The value of the suspected recorded content may give the owner of that content far more political leverage than some stupid law gives his oppressor. This, of course, only applies if there exists some sort of [even potential] automated dissemination of the aforementioned data. If the oppressor knows the user has the only copy of potentially incriminating evidence, it would be a very different and dangerous circumstance for the user.
It could be quite useful if there could be a known delay before the gigantic and awesome fireball mode activates. I'd also suspect there'd probably be some sort warranty exception for the use of that mode.
This is the perfect opportunity to use some sort of crypo that encrypts the data stored (video, whatever) in a block by block fashion as it is recorded, but encrypts with traditional PKI so that there is no open session to attack. Also, the secret key shouldn't be stored on the device but instead reside with the news agency, trusted friend in another country, etc. In a nutshell, devices from video cameras to general-purpose gps-enabled geek toys shouldn't be made into easy tools for a repressive government to compile evidence against the user of the tool. I also realize though that these repressive regimes could just outlaw the crypto and make that penalty very harsh/cruel/insane, but then there's also the whole field of stenography, and this cat and mouse game can still continue ad nauseum.
I really would love to build something like this out of a DV camera and some sort of small embeddible computer that could handle the I/O and crypto at DV rates.
I wonder if the phone allows access to the voice API in such a way that encryption can be added for voice calls (not VoIP). If the phone can emulate a phone modem with at least 9600bps of bandwidth and let me use the mic/earpiece of the phone is I/O devices, this would be a good start. 2 Phones could call each other as modems, exchange some sort of session key and go secure. It would also be really nice to be able to activate the modem mode during an existing call.
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Uber high-end (such as Xirrus) Wifi-A/P's already turn their power down when needed. What is needed is a standardized and ieee ratified protocol so that an A/P can order its connected clients to lower their power as well. This allows for packing in more and more "cells" in a given area, thereby increasing the overall throughput. It also has a nice side effect of much extended battery life. (at least in cell phones/pda's...might not be significant with a laptop.)
This is nothing new, and the cell-phone industry figured it out a long time ago.
Back when MIR was up, I connected to the ax25 BBS on-board several times with nothing more than an omni-directional antenna and about 5 watts. Granted, 144 mhz degrades a lot less than 2.4 ghz, but a good high-gain yagi, tracking software to aim the antenna, and some sort of doppler frequency compensation might just do the trick.
I wonder if the A/P is wide open on the ISS? If so, hats off to the crew for providing me a target to totally kick ass in the next decon wi-fi shootout.:)
stick your hypothetical voltmeter across two of the phases, not across the same piece of superconducting wire at a distance between the measurement points.
What we need is to fix the problem, which is a broken patent system and an unqualified oversight mechanism. Courts aren't much help to settle issues because an (un|de)qualified jury simply listening to testimony of experts just isn't effective or fair.
What's going to end up happening with all these companies spending billions is that they will come to embrace the current screwed-up system and probably defend it because of their investment. They even may end up lobbying to maintain the status quo.
The small developer is screwed in the butt as usual.
I just bought a MR-16 LED assembly with 3 Cree-E LED's. It is claimed to produce the same light as a 20 watt halogen, and draws 250 ma per my measurements at 12v. One of these would light up a single room well enough to see your way around. If you actually wanted to do work, you could mount one of these on a flexible gooseneck and aim the spot where you needed it. At 250ma, a 5-watt harbor-freight cheapie panel in conjunction with a 7.2ah gell cell is probably all you'll need.
5-watt Panel: $25
LED Assembly: $30
gel cell bat: $10
I'm on a computer a good portion of the day and really enjoy using the Dvorak keyboard layout. Some studies say they layout results in faster typing, some say not, however the amount of finger travel required to type on Dvorak is substantially less than qwerty. I've been using Dvorak for about 12 years now and haven't had any wrist trouble.
It just makes sense to use a optimized keyboard layout instead of an intentionally de-optimized layout from 130 years ago that was primarly designed to prevent typewriter hammers from sticking together. To further show how asinine the qwerty layout is, one of the marketing directives was to put all the letters to spell TYPE WRITER, which was the machines' brand name, on the top row so salesmen would have an easy demo.
This also keeps co-workers off my console in the event I forget to lock it. What's even more amusing is to change someone else's layout to dvorak and be there when they get confused. I quickly ask them to show me and I type something in front of them. We go back and forth a few times and for a split second, I take amusement in that person questioning their own sanity.
So, need I actually abide by laws of other countries if my Website is hosted in the USA and I am a citizen of the USA living in the USA? If so, which countries? What happens if I don't and just ignore their BMCing.
My blogsite allows user registration and such. I really don't care to become a legal expert in foreign law as the US laws are complex enough. Actually, I don't really give a rats *ss about any foreign governments toes I just happen step on.
I've been running OpenWRT for about a year now and have had no problems at all with my voip traffic getting clobbered by bittorrent. I also provide the NOAA audio for my city's listing in weatherunderground.com 24/7 and that never seems bothered either.
Maybe a 10GBit undersea fiber run from Florida would be a good start. Getting their educational and medical infrastructure wired would help open up their community.
Run a tor node! Remove the potential for censure of information by oppressive regimes like China, Cuba and _[insert favorite oppressive country here]_ http://tor.eff.org/
Microsoft so totally missed the virtualization boat that came by a decade or so ago... I'd liken buying a virtualization product from Microsoft about with buying a vehicle from Merrill Lynch.
Truecrypt allows you to bury a volume inside another volume. In the outer layer you can actually store some data files and you should store some mp3 files, financial data, other private data that would be reasonable cause for a paranoid person to want to encrypt. In the inner volume you keep your real stuff. When forced to give your password (after a few days in jail for contempt to prevent the ease of cooperation itself giving suspicion of an inner volume), you give the password that unlocks the outer volume. A full volume and an empty volume look the exact same on disk, so there is no way to detect the presence of the inner volume. One more thing...don't leave playlists/symlinks/shortcuts/history lists that point to the inner volume around. Wipe your slackspace. Overwrite instead of deleting. Cover your mouth when talking. Put piezo-electric transducers on each of your windows and connect to a white noise generator. Wear a tinfoil hat. Don't trust politicians. Yadda yadda yadda..
http://truecrypt.org/ and similar tools may be of use. Not only can you protect an arbitrary volume with tc, you can hide another container inside it in a truly undetectable way.
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The value of the suspected recorded content may give the owner of that content far more political leverage than some stupid law gives his oppressor. This, of course, only applies if there exists some sort of [even potential] automated dissemination of the aforementioned data. If the oppressor knows the user has the only copy of potentially incriminating evidence, it would be a very different and dangerous circumstance for the user.
It could be quite useful if there could be a known delay before the gigantic and awesome fireball mode activates. I'd also suspect there'd probably be some sort warranty exception for the use of that mode.
This is the perfect opportunity to use some sort of crypo that encrypts the data stored (video, whatever) in a block by block fashion as it is recorded, but encrypts with traditional PKI so that there is no open session to attack. Also, the secret key shouldn't be stored on the device but instead reside with the news agency, trusted friend in another country, etc. In a nutshell, devices from video cameras to general-purpose gps-enabled geek toys shouldn't be made into easy tools for a repressive government to compile evidence against the user of the tool. I also realize though that these repressive regimes could just outlaw the crypto and make that penalty very harsh/cruel/insane, but then there's also the whole field of stenography, and this cat and mouse game can still continue ad nauseum. I really would love to build something like this out of a DV camera and some sort of small embeddible computer that could handle the I/O and crypto at DV rates.
I wonder if the phone allows access to the voice API in such a way that encryption can be added for voice calls (not VoIP). If the phone can emulate a phone modem with at least 9600bps of bandwidth and let me use the mic/earpiece of the phone is I/O devices, this would be a good start. 2 Phones could call each other as modems, exchange some sort of session key and go secure. It would also be really nice to be able to activate the modem mode during an existing call.
I've got this weird white-trash trailer-park fantasy, and I think she'd...
Uber high-end (such as Xirrus) Wifi-A/P's already turn their power down when needed. What is needed is a standardized and ieee ratified protocol so that an A/P can order its connected clients to lower their power as well. This allows for packing in more and more "cells" in a given area, thereby increasing the overall throughput. It also has a nice side effect of much extended battery life. (at least in cell phones/pda's...might not be significant with a laptop.) This is nothing new, and the cell-phone industry figured it out a long time ago.
Back when MIR was up, I connected to the ax25 BBS on-board several times with nothing more than an omni-directional antenna and about 5 watts. Granted, 144 mhz degrades a lot less than 2.4 ghz, but a good high-gain yagi, tracking software to aim the antenna, and some sort of doppler frequency compensation might just do the trick. I wonder if the A/P is wide open on the ISS? If so, hats off to the crew for providing me a target to totally kick ass in the next decon wi-fi shootout. :)
Back to a glorified (but uber-fast) filesystem it looks like.
stick your hypothetical voltmeter across two of the phases, not across the same piece of superconducting wire at a distance between the measurement points.
This is exactly why we need phones with open firmwares running fully-published and open peer-reviewed code. I hope the openmoko comes close.
What we need is to fix the problem, which is a broken patent system and an unqualified oversight mechanism. Courts aren't much help to settle issues because an (un|de)qualified jury simply listening to testimony of experts just isn't effective or fair.
What's going to end up happening with all these companies spending billions is that they will come to embrace the current screwed-up system and probably defend it because of their investment. They even may end up lobbying to maintain the status quo.
The small developer is screwed in the butt as usual.
I just bought a MR-16 LED assembly with 3 Cree-E LED's. It is claimed to produce the same light as a 20 watt halogen, and draws 250 ma per my measurements at 12v. One of these would light up a single room well enough to see your way around. If you actually wanted to do work, you could mount one of these on a flexible gooseneck and aim the spot where you needed it. At 250ma, a 5-watt harbor-freight cheapie panel in conjunction with a 7.2ah gell cell is probably all you'll need.
5-watt Panel: $25
LED Assembly: $30
gel cell bat: $10
Not having to run A/C from the house > $65
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I'm on a computer a good portion of the day and really enjoy using the Dvorak keyboard layout. Some studies say they layout results in faster typing, some say not, however the amount of finger travel required to type on Dvorak is substantially less than qwerty. I've been using Dvorak for about 12 years now and haven't had any wrist trouble.
It just makes sense to use a optimized keyboard layout instead of an intentionally de-optimized layout from 130 years ago that was primarly designed to prevent typewriter hammers from sticking together. To further show how asinine the qwerty layout is, one of the marketing directives was to put all the letters to spell TYPE WRITER, which was the machines' brand name, on the top row so salesmen would have an easy demo.
This also keeps co-workers off my console in the event I forget to lock it. What's even more amusing is to change someone else's layout to dvorak and be there when they get confused. I quickly ask them to show me and I type something in front of them. We go back and forth a few times and for a split second, I take amusement in that person questioning their own sanity.
My blogsite allows user registration and such. I really don't care to become a legal expert in foreign law as the US laws are complex enough. Actually, I don't really give a rats *ss about any foreign governments toes I just happen step on.
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I've been running OpenWRT for about a year now and have had no problems at all with my voip traffic getting clobbered by bittorrent. I also provide the NOAA audio for my city's listing in weatherunderground.com 24/7 and that never seems bothered either.
road runner internet does this too now.
Maybe a 10GBit undersea fiber run from Florida would be a good start. Getting their educational and medical infrastructure wired would help open up their community.
I guess there taking the meaning from Open from OpenVMS...
Run a tor node! Remove the potential for censure of information by oppressive regimes like China, Cuba and _[insert favorite oppressive country here]_ http://tor.eff.org/
Microsoft so totally missed the virtualization boat that came by a decade or so ago... I'd liken buying a virtualization product from Microsoft about with buying a vehicle from Merrill Lynch.
This reminds me of one of the greatest comedies of the 80's, Spies like Us.
Truecrypt allows you to bury a volume inside another volume. In the outer layer you can actually store some data files and you should store some mp3 files, financial data, other private data that would be reasonable cause for a paranoid person to want to encrypt. In the inner volume you keep your real stuff. When forced to give your password (after a few days in jail for contempt to prevent the ease of cooperation itself giving suspicion of an inner volume), you give the password that unlocks the outer volume. A full volume and an empty volume look the exact same on disk, so there is no way to detect the presence of the inner volume. One more thing...don't leave playlists/symlinks/shortcuts/history lists that point to the inner volume around. Wipe your slackspace. Overwrite instead of deleting. Cover your mouth when talking. Put piezo-electric transducers on each of your windows and connect to a white noise generator. Wear a tinfoil hat. Don't trust politicians. Yadda yadda yadda..
http://truecrypt.org/ and similar tools may be of use. Not only can you protect an arbitrary volume with tc, you can hide another container inside it in a truly undetectable way.
Two can play in this stupid game.