The People's Republic of Cobra.
I haven't had a TV for years. I just watched the AFC playoff game streaming on CBS.com and it was excruciatingly worse than TV. Commercials are bad enough, but when they replay the same 7 commercials for 3 hours. Aaaaargh!
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First elevators that plunge you to your death via bad software no cars that drive you off of cliffs and killer robots. The tek ruining the future 1 day at a time.
National sports is one of those things that hasn't really reached the internet properly yet :/
Re: Smart TVs
Smart TVs displaying adds, and spying on consumers, are actually already illegal in my jurisdiction (Saskatchewan). It violates "The Consumer Protection and Business Practices Act" of Saskatchewan Section #19 b ii
http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/english/Chapters/2013/C30-2.pdf
I imagine they are on sale here, and many people own them already, but I am sure someone will eventually raise this issue with manufacturers, or take them to court.
Consumer protection legislation seems to be largely unknown, so it would be neat to look at what jurisdictions already have existing laws in place to prevent shenanigans like this.
p.s.
I would totally go to Lan Syndicate, but it isn't feasible at this time due to travel costs. An idea possibly would be to sell internet tickets (say $5-10) so that people can be apart of it via internet. Have a Lan Syndicate TS server, or other things to integrate the experience with the lan party itself.
I would like to point out that ethanol (ie the alcohol that we drink) is a diuretic. It causes dehydration which is what leads to the majority of the symptoms in a hangover. Based on that, there is no way to make a hangover free alcohol because it is the alcohol itself that causes the dehydration. So, more North Korean bullshit.
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Sure but most dark liqueurs and wines have a chemical in them that makes the hangover much, much worse. So you can make the pain much more tolerable by sticking to high quality vodka and avoiding everything else, even bear.
You guys need to have falling matrix code on all the monitors when the people come to visit.
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I could imagine someone running a thermal camera over the exterior of the house. Kinda like they did in Swordfish.
I use 3 monitors, main one is a Dell 24" Ultra thats 9 1/2 years old which I game & websurf , Samsung 19" wide screen(8 1/2 years old) I use in portrait mode for IRC, and a LG 20" wide screen( 4 1/2 years old) thats used for email, skype and other stuff. I use a GF660 ti vid card.
I could use another couple of monitors IF I had the money to buy them.
*Grey
That is all.
I have to disagree with the FBI on this, Child pornography is a crime. The children in these photos are victims. These photos should be eradicated in order to protect the victims(the children in the photos). As far as I'm concerned the FBI is as gulity of exploiting these children as the original criminals were.
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About the computer cluster that can break every Windows password.
At first I thought that it doesn't make sense, because if you try to break into a remote computer, the cluster has to sent every password combination over the network, and the target computer has to check every single one, so it depends on how fast the target computer is, not the cluster.
But then I read this line:
this cluster touches the 350 billion-guess-per-second speed while cracking password hashes generated by the NTLM cryptographic algorithm, that Microsoft uses in Windows operating systems.
If I understand this correctly, the cluster has a copy of the NT hash, so that it can check multiple combinations in parallel, without being bottlenecked by the target computer.
But that only works if you already have the NT hash, and the only way to get it is by installing malware on the target computer.
Also, if you already have the hash, you can just do a pass-the-hash attack, you don't need to brute force anything.
i think its just a braggin contest.
windows passwords can be removed very easily by running in cmd
net user max test
that will change the user account "max" password to "test"
Maybe I'm missing something but why did the FBI site actually have the pictures on that site? Surely they could have lured people in with the promise of content and then have that person realize they've been duped right? You don't accidentally make an account on a site that's promising stuff like this.
On the Smart TVs, can you just not plug an ethernet cable into them and have them work like dumb TVs? I've had my TV for 6 years now and it's starting to show it's age. The last thing I want is to deal with ads, firmware updates, etc on a TV of all things. No amount of -swipe your phone screen to have it appear on your TV!- will be worth that hassle
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I would assume based on my inconsiderable legal education through watching X-Files and NCIS that to be able to be successfully prosecute the perpetrators they would need to download the illegal material onto their computers. Simply viewing a site even if you make an account would be easily defended by a lawyer worth their salt.
Let's look at the results. They had one hundred thousand people sign up for this site and only made a hundred and thirty something arrests.
That is a pretty poor result for a very morally questionable operation.
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So since your moving can we get a house tour in its crazy state!?
Counting the number of people in a room was a thing a while back
http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2012-11/kinect-watching-you-watch-television-so-it-can-charge-you-body
so that is definitely coming
Quain's system with mirrors is good, just add zoom lens to kinect (saw it on sale in Sears) and mirror it to Barbie's doll house.
You can always have guests in armchair costumes
EDIT:
Regarding the password cracking cluster : @Logan 's comment with 17 characters is very off:
If it takes 5h for 8 characters, for 9 characters will take about 20 days, and for 10 characters 5.3 years...
this all assumes 96 possible characters in a password