I need something like this as well, but there are plenty of situations where I might need to get a call from a number I've never encountered. E.g., sometimes my wife forgets her phone (or it runs out of batteries) and ends up calling me from a friend's phone.
I get junk fax calls sometimes between 3-5am on my cell phone (beep... beep... for a couple of minutes and hangup). They either have no caller id, an invalid phone number, or a phone number that the phone company doesn't think exists.
Not that I disagree with the rest of your post, but:
FUD. If it were true, then it should be happening now. I know for a fact that some cars limit the top speed in software. So far as I know there haven't been cases of this. I think you misinterpreted.
The OP mentioned at the beginning of the post:
Yeah, it would be great if your car dynamically knew how fast you could go based on where you were. This would be a great deal more complicated than a hard limit set in a car's internal software, especially with possible security concerns. I don't think any cars have dynamic speed governors... at least yet.
I'm running FC6, and it's all updated as far as the initial release and the updates repository go. It's better than when I tried FC before, but I still can't rely on it.
About 1 in 10 times I try to update something in Fedora, I end up having to:
# rpm --rebuilddb # yum clean all # yum <whatever I was doing before>
Not to mention the inevitable lockup when the tray updater is running or the segfaults when I try to interrupt yum during an operation I don't want to finish. Even when it finally works, it takes yum over a minute just to download stuff and work out dependencies before installing or updating.
The omg-leak-to-blackhat bit isn't a big deal. Any blackhat worth his weight in RAM chips could cobble something together to record incoming/outgoing RTP traffic on a local network interface (in the case of SIP/RTP VoIP, and similar in IAX, H.323 and other protocols). It's just a few header fields and then pure Mu-law or A-law audio in most cases and other publicly available codecs in other cases.
It'd probably be more work to reverse engineer this trojan as opposed to writing something to do it yourself. It definitely would be for me. And from some experience with other 'law enforcement'-type programs, it's probably shit anyway.
The worrisome bit is utilizing trojans for law enforcement, even with some kind of judicial review (scoff).
It will also only be really useful when Joe User starts using VoIP, because it'd be much harder to get your average power user to install something infected with the trojan.
And end-to-end encryption renders it completely useless anyway, unless it actually reads pre-encrypted stuff from memory. Hopefully VoIP providers will get off their collective asses and get SRTP et al. working.
You are clearly not enough of a geek. Majel Barrett would totally be a score, just get her to record some kickass login sounds for your PC. Or record all of your PBX prompts:
Beware; those "best wishes" are not such a sure thing anymore. My first tinkering experience involved my Dad and I removing the cheap electric phonograph assembly that produced the voice and rigging a pushpin and a plastic cup to learn how it worked. We gutted him merely for my cursed human curiosity.
I may have inadvertently endangered the entire human species! And with atomic power, no less!
Hell yeah, that was an awesome watch. I have the USB version now, but my old blinky light version is buried in my closet somewhere still working (afaik).
How was it a failure? It kept me on time to my appointments.
Thanks for the reality check. I was just doing back-of-the-napkin calculations based on what the parent poster was conjecturing to see if there was any possible validity to it. At first, I was also skeptical since I expected a much higher percentage of land to be "arable".
I don't think it's asking too much for people to be considerate of others. People are not inherently going to do that, so some controls are necessary. I'm actually more on the side of libertarian, but I view purposeful overpopulation as a direct harm to others. So it should be regulated. I still (sometimes regrettably in my mind) support your ability to have children, no matter who you are.
If this were communist china, I'd be telling you what books you can read to your children (oops) and that you must pay for public schools even if you don't have children or don't want them going there (oops).
I just think there's a practicality issue here, resources are actually limited no matter how much you don't like it.
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Hey, that's where I work! Thanks for the link!
Let me know if you guys have any questions -- email is greg at our domain.
Funny enough, the cameras do run Linux, but we're not 100% open source .... yet. :)
Also seek time.
You could route the cell phone through Asterisk. (Incoming call connected to outgoing call to the cell phone, cell phone dials Asterisk to call out)
I need something like this as well, but there are plenty of situations where I might need to get a call from a number I've never encountered. E.g., sometimes my wife forgets her phone (or it runs out of batteries) and ends up calling me from a friend's phone.
... beep ... for a couple of minutes and hangup). They either have no caller id, an invalid phone number, or a phone number that the phone company doesn't think exists.
I get junk fax calls sometimes between 3-5am on my cell phone (beep
The OP mentioned at the beginning of the post: Yeah, it would be great if your car dynamically knew how fast you could go based on where you were. This would be a great deal more complicated than a hard limit set in a car's internal software, especially with possible security concerns. I don't think any cars have dynamic speed governors
I'm running FC6, and it's all updated as far as the initial release and the updates repository go. It's better than when I tried FC before, but I still can't rely on it.
RTFA. They're considering it for the next version, so they probably have realized it.
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Definitely a more elegant solution, and I'd love to have it! But in the near-term, any crypto would be better than none.
Check out ZRTP if you want a real head-scratcher.
The omg-leak-to-blackhat bit isn't a big deal. Any blackhat worth his weight in RAM chips could cobble something together to record incoming/outgoing RTP traffic on a local network interface (in the case of SIP/RTP VoIP, and similar in IAX, H.323 and other protocols). It's just a few header fields and then pure Mu-law or A-law audio in most cases and other publicly available codecs in other cases.
It'd probably be more work to reverse engineer this trojan as opposed to writing something to do it yourself. It definitely would be for me. And from some experience with other 'law enforcement'-type programs, it's probably shit anyway.
The worrisome bit is utilizing trojans for law enforcement, even with some kind of judicial review (scoff).
It will also only be really useful when Joe User starts using VoIP, because it'd be much harder to get your average power user to install something infected with the trojan.
And end-to-end encryption renders it completely useless anyway, unless it actually reads pre-encrypted stuff from memory. Hopefully VoIP providers will get off their collective asses and get SRTP et al. working.
Just my $0.02.
You are clearly not enough of a geek. Majel Barrett would totally be a score, just get her to record some kickass login sounds for your PC. Or record all of your PBX prompts:
"This phone will self-destruct in 5 seconds."
You'd be the envy of Slashdot.
... no correct ACID2, and no support for SVG images in CSS.
Everybody else (besides IE, of course) supports the first, and I'd love Firefox to be the first to support the second.
Just my $0.02, I'm sure everybody's got their own pet RFEs and bugs.
Why?
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(your website, for those who didn't check)
To store up all of the money you intend to give to the poor?
It could gather plenty of wind power from the joke flying speedily over your head.
Beware; those "best wishes" are not such a sure thing anymore. My first tinkering experience involved my Dad and I removing the cheap electric phonograph assembly that produced the voice and rigging a pushpin and a plastic cup to learn how it worked. We gutted him merely for my cursed human curiosity.
I may have inadvertently endangered the entire human species! And with atomic power, no less!
How about the goddamned state-sponsored lotteries? There isn't even any strategy, just toss your money away!
Hell yeah, that was an awesome watch. I have the USB version now, but my old blinky light version is buried in my closet somewhere still working (afaik).
How was it a failure? It kept me on time to my appointments.
I don't use the internet.
Thanks for the reality check. I was just doing back-of-the-napkin calculations based on what the parent poster was conjecturing to see if there was any possible validity to it. At first, I was also skeptical since I expected a much higher percentage of land to be "arable".
No, I won't.
I don't think it's asking too much for people to be considerate of others. People are not inherently going to do that, so some controls are necessary. I'm actually more on the side of libertarian, but I view purposeful overpopulation as a direct harm to others. So it should be regulated. I still (sometimes regrettably in my mind) support your ability to have children, no matter who you are.
If this were communist china, I'd be telling you what books you can read to your children (oops) and that you must pay for public schools even if you don't have children or don't want them going there (oops).
I just think there's a practicality issue here, resources are actually limited no matter how much you don't like it.