There are plenty of WPA and WPA2 cracking services online, pretty much just a click away. These services rely on their "rainbow tables" for WPA/WPA2, which if you use a non-standard SSID and a long (18+ character), strong password are pretty much useless. Once the WPA password passes about 14 characters the table generation time starts running into years.
If you use WPA2 and a strong WPA password that is 18+ characters long you don't have much to worry about. MAC filtering is easy to bypass and WEP is a joke.
Visibility of American flag: The official Israeli reports say that the reconnaissance and fighter aircraft pilots, and the torpedo boat captains did not see any flag on Liberty. Official American reports say that the Liberty was flying her American flag before, during and after the attack. The only exception being a brief period in which one flag had been shot down and then replaced with a larger flag that measured approximately 13 ft (4.0 m) long. U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry finding number 2 states: "The calm conditions and slow speed of the ship may well have made the American flag difficult to identify." And finding number 28 states: "Flat, calm conditions and the slow five knot patrol speed of LIBERTY in forenoon when she was being looked over initially may well have produced insufficient wind for steaming colors enough to be seen by pilots".[86] The NSA History Report (page 41) states: "... every official interview of numerous Liberty crewmen gave consistent evidence that indeed the Liberty was flying an American flag—and, further, the weather conditions were ideal to ensure its easy observance and identification."
The official report is not consistent with what the crew reported. There is also no excuse for attacking an research ship in international waters. The Liberty was, after all, a communications ship.
On October 2, 2007, The Chicago Tribune published a special report[6] into the attack, containing numerous previously unreported quotes from former military personnel with first-hand knowledge of the incident. Many of these quotes directly contradict the U.S. National Security Agency's position that it never intercepted the communications of the attacking Israeli pilots, claiming that not only did transcripts of those communications exist, but also that it showed the Israelis knew they were attacking an American naval vessel.
There's just too many unanswered questions about this.
If this is simply a trademark thing, they are being quite petty
Here's a little fact about trademark law. if you fail to enforce your trademark when it is being violated, you effectively lose all rights to said trademark.
Except that DisplayPort is not an Apple created or owned standard. It was produced by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) and is 100% royalty free (no licensing). Mini DisplayPort on the other hand was created by Apple, and is now part of the DisplayPort specification.
Name one so called "green" energy source that does not pollute. It takes a lot of energy and toxic compounds to create solar panels, not to mention all the heavy metals needed for batteries to store that energy. Bio-fuels (which really are no different from standard gasoline) pollute just as much as gasoline does. Not to mention that wind turbines kill migrating birds (and make use of batteries just like solar). And that's not even getting into the impact that the mining for those heavy metals has on the environment, or the processing of them. Did I mention that most of the energy used in the processing of these materials comes from coal, which releases radioactivity into the environment.
Flashback from 1973. Oil cost as much as $80/barrel in 1973, adjust for inflation and you will see that it was actually more expensive back then. It is well know that there are vast, untapped, oil reserves all over the world. The largest of which happen to lie in the US. We could easily increase production if many of the bans on oil drilling in the US were lifted.
The U.S. is sitting on the world's largest, untapped oil reserves -- reservoirs which energy experts know exist, but which have not yet been tapped and may not be attainable with current technology. In fact, such untapped reserves are estimated at about 2.3 trillion barrels, nearly three times more than the reserves held by Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) nations and sufficient to meet 300 years of demand -- at today's levels -- for auto, truck, aircraft, heating and industrial fuel, without importing a single barrel of oil.
What's the problem then? Why aren't oil companies jumping to pump the black gold? Contrary to what some conspiracy theorists would have you believe, there is no cabal of oil companies and foreign governments blocking the way, bottling up U.S. oil production. The reality is much more mundane. Those untapped reserves are located in places that either Uncle Sam has put off-limits for environmental reasons or are too costly to get -- or a combination of both.
Speak to anyone who has ever done any real time in a US prison and they will tell you that prison rape is not a common occurrence. In fact prison is not a very nice place to be if you were convicted of rape.
It also matters for anybody who travels with electronic devices. The TSA requires you to take your laptop (and tablet) out of your bag and put it on a little tray, out in the open and all by itself, to go through XRAY.
Not if you have it in a checkpoint safe bag. Those bags are made so that the laptop compartment can be laid flat before the bag goes through the x-ray. Saves a bunch of time.
You are full of shit and your story is full of holes. For one thing you do not get your birth certificate from the federal government, you get it from the court house in the county you were born in. Not to mention that anyone over 18 most likely has a state issued identification card, which you need your birth certificate in order to get. Go troll somewhere else.
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There are plenty of WPA and WPA2 cracking services online, pretty much just a click away. These services rely on their "rainbow tables" for WPA/WPA2, which if you use a non-standard SSID and a long (18+ character), strong password are pretty much useless. Once the WPA password passes about 14 characters the table generation time starts running into years.
If you use WPA2 and a strong WPA password that is 18+ characters long you don't have much to worry about. MAC filtering is easy to bypass and WEP is a joke.
Of course it wasn't a DMCA takedown notice, the Daily Mail is based in the UK.
Sue them, on behalf of the monkeys.
Visibility of American flag: The official Israeli reports say that the reconnaissance and fighter aircraft pilots, and the torpedo boat captains did not see any flag on Liberty. Official American reports say that the Liberty was flying her American flag before, during and after the attack. The only exception being a brief period in which one flag had been shot down and then replaced with a larger flag that measured approximately 13 ft (4.0 m) long. U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry finding number 2 states: "The calm conditions and slow speed of the ship may well have made the American flag difficult to identify." And finding number 28 states: "Flat, calm conditions and the slow five knot patrol speed of LIBERTY in forenoon when she was being looked over initially may well have produced insufficient wind for steaming colors enough to be seen by pilots".[86] The NSA History Report (page 41) states: "... every official interview of numerous Liberty crewmen gave consistent evidence that indeed the Liberty was flying an American flag—and, further, the weather conditions were ideal to ensure its easy observance and identification."
The official report is not consistent with what the crew reported. There is also no excuse for attacking an research ship in international waters. The Liberty was, after all, a communications ship.
On October 2, 2007, The Chicago Tribune published a special report[6] into the attack, containing numerous previously unreported quotes from former military personnel with first-hand knowledge of the incident. Many of these quotes directly contradict the U.S. National Security Agency's position that it never intercepted the communications of the attacking Israeli pilots, claiming that not only did transcripts of those communications exist, but also that it showed the Israelis knew they were attacking an American naval vessel.
There's just too many unanswered questions about this.
Israel also attacked the USS Liberty, which was in international waters, and which also did not attack any of Israel's forces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
You have to enrich the waste before you can use it.
Mini-DisplayPort has been part of the DisplayPort specification since 1.2.
Have you heard about Apples legal battle revolving around ipod and magsafe connectors?
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/09/apples-magsafe-lawsuit-tests-limits-of-first-sale-doctrine.ars
If this is simply a trademark thing, they are being quite petty
Here's a little fact about trademark law. if you fail to enforce your trademark when it is being violated, you effectively lose all rights to said trademark.
Why would I care that a cable I have that works safely has been recalled due to some conflict between some corporations to whom I owe nothing,
Have you actually read your EULAs? You owe them your soul for all eternity.
DisplayPort -> HDMI dongle. Problem solved.
Since when is it possible for one to get banned from Slashdot?
Except that DisplayPort is not an Apple created or owned standard. It was produced by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) and is 100% royalty free (no licensing). Mini DisplayPort on the other hand was created by Apple, and is now part of the DisplayPort specification.
No they didn't, all they did was copy this.
http://www.htiwater.com/xpack.html?&Vl=1&Tp=2
And since the method was already in wide use the patent should have been denied due to prior art.
Solar thermal.
And exactly how are the required materials obtained in such a way that causes no pollution?
Name one so called "green" energy source that does not pollute. It takes a lot of energy and toxic compounds to create solar panels, not to mention all the heavy metals needed for batteries to store that energy. Bio-fuels (which really are no different from standard gasoline) pollute just as much as gasoline does. Not to mention that wind turbines kill migrating birds (and make use of batteries just like solar). And that's not even getting into the impact that the mining for those heavy metals has on the environment, or the processing of them. Did I mention that most of the energy used in the processing of these materials comes from coal, which releases radioactivity into the environment.
The entire world pays the same price per barrel of oil, the EU has much higher gas prices due to their insanely high taxes.
And now, we have reached peak oil
Flashback from 1973. Oil cost as much as $80/barrel in 1973, adjust for inflation and you will see that it was actually more expensive back then. It is well know that there are vast, untapped, oil reserves all over the world. The largest of which happen to lie in the US. We could easily increase production if many of the bans on oil drilling in the US were lifted.
http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/The_U.S._s_Untapped_Bounty_080630.html
The U.S. is sitting on the world's largest, untapped oil reserves -- reservoirs which energy experts know exist, but which have not yet been tapped and may not be attainable with current technology. In fact, such untapped reserves are estimated at about 2.3 trillion barrels, nearly three times more than the reserves held by Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) nations and sufficient to meet 300 years of demand -- at today's levels -- for auto, truck, aircraft, heating and industrial fuel, without importing a single barrel of oil.
What's the problem then? Why aren't oil companies jumping to pump the black gold? Contrary to what some conspiracy theorists would have you believe, there is no cabal of oil companies and foreign governments blocking the way, bottling up U.S. oil production. The reality is much more mundane. Those untapped reserves are located in places that either Uncle Sam has put off-limits for environmental reasons or are too costly to get -- or a combination of both.
Fossil fuels are what became of plants, not the dinosaurs.
Speak to anyone who has ever done any real time in a US prison and they will tell you that prison rape is not a common occurrence. In fact prison is not a very nice place to be if you were convicted of rape.
It also matters for anybody who travels with electronic devices. The TSA requires you to take your laptop (and tablet) out of your bag and put it on a little tray, out in the open and all by itself, to go through XRAY.
Not if you have it in a checkpoint safe bag. Those bags are made so that the laptop compartment can be laid flat before the bag goes through the x-ray. Saves a bunch of time.
Sure you can, go down the the ER when you need medical care. They cannot turn you away.
You are full of shit and your story is full of holes. For one thing you do not get your birth certificate from the federal government, you get it from the court house in the county you were born in. Not to mention that anyone over 18 most likely has a state issued identification card, which you need your birth certificate in order to get. Go troll somewhere else.