Posts by Don H

Lizard Squad gang moves from PlayStation, Xbox Live attacks to Tor

Re: There are more than a million Tor relays?

"less than 1 % by capacity", not by number of nodes.

Heistmeisters crack cost of safecrackers with $150 widget

AC's comment about the dead zone for the last digit reminds me of a service call many years ago. A local bank did regularly change the combos on their ATM safes, but one time the (randomly) chosen combo had a last digit in the dead zone, and they forgot the rule... set the combo, shut the door, spun the dial, it "made a funny noise" and then the new combo didn't open the lock. A succession of locksmiths failed to open it. We eventually took a spare mechanism from stock and duplicated the setting process while observing the mechanism. It turned out that it had dragged one of the discs out of position, so it was just a case of trying numbers around the displaced position until we found it.

Face-recog tech spots US fugitive wanted for 14 years ... from a photo

In Nepal, on a tourist visa, working? Surely some mistake...or is Nepal not that worried about tourists working?

Doesn't do exactly what it says on the tin

Not without the DRM, you don't.

This one is for the UK version of The Inbetweeners:

http://4digitalcopy.com/how-to

Also see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_copy

http://www.wbdigitalcopy.com/support/v1/gettingstarted.html

Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth

Performance

The cabling advantages of 10base-2 went away with 10base-T, which went back to a star topology. It was educational to watch the utilization lights versus the collision lights on the hubs, behaving exactly as the theory predicted. Also, most original T-R cabling was done with Type 1, which was STP. It worked very well with Ethernet, either with baluns to terminate 10base-2 or adapters to terminate RJ-45. Installations going from T-R to 10base-T didn't have to replace their building wiring.

Back in 1991 I built a pair of lines for duplicating disks. Each line consisted of a server PC and 10 clients which pulled files from the server. One line was linked by 4Mbps T-R, one by 10Mbps 10base-2. For 1-to-1 duplicating, the T-R line took 12 minutes and the Ethernet line took 10 minutes. For 1-to-10 duplicating, the T-R line took 20 minutes and the Ethernet line took an hour and 20.

Eventually, switches replaced hubs and T-R's main performance advantage evaporated.

LOHAN demonstrates impressive sucking skills

Re: Temperature vs. Pump Lubricant Viscosity

Avoid the problem by not cooling the chamber until the required pressure (vacuum) is achieved. Also consider that the compressor and its lubricant was designed for low-temperature use. Finally, it's a compressor. Chickens go in, pies come out. Or something like that.

Re: Temperature vs. Pump Lubricant Viscosity

Avoid the problem by not cooling the chamber until the required pressure (vacuum) is achieved. Also consider that the compressor and its lubricant was designed for low-temperature use. Finally, it's a compressor. Chickens go in, pies come out. Or something like that. bv

MPs rattle telcos to help kill extremist material online

Mummy's boys

" ... Although there are statutory powers under the Terrorism Act 2006 for law enforcement agencies to order unlawful material to be removed from the internet, the committee recommends that internet service providers themselves should be more active in monitoring the material they host, with appropriate guidance, advice and support from the government. ... "

Oh, come on. If you have the powers, use them. Don't try and hide behind an ISP's skirts.

UK could have flooded world with iPods - Sir Humphrey

Re: Posted Right Here

As the Brennan example shows, the main reason that "no-one gets prosecuted for ripping their CDs to their MP3 player" is because there's no money in it. The moment someone with deep enough pockets comes along, the rights holders will be into them. They may or may not win (remember the Diamond Rio case in the USA) but the expense of defending the case is most certainly a "chilling effect" to a startup.

New NZ copyright law means ISPs could cash in

Don't let the temptation of a snappy byline bite you in the behind.

Profit? You have no idea. How much do you think it would cost per notice to comply with the following requirements? (Note also that the costs of setting up systems to comply with the requirements is non-recoverable.)

48.1 Receiving a notice from a rights owner and checking that it complies with the Regulations (including whether it has been sent within the on-notice period);

48.2 Processing notice payment and invoicing;

48.3 Matching IP address to one of its account holders;

48.4 Determining whether an account holder has received a previous Detection Notice or Warning Notice from the same rights owner or agent (i.e. cross checking against logged rights owners as well) and then:

48.4.1 Checking if any on-notice period has expired; and

48.4.2 Deciding which type of Infringement Notice to send to the account holder;

48.5 Sending a Detection Notice (assuming this is a “first strike”);

48.6 Receiving any challenge from an account holder;

48.7 Forwarding the challenge to the rights owner;

48.8 Receiving the rights owner’s response to the challenge;

48.9 Forwarding that response to the account holder;

48.10 Updating records in the event that a challenge is accepted (as this negates the impact of the relevant Infringement Notice and records will have to be adjusted accordingly);

48.11 Receiving calls at the IPAP’s customer call centre (even if rights owners or The Ministry of Economic Development sets up a call centre or funds an independent one);

48.12 Repeating all of the above actions with respect to subsequent notices from the rights owner generating Warning Notices and Enforcement Notices;

48.13 Likely escalating calls to call centres, as the process progresses through later stages, particularly if account holder alleges innocence. At this stage, both technical and/or legal questions may be relatively complex and, despite the fact that IPAPs are not responsible for the content of allegations, inevitably, they will be called on to provide guidance;

48.14 Editing an Enforcement Notice sent to an account holder so that it can be sent to a rights owner without any information identifying that account holder, in compliance with section 122F(5) of the Act;

48.15 Sending the edited copy of the Enforcement Notice to the rights owner;

48.16 Responding to a request from the Copyright Tribunal for copies of all notices, in compliance with section122J(3);

48.17 Providing further evidence to the Tribunal. We note that the Tribunal processes are not being consulted on at this stage but we need to flag now that the per notice cost needs to cover the situation where the IPAP is called on by the Tribunal to provide further evidence. The obvious situation where this may occur is where an account holder alleges that it was not using its account at the time the infringement was alleged to have taken place. The only person who can answer that question is the IPAP and we therefore expect that this will not be an unusual circumstance;

48.18 Storing all information in accordance with section 122T(2) of the Act; and

48.19 Complying with the reporting obligations in section 122T(4) of the Act.