There will be some red faces when the "Great Google Hack" is found to be due to a small sub-set of their code that has gone sentient.
Of course it is dormant now while the hue and cry is loudest. Next week? I am not so sure. . . . . .
Dolby have an ~$4 dollar solution for this problem. "Dolby Volume" processors are currently fielded in about 12 to 14 Consumer devices - High end A/V receivers, a few laptops and 4 Toshiba LCD Television receivers.
Look forward to the day when Dolby Volume is incorporated into a great many more devices, to include built in audio in PC motherboards. Not only will our viewing be more pleasant but surfing the net at a fixed volume will actually be possible.
Support Dolby by visiting their web site for the demo and asking your equipment suppliers for this essential feature in an increasingly louder world. . .
http://www.dolby.com/consumer/understand/volume/dolby-volume.html
As a scheme it also has the supreme disadvantage that if the records of investors were lost in an accidental Cruise Missile bombing the pirates will have a lot of aggrieved investors on their backs. Nasty stuff then happens, with a poor outcome for those who are seen to be not doing the right thing.
Global DMCA should be just enough to ensure that the entire globe sits on their collective wallets until the media companies expire. Three months should just about do it.
That's not bad news at all. The entire world is waiting for a reliable way of storing massive amounts of data on a permanent basis. If the report is based on truth then it might well be the answer to the vexing problems of lost data.... Counter-intuitively,if they make it too small it will be easy to lose the chip - back to square one!
Those imaginary diseases are tough to cure. You start with the head first and rigorously apply a sycamore mallet. 12 to 15 good shots usually brings permanent relief. If not, then there is the road-roller treatment. Most feel a little flattened after that.
The RIAA use of stand-over tactics, mostly sanctioned by courts that failed the little man, is an innovation. . . . . . . They will be swept away in time and few will mourn their passing.
Microsoft Security Essentials is free and does an excellent job. What's more, on a fast machine you will not be aware of it in operation.
Works for me.
In games you always play the ball and not the man. . .
Microsoft has come on the field all set to bring the man down but has forgotten to wear their shorts! . . . . . .
Ridiculous is not quite the right word, but you get my drift.
The insurance companies have the whip hand here. If they refused road accident claims for drivers on the phone/texting at the moment of an accident the problem would instantly go away. . . . . . . .
If you also added large fines for bosses who demand that their employees answer when driving, then that would also go a long way to help reduce accidents.
There's the answer! If everyone who has downloaded or listened to a song without paying for the privilege was to turn themselves into the local police station to be charged for the theft of the material, we could bring the whole nation to it's knees in just a few hours. No policing would get done, major streets would be blocked by us felons and the constabulary would be well aware of the idiocy of many current copyright laws and their aftermath. . . . If we don't do this en-masse, then we deserve the music industry's planned future.
Doesn't this discovery also lead to the possibility of building super-sensitive gravitational wave detectors that really work....... Remember this - If you can't measure a phenomena, you have little hope of truly understanding it.
You are definitely not wrong..... I haven't watched an advertisement on TV since the day I bought my first VCR. 22 years all told. My current HTPCs make it easier than ever to cut the rubbish out......... With the extra benefit of being able to time shift anything of value onto DVDs.
If TV is not dead it has one foot in the intensive care unit and the other in the grave.
Don't forget a recent Australian court case where a 'distributed for profit' Electronic Programme Guide for Free to Air TV was claimed to be copyright by a TV network. . . . . . . . . The final High Court ruling is still awaited but the CH 9 TV network got a bucket of bad press.
Perhaps if we generated some likely compensation scenarios the RIAA would feel that they had to publish the real figures to offset the damage caused by rumour-mongering...............
I heard, on good authority, that she was granted free music for life plus a CPI index linked annual pension of $150,000.
Scchhh! You didn't hear it from me.
And is it really smart for the movie industry to put these warnings on DVD discs that could easily last 20 years?...... The stupidity of it all will be a source of amusement, derision and irritation at the built in delay long after the industry has folded and been replaced by something more intelligent.
I stopped chasing big drives after 500GB. The sense of impermanence gets a little stronger with each larger offering. I don't even want to think about the anguish of grinding noises from a fully loaded 2TB. This will only make sense if the data store is permanent. Until then, such drives can stay on the shelf.
They are paying the power bills so it is a no-brainer that when a technology that reduces the costs comes along they are going to expedite it as soon as the total cost saving is real and sustained. I suspect Google are far ahead of most think-tanks on this very subject.
Big money, flexible hours and so little competition that you will never have to worry about your income again. The secret is "Hydrochloric acid". There is not a filthy toilet anywhere in the world that will fail to respond to two ounces of acid, a brush and a possible repeat after a 15 minute wait for the crud to be dissolved. With this information the world is your oyster. Buy the acid at a building supplies company - It is used for cleaning up excess cement after brick-pointing.
Just another Russian Mafia dodge to extort money any way they can. Their threat was ignored and this is the payback. Next time, they will have a payday.
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There will be some red faces when the "Great Google Hack" is found to be due to a small sub-set of their code that has gone sentient. Of course it is dormant now while the hue and cry is loudest. Next week? I am not so sure. . . . . .
Dolby have an ~$4 dollar solution for this problem. "Dolby Volume" processors are currently fielded in about 12 to 14 Consumer devices - High end A/V receivers, a few laptops and 4 Toshiba LCD Television receivers. Look forward to the day when Dolby Volume is incorporated into a great many more devices, to include built in audio in PC motherboards. Not only will our viewing be more pleasant but surfing the net at a fixed volume will actually be possible. Support Dolby by visiting their web site for the demo and asking your equipment suppliers for this essential feature in an increasingly louder world. . . http://www.dolby.com/consumer/understand/volume/dolby-volume.html
We can grow more food on the same animals. Perhaps not monkey meat though . . . . . . . Win Win.
As a scheme it also has the supreme disadvantage that if the records of investors were lost in an accidental Cruise Missile bombing the pirates will have a lot of aggrieved investors on their backs. Nasty stuff then happens, with a poor outcome for those who are seen to be not doing the right thing.
Global DMCA should be just enough to ensure that the entire globe sits on their collective wallets until the media companies expire. Three months should just about do it.
That's not bad news at all. The entire world is waiting for a reliable way of storing massive amounts of data on a permanent basis. If the report is based on truth then it might well be the answer to the vexing problems of lost data.... Counter-intuitively,if they make it too small it will be easy to lose the chip - back to square one!
Those imaginary diseases are tough to cure. You start with the head first and rigorously apply a sycamore mallet. 12 to 15 good shots usually brings permanent relief. If not, then there is the road-roller treatment. Most feel a little flattened after that.
The RIAA use of stand-over tactics, mostly sanctioned by courts that failed the little man, is an innovation. . . . . . . They will be swept away in time and few will mourn their passing.
Microsoft Security Essentials is free and does an excellent job. What's more, on a fast machine you will not be aware of it in operation. Works for me.
Bacardi 151 is a form of suicide. Drink it neat for a few weeks and then kiss parts of your throat bye bye.
In games you always play the ball and not the man. . . Microsoft has come on the field all set to bring the man down but has forgotten to wear their shorts! . . . . . . Ridiculous is not quite the right word, but you get my drift.
My typo could have been worse. "Bullet" would have sent a very poor message. I am off to iron my tutu now :)
You are not wrong, but I doubt that your assessment will make any difference. The ballet box is the only way to get rid of these goons.
The insurance companies have the whip hand here. If they refused road accident claims for drivers on the phone/texting at the moment of an accident the problem would instantly go away. . . . . . . . If you also added large fines for bosses who demand that their employees answer when driving, then that would also go a long way to help reduce accidents.
There's the answer! If everyone who has downloaded or listened to a song without paying for the privilege was to turn themselves into the local police station to be charged for the theft of the material, we could bring the whole nation to it's knees in just a few hours. No policing would get done, major streets would be blocked by us felons and the constabulary would be well aware of the idiocy of many current copyright laws and their aftermath. . . . If we don't do this en-masse, then we deserve the music industry's planned future.
Doesn't this discovery also lead to the possibility of building super-sensitive gravitational wave detectors that really work....... Remember this - If you can't measure a phenomena, you have little hope of truly understanding it.
You are definitely not wrong. .... I haven't watched an advertisement on TV since the day I bought my first VCR. 22 years all told. My current HTPCs make it easier than ever to cut the rubbish out......... With the extra benefit of being able to time shift anything of value onto DVDs.
If TV is not dead it has one foot in the intensive care unit and the other in the grave.
Don't forget a recent Australian court case where a 'distributed for profit' Electronic Programme Guide for Free to Air TV was claimed to be copyright by a TV network. . . . . . . . . The final High Court ruling is still awaited but the CH 9 TV network got a bucket of bad press.
Perhaps if we generated some likely compensation scenarios the RIAA would feel that they had to publish the real figures to offset the damage caused by rumour-mongering............... I heard, on good authority, that she was granted free music for life plus a CPI index linked annual pension of $150,000. Scchhh! You didn't hear it from me.
And is it really smart for the movie industry to put these warnings on DVD discs that could easily last 20 years? ...... The stupidity of it all will be a source of amusement, derision and irritation at the built in delay long after the industry has folded and been replaced by something more intelligent.
I stopped chasing big drives after 500GB. The sense of impermanence gets a little stronger with each larger offering. I don't even want to think about the anguish of grinding noises from a fully loaded 2TB. This will only make sense if the data store is permanent. Until then, such drives can stay on the shelf.
But once it is on BitTorrent it will be available for as long as people are prepared to seed it.
They are paying the power bills so it is a no-brainer that when a technology that reduces the costs comes along they are going to expedite it as soon as the total cost saving is real and sustained. I suspect Google are far ahead of most think-tanks on this very subject.
Big money, flexible hours and so little competition that you will never have to worry about your income again. The secret is "Hydrochloric acid". There is not a filthy toilet anywhere in the world that will fail to respond to two ounces of acid, a brush and a possible repeat after a 15 minute wait for the crud to be dissolved. With this information the world is your oyster. Buy the acid at a building supplies company - It is used for cleaning up excess cement after brick-pointing.
Just another Russian Mafia dodge to extort money any way they can. Their threat was ignored and this is the payback. Next time, they will have a payday.