That would be a good compromise between being a complete pain in the ass and being accomplishable. Your Atari game can run in an emulator until you get it working, then you can pick up a Starpath and run it on an actual Atari.
With talking, typing, handwriting, and even graffiti, you don't have to pay too much attention to the data entry method itself while you're entering the data. Thus your senses are free for other tasks. This input method seems like it would require you to have your eyes glued to that little keyboard all the time. I wonder if anyone has done studies comparing input methods like this against the old standbys, but comparing not only input speed and accuracy, but other factors like comprehension. E.G. compare this against note-taking with pen and paper, but then ask questions about the subject matter.
"Soribada is probably affecting our business, but there is no concrete evidence," said Cho Jin-bae, who handles online marketing at the Seoul office of the EMI record label. For an industry that claims to be losing to piracy 5 times more money than it takes in, all from one source, the lack of concrete evidence suprises me. Or maybe the South Korean RIAA wannabees are even more mathematically challenged than their American counterparts. Frankly, I'm suprised they can crank in $30 million or so a year, what with 2 college kids in their way.
I guy I know was caught shoplifting at Sears in college. He alegedly stole a shirt - he claims it was by accident. In fact, he realized his error and brought the shirt back to the store to pay for it. They arrested him and charged him with shoplifting, and as part of his sentence was not allowed in any Sears store again. They would charge him with tresspassing if he ever went to Sears. Sears back then had the manual equivalent of the system in question -- A bunch of morons looking at video of the stores, and a bunch of pictures of people not allowed in the stores. Several times the cops accused this guy of tresspassing in the store -- they had a grainy video of another Asian male in a Sears store somewhere as the evidence. Each time he would have to prove it wasn't him. This thing is just the automated equivalent of what Sears had then, and from this story, it looks like it will be equally ineffective. Hopefully the police won't have time to investigate all the false positives it generates and will ultimately scrap the whole idea. Until then we will see more and more stories like this one.
I think you're misinterpreting what you read. First of all, the average was 15,000,000 matches per minute. Even so, all this means is that the system could compare 15,000,000 pairs of faces per minute. So after several minutes, the system could pick one face from the crowd and identify it as one person in the US. But with a database the size of the US, it would probably come up with many equally likely matches for that person. In practice, the database sizes are smaller, e.g. the list of suspects are smaller, so that they can actually use the system. For example, if there were 1,000 people in the crowd, and 1,000 people in the database, it would take 1,000,000 matches to compare everyone in the crowd against everyone in the database, which would take 4 seconds. But I'll bet there's no way in hell that the camera system, and the other components of the system can feed it faces from the crowd that fast. The system is doomed to never work well for large databases, if you read the FAQ, its Windows and COM-based. We know how well Windows scales!
This friend of mine had Pabst Blue Ribbon memorabilia all over his room -- signs bottles, etc. He wouldn't shut up about how great PBR is. This other friend of mine guessed his password in exactly two tries -- first try: 'pabst'. second try 'pabst1'. He couldn't figure out how in the world someone guessed his password. Heinekin!? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
You're may be liable for up to $50 of the charges.. Most credit card companies don't bother. It's a huge hassle, potentially more than 1 phone call... Imagine yourself on a date at a restaurant with a hottie, the check comes, and your credit card gets denied because its over the limit. All because you signed up for Passport...:) OK a little unlikely, this is slasdot, noone here gets a date with a hottie.
The real problem isn't that MS will get your personal data when you sign up - you can just make up stuff. The problem is that they will be able to associate all your logins to all the Passport-enabled sites to track you. All they have to do is get one real piece of data from you, e.g. a real email address, and you've given them the ability to track many things about you and what you're doing. What we all really need is a Passport randomizer service, so that any two logins you make to Passport-enabled services are never for the same identity. Imagine a Passport client that creates identities and always has a new one ready to use. This has the added benefit of filling up their disk with logins that will only be used once. If a hotmail account is automatically created by passport, that's even better - the client can post the email address to a few key places and fill the account up with SPAM. Distributed SPAM from around the net, filling up hotmail disks and keeping the bogus accounts active. If enough people used this hypothetical client, it would render Passport useless, or force Microsoft to waste a ton of money trying to scale it on pathetic Wintel hardware.
Something exactly opposite is going on here in Denver... There's a proposition out that will make the laws available over the Internet. Some groups are fighting it on the grounds that they'll only be available to those with Internet access.
is the answer to all problems, great and small. While a dedicated server to calculate the MD5 checksums might be infeasible beacuse of load, a p2p solution could fit nicely. The AOL server asks you for the checksum, your client goes to, say, gnutella. Rather than serve up the entire aim.exe file, there would be a protocol that requests MD5 checksums for it.
Those numbers are for the DSL line itself, on top of regular phone service, and you still have to pay for an ISP. So its ~$45 - $50 for 640K/272K. They sell it as 256K because that's what it used to be, and because its variable between 256K and 640K depending on distance. I get around 500K download speed max.
Tracks from copy-protected CDs will likely be the most traded of any on the p2p file sharing systems. Why? There is no other way to listen to them on a PC. The irony here is that the artist mentioned in the article wanted copy protection on his CDs as a direct result of seeing his stuff on Napster.
ricoh's top of the line digital camera can probably do what you want. You probably need to connect a cell phone for the data connectivity, but you won't need a PC or PDA in the middle. i don't know if the camera is out yet -- but maybe Ricoh would loan you one for the trip.
IMHO, the only hackers in the group are the ones
who hacked the smart cards in the first place, and
then respond to DirecTVs updates with ever-more
clever exploits. All the people who just follow
along buying and selling hacked cards are pirates or
crackers. Also, it shouldn't be illegal to hack satellite or cable, but that doesn't mean its the most moral thing either. DirecTV needs to make it difficult enough to hack, so that enough people watching are paying customers. Some of the people pirating the signal wouldn't have bought it anyway, even if they couldn't get it for free. They aren't losing money on those people. Its also the case that the pirates don't cost DirecTV anything as far as customer support or other infrastructure. their boxes don't phone home, the pirates aren't sent bills, and they certainly don't call up DirectTV when their equipment breaks. The only real money DirecTV loses is the money they pump into R&D to thwart the piracy. Everything else is theorical - how many people pirate the signal? Of those people, how many would pay for it if they cuoldn't pirate it? What programming would they get? DirecTV can't send out a survey to find this information out.
Every DirecTV receiver in the Bahamas has a hacked
smart card, at least thats what the bartender told
me when I was there a few years ago. One spin is
that Hughes doesn't sell DirecTV in the Bahamas.
How immoral is it to steal a service that you simply
can't buy legally?
You should be getting paid a full US salary
working for Raytheon, especially working for them
out in BFE. In fact, you should be getting more
money than that to compensate for being out of the
US, away from friends and family. For TDY, you can
get paid 1/3 of your salary on top, and not pay taxes
on it.
BFE - Bum Fsck Egypt
TDY - Temporary Duty Yonder
was the white racing Porsche with the whale tail. It was the most realistic car, and also the coolest looking robot. I also had the lamborghini. It was from the toys before they were named Transormers, and there was a little yellow robot man that rode in the cockpit of the car. I'm fairly certain the little man had magnets on his feet.
Orbacus is faster than Orbix, adheres more closely to the CORBA spec, comes with source code, has better customer support, supports more platforms, has no run-time licensing fees, and is available for free for non-commercial use. There are probably some more advantages, but I don't remember them off the top of my head.
did the same thing, I had an old DVD with a really stupid case. Now I'm using AOL's free DVD case for the DVD. I threw away the AOL CD and my old DVD case, but I should have put the AOL CD in the old DVD case, and then send it back to AOL...
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only make sense to me when the movie has a technological aspect. One of this movies most admirable qualities is that it does not.
That would be a good compromise between being a complete pain in the ass and being accomplishable. Your Atari game can run in an emulator until you get it working, then you can pick up a Starpath and run it on an actual Atari.
Their last disaster was the first N generations of Windows CE.
Is a smelly Aussie buggerer, and drinks Foster's brand pisswater beer. And Paul Hogan, kangaroos, and dingos can all eat me, too.
With talking, typing, handwriting, and even graffiti, you don't have to pay too much attention to the data entry method itself while you're entering the data. Thus your senses are free for other tasks. This input method seems like it would require you to have your eyes glued to that little keyboard all the time. I wonder if anyone has done studies comparing input methods like this against the old standbys, but comparing not only input speed and accuracy, but other factors like comprehension. E.G. compare this against note-taking with pen and paper, but then ask questions about the subject matter.
"Soribada is probably affecting our business, but there is no concrete evidence," said Cho Jin-bae, who handles online marketing at the Seoul office of the EMI record label. For an industry that claims to be losing to piracy 5 times more money than it takes in, all from one source, the lack of concrete evidence suprises me. Or maybe the South Korean RIAA wannabees are even more mathematically challenged than their American counterparts. Frankly, I'm suprised they can crank in $30 million or so a year, what with 2 college kids in their way.
I guy I know was caught shoplifting at Sears in college. He alegedly stole a shirt - he claims it was by accident. In fact, he realized his error and brought the shirt back to the store to pay for it. They arrested him and charged him with shoplifting, and as part of his sentence was not allowed in any Sears store again. They would charge him with tresspassing if he ever went to Sears. Sears back then had the manual equivalent of the system in question -- A bunch of morons looking at video of the stores, and a bunch of pictures of people not allowed in the stores. Several times the cops accused this guy of tresspassing in the store -- they had a grainy video of another Asian male in a Sears store somewhere as the evidence. Each time he would have to prove it wasn't him. This thing is just the automated equivalent of what Sears had then, and from this story, it looks like it will be equally ineffective. Hopefully the police won't have time to investigate all the false positives it generates and will ultimately scrap the whole idea. Until then we will see more and more stories like this one.
I think you're misinterpreting what you read. First of all, the average was 15,000,000 matches per minute. Even so, all this means is that the system could compare 15,000,000 pairs of faces per minute. So after several minutes, the system could pick one face from the crowd and identify it as one person in the US. But with a database the size of the US, it would probably come up with many equally likely matches for that person. In practice, the database sizes are smaller, e.g. the list of suspects are smaller, so that they can actually use the system. For example, if there were 1,000 people in the crowd, and 1,000 people in the database, it would take 1,000,000 matches to compare everyone in the crowd against everyone in the database, which would take 4 seconds. But I'll bet there's no way in hell that the camera system, and the other components of the system can feed it faces from the crowd that fast. The system is doomed to never work well for large databases, if you read the FAQ, its Windows and COM-based. We know how well Windows scales!
This friend of mine had Pabst Blue Ribbon memorabilia all over his room -- signs bottles, etc. He wouldn't shut up about how great PBR is. This other friend of mine guessed his password in exactly two tries -- first try: 'pabst'. second try 'pabst1'. He couldn't figure out how in the world someone guessed his password. Heinekin!? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
You're may be liable for up to $50 of the charges.. Most credit card companies don't bother. It's a huge hassle, potentially more than 1 phone call... Imagine yourself on a date at a restaurant with a hottie, the check comes, and your credit card gets denied because its over the limit. All because you signed up for Passport... :) OK a little unlikely, this is slasdot, noone here gets a date with a hottie.
The real problem isn't that MS will get your personal data when you sign up - you can just make up stuff. The problem is that they will be able to associate all your logins to all the Passport-enabled sites to track you. All they have to do is get one real piece of data from you, e.g. a real email address, and you've given them the ability to track many things about you and what you're doing. What we all really need is a Passport randomizer service, so that any two logins you make to Passport-enabled services are never for the same identity. Imagine a Passport client that creates identities and always has a new one ready to use. This has the added benefit of filling up their disk with logins that will only be used once. If a hotmail account is automatically created by passport, that's even better - the client can post the email address to a few key places and fill the account up with SPAM. Distributed SPAM from around the net, filling up hotmail disks and keeping the bogus accounts active. If enough people used this hypothetical client, it would render Passport useless, or force Microsoft to waste a ton of money trying to scale it on pathetic Wintel hardware.
Something exactly opposite is going on here in Denver... There's a proposition out that will make the laws available over the Internet. Some groups are fighting it on the grounds that they'll only be available to those with Internet access.
It should say OK.
is the answer to all problems, great and small. While a dedicated server to calculate the MD5 checksums might be infeasible beacuse of load, a p2p solution could fit nicely. The AOL server asks you for the checksum, your client goes to, say, gnutella. Rather than serve up the entire aim.exe file, there would be a protocol that requests MD5 checksums for it.
Those numbers are for the DSL line itself, on top of regular phone service, and you still have to pay for an ISP. So its ~$45 - $50 for 640K/272K. They sell it as 256K because that's what it used to be, and because its variable between 256K and 640K depending on distance. I get around 500K download speed max.
Tracks from copy-protected CDs will likely be the most traded of any on the p2p file sharing systems. Why? There is no other way to listen to them on a PC. The irony here is that the artist mentioned in the article wanted copy protection on his CDs as a direct result of seeing his stuff on Napster.
Most used game stores I've come across are chains. You can probably get started the franchise route a lot faster than starting it yourself.
ricoh's top of the line digital camera can probably do what you want. You probably need to connect a cell phone for the data connectivity, but you won't need a PC or PDA in the middle. i don't know if the camera is out yet -- but maybe Ricoh would loan you one for the trip.
With morons like this guy at M$, no wonder their products suck ass.
IMHO, the only hackers in the group are the ones who hacked the smart cards in the first place, and then respond to DirecTVs updates with ever-more clever exploits. All the people who just follow along buying and selling hacked cards are pirates or crackers. Also, it shouldn't be illegal to hack satellite or cable, but that doesn't mean its the most moral thing either. DirecTV needs to make it difficult enough to hack, so that enough people watching are paying customers. Some of the people pirating the signal wouldn't have bought it anyway, even if they couldn't get it for free. They aren't losing money on those people. Its also the case that the pirates don't cost DirecTV anything as far as customer support or other infrastructure. their boxes don't phone home, the pirates aren't sent bills, and they certainly don't call up DirectTV when their equipment breaks. The only real money DirecTV loses is the money they pump into R&D to thwart the piracy. Everything else is theorical - how many people pirate the signal? Of those people, how many would pay for it if they cuoldn't pirate it? What programming would they get? DirecTV can't send out a survey to find this information out.
Every DirecTV receiver in the Bahamas has a hacked smart card, at least thats what the bartender told me when I was there a few years ago. One spin is that Hughes doesn't sell DirecTV in the Bahamas. How immoral is it to steal a service that you simply can't buy legally?
You should be getting paid a full US salary working for Raytheon, especially working for them out in BFE. In fact, you should be getting more money than that to compensate for being out of the US, away from friends and family. For TDY, you can get paid 1/3 of your salary on top, and not pay taxes on it. BFE - Bum Fsck Egypt TDY - Temporary Duty Yonder
was the white racing Porsche with the whale tail. It was the most realistic car, and also the coolest looking robot. I also had the lamborghini. It was from the toys before they were named Transormers, and there was a little yellow robot man that rode in the cockpit of the car. I'm fairly certain the little man had magnets on his feet.
Orbacus is faster than Orbix, adheres more closely to the CORBA spec, comes with source code, has better customer support, supports more platforms, has no run-time licensing fees, and is available for free for non-commercial use. There are probably some more advantages, but I don't remember them off the top of my head.
did the same thing, I had an old DVD with a really stupid case. Now I'm using AOL's free DVD case for the DVD. I threw away the AOL CD and my old DVD case, but I should have put the AOL CD in the old DVD case, and then send it back to AOL...