RFID tags are good for more than just authentication... they're used for tracking things too, remember? There was an article a while ago I think about RFID tagging surgical instruments to help avoid them being left in the patient. I'm not sure if this thing will be able to be brought into an OR or not, but you could conceivably have pharmacists scanning things before giving them out, nurses/misc. staff scanning things before use, etc.
There's no reason for records to be stored on them at all, that's what VPNs are for.
It's not funny, the production quality is far worse than the ones it's spoofing, and the only message is "HEY YOU GUYS, WE'RE HERE TOO, PAY ATTENTION TO US!... YOU GUYS?"
Which is true, but utterly and totally irrelevant.
IPv6 tunnels in general seem to be slow, have poor routing, and are prone to unexpected breakage. When I'm routed through Japan to go from Germany to the east coast of the US, something is wrong. When the RTT is 200-300ms more for IPv6 than IPv4 for the same pair of hosts, something is wrong.
In terms of home user options, Lava.net is only in Hawaii, ipHouse is only in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Cutthroat Communications is only in Montana (and no real indication of what their coverage for DSL is like), and Citynet appears to be only in West Virginia (and only offering Dialup/ISDN, no broadband.) and Spectrum is only in parts of Washington.
I doubt the list is comprehensive, but the grandparent is right, for most of us there are no options other than sketchy/slow tunnels
This is one of those amusing situations where stealing the game online is no different than stealing it in a store. Suppose you'd shoplifted the CD instead of grabbing it from a torrent, would you be saying that it makes a statement that "If you beefed up security here, you'd get more money from me"? Would you be saying it makes the statement that "If you got rid of the rent-a-cops I'd buy the game"?
The only message it sends is that you want the game but for whatever reason are unwilling to pay for it.
How and why do you trust those nodes? Unless it's a completely dark net there's an egress point, and that point can be coopted/coerced. At the very least all traffic going through that endpoint can be trivially sniffed by at least one person. If you're worried about the NSA or its cronies tapping your communications, why aren't you worried about someone exerting pressure on the weakest link in the chain?
If you're on a completely dark net, well, that's great... but won't the lack of content get boring after a while? (And again, the other humans will always be the weakest link)
Like the user (or the system, or the virus...) shutdown the database server in the middle of operation. How do you prove that after the fact if the logs were going into the database?
Er, check the database log. I would have thought that was obvious.
It's a little hard to determine motive in a situation like this, but I've heard an explanation that made sense to me in the context of families where the father is the sole bread-winner and facing financial ruin. They start contemplating suicide because they've failed as a provider. They start thinking about taking their families with them to spare them (their families, or themselves) the shame of being exposed as a failure, and maybe because "if I can't provide for them, how can they provide for themselves?"
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, maybe that's a narcissistic thing
I have no numbers or citations to back me up, nor can I remember where I heard it, so, uh, take all of that with a grain of salt... but it's food for thought.
I understand the appeal of hacking something, but even given that, surely you can agree that this is some pretty trivial news. They changed the button used for a camera function, and they added a single function to the SDK.
Unless it's steak_and_blowjob(), that's mailing list announcement fodder. I mean, if I wanted freshmeat, I'd look at freshmeat.
No, you can run the exact same software you could before, this is a bugfix release -- and a trivial bugfix at that -- for something with the camera. A niche product on a niche product. Oops, I guess it adds one new function to the SDK, although neither the article or the summary actually says what it does.
I'm a zsh user, I've got this in my.zshrc... I've never tried to post a code snippet to Slashdot, hopefully it doesn't mangle it too badly...
case $TERM in
xterm*|screen*)
preexec () {
export CURRENTCMD="$1"
if [ x$WINDOW != x ]; then
print -Pn "\ek$1\e\\"
else
print -Pn "\e]0;[$USER@$HOST] $1\a"
fi
}
precmd () {
if [[ ! -z $CURRENTCMD ]]; then
if [ x$WINDOW != x ]; then
print -Pn "\ek($CURRENTCMD)\e\\"
else
print -Pn "\e]0;[$USER@$HOST] $CURRENTCMD (done)\a"
fi
fi
}
if [[ "$TERM" == "screen" ]]; then
print -Pn "\ekzsh\e\\"
fi
if [[ "$TERM" == "xterm" ]]; then
print -Pn "\e]0;[$USER@$HOST]\a"
fi ;;
esac
Inside screen, that will set the window title to the currently executing command.. nice if you're quickly flipping back and forth between windows and don't want to bother renaming them yourself.
I'm not sure that will work with any other shell, I don't know of anything else with preexec/precmd offhand.
I can understand new releases of major software... a new GIMP, new KDE, new GNOME, new kernel, new release of a distro or operating system being newsworthy... but an announcement of a cracked firmware bin for a portable game system?
My story isn't directly applicable (I'm Canadian, and it happened in Canada), but I figured I'd share it anyway. I was flying from Vancouver to Halifax a few years back, coming home from a vacation, and just as I got to the check-in kiosk to reach for my credit card I notice my wallet's not where it should be. Check the ground, check my bag, call the cab back, check it, call the place I was staying have the room checked... and eventually it shakes out that I have around 45 minutes before my flight leaves (and at 5am or 6am), nothing that has my name of it, and no hope of getting anything in time. No ID, not even a credit card or a health card.
So I go up to the check-in counter, confess my sins to the guy there, and ask him if he can help me out. He looks me over and grills me on every detail the airline has on file for me. He calls upstairs, he grills me some more, he calls upstairs again, repeat ad nauseam. 20 minutes later he prints me off a boarding pass, skips me through most of the line for security. Surprisingly, Vancouver airport security was the most understanding group I dealt with all day. They listened, glanced at my pass, and put me through the regular screening. Didn't even search my bag, which... never happens. Anyway, got to the gate and even though they were paging me at that point, the flight attendants still grilled me on ticket details before they'd let me on-board.
I had to repeat that interrogation at every stop for the whole trip. Even though I'd been cleared by the checkin counter and security, even though I was in a secure area, even though after the first hop I'd already gone through that tap dance with one set of flight attendants, and even though they all pulled up my file and saw that I'd been through it already.... but I made it home.
So you can do it, but at least in my experience it wasn't very pleasant.
Okay, but you can have an unlisted number because (wait for it)... some people are concerned about privacy. How is hiding/falsifying WHOIS info any different?
The best performance under a VM is actually with 64bit XP. More APIC-friendly, newer codebase (based off Windows 2003, iirc) etc.
The problem with that is that 64bit XP is poorly supported at best, and for some reason I thought Microsoft never sold it directly, it was bundled with 64bit hardware sales... which basically leaves you with MSDN (if you have access) or piracy for most users, for an OS that may not even run what you want.
I had a Tungsten E2. It was nice, bright, transflective screen and good resolution... higher end display on a low(ish) end PDA. I bought it to try to stay organized, used it mainly as an e-book reader, and it was pretty good, long battery life etc.
Then I cracked the display. I was looking at replacement PDAs when a co-worker was talking about his PSP. It's cheaper, wider screen (which makes reading more pleasant), good battery life etc., and trivial to hack to run custom software like an ebook reader.
Plus if you get bored you can play games, listen to music, or watch a video. Definitely recommended.
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RFID tags are good for more than just authentication... they're used for tracking things too, remember? There was an article a while ago I think about RFID tagging surgical instruments to help avoid them being left in the patient. I'm not sure if this thing will be able to be brought into an OR or not, but you could conceivably have pharmacists scanning things before giving them out, nurses/misc. staff scanning things before use, etc.
There's no reason for records to be stored on them at all, that's what VPNs are for.
No, they're still using the very, very deprecated /proc/bus/usb
That ad is awful.
It's not funny, the production quality is far worse than the ones it's spoofing, and the only message is "HEY YOU GUYS, WE'RE HERE TOO, PAY ATTENTION TO US! ... YOU GUYS?"
There's a reason DISA exists. Yes you need to take steps to secure it, but it serves a useful purpose.
Which is true, but utterly and totally irrelevant.
IPv6 tunnels in general seem to be slow, have poor routing, and are prone to unexpected breakage. When I'm routed through Japan to go from Germany to the east coast of the US, something is wrong. When the RTT is 200-300ms more for IPv6 than IPv4 for the same pair of hosts, something is wrong.
Great. I count 5 in the US, zero in Canada.
In terms of home user options, Lava.net is only in Hawaii, ipHouse is only in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Cutthroat Communications is only in Montana (and no real indication of what their coverage for DSL is like), and Citynet appears to be only in West Virginia (and only offering Dialup/ISDN, no broadband.) and Spectrum is only in parts of Washington.
I doubt the list is comprehensive, but the grandparent is right, for most of us there are no options other than sketchy/slow tunnels
This is one of those amusing situations where stealing the game online is no different than stealing it in a store. Suppose you'd shoplifted the CD instead of grabbing it from a torrent, would you be saying that it makes a statement that "If you beefed up security here, you'd get more money from me"? Would you be saying it makes the statement that "If you got rid of the rent-a-cops I'd buy the game"?
The only message it sends is that you want the game but for whatever reason are unwilling to pay for it.
... you'll still be messing up sleep schedules. It's not like they're going to go nocturnal because it's pitch black at "9-5"
How and why do you trust those nodes? Unless it's a completely dark net there's an egress point, and that point can be coopted/coerced. At the very least all traffic going through that endpoint can be trivially sniffed by at least one person. If you're worried about the NSA or its cronies tapping your communications, why aren't you worried about someone exerting pressure on the weakest link in the chain?
If you're on a completely dark net, well, that's great... but won't the lack of content get boring after a while? (And again, the other humans will always be the weakest link)
Like the user (or the system, or the virus...) shutdown the database server in the middle of operation. How do you prove that after the fact if the logs were going into the database?
Er, check the database log. I would have thought that was obvious.
I had the same network problems, and on top of that the USB support is buggy at best.
For something like a webcam it was absolutely unusable.
... now might be the time to look into stateful firewalls, huh?
Well, okay, 'stateful', most modern firewalls should be able to fake a stateful connection for UDP.
It's a little hard to determine motive in a situation like this, but I've heard an explanation that made sense to me in the context of families where the father is the sole bread-winner and facing financial ruin. They start contemplating suicide because they've failed as a provider. They start thinking about taking their families with them to spare them (their families, or themselves) the shame of being exposed as a failure, and maybe because "if I can't provide for them, how can they provide for themselves?"
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, maybe that's a narcissistic thing
I have no numbers or citations to back me up, nor can I remember where I heard it, so, uh, take all of that with a grain of salt... but it's food for thought.
It's not unthinkable, the S3 outage was just a couple months ago.
What about DRI support for the R600 cards?
I understand the appeal of hacking something, but even given that, surely you can agree that this is some pretty trivial news. They changed the button used for a camera function, and they added a single function to the SDK.
Unless it's steak_and_blowjob(), that's mailing list announcement fodder. I mean, if I wanted freshmeat, I'd look at freshmeat.
No, you can run the exact same software you could before, this is a bugfix release -- and a trivial bugfix at that -- for something with the camera. A niche product on a niche product. Oops, I guess it adds one new function to the SDK, although neither the article or the summary actually says what it does.
Inside screen, that will set the window title to the currently executing command.. nice if you're quickly flipping back and forth between windows and don't want to bother renaming them yourself.
I'm not sure that will work with any other shell, I don't know of anything else with preexec/precmd offhand.
I can understand new releases of major software... a new GIMP, new KDE, new GNOME, new kernel, new release of a distro or operating system being newsworthy... but an announcement of a cracked firmware bin for a portable game system?
My story isn't directly applicable (I'm Canadian, and it happened in Canada), but I figured I'd share it anyway. I was flying from Vancouver to Halifax a few years back, coming home from a vacation, and just as I got to the check-in kiosk to reach for my credit card I notice my wallet's not where it should be. Check the ground, check my bag, call the cab back, check it, call the place I was staying have the room checked... and eventually it shakes out that I have around 45 minutes before my flight leaves (and at 5am or 6am), nothing that has my name of it, and no hope of getting anything in time. No ID, not even a credit card or a health card.
... but I made it home.
So I go up to the check-in counter, confess my sins to the guy there, and ask him if he can help me out. He looks me over and grills me on every detail the airline has on file for me. He calls upstairs, he grills me some more, he calls upstairs again, repeat ad nauseam. 20 minutes later he prints me off a boarding pass, skips me through most of the line for security. Surprisingly, Vancouver airport security was the most understanding group I dealt with all day. They listened, glanced at my pass, and put me through the regular screening. Didn't even search my bag, which... never happens. Anyway, got to the gate and even though they were paging me at that point, the flight attendants still grilled me on ticket details before they'd let me on-board.
I had to repeat that interrogation at every stop for the whole trip. Even though I'd been cleared by the checkin counter and security, even though I was in a secure area, even though after the first hop I'd already gone through that tap dance with one set of flight attendants, and even though they all pulled up my file and saw that I'd been through it already.
So you can do it, but at least in my experience it wasn't very pleasant.
Ugh. That interface was ugly the first time around too.
Okay, but you can have an unlisted number because (wait for it) ... some people are concerned about privacy. How is hiding/falsifying WHOIS info any different?
The best performance under a VM is actually with 64bit XP. More APIC-friendly, newer codebase (based off Windows 2003, iirc) etc.
The problem with that is that 64bit XP is poorly supported at best, and for some reason I thought Microsoft never sold it directly, it was bundled with 64bit hardware sales... which basically leaves you with MSDN (if you have access) or piracy for most users, for an OS that may not even run what you want.
Virtualizing Windows just generally sucks.
I had a Tungsten E2. It was nice, bright, transflective screen and good resolution... higher end display on a low(ish) end PDA. I bought it to try to stay organized, used it mainly as an e-book reader, and it was pretty good, long battery life etc.
Then I cracked the display. I was looking at replacement PDAs when a co-worker was talking about his PSP. It's cheaper, wider screen (which makes reading more pleasant), good battery life etc., and trivial to hack to run custom software like an ebook reader.
Plus if you get bored you can play games, listen to music, or watch a video. Definitely recommended.
Of course, but you know what's better than failing over? Not having to fail over.