If you have service from any major ISP, they already have your CC number and probably your SSN. They know what cable MACs are on your account, and they know what IP has been leased to it (I don't know about you, but my DHCP assigned IP hasn't changed in over a year!)
Really, why would they need anything else? If this really were a surveillance state, ISPs could already feed a constant stream of flows and maybe even content to whoever wanted it. In fact, there are CALEA-type provisions in place to do just that if a warrant is served... so why are you all ranting like a bunch of crackheads about something that really does seem to have good intentions? Oh, right, because THE MAN is promoting it. I swear, it gets old really quick when [insert race or ethnic group] blames THE MAN for everything, and it's getting old when geeks do it.
Isn't it the private sector that's developing this, with some input and acceptance from the government (as in, you can use whatever they come up with as legal ID, etc...)
I don't know if I trust business any more than government. Government doesn't have a profit motive, and government doesn't care about raking in ad revenue...
It doesn't actually say anything about a unique identifier in the except you quoted.
But wouldn't it be nice to have something like a universally-recognized SSL client certificate, linked to a smart card that only you possess and know the PIN to unlock.
Let's face it, if the government wants to track you, they can already track you by your charge card transactions, or they can ask your ISP to hand over what they have. If this is private-sector led, it's a finance/credit industry thing, and they all share more data on you than the government could ever want to have. So my data is already out there... whatever.. give me an ID no one else can use, and I'll be happy.
Good fucking riddance then. If you're the kind of idiot who jumps to those kind of conclusions, you're just as bad as the right-wingers who jumped to conclusions and got us in a pointless war/occupation/quagmire.
Well, if they're doing it right, the key material is split between the drive and the host. The host and the drive have to perform a key exchange to end up with a shared secret, which is used by the drive to encrypt data. If plugged into an unknown host, or if the drive is programmed to generate a key in RAM at power-on and never save it anywhere, there's no key to recover.
Rampant speculation and paranoia is just insulting. The low capacity is probably because this is a drive designed to have extremely high reliability, so it uses proven head and platter technology.
Yep, and that's how I found iPhones that are returned as defective to the Apple Store make it back to the public.
I exchanged a 3GS that was spontaneously rebooting and syncing slowly or not at all, even after a DFU Restore (which is why I honestly believe jailbreaking can damage your flash, especially after I had it happen to TWO jailbroken 3GS's... but that's another story.)
Anyway, I had Pandora on it. I didn't reinstall Pandora right away on my replacement phone, but when I finally did (months later) and logged into my Pandora account, my stations had been replaced with a bunch of stuff I would never listen to. So explain to me how that happened, other than someone using the phone that was supposedly returned to Apple?
Groklaw is implying there's a burden on the in-state companies. The law doesn't seem to imply that:
From the ST story:
"Microsoft is pushing Washington legislators to pass a law making it illegal for manufacturers that use pirated software to sell goods in the state [...] The proposed legislation would create a legal cause of action by making manufacturing companies liable for damages, and it would give the state attorney general and companies the right to pursue injunctions in civil court to stop the manufacturers' goods from being sold.
For example, if a large Washington store sold T-shirts made from a company in China and the Chinese company uses pirated copies of Excel at an office in Shenzhen, Microsoft could seek an injunction to prevent the manufacturer from supplying T-shirts to be sold in Washington state"
So... this law means the state AG could seek an injunction against goods from being shipped to your company in their state. You won't be able to get your foam peanut from that company in China, but you're not being told to not sell existing stock of your merchandise.
However, If this was a part needed to manufacture something here, you might have a production stoppage. This is potentially bad news for Dell, HP, Apple because their products are entirely manufactured by companies possibly using pirated software.
That is almost certainly intentional. Their other choices are to use an IANA range, which we would no doubt ridicule just as much, or a real IP address, which would promptly get DDoSed by every 12yo skript kiddie who saw the movie.
There's no need for probable cause to enable the use of a metal detector. How is this any more of a search than a metal detector? Unlike machines at airports, which rasterize the scan into an image, this kind of backscatter machine continually scans in a plane as you walk through it. That's not going to form a good image, but it can alert when an unusually high density is detected.
Don't forget CableCARD and the new Ceton tuner. 4 digital cable channels from one card, no additional fees from your cable company.
That is the real advantage of WMC: provider support.
No one else can do CableCARD. Not yet anyway. There is no reason MythTV couldn't record from a CableCARD tuner, at least for unprotected programs. As a matter of fact, it works almost exactly like the HDHomeRun tuner...
And before anyone spews Cheetos all over their keyboard and rants about how everything recorded from CableCARD is evil DRM-this-and-that.. CableCARD tuners only apply DRM if the content is flagged as protected. The only channels I see any copy-control bits applied to are the premium networks like HBO... which I don't care about. Most non-clear-QAM channels such as Discovery HD, SciFi HD, TNTHD are recorded with no protection at all.
"...but it seems like a bit of a bad design to have the edges exposed like that."
They're not. I'm looking closely at the edges of my iPhone 4 and there is a black band around the front and back glass. (Anodized aluminum?) The band provides a very tiny raised lip around the glass, so if the phone is dopped on a corner, it likely won't hit the glass.
Yes it is. Just staring at some hexdumps, it's not a hole in the browser, it is a hole in PDF Type1C font loading. Escalates to kernel space via an IOSurface allocation bug. A malicious PDF (think iBooks...) could do far nastier things than jailbreak for you.
Not all 70s (or 60s, 50s, 80s, 90s) music is widely listened too. The good stuff is widely listened to. If you look at the percentage of what is still listened to vs. all music produced, it is probably the same across all genres and decades. The percentage might be declining these days, but only because there is a greater quantitiy of music being released, not less "good" music.
But you hit the nail on the head with the term "culture". Music that gave rise to a culture will always be remembered by the people who are influenced by that culture.
To that end, what do you think a Lady Gaga CD will go for in (roughly) 2070, do you think?
Nothing, unless it's an unopened "first edition" and the value is on the CD as a collector's item. The music itself will still be easily available, for sale or for free, pirated or maybe in the public domain. As for if people will still listen to it? There's a good chance they will, because it's so easy to keep tens of thousands of songs in a personal collection and share them with others. Even if the music is unremarkable, it will come up on shuffle.
Yeah, but Youtube is a lot more than just video on demand. You can put anything up there for everyone to see. If we're going to use a TV analogy: Youtube is an on-demand public access channel anyone can get on.
Sure, I can consume traditional media via the internet when and where I want it, and that's cool, but that's not the point. Overall, the biggest difference the Internet provides is the bidirectionality.
signal strength is in -dBm, where every -3dBm down means the signal is only half as strong.
so, if they use a linear -dBm scale, they are already using a log scale of actual strength.
a log -dBm scale would be VERY biased towards 0dBm. You wouldn't see less than 4 bars until the signal was very weak.
this is a fascinating comparison chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBm Your wireless phone and wifi network is functioning on less RF power than the Earth gets from a distant star.
First, the good: I've found the iPhone 4 does seem to have superior sensitivity compared to the 3GS. I have a very marginal signal at work. (I'm kind of not supposed to have any at all...) Once it locks onto 3G, it is solid enough to stream Pandora. At this point I'm showing anwhere from 1 to 3 bars.
The bad: Any phone will lose a marginal signal depending on how you hold it or what's near it. At work, in my pocket there's no signal. On my desk, laying flat or in a dock, it works. However, my 3GS would drop to EDGE or completely lose the signal if I touched the screen or even hovered over it for too long. I have yet to see the iPhone 4 be that touchy. I will only lose signal if I touch that lower-left spot. There's no question bridging the antennas degrades reception, but it only degrades enough to affect already marginal signals.
The ugly: Signal bars are meaningless. I've seen it work just as well at 1 bar as 5. I've seen dead spots where I'll have 4 or 5 bars but nothing works, and If I toggle airplane mode it does not get the signal back until I relocate.
Has anyone ever considered the idea of graduated speed limits? 65 MPH in the right lane, then 70,75, up to 80 MPH in the left. Print the speed limits in the lane every 1/4 mile or so, and enforce them with respect to the flow of traffic. If you're doing 55 MPH in the wide open left lane, you get a ticket, same if you're doing 85 MPH in the right.
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If you have service from any major ISP, they already have your CC number and probably your SSN. They know what cable MACs are on your account, and they know what IP has been leased to it (I don't know about you, but my DHCP assigned IP hasn't changed in over a year!)
Really, why would they need anything else? If this really were a surveillance state, ISPs could already feed a constant stream of flows and maybe even content to whoever wanted it. In fact, there are CALEA-type provisions in place to do just that if a warrant is served. .. so why are you all ranting like a bunch of crackheads about something that really does seem to have good intentions? Oh, right, because THE MAN is promoting it. I swear, it gets old really quick when [insert race or ethnic group] blames THE MAN for everything, and it's getting old when geeks do it.
Isn't it the private sector that's developing this, with some input and acceptance from the government (as in, you can use whatever they come up with as legal ID, etc...)
I don't know if I trust business any more than government. Government doesn't have a profit motive, and government doesn't care about raking in ad revenue...
It doesn't actually say anything about a unique identifier in the except you quoted.
But wouldn't it be nice to have something like a universally-recognized SSL client certificate, linked to a smart card that only you possess and know the PIN to unlock.
Let's face it, if the government wants to track you, they can already track you by your charge card transactions, or they can ask your ISP to hand over what they have. If this is private-sector led, it's a finance/credit industry thing, and they all share more data on you than the government could ever want to have. So my data is already out there... whatever.. give me an ID no one else can use, and I'll be happy.
Good fucking riddance then. If you're the kind of idiot who jumps to those kind of conclusions, you're just as bad as the right-wingers who jumped to conclusions and got us in a pointless war/occupation/quagmire.
Well, if they're doing it right, the key material is split between the drive and the host. The host and the drive have to perform a key exchange to end up with a shared secret, which is used by the drive to encrypt data. If plugged into an unknown host, or if the drive is programmed to generate a key in RAM at power-on and never save it anywhere, there's no key to recover.
Rampant speculation and paranoia is just insulting. The low capacity is probably because this is a drive designed to have extremely high reliability, so it uses proven head and platter technology.
Yep, and that's how I found iPhones that are returned as defective to the Apple Store make it back to the public.
I exchanged a 3GS that was spontaneously rebooting and syncing slowly or not at all, even after a DFU Restore (which is why I honestly believe jailbreaking can damage your flash, especially after I had it happen to TWO jailbroken 3GS's... but that's another story.)
Anyway, I had Pandora on it. I didn't reinstall Pandora right away on my replacement phone, but when I finally did (months later) and logged into my Pandora account, my stations had been replaced with a bunch of stuff I would never listen to. So explain to me how that happened, other than someone using the phone that was supposedly returned to Apple?
NoScript will protect you from this and all 3rd-party script injection, even when set very permissive (allow all scripts from the base domain)
Groklaw is implying there's a burden on the in-state companies. The law doesn't seem to imply that:
From the ST story:
"Microsoft is pushing Washington legislators to pass a law making it illegal for manufacturers that use pirated software to sell goods in the state [...] The proposed legislation would create a legal cause of action by making manufacturing companies liable for damages, and it would give the state attorney general and companies the right to pursue injunctions in civil court to stop the manufacturers' goods from being sold.
For example, if a large Washington store sold T-shirts made from a company in China and the Chinese company uses pirated copies of Excel at an office in Shenzhen, Microsoft could seek an injunction to prevent the manufacturer from supplying T-shirts to be sold in Washington state"
So... this law means the state AG could seek an injunction against goods from being shipped to your company in their state. You won't be able to get your foam peanut from that company in China, but you're not being told to not sell existing stock of your merchandise.
However, If this was a part needed to manufacture something here, you might have a production stoppage. This is potentially bad news for Dell, HP, Apple because their products are entirely manufactured by companies possibly using pirated software.
Not only that, but you can limit who can see those tags, even when you are tagged in their friends' photos.
That is almost certainly intentional. Their other choices are to use an IANA range, which we would no doubt ridicule just as much, or a real IP address, which would promptly get DDoSed by every 12yo skript kiddie who saw the movie.
There's no need for probable cause to enable the use of a metal detector. How is this any more of a search than a metal detector? Unlike machines at airports, which rasterize the scan into an image, this kind of backscatter machine continually scans in a plane as you walk through it. That's not going to form a good image, but it can alert when an unusually high density is detected.
Safety concerns? Yes. Privacy? Not really.
Ok, MOSTLY Harmless.
Why? we're harmless.
Don't forget CableCARD and the new Ceton tuner. 4 digital cable channels from one card, no additional fees from your cable company.
That is the real advantage of WMC: provider support.
No one else can do CableCARD. Not yet anyway. There is no reason MythTV couldn't record from a CableCARD tuner, at least for unprotected programs. As a matter of fact, it works almost exactly like the HDHomeRun tuner...
And before anyone spews Cheetos all over their keyboard and rants about how everything recorded from CableCARD is evil DRM-this-and-that.. CableCARD tuners only apply DRM if the content is flagged as protected. The only channels I see any copy-control bits applied to are the premium networks like HBO... which I don't care about. Most non-clear-QAM channels such as Discovery HD, SciFi HD, TNTHD are recorded with no protection at all.
"...but it seems like a bit of a bad design to have the edges exposed like that."
They're not.
I'm looking closely at the edges of my iPhone 4 and there is a black band around the front and back glass. (Anodized aluminum?)
The band provides a very tiny raised lip around the glass, so if the phone is dopped on a corner, it likely won't hit the glass.
really no different than sniffing the fire hydrant.
Just a bit past the point where you blow chunks.
Yes it is. Just staring at some hexdumps, it's not a hole in the browser, it is a hole in PDF Type1C font loading. Escalates to kernel space via an IOSurface allocation bug. A malicious PDF (think iBooks...) could do far nastier things than jailbreak for you.
CAPTCHA: "clothing" ... Wolf in sheep's, that is.
Not all 70s (or 60s, 50s, 80s, 90s) music is widely listened too. The good stuff is widely listened to. If you look at the percentage of what is still listened to vs. all music produced, it is probably the same across all genres and decades. The percentage might be declining these days, but only because there is a greater quantitiy of music being released, not less "good" music.
But you hit the nail on the head with the term "culture". Music that gave rise to a culture will always be remembered by the people who are influenced by that culture.
Nothing, unless it's an unopened "first edition" and the value is on the CD as a collector's item. The music itself will still be easily available, for sale or for free, pirated or maybe in the public domain. As for if people will still listen to it? There's a good chance they will, because it's so easy to keep tens of thousands of songs in a personal collection and share them with others. Even if the music is unremarkable, it will come up on shuffle.
Yeah, but Youtube is a lot more than just video on demand. You can put anything up there for everyone to see. If we're going to use a TV analogy: Youtube is an on-demand public access channel anyone can get on.
Sure, I can consume traditional media via the internet when and where I want it, and that's cool, but that's not the point. Overall, the biggest difference the Internet provides is the bidirectionality.
signal strength is in -dBm, where every -3dBm down means the signal is only half as strong.
so, if they use a linear -dBm scale, they are already using a log scale of actual strength.
a log -dBm scale would be VERY biased towards 0dBm. You wouldn't see less than 4 bars until the signal was very weak.
this is a fascinating comparison chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBm
Your wireless phone and wifi network is functioning on less RF power than the Earth gets from a distant star.
Now you know most of the whiners don't actually have an iPhone. And besides, there's always going to be a poor signal down in their parents' basement.
First, the good: I've found the iPhone 4 does seem to have superior sensitivity compared to the 3GS. I have a very marginal signal at work. (I'm kind of not supposed to have any at all...) Once it locks onto 3G, it is solid enough to stream Pandora. At this point I'm showing anwhere from 1 to 3 bars.
The bad: Any phone will lose a marginal signal depending on how you hold it or what's near it. At work, in my pocket there's no signal. On my desk, laying flat or in a dock, it works. However, my 3GS would drop to EDGE or completely lose the signal if I touched the screen or even hovered over it for too long. I have yet to see the iPhone 4 be that touchy. I will only lose signal if I touch that lower-left spot. There's no question bridging the antennas degrades reception, but it only degrades enough to affect already marginal signals.
The ugly: Signal bars are meaningless. I've seen it work just as well at 1 bar as 5. I've seen dead spots where I'll have 4 or 5 bars but nothing works, and If I toggle airplane mode it does not get the signal back until I relocate.
Has anyone ever considered the idea of graduated speed limits? 65 MPH in the right lane, then 70,75, up to 80 MPH in the left. Print the speed limits in the lane every 1/4 mile or so, and enforce them with respect to the flow of traffic. If you're doing 55 MPH in the wide open left lane, you get a ticket, same if you're doing 85 MPH in the right.