Yes, and if this law passed, and you lived in Iowa, your vote would not count at all. The candidates wouldn't even bother with that state - too few votes.
Much more efficient to win big in LA and NYC.
The legislator in Iowa who proposed this needs to quit - too dumb for his job.
Of course it would only be a 'law' which IOWA could change at any time up to the day of elections.
How does a 70" Plasma TV fit into a 'Pragmatic Age'
Whittle it down and we all should either be working on food production or health care. Anything else would be less than Pragmatic. I suppose you could argue that we should also work on entertainment for those in the health care and food production business.
However, I believe there is a need to expand the knowledge of mankind. This keeps us away from subsistence living and gives us a purpose beyond mere existence.
Besides, all that money spent on NASA is pretty much put into the US economy. Beats building yet another ditch (or for that matter roads).
Consider that most of what NASA builds is done by US workers it is a great way to inject money into the economy. Buy a US car and you find 47% of it is made overseas. Buy a one of a kind satellite and 99% of the cost is for American products and workers.
Consider also these engineers etc. typically work at slightly less than competitive salaries in other sectors you are getting a lot for the dollar.
Assuming gasoline engine - or diesel with an throttle brake - under deceleration, engine vacuum will go very high. Then end result is that it could actually suck oil past rings or valve seals.
I'm not saying this will hurt the engine. It is an issue with low tension racing piston rings because the engines tend to be high compression and the excess oil effectively lowers the octane value of the fuel. When you nail the throttle, massive pre-ignition or detonation can result and yes, that is bad for the engine.
If you are not driving a circle track car at 8500rpm, don't worry about it.
1) When 'coasting" many computers actually shut the fuel off to the engine. However, with the transmission engaged, and the clutch out, you will still be engine braking which reduces how far the car will roll.
2) Yeah? So is speeding yet 95% of us do it. The only time you should ever spend a prolonged period of time with the car idling and the transmission in gear with the clutch pressed is during your driving test. (at least in the USA).
Modern passive 900Mhz tags would work in toll booth applications. 10M read range is not unheard of. It really depends on the size of the tag. to get 10M, expect the tag to nearly 6" long though.
At least by 1990, NASA, DOD and Fairchild/Orbital used to run a system called "Multi Mission Modular Satellite".
So what have they done? For 4 million they built a prototype that will never work in space? Notice that when they were added to some other project the total real project price was $80M - and I'm not so sure that includes launch vehicle (ie the rocket).
Back in the day, the radio receiver (arguably the most critical part of a satellite) was $2 million all by itself. It had to be radiation hardened (cosmic rays) and work flawlessly for 5+ years. If something really went wrong, the receiver would send the pulses that actually re-booted or reset the other on board computers.
Also satellites that have instruments, like the hubble, need to point very precisely at stars - the instruments to do this are very expensive, the controls that orient the satellites are relatively cheap - but you have to buy extra (redundancy).
Imagine this, the Hubble Space Telescope has to point at a spot in space for long time - once for 1 million seconds ( Hubble Site ) During that period of time, the solar arrays, antennas etc. couldn't move because even the ultra smooth stepper motors they use would have shaken the spacecraft enough to blur the image.
That being said, there are 100s, if not 1000s of neat little projects that potentially save NASA money - like using standard Internet protocols to talk to spacecraft (tweak the timeouts a bit) - which would mean ground stations would use pretty much standard router hardware vs. custom stuff. It good to see some of these ideas get the exposure they deserve.
However, most satellites are designed with requirements for the instrumentation. The rest of the satellite is designed around those requirements. Unless you have a very flexible design in your spacecraft bus, the scientific part of the mission might be compromised.
So this lander might work - how many g's on impact? (err... landing). What is the success chance? Do I take my $50million instrument and put it on a $10 million lander that has a 30% chance of success? Or do I build a $20 million lander that has an 80% chance? or a $30 Million that has 95% chance? If I pick wrong, I'm sure that I will not get another $100 million to fly the mission again. Perhaps a lifetime of research goes down the toilet...
Any captcha with multiple choice answers is not a good one. 20 choices? So the computer gets by 1/20 of the time. Hmmm, how many attempts does it take to get 1000 e-mail accounts?
As for "geometric center" note that all the images are rectangular. I haven't tried it, but writing a program to pull out all possible rectanges and then sort them on size, and pick the center of the one of the larger rectangles should do it.
Why not a captcha that works with google. "Describe in one or two words what is in this picture", then use a google like search to match up the actual description with what the person typed. Person types "Dog" picture is a "Labrador Retriever" match.
You think you get a bargain when you buy knock-offs?
So let me get this straight, the counterfeiter is going to sell you something that he made and distributed below his cost? Or is he/she actually making more profit, by selling crap at elevated prices - because of the 'good' name on the product?
"Gee, I have this knockoff DFI motherboard that cost me $100 vs. $250 for the real thing. Should I sell it at $125 or $225...." "Because I'm so honest and I'm doing this for the good of mankind, I will sell at $125... no, $115..."
Hah!
Look at most technology companies, they claim 65% markup above cost on their products, but at the end of the year, the total profits are something like 5% The full cost of designing, manufacturing, supporting, and marketing products is staggering. I'm sure for some products manufacturing is the cheapest step.
What the IT depart fails to realize they are support. Let me clarify S-U-P-P-O-R-T. The IT department can make recommendations and argue for or against a policy but they shouldn't dictate how I do my work. My key tool is my laptop.
For the less experienced computer users they IT department should offer whatever services including a complete image for the OS etc.
For those that want to fly it alone, they should establish a minimum policy for security products (say anti-virus - although I cannot remember the last time an anti-virus software actually picked up something - and maybe firewall) but that is about it.
Right now my company has decided that 15 minutes and the screen saver must come up, no grace period. So as long as my potential customer don't dwell on a presentation page too long, all is good.
Actually its really not that bad, when the computer F's up, the client is usually understanding, knowing their IT department does equally boneheaded things TO them. We laugh together. What is really cool though is when they push down an update which then pops up ever 10 minutes asking to reboot. Oh yeah, and reboot takes 6-8 minutes because IT has determined my office is too small to warrant a local domain controller.
Bottom line give your customers options! The secretary might not mind handing over full control. I can't afford to.
Wow, slashdot good at computer but bad at physics?
1) you don't accelerate at "60mph" 60mph is a speed or velocity, not an acceleration.
2) If the system heats up at all, even a little (like from friction), it 'looses' energy to that heat. Since he claims it is perpetual motion, he is not adding any energy to the system (its not plugged in right?) therefor it must slow down.
3) One thing to watch on AC systems - voltage and current are not always in phase - so you need to consider the power factor when you calculate how much energy is going into a system and how much you are getting out.
4) To the idiot that said something about 'disconnection brakes', in this case the brakes were effectively electro-magnets. By shorting the coils, they became lumps of copper. No more electro-magnets, no more brakes.
No real, live bomb has ever been stopped from going on a plane.
No real terrorist has ever been caught as they were going on a plane he (she?) intended to hijack.
To some extent, the TSA's additional screening might have scared off a terrorist, but they would have no way of knowing if their facial expression reading was correct or not - until after the fact, when they realize they missed someone.
Assuming of course the terrorist are planning to do the exact same crime again. As was demonstrated in Spain, there are plenty of soft targets about.
So based on some facial expression, certain people will get additional screening - even more hassle to fly a plane. Flying has already become 100% un-fun since 9/11, between the price wars (how little service can we get away with) and the extra security (how long can we make it take to get on a plane), I rather drive or take the train. Home to customer site, Amtrak Accela gets me there in 4hrs. The flight would be about 1hr, but the additional hassle would easily eat the 3hrs saved.
Bring back People's Express!... $35 from Washington to Newark, pay on the plane, flights leave ever hour. First come first serve. All the seats different color schemes (like they were salvaged from other companies donor aircraft). It was cheap, it was slightly dirty, it was fast, it was convenient. That was 1989ish
My daughter, upon entering middle school in Montgomery County Maryland was forced to sign a computer usage agreement. It included among other things, a ban on 'other' browsers like Firefox _IN_SCHOOL_.
Only Microsoft's Internet Explorer (version not specified) is the approved, in-school browser. When I asked her computer science teacher about it. She agree 100% but said it was county policy and as much as she disapproves and recommends using a "good" browser, at school that was the policy.
I understand the author is outraged but over what?
AMD posted (or is still posting I couldn't find a date) based on old data? Or was the data accurate at the time they created the document.
More outrageous would be the fact that somehow Intel got nearly a 50% boost in speed since April. Unclear from either the article or AMD's website on how this minor miracle was done.
I mean, suppose someone was selling a sports car and publish in April 2007 that the car tops out at 78mph. Then a reviewer bitches that competitors are using that number and not the 'latest' numbers which show 102 mph.
1) "It's fictitious since AMD doesn't have a 2.6 GHz Barcelona quad-core CPU" Yeah it says "Estimated" in big bold letters. 2) Using numbers from April 2007.... shocker. Use the new improved test (that of course was tweaked on Intel) what is the new numbers for AMD chips? Does this change AMD's "Estimation" spec.org seems to be slashdotted right now. 3) So AMD compared its 2.6Ghz to Intel's 2.6 Ghz and the author is complaining they didn't include the 3.0Ghz???? What? AMD is being 'selective'? Yes dammit! They are claiming that clock for clock they are 'Estimating' they will be faster.
BFD! Get a life Intel fanboy.
To take the author's quote: "this is just outrageous" Yes, (64.9-60.4)/60.4 =.074 That's 7.4% advantage not 14.7% as quoted in the article. Outrageous using old numbers!!!
I have found that most of what I get out of boost is a foot print for the way the class should be written and then I end up re-writting the class.
For example, shared_ptr is not thread safe. You may say, "so what?" but unless I'm writting a massive program using IOcompletion or select, I pretty much no when something is allocated and when it is no longer needed. shared_ptr does nothing. But, if multithreaded, when thing finish up in orders that I cannot (or don't want to) predict, shared ptr would be ideal.
template <class T, LockMechanism L, Allocator A>
class shared_ptr {....
After all, boost has threads now right? right?
Without flaming your question. I assume what your really meant was "How did they evolve".
Assume for a moment that feather like structures were already in nature. (Think hair or quills like porcupine)
Now, if you lived in the trees, like squirrels, it might be advantages to stay in the trees and avoid predators that walk along the ground. So to find food, you either climbed down quickly, and run to the next tree -or- you jump from tree to tree.
If you had feathers you could probably jump further, meaning you can reach trees that your less endowed friends couldn't. Making them the more likely target for said predators. So you breed and they become food for predators. So the offspring will have traits that promote far flying or gliding.
Lets see, 200000000 years of dinosaurs. Lets estimate an average lifespan of 10 years, lets also estimate 2 years of age is old enough to breed and that they lay 4 eggs every year. That's, err, a lot of tries. You do the math.
I know he claims to be a 'forensic' expert but nothing else in his resume seems to indicate any experience in the subject. Forensic expert for campus police? I'd definitely get a list of cases he worked on, conclusion he came to etc.
I'd also want to know exactly what errors he looks for and what steps he takes to avoid the errors. How many false positives he has detected and why where they detected in the first. I know police officers who claim their laser gun is in falable...
I'd ask specifically about what techniques can be used to spoof things like IP addresses. Can you impersonate your neighbor for instance (fixed IP vs. DHCP, gratuitous ARPs etc.)
I'd ask him the relationship of MAC address vs. IP address and ask him to describe which would be more of an indicator of identification (especially who's computer). I'd also want to know how far back MAC addresses where traced.
I'd ask if he had any information on the accuracy of Verizon's disclosure. The relationship between the time and Verizon's changing of IP address. (when, if ever, did Verizon change its IP address assignment).
I'd ask if there was any information as to the security of the defendant's network and if any tests were done to verify that defendant's machine wasn't compromised.
I'd ask about "Media Center Trace" and what it proports to proove. Is it just a trace route? Does it indicate MAC address.
Remember, MAC address is unique (but can be altered on some devices).
I'd ask if he knew whether or not the defendant's computer was even turned on at the time and how he knows that information.
I'd ask, if the defendant's computer wasn't turned on, would it be possible for someone to spoof the IP address or statically assign the address to themselves. What safegards does Verizon use to protect against spoofed addresses?
I'd ask how many computers can be behind a firewall that have access to the internet. In effect, how many computers could have the same IP address as far as an observer on the internet side can tell. The answer is infinit. You can have subfirewalls etc.
I'd ask what security measures the defendant had to prevent theft of services. Everything from open wireless to physical security (tap on the line).
What spyware, adware, trojens etc were on the defendant's computer?
If the defendant's computer was really the one used, why is it necessary to sub poena the son's?
Bottom line, if he really is an expert his testimony should highlight that IP address is not an identification of anything. All it shows is that there is someone, somewhere responding to a particular address.
There are many states that have the minimum number of representatives because they have a small population.
To agree to vote with the majority popular vote would in effect diminish their representation. In otherwords, right now they have more power then their population would dictate.
Sony has a piece of DRM software, that when installed, allows me to play the tracks off one of thier mixed-mode CDs?
Seems to me someone could easily reverse engineer (remember not to agree to any silly Eula) and build an equivalent piece of software that can bypass any DRM attempt.
900Mhz RFID is stopped by tin foil.
It also doesn't work on conductors - like humans. Seems we are actually a 'bag of salt water' as far as RFID is concerned. Need about 1/4" spacer to make it work on humans.
1356Khz RFID uses magnetics and is only good for a couple of feet at best.
While other frequencies may be available to the government, right now the commercial sector makes all the RFID equipment (at least the stuff that actually works) and in order to avoid having to get an FCC license for every installation, they target open frequencies, like that 900Mhz your old cordless phone works at.
Yeah I know, sometime reality is boring. Wouldn't be cooler if big brother was watching you? Istead he is just trying to maximize oil profits.
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Yes, and if this law passed, and you lived in Iowa, your vote would not count at all. The candidates wouldn't even bother with that state - too few votes.
Much more efficient to win big in LA and NYC.
The legislator in Iowa who proposed this needs to quit - too dumb for his job.
Of course it would only be a 'law' which IOWA could change at any time up to the day of elections.
How does a 70" Plasma TV fit into a 'Pragmatic Age'
Whittle it down and we all should either be working on food production or health care. Anything else would be less than Pragmatic. I suppose you could argue that we should also work on entertainment for those in the health care and food production business.
However, I believe there is a need to expand the knowledge of mankind. This keeps us away from subsistence living and gives us a purpose beyond mere existence.
Besides, all that money spent on NASA is pretty much put into the US economy. Beats building yet another ditch (or for that matter roads).
Consider that most of what NASA builds is done by US workers it is a great way to inject money into the economy. Buy a US car and you find 47% of it is made overseas. Buy a one of a kind satellite and 99% of the cost is for American products and workers.
Consider also these engineers etc. typically work at slightly less than competitive salaries in other sectors you are getting a lot for the dollar.
Assuming gasoline engine - or diesel with an throttle brake - under deceleration, engine vacuum will go very high. Then end result is that it could actually suck oil past rings or valve seals.
I'm not saying this will hurt the engine. It is an issue with low tension racing piston rings because the engines tend to be high compression and the excess oil effectively lowers the octane value of the fuel. When you nail the throttle, massive pre-ignition or detonation can result and yes, that is bad for the engine.
If you are not driving a circle track car at 8500rpm, don't worry about it.
1) When 'coasting" many computers actually shut the fuel off to the engine. However, with the transmission engaged, and the clutch out, you will still be engine braking which reduces how far the car will roll.
2) Yeah? So is speeding yet 95% of us do it. The only time you should ever spend a prolonged period of time with the car idling and the transmission in gear with the clutch pressed is during your driving test. (at least in the USA).
However, the throwout bearing that puts (or rather relieves) 2000 lbs of pressure is more likely to be the issue
But I agree with your main argument, Stick it in neutral and let the clutch out.
Modern passive 900Mhz tags would work in toll booth applications. 10M read range is not unheard of. It really depends on the size of the tag. to get 10M, expect the tag to nearly 6" long though.
Or washing machines that automatically detected the type and quantity of clothes you put into the machine.
At least by 1990, NASA, DOD and Fairchild/Orbital used to run a system called "Multi Mission Modular Satellite".
So what have they done? For 4 million they built a prototype that will never work in space? Notice that when they were added to some other project the total real project price was $80M - and I'm not so sure that includes launch vehicle (ie the rocket).
Back in the day, the radio receiver (arguably the most critical part of a satellite) was $2 million all by itself. It had to be radiation hardened (cosmic rays) and work flawlessly for 5+ years. If something really went wrong, the receiver would send the pulses that actually re-booted or reset the other on board computers.
Also satellites that have instruments, like the hubble, need to point very precisely at stars - the instruments to do this are very expensive, the controls that orient the satellites are relatively cheap - but you have to buy extra (redundancy).
Imagine this, the Hubble Space Telescope has to point at a spot in space for long time - once for 1 million seconds ( Hubble Site ) During that period of time, the solar arrays, antennas etc. couldn't move because even the ultra smooth stepper motors they use would have shaken the spacecraft enough to blur the image.
That being said, there are 100s, if not 1000s of neat little projects that potentially save NASA money - like using standard Internet protocols to talk to spacecraft (tweak the timeouts a bit) - which would mean ground stations would use pretty much standard router hardware vs. custom stuff. It good to see some of these ideas get the exposure they deserve.
However, most satellites are designed with requirements for the instrumentation. The rest of the satellite is designed around those requirements. Unless you have a very flexible design in your spacecraft bus, the scientific part of the mission might be compromised.
So this lander might work - how many g's on impact? (err... landing). What is the success chance? Do I take my $50million instrument and put it on a $10 million lander that has a 30% chance of success? Or do I build a $20 million lander that has an 80% chance? or a $30 Million that has 95% chance? If I pick wrong, I'm sure that I will not get another $100 million to fly the mission again. Perhaps a lifetime of research goes down the toilet...
... and most companies would lease office, furniture and servers.
Any captcha with multiple choice answers is not a good one. 20 choices? So the computer gets by 1/20 of the time. Hmmm, how many attempts does it take to get 1000 e-mail accounts? As for "geometric center" note that all the images are rectangular. I haven't tried it, but writing a program to pull out all possible rectanges and then sort them on size, and pick the center of the one of the larger rectangles should do it. Why not a captcha that works with google. "Describe in one or two words what is in this picture", then use a google like search to match up the actual description with what the person typed. Person types "Dog" picture is a "Labrador Retriever" match.
You think you get a bargain when you buy knock-offs? So let me get this straight, the counterfeiter is going to sell you something that he made and distributed below his cost? Or is he/she actually making more profit, by selling crap at elevated prices - because of the 'good' name on the product? "Gee, I have this knockoff DFI motherboard that cost me $100 vs. $250 for the real thing. Should I sell it at $125 or $225...." "Because I'm so honest and I'm doing this for the good of mankind, I will sell at $125... no, $115..." Hah! Look at most technology companies, they claim 65% markup above cost on their products, but at the end of the year, the total profits are something like 5% The full cost of designing, manufacturing, supporting, and marketing products is staggering. I'm sure for some products manufacturing is the cheapest step.
Is that another name for VISA? or MasterCard?
What the IT depart fails to realize they are support. Let me clarify S-U-P-P-O-R-T. The IT department can make recommendations and argue for or against a policy but they shouldn't dictate how I do my work. My key tool is my laptop.
For the less experienced computer users they IT department should offer whatever services including a complete image for the OS etc.
For those that want to fly it alone, they should establish a minimum policy for security products (say anti-virus - although I cannot remember the last time an anti-virus software actually picked up something - and maybe firewall) but that is about it.
Right now my company has decided that 15 minutes and the screen saver must come up, no grace period. So as long as my potential customer don't dwell on a presentation page too long, all is good.
Actually its really not that bad, when the computer F's up, the client is usually understanding, knowing their IT department does equally boneheaded things TO them. We laugh together. What is really cool though is when they push down an update which then pops up ever 10 minutes asking to reboot. Oh yeah, and reboot takes 6-8 minutes because IT has determined my office is too small to warrant a local domain controller.
Bottom line give your customers options! The secretary might not mind handing over full control. I can't afford to.
Wow, slashdot good at computer but bad at physics?
1) you don't accelerate at "60mph" 60mph is a speed or velocity, not an acceleration.
2) If the system heats up at all, even a little (like from friction), it 'looses' energy to that heat. Since he claims it is perpetual motion, he is not adding any energy to the system (its not plugged in right?) therefor it must slow down.
3) One thing to watch on AC systems - voltage and current are not always in phase - so you need to consider the power factor when you calculate how much energy is going into a system and how much you are getting out.
4) To the idiot that said something about 'disconnection brakes', in this case the brakes were effectively electro-magnets. By shorting the coils, they became lumps of copper. No more electro-magnets, no more brakes.
... by all the screening etc at the airport.
... $35 from Washington to Newark, pay on the plane, flights leave ever hour. First come first serve. All the seats different color schemes (like they were salvaged from other companies donor aircraft). It was cheap, it was slightly dirty, it was fast, it was convenient. That was 1989ish
No real, live bomb has ever been stopped from going on a plane.
No real terrorist has ever been caught as they were going on a plane he (she?) intended to hijack.
To some extent, the TSA's additional screening might have scared off a terrorist, but they would have no way of knowing if their facial expression reading was correct or not - until after the fact, when they realize they missed someone.
Assuming of course the terrorist are planning to do the exact same crime again. As was demonstrated in Spain, there are plenty of soft targets about.
So based on some facial expression, certain people will get additional screening - even more hassle to fly a plane. Flying has already become 100% un-fun since 9/11, between the price wars (how little service can we get away with) and the extra security (how long can we make it take to get on a plane), I rather drive or take the train. Home to customer site, Amtrak Accela gets me there in 4hrs. The flight would be about 1hr, but the additional hassle would easily eat the 3hrs saved.
Bring back People's Express!
My daughter, upon entering middle school in Montgomery County Maryland was forced to sign a computer usage agreement. It included among other things, a ban on 'other' browsers like Firefox _IN_SCHOOL_.
Only Microsoft's Internet Explorer (version not specified) is the approved, in-school browser. When I asked her computer science teacher about it. She agree 100% but said it was county policy and as much as she disapproves and recommends using a "good" browser, at school that was the policy.
I understand the author is outraged but over what?
.074 That's 7.4% advantage not 14.7% as quoted in the article. Outrageous using old numbers!!!
AMD posted (or is still posting I couldn't find a date) based on old data? Or was the data accurate at the time they created the document.
More outrageous would be the fact that somehow Intel got nearly a 50% boost in speed since April. Unclear from either the article or AMD's website on how this minor miracle was done.
I mean, suppose someone was selling a sports car and publish in April 2007 that the car tops out at 78mph. Then a reviewer bitches that competitors are using that number and not the 'latest' numbers which show 102 mph.
1) "It's fictitious since AMD doesn't have a 2.6 GHz Barcelona quad-core CPU"
Yeah it says "Estimated" in big bold letters.
2) Using numbers from April 2007.... shocker. Use the new improved test (that of course was tweaked on Intel) what is the new numbers for AMD chips? Does this change AMD's "Estimation" spec.org seems to be slashdotted right now.
3) So AMD compared its 2.6Ghz to Intel's 2.6 Ghz and the author is complaining they didn't include the 3.0Ghz???? What? AMD is being 'selective'? Yes dammit! They are claiming that clock for clock they are 'Estimating' they will be faster.
BFD! Get a life Intel fanboy.
To take the author's quote:
"this is just outrageous"
Yes, (64.9-60.4)/60.4 =
The result was that it was O.K. to tape record the police during a traffic stop.
The rational was that since the traffic stop happened in public, there was no expectation of privacy.
Basically, you can record anything that happens in public.
Now PA law might be a bit different.
Yes,
I have found that most of what I get out of boost is a foot print for the way the class should be written and then I end up re-writting the class.
For example, shared_ptr is not thread safe. You may say, "so what?" but unless I'm writting a massive program using IOcompletion or select, I pretty much no when something is allocated and when it is no longer needed. shared_ptr does nothing. But, if multithreaded, when thing finish up in orders that I cannot (or don't want to) predict, shared ptr would be ideal.
template <class T, LockMechanism L, Allocator A>
class shared_ptr {.... After all, boost has threads now right? right?Without flaming your question. I assume what your really meant was "How did they evolve".
Assume for a moment that feather like structures were already in nature. (Think hair or quills like porcupine)
Now, if you lived in the trees, like squirrels, it might be advantages to stay in the trees and avoid predators that walk along the ground. So to find food, you either climbed down quickly, and run to the next tree -or- you jump from tree to tree.
If you had feathers you could probably jump further, meaning you can reach trees that your less endowed friends couldn't. Making them the more likely target for said predators. So you breed and they become food for predators. So the offspring will have traits that promote far flying or gliding.
Lets see, 200000000 years of dinosaurs. Lets estimate an average lifespan of 10 years, lets also estimate 2 years of age is old enough to breed and that they lay 4 eggs every year. That's, err, a lot of tries. You do the math.
I know he claims to be a 'forensic' expert but nothing else in his resume seems to indicate any experience in the subject. Forensic expert for campus police? I'd definitely get a list of cases he worked on, conclusion he came to etc.
I'd also want to know exactly what errors he looks for and what steps he takes to avoid the errors. How many false positives he has detected and why where they detected in the first. I know police officers who claim their laser gun is in falable...
I'd ask specifically about what techniques can be used to spoof things like IP addresses. Can you impersonate your neighbor for instance (fixed IP vs. DHCP, gratuitous ARPs etc.)
I'd ask him the relationship of MAC address vs. IP address and ask him to describe which would be more of an indicator of identification (especially who's computer). I'd also want to know how far back MAC addresses where traced.
I'd ask if he had any information on the accuracy of Verizon's disclosure. The relationship between the time and Verizon's changing of IP address. (when, if ever, did Verizon change its IP address assignment).
I'd ask if there was any information as to the security of the defendant's network and if any tests were done to verify that defendant's machine wasn't compromised.
I'd ask about "Media Center Trace" and what it proports to proove. Is it just a trace route? Does it indicate MAC address.
Remember, MAC address is unique (but can be altered on some devices).
I'd ask if he knew whether or not the defendant's computer was even turned on at the time and how he knows that information.
I'd ask, if the defendant's computer wasn't turned on, would it be possible for someone to spoof the IP address or statically assign the address to themselves. What safegards does Verizon use to protect against spoofed addresses?
I'd ask how many computers can be behind a firewall that have access to the internet. In effect, how many computers could have the same IP address as far as an observer on the internet side can tell. The answer is infinit. You can have subfirewalls etc.
I'd ask what security measures the defendant had to prevent theft of services. Everything from open wireless to physical security (tap on the line).
What spyware, adware, trojens etc were on the defendant's computer?
If the defendant's computer was really the one used, why is it necessary to sub poena the son's?
Bottom line, if he really is an expert his testimony should highlight that IP address is not an identification of anything. All it shows is that there is someone, somewhere responding to a particular address.
There are many states that have the minimum number of representatives because they have a small population.
To agree to vote with the majority popular vote would in effect diminish their representation. In otherwords, right now they have more power then their population would dictate.
They would be stupid to agree!
Sony has a piece of DRM software, that when installed, allows me to play the tracks off one of thier mixed-mode CDs?
Seems to me someone could easily reverse engineer (remember not to agree to any silly Eula) and build an equivalent piece of software that can bypass any DRM attempt.
So, what do I google for?
900Mhz RFID is stopped by tin foil. It also doesn't work on conductors - like humans. Seems we are actually a 'bag of salt water' as far as RFID is concerned. Need about 1/4" spacer to make it work on humans.
1356Khz RFID uses magnetics and is only good for a couple of feet at best.
While other frequencies may be available to the government, right now the commercial sector makes all the RFID equipment (at least the stuff that actually works) and in order to avoid having to get an FCC license for every installation, they target open frequencies, like that 900Mhz your old cordless phone works at.
Yeah I know, sometime reality is boring. Wouldn't be cooler if big brother was watching you? Istead he is just trying to maximize oil profits.