That's an interesting hypothesis, but this is not the way it apparently works according to my tests (see below). As other commenters have pointed out it does not access the clipboard but "capture" the Cmd-C keystrokes to trigger the code.
I have tried to replicate your hypothesis with Safari and LittleSnitch, both on Mac. First,I have to say thaton Safari, the selection does not disappear after you press Cmd-C.
1- I accessed this Wired article.
2- Upon selection of any text, it tries to open a connection to w1.tcr112.tynt.com, port 80. I "Deny Once" on LittleSnitch.
3- Re-selecting any other portion of text causes the same behavior of point 2, but deselecting text does not generate a connection request.
4- When pressing Cmd-C on the keyboard I get another connection request to w1.tcr112.tynt.com, followed by another one to wau.tynt.com, both on port 80.
5- Either by allowing these connections or not, the Javascript code detects this text has been already selected and copied and ignores subsequent Cmd-C sequences over the same selection. You need to deselect and select again to create another connection request
One really interesting finding is that the JS code does retain in memory what text you have selected previously on thet page and compares your new selections to the previous ones, only generating new connection requests when new text. It ignores the position of the text (so a single word selected in different parts of a page is only sent once when selected), and it is case sensitive so it you select "The" and "the", you get two connection requests (but only the first time). I suppose this is a way for them to clean requests.
No, it sends BOTH your "select text" event and also your "copy text" (in my case via Cmd-C on my keyboard). I use LittleSnitch, an application firewall on the Mac and have verified this behavior: I get a connection request to tynt servers exactly after either of the mentioned events.
The OP was refering to GSM exclusively. Whether this is important for a regular user or is "cell coverage of any type" is different. OTOH don't be confused by the colors of the map of ATT you provide. Zoom in one step and you will see a better picture of poor and no coverage areas. Your theory is no more authoritative than my posting the link the graphic! I'm still waiting for numbers, which nobody has provided yet. I haven't been able to find any myself...so it's still open. I am not exposing any theory of any type. You gave a link to a graphical image that I think it doesn't give any conclusive information as it is subject to interpretation. You can look for the numbers yourself and try to make a point instead of saying "look, this is the coverage of GSM in the US".
I also think you're misinterpreting the second link. Please elaborate in which ways.
Wow wow, that sounds nuts to me? Where did you get the idea that in "most of the country" there's no GSM coverage? I'd love to see the statistics about that.. I don't suppose you have any? Here's the coverage map for ATT btw http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer/. I guess it's possible that including Alaska covered vs uncovered could be CLOSE... but I'm not sure. If you count any cell coverage, (CDMA, smaller companies, etc) you're dead wrong.
The OP was refering to GSM exclusively. Whether this is important for a regular user or is "cell coverage of any type" is different. OTOH don't be confused by the colors of the map of ATT you provide. Zoom in one step and you will see a better picture of poor and no coverage areas.
"So few American have cell phones"... I gotta see your statistics on this, the only people I know that don't have phones are my 85-90 year old grandparents. Do you really believe this bull? Just what do Europeans believe about us?! most of the US doesn't have coverage and most people don't have cellphones? Gotta say, when you're so wrong about the basic facts upon which you make your slander, it really makes me take the rest of your post less seriously. 82% of Americans Own Cell
If you follow your link and get the source of the information from the CTIA http://files.ctia.org/pdf/CTIA_Survey_Mid_Year_2007.pdf you can read an interesting piece of evidence regarding this percentage:
"It has been conducted since January 1985, originally as a cellular only
survey instrument, and now including PCS and ESMR providers. No break-out of results specific to PCS or ESMR is performed at this time."
I don't know right now, but the US has traditionally had a good installed base of these type of devices, which shouldn't account IMO for what we understand now for mobile phones.
Since when F1 cars do not have power steering?. In the regulations for the 2005 F1 season, the FIA says:
Power assisted steering systems may not be electronically controlled or electrically powered. No such
system may carry out any function other than reduce the physical effort required to steer the car.
It clearly prohibits the use of all-electrical steering, but not a mecanically asisted one -like any street car-. This is to avoid the risk of a power down failure and the consecuent inability to handle the car in any way. The car industry has been holding this type of regulations as well and you won't be able to find a car without a means to drive it in case of total power failure
I've heard several F1 drivers that got their power steering broken while on race, and the nightmare it was to keep on the circuit trying to steer the car.
My Irish phone has no problem roaming to Belgium or Germany
Your experience is right but only when you roam internationally. Your phone is locked to the network you have suscribed when you are in the country of origin of that subscription. If you try to change to other operator's network in the same country, it will reject your petition.
Setting up a proper network infrastructure is a lot of money and letting other operators use your network presents a competitive disadvantage.
"The most difficult part (in developing the suit) was to develop a system to gauge the user's will" from the physical signals to make the motors move, he said. "If the motors start moving one-trillionth of a second behind (the right timing), it would become a drag to the user."
Could this be true? Is it possible to measure 0.000000000001 of a second (that's a U.S. trillionth of a sec. , if that's what the article means) with such a device, and more important, would it really make a difference in the proper functioning of the device?
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Check here. Also you can get the software from nokia as well as the cable , like in this package.
I myself have the DAU-9P cable. Aside from the oficial cable, there's plenty other makers around that make compatible cables as well.
Well, that isn't quite like it, as those services use no phone to deliver/receive the messsages, just a web interface.
I really doubt he was manually sending them. There are very easy ways to send those messages with a regular Nokia and a dedicated cable for the PC. Software like Oxygen would do the rest for you.
Now, for the really professional way, get on of these babys. Basically a stripped GSM phone with great communication capabilities. You can get about 1 SMS each 2 seconds sent all right.
This is hardly news. At least in europe where just about any official vehicle has some sort of "wave inhibitors" (i.e. jammer) precisely to avoid bomb detonation. This has been widely used way before mobile phones got popular, so it is obvious that they cover a wide range of frecuencies, or at least the most used for this type of bombs.
One of the three GSM operators in spain, Amena, launched this service for about a year now.
It is called cazacanciones (song catcher) and when recognized you can even get your song as a ring tone for your mobile or buy it (this last option only if it's in the top 40 list of the moment)
As for the success rate of the recognition, I've always been quite doubtfull for anything but a clean recording out of a home stereo and popular music (as opposed to a typical situation in a noisy pub with a not so known song)
Talking about mplayer... is there a good way to dump this to disk? I've tryed mplayer -autosync 0 -dumpstream -dumfile nasa.avi but audio is never in sync with video, which goes way fast.
I'm thinking about scheduling this broadcasts and save them on disk for later review.
Great suggestion. Windows Media Player was not responding very well, and mplayer just did the job.
For those of you that wonder, the bandwith needed for a fluent audio and video is a steady 12 Kbytes per second. With that, you get pretty good video with ocassional blocky video noise when full scene change.
When the bandwith goes below that you get frequent cuts, but still you can follow it.
Just strip all incoming executables at the mail server so the user never gets anything dangerous to click on
AFAIK the MyDoom worm/virus is attached as a.zip file with different names like body.zip or text.zip (at least all of the _hundreds_ of messages I'm getting are like that).
Your solution may not be usefull at all in this case.
Answering cnelzie I'd say that you just have to format the HD and install the OS to have a new fresh machine.
But this broght me some though:
1) a fresh new install would also inform AOL the computer's MAC address?
2) does AOL maintain a database of USER_ID - MAC addresses? if so.. what for?
3)I don't believe the idea the WF keeps the MAC address of every computer the sell.. If doing so.. what for?
That's a fact. In Spain it happened a couple years ago when a local registrar started to get pre-orders of internationalized domains (in spain that is accented vowels and our beloved n-tilde). Domain squatting was crazy. Someone quickly registered "elcorteingle's" (that's last e, accented) -a Harrod's type department store in Spain-.
I even registered (an paid!) one myself to prevent someone taking over one domain I have (bolsagra'fica.com) to only see that 1 year after the registrar itself admitted those domains were hardly ever make it through.
The main electricity companies in Spain are already given service or close to do it (depending on the company) on cities like Zaragoza, Barcelona or Sevilla.
Article in spanish here and Babelfish translation to english here.
I have to say to all the people bitching that his computer already does all this and that, that some of us (for whatever reason) don't have a computer at home and still would like to watch DVD's , DivX, listen to mp3's, watch pictures... The noise factor also makes a computer very unappropriate. And the quality of a TV-out output of a regular PC card cannot be compared to progressive scan over a SCART (euroconector) cable.
As for the capabilities I can see there's a lot of confusion around. I do own a DP-450 since 2 months ago. I've already upgraded the firmware about 3 times, only to add new features. It's good to see that the lastest firmware upgrades are able to handle some features like GMC encoding (not just Simple Profile). Some will appreciate the possibility to add subtitles to their DivX movies, recently added, just by dropping a file with the subtitles next to the video file in the CD-R. And new features (like the promised DivX3.11 compatibility which is not out yet) or the Ogg Vorbis support are added frecuently.
And make no mistake (I actually hate this phrase since Mr. Bush speeches) This is the kind of equipment you can confortably hook to your audio and video hi-end equipment. I'd never do that with a computer with all the noise and electrical spikes coming from fans, hard drives, power supplies...
For those of you that want to know all the capabilities of the player, and be up to date to the latest firmware, http://www.kiss-technology.com is the place to go.
BTW.. the possibilities that having Linux inside brings are very interesting. And since it's got an IDE DVD drive, I'd guess it would not be so hard to put a HD inside and have the total jukebox. KiSS technology itself will be releasing this device in a few months (the awaited DP-600).
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That's an interesting hypothesis, but this is not the way it apparently works according to my tests (see below). As other commenters have pointed out it does not access the clipboard but "capture" the Cmd-C keystrokes to trigger the code.
I have tried to replicate your hypothesis with Safari and LittleSnitch, both on Mac. First,I have to say thaton Safari, the selection does not disappear after you press Cmd-C.
1- I accessed this Wired article.
2- Upon selection of any text, it tries to open a connection to w1.tcr112.tynt.com, port 80. I "Deny Once" on LittleSnitch.
3- Re-selecting any other portion of text causes the same behavior of point 2, but deselecting text does not generate a connection request.
4- When pressing Cmd-C on the keyboard I get another connection request to w1.tcr112.tynt.com, followed by another one to wau.tynt.com, both on port 80.
5- Either by allowing these connections or not, the Javascript code detects this text has been already selected and copied and ignores subsequent Cmd-C sequences over the same selection. You need to deselect and select again to create another connection request
One really interesting finding is that the JS code does retain in memory what text you have selected previously on thet page and compares your new selections to the previous ones, only generating new connection requests when new text. It ignores the position of the text (so a single word selected in different parts of a page is only sent once when selected), and it is case sensitive so it you select "The" and "the", you get two connection requests (but only the first time). I suppose this is a way for them to clean requests.
No, it sends BOTH your "select text" event and also your "copy text" (in my case via Cmd-C on my keyboard). I use LittleSnitch, an application firewall on the Mac and have verified this behavior: I get a connection request to tynt servers exactly after either of the mentioned events.
I also think you're misinterpreting the second link. Please elaborate in which ways.
The OP was refering to GSM exclusively. Whether this is important for a regular user or is "cell coverage of any type" is different. OTOH don't be confused by the colors of the map of ATT you provide. Zoom in one step and you will see a better picture of poor and no coverage areas.
If you follow your link and get the source of the information from the CTIA http://files.ctia.org/pdf/CTIA_Survey_Mid_Year_2007.pdf you can read an interesting piece of evidence regarding this percentage:
"It has been conducted since January 1985, originally as a cellular only survey instrument, and now including PCS and ESMR providers. No break-out of results specific to PCS or ESMR is performed at this time."
I don't know right now, but the US has traditionally had a good installed base of these type of devices, which shouldn't account IMO for what we understand now for mobile phones.
It clearly prohibits the use of all-electrical steering, but not a mecanically asisted one -like any street car-. This is to avoid the risk of a power down failure and the consecuent inability to handle the car in any way.
The car industry has been holding this type of regulations as well and you won't be able to find a car without a means to drive it in case of total power failure
I've heard several F1 drivers that got their power steering broken while on race, and the nightmare it was to keep on the circuit trying to steer the car.
Setting up a proper network infrastructure is a lot of money and letting other operators use your network presents a competitive disadvantage.
From the robotic suit article:
"The most difficult part (in developing the suit) was to develop a system to gauge the user's will" from the physical signals to make the motors move, he said. "If the motors start moving one-trillionth of a second behind (the right timing), it would become a drag to the user."
Could this be true? Is it possible to measure 0.000000000001 of a second (that's a U.S. trillionth of a sec. , if that's what the article means) with such a device, and more important, would it really make a difference in the proper functioning of the device?
All I get is :
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Check here. Also you can get the software from nokia as well as the cable , like in this package. I myself have the DAU-9P cable.
Aside from the oficial cable, there's plenty other makers around that make compatible cables as well.
Well, that isn't quite like it, as those services use no phone to deliver/receive the messsages, just a web interface.
I really doubt he was manually sending them. There are very easy ways to send those messages with a regular Nokia and a dedicated cable for the PC. Software like Oxygen would do the rest for you.
Now, for the really professional way, get on of these babys. Basically a stripped GSM phone with great communication capabilities. You can get about 1 SMS each 2 seconds sent all right.
This is hardly news. At least in europe where just about any official vehicle has some sort of "wave inhibitors" (i.e. jammer) precisely to avoid bomb detonation. This has been widely used way before mobile phones got popular, so it is obvious that they cover a wide range of frecuencies, or at least the most used for this type of bombs.
One of the three GSM operators in spain, Amena, launched this service for about a year now.
It is called cazacanciones (song catcher) and when recognized you can even get your song as a ring tone for your mobile or buy it (this last option only if it's in the top 40 list of the moment)
As for the success rate of the recognition, I've always been quite doubtfull for anything but a clean recording out of a home stereo and popular music (as opposed to a typical situation in a noisy pub with a not so known song)
Talking about mplayer... is there a good way to dump this to disk? I've tryed mplayer -autosync 0 -dumpstream -dumfile nasa.avi but audio is never in sync with video, which goes way fast. I'm thinking about scheduling this broadcasts and save them on disk for later review.
Great suggestion. Windows Media Player was not responding very well, and mplayer just did the job. For those of you that wonder, the bandwith needed for a fluent audio and video is a steady 12 Kbytes per second. With that, you get pretty good video with ocassional blocky video noise when full scene change. When the bandwith goes below that you get frequent cuts, but still you can follow it.
AFAIK the MyDoom worm/virus is attached as a
Answering cnelzie I'd say that you just have to format the HD and install the OS to have a new fresh machine. But this broght me some though: 1) a fresh new install would also inform AOL the computer's MAC address? 2) does AOL maintain a database of USER_ID - MAC addresses? if so.. what for? 3)I don't believe the idea the WF keeps the MAC address of every computer the sell.. If doing so.. what for?
That's a fact. In Spain it happened a couple years ago when a local registrar started to get pre-orders of internationalized domains (in spain that is accented vowels and our beloved n-tilde). Domain squatting was crazy. Someone quickly registered "elcorteingle's" (that's last e, accented) -a Harrod's type department store in Spain-.
I even registered (an paid!) one myself to prevent someone taking over one domain I have (bolsagra'fica.com) to only see that 1 year after the registrar itself admitted those domains were hardly ever make it through.
The main electricity companies in Spain are already given service or close to do it (depending on the company) on cities like Zaragoza, Barcelona or Sevilla.
Article in spanish here and Babelfish translation to english here.
I've never heard of SACD beign hacked, for example.
I have to say to all the people bitching that his computer already does all this and that, that some of us (for whatever reason) don't have a computer at home and still would like to watch DVD's , DivX, listen to mp3's, watch pictures... The noise factor also makes a computer very unappropriate. And the quality of a TV-out output of a regular PC card cannot be compared to progressive scan over a SCART (euroconector) cable.
As for the capabilities I can see there's a lot of confusion around. I do own a DP-450 since 2 months ago. I've already upgraded the firmware about 3 times, only to add new features. It's good to see that the lastest firmware upgrades are able to handle some features like GMC encoding (not just Simple Profile). Some will appreciate the possibility to add subtitles to their DivX movies, recently added, just by dropping a file with the subtitles next to the video file in the CD-R. And new features (like the promised DivX3.11 compatibility which is not out yet) or the Ogg Vorbis support are added frecuently.
And make no mistake (I actually hate this phrase since Mr. Bush speeches) This is the kind of equipment you can confortably hook to your audio and video hi-end equipment. I'd never do that with a computer with all the noise and electrical spikes coming from fans, hard drives, power supplies...
For those of you that want to know all the capabilities of the player, and be up to date to the latest firmware, http://www.kiss-technology.com is the place to go. BTW.. the possibilities that having Linux inside brings are very interesting. And since it's got an IDE DVD drive, I'd guess it would not be so hard to put a HD inside and have the total jukebox. KiSS technology itself will be releasing this device in a few months (the awaited DP-600).