"You are free of all charges but marked potentially dangerous to the event. A police officer (a security expert) will accompany you at all times until after the summit, and will report all your moves. Do not avoid said officer nor try to conceal your activity from them. You are welcome to continue testing the security like you did so far, in fact we specifically request you to do so. Of course, if any of your routes appears to have a chance to succeed, we will stop you, but you will suffer no consequences. After all, what good is finding security flaws for if they are not reported to the maintainer and given a chance to be patched? So keep poking at our security, please, just don't keep us in the dark about what you find, and don't be surprised if you trigger some traps and alarms we set up."
back then I was scrapping for money, camera phones were relatively new, I needed a digital camera and couldn't afford one, and I could get a phone with decent camera, with a contract, for very reasonable money. And I needed a new phone anyway.
So I picked one. It could make photos okay, but to get them I could only send them through MMS to my email, for exorbitant fees. To download them I needed a special RS232-based cable... and the dealer didn't have them. No import, not available, if ordered from the net, including shipping, it would cost more than the phone, and about as much as a digital camera. But hurray, there are cheap chinese USB cables that supposedly work!
And they do, for everything EXCEPT downloading the photos. A 3rd party app can download thumbnails of the photos. The official app doesn't recognize the cable. The fora are filled with people asking how to get the photos, the universal answer is "get the official cable".
Quite pissed off, I first hacked together a RS232 cable using the plug from the chinese one and a handful of electronics. I found out the only difference from the "unofficial RS232" was that official had DTR and RTS shorted, the knock-off - unconnected. Still not satisfied I began reverse-engineering the AT command set the phone used to talk with the computer. I found commands to request list of photos, download and delete them, then how to extract the photo from the junk the phone sends as reply to request... I wrote a Perl app that worked with any serial, even the emulated RS232 over USB. It was clunky, it worked from command line only, but it worked with any cable.
I posted it on the official fora. To my surprise, instead of ban&delete, I received a surprised question from the developers: Why? Why would anyone want to use it? We have the official app which is infinitely better!
I explained how there are no official cables in my country. How I bought a phone for the camera, and I can't use the camera. That I understand they want to profit from their cables, but sorry, I feel cheated, I want to use the camera. Oh, and I listed an extract from first page of the support forum, about 20 posts of cable problems, to which my program was a solution.
That was the last I used my app. A new version of the official app was released less than a week later, and it ignored the DTR/RTS, working correctly with all cables.
yes, I remember: 100C pure - 103C saturated. Not so severe impact IMHO. If the dessicant isn't dehydrated efficiently it will get diluted beyond absorbing threshold in matter of minutes, hours at most, so it must be possible to concentrate it somehow. Which means using salty water for refill and concentrating it into dessicant should be possible, and likely circulating the water from dehydration back into the system.
As for your remaining concerns, I'm pretty sure the inventor of the device would be very interested to hear them out. I mean, like, he must have totally overlooked the corrosive properties of sodium salts in his design!
I'm afraid of one thing: if that filter isn't 100% efficient, salt particles everywhere! Not harmful to humans (quite healthy actually) but not good for electronics.
1) it can use salty water. It's drinking water that we are short on. 2) cooling the air extracts humidity from it. If the dehumidifier filter is ~99% efficient, it will receive more water from intake air than lose at the filter.
This is not really a closed system though - the hydrophobic membrane can not be 100% efficient. OTOH, you can get a salt water inhalation solutions at a pharmacy, to help with drying up eyes and nose - some salty water in the air may be a positive thing. (still, not the optimal solution for server rooms etc).
> The trick has always been to make a practical desiccant cooling system.
NREL has patented the DEVap concept, and Kozubal expects that over the next couple of years he will be working on making the device smaller and simpler and perfecting the heat transfer to make DEVap more cost effective.
which means it still is not practical... or at least practical enough.
Still, GP has a point. Astro is an awesome tool, but it's a 3rd party tool. The fact Android doesn't include any built-in, native file manager is a mistake and a shortcoming.
Yes, the philosophy of going the route "file manager -> file -> [intent] -> application" instead of traditional "application -> [open] -> file selector -> file" is acceptable and arguably superior but it requires a good file manager... which you have to find, download and install, instead of getting one out of the box.
If the rules are defined somewhere, the system can be implemented and applied consistently. Rules for leap year are somewhat convoluted but people implement them. Rules for date of easter are wildly crazy but people implement them too.
I suggest the guy follow his counter-examples and project a system to accept all variations he required, and give examples. In particular:
- people with non-unicode characters in their names - people who have infinite, or undefined number of names (as opposed to a precise N names) - people with names of unlimited length - people with names that can't be reliably subjected to any consistent ordering system. - people with no names (and refusing/unable to pick/be assigned one)
I say: fuck these assholes, let them get what they deserve: nothing.
China has a perfectly working romanization system for names. There is really no point making a special case for it if they will be less than 0.1% of your business and can still be accepted - using romanizations...
Sounds a little like a Chinese talking about Taiwan...
The land of Finland was a part of Russia, the terrain of Hungary used to belong to slavic tribes... sure. But you can't deny southern Finland and Estonia are currently a distinct ethnic group both from inhabitants of Sweden and Russians. And that's the essence of my point: Finns are technically related to Hungarians. They are completely unrelated to both Swedish peoples and Russian peoples. They adapted Swedish as a second official language, as result of centuries of Swedish occupation and polluting their bloodlines by Swedes.
Of course, this is not an objective text. It's just as subjective like a text about China written from perspective of Taiwan. Just like yours only in the opposite direction.
Also, I never spoke about the German language. I talked about the ethnic groups.
I've been to Sweden, and I had a girlfriend from Finland.
I don't recall this particular point. He talked at length as 4th team takes up the current "casual" project and the 1st is busy with "Hardcore", and how Nintendo is gradually biting into the "upmarket" = market for hardcores. But I never saw a point about purposely dumbing down actual good hardcore games.
Closer, but smaller and not nearly as surprising. The most surprising factor about this ethnic group is its scatter. Relatively big groups but so strongly isolated from each other...
Because Apple has computers, notebooks, OS, and a lot of the likes that produce enough profit to let the company subsidize iPod and survive the siege, had the need ever arisen. Sony could have kept its domination on portable music player market, at great cost, but it would not destroy Apple. And Apple could strike again the moment Sony tries to make a profit from that market.
This guy has some points, but he misses some important ones.
Yes, most developers today think "casual" is a synonymous for "retard". Casual games = games for retards. And they produce games only retards want to play, and are surprised why they missed the huge casual market.
But worse than that, passionate developers create an awesome hardcore game. Then the marketing team looks at it and says "But... but it's too difficult for casuals(=retards). You must make it easier. Remove that confusing weapon system. Replace that steep learning curve with autopilot. Drop that extended tree, it requires too much decision-making!" - and as result they release a game that was hardcore, had tons of talent and effort put into it, but so dumbed down only retards will play it. And as it tanks, they wonder why - "we have appealed both to the hardcore community and to the ret^H^H^Hcasuals! Why does nobody like it?" - well, it's too broken and dumbed down to hardcores, and casuals believe it's a hardcore game... or find it too dumbed down too.
Since gaming is the only business of Nintendo and only a side division of Sony, if Sony picks up the gauntlet this may end up really ugly for Nintendo...
Essentially, Sony can subsidize its own gaming division from other sources till they obliterate Nintendo, while Nintendo -must- make profit from games and consoles or they are out of business.
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"You are free of all charges but marked potentially dangerous to the event. A police officer (a security expert) will accompany you at all times until after the summit, and will report all your moves. Do not avoid said officer nor try to conceal your activity from them. You are welcome to continue testing the security like you did so far, in fact we specifically request you to do so. Of course, if any of your routes appears to have a chance to succeed, we will stop you, but you will suffer no consequences. After all, what good is finding security flaws for if they are not reported to the maintainer and given a chance to be patched? So keep poking at our security, please, just don't keep us in the dark about what you find, and don't be surprised if you trigger some traps and alarms we set up."
back then I was scrapping for money, camera phones were relatively new, I needed a digital camera and couldn't afford one, and I could get a phone with decent camera, with a contract, for very reasonable money. And I needed a new phone anyway.
So I picked one. It could make photos okay, but to get them I could only send them through MMS to my email, for exorbitant fees. To download them I needed a special RS232-based cable... and the dealer didn't have them. No import, not available, if ordered from the net, including shipping, it would cost more than the phone, and about as much as a digital camera. But hurray, there are cheap chinese USB cables that supposedly work!
And they do, for everything EXCEPT downloading the photos. A 3rd party app can download thumbnails of the photos. The official app doesn't recognize the cable. The fora are filled with people asking how to get the photos, the universal answer is "get the official cable".
Quite pissed off, I first hacked together a RS232 cable using the plug from the chinese one and a handful of electronics. I found out the only difference from the "unofficial RS232" was that official had DTR and RTS shorted, the knock-off - unconnected. Still not satisfied I began reverse-engineering the AT command set the phone used to talk with the computer. I found commands to request list of photos, download and delete them, then how to extract the photo from the junk the phone sends as reply to request... I wrote a Perl app that worked with any serial, even the emulated RS232 over USB. It was clunky, it worked from command line only, but it worked with any cable.
I posted it on the official fora. To my surprise, instead of ban&delete, I received a surprised question from the developers: Why? Why would anyone want to use it? We have the official app which is infinitely better!
I explained how there are no official cables in my country. How I bought a phone for the camera, and I can't use the camera. That I understand they want to profit from their cables, but sorry, I feel cheated, I want to use the camera. Oh, and I listed an extract from first page of the support forum, about 20 posts of cable problems, to which my program was a solution.
That was the last I used my app. A new version of the official app was released less than a week later, and it ignored the DTR/RTS, working correctly with all cables.
Contrary to some popular opinions, The Pork Board is not nearly as humorous entity as some are made to believe it is.
I think statutory $250,000 per each can of unicorn meat ever sold.
yes, I remember: 100C pure - 103C saturated. Not so severe impact IMHO.
If the dessicant isn't dehydrated efficiently it will get diluted beyond absorbing threshold in matter of minutes, hours at most, so it must be possible to concentrate it somehow. Which means using salty water for refill and concentrating it into dessicant should be possible, and likely circulating the water from dehydration back into the system.
As for your remaining concerns, I'm pretty sure the inventor of the device would be very interested to hear them out. I mean, like, he must have totally overlooked the corrosive properties of sodium salts in his design!
Still, it may go clogged, not passing any water nor air, instead of becoming leaky, passing both.
Why do you believe it can use salty water?
"a very strong aqueous solution of lithium chloride or sodium chloride"
That's salty water.
I'm pretty sure they don't get the hydrophobe-based dessicant from Wells. From Pratchett maybe...
I'm afraid of one thing: if that filter isn't 100% efficient, salt particles everywhere!
Not harmful to humans (quite healthy actually) but not good for electronics.
1) it can use salty water. It's drinking water that we are short on.
2) cooling the air extracts humidity from it. If the dehumidifier filter is ~99% efficient, it will receive more water from intake air than lose at the filter.
now capture the evaporated water back into the bottle and we're home.
This is not really a closed system though - the hydrophobic membrane can not be 100% efficient. OTOH, you can get a salt water inhalation solutions at a pharmacy, to help with drying up eyes and nose - some salty water in the air may be a positive thing. (still, not the optimal solution for server rooms etc).
> The trick has always been to make a practical desiccant cooling system.
NREL has patented the DEVap concept, and Kozubal expects that over the next couple of years he will be working on making the device smaller and simpler and perfecting the heat transfer to make DEVap more cost effective.
which means it still is not practical... or at least practical enough.
Still, GP has a point. Astro is an awesome tool, but it's a 3rd party tool. The fact Android doesn't include any built-in, native file manager is a mistake and a shortcoming.
Yes, the philosophy of going the route "file manager -> file -> [intent] -> application" instead of traditional "application -> [open] -> file selector -> file" is acceptable and arguably superior but it requires a good file manager... which you have to find, download and install, instead of getting one out of the box.
Currently Android market share has overtaken Apple (very recently) so the situation may change soon.
If the rules are defined somewhere, the system can be implemented and applied consistently.
Rules for leap year are somewhat convoluted but people implement them.
Rules for date of easter are wildly crazy but people implement them too.
Screw the Chineese problem, they are unicoded.
I suggest the guy follow his counter-examples and project a system to accept all variations he required, and give examples. In particular:
- people with non-unicode characters in their names
- people who have infinite, or undefined number of names (as opposed to a precise N names)
- people with names of unlimited length
- people with names that can't be reliably subjected to any consistent ordering system.
- people with no names (and refusing/unable to pick/be assigned one)
I say: fuck these assholes, let them get what they deserve: nothing.
China has a perfectly working romanization system for names.
There is really no point making a special case for it if they will be less than 0.1% of your business and can still be accepted - using romanizations...
Sounds a little like a Chinese talking about Taiwan...
The land of Finland was a part of Russia, the terrain of Hungary used to belong to slavic tribes... sure. But you can't deny southern Finland and Estonia are currently a distinct ethnic group both from inhabitants of Sweden and Russians. And that's the essence of my point: Finns are technically related to Hungarians. They are completely unrelated to both Swedish peoples and Russian peoples. They adapted Swedish as a second official language, as result of centuries of Swedish occupation and polluting their bloodlines by Swedes.
Of course, this is not an objective text. It's just as subjective like a text about China written from perspective of Taiwan. Just like yours only in the opposite direction.
Also, I never spoke about the German language. I talked about the ethnic groups.
I've been to Sweden, and I had a girlfriend from Finland.
I don't recall this particular point.
He talked at length as 4th team takes up the current "casual" project and the 1st is busy with "Hardcore", and how Nintendo is gradually biting into the "upmarket" = market for hardcores. But I never saw a point about purposely dumbing down actual good hardcore games.
Closer, but smaller and not nearly as surprising. The most surprising factor about this ethnic group is its scatter. Relatively big groups but so strongly isolated from each other...
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Because Apple has computers, notebooks, OS, and a lot of the likes that produce enough profit to let the company subsidize iPod and survive the siege, had the need ever arisen. Sony could have kept its domination on portable music player market, at great cost, but it would not destroy Apple. And Apple could strike again the moment Sony tries to make a profit from that market.
This guy has some points, but he misses some important ones.
Yes, most developers today think "casual" is a synonymous for "retard". Casual games = games for retards. And they produce games only retards want to play, and are surprised why they missed the huge casual market.
But worse than that, passionate developers create an awesome hardcore game. Then the marketing team looks at it and says "But... but it's too difficult for casuals(=retards). You must make it easier. Remove that confusing weapon system. Replace that steep learning curve with autopilot. Drop that extended tree, it requires too much decision-making!" - and as result they release a game that was hardcore, had tons of talent and effort put into it, but so dumbed down only retards will play it. And as it tanks, they wonder why - "we have appealed both to the hardcore community and to the ret^H^H^Hcasuals! Why does nobody like it?" - well, it's too broken and dumbed down to hardcores, and casuals believe it's a hardcore game... or find it too dumbed down too.
Since gaming is the only business of Nintendo and only a side division of Sony, if Sony picks up the gauntlet this may end up really ugly for Nintendo...
Essentially, Sony can subsidize its own gaming division from other sources till they obliterate Nintendo, while Nintendo -must- make profit from games and consoles or they are out of business.