In the UK the remote monitoring of local audio via the microphone using cell-phones (mobiles phones) by the police has been reported in reputable national media since at least mid 2005.
The Financial Times (requires subscription) ran an article on this subject on 2nd of August 2005 here
If ordered to do so, mobile telephone operators can also tap any calls, but more significantly they can also remotely install a piece of software on to any handset, without the owner's knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call, giving security services the perfect bugging device. "We have inadvertently started carrying our own trackable ID card in the form of the mobile phone," said Sandra Bell, head of the homeland security department at the Royal United Services Institute.
It's not an uncommon data-deletion policy to encrypt all archived data/backups, then to later delete the corresponding key to any data that needs to be securely wiped. It would be pretty easy to end up in the same situation as this employee if your data was archived in this way and you decided to delete your keys when you left your job.
So THAT'S why my neighbour keeps banging on the wall every time I play music. He doesn't own a licence to listen to my music, and he fears the legal consequenses.
Your points are valid, but unlike/. readers most of the UK general public do not understand the principle of a relational database. Your average brit who approves of 'tough on terror and asylum-seekers' style legislation thinks of the ID register as a flat text file of data held about them, and does not understand the far-reaching implications of how their data can be related to other data.
For example, the government have promised that no link will be made between the ID register and the criminal record database but a member of the general public will not realise that no direct link will not guarantee that the information held on each database cannot be related.
If you already suffer from RSI, *large* Wacoms are definitely better. I've used an oversized A4 since 2001 and my debilitating RSI has almost disappeared. I've found the micro-movements which mousing encourages create RSI-type problems. Moving your entire forearm around the large tablet seems to encourage blood to flow around your wrist and hand, and contributes to self-repair.
For severe RSI, I recommend using a large Wacom with a gel-pad cushioning your pen hand. Stick adhesive teflon sheet to the bottom of the gel-pad so it slides around the Wacom as you move the pen around (sounds cumbersome but is surprisingly ergonomic).
Excellent idea. Also, this little program would also need to randomly click on returned search results, and pretend to be whatever browser you were normally using to surf the net. Otherwise your real searches would be distinguishable from the fake ones. And the dictionary of random words could be weighted towards the most commonly used search terms.
Precisely! Cartoon-filled stories teach children to block out extraneous animated crap!
Those interactive animations may have hindered the kids' story recollection. But they grow up with a multi-tasking mentality that enables them to simultaneously watch TV, do homework, surf the net, filter ads and chat to friends.
The comments following TFA mention that First4Internet created the rootkit using open-source tools, and that by not acknowledging this, Sony broke copyright laws protecting the IP of those tools.
Aside from the irony that Sony were protecting their IP by violating someone else's... is this true? And if so, why are Sony not being prosecuted for breaching that copyright?
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Alice (not a terrorist): 'Hello?'
Plod: 'We think you're a terrorist so we need you and your hard-drive for 90 days while we check'
Trent (a trusted arbitrator) 'Don't worry Alice, you can prove you're not a terrorist by blowing up your hard-drive with your giant stash of thermite'
Alice: 'Shhh!'
This is similar to the issue that the Germans had during WWII
Although it's identical to the issue that the UK police claim they currently have. Which is why they want 90 days to lock citizens up without charge while they 'factor' their hard-drives.
...and whales are (arguably) sentinent animals, along with dolphins, chimps, elephants and so on.
Even though whales may not be tool-using animals, they are still considered to be 'self-aware'. Even if these sentinent creatures have only the intelligence or understanding of a 3, 4, 5-year old child, we should treat their place in the eco-hierarchy on a par with a human child.
Human adults use tools to defend themselves against animals, but neither human children nor sentinent creatures can defend themselves against either animals or adults. That's why we should protect both.
Surely step one is to learn from other people's experience and mistakes. By going to one of the many UK ADSL help sites (e.g. http://www.adslguide.org/) and reading about other people's user experiences, he could have learnt about the procedure for installation of UK broadband.
There's no point trying to re-invent the anti-customer-service-aggravation wheel. Other people have been there, done that, and got annoyed. Use their experiences to your advantage.
Yes, BT require that their customers jump through hoops. Yes, BT probably seems arcane to an American. But by checking online first and discovering which hoops need to be jumped through in advance, he'd have saved himself a lot of aggravation.
If his number-one priority was speed of installation, any Brit could have told him that obtaining both his phone line and his broadband connection from BT would be the quickest way to get broadband installed.
Let's give our laboratory productivity test monkeys a couple of tasks...
Task One * GUI - 1 minute thinking, 29 minutes flapping around with a mouse * COMMAND LINE - 29 minutes thinking, 1 minute typing
Task Two (very similar but not identical to Task One) * GUI - 1/2 minute thinking, 29 minutes flapping around with a mouse * COMMAND LINE - 1/2 minute thinking, 1 minute typing
I only realised the significance of this when I developed serious RSI about 4 years ago. Brains don't get RSI.
So, once I'm banned from the internet, presumably I can't conduct any of my antiquated-but-still-effective social engineering password 'recovery' methods either?
Or write sql-injection instructions longhand using my daffy-duck pencil to be carried out on the internet by others?
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You are now your computer's bitch. Deal with it.
You can't force an IP address to a domain with hosts.txt for ANY sites. The hosts file doesn't have a file extension.
The Financial Times (requires subscription) ran an article on this subject on 2nd of August 2005 here
A reference to this FT article can be found here.
It's not an uncommon data-deletion policy to encrypt all archived data/backups, then to later delete the corresponding key to any data that needs to be securely wiped. It would be pretty easy to end up in the same situation as this employee if your data was archived in this way and you decided to delete your keys when you left your job.
They don't need to be fined retroactively. They need to be fined RECURSIVELY!
So THAT'S why my neighbour keeps banging on the wall every time I play music. He doesn't own a licence to listen to my music, and he fears the legal consequenses.
Your points are valid, but unlike /. readers most of the UK general public do not understand the principle of a relational database. Your average brit who approves of 'tough on terror and asylum-seekers' style legislation thinks of the ID register as a flat text file of data held about them, and does not understand the far-reaching implications of how their data can be related to other data.
For example, the government have promised that no link will be made between the ID register and the criminal record database but a member of the general public will not realise that no direct link will not guarantee that the information held on each database cannot be related.
If you already suffer from RSI, *large* Wacoms are definitely better. I've used an oversized A4 since 2001 and my debilitating RSI has almost disappeared. I've found the micro-movements which mousing encourages create RSI-type problems. Moving your entire forearm around the large tablet seems to encourage blood to flow around your wrist and hand, and contributes to self-repair.
For severe RSI, I recommend using a large Wacom with a gel-pad cushioning your pen hand. Stick adhesive teflon sheet to the bottom of the gel-pad so it slides around the Wacom as you move the pen around (sounds cumbersome but is surprisingly ergonomic).
Excellent idea. Also, this little program would also need to randomly click on returned search results, and pretend to be whatever browser you were normally using to surf the net. Otherwise your real searches would be distinguishable from the fake ones. And the dictionary of random words could be weighted towards the most commonly used search terms.
Their viruses have interesting typography and excellent kerning.
Precisely! Cartoon-filled stories teach children to block out extraneous animated crap!
Those interactive animations may have hindered the kids' story recollection. But they grow up with a multi-tasking mentality that enables them to simultaneously watch TV, do homework, surf the net, filter ads and chat to friends.
Aside from the irony that Sony were protecting their IP by violating someone else's... is this true? And if so, why are Sony not being prosecuted for breaching that copyright?
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It's precisely this kind of life-dissection that demonstrates why you should never p*** off a geek
The MPAA know that sending their legal threats would only reduce the Pirate Bay's 'Sanitation Budget'.
Alice (not a terrorist): 'Hello?'
Plod: 'We think you're a terrorist so we need you and your hard-drive for 90 days while we check'
Trent (a trusted arbitrator) 'Don't worry Alice, you can prove you're not a terrorist by blowing up your hard-drive with your giant stash of thermite'
Alice: 'Shhh!'
Although it's identical to the issue that the UK police claim they currently have. Which is why they want 90 days to lock citizens up without charge while they 'factor' their hard-drives.
...and whales are (arguably) sentinent animals, along with dolphins, chimps, elephants and so on.
Even though whales may not be tool-using animals, they are still considered to be 'self-aware'. Even if these sentinent creatures have only the intelligence or understanding of a 3, 4, 5-year old child, we should treat their place in the eco-hierarchy on a par with a human child.
Human adults use tools to defend themselves against animals, but neither human children nor sentinent creatures can defend themselves against either animals or adults. That's why we should protect both.
"A kiss on the hand may be quite continental..."
Even Frank would have problems getting "Aggregated Diamond Nanorods" to scan.
Iraq is already one of the most brutally hot places on earth. Apparently it's like blowing a hair dryer full-blast at one's face while simultaneously being pummeled with sand.
These heat-toughened rioters are going to laugh in the face of a little extra microwave radiation.
There's no point trying to re-invent the anti-customer-service-aggravation wheel. Other people have been there, done that, and got annoyed. Use their experiences to your advantage.
Yes, BT require that their customers jump through hoops. Yes, BT probably seems arcane to an American. But by checking online first and discovering which hoops need to be jumped through in advance, he'd have saved himself a lot of aggravation.
If his number-one priority was speed of installation, any Brit could have told him that obtaining both his phone line and his broadband connection from BT would be the quickest way to get broadband installed.
That's certainly what it did to the current 'priority foreign country' - Ukraine.
It applied (slapped) $75,000,000 worth of import sanctions on them in 2002 for optical disc media licensing legislation infringement.
Hopefully it won't multiply that by the per capita GDP difference and apply some proportion of that figure to Canada.
or MacOS 1011
(there are 10 kinds of people in this world... etc)
Only when using the optional 'Imitation Rod Hull Attatchment Arm' round its waist.
The packing comes with a 'chatshow host advisory warning' sticker too.
Let's give our laboratory productivity test monkeys a couple of tasks...
Task One
* GUI - 1 minute thinking, 29 minutes flapping around with a mouse
* COMMAND LINE - 29 minutes thinking, 1 minute typing
Task Two
(very similar but not identical to Task One)
* GUI - 1/2 minute thinking, 29 minutes flapping around with a mouse
* COMMAND LINE - 1/2 minute thinking, 1 minute typing
I only realised the significance of this when I developed serious RSI about 4 years ago. Brains don't get RSI.
So, once I'm banned from the internet, presumably I can't conduct any of my antiquated-but-still-effective social engineering password 'recovery' methods either?
Or write sql-injection instructions longhand using my daffy-duck pencil to be carried out on the internet by others?
Or read paper hard-copy versions of web pages?
I can still use SMS though, right?