I think the EFSA should have smacked them a little harder, and required that the bottles carry a warning that excessive consumption of this product can lead to a fatal condition called hyponatremia.
For most consumers of bottled water though, they just see their wallet shrink unnecessarily. Most bottle water is straight from the city water supply with a little salts added to for taste. It also happens that the salts tend to increase your thirst and appetite rather than quench it.
I own a Chinese-made mp3 player that connects to the computer through the stereo jack - it has a cable that has USB at one end and a stereo jack plug at the other. I could even use it like a USB memory stick with this cable. And it's charged through the stereo jack - the adapter ends with a stereo jack plug.
I think the stereo jack is just used as a conductor to carry electric current, both for charging and to carry information. They're doing it as a cost-cutting measure, they save-up on 2 additional ports that way. So when I read about this article I wasn't really surprised.
Totally different. This setup is using a sound signal to transmit commands.
The Apple shuffle had a special usb-headphone cable that had an extra ring for the usb. There is also a chip used in some of the newer that doesn't require this extra connection, and senses when it's plugged into USB and switches over. That eliminats the need for an extra usb connection although forces you to use the special cable instead of an off-the-shelf usb cable.
Polar has been using a similar system for their heart rate monitors for years. I played around with it, but it tends to be a pain and from what I've observed I think it has issues dealing with the Doppler effect. The only way I could get the data to transmit accurately would by by setting both the mic and the watch down to work.
Yeah, had one of those too. The polar SonicLink was very temperamental indeed. You had to have your speakers set just right to send data to the watch, and set the watch in exactly the right position in front of the mic. Their IR interface was much better although the IR dongle they sold was expensive.
Unfortunately, it's not difficult to look at the OS for evidence that the hidden partition exists. Even if they don't realize its a truecrypt hidden volume, they might start asking for usb drives that you haven't turned over.
Depending on the brand, only the key is stored using AES. In many cases the actual data on the disk is encrypted with a weak encryption or even not at all. Full AES encryption of all the data would make the drive horribly slow.
insurance only pays the blue book value of the vehicle, look it up, your car is worth a lot less than you think. there's no way I can find a replacement for my car at the current blue book value.
You won't need a data plan, just have it attach to every free wi-fi net it can and check a mail account for a message like "where are you?", and when it sees that, reply with gps coordinates.
I looked into the find-my-android type of apps for both ipod and android. They all depend on SMS texts for their communications and won't use wi-fi. If you phone is subscribed to some service that records the IP (ddns,org, or maybe a web server you own) that the IP info might be traceable.
It's possible to break the club in under 30 seconds (seen it done in under 10) using a relatively inexpensive item that will fit into oversize pockets, and has so many other legal uses you can buy it in various stores.
I'm not telling, but if you do a little research, I bet you can find out. Hint, make the lock tumblers cold and brittle.
No need to break the club itself. It's faster to just cut the steering wheel. Takes about 20 seconds with a hacksaw blade that fits nicely into your pocket. Versus a few minutes spraying freon into the club and swinging a hammer.
FXI hasn’t set pricing yet for the Cotton Candy, but expects it to cost considerably less than $200 per unit.
So it might be less than $200, but maybe not. At anywhere near that price it would make a lot more sense to just buy a low end Android device that you can carry with you than to try to make this thing work with other devices. And I don't believe the claim that you can just plug this into anything with a USB port and somehow magically take it over. Might work on a few Windows boxes, but there is no way that they can design it to take over everything with a USB port on it.
If it had a firewire port which allows a connected device DMA access to memory, then I would think it could potentially take over. Actually this would make one heck of a keylogger if it had firewire. You could read anything in memory at any time.
Privacy issue? The millimeter wave machines I went through at BWI just highlighted areas on a generic outline. No image of me was produced by the machine.
You sure you'd be okay with that level of detail of your kids being shown to a perfect stranger in a back room? I suppose it's probably less offensive than having them groped by a TSA frisker.
Europe banned the backscatter x-ray machines which are low level ionizing radiation. They still haven't decided on the millimeter wave machines which are not ionizing and present a neglible health hazard. The reason for their indecision is that the US has yet to catch anyone intentionally or even unintentionally trying to carry a weapon through, and the privacy concerns.
What cost? Ionizing radiation is bad for you. There, no charge. When there's a benefit, then the risk may be justified, such as in medical applications, but security theater is not a good enough reason for exposing people to ionizing radiation.
That depends on whether they're using the backscatter x-ray machines (old tech) or the newer millimeter wave machines (newer tech). The millimeter wave setup is not ionizing.
If you're really scared of ionizing radiation, wear sunscreen when you walk outside. I object based on the privacy issue, not some unfounded fear of the technology.
If you add them up, it comes out to slightly over 9500 pieces....
Well they didn't say all the pieces would be there. What's the likely hood that the shred bag you grabbed has every single pieces? How many are stuck in the cutter or got vacuumed off the floor (I've never seen a 1x5mm shredder that didn't leave a mess of chaff all around itself.
I agree some computer pre-sorting is needed to pare the problem down a bit first.
If this involves multiple pages, perhaps the computer can distinguish which pieces belong to which pages based on the angle of cut versus the font? Or top face versus bottom face. I doubt every piece goes through the shredder exactly the same angle. You'd need pieces large enough to determine the font angle with respect to the edges
Each cutting blade and cross-cut tooth isn't identical. It may be possible to distinguish what horizontal position or multiple of vertical position a piece belongs to based on how the edges are torn. For example a chipped cross-cut tooth could reveal info about where on the page the piece came from by grouping pieces that came from the same vertical strip. A particular cross cut tooth would hit every xx mm of spacing going down the page as well.apart
Printers are never perfectly consistent in printing across the page either. Perhaps there is some systemic printing error that would allow grouping, like the kerning is slightly tighter to one side or the inkjet dots are slightly bigger on one side, or the laserjet has a little shading difference to one side, etc. Now we are getting closer to how people solve a real jigsaw puzzle.
Except crowdsourcing isn't really an algorithm. You're just getting thousands of eyeballs helping to mix/match the piece like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Not exactly something you can sell as a product.
True, I doubt Apple is ready to take Siri mainstream anytime soon give it's current growing pains. More than likely it will be used as a selling point for Apple products as long as they can. Once there is a hint of a competitor, you'll probably see clients available for other OSs.
If Apple is learning anything from Google, it's that customer info is valuable. Siri could easily become an advertising platform that rivals Google. Targeted advertising, where companies pay Apple for premium listings ( eg Asking Siri about a Pizza place returns Pizza Hut who paid the most for that key word).
If that's their angle, they might welcome more traffic to Siri.
His following was built up using promotional give-aways of PhoneDog products, so it's reasonable to assume the company placed value on having those followers. IN fact, they could even place the value at the cost of the products they gave away. By not turning over the account, he's destroyed an advertising channel that the company paid to establish.
His job was to bring customers to the site to read his reviews and articles, the twitter account was a tool used doubtlessly during office hours as part of that job.
That is an assumption, and not a proven fact. The article states that the twitter account was used for personal blogging as well as self-promotion of the articles he wrote. The entire point of the court case is to decide whether or not it was a business tool or a personal communication that included references to his work.
Contrary to what many people think, China doesn't just produce low quality stuff. They'll produce the iPad and the iPhone. They'll make whatever quality level you want to pay them for. They make 99% of the consumer stuff you buy, from the cheap-ass wallmart plastic crap to the highest end consumer electronics and computer parts.
So: the US military could get very high quality stuff for much cheaper than paying Americans to make it, just like Apple outsources the iDevices to China to make, and same for many, many other business entities. There is plenty of precedent for outsourcing your military hardware - many countries outsource it to the USA, in fact. So given China's major advantage in manufacturing, maybe it's time for the US to start outsourcing military production to China.
Then there's no issue about counterfitting. Buy whatever quality you want from the Chinese supplier.
Totally irrelevant when there's a middleman such as an electronics components vendor involved who is either intentionally substituting or unaware of the parts quality. Apple provides most of the parts to the Chinese assembly factories and watches them very, very closely. You simply can't do that through middlemen.
Why are we even buying critical components such as these from China?
In most cases, we are not buying from China. We're buying from otherwise reputable vendors who are seeing these showing up in their supply channels.
The whole milspec thing is part of the problem, because as a system developer in the govt you're only allowed to request a part of certain specs. The buyer goes out and finds a vendor claiming their parts meet the spec and they turns out their counterfeit. I would much prefer specing out a brand name and vendor that I can rely on, but FAR regulations prevent that and instead tell us we need to pay more and use women-owned minority businesses (which usually just means the real owner put the business in his wife's name).
Don't even get me started on the whole DOD supply system like milstrip. You order a nice pair of cutters that are listed as a decent brand name, and they ship you the chinese crap. It's the Military's own supply channel substituting the crappy chinese parts instead. Last time we ordered 3M Super-88 electrical tape from them we got this shitty almost transparent no-name tape that fell off within 2 days.
They probably do have a warrant, since they are looking for a family member who runs drugs and its likely that he knows where the guy is hiding. Hell he's driving the guys car.
They are probably also wiretapping his cell phone. How else would they know about the rendevous with Wired?
I had one such spam list that refused to remove me. The admin was s total dick and kept re-adding my email address every time I removed it. After going through this bit of getting re-added once a week and the list admin telling me to fuck off, I took a little more aggressive action. The listserv was so poorly setup, it let anyone add/remove subscriptions for any email address so I unsubbed everyone except the owner and subscribed the list's email address to itself. I finally got a response from the admin the next day, who accused me of mailbombing him and bitched that his list was subsequently black listed by several major ISPs. He couldn't prove I did it. I think he got exactly what he deserved.
Sure, but does your "securely encrypted" connection go to the server or a MITM the attacker has set up?
True, but encryption of the connection versus authentication are still two separate issues. The value of certificates issues by "trusted" CAs is quickly diminishing for a number of reasons. 1) Those CAs are getting hacked. 2) CAs are being careless and issuing weak certs or issuing certs without proper verification. 3) Browsers are including all kinds of CAs that may or may not be trustworthy. 4) Some browsers don't check revocation lists by default. 5) People usually click through the warnings anyway.
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I think the EFSA should have smacked them a little harder, and required that the bottles carry a warning that excessive consumption of this product can lead to a fatal condition called hyponatremia.
For most consumers of bottled water though, they just see their wallet shrink unnecessarily. Most bottle water is straight from the city water supply with a little salts added to for taste. It also happens that the salts tend to increase your thirst and appetite rather than quench it.
I own a Chinese-made mp3 player that connects to the computer through the stereo jack - it has a cable that has USB at one end and a stereo jack plug at the other. I could even use it like a USB memory stick with this cable. And it's charged through the stereo jack - the adapter ends with a stereo jack plug.
I think the stereo jack is just used as a conductor to carry electric current, both for charging and to carry information. They're doing it as a cost-cutting measure, they save-up on 2 additional ports that way. So when I read about this article I wasn't really surprised.
Totally different. This setup is using a sound signal to transmit commands.
The Apple shuffle had a special usb-headphone cable that had an extra ring for the usb. There is also a chip used in some of the newer that doesn't require this extra connection, and senses when it's plugged into USB and switches over. That eliminats the need for an extra usb connection although forces you to use the special cable instead of an off-the-shelf usb cable.
Polar has been using a similar system for their heart rate monitors for years. I played around with it, but it tends to be a pain and from what I've observed I think it has issues dealing with the Doppler effect. The only way I could get the data to transmit accurately would by by setting both the mic and the watch down to work.
Yeah, had one of those too. The polar SonicLink was very temperamental indeed. You had to have your speakers set just right to send data to the watch, and set the watch in exactly the right position in front of the mic. Their IR interface was much better although the IR dongle they sold was expensive.
Unfortunately, it's not difficult to look at the OS for evidence that the hidden partition exists. Even if they don't realize its a truecrypt hidden volume, they might start asking for usb drives that you haven't turned over.
www.schneier.com/paper-truecrypt-dfs.pdf
My SSD is encrypted with AES in hardware. .
Depending on the brand, only the key is stored using AES. In many cases the actual data on the disk is encrypted with a weak encryption or even not at all. Full AES encryption of all the data would make the drive horribly slow.
insurance only pays the blue book value of the vehicle, look it up, your car is worth a lot less than you think. there's no way I can find a replacement for my car at the current blue book value.
So you get the rider for replacement value.
You won't need a data plan, just have it attach to every free wi-fi net it can and check a mail account for a message like "where are you?", and when it sees that, reply with gps coordinates.
I looked into the find-my-android type of apps for both ipod and android. They all depend on SMS texts for their communications and won't use wi-fi. If you phone is subscribed to some service that records the IP (ddns,org, or maybe a web server you own) that the IP info might be traceable.
It's possible to break the club in under 30 seconds (seen it done in under 10) using a relatively inexpensive item that will fit into oversize pockets, and has so many other legal uses you can buy it in various stores.
I'm not telling, but if you do a little research, I bet you can find out. Hint, make the lock tumblers cold and brittle.
No need to break the club itself. It's faster to just cut the steering wheel. Takes about 20 seconds with a hacksaw blade that fits nicely into your pocket. Versus a few minutes spraying freon into the club and swinging a hammer.
FXI hasn’t set pricing yet for the Cotton Candy, but expects it to cost considerably less than $200 per unit.
So it might be less than $200, but maybe not. At anywhere near that price it would make a lot more sense to just buy a low end Android device that you can carry with you than to try to make this thing work with other devices. And I don't believe the claim that you can just plug this into anything with a USB port and somehow magically take it over. Might work on a few Windows boxes, but there is no way that they can design it to take over everything with a USB port on it.
If it had a firewire port which allows a connected device DMA access to memory, then I would think it could potentially take over. Actually this would make one heck of a keylogger if it had firewire. You could read anything in memory at any time.
Privacy issue? The millimeter wave machines I went through at BWI just highlighted areas on a generic outline. No image of me was produced by the machine.
The machines only show such cartoonish pictures to the TSA guy next to the machine to tell him what area of your body needs manually checked. The guy in the back room still sees the full detail images that look like this http://nexgadget.com/2010/11/22/exclusive-tsa-says-body-scanners-saving-images-impossible-tsa/. Yes that's his dick and balls that are clearly visible.
You sure you'd be okay with that level of detail of your kids being shown to a perfect stranger in a back room? I suppose it's probably less offensive than having them groped by a TSA frisker.
meanwhile, Europe bans them. A lot smarter than these fools running the US, g*d damn them.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=europe-bans-x-ray-body-scanners
Europe banned the backscatter x-ray machines which are low level ionizing radiation. They still haven't decided on the millimeter wave machines which are not ionizing and present a neglible health hazard. The reason for their indecision is that the US has yet to catch anyone intentionally or even unintentionally trying to carry a weapon through, and the privacy concerns.
What cost? Ionizing radiation is bad for you. There, no charge. When there's a benefit, then the risk may be justified, such as in medical applications, but security theater is not a good enough reason for exposing people to ionizing radiation.
That depends on whether they're using the backscatter x-ray machines (old tech) or the newer millimeter wave machines (newer tech). The millimeter wave setup is not ionizing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millimeter_wave_scanner
If you're really scared of ionizing radiation, wear sunscreen when you walk outside. I object based on the privacy issue, not some unfounded fear of the technology.
If you add them up, it comes out to slightly over 9500 pieces....
Well they didn't say all the pieces would be there. What's the likely hood that the shred bag you grabbed has every single pieces? How many are stuck in the cutter or got vacuumed off the floor (I've never seen a 1x5mm shredder that didn't leave a mess of chaff all around itself.
I agree some computer pre-sorting is needed to pare the problem down a bit first.
If this involves multiple pages, perhaps the computer can distinguish which pieces belong to which pages based on the angle of cut versus the font? Or top face versus bottom face. I doubt every piece goes through the shredder exactly the same angle. You'd need pieces large enough to determine the font angle with respect to the edges
Each cutting blade and cross-cut tooth isn't identical. It may be possible to distinguish what horizontal position or multiple of vertical position a piece belongs to based on how the edges are torn. For example a chipped cross-cut tooth could reveal info about where on the page the piece came from by grouping pieces that came from the same vertical strip. A particular cross cut tooth would hit every xx mm of spacing going down the page as well.apart
Printers are never perfectly consistent in printing across the page either. Perhaps there is some systemic printing error that would allow grouping, like the kerning is slightly tighter to one side or the inkjet dots are slightly bigger on one side, or the laserjet has a little shading difference to one side, etc. Now we are getting closer to how people solve a real jigsaw puzzle.
Except crowdsourcing isn't really an algorithm. You're just getting thousands of eyeballs helping to mix/match the piece like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Not exactly something you can sell as a product.
True, I doubt Apple is ready to take Siri mainstream anytime soon give it's current growing pains. More than likely it will be used as a selling point for Apple products as long as they can. Once there is a hint of a competitor, you'll probably see clients available for other OSs.
If Apple is learning anything from Google, it's that customer info is valuable. Siri could easily become an advertising platform that rivals Google. Targeted advertising, where companies pay Apple for premium listings ( eg Asking Siri about a Pizza place returns Pizza Hut who paid the most for that key word).
If that's their angle, they might welcome more traffic to Siri.
His following was built up using promotional give-aways of PhoneDog products, so it's reasonable to assume the company placed value on having those followers. IN fact, they could even place the value at the cost of the products they gave away. By not turning over the account, he's destroyed an advertising channel that the company paid to establish.
http://www.phonedog.com/2009/09/14/5k-giveaways-follow-noah-on-twitter-for-a-chance-to-win/
His job was to bring customers to the site to read his reviews and articles, the twitter account was a tool used doubtlessly during office hours as part of that job .
That is an assumption, and not a proven fact. The article states that the twitter account was used for personal blogging as well as self-promotion of the articles he wrote. The entire point of the court case is to decide whether or not it was a business tool or a personal communication that included references to his work.
The "citation" you need is twitter feed itself, or possibly a 5 second google? Yes it was very much related to his work and reviews. Here's a great example where he was using the account for promotional advertising. http://www.phonedog.com/2009/09/14/5k-giveaways-follow-noah-on-twitter-for-a-chance-to-win/.
aside from apple juice
I have no troubles finding a "Made in USA" apple juice in my local Safeway so far - e.g. this. Am I missing something?
The little label that says 'Concentrate from China' perhaps? At least that's what the one in my fridge says on the neck.
Contrary to what many people think, China doesn't just produce low quality stuff. They'll produce the iPad and the iPhone. They'll make whatever quality level you want to pay them for. They make 99% of the consumer stuff you buy, from the cheap-ass wallmart plastic crap to the highest end consumer electronics and computer parts.
So: the US military could get very high quality stuff for much cheaper than paying Americans to make it, just like Apple outsources the iDevices to China to make, and same for many, many other business entities. There is plenty of precedent for outsourcing your military hardware - many countries outsource it to the USA, in fact. So given China's major advantage in manufacturing, maybe it's time for the US to start outsourcing military production to China.
Then there's no issue about counterfitting. Buy whatever quality you want from the Chinese supplier.
Totally irrelevant when there's a middleman such as an electronics components vendor involved who is either intentionally substituting or unaware of the parts quality. Apple provides most of the parts to the Chinese assembly factories and watches them very, very closely. You simply can't do that through middlemen.
Why are we even buying critical components such as these from China?
In most cases, we are not buying from China. We're buying from otherwise reputable vendors who are seeing these showing up in their supply channels.
The whole milspec thing is part of the problem, because as a system developer in the govt you're only allowed to request a part of certain specs. The buyer goes out and finds a vendor claiming their parts meet the spec and they turns out their counterfeit. I would much prefer specing out a brand name and vendor that I can rely on, but FAR regulations prevent that and instead tell us we need to pay more and use women-owned minority businesses (which usually just means the real owner put the business in his wife's name).
Don't even get me started on the whole DOD supply system like milstrip. You order a nice pair of cutters that are listed as a decent brand name, and they ship you the chinese crap. It's the Military's own supply channel substituting the crappy chinese parts instead. Last time we ordered 3M Super-88 electrical tape from them we got this shitty almost transparent no-name tape that fell off within 2 days.
They probably do have a warrant, since they are looking for a family member who runs drugs and its likely that he knows where the guy is hiding. Hell he's driving the guys car.
They are probably also wiretapping his cell phone. How else would they know about the rendevous with Wired?
I had one such spam list that refused to remove me. The admin was s total dick and kept re-adding my email address every time I removed it. After going through this bit of getting re-added once a week and the list admin telling me to fuck off, I took a little more aggressive action. The listserv was so poorly setup, it let anyone add/remove subscriptions for any email address so I unsubbed everyone except the owner and subscribed the list's email address to itself. I finally got a response from the admin the next day, who accused me of mailbombing him and bitched that his list was subsequently black listed by several major ISPs. He couldn't prove I did it. I think he got exactly what he deserved.
Sure, but does your "securely encrypted" connection go to the server or a MITM the attacker has set up?
True, but encryption of the connection versus authentication are still two separate issues. The value of certificates issues by "trusted" CAs is quickly diminishing for a number of reasons. 1) Those CAs are getting hacked. 2) CAs are being careless and issuing weak certs or issuing certs without proper verification. 3) Browsers are including all kinds of CAs that may or may not be trustworthy. 4) Some browsers don't check revocation lists by default. 5) People usually click through the warnings anyway.