People who know what they are doing can easily add an exception for a test or in-house cert. People who don't know what they are doing are less likely to be taken in by a phishing site using a self-signed cert. So, what's the problem?
I've worked in the field of law enforcement data sharing. Fact is that most law enforcement agencies are either islands of automation or very loosely connected to other agencies. The stuff you see in TV and movies ("24") is a fantasy. Adjacent towns and cities rarely share information, and this lack of knowledge can put members of their police force in danger (for instance when making a traffic stop).
A few years ago, the DOJ kicked off a sharing initiative with the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM). This is an XML based specification for exchanging law enforcement data that was developed at Georgia Tech. I was involved in an initiative in Ohio to share police record management system information at a state level. The system was deployed and is operational today.
GJXDM has been superseded by the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). It should be noted that the NIEM model is even more complex than it's predecessor and tends to break many XML tools.
The data exchanged tends to be fairly rudimentary and fairly sparse - arrests, bookings, warrants. Nevertheless, most agencies, and most states have either not implemented data sharing or are in the earliest stages of doing so.
They were no doubt concerned about an incident between paid visitors and ISS personnel resulting in the headline: "In Soviet Russia Tourists Space You!".
Let me guess -- you're not in sales, marketing, or management . ..
I presume you are referring to applying a mere technical solution to a social problem. I'm sure CES will put a great deal of hurt on Gizmodo. Still, that's unlikely to stop copy cats at future shows. You're not going to solve the general problem of some people acting like jerks at public events. So, put some tape on the IR ports and lets move on.
A couple of years ago my SD tube TV died so I went out and got an HD LCD set. It had a variety of different inputs including DVI (with HDCP support), but did not have HDMI. My wife just purchased a home theatre for Christmas. I spent a few hours wiring it up, and fired up the DVD. Used a HDMI to DVI cable. Looked great at 480P, so I looked around the menu to turn on upscaling. It was greyed out.
After a lengthy call with tech support (and being transferred to several different people), I finally discovered that my TV has an earlier (two year old version) of HDCP. The home theatre uses a newer version and rather than support and do a hand-shake with the back-rev HDCP, it simply disables upscaling. So, if I want higher (interpolated) resolution, I can buy a new HDTV. Gee, thanks a lot Hollywood.
Screwing early adopters is a great business strategy. Right up there with suing your customers. Needless to say, I will not be in the market for an HD / Blu-ray DVD in the near future.
They've ramped production from 500 thousand / month at release to 1.8 million / month now. That's a pretty sizable production increase. More importantly, I'm not hearing news about DOA units, so they've (so far) avoided compromises in quality while more than tripling production. So, yeah, they completely messed up on demand forecasting. As far as the production ramp-up, I think they've done well.
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"We don't really want to (and we're not really sure where the source code is)"
I know plenty of COBOL programmers - if the state of California can't find any, they must not be looking very hard.
People who know what they are doing can easily add an exception for a test or in-house cert. People who don't know what they are doing are less likely to be taken in by a phishing site using a self-signed cert. So, what's the problem?
Wow, you mean they're still publishing that?
I ride the local bike trails near my home while listening (thank you Leo Laporte) to tech podcasts. So far I've riden 700 miles this year.
Call me when they find salt, tequila, and Margarita mix. I'll bring my own glass (and lime).
I guess I was imagining all those attacks on port 22 (ssh) from China in my server logs.
Yeah, I saw that 'Die Hard' movie.
When George Bush came into office, we had sunspots and nine planets. Now ...
Maybe. Just maybe it's real. Yeah, and maybe I'm a Chinese jet pilot.
And calling the exoskeleton a "current" project? There has been ongoing research into this before RAH ever dreamed of the Mobile Infantry.
May not be a success for DARPA yet, but it's been huge for Marvel Entertainment. Not to mention various manga artists.
I've worked in the field of law enforcement data sharing. Fact is that most law enforcement agencies are either islands of automation or very loosely connected to other agencies. The stuff you see in TV and movies ("24") is a fantasy. Adjacent towns and cities rarely share information, and this lack of knowledge can put members of their police force in danger (for instance when making a traffic stop). A few years ago, the DOJ kicked off a sharing initiative with the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM). This is an XML based specification for exchanging law enforcement data that was developed at Georgia Tech. I was involved in an initiative in Ohio to share police record management system information at a state level. The system was deployed and is operational today. GJXDM has been superseded by the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). It should be noted that the NIEM model is even more complex than it's predecessor and tends to break many XML tools. The data exchanged tends to be fairly rudimentary and fairly sparse - arrests, bookings, warrants. Nevertheless, most agencies, and most states have either not implemented data sharing or are in the earliest stages of doing so.
I bet the MPAA would have settled for ONE MILLION DOLLARS and a couple of sharks with laser beams.
Just out of curiosity, where did the Soviet Russia jokes come from?
Origin of Russian reversal.
They were no doubt concerned about an incident between paid visitors and ISS personnel resulting in the headline: "In Soviet Russia Tourists Space You!".
Why settle for the lesser evil.
Newton didn't care that the Catholic Church became angry when he said the earth is Not the center of the universe.
No, Newton said that Leibniz was not the center of the universe.
Steal a prototype spaceship powered by the new improbability drive and take off for parts unknown. Oh wait, you said President of the United States ...
Let me guess -- you're not in sales, marketing, or management . . .
I presume you are referring to applying a mere technical solution to a social problem. I'm sure CES will put a great deal of hurt on Gizmodo. Still, that's unlikely to stop copy cats at future shows. You're not going to solve the general problem of some people acting like jerks at public events. So, put some tape on the IR ports and lets move on.
Electrical tape over the IR port at shows. Problem solved.
A couple of years ago my SD tube TV died so I went out and got an HD LCD set. It had a variety of different inputs including DVI (with HDCP support), but did not have HDMI. My wife just purchased a home theatre for Christmas. I spent a few hours wiring it up, and fired up the DVD. Used a HDMI to DVI cable. Looked great at 480P, so I looked around the menu to turn on upscaling. It was greyed out.
After a lengthy call with tech support (and being transferred to several different people), I finally discovered that my TV has an earlier (two year old version) of HDCP. The home theatre uses a newer version and rather than support and do a hand-shake with the back-rev HDCP, it simply disables upscaling. So, if I want higher (interpolated) resolution, I can buy a new HDTV. Gee, thanks a lot Hollywood.
Screwing early adopters is a great business strategy. Right up there with suing your customers. Needless to say, I will not be in the market for an HD / Blu-ray DVD in the near future.
2008 will be the year of Linux on the desktop
Linux on the desktop and the release of "Duke Nukem Forever". Wow, what a great year it will be!
"Dammit Chloe, we're running out of time".
They've ramped production from 500 thousand / month at release to 1.8 million / month now. That's a pretty sizable production increase. More importantly, I'm not hearing news about DOA units, so they've (so far) avoided compromises in quality while more than tripling production. So, yeah, they completely messed up on demand forecasting. As far as the production ramp-up, I think they've done well.
I'm waiting for the version that's part cat, part rabbit, and part spacecraft.
How can you possibly doubt that global warming is the cause of disasters worldwide? It's even causing Antarctic dinosaurs.