...wrote in one of his books about a banana republic where a program was introduced to help every family in the country to purchase and learn to use a helicopter, because it would come out way cheaper than building the network of roads through the jungle between scattered settlements.
So true... Often modern technology is simply cheaper than the "simple" stuff. Think cellular phones in areas without standard phone networks...
Replace the encryption key with your own and you have probably world first camera with encrypted memory, so you can shot half-legal and illegal stuff and nobody will be able to see your pictures until you download them, and decrypt with private key you have safely stored.
Once you take apart an analog camera you get a handful of useless plastic pieces. This toy taken apart provides you with a bunch of great electronics you can use in your hacks. Isn't that great?
For $10 the main point of digital camera is not that you can make that pity 25 pics without knowing if they came out okay or not. The main point is you can take it apart, play with the pieces, try to make a webcam or whatever you desire, and generally dare to do things you'd never do with a $1000 model! Screw the LCD, the CCD+lens, the flash, the batteries, the interface, all that stuff would cost about ten times that at radio shack!
Flash the encryption memory with "null" key. Add a circuit to circumvent the encryption. Since the encryption would work like "fifo" just remove the encryption chip and replace with plain bus buffer. Get the CCD and attach it to self-made "backend" circuit. Just hack 'doze box they use to download it and steal damned keys. Brute-force the encryption if weak.
1) Allow users to use p2p on your net. 2) Charge users for using the net. 4) More users want to access p2p stuff, pay for network 3) PROFIT !!! 4) RIAA sues users 5) Users stop using net 6) NO PROFIT!!! 7) ISPs oppose RIAA 8) RIAA stops suing users. 9) Users safely use p2p again 10) PROFIT AGAIN!!!
(I don't remember who said that but that's daamn right:)
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I saw one. Completely flexible, you can roll it, wash it, it's corrosive-resistant, completely plastic-sealed, looks cool and even doesn't feel bad in use. It's not heat-resistant though so don't put some hot pan or other pot on your keyboard. And watch for the plug - the wire is covered with the same plastic, but the plug is normal.
Re:Depends, heated or cooled.
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Ah, yes... Once you cool it below 0C, condensation will freeze, it will get really slippery and will start moving faster. If you heat it above plastic melting level, it will stick to the pad and will be really hard to move.
So the effect is actually opposite - cool=fast, hot=slow, but in a very non-linear way.;)
Wide but fixed. They don't pick completely at random from ALL they have. They made a list of certain titles (quite many but far from "all".) and screw you up if you have anything from the list. So theoretically if you share anything but that, you're safe.
Practically, once the secret list got compromised, they will change it.
When you look at peltier effect from one side, it's cool, but from the other side it's hot like the hell!:)
Depends, heated or cooled.
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According to thermodynamics, an average particle in a cooled mouse moves slower, so the mouse (being built from those particles) as whole will move slower too. Heating has opposite effect.
One day I'll make a mouse heating mod everyone will be stunned with, but that's rather far future (keyword: petroleum). For now I just use that hyped in movies but really quite practical fingerless "hacker gloves".
Forget about blankers!
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With vibrations coming from the fan, the mouse will be always sending SOMETHING. Not enough to make the cursor visibly move, but enough that a screen blanker will never go off.
Now, is it good or bad news?:)
Re:the Peltier effect is cool!
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Not really. The mouse has 4 wires - 2 for data and 2 for power, and it has pretty high tollerance for power (at least my logitech has:). Even the data lines are quite "strong". I tapped into the data lines, connecting them to amplifier, powered it from power lines and made a LED "activity indicator" that blinks whenever something on the PS2 line happens (i.e. the mouse is moved:)
Note it's digital transmission, not analog, so you need quite strong line noise to break it.
Okay, but what about heating?
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Can I get enough power to the mouse over existing wiring to add some heater device or do I have to replace the cable? What would you suggest as the heater - will a few plain higher-than-minimum power resistors suffice? Will I be able to run it from built in computer ATX power supply or do I need some extra external power?
(that metal "inertia wheel" is very cool for fast scrolling but it gets damn cold in winter.)
Nokia 5510 made a first small step towards that. The built-in sockets are that lame "micro-jack" of theirs, but the phone comes with a connector cables between their standard and normal jack (m and f) so you actually can use it to play the MP3 on your stereo etc.
When have you been to some local wireless phone dealer last? The problem is, it isn't anymore. At all. For quite a while now.
Most of nowadays phones come packed with features, lot of them useless or unwanted. You won't find any "plain phone" nowadays. All they come with phonebooks, various ringtones, uploadable logos, alarm clocks, SMS templates, WAP webbrowser and a LOT of such stuff that's not really phone-related. This way you could FINALLY get a "vanilla" phone, just by including "only phone" features. And if you want it with MP3, you get it with MP3 and don't pay extra for voice recognition, qwerty keyboard and a ton of other stuff you DON'T need, because the cheapest model that supports MP3 comes with them.
But if one person with common sense at the patent office had ANY idea what the patents is about, they could just deny "No way, this is in common use already and not thanks to your company. You can't patent using computers to store phone numbers.
...a cell phone that would have as "flexible" architecture as PC.
Imagine this: - Case: Different looks, about same width but different lengths. It provides two or three "slider layers" that enable you to install components.
- Necessities: a) GSM decoder module (your frequency variant, possible sat phone) b) Battery: Different sizes, different capacities. Separately a small power management module (change batteries, replace them, examine power levels, switch between batteries) c) Main CPU. Different speeds and possiblities. d) Internal memory (different sizes, may use more than one module) e) Keyboard (normal, big, different highlight colors, qwerty whole, qwerty 2-parts (on 2 sides of screen) f) Screen. Text-only, b&w, big, color, whatever you wish. g) Speaker and receiver. May be different inputs. h) SIM card socket. Possible double, triple, big, small...
- Extras: MP3, Radio, FM, MIDI, IRDA, Bluetooth, USB, loud speaker, camera, TV pilot, whatever you imagine you can put in a phone.
And the case provides a single bus you plug your modules in. Each module occupies certain number of "slots" (of course keyboard, battery and LCD are big. Toys like MP3 player take way less).
You buy parts in variants you need. Want a good SMS'ing box? Qwerty and big b&w screen. Want gaming platform? Gamer's keyboard, color screen, strong CPU and a lot of memory. Want to keep it small? "mini" case and only necessary stuff of minimum sizes. Want a laptop-like thing? Carry a half-pound brick in your pocket with everything installed and 5 strongest batteries and built-in AC charger.
Add to that fully or mostly open-source communication software layer so people could write their own apps for it...
Come on, give up on that shit! That thing misses the point and lacks more than half the fun! Try this and at best you get moral hangover.
Where's the whole foreplay? Where's precise describing of gaining her trust and building love between you two? Where are the tricks of finding secret places on her body, she loves caressed. Where's giving pleasure to HER?
Did you know you can drive a mare to orgasm by ONLY scritching her EAR?! Do you know how wonderful it feels when she trusts you? Can you read her feelings from her facial expression? Can you tell whether she's sad or annoyed?
"Limit her access to other horses though and see that she spends at least 8-12 hours a day in the stall" Seeesh. I hope she kicks and kills you if you do this! Horses are very sociable animals and limitng contacts between them is plain cruelty! The only way to overcome her drag to other horses is to give her enough love that she choses you as her alpha horse!
Only with true love built between you two you can reach trully relaxing and deep relationship and real depth of feelings, for which sex is just culmination, just creating the last missing link between you two.
Don't be a dumb bestialist. Be a responsible zoophile.
(Yes, I know I'm risking my karma whore bonus by not posting this anonymously. But this needs to be said, because some people here misunderstood the principles behind this all)
first off, lots of old hardware supports ipv6 and there's not much difference on software side (except you'd need some dedicated routers to de/multiplex traffic "to IP" into traffic "to ports".
then note "supports ipv6" is now same catch word as y2k-compilant. Apps that didn't have a single call to time() or similar in their code and hardware that didn't have any clockchips built in claimed to be y2k-compilant. Just the same way as gasoline is sugar-free or your hair-drier is ozone-friendly.
So now you run it on an ipv6 box, see "Hey, it works!" and stamp "Now IPv6 compilant!". Cool!
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...wrote in one of his books about a banana republic where a program was introduced to help every family in the country to purchase and learn to use a helicopter, because it would come out way cheaper than building the network of roads through the jungle between scattered settlements.
So true... Often modern technology is simply cheaper than the "simple" stuff. Think cellular phones in areas without standard phone networks...
Heh, that gave me a good idea...
Replace the encryption key with your own and you have probably world first camera with encrypted memory, so you can shot half-legal and illegal stuff and nobody will be able to see your pictures until you download them, and decrypt with private key you have safely stored.
That's how bugs are turned into features!
Once you take apart an analog camera you get a handful of useless plastic pieces.
This toy taken apart provides you with a bunch of great electronics you can use in your hacks.
Isn't that great?
For $10 the main point of digital camera is not that you can make that pity 25 pics without knowing if they came out okay or not. The main point is you can take it apart, play with the pieces, try to make a webcam or whatever you desire, and generally dare to do things you'd never do with a $1000 model! Screw the LCD, the CCD+lens, the flash, the batteries, the interface, all that stuff would cost about ten times that at radio shack!
Just makes the hack a bit more difficult.
Flash the encryption memory with "null" key.
Add a circuit to circumvent the encryption.
Since the encryption would work like "fifo" just remove the encryption chip and replace with plain bus buffer.
Get the CCD and attach it to self-made "backend" circuit.
Just hack 'doze box they use to download it and steal damned keys.
Brute-force the encryption if weak.
There's no uncrackable solution.
Put an array of these around a scene and shoot at once, then connect the frames - you get that cool "frozen in jump" etc effects :)
1) Allow users to use p2p on your net.
2) Charge users for using the net.
4) More users want to access p2p stuff, pay for network
3) PROFIT !!!
4) RIAA sues users
5) Users stop using net
6) NO PROFIT!!!
7) ISPs oppose RIAA
8) RIAA stops suing users.
9) Users safely use p2p again
10) PROFIT AGAIN!!!
Yes, Long, but without the tricky "???" part.
if I wrap air outlet from CPU fan and attach it to a pipe, lead the pipe along the wire to the mouse and let out air heated by the CPU? ;)
...that there's so many to choose from.
:)
(I don't remember who said that but that's daamn right
I saw one. Completely flexible, you can roll it, wash it, it's corrosive-resistant, completely plastic-sealed, looks cool and even doesn't feel bad in use. It's not heat-resistant though so don't put some hot pan or other pot on your keyboard. And watch for the plug - the wire is covered with the same plastic, but the plug is normal.
Ah, yes...
;)
Once you cool it below 0C, condensation will freeze, it will get really slippery and will start moving faster. If you heat it above plastic melting level, it will stick to the pad and will be really hard to move.
So the effect is actually opposite - cool=fast, hot=slow, but in a very non-linear way.
Wide but fixed. They don't pick completely at random from ALL they have. They made a list of certain titles (quite many but far from "all".) and screw you up if you have anything from the list. So theoretically if you share anything but that, you're safe.
Practically, once the secret list got compromised, they will change it.
When you look at peltier effect from one side, it's cool, but from the other side it's hot like the hell! :)
According to thermodynamics, an average particle in a cooled mouse moves slower, so the mouse (being built from those particles) as whole will move slower too. Heating has opposite effect.
That's covered under tatoo&piercing
One day I'll make a mouse heating mod everyone will be stunned with, but that's rather far future (keyword: petroleum). For now I just use that hyped in movies but really quite practical fingerless "hacker gloves".
With vibrations coming from the fan, the mouse will be always sending SOMETHING. Not enough to make the cursor visibly move, but enough that a screen blanker will never go off.
:)
Now, is it good or bad news?
Not really. The mouse has 4 wires - 2 for data and 2 for power, and it has pretty high tollerance for power (at least my logitech has :). Even the data lines are quite "strong". I tapped into the data lines, connecting them to amplifier, powered it from power lines and made a LED "activity indicator" that blinks whenever something on the PS2 line happens (i.e. the mouse is moved :)
Note it's digital transmission, not analog, so you need quite strong line noise to break it.
Can I get enough power to the mouse over existing wiring to add some heater device or do I have to replace the cable? What would you suggest as the heater - will a few plain higher-than-minimum power resistors suffice? Will I be able to run it from built in computer ATX power supply or do I need some extra external power?
(that metal "inertia wheel" is very cool for fast scrolling but it gets damn cold in winter.)
Nokia 5510 made a first small step towards that. The built-in sockets are that lame "micro-jack" of theirs, but the phone comes with a connector cables between their standard and normal jack (m and f) so you actually can use it to play the MP3 on your stereo etc.
A wireless phone is exactly that...
When have you been to some local wireless phone dealer last?
The problem is, it isn't anymore. At all. For quite a while now.
Most of nowadays phones come packed with features, lot of them useless or unwanted. You won't find any "plain phone" nowadays. All they come with phonebooks, various ringtones, uploadable logos, alarm clocks, SMS templates, WAP webbrowser and a LOT of such stuff that's not really phone-related. This way you could FINALLY get a "vanilla" phone, just by including "only phone" features. And if you want it with MP3, you get it with MP3 and don't pay extra for voice recognition, qwerty keyboard and a ton of other stuff you DON'T need, because the cheapest model that supports MP3 comes with them.
But if one person with common sense at the patent office had ANY idea what the patents is about, they could just deny "No way, this is in common use already and not thanks to your company. You can't patent using computers to store phone numbers.
...a cell phone that would have as "flexible" architecture as PC.
Imagine this:
- Case: Different looks, about same width but different lengths. It provides two or three "slider layers" that enable you to install components.
- Necessities:
a) GSM decoder module (your frequency variant, possible sat phone)
b) Battery: Different sizes, different capacities. Separately a small power management module (change batteries, replace them, examine power levels, switch between batteries)
c) Main CPU. Different speeds and possiblities.
d) Internal memory (different sizes, may use more than one module)
e) Keyboard (normal, big, different highlight colors, qwerty whole, qwerty 2-parts (on 2 sides of screen)
f) Screen. Text-only, b&w, big, color, whatever you wish.
g) Speaker and receiver. May be different inputs.
h) SIM card socket. Possible double, triple, big, small...
- Extras:
MP3, Radio, FM, MIDI, IRDA, Bluetooth, USB, loud speaker, camera, TV pilot, whatever you imagine you can put in a phone.
And the case provides a single bus you plug your modules in. Each module occupies certain number of "slots" (of course keyboard, battery and LCD are big. Toys like MP3 player take way less).
You buy parts in variants you need. Want a good SMS'ing box? Qwerty and big b&w screen. Want gaming platform? Gamer's keyboard, color screen, strong CPU and a lot of memory. Want to keep it small? "mini" case and only necessary stuff of minimum sizes. Want a laptop-like thing? Carry a half-pound brick in your pocket with everything installed and 5 strongest batteries and built-in AC charger.
Add to that fully or mostly open-source communication software layer so people could write their own apps for it...
Come on, give up on that shit! That thing misses the point and lacks more than half the fun! Try this and at best you get moral hangover.
Where's the whole foreplay? Where's precise describing of gaining her trust and building love between you two? Where are the tricks of finding secret places on her body, she loves caressed. Where's giving pleasure to HER?
Did you know you can drive a mare to orgasm by ONLY scritching her EAR?!
Do you know how wonderful it feels when she trusts you?
Can you read her feelings from her facial expression? Can you tell whether she's sad or annoyed?
"Limit her access to other horses though and see that she spends at
least 8-12 hours a day in the stall"
Seeesh. I hope she kicks and kills you if you do this! Horses are very sociable animals and limitng contacts between them is plain cruelty! The only way to overcome her drag to other horses is to give her enough love that she choses you as her alpha horse!
Only with true love built between you two you can reach trully relaxing and deep relationship and real depth of feelings, for which sex is just culmination, just creating the last missing link between you two.
Don't be a dumb bestialist. Be a responsible zoophile.
(Yes, I know I'm risking my karma whore bonus by not posting this anonymously. But this needs to be said, because some people here misunderstood the principles behind this all)
first off, lots of old hardware supports ipv6 and there's not much difference on software side (except you'd need some dedicated routers to de/multiplex traffic "to IP" into traffic "to ports".
then note "supports ipv6" is now same catch word as y2k-compilant. Apps that didn't have a single call to time() or similar in their code and hardware that didn't have any clockchips built in claimed to be y2k-compilant. Just the same way as gasoline is sugar-free or your hair-drier is ozone-friendly.
So now you run it on an ipv6 box, see "Hey, it works!" and stamp "Now IPv6 compilant!". Cool!