Well, looking at music - people have been able to do that on a PC for a *long* time. Heck, you could consider early Amiga mod file tunes the sonic example of red-vs-blue. It allowed anyone to string together sample and fairly easily make real sounding music.
So... You ask what happens? What happens is you discover, even with the tools only a handful of people ever made *good* music. For every good one, there's thousands of crap mod files, crap flash animations, and now crap "machinima". Having cheap and easy tools can't make everyone a great animator anymore than the availability of cheap pencils and paper made everyone a great writer.
It still takes talent, but what it does do is allow people with that talent but without a ton of money to express their skill. What it may possibly hurt is the control large studios currently have over most entertainment.
Actually, right now the most likely outcome after the BayStar pullout (and especially if RBC follows) is SCO goes belly up before we ever see what's behind door number three.
The problem with Outlook has always been the number of holes that allowed a maliciously crafted email to run the attachment automatically or hide its true file type (for example making a exe look like a jpeg or wav file).
Even so, no matter what the email client is, there's no good way to stop a determined user from running an attachment. Heck, some viruses even send themselves in *encrypted* zip files (to avoid email scanners I guess), yet plenty of users are foolish enough to actually type in the password (from the body of the email), unzip the file, and run the program!
Unless it just flatly deleted all attachments, no email client, even under unix, can totally prevent that kind of willful cluelessness.:-)
Well, just running on a non-standard port is usually enough for that. Better still, why not just firewall off whatever source IP range your ISP runs scans from? Port will look closed to them, but open to everyone else.
If, on the other hand, what you want is extra security - well, that's what strong encryption is for. Port knocking is more on the level of ROT13.
Well, in a civil lawsuit, money what you get when you win anyway. Settling, especially for such a large amount, is more or less admiting the case is lost - just with a bit of face-saving attached.
Any long-running trial is a constant drain on resources for both sides. From Sun's standpoint, with Microsoft ready to settle, what would Sun really gain by dragging it out further?
I do agree with you, but I'd feel a whole lot better about using it if there weren't so many OpenSSH/OpenSSH exploits in recent memory.
Makes me wonder just how many possible buffer overflow conditions may still exist in those libs. After all, an exploitable SSH can be even worse than telnet - the bad guys don't even need to sniff a password.
The thing is the lawsuits aren't really profitable - except maybe for the attorneys. I think it's clear the RIAA no longer honestly represents the industry it was created to promote. Instead their out to promote their own existence at any cost and suck more supporting dollars from the labels who pay their salary.
Business now days is more short-sighted than ever, too many companies are all too happy to destroy their future markets for some quick cash today.
Most all browsers have these same features built-in now. I'd guess people running Gator do so because it either came bundled with something else they installed, or they clicked the wrong button closing a drive-by-download dialog.
Such programs are really only a shade away from being a legalized virus. Unfortunately there's already legislation brewing - which, like most recent laws, will either be ineffective, make life more difficult for legitimate developers, or shackle us with even more Draconian copyright laws.
My own solution would be to make the CEO of any spyware/adware company personally come over and remove the software from anyone's PC who didn't want it.
TI did a lot of early speech synthesis stuff. The first computer I ever had was a TI/994a with the speech synthesizer module. I've no idea how it worked, but it wasn't simple PCM sound. You could feed it random data and it would produce all kinds of bizarre pings, gulps, croaks, wooden sounding knocks, and other interesting sounds. I guess it must have used some kind of algorithmic method of making sounds rather than just stringing sampled allophones together.
I always thought that while a thereamin's sound itself is pretty limited, a thereamin-like control device would be great fun. Especially attached to effect devices or filters.
Heh - good thing the recording industry didn't think of this. Imagine if every record label would required you to use their own proprietary playback device!
This is kind of the problems with these games. If I'm spending money just to play, I want it to be fun and worth playing even at the lowers levels. Sure, you can't do the same stuff the higher level people would, but there's no reason newbies shouldn't be able to enjoy the game until they level their characters up to a sufficient point.
Superficially maybe, but without the same security. It doesn't really validate the sender's signature but depends on the user somehow secretly passing a type of key to those they want email from (either as a formula or a fixed code).
Really his solution seems to be a more convoluted form of disposable email address (which are already quite common).
If you have a domain where any mail to that domain can go to you, just make up a new user for every place you send email to (say, the hostname if it's a website) and keep it in a whitelist. Then you can easily track where the spam came from and block that address. A variation is to add a suffix to the user name for whose that must share a domain name.
This kind of solution really isn't bad, but it's not new. Also it does require upkeep and runs the risk that someone with an, old, stale address won't be able to contact you. The idea of adding some sort of hash to the mix is really just a variation on this. However, I don't see how the added complexity would really make it all that more effective. Formulas and code numbers can still be leaked and have the same drawbacks.
Well, it may be that there is currently, only one person trying to do it. I don't imagine there's been teams of researchers all trying to make wooden speaker cones - especially with all the synthetic materials developed now days.
I think you're far too quick to dismiss the tremendous skills wood workers have developed over the years. People have done some amazing things - far more complex and demanding than speaker cones.
Of course, it seems you've bought into the market hype (which is largely what the article seems to me) - Pavlov would be so proud! This really looks like it's going to be sold as an executive vanity item rather than something really revolutionary. From a marketing perspective, the "can only be done with sake" line just make it sound more elite.
I kind of wondered about this - after all, people have been bending and shaping wood with steam and various other tricks for hundreds of years.
I wonder why making a speaker cone was so much of a problem? Seems like this may just have been a pet project of his, but a little historical research might have saved him a decade or two.
I think it's less the time clock and more the accounting software. Tracking time in 15 minute blocks seems a pretty standard practice. You're right though - it may have been to make the math easier in the days when it was all done by hand.
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Well, looking at music - people have been able to do that on a PC for a *long* time. Heck, you could consider early Amiga mod file tunes the sonic example of red-vs-blue. It allowed anyone to string together sample and fairly easily make real sounding music.
So... You ask what happens? What happens is you discover, even with the tools only a handful of people ever made *good* music. For every good one, there's thousands of crap mod files, crap flash animations, and now crap "machinima". Having cheap and easy tools can't make everyone a great animator anymore than the availability of cheap pencils and paper made everyone a great writer.
It still takes talent, but what it does do is allow people with that talent but without a ton of money to express their skill. What it may possibly hurt is the control large studios currently have over most entertainment.
Well, you might be able to get a second phone line for less.
Actually, right now the most likely outcome after the BayStar pullout (and especially if RBC follows) is SCO goes belly up before we ever see what's behind door number three.
It's official - Slashdot has finally become Fark! So... how about a photoshop?
The problem with Outlook has always been the number of holes that allowed a maliciously crafted email to run the attachment automatically or hide its true file type (for example making a exe look like a jpeg or wav file).
:-)
Even so, no matter what the email client is, there's no good way to stop a determined user from running an attachment. Heck, some viruses even send themselves in *encrypted* zip files (to avoid email scanners I guess), yet plenty of users are foolish enough to actually type in the password (from the body of the email), unzip the file, and run the program!
Unless it just flatly deleted all attachments, no email client, even under unix, can totally prevent that kind of willful cluelessness.
Well, just running on a non-standard port is usually enough for that. Better still, why not just firewall off whatever source IP range your ISP runs scans from? Port will look closed to them, but open to everyone else.
If, on the other hand, what you want is extra security - well, that's what strong encryption is for. Port knocking is more on the level of ROT13.
Well, in a civil lawsuit, money what you get when you win anyway. Settling, especially for such a large amount, is more or less admiting the case is lost - just with a bit of face-saving attached.
Any long-running trial is a constant drain on resources for both sides. From Sun's standpoint, with Microsoft ready to settle, what would Sun really gain by dragging it out further?
Cough... (whacks myself upside the head) make that OpenSSH/OpenSSL
I do agree with you, but I'd feel a whole lot better about using it if there weren't so many OpenSSH/OpenSSH exploits in recent memory.
Makes me wonder just how many possible buffer overflow conditions may still exist in those libs. After all, an exploitable SSH can be even worse than telnet - the bad guys don't even need to sniff a password.
The thing is the lawsuits aren't really profitable - except maybe for the attorneys. I think it's clear the RIAA no longer honestly represents the industry it was created to promote. Instead their out to promote their own existence at any cost and suck more supporting dollars from the labels who pay their salary.
Business now days is more short-sighted than ever, too many companies are all too happy to destroy their future markets for some quick cash today.
Most all browsers have these same features built-in now. I'd guess people running Gator do so because it either came bundled with something else they installed, or they clicked the wrong button closing a drive-by-download dialog.
Such programs are really only a shade away from being a legalized virus. Unfortunately there's already legislation brewing - which, like most recent laws, will either be ineffective, make life more difficult for legitimate developers, or shackle us with even more Draconian copyright laws.
My own solution would be to make the CEO of any spyware/adware company personally come over and remove the software from anyone's PC who didn't want it.
TI did a lot of early speech synthesis stuff. The first computer I ever had was a TI/994a with the speech synthesizer module. I've no idea how it worked, but it wasn't simple PCM sound. You could feed it random data and it would produce all kinds of bizarre pings, gulps, croaks, wooden sounding knocks, and other interesting sounds. I guess it must have used some kind of algorithmic method of making sounds rather than just stringing sampled allophones together.
I always thought that while a thereamin's sound itself is pretty limited, a thereamin-like control device would be great fun. Especially attached to effect devices or filters.
Er, sorry about that. Readers please mentally ditch the non-sequitorial "would" in the post above. :-/
Heh - good thing the recording industry didn't think of this. Imagine if every record label would required you to use their own proprietary playback device!
This is kind of the problems with these games. If I'm spending money just to play, I want it to be fun and worth playing even at the lowers levels. Sure, you can't do the same stuff the higher level people would, but there's no reason newbies shouldn't be able to enjoy the game until they level their characters up to a sufficient point.
Thanks to the voluminous efforts of your kindly Internet spammers, are you really sure it has? :-)
Superficially maybe, but without the same security. It doesn't really validate the sender's signature but depends on the user somehow secretly passing a type of key to those they want email from (either as a formula or a fixed code).
Really his solution seems to be a more convoluted form of disposable email address (which are already quite common).
If you have a domain where any mail to that domain can go to you, just make up a new user for every place you send email to (say, the hostname if it's a website) and keep it in a whitelist. Then you can easily track where the spam came from and block that address. A variation is to add a suffix to the user name for whose that must share a domain name.
This kind of solution really isn't bad, but it's not new. Also it does require upkeep and runs the risk that someone with an, old, stale address won't be able to contact you. The idea of adding some sort of hash to the mix is really just a variation on this. However, I don't see how the added complexity would really make it all that more effective. Formulas and code numbers can still be leaked and have the same drawbacks.
Well, it may be that there is currently, only one person trying to do it. I don't imagine there's been teams of researchers all trying to make wooden speaker cones - especially with all the synthetic materials developed now days.
I think you're far too quick to dismiss the tremendous skills wood workers have developed over the years. People have done some amazing things - far more complex and demanding than speaker cones.
Of course, it seems you've bought into the market hype (which is largely what the article seems to me) - Pavlov would be so proud! This really looks like it's going to be sold as an executive vanity item rather than something really revolutionary. From a marketing perspective, the "can only be done with sake" line just make it sound more elite.
I kind of wondered about this - after all, people have been bending and shaping wood with steam and various other tricks for hundreds of years.
I wonder why making a speaker cone was so much of a problem? Seems like this may just have been a pet project of his, but a little historical research might have saved him a decade or two.
What, you don't believe we live in the best of all possible worlds? How Candide of you! :-)
well, the bad guys are also rendered in far more detail - all those extra polygons have to come from somewhere. :-)
Maybe it was the type of job where getting fired isn't a really big threat. There's plenty of minimum wage grunt work out there.
No, the modern trend would of been for the company to file computer trespass charges against him for enabling the audit logs!
I think it's less the time clock and more the accounting software. Tracking time in 15 minute blocks seems a pretty standard practice. You're right though - it may have been to make the math easier in the days when it was all done by hand.