Nah, when I tell people about it they still don't care.
Matter of time. Keep talking about it to them. Sooner or later they will run into it. At that moment they should remember what you said. The next time they will be more likely to believe you when another issue comes.
Proprietary connector? What is a proprietary connector? There is nothing like proprietary connector in the world, there is only "difficult to find" connector, "poorly documented" connector, or "occupied design that needs to be liberated".
Nobody, NOBODY, has a right to limit interconnectivity of devices.
Well... if it is a DRMed document, this would actually make sense.[*]
[*] If we don't count that the copy machine wants a reflective surface and a copy from a CRT would likely not work. However, with e-paper it could be a good solution. With the proliferation of the digital restriction management cancer, such methods are bound to be really deployed.
RFID tags are sensitive to more things than EMP. Sure, it's sexy, it's exotic, it's attractive for every geek - but you can as well hold the $thing against a light source, see the coil and the chip, and then use your trusty Dremel to drill a small hole through the chip. A handheld RFID reader then can be used to confirm the success of the operation.
You have to spend X amount of hours to go over the logs and see exactly what the offending IP did...
man grep
and then you go and try and correlate that with other traffic around the time to make sure that there weren't multiple sources involved.
Given the amount of "background noise" from various scanning bots and worms, without a software that does this for you automatically you are doomed to a life of permanent reading of logs and chasing shadows.
Well, I guess it will certainly change one's "instincts" when it comes to using penetration testing tools to determine a site's legitimacy.
A quick portscan of 139 and 445 is a good indication if the machine in question is a hacked windoze box. These ports have no business to be exposed on a production webserver.
When I want to enter an outhouse, better shake its contruction a bit to see if it won't collapse on me. When I want to drink something from a bottle, I take a sniff if somebody did not alter the content for a chemical (accidents happen). When I want to cross a road, I look. When I want to donate money to a website, I look too. Anything wrong with that?
Obviously I am not intended to see that. Legal & ethical dilemma.
If it is important, it should either not be publicly accessible at all, or at least the directory listing should be denied. An empty index.htm file is not that difficult thing to put into the directory. A.htaccess file does not have that difficult syntax too. In the worst case, just uploading it tomorrow would do the job too.
Buffering is a natural property of the transmission path, even for analog radio/TV broadcasts, due to the slowness of light. In the simplest case of a satellite on a geostationary orbit and a straight line from the point under it up and down, the signal has to travel twice 35786 km, which amounts to 0.24 second roundtrip time. Which amounts to 6 or 7 video half-frames (for PAL or NTSC respectively), buffered in the empty space between the transmitter, satellite, and receiver. The signal path acts like a FIFO buffer here.
Also, frame buffering takes place in the new 100Hz TVs, and in basically everything that handles video in a digital way.
There is no principial difference for PC-based streaming. So where's the problem?
So the chips will get shipped by mail from overseas, possibly in packages branded as "legal" chips. Or highly generic FPGA-based design appears. Another possibility is an analog "encryption"/"scrambling" of the audio signal in a reversible way. Watermarks are designed to survive modifications that do not lead to noticeable audible degradation of the signal - just apply a transformation they are NOT designed for, but which is reversible. Scramble by an analog circuit, feed through the ADC with a built-in cop, descramble digitized signal that was smuggled past the cop this way.
Can you make the box accessible via SSH? It is much easier to log in and solve things than to fight with a clueless user over the phone. A boot CD with code that automatically opens a connection to your machine and hands you over the control can help even with filesystem-level stuff.
Murphy's laws have no exceptions. So factor them into the design.
However, i dont feel i have a right to force my beliefs onto another person ( or country ).
I feel everybody should have the right (and the associated technical means) to avoid being forced others' beliefs upon, and this includes his/her own corporate-politicians.
ESPECIALLY when it comes to means of communication.
And don't talk about that bullshit with voting instead of direct fight. That would work if all the reasonable alternatives won't be bought before, which is not the case of modern so-called "democracy", nor the case of China.
Ah so your rules should take precedent to another countries rules.
Yes. My rules take precedence of ALL countries' rules.
My, arent you arrogant. Who gives you the right to tell ANOTHER COUNTRY what is right and wrong?
I believe no country has the right to decide for their people what means of communication they will use.
Some countries ( peoples ) belive its wrong to eat beef. Does that mean they are wrong because you eat dead cows? Where is the line?
In forcing other people (including the country's own citizens) to NOT eat beef, or forcing the individual people to EAT beef.
VOIP isn't some sort of basic human right. Beyond the universal rights, each country, and its people, have a right to choose what they consider right and wrong.
As stated above, I do not respect the assumed right of my government to decide about the comm technology I use, and I consider it polite to help other people with technical enforcement of their rights to freely decide how they will communicate. Is it arrogance, or is it freedom?
They still need to distribute the receivers in the dome, which the bureaucrats could prevent.
That is an important factor. However, as it looks, they have plenty of time to trickle-flow the radios in.
There is also the chance of causing administrative chaos when somebody allows shipping the devices in, and before it turns out that there is a missing signature or a proper one but on a wrong form, it is too late to undo. Large systems with too many people are highly vulnerable to social engineering. If it is made to look as a genuine mistake on the bureaucrats' side, there could even be nobody left to go after. They did enough screwups that ended up in not helping the people, so why not maneuver them into one that will force them to provide help against their will.
Maybe it won't work. But it could be worth to at least think about it.
Bureaucracy, like every system, has an inherent potential to be hacked. Just do not give up the hope.
Yes, this is a problem. There are people there who are affected, people like you and me. Help them today, and they will perhaps help you tomorrow when *your* corporation-government gets funny ideas.
The last few days I used Skype which was awesome, but now this happens and I'm pissed.
A possible workaround: get an accomplice outside of China, connect there over a VPN (either IPsec or OpenVPN or anything else suitable for the purpose), route the packets through the VPN to the gateway outside of China.
As I understood it, the transmitter is blocked by some Astrodome-level bureaucrat. Given the nature of electromagnetic waves and their ability to penetrate walls, could it be a practical solution to locate the station on some nearby non-Astrodome location under the control of another, more cooperative bureaucrat?
You can work under a pseudonym. Just make up another identity for that one project. You may not like this, but a lot of people may perceive such cloak-and-dagger activity as nicely exciting.
Ignoring the law (and avoiding getting caught) is a good way to survive until the law goes away.
Besides, such attitude may lead to a nice, fully distributed and anonymized project development space, making collaboration almost as easy as in the open.
GPS works on sufficiently different frequencies than the cellphones do. A filter on the antenna, or a micropower jammer feeding radio noise right into the GPS chip's input that drowns the GPS signal below what the chip can detect. If it is dependent on "real" GPS, and not on triangulation of cellular towers or some crap like that that the phone's function is integrally dependent on, it's not that big threat.
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Matter of time. Keep talking about it to them. Sooner or later they will run into it. At that moment they should remember what you said. The next time they will be more likely to believe you when another issue comes.
Why should they force something on themselves when they are perfectly happy without it?
And getting a cockroach forced into every subsequent pizza you purchase.
Does a house become a house when its first brick is laid?
See Sturgeon's revelation.
God made people strong and weak.
Samuel Colt made them equal.
Is it a metaphor for Iraq?
Nobody, NOBODY, has a right to limit interconnectivity of devices.
Correct the article, tell him to look again?
Well... if it is a DRMed document, this would actually make sense.[*]
[*] If we don't count that the copy machine wants a reflective surface and a copy from a CRT would likely not work. However, with e-paper it could be a good solution. With the proliferation of the digital restriction management cancer, such methods are bound to be really deployed.
RFID tags are sensitive to more things than EMP. Sure, it's sexy, it's exotic, it's attractive for every geek - but you can as well hold the $thing against a light source, see the coil and the chip, and then use your trusty Dremel to drill a small hole through the chip. A handheld RFID reader then can be used to confirm the success of the operation.
man grep and then you go and try and correlate that with other traffic around the time to make sure that there weren't multiple sources involved.
Given the amount of "background noise" from various scanning bots and worms, without a software that does this for you automatically you are doomed to a life of permanent reading of logs and chasing shadows.
How does BT deal with such background noise?
A quick portscan of 139 and 445 is a good indication if the machine in question is a hacked windoze box. These ports have no business to be exposed on a production webserver.
When I want to enter an outhouse, better shake its contruction a bit to see if it won't collapse on me. When I want to drink something from a bottle, I take a sniff if somebody did not alter the content for a chemical (accidents happen). When I want to cross a road, I look. When I want to donate money to a website, I look too. Anything wrong with that?
If it is important, it should either not be publicly accessible at all, or at least the directory listing should be denied. An empty index.htm file is not that difficult thing to put into the directory. A .htaccess file does not have that difficult syntax too. In the worst case, just uploading it tomorrow would do the job too.
Incompetence has its costs.
Buffering is a natural property of the transmission path, even for analog radio/TV broadcasts, due to the slowness of light. In the simplest case of a satellite on a geostationary orbit and a straight line from the point under it up and down, the signal has to travel twice 35786 km, which amounts to 0.24 second roundtrip time. Which amounts to 6 or 7 video half-frames (for PAL or NTSC respectively), buffered in the empty space between the transmitter, satellite, and receiver. The signal path acts like a FIFO buffer here.
Also, frame buffering takes place in the new 100Hz TVs, and in basically everything that handles video in a digital way.
There is no principial difference for PC-based streaming. So where's the problem?
So the chips will get shipped by mail from overseas, possibly in packages branded as "legal" chips. Or highly generic FPGA-based design appears.
Another possibility is an analog "encryption"/"scrambling" of the audio signal in a reversible way. Watermarks are designed to survive modifications that do not lead to noticeable audible degradation of the signal - just apply a transformation they are NOT designed for, but which is reversible. Scramble by an analog circuit, feed through the ADC with a built-in cop, descramble digitized signal that was smuggled past the cop this way.
Murphy's laws have no exceptions. So factor them into the design.
I feel everybody should have the right (and the associated technical means) to avoid being forced others' beliefs upon, and this includes his/her own corporate-politicians.
ESPECIALLY when it comes to means of communication.
And don't talk about that bullshit with voting instead of direct fight. That would work if all the reasonable alternatives won't be bought before, which is not the case of modern so-called "democracy", nor the case of China.
Yes. My rules take precedence of ALL countries' rules.
My, arent you arrogant. Who gives you the right to tell ANOTHER COUNTRY what is right and wrong?
I believe no country has the right to decide for their people what means of communication they will use.
Some countries ( peoples ) belive its wrong to eat beef. Does that mean they are wrong because you eat dead cows? Where is the line?
In forcing other people (including the country's own citizens) to NOT eat beef, or forcing the individual people to EAT beef.
VOIP isn't some sort of basic human right. Beyond the universal rights, each country, and its people, have a right to choose what they consider right and wrong.
As stated above, I do not respect the assumed right of my government to decide about the comm technology I use, and I consider it polite to help other people with technical enforcement of their rights to freely decide how they will communicate. Is it arrogance, or is it freedom?
That is an important factor. However, as it looks, they have plenty of time to trickle-flow the radios in.
There is also the chance of causing administrative chaos when somebody allows shipping the devices in, and before it turns out that there is a missing signature or a proper one but on a wrong form, it is too late to undo. Large systems with too many people are highly vulnerable to social engineering. If it is made to look as a genuine mistake on the bureaucrats' side, there could even be nobody left to go after. They did enough screwups that ended up in not helping the people, so why not maneuver them into one that will force them to provide help against their will.
Maybe it won't work. But it could be worth to at least think about it.
Bureaucracy, like every system, has an inherent potential to be hacked. Just do not give up the hope.
Yes, this is a problem. There are people there who are affected, people like you and me. Help them today, and they will perhaps help you tomorrow when *your* corporation-government gets funny ideas.
A possible workaround: get an accomplice outside of China, connect there over a VPN (either IPsec or OpenVPN or anything else suitable for the purpose), route the packets through the VPN to the gateway outside of China.
As I understood it, the transmitter is blocked by some Astrodome-level bureaucrat. Given the nature of electromagnetic waves and their ability to penetrate walls, could it be a practical solution to locate the station on some nearby non-Astrodome location under the control of another, more cooperative bureaucrat?
You can work under a pseudonym. Just make up another identity for that one project. You may not like this, but a lot of people may perceive such cloak-and-dagger activity as nicely exciting.
Ignoring the law (and avoiding getting caught) is a good way to survive until the law goes away.
Besides, such attitude may lead to a nice, fully distributed and anonymized project development space, making collaboration almost as easy as in the open.
GPS works on sufficiently different frequencies than the cellphones do. A filter on the antenna, or a micropower jammer feeding radio noise right into the GPS chip's input that drowns the GPS signal below what the chip can detect. If it is dependent on "real" GPS, and not on triangulation of cellular towers or some crap like that that the phone's function is integrally dependent on, it's not that big threat.