The human ear can hear the difference between 44kHz and 88kHz or at least I can.
Well, get yourself into a lab since you're evidently a freak of nature, the first human in history with ears that can detect such high frequencies.
But when you are talking about 192kHz that is dog ear territory
Dogs hear up to 40kHz-50kHz.
88kHz is as high as the human ear can handle and thats if you have a very good ear.
Miraculous, unprecedented ear, you mean.
I may be a freak of nature but I don't think I'm so far outside of the range of human hearing. I think there is a bellcurve and most people cannot hear beyond 44kHz but some people can hear beyond this. I can hear the difference clearly. You give me two songs one in 44kHz and one in 88kHz and I can hear a difference for certain provided that the original master was in 88kHz or higher and not at 44 or some trickery like that.
How I can hear the difference I'm not entirely sure. I know other people hear a difference as well but for the most part the difference between 48 and 88 isn't as big as the difference between 44 and 48. Also 88kHz hurts my ears if I listen to it for too long while 44kHz does not. 48 seems just right.
No loss from the original sampling, i.e. they didn't loose any information in the compression. Most music is sampled at (correct me if I'm wrong someone?) 44kHz, I forget how many bits, I think 16. The thing being touted is sampling it at 192kHz with 24bit resolution, which is much higher on both counts, and therefore, in theory, should produce better quality reproduction of the sound based on oversampling and reduction of the signal to quantization noise rate. The point the TFA makes is that human ears can't hear the difference, although I think that some audiophiles may beg to differ.
FWIW, I have quite bad ears, a recording needs to be quite bad before I notice it. I'm an electronic engineer though, so I know all the theory...
The human ear can hear the difference between 44kHz and 88kHz or at least I can. But when you are talking about 192kHz that is dog ear territory and no human no matter how good their ear can hear frequencies that high.
88kHz is as high as the human ear can handle and thats if you have a very good ear.
A very small number of people will be dicks just to be dicks, but the vast majority of people engage in unethical behavior because it has a benefit to them.
Which is exactly why the GP said what he said. This guy was living on the dole, and not making money or even trying to as part of LS. He was doing it to be a dick. That's why he's not going to be offered a job where he's going to be asked to not involve what is clearly his entire personality and world view. Which part of him is some IT shop going to hire? The part that he's shown has no influence over his judgement?
You do realize that by denying people access to employment after their jail term has ended, you're leaving them only one option: Criminal activity
Not offering someone a job doing what they've shown they should not be doing isn't "denying access to employment." He can dig ditches, flip burgers, sell shoes, start an interior decorating business, write a book... whatever he can muster the energy to get off the couch and do. But he can't complain that people won't trust him with the keys to their IT castle.
I can agree he cannot be trusted to run an IT dept because he doesn't respect the law and that is a requirement, this doesn't mean he wouldn't be able to be a pen-tester or something like that. He does have some skills that are worth some money to some people.
I think you're being dishonest if you think all he can do is flip burgers.
Someone didn't learn enough from the X-Files here. "Trust No One." Esp other Hackers. Sure everyone likes to get together at one Con or another and brag about whatever. But in the end, it's how you're going to be taken down. Not by what you do, but by whom you do it with, or who you bragged about it to.
Consider that the informant could have simply entrapped the other hackers.
“Sabu could be making millions of bucks heading the IT security department of a major company,” a law enforcement official said. “But look at him, he’s impoverished, living off public assistance and was forced between turning on his friends and spending a lifetime in jail.
Millions of bucks... IT security department Millions of bucks Millions
lol
Yeah right. That is disinformation and propaganda. If there were millions of bucks to be made doing that, many people have more skills than him and aren't ever going to make millions of bucks. That FBI guy who said that probably isn't making millions of bucks as FBI agents and law enforcement officers don't make millions of bucks. Someone who doesn't have a clue about how the industry works is talking about something they don't know anything about.
Sabu had some skill, enough skill to run an IT dept but that would only pay $80,000-100,000 and chances are they'd look at his resume and never even give him an interview. It wouldn't matter if he had skill or not since he probably doesn't have name recognition, a strong resume, or social networking to leverage.
Anonymous has a core of really skilled leaders - since this guy was flipped by the FBI, I wonder if they "have eyes" on some of Anonymous' more influential / adept members.
LulzSec was mostly script kiddies hacking from their parents basements. If they had covered their tracks they wouldn't be getting arrested. That being said the government is upping the amount of resources to catch them and is also putting much more skilled and experienced people on the job of catching them so it's a much different story now.
No reason to feel any sympathy for their behavior. They aren't the good guys. They aren't grey hats or white hats, they are the blackest of the black hat with no conscience. Remember when they release those credit card and personal information on all those people?
If you haven't got the list then you're probably a felon and are too stupid to know it.
Everybody is a criminal but the smart people don't commit crimes which bring long prison sentences or for which they are likely to get caught or which hurt so many people that the authorities will spare no expense and stop at nothing to catch them.
But everybody is a criminal. Everybody has committed a felony. And if you think you haven't them look at the list of thousands of federal crimes and check back.
And this is why you're a girl in training and not a banker in training.
All sophisticated crimes are confidence tricks. How you dress is a significant indicator of potential.
"Meritocracy" rarely has substantive meaning: it is usually applied when someone without full understanding of a hierarchy fails to appreciate the full set of qualities required of an individual. For example, loyalty in business to an "Old Boys' Club", guaranteeing that personal friends will further each others' interests, is far more important than e.g. who got the highest grade in some stupid aptitude test or who managed to increase profitability most at their previous job.
But it's fortunate that we don't have meritocracy, because it's a euphemism for "might makes right".
So, it seems one is really deciding which criminal enterprise to become a member of.
Logically joining a criminal enterprise like LulzSec which attacks DOJ, CIA and FBI is the surest way to get caught by informant.
I have to wonder if more arrests will be coming soon. A mole is only as good as long as the group the mole is infiltrating doesn't know the mole is a mole. While Lulzsec is generally thought of as distinct from Anonymous, there is overlap and this guy might have passed information about that overlap.
If they didn't know that guy was a mole then as hackers they aren't as sophisticated as the media is making them out fo be. LulzSec was exposed almost a year ago and Sabu's name was exposed along with his Dox. His public denial attempts didn't really fly, and most security experts believed it was Hector.
So honestly many saw this coming over a year ago. The media is usually last to figure this stuff out and the people who actually know how security and computing works are the ones who figure out first. It's really simple though, anyone who has kids in these sorts of organizations are a liability.
If that means being a criminal then don't get caught.
If you can survive without hurting people then do that. If you can survive without being a criminal then do that. But survive by any and all means. The law either benefits your ability to survive or it doesn't apply to you.
Just look at the policies and the laws and you will understand why crime is increasing among smart educated types.
Having skills will not produce a job. The problem is people who decide to go criminal would be better off trying to run a legit business but where are they going to get the money to start a business?
Ultimately unemployed geek types will have to start legit businesses. It's the only way. The illegal route leads to prison and even greater difficulty starting a legit business.
The more difficult it is for smart people to start legit businesses the more criminals and the smarter criminals are produced. If a person cannot ever land a legit job and wont ever be given the money to start a legit business what else can they do?
If they are smart they'll live on food stamps and move to a state with healthcare and figure out a way to make money without breaking the law but if they live in Texas or some backwards Republican town where people are being cut off unemployment I can't really blame them for what they do.
I used to think of doctors as nearly infallible. Then I graduated college and realized that they, and every other human being on this planet, are just human beings. It amazes me that anything we, as a society, builds actually works. The problem with someone believing there are all these agencies out to get them is that they credit your fellow human beings too much. These agencies are not nearly as organized or capable as we give them credit for. You want to know how Rlatko Mladic, the Serbian war criminal, was caught? Some woman in the CIA asked one of his former associates, "so uh, you don't happen to know where he is, do you? I know your child is ill, and I could help get them into the States for medical treatment." That's not particularly high-tech, nor does it take much coordination, discipline, or creativity.
And that is what concerns me. Incompetence in these agencies should concern you as well.
HB Gary - this is the one that Anonymous hacked and dumped the data on. they were a us govt contractor, and they routinely spied on all kinds of groups.
You, Sir, are an idiot. Try actually reading some of the leaked emails.
HBGary Federal was a four person company. It was essentially an attempt to make money by obtaining government contracts to non-classified government RFPs. Yes, non-classified, 100% available on the internet Requests for Proposals. Basically, the Government says, We have problem X, pitch us a way to solve it. HBGary Federal did that with a bunch of sleezy proposals... none of which the government ever accepted. For all the Anonymous hype, HBGary Federal was just another company looking to cash in on the US Government contracting game, and never succeeding. That is correct, HBGary Federal never won any Federal contracts and never made any money from the US Government, which is why the "congressional inquiry" went absolutely nowhere. If you look at the emails you will find many dealing with the impending death of the company due to lack of funding. Seriously, look through the emails. All you find is a bunch of "hey, we could make this bad ass rootkit" or "yo, we could totally bring down wikileaks for you" proposals, never any actual work being done.
Total scam company.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it a scam company. That isn't true at all. I know a bit about the industry and the names involved in the company are known people who prior to this incident had good reputations. Now their reputations are shit but prior to this no one was talking about them as though they were a scam company.
Technology trumps the law and the NSA, CIA and FBI have it.
They also have the ability to keep secrets so they don't have to care about the law. They simply do it in secret and then deny that they had anything to do with any of it.
Haven't you figured it out? It doesn't have to be authorized for it to happen. If they can get away with it without getting caught that is what authorizes it.
They'll stop at nothing, they'll operate in secret, and shit happens.
Anyone associated with them is going to now be persecuted if the rumors are true.
Let's look at the facts, this Wikileaks and Anonymous targeting the DOJ, FBI, Police and now the intelligence community of the richest and most powerful nation should show any wise person one thing. They are committing seppuku, ritual suicide by cop.
How dumb is it to pick a fight with the most powerful group of people on planet earth? It's just dumb right? So unless they are backed by some foreign intelligence agencies these people might not even survive. What I see happening here is that somebody within these groups is hiding behind the name Anonymous and has a personal grudge against the US government. Bradley Manning isn't the entire intelligence community, it's an issue but it's kind of like declaring war on the US government over what happened in WACO, it's fringe lunatic type thinking.
or bradley manning was a traitor to the country and endangered the lives of the troops because wikileaks had such sensitive important information.
The effect of the information he released has nothing to do with whether he's a traitor. It's the fact that he released the information in the first place, violating the oaths and vows that he took upon joining the military. Deciding whether that material was classified was well above his pay grade, and there were/are procedures in place for him to have challenged the information if he had ethical objections. He decided to release the information anyway.
Treason is in the intent, at least as much as it is the effect. Guy Fawkes still committed treason, even though he never succeeded at blowing up the parliament.
It isn't treason unless lives were lost. But it's certainly against the law what he did.
Anonymous isn't a unified group. There is no way that Anonymous could as a group be unified enough to declare war on an intelligence community of any nation let alone the most powerful intelligence community on the planet.
It's simple, somebody within Anonymous and within Wikileaks is the target of the US intelligence community and they hold a personal vendetta or grudge. So now they want to try and hide behind Anonymous or whatever. The fact is either you hate all intelligence communities or you work for one. If you just choose to hate the US intelligence community but have nothing to say about any of the others that reveals a lot about you.
When they were bringing the iPad out, they had around half the money reserves as they do today. Like Cook said, they have more than they need to run the business, which includes bringing out new products.
Yeah so? Those reserves allow them to innovate and not go out of business when change occurs and big changes are on the way.
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Well, get yourself into a lab since you're evidently a freak of nature, the first human in history with ears that can detect such high frequencies.
Dogs hear up to 40kHz-50kHz.
Miraculous, unprecedented ear, you mean.
I may be a freak of nature but I don't think I'm so far outside of the range of human hearing. I think there is a bellcurve and most people cannot hear beyond 44kHz but some people can hear beyond this. I can hear the difference clearly. You give me two songs one in 44kHz and one in 88kHz and I can hear a difference for certain provided that the original master was in 88kHz or higher and not at 44 or some trickery like that.
How I can hear the difference I'm not entirely sure. I know other people hear a difference as well but for the most part the difference between 48 and 88 isn't as big as the difference between 44 and 48. Also 88kHz hurts my ears if I listen to it for too long while 44kHz does not. 48 seems just right.
No loss from the original sampling, i.e. they didn't loose any information in the compression. Most music is sampled at (correct me if I'm wrong someone?) 44kHz, I forget how many bits, I think 16. The thing being touted is sampling it at 192kHz with 24bit resolution, which is much higher on both counts, and therefore, in theory, should produce better quality reproduction of the sound based on oversampling and reduction of the signal to quantization noise rate. The point the TFA makes is that human ears can't hear the difference, although I think that some audiophiles may beg to differ.
FWIW, I have quite bad ears, a recording needs to be quite bad before I notice it. I'm an electronic engineer though, so I know all the theory...
The human ear can hear the difference between 44kHz and 88kHz or at least I can. But when you are talking about 192kHz that is dog ear territory and no human no matter how good their ear can hear frequencies that high.
88kHz is as high as the human ear can handle and thats if you have a very good ear.
A very small number of people will be dicks just to be dicks, but the vast majority of people engage in unethical behavior because it has a benefit to them.
Which is exactly why the GP said what he said. This guy was living on the dole, and not making money or even trying to as part of LS. He was doing it to be a dick. That's why he's not going to be offered a job where he's going to be asked to not involve what is clearly his entire personality and world view. Which part of him is some IT shop going to hire? The part that he's shown has no influence over his judgement?
You do realize that by denying people access to employment after their jail term has ended, you're leaving them only one option: Criminal activity
Not offering someone a job doing what they've shown they should not be doing isn't "denying access to employment." He can dig ditches, flip burgers, sell shoes, start an interior decorating business, write a book ... whatever he can muster the energy to get off the couch and do. But he can't complain that people won't trust him with the keys to their IT castle.
I can agree he cannot be trusted to run an IT dept because he doesn't respect the law and that is a requirement, this doesn't mean he wouldn't be able to be a pen-tester or something like that. He does have some skills that are worth some money to some people.
I think you're being dishonest if you think all he can do is flip burgers.
Someone didn't learn enough from the X-Files here. "Trust No One." Esp other Hackers. Sure everyone likes to get together at one Con or another and brag about whatever. But in the end, it's how you're going to be taken down. Not by what you do, but by whom you do it with, or who you bragged about it to.
Consider that the informant could have simply entrapped the other hackers.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/03/06/sabu-lulzsec-betrayed-anonymous-hackers/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=status+message&utm_campaign=naked+security
“Sabu could be making millions of bucks heading the IT security department of a major company,” a law enforcement official said. “But look at him, he’s impoverished, living off public assistance and was forced between turning on his friends and spending a lifetime in jail.
Millions of bucks... IT security department
Millions of bucks
Millions
lol
Yeah right. That is disinformation and propaganda. If there were millions of bucks to be made doing that, many people have more skills than him and aren't ever going to make millions of bucks. That FBI guy who said that probably isn't making millions of bucks as FBI agents and law enforcement officers don't make millions of bucks. Someone who doesn't have a clue about how the industry works is talking about something they don't know anything about.
Sabu had some skill, enough skill to run an IT dept but that would only pay $80,000-100,000 and chances are they'd look at his resume and never even give him an interview. It wouldn't matter if he had skill or not since he probably doesn't have name recognition, a strong resume, or social networking to leverage.
Anonymous has a core of really skilled leaders - since this guy was flipped by the FBI, I wonder if they "have eyes" on some of Anonymous' more influential / adept members.
LulzSec was mostly script kiddies hacking from their parents basements. If they had covered their tracks they wouldn't be getting arrested. That being said the government is upping the amount of resources to catch them and is also putting much more skilled and experienced people on the job of catching them so it's a much different story now.
this guys info was outed by an internet detective not an FBI agent
The FBI always takes the credit though.
No reason to feel any sympathy for their behavior. They aren't the good guys. They aren't grey hats or white hats, they are the blackest of the black hat with no conscience. Remember when they release those credit card and personal information on all those people?
If you haven't got the list then you're probably a felon and are too stupid to know it.
Everybody is a criminal but the smart people don't commit crimes which bring long prison sentences or for which they are likely to get caught or which hurt so many people that the authorities will spare no expense and stop at nothing to catch them.
But everybody is a criminal. Everybody has committed a felony. And if you think you haven't them look at the list of thousands of federal crimes and check back.
And this is why you're a girl in training and not a banker in training.
All sophisticated crimes are confidence tricks. How you dress is a significant indicator of potential.
"Meritocracy" rarely has substantive meaning: it is usually applied when someone without full understanding of a hierarchy fails to appreciate the full set of qualities required of an individual. For example, loyalty in business to an "Old Boys' Club", guaranteeing that personal friends will further each others' interests, is far more important than e.g. who got the highest grade in some stupid aptitude test or who managed to increase profitability most at their previous job.
But it's fortunate that we don't have meritocracy, because it's a euphemism for "might makes right".
So, it seems one is really deciding which criminal enterprise to become a member of.
Logically joining a criminal enterprise like LulzSec which attacks DOJ, CIA and FBI is the surest way to get caught by informant.
I have to wonder if more arrests will be coming soon. A mole is only as good as long as the group the mole is infiltrating doesn't know the mole is a mole. While Lulzsec is generally thought of as distinct from Anonymous, there is overlap and this guy might have passed information about that overlap.
If they didn't know that guy was a mole then as hackers they aren't as sophisticated as the media is making them out fo be.
LulzSec was exposed almost a year ago and Sabu's name was exposed along with his Dox. His public denial attempts didn't really fly, and most security experts believed it was Hector.
So honestly many saw this coming over a year ago. The media is usually last to figure this stuff out and the people who actually know how security and computing works are the ones who figure out first. It's really simple though, anyone who has kids in these sorts of organizations are a liability.
Let's not ignore the fact that many people get into this for the thrill of the hack and ego. Not everyone is down on hard time.
Those are the ones who deserve the prison sentences. Anyone who hacks just for the hell of it has some psychological problem.
If that means being a criminal then don't get caught.
If you can survive without hurting people then do that. If you can survive without being a criminal then do that. But survive by any and all means. The law either benefits your ability to survive or it doesn't apply to you.
Just look at the policies and the laws and you will understand why crime is increasing among smart educated types.
Having skills will not produce a job. The problem is people who decide to go criminal would be better off trying to run a legit business but where are they going to get the money to start a business?
Ultimately unemployed geek types will have to start legit businesses. It's the only way. The illegal route leads to prison and even greater difficulty starting a legit business.
The more difficult it is for smart people to start legit businesses the more criminals and the smarter criminals are produced. If a person cannot ever land a legit job and wont ever be given the money to start a legit business what else can they do?
If they are smart they'll live on food stamps and move to a state with healthcare and figure out a way to make money without breaking the law but if they live in Texas or some backwards Republican town where people are being cut off unemployment I can't really blame them for what they do.
And so many people thought the rebellion would be started by traditional heroes - macho men with guns and explosives.
Instead, it's up to a bunch of unethical misbegotten nerds from 4Chan to save the day.
Yeah? 4chan and their army of mafia gangsters and former military are going to raid the Pentagon? What fantasy novels have you been reading?
I used to think of doctors as nearly infallible. Then I graduated college and realized that they, and every other human being on this planet, are just human beings. It amazes me that anything we, as a society, builds actually works. The problem with someone believing there are all these agencies out to get them is that they credit your fellow human beings too much. These agencies are not nearly as organized or capable as we give them credit for. You want to know how Rlatko Mladic, the Serbian war criminal, was caught? Some woman in the CIA asked one of his former associates, "so uh, you don't happen to know where he is, do you? I know your child is ill, and I could help get them into the States for medical treatment." That's not particularly high-tech, nor does it take much coordination, discipline, or creativity.
And that is what concerns me. Incompetence in these agencies should concern you as well.
HB Gary - this is the one that Anonymous hacked and dumped the data on. they were a us govt contractor, and they routinely spied on all kinds of groups.
You, Sir, are an idiot. Try actually reading some of the leaked emails.
HBGary Federal was a four person company. It was essentially an attempt to make money by obtaining government contracts to non-classified government RFPs. Yes, non-classified, 100% available on the internet Requests for Proposals. Basically, the Government says, We have problem X, pitch us a way to solve it. HBGary Federal did that with a bunch of sleezy proposals... none of which the government ever accepted. For all the Anonymous hype, HBGary Federal was just another company looking to cash in on the US Government contracting game, and never succeeding. That is correct, HBGary Federal never won any Federal contracts and never made any money from the US Government, which is why the "congressional inquiry" went absolutely nowhere. If you look at the emails you will find many dealing with the impending death of the company due to lack of funding. Seriously, look through the emails. All you find is a bunch of "hey, we could make this bad ass rootkit" or "yo, we could totally bring down wikileaks for you" proposals, never any actual work being done.
Total scam company.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it a scam company. That isn't true at all. I know a bit about the industry and the names involved in the company are known people who prior to this incident had good reputations. Now their reputations are shit but prior to this no one was talking about them as though they were a scam company.
Nice try.
It's been going on since before World War 1. It's been going on since the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency
Technology trumps the law and the NSA, CIA and FBI have it.
They also have the ability to keep secrets so they don't have to care about the law. They simply do it in secret and then deny that they had anything to do with any of it.
Haven't you figured it out? It doesn't have to be authorized for it to happen.
If they can get away with it without getting caught that is what authorizes it.
They'll stop at nothing, they'll operate in secret, and shit happens.
Anyone associated with them is going to now be persecuted if the rumors are true.
Let's look at the facts, this Wikileaks and Anonymous targeting the DOJ, FBI, Police and now the intelligence community of the richest and most powerful nation should show any wise person one thing. They are committing seppuku, ritual suicide by cop.
How dumb is it to pick a fight with the most powerful group of people on planet earth? It's just dumb right? So unless they are backed by some foreign intelligence agencies these people might not even survive. What I see happening here is that somebody within these groups is hiding behind the name Anonymous and has a personal grudge against the US government. Bradley Manning isn't the entire intelligence community, it's an issue but it's kind of like declaring war on the US government over what happened in WACO, it's fringe lunatic type thinking.
or bradley manning was a traitor to the country and endangered the lives of the troops because wikileaks had such sensitive important information.
The effect of the information he released has nothing to do with whether he's a traitor. It's the fact that he released the information in the first place, violating the oaths and vows that he took upon joining the military. Deciding whether that material was classified was well above his pay grade, and there were/are procedures in place for him to have challenged the information if he had ethical objections. He decided to release the information anyway.
Treason is in the intent, at least as much as it is the effect. Guy Fawkes still committed treason, even though he never succeeded at blowing up the parliament.
It isn't treason unless lives were lost. But it's certainly against the law what he did.
Anonymous isn't a unified group. There is no way that Anonymous could as a group be unified enough to declare war on an intelligence community of any nation let alone the most powerful intelligence community on the planet.
It's simple, somebody within Anonymous and within Wikileaks is the target of the US intelligence community and they hold a personal vendetta or grudge. So now they want to try and hide behind Anonymous or whatever. The fact is either you hate all intelligence communities or you work for one. If you just choose to hate the US intelligence community but have nothing to say about any of the others that reveals a lot about you.
When they were bringing the iPad out, they had around half the money reserves as they do today. Like Cook said, they have more than they need to run the business, which includes bringing out new products.
Yeah so? Those reserves allow them to innovate and not go out of business when change occurs and big changes are on the way.
Brain to computer interface for example.
Their prices are so high that I can't even afford their overpriced shit products.
The only thing they make that is worth using is iTunes and even that has issues.