River Rouge, MI (AP)- Notorious hacking mastermind Kevin Mitnick has been spotted by Michigan law enforcement teaching people how to circumvent security protocols. His peripheral involvement in a series of bomb threats has been noted by officer Keck and is being investigated.
"...showed me how...hack...phones", said Keck (extraneous text removed for clarity).
Mitnick, known for his evil attacks against such pillars of the community as Sprint and AT&T, may also have been seen eating a puppy. - AP
If the Diamond Age comes to fruition, I imagine that our expansion into space would take a whole new look.
Imagine, if you will, teams of people around the world contributing either CAD/CAM files that painstakingly reproduce technical drawings and assembly instructions for things like Saturn V rockets OR teams that design simplified heavy rockets that take advantage of nano reinforcement to make strong launchers with few moving parts.
Once the designs have been reviewed and tested, I imagine that either hobbyist or impromptu launch sites would start sprouting up and eventually people would start lobbing payloads into orbit. During this time, I'm sure there would be a frantic effort by the government to either outlaw or control the technology, but eventually it might reach a point where a committed individual might: 1. Design a modular living space 2. Go out to some island. 3. Pour a nano-construction farm out onto the beach 4. Sit back and wait for it to finish building a launch pad and Saturn-V or Energia class booster out of materials nano-mined from the ground. 5. Check the CRC on the structure or whatever it is a nano-inspection system would do. 6. Have it fueled by a system that breaks down the seawater into fuel and oxidizer. 7. Have it launch part 1 of his new home into orbit. 8. Rinse, repeat steps 4-8 until all components are in orbit (and docked, why not?) 9. Make one last man-rated launcher and put him/herself along with family up to dock with their new digs and take off.
If the main cost is the design time, there are certainly enough space-minded engineers and contributors out there to write up working specs and enough people to validate the designs. As the technology advances, the simulation of the constructs will become more accurate. If the construction cost is minimal, then the sky is quite literally the limit.
You guys are chumps, overclocking everything independantly. I just skipped the middleman and overclocked my house.
Normal AC power is at around 120 volts and 70hz here in the USA, so I put in a frequency multiplier and upped it to 105hz and 160 volts AC. Now, all my lights are brighter, TV is faster to react in the menu, and I've pre-emptively overclocked all my appliances!
You've never seen microwave popcorn get done in a minute? Come on by! Sure, there are occasional fires, but nothing a little fire extinguisher and some aggressive product warranties won't fix.
There are downsides... all my clocks run fast... and my VCR keeps spitting out tape... and sure, my refrigerator has turned into a freezer, but I have to say that despite some of those challenges, it's still worth it.
Oops! Gotta run, my wireless access point seems to have killed the plant it's sitting next to. Maybe I should measure the rf...
The moon's 'very thin atmosphere' can slow your descent in the same way that 'very small rocks' can float.
It's not enough, not by a few orders of magnitude.
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Holy crap, you take that stuff seriously? Jitter is induced by signal interruptions in the PCM data stream.
There was no Circuit City salesman, just a very sad you. Try the pepsi challenge someday with a $350 digital cable compared to a $10 one. It either works, or it don't.
If you are suggesting that the only alternative is that the salesman may have rigged the demonstration because he detected a sucker, then I, for one, am shocked.
Evidence suggests that he was murdered by Isreali secret police because, and I'm not making this up, he was building a super gun in Iraq that could shell Isreal at will.
The motto of this story? Consider the source of your R&D funding, it may come back to haunt you.
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Make sure you run only quality Monster brand optical digital cables. I have it on good authority from the guy at Circuit City that if you aren't using Monster, the actual bits for the data stream have little jags on them that true audiophiles can hear.
There are few large virus threats in the past few years. Most of the stuff we see every day is technicall a worm.
Why are we married to calling everything virus related when it is actually the flash-spread of worms that pose the most risk?
The Morris worm was a wakeup call. It was the first large worm, and simultaneously the first Warhol attack. Today, the 'growing threat' is the idea of Warhol-type worms, even though the first such attack was back in the 1980s.
The future of security is probably in the department of protecting against blended threats. AntiVirus software that only deals with stuff on your disk isn't enough anymore. You need, in order of importance: 1. to adopt safer computing practices. 2. Have some type of firewall that limits external access to services you don't actively use. 3. A behavior based IDS (or similar technology) 4. Disk and memory AV (eg, a typical antivirus program) 5. Signature based IDS.
Signature based IDS is least important, especially if you have the firewall in slot 2 that negates most of the use of an IDS. Disk and memory AV is important, but since 99% of all user-originated content comes over the wire these days, the smart money is on 1, 2, and 3.
I suppose step 6 should be "Demand accurate coverage from technically competent news professionals that know the difference between the various threats". If your local anchorman said "Earthquake warning!" and it turns out it was a flood emergency, would you find that acceptable?
For those of y'all just thinking about putting a computer in a car for the first time, here are some answers to basic questions.
Currently, the most popular motherboard for Carputers is the Epia M10000. It's full featured and super low power consumption, runs about $160 US. http://robots.net/article/983.html
For the monitor, the most popular now is the Lilliput 7" VGA touchscreen. It sells for $300ish with shipping on eBay new from a lot of vendors. http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y47312DE7 (eBay search)
The best power supply is from Opussolutions.com and is a smart DC-DC power supply with automatic standby handling for when you car turns off and on and can survive the dreaded voltage drop when you crank the engine. http://www.mp3car.com/store/
For GPS, anything works, but USB GPS 'mice' are popular because they are small and powered over USB. http://makeashorterlink.com/?O18324DE7 (an eBay search)
For connecting to your OBD-II interface on your car, scantool.net and obddiagnostics.com sell cheap serial interfaces. http://scantool.net/ http://www.obdd iagnostics.com
Hope this helps, and for more answers, visit www.mp3car.com and be sure to read the forums. Lots of great info.
Will this be based on RFC 3514? The RIAA could easily scan for systems with the 'evil bit' set to reduce the risk of accidentally hitting an innocent system.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3514.html
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Nope, the X-43 flew under its own power for 10 seconds.
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The problem with new launchers, especially SSTO, is that they are long on promises and short on delivery.
I know of over a hundred promised vehicles over the past 50 years that have made many of the same promises as Skylon and failed to deliver, so call me when it's flying.
Off the top of my head... Roton, X-33, Conestoga, Kelly Spaceplane, Wernher Von Braun's shuttle, the space shuttle, Buran, Kistler, and more.
I know there'll be a lot of hurt looks out there because OGG wasn't chosen, but let's look at this from a different perspective:
It's not WMA.
The competition for this was legitametely between AAC and WMA because those are two proven technologies that happen to include DRM. If the alternative to AAC is WMA, then I'm all in favor of (as if I have a vote) this decision because this is another niche that Microsoft has not filled.
Microsoft's vision of the future paints a picture where every media device is running MS licensed technology. Microsoft knows that operating systems and software are quickly reaching a point where the existing solutions work, meaning that the real money is in things that keep changing. Look at Caterpillar and their dirt movers. When they released their first model, the next 10 years were filled with constant innovation, but they eventually reached a point where the basic design was so solid, your basic earthmover looks the same as it did 20 years ago.
Software is going to reach the same point, and Microsoft knows this and wants to control something that keeps changing, and derivative stories aside, that'll be content.
Cheer this decision, it's another pie that Microsoft's finger has been slapped away from.
Very good points, but I think your reply assumes that the state of the technology will remain static. Historical trends suggest that as time passes, the computing/switching power of the cells will go up while the size, weight, and power consumption goes down. Compare the size and battery life of your modern Nokia to a brick cell phone from the 80s for an example.
Two logical uses I can see are as replacements for cell towers. One of these could potentially offer as much coverage as many cell towers at a small fraction of the cost. The immediate followup thought is that this would break down barriers to high speed broadband too. At 70,000 feet, it could be an effective 'last 13 mile' solution. (har har)
Another use for the tinfoil hat & central government crowd is surveillance. Put high resolution cameras in place and you could have low cost monitoring of everything from: - Fires - Traffic jams - Speeders (digital VASCAR, anyone?) - Traffic patterns - Police tails of vehicles under investigation with no possible detection...and more.
If your shotgun can hit something at 70,000 feet, I think you may be in for a visit from every military and weapons contractor, each with drool covered checkbooks in one hand and unsigned exclusive use contracts in the other.
There is no HDTV tuner. If you read the article, you'll see that it supports 'HDTV output', eg, VGA (since any HDTV that doesn't have a VGA port on the back can take a VGA signal (at the right rez) using a component adapter.
The rig in the article can only record regular TV.
Innovation isn't required for a purchase. If I choose to buy a piece of coal, I can give the guy money and get the piece of coal.
There is no requirement that Microsoft be innovative for them to charge the $45 OEM price. All they need to do is provide a good or service, and they do.
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River Rouge, MI (AP)- Notorious hacking mastermind Kevin Mitnick has been spotted by Michigan law enforcement teaching people how to circumvent security protocols. His peripheral involvement in a series of bomb threats has been noted by officer Keck and is being investigated.
"...showed me how...hack...phones", said Keck (extraneous text removed for clarity).
Mitnick, known for his evil attacks against such pillars of the community as Sprint and AT&T, may also have been seen eating a puppy. - AP
If the Diamond Age comes to fruition, I imagine that our expansion into space would take a whole new look.
Imagine, if you will, teams of people around the world contributing either CAD/CAM files that painstakingly reproduce technical drawings and assembly instructions for things like Saturn V rockets OR teams that design simplified heavy rockets that take advantage of nano reinforcement to make strong launchers with few moving parts.
Once the designs have been reviewed and tested, I imagine that either hobbyist or impromptu launch sites would start sprouting up and eventually people would start lobbing payloads into orbit. During this time, I'm sure there would be a frantic effort by the government to either outlaw or control the technology, but eventually it might reach a point where a committed individual might:
1. Design a modular living space
2. Go out to some island.
3. Pour a nano-construction farm out onto the beach
4. Sit back and wait for it to finish building a launch pad and Saturn-V or Energia class booster out of materials nano-mined from the ground.
5. Check the CRC on the structure or whatever it is a nano-inspection system would do.
6. Have it fueled by a system that breaks down the seawater into fuel and oxidizer.
7. Have it launch part 1 of his new home into orbit.
8. Rinse, repeat steps 4-8 until all components are in orbit (and docked, why not?)
9. Make one last man-rated launcher and put him/herself along with family up to dock with their new digs and take off.
If the main cost is the design time, there are certainly enough space-minded engineers and contributors out there to write up working specs and enough people to validate the designs. As the technology advances, the simulation of the constructs will become more accurate. If the construction cost is minimal, then the sky is quite literally the limit.
You guys are chumps, overclocking everything independantly. I just skipped the middleman and overclocked my house.
Normal AC power is at around 120 volts and 70hz here in the USA, so I put in a frequency multiplier and upped it to 105hz and 160 volts AC. Now, all my lights are brighter, TV is faster to react in the menu, and I've pre-emptively overclocked all my appliances!
You've never seen microwave popcorn get done in a minute? Come on by! Sure, there are occasional fires, but nothing a little fire extinguisher and some aggressive product warranties won't fix.
There are downsides... all my clocks run fast... and my VCR keeps spitting out tape... and sure, my refrigerator has turned into a freezer, but I have to say that despite some of those challenges, it's still worth it.
Oops! Gotta run, my wireless access point seems to have killed the plant it's sitting next to. Maybe I should measure the rf...
Here's another solution, Phidgets:
http://www.phidgets.com/
They offer sensors, controllers, and more.
Ooh, a fat, sarcastic Star Trek fan! You must be a devil with the ladies!
The moon's 'very thin atmosphere' can slow your descent in the same way that 'very small rocks' can float.
It's not enough, not by a few orders of magnitude.
Holy crap, you take that stuff seriously? Jitter is induced by signal interruptions in the PCM data stream.
There was no Circuit City salesman, just a very sad you. Try the pepsi challenge someday with a $350 digital cable compared to a $10 one. It either works, or it don't.
If you are suggesting that the only alternative is that the salesman may have rigged the demonstration because he detected a sucker, then I, for one, am shocked.
$350 for a 3 foot DIGITAL cable? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Evidence suggests that he was murdered by Isreali secret police because, and I'm not making this up, he was building a super gun in Iraq that could shell Isreal at will.
The motto of this story? Consider the source of your R&D funding, it may come back to haunt you.
Make sure you run only quality Monster brand optical digital cables. I have it on good authority from the guy at Circuit City that if you aren't using Monster, the actual bits for the data stream have little jags on them that true audiophiles can hear.
There are few large virus threats in the past few years. Most of the stuff we see every day is technicall a worm.
Why are we married to calling everything virus related when it is actually the flash-spread of worms that pose the most risk?
The Morris worm was a wakeup call. It was the first large worm, and simultaneously the first Warhol attack. Today, the 'growing threat' is the idea of Warhol-type worms, even though the first such attack was back in the 1980s.
The future of security is probably in the department of protecting against blended threats. AntiVirus software that only deals with stuff on your disk isn't enough anymore. You need, in order of importance:
1. to adopt safer computing practices.
2. Have some type of firewall that limits external access to services you don't actively use.
3. A behavior based IDS (or similar technology)
4. Disk and memory AV (eg, a typical antivirus program)
5. Signature based IDS.
Signature based IDS is least important, especially if you have the firewall in slot 2 that negates most of the use of an IDS. Disk and memory AV is important, but since 99% of all user-originated content comes over the wire these days, the smart money is on 1, 2, and 3.
I suppose step 6 should be "Demand accurate coverage from technically competent news professionals that know the difference between the various threats". If your local anchorman said "Earthquake warning!" and it turns out it was a flood emergency, would you find that acceptable?
I'm going to try and put the GPS under the dashboard. With only plastic in the way, I hope it'll acquire the signal and be invisible.
For those of y'all just thinking about putting a computer in a car for the first time, here are some answers to basic questions.
d iagnostics.com
Currently, the most popular motherboard for Carputers is the Epia M10000. It's full featured and super low power consumption, runs about $160 US.
http://robots.net/article/983.html
For the monitor, the most popular now is the Lilliput 7" VGA touchscreen. It sells for $300ish with shipping on eBay new from a lot of vendors.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y47312DE7 (eBay search)
The best power supply is from Opussolutions.com and is a smart DC-DC power supply with automatic standby handling for when you car turns off and on and can survive the dreaded voltage drop when you crank the engine.
http://www.mp3car.com/store/
For GPS, anything works, but USB GPS 'mice' are popular because they are small and powered over USB.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O18324DE7 (an eBay search)
For connecting to your OBD-II interface on your car, scantool.net and obddiagnostics.com sell cheap serial interfaces.
http://scantool.net/
http://www.obd
Hope this helps, and for more answers, visit www.mp3car.com and be sure to read the forums. Lots of great info.
Will this be based on RFC 3514? The RIAA could easily scan for systems with the 'evil bit' set to reduce the risk of accidentally hitting an innocent system.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3514.html
Nope, the X-43 flew under its own power for 10 seconds.
What is this 'match' you speak of?
The problem with new launchers, especially SSTO, is that they are long on promises and short on delivery.
I know of over a hundred promised vehicles over the past 50 years that have made many of the same promises as Skylon and failed to deliver, so call me when it's flying.
Off the top of my head... Roton, X-33, Conestoga, Kelly Spaceplane, Wernher Von Braun's shuttle, the space shuttle, Buran, Kistler, and more.
No, you're a plagiarising liar. I understand that you could be confused, though....
f in ition/0,,sid40_gci535029,00.html
http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDe
I know there'll be a lot of hurt looks out there because OGG wasn't chosen, but let's look at this from a different perspective:
It's not WMA.
The competition for this was legitametely between AAC and WMA because those are two proven technologies that happen to include DRM. If the alternative to AAC is WMA, then I'm all in favor of (as if I have a vote) this decision because this is another niche that Microsoft has not filled.
Microsoft's vision of the future paints a picture where every media device is running MS licensed technology. Microsoft knows that operating systems and software are quickly reaching a point where the existing solutions work, meaning that the real money is in things that keep changing. Look at Caterpillar and their dirt movers. When they released their first model, the next 10 years were filled with constant innovation, but they eventually reached a point where the basic design was so solid, your basic earthmover looks the same as it did 20 years ago.
Software is going to reach the same point, and Microsoft knows this and wants to control something that keeps changing, and derivative stories aside, that'll be content.
Cheer this decision, it's another pie that Microsoft's finger has been slapped away from.
iPod Used In Domestic Homicide.
> Now, all I need is an omniscient AI with root
> access on every machine connected to the
> Internet...
NSash, meet Nimda & Code Red.
Very good points, but I think your reply assumes that the state of the technology will remain static. Historical trends suggest that as time passes, the computing/switching power of the cells will go up while the size, weight, and power consumption goes down. Compare the size and battery life of your modern Nokia to a brick cell phone from the 80s for an example.
Two logical uses I can see are as replacements for cell towers. One of these could potentially offer as much coverage as many cell towers at a small fraction of the cost. The immediate followup thought is that this would break down barriers to high speed broadband too. At 70,000 feet, it could be an effective 'last 13 mile' solution. (har har)
...and more.
Another use for the tinfoil hat & central government crowd is surveillance. Put high resolution cameras in place and you could have low cost monitoring of everything from:
- Fires
- Traffic jams
- Speeders (digital VASCAR, anyone?)
- Traffic patterns
- Police tails of vehicles under investigation with no possible detection
If your shotgun can hit something at 70,000 feet, I think you may be in for a visit from every military and weapons contractor, each with drool covered checkbooks in one hand and unsigned exclusive use contracts in the other.
There is no HDTV tuner. If you read the article, you'll see that it supports 'HDTV output', eg, VGA (since any HDTV that doesn't have a VGA port on the back can take a VGA signal (at the right rez) using a component adapter.
The rig in the article can only record regular TV.
Innovation isn't required for a purchase. If I choose to buy a piece of coal, I can give the guy money and get the piece of coal.
There is no requirement that Microsoft be innovative for them to charge the $45 OEM price. All they need to do is provide a good or service, and they do.