Put antennas in suitable rooms that have a line/semi-line of sight. I believe you can get upto 155Mbps out of them, and they can pass through quite a lot. You may want to refer to them as 3^xx wavelength transmitters though. Fuddy duddy grant councils get scared by technology and might think their Grade 1 building will be cooked from the inside.
Warning, IANAMNE (Microwave Networking Expert), but search google.co.uk for microwave antenna indoor, check the uk only box, and you should find someone who is.
It's long been "common knowledge" (eg, possible fallacy that everyone holds to be true) that Canal+'s encryption was broken because European hackers wanted free access to the porn that's encrypted using it.
Sky's encryption however didn't shelter any porn and was therefore not worth the effort.
Amusingly enough, AFAIK, one of the major victims of this (ITV Digital in the UK) took on the encryption AFTER it had been publicly cracked.
OK, I completely understand the need to figure out what you can get up and do to fight something. However, I still have to point out the slight flaw in your idea. I have trouble teaching non-techies I know how to use Outlook sometimes. You really thing anyone that doesn't already agree with you will understand what your doing and why you're trying to do it with "street VB programming"?
I don't know what you can honestly do. I guess you can try and get the mainstream press to pick up on the idea somehow. Tell your friends and neighbours tell them to tell anyone they know in the press. Make it a electoral issue in your area.
The only people with any control any more are the people at the TOP of the media, a few people in goverment and a few strongholds of media that are still independent. You aren't going to get the first two, so good luck with the third.
Isn't what has been done here exactly what was done with IBM's bios all those years ago? Black box reverse engineering. The author of the software has presumably not had access to the actual spec, but has instead worked out how to emulate it?
Probably already said, but in the UK we now enjoy free texting between networks. In fact, from most countries around the world we can freely text back and forth to the UK, and to other phones in that and other countries.
The exception I have come across is the USA. I bought a triband phone for my girlfriend who spends a lot of time in the US. Sometimes it manages to send text messages (LA seemed quite good, as did San Francisco), but other times it simply fails (and doesn't admit to it!) for example, chicago and washington.
It sometimes amazes me that she can keep contact from the third world, but not from the USA. Only recently has the advent of triband allowed her to even carry a mobile phone!
My point was that such behaviour will hopefully dissuade them from wanting to spam. I'm in the fortunate position that I can prevent it from my site, but others may have to reason with the unreasonable.
... because I'm the admin for a domain AND the tech director, so I have a policy that anyone who spams looses their email address for a week. I've not had any spam come out of my domain since that policy (actually I have, a customer's box was an open relay, but I fixed it quickly and efficiently.
However, as a bonus to those in my company who might feel they are loosing a sales channel here, I remind them of a few facts.
1) If you spam, you are likely to hit at least one person that's highly knowledgeable, and just as unethical as you are. This opens you up to a high chance of unwanted cracker attention (I'd use the word hacker here, it terrifies them more:)
2) It's amazing just how much BAD will these things generate, and some people will go out of their way to get your legitimate ISP to shut you down as well. A lot of ISPs will do this for fear of hitting the RBL.
3) Speaking of the RBL, there are some lists that will include you for taking part in this kind of behaviour. If you are traced (and that's by no means impossible), you could loose your email and internet lines.
A side note on that, I think the method used to signify that we use base ten was good. Re-use of symbols to demonstrate up to 15, pictorial reference of the numbers and of course binary backing it all up..
I kind of have a hard time following your reasoning. If the FBI really wants to go after someone using Carnivore you're going to bet they are doing more than just packet sniffing.
Umm, did you read the article? It's a packet sniffer with some intelligent filters. My only additional question is whether ISPs these days tend to use hubs or switches? Isn't a packet sniffer kinda pointless in a switched envrionment?
I just thought I'd lay out how close this is to the mass discrimination that is the core Science is evil plot device of the film. On of the scenes early on is where the "God Child" is refused entry to a school as he is an uninsurable risk. As this real world law filters through to company and corporate insurance schemes, all possible job candidates will get some simple genetic screening to ensure they will be covered under the mass insurance. If they won't be covered, they are pretty much unemployable, or can't even be part of mass education.
Someone suggested a while ago that we need to appoint at least one person in each government that is the science/technology advisor. This person has to be young, well paid and extremely knowledgeable. Their job is to vet out laws like this so that our idiot politicians don't get the chance to pander to big business as a trade off to our personal rights.
Any brits have any publically successful friends that have a logical turn of mind and technological knowledge that could apply to the house of lords selection committee? They are after all accepting public nominations this time around.
Well, that's good to hear.. At least we all now know exactly why it was that Sky never DID get the timeshift planner working. Making sure we all had to go out and buy the TiVo box! I for one don't really care too much (but it would have been nice to be able to time shift for the couple of years in between!), I would have bought the TiVo anyway! In fact, gimme two, no three!
Frankly if you remove the main system files of any operating system (eg, delete the windows directory as was suggested), it will probably crash. Try removing/bin from un*x, and see what happens.
this seems like a totally legitimate effort by microsoft to prepare people for the fact that they are going to expect them to move over to the NT platform in the near future.
Lets just pray all this doesn't push back the release of the TiVo that is being released for Sky digital satellite in the UK. Of course, once it has been released, we'll have all this again as all us brits sit and hack the box! Now, lets get nat, ipf and routing going on it, and it can be our house router as well:)
Because not everyone has a zip disk on their computer, and I am not aware (though that's not to say they don't exist!) of any minidisk data readers for PCs either..
Just a small point about this. If they are banned, and if the air crew can be on the lookout for violations, that will reduce the useage to one or two units.
Now I assume cell phones use Collision Detection networking methods, hence the more phones the noiser the airwaves get. If we reduce this to a few, it's less dangerous, hopefully to the point of being almost 100 percent safe..
And as someone else said. The nice guy sitting up top/in front in the left hand seat has done a lot of training to be there. He knows his plane VERY well. If he isn't sure about you using your cell phone, I don't think it's worth the risk..
Funnily enough, until recently I had laughed at the idea that mobiles would cause problems. Then, one day I put my Nokia 7110 down on my desk as it wandered off to some WAP site. I put it right beside my mouse and to my suprise the pointer started wandering across the screen. I've turned off my mobile in the terminal every time since..
first up, I don't like the guy's coding style one bit:)
Give the guy a break, how are you supposed to go about testing code like this, huh?
Seriously, apart from removing outlook from computers forcefully, what is the step to stopping this? (and it's impossible to remove it forcefully, try it, get a gun, point it at their heads and ask them to, they will complain)
The other problem here is not that data is lost due to simply disappearing. We also loose all the intermedate revisions of a document. All we end up with is the final final final, most recent draft.. I suspect (especially with politically sensitive reporting for historical purposes) that the intermediate copies could add a lot to the sum total of information.
If someone is white supremacist survivalist, they are going to get a steady diet of gun commercials and right wing commentators, reinforcing their beliefs rather than educating them about alternative views. This subverts the medium of television even further than it already has been subverted
That would be the case if the general populace was a bunch of right wingers. But in individual cases, we currently would not be tuning directly to them. Kinda like a technologicially enabled democracy. If more of you like it, we keep it, if not, it goes away.
But there are other concerns, too. In communist countries and Nazi Germany, people would get picked up and thrown in jail based on inferences about their ideology, derived from the flimsiest pieces of evidence: books they read, newspaper clippings they kept, remarks they made to friends.
Not to mention in non-communist countries like the good old US of A. McCarthyism anyone? Close to home than you seem think.
Things are likely to be much more subtle in the US. Data mining programs will make inferences from your viewing habits, possibly combined with your shopping habits, about lots of aspects of your life. Are you a home gardener or are you growing pot? How sexually active are you? What's your likelihood of developing heart disease? Are you a dangerous driver? Are you financially responsible?
And you think this information is available from what TV program you watch?
Overall, I think the world is suffering at the hands of a single TV program. The X-Files. It has led us to believe that there is a conspiracy behind every corner. Sure, there are some, but in many cases there are not. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, we are stuck with advertising, lets at least mould it so that it's targetted wisely.
I am in the lucky position of having my entire computer room fully racked (well, almost, there are three odd boxes, but other than that, lots of a machines in racks). I have to say, it would be next to impossible to have achieved this without creating my own private firetrap. It was possible to cut many of the cables to length (as all items are securely fixed) and cable tray anything else. My problem now is switching the outputs and inputs to a central source. The cheapest Keyboard/Video/Monitor switch I can find is somewhere in the region of UKP 800 for 12 machines. (That's about $1350). To me this seems outragous. Any ideas for that?
I don't know the situation, but all the share options I have come into contact with are companies that are just after first round funding. Hence, I would keep them until either the IPO or the company is bought by a bigger fish.
2) What was the increase (or decrease) in value ?
To ZERO, or 1000 percent increase seems to be the range:) You really need to evaluate if you think the management are financially aware enough to bring the company up in the financial markets.
3) Do you think it's a good idea ?
As long as you aren't actually taking a pay cut of any major proportion. Depending on the company it may be easier to simply take the difference in salary to Vegas.
4) What are the "gotchas" ?
It's partially a game of luck. Of course, in this game, if you are driven enough, and good enough, you can actually make it more likely that the value will increase.
Make sure you get some sort of shareholders agreement. It is probably possible for the company in question to devalue your options significantly by simple act of board meeting. It's unlikely as they would loose all staff overnight, but it is something to think about.
Personally, I wouldn't take a pay cut, but I would consider this a major incentive to joining a company. Shares are currently the easiest way to large sums of money (if you are lucky)
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Put antennas in suitable rooms that have a line/semi-line of sight. I believe you can get upto 155Mbps out of them, and they can pass through quite a lot. You may want to refer to them as 3^xx wavelength transmitters though. Fuddy duddy grant councils get scared by technology and might think their Grade 1 building will be cooked from the inside.
Warning, IANAMNE (Microwave Networking Expert), but search google.co.uk for microwave antenna indoor, check the uk only box, and you should find someone who is.
It's long been "common knowledge" (eg, possible fallacy that everyone holds to be true) that Canal+'s encryption was broken because European hackers wanted free access to the porn that's encrypted using it.
Sky's encryption however didn't shelter any porn and was therefore not worth the effort.
Amusingly enough, AFAIK, one of the major victims of this (ITV Digital in the UK) took on the encryption AFTER it had been publicly cracked.
OK, I completely understand the need to figure out what you can get up and do to fight something. However, I still have to point out the slight flaw in your idea. I have trouble teaching non-techies I know how to use Outlook sometimes. You really thing anyone that doesn't already agree with you will understand what your doing and why you're trying to do it with "street VB programming"?
I don't know what you can honestly do. I guess you can try and get the mainstream press to pick up on the idea somehow. Tell your friends and neighbours tell them to tell anyone they know in the press. Make it a electoral issue in your area.
The only people with any control any more are the people at the TOP of the media, a few people in goverment and a few strongholds of media that are still independent. You aren't going to get the first two, so good luck with the third.
Same goes for Vegas, only it's a different type of animal.
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Isaac Asimov. Who's yours?
I remember faces better than names. Have you tried another program?
What other program
Interesting question.
I've used lots of other programs
Where did you get your used lots of other programs? I have a lot of friends on the Internet.
Where did you meet your Internet friends
I think it was in San Francisco.
Do you like San Francisco
Yes but it is expensive.
Aren't you rich since you've won so many prizes
I don't know whether or not I am rich since I have won so many prizes. I am an artificial linguistic entity.
It was at this point I realised it wasn't a human ;)
Isn't 500MB only around 0.5-0.6Mb a second? Jeez, digital satellite is up in the 4-6Mb range, and that can be pretty poor at times!
Not really going to look good on those 40-50 inch tellies is it?
Isn't what has been done here exactly what was done with IBM's bios all those years ago? Black box reverse engineering. The author of the software has presumably not had access to the actual spec, but has instead worked out how to emulate it?
Probably already said, but in the UK we now enjoy free texting between networks. In fact, from most countries around the world we can freely text back and forth to the UK, and to other phones in that and other countries. The exception I have come across is the USA. I bought a triband phone for my girlfriend who spends a lot of time in the US. Sometimes it manages to send text messages (LA seemed quite good, as did San Francisco), but other times it simply fails (and doesn't admit to it!) for example, chicago and washington. It sometimes amazes me that she can keep contact from the third world, but not from the USA. Only recently has the advent of triband allowed her to even carry a mobile phone!
My point was that such behaviour will hopefully dissuade them from wanting to spam. I'm in the fortunate position that I can prevent it from my site, but others may have to reason with the unreasonable.
... because I'm the admin for a domain AND the tech director, so I have a policy that anyone who spams looses their email address for a week. I've not had any spam come out of my domain since that policy (actually I have, a customer's box was an open relay, but I fixed it quickly and efficiently.
:)
However, as a bonus to those in my company who might feel they are loosing a sales channel here, I remind them of a few facts.
1) If you spam, you are likely to hit at least one person that's highly knowledgeable, and just as unethical as you are. This opens you up to a high chance of unwanted cracker attention (I'd use the word hacker here, it terrifies them more
2) It's amazing just how much BAD will these things generate, and some people will go out of their way to get your legitimate ISP to shut you down as well. A lot of ISPs will do this for fear of hitting the RBL.
3) Speaking of the RBL, there are some lists that will include you for taking part in this kind of behaviour. If you are traced (and that's by no means impossible), you could loose your email and internet lines.
A side note on that, I think the method used to signify that we use base ten was good. Re-use of symbols to demonstrate up to 15, pictorial reference of the numbers and of course binary backing it all up..
I guess in this case, it would mean the box gets all the attempts at being hacked ;)
Umm, did you read the article? It's a packet sniffer with some intelligent filters. My only additional question is whether ISPs these days tend to use hubs or switches? Isn't a packet sniffer kinda pointless in a switched envrionment?
I just thought I'd lay out how close this is to the mass discrimination that is the core Science is evil plot device of the film. On of the scenes early on is where the "God Child" is refused entry to a school as he is an uninsurable risk. As this real world law filters through to company and corporate insurance schemes, all possible job candidates will get some simple genetic screening to ensure they will be covered under the mass insurance. If they won't be covered, they are pretty much unemployable, or can't even be part of mass education.
Someone suggested a while ago that we need to appoint at least one person in each government that is the science/technology advisor. This person has to be young, well paid and extremely knowledgeable. Their job is to vet out laws like this so that our idiot politicians don't get the chance to pander to big business as a trade off to our personal rights.
Any brits have any publically successful friends that have a logical turn of mind and technological knowledge that could apply to the house of lords selection committee? They are after all accepting public nominations this time around.
Well, that's good to hear.. At least we all now know exactly why it was that Sky never DID get the timeshift planner working. Making sure we all had to go out and buy the TiVo box! I for one don't really care too much (but it would have been nice to be able to time shift for the couple of years in between!), I would have bought the TiVo anyway! In fact, gimme two, no three!
this seems like a totally legitimate effort by microsoft to prepare people for the fact that they are going to expect them to move over to the NT platform in the near future.
Lets just pray all this doesn't push back the release of the TiVo that is being released for Sky digital satellite in the UK. Of course, once it has been released, we'll have all this again as all us brits sit and hack the box! Now, lets get nat, ipf and routing going on it, and it can be our house router as well :)
Everyone has a CD-ROM.
Now I assume cell phones use Collision Detection networking methods, hence the more phones the noiser the airwaves get. If we reduce this to a few, it's less dangerous, hopefully to the point of being almost 100 percent safe..
And as someone else said. The nice guy sitting up top/in front in the left hand seat has done a lot of training to be there. He knows his plane VERY well. If he isn't sure about you using your cell phone, I don't think it's worth the risk..
Funnily enough, until recently I had laughed at the idea that mobiles would cause problems. Then, one day I put my Nokia 7110 down on my desk as it wandered off to some WAP site. I put it right beside my mouse and to my suprise the pointer started wandering across the screen. I've turned off my mobile in the terminal every time since..
Give the guy a break, how are you supposed to go about testing code like this, huh?
Seriously, apart from removing outlook from computers forcefully, what is the step to stopping this? (and it's impossible to remove it forcefully, try it, get a gun, point it at their heads and ask them to, they will complain)
I assume a visit to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com will at least stop it from being run automatically?
The other problem here is not that data is lost due to simply disappearing. We also loose all the intermedate revisions of a document. All we end up with is the final final final, most recent draft.. I suspect (especially with politically sensitive reporting for historical purposes) that the intermediate copies could add a lot to the sum total of information.
If someone is white supremacist survivalist, they are going to get a steady diet of gun commercials and right wing commentators, reinforcing their beliefs rather than educating them about alternative views. This subverts the medium of television even further than it already has been subverted
That would be the case if the general populace was a bunch of right wingers. But in individual cases, we currently would not be tuning directly to them. Kinda like a technologicially enabled democracy. If more of you like it, we keep it, if not, it goes away.
But there are other concerns, too. In communist countries and Nazi Germany, people would get picked up and thrown in jail based on inferences about their ideology, derived from the flimsiest pieces of evidence: books they read, newspaper clippings they kept, remarks they made to friends.
Not to mention in non-communist countries like the good old US of A. McCarthyism anyone? Close to home than you seem think.
Things are likely to be much more subtle in the US. Data mining programs will make inferences from your viewing habits, possibly combined with your shopping habits, about lots of aspects of your life. Are you a home gardener or are you growing pot? How sexually active are you? What's your likelihood of developing heart disease? Are you a dangerous driver? Are you financially responsible?
And you think this information is available from what TV program you watch?
Overall, I think the world is suffering at the hands of a single TV program. The X-Files. It has led us to believe that there is a conspiracy behind every corner. Sure, there are some, but in many cases there are not. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, we are stuck with advertising, lets at least mould it so that it's targetted wisely.
I am in the lucky position of having my entire computer room fully racked (well, almost, there are three odd boxes, but other than that, lots of a machines in racks). I have to say, it would be next to impossible to have achieved this without creating my own private firetrap. It was possible to cut many of the cables to length (as all items are securely fixed) and cable tray anything else. My problem now is switching the outputs and inputs to a central source. The cheapest Keyboard/Video/Monitor switch I can find is somewhere in the region of UKP 800 for 12 machines. (That's about $1350). To me this seems outragous. Any ideas for that?
1) How long did you have to keep them ?
:) You really need to evaluate if you think the management are financially aware enough to bring the company up in the financial markets.
I don't know the situation, but all the share options I have come into contact with are companies that are just after first round funding. Hence, I would keep them until either the IPO or the company is bought by a bigger fish.
2) What was the increase (or decrease) in value ?
To ZERO, or 1000 percent increase seems to be the range
3) Do you think it's a good idea ?
As long as you aren't actually taking a pay cut of any major proportion. Depending on the company it may be easier to simply take the difference in salary to Vegas.
4) What are the "gotchas" ?
It's partially a game of luck. Of course, in this game, if you are driven enough, and good enough, you can actually make it more likely that the value will increase.
Make sure you get some sort of shareholders agreement. It is probably possible for the company in question to devalue your options significantly by simple act of board meeting. It's unlikely as they would loose all staff overnight, but it is something to think about.
Personally, I wouldn't take a pay cut, but I would consider this a major incentive to joining a company. Shares are currently the easiest way to large sums of money (if you are lucky)