Joining their network and using the internet or anything similar to that is akin to going into someone's house and sleeping on their couch while they're not home.
The problem with your analogy is that they are transmitting beacons frames without the privacy bit set. This frame basically says: "Hi I am a WiFi network, here is my name and all the other info you need to connect to me if you want to!" If you set the privacy bit it basically says: "Hi I am a WiFi network, here is my name and all the other info you need to connect to me if you are authorized!"
In the case of your analogy, the beacon frame sans privacy bit is the eqivalent of posting a sign that says: "Feel free to sleep on my couch if you want to!"
Whether or not the default mode should be open or private is another debate, and I understand that most new consumer wifi equipment has been addressing this from the should private point of view for quite a while. (see WPS)
This idea might be better implemented as an EOMA-68 to android phone converter. Then you could use any EOMA-68 compatible devices with it including, but not limited to, clamshell keyboard/screen/touchpad devices. (I.E. a netbook shell)
As far as the RPi; I'm much more interested in this EOMA-68 compatible card which uses the more powerful Allwinner A10 CPU. That gets you the capability to run a complete open source stack (including GPU) and a datasheet! (Something which Broadcom refuses to give you for the RPi even though it was designed by Broadcom employees!)
Shamelessly copy-pasted specs for the Allwinner A10:
1.2ghz Cortex A8 ARM Core
MALI400MP OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU
DDR3 Controller 800MHz 1GB max
2160p Hardware-accelerated Video playback (4x the resolution of 1080p)
a NAND Flash Controller that is capable of 8-way concurrent DMA (8 NAND ICs)
4 SDIO interfaces (SD 3.0, UHI class)
USB 2.0 Host as well as a 2nd USB-OTG Interface (USB-OTG can be reconfigured as USB 2.0 Host, automatically)
24-pin RGB/TTL as well as simultaneous HDMI out
SATA-II 3gb/sec
10/100 Ethernet (MII compatible)
a 2nd 24-pin RGB/TTL interface that is multiplexed (shared) on the same pins for a standard IDE (PATA) interface.
GPIO, I2C, PWM, Keyboard Matrix (8x8), built-in Resistive Touchscreen Controller, and much more.
Then there's the reason to run Windows at all - the 3rd party apps that are x86 only (many are not even x86_64 yet) and they won't run either.
The solution to this is something like Qemu'suser mode emulation. For those that don't know it will emulate a different processor for the binary, but syscalls are made using native system code.
The Apple approach is actually quite good here, provide emulation support for a while until everybody has time to migrate to native applications. I don't know the details of Apple's emulation, perhaps they are doing something similar to Qemu's User Mode.
I just got off the phone with Best Buy's "dedicated Nexus S Help Line at 1-866-813-2021." Where I confirmed the Dec 16th release date, and found out that the pricing will be:
$529 without contract $199 with 2yr T Mobile contract
The guy on the phone couldn't provide any info about ETFs, (early termination fees) and said that it seems to be a Best Buy exclusive for now. (He said something about Google partnering with Best Buy to introduce the Nexus S)
I'd rather not give Best Buy any money, so hopefully it will come to T Mobile soon.
If anybody has info on whether ATT will pull the same thing with this phone as they did with the Nexus One and start charging people using it on their slow edge network the "smart phone data rate" it would be appreciated.
I've always said: "Why should [X] be connected to the public internet in the first place? Isn't connecting [X] to the public internet a really bad idea?"
Where [X] is any number of things: (list not exhaustive) a power plant control system a waste water treatment plant control system an electrical plant control system an electrical substation control system a train station control system a traffic control system
There are many things besides control systems, but for this post I am thinking of basic infrastructure. If these things need to be networked, they should be on their own private network with limited access. These problems also occurred before the internet existed. For example by connecting them to the public telephone system. (sometimes with no password, relying on the obscurity of the phone number to limit access)
It is not just the public sector that needs to learn this, but also private industry. If it is vitally important, limit physical access to it. Private networks exist for a reason. There is no need to do anything to the public internet.
I seem to recall being able to insert a floppy disk, type "dir a:", and get a virus under MS DOS. You probably don't need autorun turned on to get infected.
Off the top of my head, a buffer overflow in the code that reads and displays embedded icons would be a juicy target, along with the file system parsing code.
I would be surprised if there was a *single* item on TPB that wasn't copyrighted, whether it's legal or not.
Linux distros? Perfectly legal, but still copyrighted.
I couldn't resist, this one is too easy...
George Romero's 1968 classic "Night of the Living Dead" is in the public domain. This is mentioned in the pirate bay description. Here is a more detailed explanation from wikipedia.
This appears to me that it will weaken the existing prohibition against this practice by providing the "in writing" loophole. Calling without a real person on the other end was already illegal except in limited circumstances due to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) [...] (1) Prohibitions
It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, or
any person outside the United States if the recipient is within the
United States-- [...]
(B) to initiate any telephone call to any residential
telephone line using an artificial or prerecorded voice to
deliver a message without the prior express consent of the
called party, unless the call is initiated for emergency
purposes or is exempted by rule or order by the Commission under
paragraph (2)(B); [...]
How much do you want to bet that consent to robo-calls will quickly be added to the boiler plate in all sorts of contracts as well as privacy policies and TOS notices.
If it doesn't show up in everybody's mail box as part of a change to their credit cards' privacy policies, that might actually surprise me.
I played around with Cortado a few years ago, it was impressive at the time. Java applets in the browser is a much more appealing alternative to me than flash. With the option of having embedded video with a fall back to the Java applet in the future, this is a win all around.
I needed to fill out a PDF form, (was not allowed to do it by hand) but couldn't find anything under Linux besides acrobat which would do this. I tried xpdf, evince, and GhostView. Google was of no help. I had to resort to actual Acrobat (not on my computer) which at the time had *unpatched* vulnerabilities! Any alternatives would be welcome.
The FCC should release the report. There are a lot of things the FCC should start doing, beginning with its job. It doesn't matter anyway. All the new cellular phones suck, and the FCC will never start doing it's job. I have a bag phone and several bricks. I was never not able to use the bag, even in remote areas. The bricks, only in the remotest areas would I have to resort to the 3 watt booster with a larger antenna. Those phones were also a lot tougher than the junk we're forced to use now. I can no longer obtain service for those and am forced to use one of these new digital pieces of junk. These things don't work that great in urban areas much less someplace remote, and don't get me started on the "digital quality sound". While my GSM phone is better than my ANSI-136, it's a far cry from my old AMPS bricks.
you can take their TNT2 card and still get it to work with their -current- drivers (even on Linux!)
You may want to take a look at Nvidia's list of currently supported cards. Let me know if you see the TNT2 on there. In fact, this Gentoo Nvidia guide clearly shows the TNT2 in their "list of unsupported legacy video cards."
Paypal likes to hide their phone number, give them a call and tell them what you think of this situation. I've personally used SCUMMVM to play Sam and Max, it would have been very hard without it. Others have said that some games oficially come with SCUMMVM these days.
Be very careful about using numbers posted in forums on the net (and this includes ours.)
Their toll free number is (888) 221-1161 - personally verified by experience of the admin of this site.
Their NEW regular telephone number is: (650) 864-8000 - (verify)
An automated phone number is 402-935-7733 (verified by admin)
Another regular telephone number is: (402)935-2050 - (verify)
408 376 7400 fax: 408-376-7514 (Verified by Whois)
One of their fax numbers is: (402)537-5765 - (unverified, but probably good)
Another fax number is: (650)251-1101 - (verified via whois search)
The entire block of phone numbers from (402)935-2100 to (402)935-2299 seems to be all PayPal's. This list of PayPal phone numbers was created by a user of PayPalSucks.com.
PayPal UK is 08707 307 191 (UK national call rates apply)
PayPal UK FAX is 020 8605 3001. (verify by entering PayPal's registration number which is 226056.)
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I seem to remember reading that the Ren and Stimpy characters were sold to Nickelodeon or the creator was fired or something like that after the first batch of episodes.
Yes sir, you are correct!
John Kricfalusi creater and the original voice of Ren was fired after Nickelodeon started rejecting many of his ideas for being inappropriate. I still have the Kricfalusi episode on a VHS tape, good stuff.
From the Wikipedia article: Nickelodeon eventually fired Kricfalusi from his own creation and systematically censored the cartoon down to little more than a remnant of its former self. Eventually, several episodes were deemed unairable and have never been broadcast by Nickelodeon again.
Ever since caller ID was introduced, I've been asking why they can't just deliver the ANI information. It's much more reliable. (Automatic Number Identification is used internally by the telco to figure out who to bill, it is the billing number which is not always the originating phone number. It is automatically delivered to people with 800 numbers.)
I've had experience with HP scanners, and they were all junk. The consumer grade ones were awful anyway.
I haven't been into scanning for a while, but Microtek was the best a few years back. They were also very reasonably priced. Their low end was dirt cheap and still decent. I own a middle range scanner, the ScanMaker X6, which was around $60, legal size, usb *AND* scsi, and even came with an adaptec scsi card, usb cable, and scsi cable. It's the best consumer grade scanner I've used, and kudos to Microtek for not cheaping out on the extras. The scsi card even has the same Adaptec chip as my AH2940 scsi card.
On the other hand, I knew a guy trying to scan animation with an HP scanner. The thing was junk, and it was impossible to control the features unless you forked out for the top of the line. This is very bad when the scanner trys to correct the positioning of your original and you're trying to scan successive animation cells. It was impossible to disable this function which is also probably why your music OCR program has trouble with hp scanners.
hp's old laser printers were awesome, but their new inkjets and scanners are junk. I've delt with both and won't buy either of them anymore.
Here's why: I have friends who already live in my area code, yet use cell phones with numbers from out of state. If I call them on my landline, I incur long distance charges.
Up until recently, there was a way around this. You could dial the local access number and then when you received a second dial tone enter the 10 digit mobile number. This was the way that roaming was implemented before calls were automatically forwarded to the cellular system you happened to be roaming on at the time.
This worked up until a year or two ago, even though I usually had to get a manager on the phone to find out the local access number for the area I was in. (They were usually XXX-ROAM (7626))
Recently the money grubbing cellular companies have discontinued this service and the local access or roamer access numbers don't work anymore. This way you have to call the cellular number normally and pay any long distance charges that incurs, and the cellular user has to pay long distance charges from their home base to wherever they are. (Most plans don't charge for long distance anymore, so this second charge is a non-issue)
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The problem with your analogy is that they are transmitting beacons frames without the privacy bit set. This frame basically says: "Hi I am a WiFi network, here is my name and all the other info you need to connect to me if you want to!" If you set the privacy bit it basically says: "Hi I am a WiFi network, here is my name and all the other info you need to connect to me if you are authorized!"
In the case of your analogy, the beacon frame sans privacy bit is the eqivalent of posting a sign that says: "Feel free to sleep on my couch if you want to!"
Whether or not the default mode should be open or private is another debate, and I understand that most new consumer wifi equipment has been addressing this from the should private point of view for quite a while. (see WPS)
This idea might be better implemented as an EOMA-68 to android phone converter. Then you could use any EOMA-68 compatible devices with it including, but not limited to, clamshell keyboard/screen/touchpad devices. (I.E. a netbook shell)
As far as the RPi; I'm much more interested in this EOMA-68 compatible card which uses the more powerful Allwinner A10 CPU. That gets you the capability to run a complete open source stack (including GPU) and a datasheet! (Something which Broadcom refuses to give you for the RPi even though it was designed by Broadcom employees!)
Shamelessly copy-pasted specs for the Allwinner A10:
1.2ghz Cortex A8 ARM Core
MALI400MP OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU
DDR3 Controller 800MHz 1GB max
2160p Hardware-accelerated Video playback (4x the resolution of 1080p)
a NAND Flash Controller that is capable of 8-way concurrent DMA (8 NAND ICs)
4 SDIO interfaces (SD 3.0, UHI class)
USB 2.0 Host as well as a 2nd USB-OTG Interface (USB-OTG can be reconfigured as USB 2.0 Host, automatically)
24-pin RGB/TTL as well as simultaneous HDMI out
SATA-II 3gb/sec
10/100 Ethernet (MII compatible)
a 2nd 24-pin RGB/TTL interface that is multiplexed (shared) on the same pins for a standard IDE (PATA) interface.
GPIO, I2C, PWM, Keyboard Matrix (8x8), built-in Resistive Touchscreen Controller, and much more.
The solution to this is something like Qemu's user mode emulation. For those that don't know it will emulate a different processor for the binary, but syscalls are made using native system code.
The Apple approach is actually quite good here, provide emulation support for a while until everybody has time to migrate to native applications. I don't know the details of Apple's emulation, perhaps they are doing something similar to Qemu's User Mode.
-Mysteryvortex
I just got off the phone with Best Buy's "dedicated Nexus S Help Line at 1-866-813-2021." Where I confirmed the Dec 16th release date, and found out that the pricing will be:
$529 without contract
$199 with 2yr T Mobile contract
The guy on the phone couldn't provide any info about ETFs, (early termination fees) and said that it seems to be a Best Buy exclusive for now. (He said something about Google partnering with Best Buy to introduce the Nexus S)
I'd rather not give Best Buy any money, so hopefully it will come to T Mobile soon.
If anybody has info on whether ATT will pull the same thing with this phone as they did with the Nexus One and start charging people using it on their slow edge network the "smart phone data rate" it would be appreciated.
Link to Best Buy's Page
-Mysteryvortex
I've always said: "Why should [X] be connected to the public internet in the first place? Isn't connecting [X] to the public internet a really bad idea?"
Where [X] is any number of things: (list not exhaustive)
a power plant control system
a waste water treatment plant control system
an electrical plant control system
an electrical substation control system
a train station control system
a traffic control system
There are many things besides control systems, but for this post I am thinking of basic infrastructure. If these things need to be networked, they should be on their own private network with limited access. These problems also occurred before the internet existed. For example by connecting them to the public telephone system. (sometimes with no password, relying on the obscurity of the phone number to limit access)
It is not just the public sector that needs to learn this, but also private industry. If it is vitally important, limit physical access to it. Private networks exist for a reason. There is no need to do anything to the public internet.
-Mysteryvortex
I seem to recall being able to insert a floppy disk, type "dir a:", and get a virus under MS DOS. You probably don't need autorun turned on to get infected.
Off the top of my head, a buffer overflow in the code that reads and displays embedded icons would be a juicy target, along with the file system parsing code.
-Mysteryvortex
You could get some delicious ectoplasm or have them help you in the lab.
Learn more about ghosts here (video link)
I couldn't resist, this one is too easy...
George Romero's 1968 classic "Night of the Living Dead" is in the public domain. This is mentioned in the pirate bay description. Here is a more detailed explanation from wikipedia.
-Mysteryvortex
This appears to me that it will weaken the existing prohibition against this practice by providing the "in writing" loophole. Calling without a real person on the other end was already illegal except in limited circumstances due to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA)
[...]
(1) Prohibitions
It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, or
any person outside the United States if the recipient is within the
United States--
[...]
(B) to initiate any telephone call to any residential
telephone line using an artificial or prerecorded voice to
deliver a message without the prior express consent of the
called party, unless the call is initiated for emergency
purposes or is exempted by rule or order by the Commission under
paragraph (2)(B);
[...]
How much do you want to bet that consent to robo-calls will quickly be added to the boiler plate in all sorts of contracts as well as privacy policies and TOS notices.
If it doesn't show up in everybody's mail box as part of a change to their credit cards' privacy policies, that might actually surprise me.
-Mysteryvortex
Pair this with Cortado, instant flash killer!
I played around with Cortado a few years ago, it was impressive at the time. Java applets in the browser is a much more appealing alternative to me than flash. With the option of having embedded video with a fall back to the Java applet in the future, this is a win all around.
The Wikipedia page tells me somebody is already doing this.
I needed to fill out a PDF form, (was not allowed to do it by hand) but couldn't find anything under Linux besides acrobat which would do this. I tried xpdf, evince, and GhostView. Google was of no help. I had to resort to actual Acrobat (not on my computer) which at the time had *unpatched* vulnerabilities! Any alternatives would be welcome.
System memory too? Sounds like Torrentspy could use one of these.
The FCC should release the report. There are a lot of things the FCC should start doing, beginning with its job. It doesn't matter anyway. All the new cellular phones suck, and the FCC will never start doing it's job. I have a bag phone and several bricks. I was never not able to use the bag, even in remote areas. The bricks, only in the remotest areas would I have to resort to the 3 watt booster with a larger antenna. Those phones were also a lot tougher than the junk we're forced to use now. I can no longer obtain service for those and am forced to use one of these new digital pieces of junk. These things don't work that great in urban areas much less someplace remote, and don't get me started on the "digital quality sound". While my GSM phone is better than my ANSI-136, it's a far cry from my old AMPS bricks.
You may want to take a look at Nvidia's list of currently supported cards. Let me know if you see the TNT2 on there. In fact, this Gentoo Nvidia guide clearly shows the TNT2 in their "list of unsupported legacy video cards."
From the paypalsucks.com FAQ:
John Kricfalusi creater and the original voice of Ren was fired after Nickelodeon started rejecting many of his ideas for being inappropriate. I still have the Kricfalusi episode on a VHS tape, good stuff.
From the Wikipedia article:
Nickelodeon eventually fired Kricfalusi from his own creation and systematically censored the cartoon down to little more than a remnant of its former self. Eventually, several episodes were deemed unairable and have never been broadcast by Nickelodeon again.
Ever since caller ID was introduced, I've been asking why they can't just deliver the ANI information. It's much more reliable. (Automatic Number Identification is used internally by the telco to figure out who to bill, it is the billing number which is not always the originating phone number. It is automatically delivered to people with 800 numbers.)
I've had experience with HP scanners, and they were all junk. The consumer grade ones were awful anyway.
I haven't been into scanning for a while, but Microtek was the best a few years back. They were also very reasonably priced. Their low end was dirt cheap and still decent. I own a middle range scanner, the ScanMaker X6, which was around $60, legal size, usb *AND* scsi, and even came with an adaptec scsi card, usb cable, and scsi cable. It's the best consumer grade scanner I've used, and kudos to Microtek for not cheaping out on the extras. The scsi card even has the same Adaptec chip as my AH2940 scsi card.
On the other hand, I knew a guy trying to scan animation with an HP scanner. The thing was junk, and it was impossible to control the features unless you forked out for the top of the line. This is very bad when the scanner trys to correct the positioning of your original and you're trying to scan successive animation cells. It was impossible to disable this function which is also probably why your music OCR program has trouble with hp scanners.
hp's old laser printers were awesome, but their new inkjets and scanners are junk. I've delt with both and won't buy either of them anymore.
Up until recently, there was a way around this. You could dial the local access number and then when you received a second dial tone enter the 10 digit mobile number. This was the way that roaming was implemented before calls were automatically forwarded to the cellular system you happened to be roaming on at the time.
This worked up until a year or two ago, even though I usually had to get a manager on the phone to find out the local access number for the area I was in. (They were usually XXX-ROAM (7626))
Recently the money grubbing cellular companies have discontinued this service and the local access or roamer access numbers don't work anymore. This way you have to call the cellular number normally and pay any long distance charges that incurs, and the cellular user has to pay long distance charges from their home base to wherever they are. (Most plans don't charge for long distance anymore, so this second charge is a non-issue)