...the engineers are then released back into the wild so that scientists can study their movements. One day, it may lead to the discovery of just how Casio is surviving in the wild this day in age.
Disclaimer: As a Mac user, the "cut and paste" metaphor for copying files around does not exist on my primary platform.
Still using OS 9? Mac OS X has had this all the long.
When I find the one I want, I switch over to my email program, compose a new message, then drag that photo into the mail window. Done.
That is Drag & Drop, not Pick & Drop. Pick & Drop uses an external hardware device to select an on the screen and to drop it to another computer. Most likely the selection pen is Bluetooth enabled and obviously the two machines you're copying between have to be Bluetooth-enabled and I assume networked as well, unless it's quick to copy files over Bluetooth and the pen device has sufficient capacity.
So now you can physically pick and drop between two computers. Much different than Drag & Drop.
I tried 3 different times, but nothing that came up for this on Google had anything even remotely to do with the stock market....especially in the image search...
The paralegal apparently fell victim to one of the many official looking Web sites that have been put up by pranksters to describe dihydrogen monoxide as "an odorless, tasteless chemical" that can be deadly if accidentally inhaled.
The best way to make images more theft-resistant is to put them in a lightweight Flash movie that loads them up. I have a whole website designed in Flash which loads content dynamically, and it uses 116k for the whole site. It's true someone could score the URL and just load it directly. If you put the images in the SWF, the size will increase and someone could save and "decompile" the SWF.
If you don't want to go the Flash route and stick to straight HTML, cut your images into smaller squares and use CSS or tables to assemble them in the browser. That's more of a pain but casual image theft is less likely when someone has to paste together 16 thumbnail-sized images.
Don't take features away from our broswer. Remember: no matter what you do, someone can always take a screen shot. Your content will never be secure on a computer, so don't try to make it.
It's all fun and games until a SimTornado comes and wipes out your city.
I envision more of a traffic problem from the likes of 10,000 Slashdot buses pulling up per second...
Forget the webserver, the graphics card will choke before the NIC even begins to smolder...
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Now, I don't know much about OpenGL yet, but is it possible to render to a file instead of the graphics buffer? If it were, then this thing could (in theory) go server-side (provided the server has the proper APIs and DLL, of course) - then render to a file for display by a web server.
Such a system could be useful for online data visualization services or other similar systems (mapping, network visualization, etc)...
My thoughts exactly. PHP already does this with the imaging funcitons, only in 2D. I assume that to create images from scratch, PHP is already using a framebuffer to draw into before converting the image to the proper file format, so hopefully it could become as simple as making 2D images is.
The really neat thing is that PHP can create SWF (Flash) files with the proper libraries installed, I wonder if one could generate server side Swift3D-style animations with this, although if you think about it, OpenGL wouldn't really be nessisary as the Flash Player would have to do all the rendering client-side anyways...
It's called TOS, or terms of service. This guy is going to get an angry call from his cable provider come 9AM, and they'll probably take the wire down right off his house lol
As for the/. effect, it can last for a long time. As long as that story is on the front page.
Hell, I post an occational image on Fark and you should see the logfiles go apeshit
Something I like about Macintoshes in general is that a caps lock is not a shift inverter. Put on Caps Lock on your PC and now hold the shift key and hit a letter, and watch yuorself type a lowercase character. On the Mac, a shift is a shift is a shift, and it's always uppercase. kEEPS ME FROM yELLING lIKE a dUMBASS;-)
Without caps lock, it would be difficult
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...T0 B3 TEH L33T!
/votes it off the island
No, seriously, caps lock is a nice thing to have. I, for one, think Num Lock is the obsolete button. All keyboards have actual arrow keys now, and also Home, PgDn, PgUp, and all that. There is no need to have a dual-function keypad. SysReq is another one I don't think we need on new keyboards. Sure maybe if you need a keyboard of an aging mainframe where they key makes sense or something, but on a new, everyday PC, it's useless.
I'd say the same thing about the Scroll Lock key, but I've used a terminal before and something like cat/var/log/http/access_log sucks without it.:-)
Virus: When run, spreads itself to other executable files and changes them so that the virus code is again run when the infected file is. Usually spreads between machines by way of the user copying an infected file to another machine. Most attempt to remain transparent, some also have other purposes such as causing hard disk failures on a friday the 13th, or blanking a machine's firmware/changing BIOS settings. Not especially common in this day of always-on Internet.
Worm: Self-propagating on a network. Usually remains active at all times. Mosty exist as their own entity instead of merging with another executable. Can be used as a gateway to a machine, acting as a keystoke logger, a DDoS or SMTP zombie, or worst of all, a remote installer, allowing a worm author to make use of infected machines however he/she sees fit.
Trojan: A malicious program in disguise as a harmless one, usually installer programs but can be others. Most commonly designed for the purpose of installing other viruses or worms on a system. (In this sense, any installer which installs spyware, which by definition isn't disclosed to the user, could be considered a trojan, although for some reason the practice hasn't been found illegal yet)
The movie studios have been in search of a new DVD encryption scheme since the industry standard, known as CSS, was cracked by Linux programmers in 1999. The recording industry, meanwhile, was stymied last year in its bid to create a music copy protection system when academic researchers defeated a proposed watermarking standard.
So, Ken Brown isn't full of shit, Jon Johansen wrote the kernel!
Seriously, how the hell did that get stuck in there? DeCSS was written in standard ANSI C, wasn't it (if not, forgive me, it has been a while since I gazed apon it)? Also, last I looked, DVDJon was one guy.
C|Net has however, seemed a bit biased before, but it's not as if they've never reported on the subject before. (<rant>Only brainless morons would buy the "com" domain so they could actually have "news.com" as their.com, which even made the circular file in the Department of Redundancy Department.</rant>) It's like reading "T3" for the latest news on tech. Sure you hear all the current topics, but only because it's what everyone else is talking about...
The original post to which this is the reply is a typical/. response - attack first then look up the facts if you can be bothered after
Too right you are, but I was also (well, trying, after reading what I wrote it didn't come out to clearly) stating that this is bad in a general case as well. I just think it's stupid to build a single generic model of electronics hardware (for whatever purpose) and then lock out features with software. Especially if it can be considered illegal in any way to enable the missing features. Maybe it voids your warranty, fair enough, but I hope to god we don't start seeing lawsuits over this.
Yes, I realize (now.../me looks ashamed) the cameras are different in ruggedness/lens/ports, but seriously, why skimp on the software if it's going to be loaded anyways?
PS: Knee-jerk subject lines always get noticed on/. and I really wanted people's input in this;-D
Well, there is a difference between a warning and an annoyance. Personally, I don't care if there is a quick blurb before the movie about "Use of videotaping devices or cameras of any kind prohibited", but I don't want to watch the anti-piracy infomercial before the flick, no.
I'd rather have night-vision going on then some dude blasting a flashlight around everytime they suspect someone, that's distracting. Infrared codes and blocking patterns? Hey as long as I can't see it, it doesn't affect me.
If it doesnt' cost more to make the high-end one (and it obviously doesn't if they the same damn camera), why not sell it full featured for cheap, while customers flock to it for it's awsomeness among rave reviews and compeditors struggle to keep up with the feature/price level? Raise that bar and stand out that much as a company, even if your lower end model has to have a slightly higher price then you planned.
It's like selling a Mack truck with a torque limiter for cheap. Why not just whoop everyone's ass with your superior product for less than all the other guys?
Plus, there will always be hacks like this, no matter what. People where willing to chip their beloved video game consoles since the first PlayStation (before?), no one holds a digital camera in as high a regard as their video game console. Or their DVD player, or their Stereo, or maybe even their cel phone (which can back up all the important stuff onto the computer anyway). I mean, no one wants to loose a device but we're talking risk here.
It cheapens the image of a company, that's for sure. Now, if they keep their mouths closed about this hack, and just say "If you're enough of a geek to do this, go for it, we'll still get rich off the suckers", that's acceptible. However, I dont' think they have the right to sell someone a product which can do everything, "secretly* lock it off and someone finds a way to enable it. If you dont' want someone to have it, you can't sell it to them. Not locked off by software, not even locked off by hardware. You can't build the capability in at all.
Imagine the uproar if it was found out that Windows XP Home was the same as XP Pro with hidden options and a throttle control?
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...the engineers are then released back into the wild so that scientists can study their movements. One day, it may lead to the discovery of just how Casio is surviving in the wild this day in age.
Whoa, I never really noticed that....why the hell isn't there a Cut?
Yea, but does it support PHP?
The funny thing is we DID just see this and read it.
So now you can physically pick and drop between two computers. Much different than Drag & Drop.
From the MSNBC atricle:That, my friends, is comedy gold.
The best way to make images more theft-resistant is to put them in a lightweight Flash movie that loads them up. I have a whole website designed in Flash which loads content dynamically, and it uses 116k for the whole site. It's true someone could score the URL and just load it directly. If you put the images in the SWF, the size will increase and someone could save and "decompile" the SWF.
If you don't want to go the Flash route and stick to straight HTML, cut your images into smaller squares and use CSS or tables to assemble them in the browser. That's more of a pain but casual image theft is less likely when someone has to paste together 16 thumbnail-sized images.
Don't take features away from our broswer. Remember: no matter what you do, someone can always take a screen shot. Your content will never be secure on a computer, so don't try to make it.
Forget the webserver, the graphics card will choke before the NIC even begins to smolder...
The really neat thing is that PHP can create SWF (Flash) files with the proper libraries installed, I wonder if one could generate server side Swift3D-style animations with this, although if you think about it, OpenGL wouldn't really be nessisary as the Flash Player would have to do all the rendering client-side anyways...
Neat stuff.
It's called TOS, or terms of service. This guy is going to get an angry call from his cable provider come 9AM, and they'll probably take the wire down right off his house lol
As for the
Hell, I post an occational image on Fark and you should see the logfiles go apeshit
"We are Trapper-Keeper, we are one."
Something I like about Macintoshes in general is that a caps lock is not a shift inverter. Put on Caps Lock on your PC and now hold the shift key and hit a letter, and watch yuorself type a lowercase character. On the Mac, a shift is a shift is a shift, and it's always uppercase. kEEPS ME FROM yELLING lIKE a dUMBASS
...T0 B3 TEH L33T!
/votes it off the island
No, seriously, caps lock is a nice thing to have. I, for one, think Num Lock is the obsolete button. All keyboards have actual arrow keys now, and also Home, PgDn, PgUp, and all that. There is no need to have a dual-function keypad. SysReq is another one I don't think we need on new keyboards. Sure maybe if you need a keyboard of an aging mainframe where they key makes sense or something, but on a new, everyday PC, it's useless.
I'd say the same thing about the Scroll Lock key, but I've used a terminal before and something like cat
No one is going to go for this. Now you have to buy a proprietary player AND keep all your music on it?
The big 5 are digging their own grave.
...why are you still reading Slashdot?
Seriously, how the hell did that get stuck in there? DeCSS was written in standard ANSI C, wasn't it (if not, forgive me, it has been a while since I gazed apon it)? Also, last I looked, DVDJon was one guy.
C|Net has however, seemed a bit biased before, but it's not as if they've never reported on the subject before. (<rant>Only brainless morons would buy the "com" domain so they could actually have "news.com" as their
McDonalds needs to forget the health food thing. I'm sick of dumbass fat slobs suing McDonalds because they can't read a nutrition chart.
Yes, I realize (now.../me looks ashamed) the cameras are different in ruggedness/lens/ports, but seriously, why skimp on the software if it's going to be loaded anyways?
PS: Knee-jerk subject lines always get noticed on
Well, there is a difference between a warning and an annoyance. Personally, I don't care if there is a quick blurb before the movie about "Use of videotaping devices or cameras of any kind prohibited", but I don't want to watch the anti-piracy infomercial before the flick, no.
I'd rather have night-vision going on then some dude blasting a flashlight around everytime they suspect someone, that's distracting. Infrared codes and blocking patterns? Hey as long as I can't see it, it doesn't affect me.
That's called "Time lapse photography", google for it, I'm sure there is plenty out there.
If it doesnt' cost more to make the high-end one (and it obviously doesn't if they the same damn camera), why not sell it full featured for cheap, while customers flock to it for it's awsomeness among rave reviews and compeditors struggle to keep up with the feature/price level? Raise that bar and stand out that much as a company, even if your lower end model has to have a slightly higher price then you planned.
It's like selling a Mack truck with a torque limiter for cheap. Why not just whoop everyone's ass with your superior product for less than all the other guys?
Plus, there will always be hacks like this, no matter what. People where willing to chip their beloved video game consoles since the first PlayStation (before?), no one holds a digital camera in as high a regard as their video game console. Or their DVD player, or their Stereo, or maybe even their cel phone (which can back up all the important stuff onto the computer anyway). I mean, no one wants to loose a device but we're talking risk here.
It cheapens the image of a company, that's for sure. Now, if they keep their mouths closed about this hack, and just say "If you're enough of a geek to do this, go for it, we'll still get rich off the suckers", that's acceptible. However, I dont' think they have the right to sell someone a product which can do everything, "secretly* lock it off and someone finds a way to enable it. If you dont' want someone to have it, you can't sell it to them. Not locked off by software, not even locked off by hardware. You can't build the capability in at all.
Imagine the uproar if it was found out that Windows XP Home was the same as XP Pro with hidden options and a throttle control?
I dunno, just my humble opinions.