They are considered a service provider. By legal precedent, they're not required to police the content their users post for copyright violations. SO a scene from a movie in production is posted to YouTube. How is YouTube supposed to know the person posting it isn't a marketing rep for the studio who is generating pre-release buzz? The policy that's outlined here is keeping with the same copyright policies that other service providers (mYSpace, AOL, etc.) follow.
It is the copyright holder's responsibility to cruise the internet looking for violations of their intellectual property. There are entire companies that contract out for this policing service.
Do people know anything about the OCP certification? Is there respect in the industry for it? I'm 2/5 through the process (DBA) and would like to know if it's worth the effort and $$.
Just to repeat several other posts beneath this topic, the quasar data doesn't provide the key or password for the encryption. It provides randomness in the salt added to the encrypted data. So, even if you tracked down all known values for the quasar data, you still would have to figure out that Professor Falken's son was named 'Jerome' which was the password he used to encrypt the whole shebang.
This is really just a sensationalized and impractical solution to an easy problem. You could get just as messy a salt for your encryption algorithm by having the end-user point a webcam at a randomly-selected page from an old Sears catalog and then use image recognition algorithms to gather highlight data from the image. Since there is a LOT of variability in how the image is sized and what portion of what page was selected, this could provide a much more practical source for salting encryption.
But then, that wouldn't be as flashy and dumb VC's would be less likely to invest in a solution based on old Sears Roebuck catalogs.
I appreciate your comments and believe me, I've been strongly considering these options. I'm sticking it out, though, because I want this on my resume. After it's live, I'm outta here.
I'm the lone developer in my state agency's "website department". We have over 250 employees and huge information publishing needs. Like the submitter, we are in the midst of a website redesign using a commercial CMS. A county spent 6 months with a staff of four programmers to build their site with the newer version of this software. I was asked to do it in 3 months by myself. I'm spending entire weekends and nights in my cubicle coding this thing in JSP. No overtime pay. It's a month past deadline and if I don't finish it by the end of next week, I'm fired.
Morale to this story: working for the government sucks as much as people say it does.
Actually the library of titles is vast. Unfortunately, in order to play the non-Halo games, you have to solder something on your motherboard, load some special binary, then you can run an emulator that supports a lot of games.
RSS feeds pointing at specific company or job filters. Instead of getting an email for each crap job, I'd like to have my browser alert me when new openings match my criteria.
...countries ruled by repressive Communist regimes
It has been said by an old Russian general that there really is no difference between the United States and Russia. The only distinction is that in Russia, citizens know they're not free.
For a country that's struggling to graduate more engineers and scientists, a program like this provides more support and incentive for students pursuing these degrees. The employees at a supercollider aren't just the principal scientists. There are also hundreds of lab tech jobs to be filled by grad students and PHd candidates.
Seth
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Sounds like they aren't going to be able to maintain the all-you-can-use service for only $25 much longer.
Yeah, that's a lot of money for marketing. But, I think they're probably explaining it to investors that it's an initial hump that's already been jumped. Now that they've established themselves as the most known VOIP company, they can coast and retain the marketshare they have and harvest those $25-a-month subscriptions for several years. This is all a guess on my part, though.
The US Government should do a resume audit to find out who actually went to college and worked where they say they did. But, of course, this will never happen.
The NSA has been performing this task for decades. They've probably got interns running the audits now. The thing is, they just sit on this information waiting for it to be valuable. Like when they need to apply pressure on or discredit someone.
While this camera was developed at the university of Wisconsin, it will be installed at a facility in Geneva, Switzerland.
We had the opportunity to deploy this in America.
The Super Conducting Supercollider project in Waxahachie, TX was a federal basic science research project that lost its funding and was dismantled in 1993. The tunnel was dug. All the technological hurdles seemed to be jumpable. But the American people were less than interested in funding stuff that wasn't directly translatable into tastier hamburgers or cooler cars. The Democrat-led congress cancelled the $2 billion budget and America resigned itself to let other countries lead in this field.
I only mention the 'democrat-led' congress because I do not believe they have earned the slurr of 'tax-and-spend-liberals'. This is one example why.
Hmm, democracy in action. Who can be against that?
Anyone who doesn't hold a majority opinion on something would be against that. In terms of RVW, the majority seems to support it across the nation. In popular vote, it might lose in a few fundamentalist states like Utah, Oklahoma, and Kansas. While you've got them at the polls, you might as well have them pass some referendums against Hip Hop music & videos being broadcast on public airwaves and prohibitions on homosexuals walking within 1000 feet of an elementary school. Hey, it's democracy. Will of the people in action...
I can appreciate your idealism. I'm a hobbyist photojournalist and I've gotten pissed during every one of the run-ins I've had with people trying to tell me not to shoot photos or trying to take my film. The worst is when it's cops telling me to stop taking photos and I have to obey because to not obey is to disregard a command from a police officer, which can get you taken to jail. In any case, there's never a scenario where cops or other people can take my film.
But back to the issue. I think you need to remember that you have a right to shoot a photograph (video is the same thing) of anyone or anything while you are standing on public property. Whether it's going to be published or not is irrelevant. When you set foot on private property, it's a whole different ballgame. The distinction that most people are ignoring is that a shopping mall is private property. So is a strip club, a hotel hallway, a living room, or a restaurant. Try busting out a video camera at a strip club. You'll have bouncers piling on top of you as if you had whipped out a pistol. Why? The proprietor of the strip club can be sued by patrons if the tape is used to identify them being at the venue. Ultimately, there are liability issues with any visitor to private property shooting photographs of other people on that property. If the owner understands these issues, he or she is within their rights to dictate to visitors what behavior is acceptable on their property. If you violate these parameters by shooting photos or video, they are within their rights to ask you to leave.
"If you're standing on public property, you can shoot anything the naked eye can see...
Photographing the outside of buildings - schools, hospitals, and even government buildings - is also legal. It's when you go inside that you need permission."
If you reflect light at me no one should have the right to prevent me from capturing it.
These private property - fotography laws aren't just to create draconian restrictions. Some part of the reasoning is to protect the privacy of people who believe they are on private property. By your argument, toilet cams should be acceptable. If I visit your home and say I'm going to use the restroom in the master bedroom, I should be able to drop a wireless X10 camera in the master bedroom to supervise you and your spouse reflecting light at my device.
In Texas and many other states, this is a felony.
Of course you do have rights if I photographed your copyrighted material. I should still be able to photograph it if I'm allowed to see it but I cannot sell/distribute said photos because the work belongs to you.
Unlike a book you've purchased and photocopy per your fair use rights, when you pay to see a topless dancer or a stage play, you have not purchased fair use rights to their works. Those performers depend on repeat ticket purchases to fund their apartment rent. If the property owner forbids photography of one of these performances, they may ask you to leave the premises... that is their right as a property owner.
The text of the EFF lawsuit requests damages of $100 per day for each day the violation occurred or $10,000 (whichever is greater) be paid to each class member. Sure beats getting a coupon for $10 off our next purchase of a bill of rights.
If Google had instead continued to reject them, then China would miss out on Google. The onus would be on THEM to change, because they want google and recognize its value.
I think you're really overestimating the uniqueness of Google. In this situation, China was fine with blocking Google forever. They'd either cut a deal with MSN, Yahoo, Altavista, etc. or let their own hundreds of thousands of engineers build a Chinese Google-like search tool.
The other factor prompting Google to cave in is that they're a publicly-traded company that has to answer to shareholders instead of their principles. If the CEO would have let another company squeeze them out of the Chinese market, he'd be booted right out of his job. The market value of the stock would have dropped and all those rich google employees would be less so.
When the Chinese Google appeared, I went over there to see if my own website would appear or if it was censored. I did a search for 'Austin Skate Notes'. It showed up as the first result. But the second result is a link to a photo album deeply nested in my site that contains photos I shot at a George Bush Protest in Austin. I was kind of surprised because it's not linked to from other sites that I know of and I have other content on my site that talks about the new Shanghai skatepark and Chinese-made skate decks.
When you search 'Austin Skate Notes' on the American Google, the Bush protest does not appear on the first page of results. It's interesting to me that the Chinese Google thinks visitors would be more interested in the protest photos than American Google users.
Why doesn't Oracle just acknowledge the problem and then fix it?
Oracle's DB products are unbelievably complex pieces of code which support tens of thousands of dependencies from other pieces of code, many of which weren't even created by Oracle. It's not as simple as, "Hey. Let's throw this patch out on our website and tell everyone to install it."
This dude shows up with some kind of exploit and then has the gall to dictate to Oracle what their bugfix release schedule should be?!? That's a real narrow view of the situation. Not only are they having to design a fix for the exploit in the current version, but they have to ensure it doesn't conflict with their future versions currently in development. And then they have to do regression testing to ensure it doesn't break dependencies. And then they gotta give it out to their customers who will also be running the same kind of regression tests before they deploy the patch to their live servers.
As an Oracle customer, I'd prefer that they release cumulative fixes on an established schedule rather than ring a Defcon 1 alarm whenever someone finds a bug that may not even impact my installation. Releasing patches as one-off fixes causes more headache for the customer in repetitive testing. As it is, Oracle publishes bugfixes quarterly, and they probably didn't have time to fit this fix into their testing matrix, etc. by the time they were notified of the problem. They also probably evaluated the bug and determined it didn't pose that much of a risk.
I'm not saying Oracle customers shouldn't demand quick turnarounds on bugfixes, but this guy kind of comes across as a control-freak who wanted to make a big corporation jump through a hoop and when they didn't, he went crybabying to securityfocus.
"Today I am giving formal notice to Russia that the United States of America is withdrawing from this almost 30-year-old treaty," Bush said in the White House Rose Garden. "I have concluded the ABM treaty hinders our government's ability to develop ways to protect our people from future terrorist or rogue state missile attacks."
President GW Bush, December 14, 2001
Unilaterally abandoning a treaty when it suits the interests of a country doesn't instill trust within members of the international community. It also puts us in the position of a hypocrit when complaining about Iran violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it has signed.
even if you type in sex you get 95% of the site returned to be heath sites.
I think the reason you're seeing those results is that your google preferences have 'safe search' enabled. That's one mechanism they've implemented to achieve the effect you're describing.
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They are considered a service provider. By legal precedent, they're not required to police the content their users post for copyright violations. SO a scene from a movie in production is posted to YouTube. How is YouTube supposed to know the person posting it isn't a marketing rep for the studio who is generating pre-release buzz? The policy that's outlined here is keeping with the same copyright policies that other service providers (mYSpace, AOL, etc.) follow.
It is the copyright holder's responsibility to cruise the internet looking for violations of their intellectual property. There are entire companies that contract out for this policing service.
Seth
Do people know anything about the OCP certification? Is there respect in the industry for it? I'm 2/5 through the process (DBA) and would like to know if it's worth the effort and $$.
Seth
The difference being that now Thinkpads are constructed AND designed in China.
Seth
Just to repeat several other posts beneath this topic, the quasar data doesn't provide the key or password for the encryption. It provides randomness in the salt added to the encrypted data. So, even if you tracked down all known values for the quasar data, you still would have to figure out that Professor Falken's son was named 'Jerome' which was the password he used to encrypt the whole shebang. This is really just a sensationalized and impractical solution to an easy problem. You could get just as messy a salt for your encryption algorithm by having the end-user point a webcam at a randomly-selected page from an old Sears catalog and then use image recognition algorithms to gather highlight data from the image. Since there is a LOT of variability in how the image is sized and what portion of what page was selected, this could provide a much more practical source for salting encryption.
But then, that wouldn't be as flashy and dumb VC's would be less likely to invest in a solution based on old Sears Roebuck catalogs.
Seth
I appreciate your comments and believe me, I've been strongly considering these options. I'm sticking it out, though, because I want this on my resume. After it's live, I'm outta here.
Seth
I'm the lone developer in my state agency's "website department". We have over 250 employees and huge information publishing needs. Like the submitter, we are in the midst of a website redesign using a commercial CMS. A county spent 6 months with a staff of four programmers to build their site with the newer version of this software. I was asked to do it in 3 months by myself. I'm spending entire weekends and nights in my cubicle coding this thing in JSP. No overtime pay. It's a month past deadline and if I don't finish it by the end of next week, I'm fired.
Morale to this story: working for the government sucks as much as people say it does.
Seth
Dave,
Thanks for posting this plug for your site. I've bookmarked it.
Seth
Actually the library of titles is vast. Unfortunately, in order to play the non-Halo games, you have to solder something on your motherboard, load some special binary, then you can run an emulator that supports a lot of games.
Seth
RSS feeds pointing at specific company or job filters. Instead of getting an email for each crap job, I'd like to have my browser alert me when new openings match my criteria.
Seth
I agree!
Seth
It has been said by an old Russian general that there really is no difference between the United States and Russia. The only distinction is that in Russia, citizens know they're not free.
For a country that's struggling to graduate more engineers and scientists, a program like this provides more support and incentive for students pursuing these degrees. The employees at a supercollider aren't just the principal scientists. There are also hundreds of lab tech jobs to be filled by grad students and PHd candidates.
Seth
Sounds like they aren't going to be able to maintain the all-you-can-use service for only $25 much longer.
Yeah, that's a lot of money for marketing. But, I think they're probably explaining it to investors that it's an initial hump that's already been jumped. Now that they've established themselves as the most known VOIP company, they can coast and retain the marketshare they have and harvest those $25-a-month subscriptions for several years. This is all a guess on my part, though.
Seth
Not to mention the need to avoid incredible distractions to stay alert for developing threats.
Seth
The US Government should do a resume audit to find out who actually went to college and worked where they say they did. But, of course, this will never happen.
The NSA has been performing this task for decades. They've probably got interns running the audits now. The thing is, they just sit on this information waiting for it to be valuable. Like when they need to apply pressure on or discredit someone.
Seth
While this camera was developed at the university of Wisconsin, it will be installed at a facility in Geneva, Switzerland.
We had the opportunity to deploy this in America.
The Super Conducting Supercollider project in Waxahachie, TX was a federal basic science research project that lost its funding and was dismantled in 1993. The tunnel was dug. All the technological hurdles seemed to be jumpable. But the American people were less than interested in funding stuff that wasn't directly translatable into tastier hamburgers or cooler cars. The Democrat-led congress cancelled the $2 billion budget and America resigned itself to let other countries lead in this field.
I only mention the 'democrat-led' congress because I do not believe they have earned the slurr of 'tax-and-spend-liberals'. This is one example why.
Hmm, democracy in action. Who can be against that?
Anyone who doesn't hold a majority opinion on something would be against that. In terms of RVW, the majority seems to support it across the nation. In popular vote, it might lose in a few fundamentalist states like Utah, Oklahoma, and Kansas. While you've got them at the polls, you might as well have them pass some referendums against Hip Hop music & videos being broadcast on public airwaves and prohibitions on homosexuals walking within 1000 feet of an elementary school. Hey, it's democracy. Will of the people in action...
Seth
I can appreciate your idealism. I'm a hobbyist photojournalist and I've gotten pissed during every one of the run-ins I've had with people trying to tell me not to shoot photos or trying to take my film. The worst is when it's cops telling me to stop taking photos and I have to obey because to not obey is to disregard a command from a police officer, which can get you taken to jail. In any case, there's never a scenario where cops or other people can take my film.
But back to the issue. I think you need to remember that you have a right to shoot a photograph (video is the same thing) of anyone or anything while you are standing on public property. Whether it's going to be published or not is irrelevant. When you set foot on private property, it's a whole different ballgame. The distinction that most people are ignoring is that a shopping mall is private property. So is a strip club, a hotel hallway, a living room, or a restaurant. Try busting out a video camera at a strip club. You'll have bouncers piling on top of you as if you had whipped out a pistol. Why? The proprietor of the strip club can be sued by patrons if the tape is used to identify them being at the venue. Ultimately, there are liability issues with any visitor to private property shooting photographs of other people on that property. If the owner understands these issues, he or she is within their rights to dictate to visitors what behavior is acceptable on their property. If you violate these parameters by shooting photos or video, they are within their rights to ask you to leave.
Public property is a sidewalk, park, street, or government building (library, school, etc.). Here's a short article about this whole topic of harrassing photographers on public property. From the article:
Seth
If you reflect light at me no one should have the right to prevent me from capturing it.
These private property - fotography laws aren't just to create draconian restrictions. Some part of the reasoning is to protect the privacy of people who believe they are on private property. By your argument, toilet cams should be acceptable. If I visit your home and say I'm going to use the restroom in the master bedroom, I should be able to drop a wireless X10 camera in the master bedroom to supervise you and your spouse reflecting light at my device.
In Texas and many other states, this is a felony.
Of course you do have rights if I photographed your copyrighted material. I should still be able to photograph it if I'm allowed to see it but I cannot sell/distribute said photos because the work belongs to you.
Unlike a book you've purchased and photocopy per your fair use rights, when you pay to see a topless dancer or a stage play, you have not purchased fair use rights to their works. Those performers depend on repeat ticket purchases to fund their apartment rent. If the property owner forbids photography of one of these performances, they may ask you to leave the premises... that is their right as a property owner.
Seth
The text of the EFF lawsuit requests damages of $100 per day for each day the violation occurred or $10,000 (whichever is greater) be paid to each class member. Sure beats getting a coupon for $10 off our next purchase of a bill of rights.
Seth
If Google had instead continued to reject them, then China would miss out on Google. The onus would be on THEM to change, because they want google and recognize its value.
I think you're really overestimating the uniqueness of Google. In this situation, China was fine with blocking Google forever. They'd either cut a deal with MSN, Yahoo, Altavista, etc. or let their own hundreds of thousands of engineers build a Chinese Google-like search tool.
The other factor prompting Google to cave in is that they're a publicly-traded company that has to answer to shareholders instead of their principles. If the CEO would have let another company squeeze them out of the Chinese market, he'd be booted right out of his job. The market value of the stock would have dropped and all those rich google employees would be less so.
Seth
When the Chinese Google appeared, I went over there to see if my own website would appear or if it was censored. I did a search for 'Austin Skate Notes'. It showed up as the first result. But the second result is a link to a photo album deeply nested in my site that contains photos I shot at a George Bush Protest in Austin. I was kind of surprised because it's not linked to from other sites that I know of and I have other content on my site that talks about the new Shanghai skatepark and Chinese-made skate decks.
When you search 'Austin Skate Notes' on the American Google, the Bush protest does not appear on the first page of results. It's interesting to me that the Chinese Google thinks visitors would be more interested in the protest photos than American Google users.
Seth
Why doesn't Oracle just acknowledge the problem and then fix it?
Oracle's DB products are unbelievably complex pieces of code which support tens of thousands of dependencies from other pieces of code, many of which weren't even created by Oracle. It's not as simple as, "Hey. Let's throw this patch out on our website and tell everyone to install it."
This dude shows up with some kind of exploit and then has the gall to dictate to Oracle what their bugfix release schedule should be?!? That's a real narrow view of the situation. Not only are they having to design a fix for the exploit in the current version, but they have to ensure it doesn't conflict with their future versions currently in development. And then they have to do regression testing to ensure it doesn't break dependencies. And then they gotta give it out to their customers who will also be running the same kind of regression tests before they deploy the patch to their live servers.
As an Oracle customer, I'd prefer that they release cumulative fixes on an established schedule rather than ring a Defcon 1 alarm whenever someone finds a bug that may not even impact my installation. Releasing patches as one-off fixes causes more headache for the customer in repetitive testing. As it is, Oracle publishes bugfixes quarterly, and they probably didn't have time to fit this fix into their testing matrix, etc. by the time they were notified of the problem. They also probably evaluated the bug and determined it didn't pose that much of a risk.
I'm not saying Oracle customers shouldn't demand quick turnarounds on bugfixes, but this guy kind of comes across as a control-freak who wanted to make a big corporation jump through a hoop and when they didn't, he went crybabying to securityfocus.
Seth
To add to your list--
"Today I am giving formal notice to Russia that the United States of America is withdrawing from this almost 30-year-old treaty," Bush said in the White House Rose Garden. "I have concluded the ABM treaty hinders our government's ability to develop ways to protect our people from future terrorist or rogue state missile attacks."
President GW Bush, December 14, 2001
Unilaterally abandoning a treaty when it suits the interests of a country doesn't instill trust within members of the international community. It also puts us in the position of a hypocrit when complaining about Iran violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it has signed.
Seth
even if you type in sex you get 95% of the site returned to be heath sites.
I think the reason you're seeing those results is that your google preferences have 'safe search' enabled. That's one mechanism they've implemented to achieve the effect you're describing.
Seth