in a car is incredibly harder.
Yes, but in terms of making a computer controlled car, a first step is to have something like ABS be enabled or disabled by the computer when it should and shouldn't be, because a car can run just fine with it on or off. Then we can get to fully computer controlled stuff. I really don't have an effective override for ABS, and it fails me quite often, since I drive on ice often.
One example on a car that is currently fully under computer control is the fuel injectors. The ECU can turn them off when you are coasting, and then start them up when you open up the clutch, for example. That is one case where a human wouldn't be able to start the injectors before the engine stalls.
Cars already have several systems that "override the human" in some conditions: ABS, traction control.
The problem is that ABS is very tricky to do right on snow/ice/mud/gravel, where sliding the wheels is just fine and makes the car stop much faster than making sure that the wheels turn.
If they can't even get ABS right, why should I trust GM to get full-car control working correctly? ABS is a very simple mechanism, I would like it if they fixed ABS first so that it know when it should and shouldn't be active, and not just blindly trying to stop any kind of skid.
For now, I just use the manual override: the hand brake.
Your site is much less likely to get indexed if you do an exclude all in your robots.txt.
But then how would people find the images to rip them off?
As for CC versus the model release: the license of the photo has nothing to do with the model release. You need a model release if the picture is used commercially, regardless of the license on the photo itself.
What about a microSD card? Those things are so tiny you could easily hide 2GB of storage inside a watch, button, or anything with even a little bit of space inside it.
Trying to have security guards like TSA trying to stop "illegal data" from leaving the country is bound to fail.
The only reason to have TSA look at the data on a laptop is to get around the 4th amendment rights.
I one of the main points of the GPLv3 is that someone like TiVo couldn't take the Linux kernel, modify it, and then use it in the TiVo signed with a key, and then distribute the changes but not the key. That would mean that anyone could make a modified TiVo kernel, but load it onto the device since it isn't signed.
From the Wikipedia article (the last section)
What is the value of letting a company use and modify the Linux kernel if they can legitimitely lock out any usage of a modified kernel on that hardware?
One thing I expected around the 2004 election was a virus/worm that randomly changed the values in Access databases. Don't change the schema, don't delete rows, just change the values that was in there. Not changing the schema and not deleting stuff would make it relatively unnoticeable for as long as possible.
If it used a 0-day exploit, and had a way to get through NATs (piggy back on a website request or something), then you couldn't trust any tallies or votes done on anything that touched the internet.
At this point it doesn't matter if they apologized, the damage is done: opening older Corel documents in Office 2003 is a PITA. Apologizing just gains points with the CTO type people, so there really isn't a downside. Too bad it doesn't dawn on them that before MS was letting them use a "less-secure" method of opening files....
"That Microsoft is allowed to buy out all their competition rather than be forced to produce top notch software in an effort to battle over the market is a farce to me"
I wish people would stop bashing Microsoft, the fact is many of their products are pretty good, even with some bumpy patches here and there (ME), The XP series, XBox, mice (almost every god damn one has been and fairly well made), and keyboards. There's other crap for sure, but the fact is you don't get to be top dog if you totally blow. Fact is, Microsoft knows how to play the capitalist game very well, and make lots of money doing it. They know what technology sells and produces it.
Extreme time compression time lapse video isn't that hard to make. My video here fits August through December into 9 seconds, at about a 2,592,000X speedup. (One frame per day in, 30 frames per second out)
The main annoyance with doing this is that I get about 1 second of video per month, but I do get a normal style webcam out of it.
Doesn't that open up a whole bunch of ways to do fraud?
In the post office, possibly:
"Here are the votes from the very (hated political party) area"
"Put them behind box over there, I will get to them next week"
"But they have to be counted by tomorrow"
"Yeah, so?
The entire point of DRM is specifically to be consumer un-friendly. It is designed to prevent stuff from not working. You might be correct that the DRM in the HD-DVD spec is more easily broken, but its existence is still consumer unfriendly. For example, AACS specifically prevents anything higher than 480p from being sent over analog outputs. Which sucks if you have an older HDTV that doesn't have HDMI with HDCP.
How about if keyboard manufactures started putting Ctrl in the correct place, left of A. (Photo is from the OLPC XO-1 keyboard, a keyboard layout I really like), left of A.
I know that you can remap the keyboard on most operating systems, but why does Caps Lock deserve such a prominent place when it is hardly used?
And what does replacing the ECU with an aftermarket ECU that has an open-source firmware have to do with changing the firmware that came with the stock ECU?
Yes, that is an open-source ECU, but you have to replace the ECU to get that.
Not even slashdot passes that test
Looks like some unencoded ampersands and style attributes.
Where is Desktop Switching in Windows? Almost all of the Linux window managers by default have a desktop switcher open, even very simple ones like FVWM. OSX has Exposé, but that isn't quite the same thing.
The best part about linux is that you can configure it, on a per-user basis in ways that windows can't do easily.
Personally I use XFCE, and then instead of a "Start" bar I have a 1-line command line in my task bar. Try getting that to run in Windows. If someone else had a login to this computer they could use KDE or Gnome, and not bother my settings at all.
The point is that the analog hole will work with any drm'd stuff, on any hardware. Videos, audio, books, etc. can all be recorded by pointing the appropriate recording device at the output. The only way to prevent that would be to make the recording devices illegal, or have a chip that recognizes certain patterns (see the EURion Constellation for one pattern that is hard to copy or edit). If you have access to a raw CCD and a digital to analog converter, you can rip any media that is delivered digitally and there is nothing that anyone can do to prevent that.
Why on earth would a vendor want to make the advertisement/presentation be restricted?
That is a great example of where DRM hurts everyone...
Yes, but there is the same problems with the government doing surveillance. Tapes can be lost or destroyed, and recordings can be altered (as you said).
What about a normal accusation against a teacher: what if that kid had said that the teacher had sexually assaulted the kid? There is no evidence, nothing to alter, but there is going to be some serious problems for the teacher, especially when that teacher is male. In fact an altered recording would be easier to detect than many other kinds of false allegations.
Yes, recordings can be bad, but not much more so than some other kinds of accusations, and they can be very helpful, just look at all of the tasering videos on YouTube. Most of them don't show the start of the incident, but some show a subject that is completely in custody being tortured with a taser. Would the government release any tapes they had made of those incidents, or would the tapes just be "disappeared"?