Does this really surprise anyone given that AT&T was at the forefront of the illegal wiretapping scandal?
Likewise, I doubt anyone(who reads slashdot) would be surprised that Comcast is pulling this nonsense. They already shown a willingness to inspect and screw with their customers' packets. They have been shown to actively and intrusively interfere with p2p communication, and by teaming up with the RIAA they can now do so under the guise of fighting piracy.
keen. Tivo still hasn't implemented them, even though it is a problem with obvious solutions. All I was getting at. I'm glad, but not surprised, to hear it has been solved.
The holidays hit my wallet more than I'd have like, but a MythTv box up near the top of my project list. I also need to educate myself about HD a little bit.
It's a good and useful device, but as a product it's become trapped between the netbooks and the smartphones.
I'm really hoping Maemo 5's support for HSPA will be enough to push the next devise firmly into the area of 'really awesome open source smart phone.'
I love the heck out of my n810, and when I look at i or g phones, I cringe. I want a maemo based phone, and I'll deal with having to use Voip if that is what it takes.
5. Inkscape is so popular I have never even heard of it. (I actually try to keep up with this stuff).
So, if you keep up with this stuff, what do you use for opensource vector image editing? There is a lot I don't like about Inkscape, what is the alternative?
Pfffttt... who'd ever want to use a image editor where all the dialog boxes were kept in one window? Sorry, if the program doesn't take up half my taskbar, it isn't worth using.
I miss Gimp's newish marque selection UI. Still no CMYK, out of the box at least. Seems ok though. It looks like a decent enough alternative, and I can talk about it around people who don't know what it is without them looking at me funny.
It isn't going to replace Photoshop(for all the same reasons gimp won't), but after a curssory look I might use it instead of Gimp at home.
Open a new browser tab (winner: keybd) Close a browser tab (winner: keybd) Go to a history/bookmarked URL (winner: keybd) Navigate forward/back in the history (winner: keybd) Click a link (Tie. I generally hit / and start typing the link text, hit escape, then enter to visit the link. Sometimes moving the mouse over the link is faster.) Run an application (winner: keybd) Cut/copy/paste/save/print/quit/etc (winner: keybd) Scrolling via arrow, pgup/dn, home/end vs. wheel (winner: keybd) Switching between applications/windows (winner: keybd) Change a font (I will give this one to mouse)
I can do all but one of those things with one click or one a mouse gesture, and I don't have to move my hand to use controls in Flash or other firefox pluging.
The awesome bar is just that, with the mouse. Mash a couple letters with my left hand, and click with my right. If I need it in a new tab, I just use mouse 3.
Scrolling is way better with the mouse. Mouse wheel for small movement. Gesture ties too full page up or down. Auto scroll for when I want the screen to act like a teleprompter. None of which requires moving any part of my body more than a centimeter.
A 'power user', or whatever you want to call someone who actually knows how their computer works and how to customize it to their liking, who prefers a mouse is every bit as effective and efficient as one who like the keyboard. They probably just spend most of their time doing different tasks.
Tivo doesn't do any filtering though. They need to teach it to do two things.
1) Add a skip forward backward feature that looks for abrupt changes in the image. If 100% of the broadcast image changes from one frame to the next, that's obviously either a gap between commercials or scenes. Now, they hang all sorts of logos and letter boxes around the signal, so it would need to have a variable threshold and probably look at a few different factors(actual pixels, aggregated measurements colour and brightness, totally black frames, etc). That's actually pretty easy to manage. You can flash the firmware of most cannon camaras and install software that will take photos automatically off similar info.
2) Allow people to subscribe to a free service that tracks what parts of a given show people skip over and what parts they watch. Which means unless you are watching the show very close to live, the crowd would have found where most of the ads are, with pretty good accuracy if the above was implemented and enough people used it, and your player could skip them automatically(if it was too inaccurate you could always rewind a bit, because you'd have recorded the whole show like normal).
Ok, yeah, I don't trust TiVo track my behavior like that, and it could be hard to get a large company with a lot of corporate ties to do it, but I don't see too big a reason it could be strapped on to myth TV or what have you.
Bah, it was pretty tame compared to the various genocides committed against the various native American cultures and I don't remember them ever fighting a war so the could continue to sell addictive life ruining drugs to the citizens of another nation.
Is it the fact that you might get chewed out by some 15 year old you'll never meet?
Well, yeah. I own the orange box, and can't bring myself to play TF 2 because I have to be a member of a team and don't want to be "that guy" who screws up and lets everyone on his team down.
It's not like it's healthy or anything, and I don't expect folks to design games around my particular tastes, but more or less that's one of the big reasons I don't game online.
If not for local ECM(jammers in other aircraft) screwing up the flight controls, then the simple fact that the manned aircraft can turn their head and see the planes over their shoulder let alone behind them.
You can put a few sensors on a UAV. Some of them can point backwards. UAV's aren't like dogs, they can look up.
A UAV could eventually out turn any human pilot. UAV don't black out in a 15 G turn and they aren't afraid of using themselves as bait, so an ally can find a F-22's fire control radar or catch it with it's bays open.
They have a small radar cross section and it isn't easy to track them by their communication, because it all goes straight up.
It's hard to find them on the cheap. They would need to create a large aperture pretty high powered airborne radar. Now, if you are leaving your processing power at home, you could probably swing something with a lot of smaller radars, provided you accurately knew where they all were and what each was radiating.
It's hard to hide your communications with this sort of thing without satellites, so that's another barrier to entry. After all if you are radiating your communications in all directions, both the anti-predator and your base station are likely to be harmed.
There is going to be a UAV arms race, and it will almost certainly end up including air superiority roles. I don't know how long it is going to take to trickle down the likes of Iran.
Frankly, if I rather see Iran picking up defensive anti-air weapons than buying a bunch of little strike aircraft and turning a tanker/cargo ship into an UAV Carrier that can blend in with merchant traffic.
Heck, the data is valuable to anyone with an interest in what people are doing online and how they are using the internet. I don't see any way the information sent out could be limited to the actions of malware, so the database could end up a nice target for commercial(marketing and whatnot) datamining.
Sending out information which I don't control defeats half of the purpose behind why I run software firewalls.
QT has support for C++, Java, Python, Ada, Pascal, Perl, and PHP. Some of those are more useful than others, but if you want to develop in something other than c++, particularly if you want a cross platform application, there are more options than just c++ or GTK.
Unless you are talking about hacking QT v GTK themselves, what does it really matter when they both have support for a good variety of languages?
I think that would work almost as well as meta moderation works here. Actually, it would probably be closer to Digg, with lobbyists playing the role of 'Power Users'.
I'm pretty sure the cleaning executable you are talking about is the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, and consumers smart enough to use it have already done so. Maybe more of and ad campaign, but it's not like tool isn't there and wouldn't being automatically used if these people ran updates.
//plans to market IPv6 "enhancers" to audiophiles, both speeding adoption and lining my pockets with "stupidity tax".
Introducing Premium IP 6 Rated, Gold Clad, Monster Ethernet Cables: Get the most out of your digital audio experience. $99 3 foot cable. 6 foot cables only $150.
It's something we actually do now. We've detected water, o2, co2 and various organic compounds(though all of these can have non-biological sources).
There are a fair number of astronomers doing just what you are talking about with current equipment. They have been setting distance records for detecting exo-planets with various compounds, using roughly the method you describe, for a couple years now(google should find a fair number of instances).
They haven't found anything with earth's nearly toxic levels of O2 yet, but they are getting pretty good at this stuff.
Of course, then when a new protocol comes out and the TV doesn't support it, you buy a new TV. ugh.
Codex packaging is already standardized, unless i'm totally mistaken, so there isn't anything preventing them from allowing users from installing their own. They can host some signed ones themselves, and allow users(probably after checking a 'I'm not a clueless retarded' box) to install their own. If they made it simple to reset back to only signed ones, tech support wouldn't be too rough.
Of course, there's a risk of getting malware on your TV, I suppose. Unfriendly codexs exist to some extent, and with each tv being set up identically(and holding sensitive info, eg netflix login) it could make an attractive target.
I wouldn't want it if I was locked into netflix and particular codexs. Of course, i don't really want a locked down media center with security and such I don't control either, so I can't imagine any form of this that would be for me.
ughh... I do prepress work for customers who have no idea how computers or printing work. You have no idea just how many times I've asked for higher res versions of their artwork and ended up with.doc with scaled logos.
I don't even ask for vector stuff anymore, because every damned time I end up with a PDF or EPS with embedded JPGs.
They pay thousands of dollars for graphic artists to create artwork for their companies, and never even think to retain/request something that will look decent if used for something other than a webpage.
I guess I'll really care when they have a new OS that will run on an Atom based netbook.
Windows Embedded Standard 2009. You can actually download the trial and play with it. Build some various loadouts of the operating system. You can included exactly what you want and do some fairly cool things with how it accesses the HDD and loads.
It costs too much, so you won't actually be able to afford more than the trial as individual end user, but you will at least get to see what windows would be if Microsoft would just let us use it how we want.
ummm... if someone else creates an identical patent, doesn't that mean that it is obvious to someone who works in the field? A person having ordinary skill in the art is able to find the same way of solving the problem.
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Does this really surprise anyone given that AT&T was at the forefront of the illegal wiretapping scandal?
Likewise, I doubt anyone(who reads slashdot) would be surprised that Comcast is pulling this nonsense. They already shown a willingness to inspect and screw with their customers' packets. They have been shown to actively and intrusively interfere with p2p communication, and by teaming up with the RIAA they can now do so under the guise of fighting piracy.
umm... doesn't windows server 2008 exist?
keen. Tivo still hasn't implemented them, even though it is a problem with obvious solutions. All I was getting at. I'm glad, but not surprised, to hear it has been solved.
The holidays hit my wallet more than I'd have like, but a MythTv box up near the top of my project list. I also need to educate myself about HD a little bit.
It's a good and useful device, but as a product it's become trapped between the netbooks and the smartphones.
I'm really hoping Maemo 5's support for HSPA will be enough to push the next devise firmly into the area of 'really awesome open source smart phone.'
I love the heck out of my n810, and when I look at i or g phones, I cringe. I want a maemo based phone, and I'll deal with having to use Voip if that is what it takes.
5. Inkscape is so popular I have never even heard of it. (I actually try to keep up with this stuff).
So, if you keep up with this stuff, what do you use for opensource vector image editing? There is a lot I don't like about Inkscape, what is the alternative?
Pfffttt... who'd ever want to use a image editor where all the dialog boxes were kept in one window? Sorry, if the program doesn't take up half my taskbar, it isn't worth using.
I miss Gimp's newish marque selection UI. Still no CMYK, out of the box at least. Seems ok though. It looks like a decent enough alternative, and I can talk about it around people who don't know what it is without them looking at me funny.
It isn't going to replace Photoshop(for all the same reasons gimp won't), but after a curssory look I might use it instead of Gimp at home.
Open a new browser tab (winner: keybd)
Close a browser tab (winner: keybd)
Go to a history/bookmarked URL (winner: keybd)
Navigate forward/back in the history (winner: keybd)
Click a link (Tie. I generally hit / and start typing the link text, hit escape, then enter to visit the link. Sometimes moving the mouse over the link is faster.)
Run an application (winner: keybd)
Cut/copy/paste/save/print/quit/etc (winner: keybd)
Scrolling via arrow, pgup/dn, home/end vs. wheel (winner: keybd)
Switching between applications/windows (winner: keybd)
Change a font (I will give this one to mouse)
I can do all but one of those things with one click or one a mouse gesture, and I don't have to move my hand to use controls in Flash or other firefox pluging.
The awesome bar is just that, with the mouse. Mash a couple letters with my left hand, and click with my right. If I need it in a new tab, I just use mouse 3.
Scrolling is way better with the mouse. Mouse wheel for small movement. Gesture ties too full page up or down. Auto scroll for when I want the screen to act like a teleprompter. None of which requires moving any part of my body more than a centimeter.
A 'power user', or whatever you want to call someone who actually knows how their computer works and how to customize it to their liking, who prefers a mouse is every bit as effective and efficient as one who like the keyboard. They probably just spend most of their time doing different tasks.
Tivo doesn't do any filtering though. They need to teach it to do two things.
1) Add a skip forward backward feature that looks for abrupt changes in the image. If 100% of the broadcast image changes from one frame to the next, that's obviously either a gap between commercials or scenes. Now, they hang all sorts of logos and letter boxes around the signal, so it would need to have a variable threshold and probably look at a few different factors(actual pixels, aggregated measurements colour and brightness, totally black frames, etc). That's actually pretty easy to manage. You can flash the firmware of most cannon camaras and install software that will take photos automatically off similar info.
2) Allow people to subscribe to a free service that tracks what parts of a given show people skip over and what parts they watch. Which means unless you are watching the show very close to live, the crowd would have found where most of the ads are, with pretty good accuracy if the above was implemented and enough people used it, and your player could skip them automatically(if it was too inaccurate you could always rewind a bit, because you'd have recorded the whole show like normal).
Ok, yeah, I don't trust TiVo track my behavior like that, and it could be hard to get a large company with a lot of corporate ties to do it, but I don't see too big a reason it could be strapped on to myth TV or what have you.
Bah, it was pretty tame compared to the various genocides committed against the various native American cultures and I don't remember them ever fighting a war so the could continue to sell addictive life ruining drugs to the citizens of another nation.
Is it the fact that you might get chewed out by some 15 year old you'll never meet?
Well, yeah. I own the orange box, and can't bring myself to play TF 2 because I have to be a member of a team and don't want to be "that guy" who screws up and lets everyone on his team down.
It's not like it's healthy or anything, and I don't expect folks to design games around my particular tastes, but more or less that's one of the big reasons I don't game online.
Why the hell would Elbonia care if some local scumbags show up dead in a gutter somewhere?
Then they won't get any Baksheesh from the local businessmen.
If not for local ECM(jammers in other aircraft) screwing up the flight controls, then the simple fact that the manned aircraft can turn their head and see the planes over their shoulder let alone behind them.
You can put a few sensors on a UAV. Some of them can point backwards. UAV's aren't like dogs, they can look up.
A UAV could eventually out turn any human pilot. UAV don't black out in a 15 G turn and they aren't afraid of using themselves as bait, so an ally can find a F-22's fire control radar or catch it with it's bays open.
They have a small radar cross section and it isn't easy to track them by their communication, because it all goes straight up.
It's hard to find them on the cheap. They would need to create a large aperture pretty high powered airborne radar. Now, if you are leaving your processing power at home, you could probably swing something with a lot of smaller radars, provided you accurately knew where they all were and what each was radiating.
It's hard to hide your communications with this sort of thing without satellites, so that's another barrier to entry. After all if you are radiating your communications in all directions, both the anti-predator and your base station are likely to be harmed.
There is going to be a UAV arms race, and it will almost certainly end up including air superiority roles. I don't know how long it is going to take to trickle down the likes of Iran.
Frankly, if I rather see Iran picking up defensive anti-air weapons than buying a bunch of little strike aircraft and turning a tanker/cargo ship into an UAV Carrier that can blend in with merchant traffic.
Heck, the data is valuable to anyone with an interest in what people are doing online and how they are using the internet. I don't see any way the information sent out could be limited to the actions of malware, so the database could end up a nice target for commercial(marketing and whatnot) datamining.
Sending out information which I don't control defeats half of the purpose behind why I run software firewalls.
Kinda a false dicotomy, no?
QT has support for C++, Java, Python, Ada, Pascal, Perl, and PHP. Some of those are more useful than others, but if you want to develop in something other than c++, particularly if you want a cross platform application, there are more options than just c++ or GTK.
Unless you are talking about hacking QT v GTK themselves, what does it really matter when they both have support for a good variety of languages?
I think that would work almost as well as meta moderation works here. Actually, it would probably be closer to Digg, with lobbyists playing the role of 'Power Users'.
Supervise and/or...
I'm pretty sure the cleaning executable you are talking about is the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, and consumers smart enough to use it have already done so. Maybe more of and ad campaign, but it's not like tool isn't there and wouldn't being automatically used if these people ran updates.
//plans to market IPv6 "enhancers" to audiophiles, both speeding adoption and lining my pockets with "stupidity tax".
Introducing Premium IP 6 Rated, Gold Clad, Monster Ethernet Cables: Get the most out of your digital audio experience. $99 3 foot cable. 6 foot cables only $150.
It's something we actually do now. We've detected water, o2, co2 and various organic compounds(though all of these can have non-biological sources).
There are a fair number of astronomers doing just what you are talking about with current equipment. They have been setting distance records for detecting exo-planets with various compounds, using roughly the method you describe, for a couple years now(google should find a fair number of instances).
They haven't found anything with earth's nearly toxic levels of O2 yet, but they are getting pretty good at this stuff.
He filed a frivolous law suit against....Oprah
Like her or not, she is one of the most influential, and hence powerful, women on the planet.
Of course she will fight it. She will also win. A mouse just picked a fight with a dragon.
After quitting his lawfirm so he could sue one of their clients, Google.
The guy's got a pair. I'll give him that.
Of course, then when a new protocol comes out and the TV doesn't support it, you buy a new TV. ugh.
Codex packaging is already standardized, unless i'm totally mistaken, so there isn't anything preventing them from allowing users from installing their own. They can host some signed ones themselves, and allow users(probably after checking a 'I'm not a clueless retarded' box) to install their own. If they made it simple to reset back to only signed ones, tech support wouldn't be too rough.
Of course, there's a risk of getting malware on your TV, I suppose. Unfriendly codexs exist to some extent, and with each tv being set up identically(and holding sensitive info, eg netflix login) it could make an attractive target.
I wouldn't want it if I was locked into netflix and particular codexs. Of course, i don't really want a locked down media center with security and such I don't control either, so I can't imagine any form of this that would be for me.
ughh... I do prepress work for customers who have no idea how computers or printing work. You have no idea just how many times I've asked for higher res versions of their artwork and ended up with .doc with scaled logos.
I don't even ask for vector stuff anymore, because every damned time I end up with a PDF or EPS with embedded JPGs.
They pay thousands of dollars for graphic artists to create artwork for their companies, and never even think to retain/request something that will look decent if used for something other than a webpage.
I guess I'll really care when they have a new OS that will run on an Atom based netbook.
Windows Embedded Standard 2009. You can actually download the trial and play with it. Build some various loadouts of the operating system. You can included exactly what you want and do some fairly cool things with how it accesses the HDD and loads.
It costs too much, so you won't actually be able to afford more than the trial as individual end user, but you will at least get to see what windows would be if Microsoft would just let us use it how we want.
ummm... if someone else creates an identical patent, doesn't that mean that it is obvious to someone who works in the field? A person having ordinary skill in the art is able to find the same way of solving the problem.
Lame.