I think this would be more along the lines of reasonable expectations. You ask the community to attack your server, you expect to get attacked. If you ask me to throw a rock at your car window, I may give you a puzzled look, but if you answer yes to "are you serious?", i may throw the rock. Its your car, so you can do whatever you want to it, just like its their PC... they can do anything they want to it as well.
The purpose of the exercise is to read attack logs (as stated on the contest page).
Hacking isn't illegal. Hacking without permission is illegal. The distinction is unauthorized access. The owner of the box is giving free license to everyone to attack it.
Its just like corporations hiring security experts to attack their systems in order to find flaws (and strengthen their defenses)
Oh, you mean electrical energy? Well, 90% of the lights in my house are compact florescent. Maybe 15 bulbs x 70Wh savings = 1050 watt reduction.
I have to drive 1h/day (no choice), but my car is decent on gas. I want an electric-hybrid car. Solar panels would be nice too. Its sunny here a good % of the year.
The only problem is that when the parents forget to make informed decisions, they'll just find someone else to blame REGARDLESS of the attempt to inform them.
(sarcasm)...but only if you can prove to a reasonable degree that the person has absolutely no control over their own life and if the gaming company misrepresented the game as a happy non-violent game.
Although, if a person proved they had no self-control, they should be locked in a sensory deprevation chamber in case something happens in the world to influence them. We wouldn't want them to think that things like advertisements, spam, or games had anything to do with real life.
A good test for easy-to-influence would be to force the person to play pac-man for 8 hours straight, place white pellets around the room, then observe.
The problem is efficiency. You can drop 120V to 12V on this, but that means that the regulator has to burn up 108 V. If you're drawing 1A, then that's 108W being wasted just to step down the voltage, and 12W actually being used by the device (90% wasted).
However, a transformer can step down voltage with a very high efficiency (google says 80 - 90% efficient).
A stepped down signal of 12V and 1A means an input of 120V and 0.1A, plus loss due to resistance. With 90% efficiency, that means an input of about 13W for the same output as the regulator alone.
Of course, there will be some loss due to using a DC regulator after the transformer, but nowhere near the 108W lost above.
RFID tags work by receiving a sensing signal, stealing a small bit of that signal as power, then uses that power to transmit its own information back. This is over a short range, of course.
Now if you look in nature, there's a really good high-voltage wireless power transfer called lightning...
Well, the aren't late fees. They're restocking and/or purchase fees.
Just like cell phone companies offer their $20 plans, but have the connection fee, 911 fee, etc, etc, etc,...
I've seen cars driving on the moon, cows talking... I'd buy a matrix car if I could swap between cartoon-mode and real-mode.
They said on TV that there were WMD in Iraq and had pretty diagrams of them, the chemical trucks, etc. (sorry, had to say it)
Its the American way, i think. Grand promises, but read the fine print.
The word 'rent' implies that you pay for a temporary service (where the service ends when you stop paying). Auto-conversion to 'purchase' makes sense. I do agree they could be a little clearer on that fact, but at what point does taking a dvd change from rental to dvd? Even the public library will charge you for a book if you don't return it in a reasonable time.
They can be ordered by the court, but with the Patriot act, they don't need to ask the court. It just happens. They can invoke their right to violate your rights without judicial review.
In relation to the topic and being canadian, i'm personally not too worried about Americans violating my privacy, even if my shopping receipts find their way down there somewhere.
Its the Americans who have reason to worry. Your rights, your freedoms. If you don't want them, its up to you.
We had a FPS tournament way back in high school (before the whole school shooting thing) and wow, I considered bringing a rocket launcher for a whole 2 seconds before realizing i didn't have access to heavy artillery.
Maybe the parents should have to sign a waiver if they have a gun in the house.
I, _________ as a responsible parent with possession of (a) firearm(s), promise to teach my child/children that firearms are not to be used on school property and are not the first solution to all of your problems. I also promise to control access to the firearm(s) and ammunition.
The students should sign this one:
I, __________, as a video game playing student, know that video games have nothing to do with real life. I acknowledge that life has no reset button, hacks, mods, or other life-restoring properties, and that I am not easily influenced by images I see in video games, tv, or movies.
I waive my right to blame video games as my excuse for violence and will choose a more appropriate excuse such as my sheer stupidity, access to a weapon, parents, or myself.
Mr. Teacher, I really don't want MY kid hearing about that World War II thing. Its very violent and I don't want him to get any crazy ideas like marching across Europe.
Now if you don't mind, i'll let little Johnny get back to his TV set.
So apparently I am now 4 times more likely to die a horrible death... 4 times what? What are the odds of getting the tumor without using a cell phone? Four in 10? 100? 1,000? 10,000?
Looking at the odds , i'm not really going to start worrying until the odds are closer to travel accidents (1 in 6,029), or maybe car accidents (1 in 19,075).
Even better, the odds of dying on a set of stairs is 1 in 195,003 per year... are we going to ban stairs?
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RTFA... its a sales tax, meaning some form of sale has to occur.
"Gov. Jim Doyle wants you to pay Wisconsin's 5% sales tax whenever you pay to download a song, book, movie or piece of art."
Its a sales tax, meaning that some form of sale had to have occurred.
Why do you think the great dictators killed teachers???
Because they played too many video games?
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I think this would be more along the lines of reasonable expectations. You ask the community to attack your server, you expect to get attacked. If you ask me to throw a rock at your car window, I may give you a puzzled look, but if you answer yes to "are you serious?", i may throw the rock. Its your car, so you can do whatever you want to it, just like its their PC... they can do anything they want to it as well.
The purpose of the exercise is to read attack logs (as stated on the contest page).
Hacking isn't illegal. Hacking without permission is illegal. The distinction is unauthorized access. The owner of the box is giving free license to everyone to attack it.
Its just like corporations hiring security experts to attack their systems in order to find flaws (and strengthen their defenses)
...by sitting back and doing nothing.
Oh, you mean electrical energy? Well, 90% of the lights in my house are compact florescent. Maybe 15 bulbs x 70Wh savings = 1050 watt reduction.
I have to drive 1h/day (no choice), but my car is decent on gas. I want an electric-hybrid car. Solar panels would be nice too. Its sunny here a good % of the year.
The only problem is that when the parents forget to make informed decisions, they'll just find someone else to blame REGARDLESS of the attempt to inform them.
(sarcasm) ...but only if you can prove to a reasonable degree that the person has absolutely no control over their own life and if the gaming company misrepresented the game as a happy non-violent game.
Although, if a person proved they had no self-control, they should be locked in a sensory deprevation chamber in case something happens in the world to influence them. We wouldn't want them to think that things like advertisements, spam, or games had anything to do with real life.
A good test for easy-to-influence would be to force the person to play pac-man for 8 hours straight, place white pellets around the room, then observe.
(/sarcasm)
The problem is efficiency. You can drop 120V to 12V on this, but that means that the regulator has to burn up 108 V. If you're drawing 1A, then that's 108W being wasted just to step down the voltage, and 12W actually being used by the device (90% wasted).
However, a transformer can step down voltage with a very high efficiency (google says 80 - 90% efficient).
A stepped down signal of 12V and 1A means an input of 120V and 0.1A, plus loss due to resistance. With 90% efficiency, that means an input of about 13W for the same output as the regulator alone.
Of course, there will be some loss due to using a DC regulator after the transformer, but nowhere near the 108W lost above.
RFID tags work by receiving a sensing signal, stealing a small bit of that signal as power, then uses that power to transmit its own information back. This is over a short range, of course.
Now if you look in nature, there's a really good high-voltage wireless power transfer called lightning...
Not to mention 1s and 0s (ripped from the onion)
Well, the aren't late fees. They're restocking and/or purchase fees.
Just like cell phone companies offer their $20 plans, but have the connection fee, 911 fee, etc, etc, etc,...
I've seen cars driving on the moon, cows talking... I'd buy a matrix car if I could swap between cartoon-mode and real-mode.
They said on TV that there were WMD in Iraq and had pretty diagrams of them, the chemical trucks, etc. (sorry, had to say it)
Its the American way, i think. Grand promises, but read the fine print.
The word 'rent' implies that you pay for a temporary service (where the service ends when you stop paying). Auto-conversion to 'purchase' makes sense. I do agree they could be a little clearer on that fact, but at what point does taking a dvd change from rental to dvd? Even the public library will charge you for a book if you don't return it in a reasonable time.
let see...
it should definately be on a curve, with less weight on the younger years and more in the 15-18 range.
Oh, and the whining factor. If the parents make up a lame excuse for their kid's behaviour, add 50%.
River City Ransom taught me to hit people with anything I can pick up, and to eat lots of sandwiches.
At current theatre rates, no true hitchhiker will be able to fit a movie into their 30 Alterian dollars a day budget.
They'll put these things on file-sharers, Linux users and other communists given half a chance.
Not sure exactly how useful putting GPS on Linux or file-sharers would be. You can find them in front of their computers.
Now, if you GPS track their computers...
I can reuse my password 24 times...
myPassWord01
myPassWord02
myPassWord03...
This little trick defeats the purpose of redoing passwords.
(yes, i know there are responsible youth gun owners, but which requires more responsibility... guns or video games?)
They can be ordered by the court, but with the Patriot act, they don't need to ask the court. It just happens. They can invoke their right to violate your rights without judicial review.
In relation to the topic and being canadian, i'm personally not too worried about Americans violating my privacy, even if my shopping receipts find their way down there somewhere.
Its the Americans who have reason to worry. Your rights, your freedoms. If you don't want them, its up to you.
so we rely on individuals' free generosity rather than compulsion
Is that really better, having a mass of individuals instead of having it social policy to support those in need?
Up here in Canada, we do both.
But does the school have a football team?
We had a FPS tournament way back in high school (before the whole school shooting thing) and wow, I considered bringing a rocket launcher for a whole 2 seconds before realizing i didn't have access to heavy artillery.
Maybe the parents should have to sign a waiver if they have a gun in the house.
I, _________ as a responsible parent with possession of (a) firearm(s), promise to teach my child/children that firearms are not to be used on school property and are not the first solution to all of your problems. I also promise to control access to the firearm(s) and ammunition.
The students should sign this one:
I, __________, as a video game playing student, know that video games have nothing to do with real life. I acknowledge that life has no reset button, hacks, mods, or other life-restoring properties, and that I am not easily influenced by images I see in video games, tv, or movies.
I waive my right to blame video games as my excuse for violence and will choose a more appropriate excuse such as my sheer stupidity, access to a weapon, parents, or myself.
Mr. Teacher, I really don't want MY kid hearing about that World War II thing. Its very violent and I don't want him to get any crazy ideas like marching across Europe.
Now if you don't mind, i'll let little Johnny get back to his TV set.
and if it can play sports, can it sue someone when it gets damaged?
So apparently I am now 4 times more likely to die a horrible death... 4 times what? What are the odds of getting the tumor without using a cell phone? Four in 10? 100? 1,000? 10,000?
Looking at the odds , i'm not really going to start worrying until the odds are closer to travel accidents (1 in 6,029), or maybe car accidents (1 in 19,075).
Even better, the odds of dying on a set of stairs is 1 in 195,003 per year... are we going to ban stairs?