Not exactly a sign in the yard. That's clear public advertising...
and not exactly a sealed envelope in a closed mailbox. That's equivalent to WEP, I suppose. Both are easily defeated, but at least in the case of mail, privacy is the intent and the expectation, and the letter of the law.
I grab my camera and go down the street, snapping pictures of each house, including whatever is happening in the windows, and recording the GPS coordinates. Just a few dozen pictures per house, and then I move on. Most of the time there's no one in the windows, but here I see someone writing a check, and I can read the account number. here's someone talking on the phone (and I can read lips), here's someone walking by their window naked.
What am I doing with those pictures?
Well, all I'm going to do is build a database that says, if you see a house that looks exactly like this, you are here.
And remember, they are the Electronic Frontier Foundation, NOT the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
It is all about their agenda, which is attested to by their "legal Victories"... all cherry picked cases where something incredibly stupid is happening, and any half-decent attorney could set things straight... but ultimately, cases where an individual is being wronged, and cases that will set no precedent.
They consistently skew facts, misquote people, and practice fear-mongering to get you to click that donate button or blast their target-of-the-day. FYI, if you use any of their mass mailers, you don't know who the message is going to... I hope you like being a spammer.
The fear or distrust of "same as us but not one of us" is common.
Many species of social animals (mainly larger predators: wolves, lions, etc.. ) act threatened when confronted with a different pack, pride, colony, etc of their own kind... more so than by the presence of a different species (such as humans).
There's a damn good reason for it too. The group recognizes that other "tribe" of us wants the exact same thing we need to survive.
What Vandersteens? 'Cause if you're talking the $10K+ models... Your CD player, MP3 player, and the amp you are using to do the comparison might not be as transparent as the speakers are. Hell, your ears night not be as transparent.
Even on my average car stereo with the windows down, I can tell the difference between uncompressed, a 256K "iTunes Plus" AAC, and a high-VBR mp3/ or 128k aac... anything below that is crap. On my home gear, which is nowhere near as high-end as Vandersteen, it is even more evident.
I've been re-ripping all the CDs I own to 256k AAC, and I can still hear a difference when I pop a CD into the PS3
It's not always treble loss or bass distortion that ruins an encoded track. Muddy bass and treble can be from insufficient bit rate but is more often from an encoder that doesn't know how to optimize for the bit rate allowed. The biggest loss is dynamic range and stereo separation. Not something you immediately notice because you can't hear it when you compare short sections... but eventually you'll realize the encoded version just doesn't sound as 'real' as the source. Modern overcompressed junk won't really degrade because it has had the life squeezed out of it already. Live recordings really lose the presence factor.
CAPTCHA: "Rewinds"... Let's all just go back to cassette tapes!
4.5 years? That's an entire lifespan for a piece of technology these days. I plan on having a TV, but maybe not the same TV, and who knows what formats or connections I'll want the DVR to support...
There's a good chance the disk in a Cableco DVR will die or develop bad blocks in 4.5 years. It's almost guaranteed to happen: That thing was slowly roasting in someone's dusty TV stand before you got it. Which is a good thing, because it means you'll get to trade your box in for a newer model with a better UI and maybe even a SATA port so you can add your own storage.
I know more than one Tivo owner who has suffered a disk failure. Of course I've also had disk failures in PCs, but it's easy to fix in a PC, and everything important gets backed up... not so much with a Tivo.
Sorry, Tivo loses because if you want to go cheap and don't care about features, you can rent a CableCo DVR for the same you'd pay Tivo every month. If you do want the kitchen sink, you can build an HTPC for the same investment and you don't have to pay out every month.
For about $750 I can spec a nice little Dell Zino: HDMI on-board, Dual-Core, 4GB RAM, 1 TB HDD, Blu-Ray+DVDRW, Win 7 Home Premium. Add an ATI DCT CableCARD Tuner for about $250... or if I wait a while Silicondust with have their dual-tuner CableCARD box out for about the same price.
So, I'm at $1000 for a DVR, BD Player, and everything else an HTPC can do (Hulu,Netflix,Bittorrent..) It's digital cable ready, there are no monthly guide fees, and IMHO Windows Media Center is a LOT nicer than Tivo.
Or, you can just add a CableCARD tuner to any Win 7 PC, and stick an Xbox 360 on your TV as an extender. That's ~$500 and takes advantage of any storage you might already have... and the CableCARD tuner just works for me. I get everything channel I pay for in HD, and so far I've seen no DRM at all: I can commercial-scan and transcode everything it records.
Let me fix that for you: You meant it has never been PUBLICLY RELEASED before.
If one guy working alone can manage to do it, the intelligence agencies of several nations did it a long time ago. And don't kid yourself, a TPM chip is nothing compared to the kind of hardened devices said agencies trust with their data.
At the physical level, data has to be in the clear somewhere. If you have the tools and the skill, an intrusive hardware attack against a single device is much less complicated than, say, cracking good crypto or finding a vulnerability that works on every device of that type.
There's a difference between making a gun and making a new stock for a gun.
For one, making a zip gun doesn't require you to bring anything in. Except maybe a few rounds. We had some idiots get busted for that at my H.S. If you have metal shop, somebody WILL get the clever idea to make a zip gun.
Secondly, it's pretty safe to assume if someone is just making a new stock for a gun, they understand guns and don't mean to cause any harm in school.
Doubtful he's all that innocent. The news article is nothing but his word and his side of the story.
Trust me (having assisted with investigations into computer crime of all sorts) there is no way he could have been charged based on what HE says was the evidence. There's far more to it.
I sleep worse at night knowing there are paranoid idiots like you out there. The government isn't likely to snap and go postal with me as an innocent bystander.
First of all, the CBS13 article is utterly fact free. The only CP "boogeyman" is the one the news manufactures.
Limewire? A year ago? As a fake "College Girls Gone Wild"? Anyone who downloaded that would be getting it from many sources and would have no idea what it was. The FBI simply wouldn't be able to track the download, and over that kind of time, NTFS (I assume) would have completely destroyed any evidence. I've done data recovery, it takes a lot less than a year for deleted files to degrade.
If something could be recovered in an intact enough state to satisfy forensics, I'm convinced this guy intentionally downloaded CP, got caught, and deleted it not too long before the FBI showed up. He's making excuses.
The FBI without a doubt does set up sting sites and baits CP downloaders, but why would they disguise it as fake adult porn? They want to catch people who are actually trying to download CP.
As others have pointed out, this shit shows up on 4chan and the like all the time. Lots of us have probably seen it be accident, has the FBI knocked on your door yet?
There are earbuds that are worth $70 or $80. Believe it or not, the general opinion of the Apple in-ear set is they sound better than many earbuds in the $100-$150 range. They have seperate bass and treble drivers, and you just don't find that in the price range.
In terms of flatness and response, I'd say they are on par with my Grado SR-60s. I like them for relaxed, seated listening on the go. If I'm walking I stick to the standard iPhone buds. The in-ears also block ambient noise better than active noise-canceling, which just isn't safe on the street.
At my desk, Grado SR-60s. Nice open sound, none of that "band inside your skull" sensation.
The Running Man (the book, that is) creeps me out every time I read it. The hero flies a 747 into a skyscraper. Almost EXACTLY the same way the 9/11 strikes happened. And you tell me no one doing anti-terrorism at the time investigated that method of attack?
CAPTCHA is 'ostrich'. Talk about heads in the sand...
MS started offering ISOs with Vista. You can buy Windows 7 directly from MS or other online merchants (Best Buy for one) and download the ISO. There's nothing unique about the ISO you get. Your key is on the receipt.
If you have purchased a "Digital Download" and want a DVD as well, it's also something like $15 direct from MS. Which makes no sense, because the cost of the license (which is what you are paying for, after all.) is the same for either distribution. If the ISO was a few $ less, I'd understand the fee for the disc.
Manufacturers like to give out physical media to idiot-proof the process. DVD-Rs get bit rot and are easily damaged. A lot of people don't know how to burn a disc. Also, more than a few cheap optical drives (burners, even!) will read a DVD-R as fast or as reliably as a pressed disc.
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Not exactly a sign in the yard. That's clear public advertising...
and not exactly a sealed envelope in a closed mailbox. That's equivalent to WEP, I suppose.
Both are easily defeated, but at least in the case of mail, privacy is the intent and the expectation, and the letter of the law.
I grab my camera and go down the street, snapping pictures of each house, including whatever is happening in the windows, and recording the GPS coordinates.
Just a few dozen pictures per house, and then I move on.
Most of the time there's no one in the windows, but here I see someone writing a check, and I can read the account number.
here's someone talking on the phone (and I can read lips),
here's someone walking by their window naked.
What am I doing with those pictures?
Well, all I'm going to do is build a database that says, if you see a house that looks exactly like this, you are here.
Not to mention the dolphins and sea lions likely consider the training exercises to be a hell of a lot of fun. It's a game to them. What a job.
I'm wondering if this is more of a Man-in-the-Middle attack on the ATM's communication with the EFT network.
The ATMs I've seen that aren't stuck right in a bank building's wall use some form of dial-up, be it a land line or a GSM modem.
And remember, they are the Electronic Frontier Foundation, NOT the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
It is all about their agenda, which is attested to by their "legal Victories"... all cherry picked cases where something incredibly stupid is happening, and any half-decent attorney could set things straight... but ultimately, cases where an individual is being wronged, and cases that will set no precedent.
The EFF's website.
They consistently skew facts, misquote people, and practice fear-mongering to get you to click that donate button or blast their target-of-the-day. FYI, if you use any of their mass mailers, you don't know who the message is going to... I hope you like being a spammer.
Try Mapquest Mobile for the iPhone.
The features are limited, but the turn-by-turn is dead on. It even dips the music volume while announcing.
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They have. Remember MiiVi?
I'm thinking he's more of a corpse man. That, or zombies, they ARE a bit livelier.
The fear or distrust of "same as us but not one of us" is common.
Many species of social animals (mainly larger predators: wolves, lions, etc.. ) act threatened when confronted with a different pack, pride, colony, etc of their own kind... more so than by the presence of a different species (such as humans).
There's a damn good reason for it too. The group recognizes that other "tribe" of us wants the exact same thing we need to survive.
What Vandersteens? 'Cause if you're talking the $10K+ models... Your CD player, MP3 player, and the amp you are using to do the comparison might not be as transparent as the speakers are. Hell, your ears night not be as transparent.
Even on my average car stereo with the windows down, I can tell the difference between uncompressed, a 256K "iTunes Plus" AAC, and a high-VBR mp3/ or 128k aac... anything below that is crap. On my home gear, which is nowhere near as high-end as Vandersteen, it is even more evident.
I've been re-ripping all the CDs I own to 256k AAC, and I can still hear a difference when I pop a CD into the PS3
It's not always treble loss or bass distortion that ruins an encoded track. Muddy bass and treble can be from insufficient bit rate but is more often from an encoder that doesn't know how to optimize for the bit rate allowed. The biggest loss is dynamic range and stereo separation. Not something you immediately notice because you can't hear it when you compare short sections... but eventually you'll realize the encoded version just doesn't sound as 'real' as the source. Modern overcompressed junk won't really degrade because it has had the life squeezed out of it already. Live recordings really lose the presence factor.
CAPTCHA: "Rewinds" ... Let's all just go back to cassette tapes!
Yes, but they are surveillance drones, mostly on the US-Mexico border. I don't believe they are armed.
The military wouldn't target anyone with a drone on US soil, US citizen or not. Too much risk of collateral damage.
4.5 years? That's an entire lifespan for a piece of technology these days.
I plan on having a TV, but maybe not the same TV, and who knows what formats or connections I'll want the DVR to support...
There's a good chance the disk in a Cableco DVR will die or develop bad blocks in 4.5 years. It's almost guaranteed to happen: That thing was slowly roasting in someone's dusty TV stand before you got it. Which is a good thing, because it means you'll get to trade your box in for a newer model with a better UI and maybe even a SATA port so you can add your own storage.
I know more than one Tivo owner who has suffered a disk failure. Of course I've also had disk failures in PCs, but it's easy to fix in a PC, and everything important gets backed up... not so much with a Tivo.
Sorry, Tivo loses because if you want to go cheap and don't care about features, you can rent a CableCo DVR for the same you'd pay Tivo every month.
If you do want the kitchen sink, you can build an HTPC for the same investment and you don't have to pay out every month.
For about $750 I can spec a nice little Dell Zino: HDMI on-board, Dual-Core, 4GB RAM, 1 TB HDD, Blu-Ray+DVDRW, Win 7 Home Premium.
Add an ATI DCT CableCARD Tuner for about $250... or if I wait a while Silicondust with have their dual-tuner CableCARD box out for about the same price.
So, I'm at $1000 for a DVR, BD Player, and everything else an HTPC can do (Hulu,Netflix,Bittorrent..)
It's digital cable ready, there are no monthly guide fees, and IMHO Windows Media Center is a LOT nicer than Tivo.
Or, you can just add a CableCARD tuner to any Win 7 PC, and stick an Xbox 360 on your TV as an extender. That's ~$500 and takes advantage of any storage you might already have... and the CableCARD tuner just works for me. I get everything channel I pay for in HD, and so far I've seen no DRM at all: I can commercial-scan and transcode everything it records.
Let me fix that for you: You meant it has never been PUBLICLY RELEASED before.
If one guy working alone can manage to do it, the intelligence agencies of several nations did it a long time ago. And don't kid yourself, a TPM chip is nothing compared to the kind of hardened devices said agencies trust with their data.
At the physical level, data has to be in the clear somewhere. If you have the tools and the skill, an intrusive hardware attack against a single device is much less complicated than, say, cracking good crypto or finding a vulnerability that works on every device of that type.
There's a difference between making a gun and making a new stock for a gun.
For one, making a zip gun doesn't require you to bring anything in. Except maybe a few rounds. We had some idiots get busted for that at my H.S. If you have metal shop, somebody WILL get the clever idea to make a zip gun.
Secondly, it's pretty safe to assume if someone is just making a new stock for a gun, they understand guns and don't mean to cause any harm in school.
Doubtful he's all that innocent. The news article is nothing but his word and his side of the story.
Trust me (having assisted with investigations into computer crime of all sorts) there is no way he could have been charged based on what HE says was the evidence. There's far more to it.
I sleep worse at night knowing there are paranoid idiots like you out there. The government isn't likely to snap and go postal with me as an innocent bystander.
First of all, the CBS13 article is utterly fact free. The only CP "boogeyman" is the one the news manufactures.
Limewire? A year ago? As a fake "College Girls Gone Wild"? Anyone who downloaded that would be getting it from many sources and would have no idea what it was. The FBI simply wouldn't be able to track the download, and over that kind of time, NTFS (I assume) would have completely destroyed any evidence. I've done data recovery, it takes a lot less than a year for deleted files to degrade.
If something could be recovered in an intact enough state to satisfy forensics, I'm convinced this guy intentionally downloaded CP, got caught, and deleted it not too long before the FBI showed up. He's making excuses.
The FBI without a doubt does set up sting sites and baits CP downloaders, but why would they disguise it as fake adult porn? They want to catch people who are actually trying to download CP.
As others have pointed out, this shit shows up on 4chan and the like all the time. Lots of us have probably seen it be accident, has the FBI knocked on your door yet?
There are earbuds that are worth $70 or $80. Believe it or not, the general opinion of the Apple in-ear set is they sound better than many earbuds in the $100-$150 range. They have seperate bass and treble drivers, and you just don't find that in the price range.
In terms of flatness and response, I'd say they are on par with my Grado SR-60s. I like them for relaxed, seated listening on the go. If I'm walking I stick to the standard iPhone buds. The in-ears also block ambient noise better than active noise-canceling, which just isn't safe on the street.
At my desk, Grado SR-60s. Nice open sound, none of that "band inside your skull" sensation.
The Running Man (the book, that is) creeps me out every time I read it. The hero flies a 747 into a skyscraper. Almost EXACTLY the same way the 9/11 strikes happened. And you tell me no one doing anti-terrorism at the time investigated that method of attack?
CAPTCHA is 'ostrich'. Talk about heads in the sand...
I want something that does the opposite. When I push a button. Without the billions of years it normally takes.
being haughty to AC is like shouting at a tree because a squirrel annoyed you.
MS started offering ISOs with Vista. You can buy Windows 7 directly from MS or other online merchants (Best Buy for one) and download the ISO. There's nothing unique about the ISO you get. Your key is on the receipt.
If you have purchased a "Digital Download" and want a DVD as well, it's also something like $15 direct from MS. Which makes no sense, because the cost of the license (which is what you are paying for, after all.) is the same for either distribution. If the ISO was a few $ less, I'd understand the fee for the disc.
Manufacturers like to give out physical media to idiot-proof the process. DVD-Rs get bit rot and are easily damaged. A lot of people don't know how to burn a disc. Also, more than a few cheap optical drives (burners, even!) will read a DVD-R as fast or as reliably as a pressed disc.