Huh. Today I learned about Content-Type "multipart/x-mixed-replace". The webcam images are jpegs that are continously replaced by the server in the same HTTP response. It's the smoothest live webcam transmission I've seen so far.
Relevant headers:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=--myboundary
Content-Length: 99999999
Cache-control: no-cache, must revalidate
tldr: I wrote a JavaScript "virus" for our school's (unofficial) message board. I was banned for years. In a thread about that webcam, I made the above facetious apology.
Longer version: premium users of The Wolf Web were granted full html/javascript abilities. I probably never would have bothered to become premium, except every year the site hosted an Egg Hunt, which involves staying online as long as you can during a 24 hour period to claim "eggs" that are randomly assigned to you. The person who gets the most eggs wins premium status for a year. Two friends and I decided to win the competition by working in shifts and we indeed won. The fact that there were veteran users, some with over 50k posts, and we won with a new alias just added insult to injury.
While playing around with my newfound html abilities, I realized that I could write an auto-submitting form; I decided to write a virus. It was totally ugly; for technical reasons related to the payload, I wrote the entire thing on one line, used the shortest variable names possible, and it was pretty much untested. The way it worked is, when a premium user clicked on a thread with the payload, they would automatically submit a new thread with the payload included. I'm still proud of one feature: it would pull recent thread titles, so they would appear to be legitimate threads that had been bumped. I call it a virus, but it didn't do much besides spread for a few days before they disabled it. Anyway, all of my accounts were promptly banned. Somehow, I used some social engineering to convince an admin who had been away to unban me. It worked, but I never used the account.
That rack was used for the development of the Rocks Cluster system back in its heyday. Rocks creator, Phil Papadopoulos, is the brother of former Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos.
EDIT: Someone panned the camera to the other side of the room. Pardon the cable spaghetti - that rack is temporary.
Gosh I remember walking around my college campus one day and coming across some random computer cluster in the CS building, hopped onto one of the machines (that said "Sun Microsystems" embossed somewhere one it), proceeding to be utterly confused by the KDE applications and interface. (I was purely a Win user back then)
I'm now typing this post from an Ubuntu box that I built last week. I guess I've progressed a little bit ;)
It says ANLEMC-Titan. Googling for ANLEMC reveals it has to do with telepresence microscopy. That leads me to believe that machine may be a FEI Company Titan electron microscope:
Well, my ability to differentiate the two is admittedly rather limited (though I hope more accurate than a coin flip), so you might be right. On the other hand, it could've been a different movie by the time you saw it.
Taiwanese -> Complicated Letters
Chinese -> Less complicated letters
Japanese -> Rounder letters.
Just a rule of thumb. The modern chinese letters are a simplified version of those taiwan still uses, and describe entire words. Whilst Chinese is looks more stroked, Japanese looks a little more organic, even though yes, unless you know either of them, they're still hard to differentiate.
The popularity of snooping on other people's lives will never cease to amaze me. Some of the sentiment in this thread is what has powered ww.com for 15 years now, and I still don't get it.
Most of these cameras appear to have been set up for an organization to look at itself, or for customers to look at their own stuff. I haven't come across any that appear to have been set up with creepy creeper intent.
Yet the aggregate effect of all these inexpensive cameras is categorically different than that of any single camera alone. Today these are crappy lo-res cameras, but as bandwidth costs decrease these will become supplanted by high res cameras that can count the pores on your skin and recognition systems that do just that.
Welcome to the future, courtesy of those who are not complaining.
Once i wrote SurveillanceSaver. A screensaver with random webcam streams. Eventually Google blocked searching for cameras and people recognized their cameras are unprotected.
http://i.document.m05.de/?page_id=438
For those are curious about how the guy found all these webcams. Here is the answer from his FAQ:
Various techniques. A lot of cameras can be found using Google if you know which search string to use (and you have a lot of patience). I also used Shodan (a search engine created by John Matherly) to get a large number of potential webcam feeds. If you've never heard of Shodan before, I recommend watching these videos by Dan Tentler. Whilst I'm hat-tipping people, I should also give a shout-out to the /r/controllablewebcams community on reddit who helped promote this viewer.
Wow, this is both terrifying and fascinating. The FAQ mentioned viewing these is a legal grey area. Anybody know about the legality of this in the United States?
This is amazing but also sad at the same time. Its amazing that people don't realize what connecting something to the internet means but sad because I've found some webcams inside peoples homes, I won't post the URLs for their own safety/privacy.
It's creepier than you think, currently the first feed you gave they are in bed and the guy is playing on what look like a Nintendo 3DS and he is naked...
Ah of course, I thought it was truncated. Using my German to translate Dutch, not always successful :) Love the similarities, "Kammer" means "compartment" or "small room" in German.
Does anyone know how these open streaming webcams are detected? Do they stream on a particular port? By the way, this is really creepy and the people having those webcams should at least be aware of it.
It seems a lot of these places have webcams. I guess it makes sense, if there's a dogfight or a dog attacks a trainer you'd want some video evidence of it.
I have the same issue with 22.0a2 (2013-04-06). Aurora went unresponsive, does not respond to SIGTERM.
It even managed to exhaust all my memory when I wasn't using the computer while the page loaded, when I came back to the computer I couldn't start any new processes - Not even a shell or tty.
I'm not sure how it does the geolocation but it doesn't seem to be terribly accurate in every case. I've seen cameras that claim to be located in inland locations that are on beaches (like http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11495 which the site says is in a Seattle suburb but is actually on the Oregon coast)
Indeed, but I think we have to realize that not all these open cameras are security failings. Some universities and towns just have open cameras so that curious people can watch. I know that Purdue had one near where the band would practice marching so that parents could see the band more frequently.
Relevant headers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Mixed-Replace