A few months ago when that crazy Tom Cruise video first appeared I wrote a comment about it on DailyMotion making a joke about Scientology. The next day our office phone number (listed at our registrar) had a call (on the caller ID) from the Church of Scientology the very next day. No one was around to answer and no one called back, but it can hardly be a coincidence since it was the first time before and after we ever had a call from them!!
In other words, I do believe they would do something like you are suggesting.
I also would expect another phone call from them tomorrow for this post:~(
I admit I usually think it is funny and appropriately rebellious when hackers set out to make a point. When they picked on the Scientologists it was funny. But this? Why this? It's like torturing your goldfish. Where is the challenge? What's the point?
I'm not sure if I get this. The key feature seems this:
"Our policy removes the burden of security from plug-in writers, and gives
plug-ins the flexibility to use innovative network architectures to deliver
content while still maintaining the confidentiality and integrity of our browser,
even if attackers compromise the plug-in," he said.
Great!:)
But even if it works as planned...this new browser is going to enter the market
and who is going to download it? A tiny percentage of internet users--those
would be part of the same minority who would also know how to use Firefox (and
other browsers) quite safely *right now*.
So who is this product for? Seems interesting from a design point of view, but
unelss one of the big browsers adopts it, could it really make even a tiny dent
on the security of the internet?
I predict no. The internet's main problem is between the monitor and keyboard;-)
A few months later when I was trying to see if it would be helpful to bot for a Netherdrake, I lost my account in a Blizzard bot sting. WoWGlider was good up until that point. I would have quit WoW earlier without it, so Blizzard got more money from our household (I had two accounts--one for cousins and nieces coming over to play--that account I still have but it is long inactive.) Now I waste that extra time here on/.
More accurate than Nostradamus, but not as amusing as Criswell--almost though. This one made me laugh out loud:
"People have more time for leisure activities in the year 2008. The average work day is about four hours."
As if any society would ever let its plebes goof off that much!
If they spent all this time and money on making better movies and finding innovative ways to lure me back into theater (away from my home theater), they would continue to have record setting years like this one.
They could still have a point about potentially losing a lot of money to piracy in the next several years though. I don't think the movie industry has been hit as hard as the RIAA simply because of bandwidth issues. Takes only a few minutes to download a full album, but a good high-def movie still takes all day.
Sounds dubious to moi. To get those things perfectly white again after having been covered with permanent marker seems a little unrealistic. They must have accidentally swapped the cover or the story is nonsense. Either way, it's like duh.
Andy Oram links to his older article (which he says is still relevant) where he blames the current situation on other things as well:
1 ) Bell telephone companies.
2) Congress
3) dot-com commerce sites.
4) Internet2
5) "And finally, I'm mad at the public for taking the lazy route and accepting the cheapest form of half-crippled Internet access instead of a high-capacity bidirectional connection that could make us full Internet citizens. Let's not blame the telcos--or at least not stop with them. No one in a position to care has cared enough."
I don't know. I myself can see all those as part of the big problem, of course, but I'd rather just point my finger at guys like this:
Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen: "I don't think we're restraining the customers from using the service in accordance with the way we're selling [sticking] it to them."
I have a 360. Why would I feel it is obsolete? It plays games as well as a PS3 (more so because as of this writing it still has way more cool games.)
(But I also have a Wii, and when we play it on our HDTV and I get sick of shaking my arms around like an r-tard, I DO feel like I bought obsolete hardware!)
PS3's are still over-priced for a game system as far as I am concerned.
Xbox 360 will most likely drop it's price another $50 bucks this year too. A $299 price point is very tantalizing for people. It sounds a lot better than $399 esp. if one is buying it as a game machine.
Also a recession year isn't the best year for a $399 game system either. I would say the 360 vs. PS3 war is just getting underway. Sony will have a good year, but will it be enough? Everyone I know who owns a PS3 also owns an Xbox360 anyway.
As far as cinema, we get most of our movies off of a.b.hdtv.x264 (spare me the "Fight Club" rules, please), so I don't have a rush to buy an over-priced standalone Blu-ray player either. When they drop to $200 I will most likely grab one.
"The music business wants to partner with internet service providers to create new services that would deliver even greater value for music lovers, artists, labels and ISPs." A hint perhaps at blanket licensing of file-sharing at ISP level - the other end of the internet music equation, which the record business must resolve to survive."
Is something like this really viable? I've not really heard of such an idea getting any serious credence here in the United States, but I find it an interesting idea.
"The ability to generate power for personal electronics using the clothing we wear would be a breakthrough in smart and interactive garments." -- Dianne Jones
But will they run Linux?
Los Angeles - Vivid Entertainment Group announced on Wednesday that it has just signed a contract with Savas Tay and colleagues at the University of Arizona to license their 3D technology for an upcoming "adult extravaganza" starring Jenna Jameson, Sunny Leone, and Tera Patrick.
I love an article on digital imaging technology that has no pictures. This is 2008. Send out your press release with a photo...of something...anything.
Slashdot Mirror
In other words, I do believe they would do something like you are suggesting.
I also would expect another phone call from them tomorrow for this post :~(
I admit I usually think it is funny and appropriately rebellious when hackers set out to make a point. When they picked on the Scientologists it was funny. But this? Why this? It's like torturing your goldfish. Where is the challenge? What's the point?
"Our policy removes the burden of security from plug-in writers, and gives plug-ins the flexibility to use innovative network architectures to deliver content while still maintaining the confidentiality and integrity of our browser, even if attackers compromise the plug-in," he said.
Great! :)
But even if it works as planned...this new browser is going to enter the market and who is going to download it? A tiny percentage of internet users--those would be part of the same minority who would also know how to use Firefox (and other browsers) quite safely *right now*.
So who is this product for? Seems interesting from a design point of view, but unelss one of the big browsers adopts it, could it really make even a tiny dent on the security of the internet?
I predict no. The internet's main problem is between the monitor and keyboard ;-)
*iza
A few months later when I was trying to see if it would be helpful to bot for a Netherdrake, I lost my account in a Blizzard bot sting. WoWGlider was good up until that point. I would have quit WoW earlier without it, so Blizzard got more money from our household (I had two accounts--one for cousins and nieces coming over to play--that account I still have but it is long inactive.) Now I waste that extra time here on /.
*iza
More accurate than Nostradamus, but not as amusing as Criswell--almost though. This one made me laugh out loud: "People have more time for leisure activities in the year 2008. The average work day is about four hours." As if any society would ever let its plebes goof off that much!
And invisibility? Nothing good would come of that either.
I'd be happy for a cure for the cold personally.
That's hot!
Hot-or-not-cop.com.
They could still have a point about potentially losing a lot of money to piracy in the next several years though. I don't think the movie industry has been hit as hard as the RIAA simply because of bandwidth issues. Takes only a few minutes to download a full album, but a good high-def movie still takes all day.
Sounds dubious to moi. To get those things perfectly white again after having been covered with permanent marker seems a little unrealistic. They must have accidentally swapped the cover or the story is nonsense. Either way, it's like duh.
1 ) Bell telephone companies.
2) Congress
3) dot-com commerce sites.
4) Internet2
5) "And finally, I'm mad at the public for taking the lazy route and accepting the cheapest form of half-crippled Internet access instead of a high-capacity bidirectional connection that could make us full Internet citizens. Let's not blame the telcos--or at least not stop with them. No one in a position to care has cared enough."
I don't know. I myself can see all those as part of the big problem, of course, but I'd rather just point my finger at guys like this:
Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen: "I don't think we're restraining the customers from using the service in accordance with the way we're selling [sticking] it to them."
(But I also have a Wii, and when we play it on our HDTV and I get sick of shaking my arms around like an r-tard, I DO feel like I bought obsolete hardware!)
PS3's are still over-priced for a game system as far as I am concerned.
Xbox 360 will most likely drop it's price another $50 bucks this year too. A $299 price point is very tantalizing for people. It sounds a lot better than $399 esp. if one is buying it as a game machine.
Also a recession year isn't the best year for a $399 game system either. I would say the 360 vs. PS3 war is just getting underway. Sony will have a good year, but will it be enough? Everyone I know who owns a PS3 also owns an Xbox360 anyway.
As far as cinema, we get most of our movies off of a.b.hdtv.x264 (spare me the "Fight Club" rules, please), so I don't have a rush to buy an over-priced standalone Blu-ray player either. When they drop to $200 I will most likely grab one.
xoxo
*iza
"Take-Two is known as a mercurial one-hit wonder." You mean Rockstar's Table Tennis wasn't a smash hit? Go figure ;-)
But whatever gets more high-def movies onto Usenet is good news for me.
My friend said he is waiting for the Decepticon version....
Brain-Machine Interface | Flexible Transitors | Data Mining | Digital Rights Management | Biometrics | Natural Language Processing | Microphotonics | Untangling Code | Robot Design | Microfluidics
DRM hasn't really changed my life other than add one more annoyance.
"Data Mining" sounds basically like "Reality Mining" in the new list.
I'm sure there has been great strides in "Robot Design" that help in manufacturing, but what about the others?
I don't think these technologies have changed my life at all seven years after they were predicted, or have they?
*iza
Is something like this really viable? I've not really heard of such an idea getting any serious credence here in the United States, but I find it an interesting idea.
"The ability to generate power for personal electronics using the clothing we wear would be a breakthrough in smart and interactive garments." -- Dianne Jones But will they run Linux?
But don't they realize that people smart enough to do their hacking are also smart enough to see through their sorry attempts to recruit them?
I would think that the Nigerians would learn to SPELL/PUNCTUATE before they set out to KILL/ASSASSINATE.
The color red really does make me feel more passionate when I wear it and when given to me in the form of roses or whatever else!
Los Angeles - Vivid Entertainment Group announced on Wednesday that it has just signed a contract with Savas Tay and colleagues at the University of Arizona to license their 3D technology for an upcoming "adult extravaganza" starring Jenna Jameson, Sunny Leone, and Tera Patrick.
I love an article on digital imaging technology that has no pictures. This is 2008. Send out your press release with a photo...of something...anything.
I'll still need someone to take out the garbage. Still, it's a step in the right direction to completely obviating the more superfluous sex.