The way this was agreed was if the cable company is encrypting their channels, they have to make them available unencrypted over IP, so devices like Boxee and others can still receive them, or work with PVR makers to make "Software updates" available so they can decrypt the streams.
Given that the daddy of all open-source PVR projects, MythTV, already supports IPTV systems (after a little careful setup), this is actually a good thing. And while it is basic channels only for now, hopefully the practise will expand into premium channels later on.
what about the stuff inside and possible outcomes if, say, it gets involved in a serious accident?
Crumple zones and chassis structure are not touched. In a low-speed collision, nothing more happens. In a high-speed collision, there may be some leaking of electrolyte (The same way the lead-acid battery in your ICE car can leak), but there will be no dangerous inflammable liquids spilling around. Electrically, the battery pack is automatically isolated via inertia switch and circuit breakers and isolating fuses, along with contactors which separate on 12v power loss.
Will the car electrocute the jaws of life operator?
No. In an accident, the system is automatically isolated, as noted above. In addition, the power-carrying cables from front to back run along the underside of the vehicle, usually along the old exhaust tunnel, keeping them far away from anywhere emergency services may be operating.
What if it hits an oil tanker?
Oil gets spilled. Some metalwork gets crumpled.
What if it gets involved in a collision with other homemade electric cars?
At the moment, technology has great difficulty tracking the position of the human iris unobtrusively. Given the amount of detail that would be required to watch an eye for the minute deflections and ocular muscle movements that determine the current lens' focal length, along with the necessary personal ocular detail necessary to accurately determine the current positional-space focus point of that eye, while taking into account astigmatism, hyperopia, presbyopia and myopia, such a task is currently beyond the reasonable grasp of technology. Even "Bouncing light off the wearer's eye" is going to be difficult to measure, especially as the eye will react to light that you shine on it for measurement.
Typically, the image project into the HUD is "Focused" optically at (or close to) "Infinity". Try asking the US Air Force how that works out for them (rather well, actually), as they've been using it in fighter planes for decades now.
They offer a cable for sale, not included in the box, and it still means you can't use an Apple charger to charge any other device, which is the whole point of the standard. But that aside, given that the adapters/cables for Lightning->30 pin ALREADY have a chip in them for this, that point is moot. As for "Extending the USB specification in non-standard ways", how about the MHL standard, that Android phones have been using for some time now to output HDMI over MicroUSB. In fact, Samsung has got it down so well, you can charge your phone, access it's contents AND output HDMI at the same time over one MicroUSB connector.
I have to make a correction here. Apple doesn't SUPPLY the adapter, but it does make one available for you to BUY (At increased cost). And even with the adapter in question, it still means you can't use your Apple charger to charge your friend's Micro-USB phone.
Mod parent up! UKNova was a very fine example of a site playing nice. Anything that was available to purchase on DVD, Blu-Ray or Pay Per View was explicitly banned from the site. Items that were uploaded were set to expire after 14 days, unless there was a DVD/Blu-Ray release imminent, in which case the torrent expired the night before release. There was nothing on that site that was purchasable anywhere else, and nothing that hadn't been broadcast over terrestrial airwaves for free (technically, funded by the License fee).
Unless your computer is in an all-acrylic case, the metal shell acts as rather a nice Faraday Cage. Given that the atmosphere protected most of the equipment on the ground during the last event (Bastille Day, 2000) you should be just fine. And finally, as the last one was in 2000, and they're due every 500 years, you'll be good for a while.
You're still thinking software running on the system. This would be a piece of HARDWARE. You plug it into a USB port and the system sees it as a physical keyboard. It then logs keystrokes in it's internal memory. Or it sends key presses to the system to take it over, as you would do with a regular keyboard. There's no way to "mount" a keyboard as read-only. And the microcontroller could easily see what operating system it's connected to, and thus customize it's sent keypresses to attack based on the operating system it's plugged into.
How, precisely, do you mount a keyboard as read-only? Because that's what the micro-controller I'm proposing will look like to the system. It'd appear as a memory stick and a keyboard or a mouse or some other kind of interface device.
Just because it looks like a memory stick, doesn't mean it actually is one. Put a microcontroller in there with a USBHID type program and you've got a keylogger, or some other remote access system just waiting to be triggered.
. Thus he is proposing instead that students are taught to never question anything told to them, no matter what that might be, or how correct or not it may be, to accept at face value everything they see, and to never make up their own mind on anything.
That approach has been wildly successful in Texas. Everybody in their political elite thinks that way.
Your definition of "successful" and mine appear to differ in certain, key, ways.
That's easy. jmorris42 is using the false correlation that students being taught to question everything is leading to students not learning to an adequate skill level, ignoring the huge lack of education spending and censored, jingoistic misinformation being taught. Thus he is proposing instead that students are taught to never question anything told to them, no matter what that might be, or how correct or not it may be, to accept at face value everything they see, and to never make up their own mind on anything.
If you want music, you're pretty much restricted to getting it from one of three big companies. All three companies have already demonstrated a concerted "need" to make their music louder than everyone else's, even if it's not "top-40 crap". And there's little point saying "Get it in CD form, rather than a DRM'd MP3 download, then", because they're using brick-wall filters on CDs too ("Metallica - Death Magnetic", anyone?)
The Loudness war, in both music and TV/Radio ads, has been brought up before. The consensus then seemed to be "If you don't buy the compressed crap and they'll stop compressing it". That hasn't worked at all, which means it's time to legislate. Remember, they had to legislate to get seatbelts and airbags in cars.
If it's audio quality you want, grab the HD650's. But they are open-back, so no isolation whatsoever. If you want/need isolation, go for the HD280 Pros. They're comfortable enough to wear all day and have massive amounts of noise cancelling without any electronics whatsoever.
Collecting evidence in an area by legally appointed persons or groups in that area is one thing, this is the FBI, who have no jurisdiction in New Zealand. Thus they are essentially acting as private individuals. A judge had already stated that the FBI were not entitled to any data until a hearing was held on the matter, yet in a case of egregious contempt of court they disregarded that legal decision and stole copies of the data. And, as MegaUpload have noted, Copyright Infringement is not a criminal matter in the US (or elsewhere), it is a civil matter, which means the FBI has even less jurisdiction.
This happened in New Zealand.The FBI has no jurisdiction in New Zealand, and therefore cannot use US law to attempt to shield itself. NZ Courts had already determined that a hearing was necessary before the FBI would be granted anything, yet they went around that de-facto legal decision and took the data anyway, in direct breach of the law as laid down. Thus they are guilty of infringement (though not theft, as (as noted in the summary) nothing physical was taken, merely duplicated). No matter what happens, it's a severe case of "contempt of court" if nothing else.
If the content on the hard-drive was original work in any way, it's copyright is automatically legally owned by, and remains with, the creators (As laid out in the Berne Convention), unless they somehow disown or reassign copyright on those items (though a recording or publishing contract, or any other kind of license, for example). Uploading works (files) to a locker site is not disowning copyright, it is merely granting an exclusive license for the locker site to hold (and potentially "transform") them, not a right to distribute those works to third parties (unless said third parties are explicitly granted access). Thus, the New Zealand Police and FBI (And potentially the MPAA/RIAA as well) are guilty of illegally copying copyrighted works without a license, thus infringing on the copyrights of all the users of MegaUpload.
Therefore, in one fell swoop, the FBI are immediately guilty of 1+ Billion cases of Copyright Infringement, assuming every registered user of MegaUpload uploaded only one original work. If, for some reason, they are not, then neither are the users of MegaUpload guilty, for exactly the same reasons.
Should be interesting to see the US Government wiggle their way out of that one, to be sure.
This system allows anyone to join and leave the train at any time while it is in motion. It allows users to transfer from one train to another. It can form trains of (theoretically) any length. It allows you to choose your own personal entertainment without disturbing anyone else in the train. It allows you to travel from start to destination without having to wait, or go outside. Need I continue?
Interesting, especially considering the biggest MMO in history *WoW, if you didn't guess) uses BitTorrent to distribute it's content, patches and updates, and most Free to Play MMOs (at the least) use a BitTorrent downloader (BT DNA-based, usually) to download the initial setup and content files, there's two huge legitimate uses.
It's such a short and simple function that you could conceivably get two different people to write it and they'd end up with exactly the same code. The code reads:
private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex) {
if (fromIndex > toIndex)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex + ") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");
if (fromIndex < 0)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);
if (toIndex > arrayLen)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);
}
There's nothing you could really remove or change about it. Sure, you could put the checks in a different order, but it wouldn't fundamentally alter the code.
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The way this was agreed was if the cable company is encrypting their channels, they have to make them available unencrypted over IP, so devices like Boxee and others can still receive them, or work with PVR makers to make "Software updates" available so they can decrypt the streams.
Given that the daddy of all open-source PVR projects, MythTV, already supports IPTV systems (after a little careful setup), this is actually a good thing. And while it is basic channels only for now, hopefully the practise will expand into premium channels later on.
Oh boy, here we go.
Crumple zones and chassis structure are not touched. In a low-speed collision, nothing more happens. In a high-speed collision, there may be some leaking of electrolyte (The same way the lead-acid battery in your ICE car can leak), but there will be no dangerous inflammable liquids spilling around. Electrically, the battery pack is automatically isolated via inertia switch and circuit breakers and isolating fuses, along with contactors which separate on 12v power loss.
No. In an accident, the system is automatically isolated, as noted above. In addition, the power-carrying cables from front to back run along the underside of the vehicle, usually along the old exhaust tunnel, keeping them far away from anywhere emergency services may be operating.
Oil gets spilled. Some metalwork gets crumpled.
Some metalwork gets crumpled.
Even so, optically speaking, the same rules apply. You just have to ensure you're focusing the image that much further away.
At the moment, technology has great difficulty tracking the position of the human iris unobtrusively. Given the amount of detail that would be required to watch an eye for the minute deflections and ocular muscle movements that determine the current lens' focal length, along with the necessary personal ocular detail necessary to accurately determine the current positional-space focus point of that eye, while taking into account astigmatism, hyperopia, presbyopia and myopia, such a task is currently beyond the reasonable grasp of technology. Even "Bouncing light off the wearer's eye" is going to be difficult to measure, especially as the eye will react to light that you shine on it for measurement.
Typically, the image project into the HUD is "Focused" optically at (or close to) "Infinity". Try asking the US Air Force how that works out for them (rather well, actually), as they've been using it in fighter planes for decades now.
They offer a cable for sale, not included in the box, and it still means you can't use an Apple charger to charge any other device, which is the whole point of the standard. But that aside, given that the adapters/cables for Lightning->30 pin ALREADY have a chip in them for this, that point is moot. As for "Extending the USB specification in non-standard ways", how about the MHL standard, that Android phones have been using for some time now to output HDMI over MicroUSB. In fact, Samsung has got it down so well, you can charge your phone, access it's contents AND output HDMI at the same time over one MicroUSB connector.
They don't ship them in the EU, they just make them available to buy.
I have to make a correction here. Apple doesn't SUPPLY the adapter, but it does make one available for you to BUY (At increased cost). And even with the adapter in question, it still means you can't use your Apple charger to charge your friend's Micro-USB phone.
Here you go. You're welcome. https://www.youtube.com/user/freemanmind?feature=results_main
Mod parent up! UKNova was a very fine example of a site playing nice. Anything that was available to purchase on DVD, Blu-Ray or Pay Per View was explicitly banned from the site. Items that were uploaded were set to expire after 14 days, unless there was a DVD/Blu-Ray release imminent, in which case the torrent expired the night before release. There was nothing on that site that was purchasable anywhere else, and nothing that hadn't been broadcast over terrestrial airwaves for free (technically, funded by the License fee).
Unless your computer is in an all-acrylic case, the metal shell acts as rather a nice Faraday Cage. Given that the atmosphere protected most of the equipment on the ground during the last event (Bastille Day, 2000) you should be just fine. And finally, as the last one was in 2000, and they're due every 500 years, you'll be good for a while.
You're still thinking software running on the system. This would be a piece of HARDWARE. You plug it into a USB port and the system sees it as a physical keyboard. It then logs keystrokes in it's internal memory. Or it sends key presses to the system to take it over, as you would do with a regular keyboard. There's no way to "mount" a keyboard as read-only. And the microcontroller could easily see what operating system it's connected to, and thus customize it's sent keypresses to attack based on the operating system it's plugged into.
How, precisely, do you mount a keyboard as read-only? Because that's what the micro-controller I'm proposing will look like to the system. It'd appear as a memory stick and a keyboard or a mouse or some other kind of interface device.
Just because it looks like a memory stick, doesn't mean it actually is one. Put a microcontroller in there with a USBHID type program and you've got a keylogger, or some other remote access system just waiting to be triggered.
Want the "Reload" button back where it used to be? Right-click, "Customize", drag the reload button where you want it, click "Done".
You're welcome.
. Thus he is proposing instead that students are taught to never question anything told to them, no matter what that might be, or how correct or not it may be, to accept at face value everything they see, and to never make up their own mind on anything.
That approach has been wildly successful in Texas. Everybody in their political elite thinks that way.
Your definition of "successful" and mine appear to differ in certain, key, ways.
That's easy. jmorris42 is using the false correlation that students being taught to question everything is leading to students not learning to an adequate skill level, ignoring the huge lack of education spending and censored, jingoistic misinformation being taught. Thus he is proposing instead that students are taught to never question anything told to them, no matter what that might be, or how correct or not it may be, to accept at face value everything they see, and to never make up their own mind on anything.
If you want music, you're pretty much restricted to getting it from one of three big companies. All three companies have already demonstrated a concerted "need" to make their music louder than everyone else's, even if it's not "top-40 crap". And there's little point saying "Get it in CD form, rather than a DRM'd MP3 download, then", because they're using brick-wall filters on CDs too ("Metallica - Death Magnetic", anyone?)
The Loudness war, in both music and TV/Radio ads, has been brought up before. The consensus then seemed to be "If you don't buy the compressed crap and they'll stop compressing it". That hasn't worked at all, which means it's time to legislate. Remember, they had to legislate to get seatbelts and airbags in cars.
If it's audio quality you want, grab the HD650's. But they are open-back, so no isolation whatsoever. If you want/need isolation, go for the HD280 Pros. They're comfortable enough to wear all day and have massive amounts of noise cancelling without any electronics whatsoever.
Collecting evidence in an area by legally appointed persons or groups in that area is one thing, this is the FBI, who have no jurisdiction in New Zealand. Thus they are essentially acting as private individuals. A judge had already stated that the FBI were not entitled to any data until a hearing was held on the matter, yet in a case of egregious contempt of court they disregarded that legal decision and stole copies of the data. And, as MegaUpload have noted, Copyright Infringement is not a criminal matter in the US (or elsewhere), it is a civil matter, which means the FBI has even less jurisdiction.
This happened in New Zealand.The FBI has no jurisdiction in New Zealand, and therefore cannot use US law to attempt to shield itself. NZ Courts had already determined that a hearing was necessary before the FBI would be granted anything, yet they went around that de-facto legal decision and took the data anyway, in direct breach of the law as laid down. Thus they are guilty of infringement (though not theft, as (as noted in the summary) nothing physical was taken, merely duplicated). No matter what happens, it's a severe case of "contempt of court" if nothing else.
If the content on the hard-drive was original work in any way, it's copyright is automatically legally owned by, and remains with, the creators (As laid out in the Berne Convention), unless they somehow disown or reassign copyright on those items (though a recording or publishing contract, or any other kind of license, for example). Uploading works (files) to a locker site is not disowning copyright, it is merely granting an exclusive license for the locker site to hold (and potentially "transform") them, not a right to distribute those works to third parties (unless said third parties are explicitly granted access). Thus, the New Zealand Police and FBI (And potentially the MPAA/RIAA as well) are guilty of illegally copying copyrighted works without a license, thus infringing on the copyrights of all the users of MegaUpload.
Therefore, in one fell swoop, the FBI are immediately guilty of 1+ Billion cases of Copyright Infringement, assuming every registered user of MegaUpload uploaded only one original work. If, for some reason, they are not, then neither are the users of MegaUpload guilty, for exactly the same reasons.
Should be interesting to see the US Government wiggle their way out of that one, to be sure.
This system allows anyone to join and leave the train at any time while it is in motion. It allows users to transfer from one train to another. It can form trains of (theoretically) any length. It allows you to choose your own personal entertainment without disturbing anyone else in the train. It allows you to travel from start to destination without having to wait, or go outside. Need I continue?
Interesting, especially considering the biggest MMO in history *WoW, if you didn't guess) uses BitTorrent to distribute it's content, patches and updates, and most Free to Play MMOs (at the least) use a BitTorrent downloader (BT DNA-based, usually) to download the initial setup and content files, there's two huge legitimate uses.
It's such a short and simple function that you could conceivably get two different people to write it and they'd end up with exactly the same code. The code reads:
There's nothing you could really remove or change about it. Sure, you could put the checks in a different order, but it wouldn't fundamentally alter the code.