I know I was just clamoring to get my my hands on the Jane Austin books when I was a kid. If only there was a way to get it digitally, and in a form where I could read it while making people think I was playing video games! Oh, that would have been too much to ask.
Who's going to pay a premium price for unfiltered network access when they get something they perceive to be virtually identical in value? (Not to mention the "oh, only the rich people get freedom of speech"-angle)
Forcing you to use their software gives them power. Forcing you to update regularly makes it difficult to find ways to download the content without their software.
Controlling how you use their media is good in the minds of these people. They want to know how you view it, when you view it, where you view it, why you viewed it, what you were wearing when you viewed it, what you ate for dinner afterward......
Disproportionate representation is also credited with much of the blame for consistently decreasing voter turn-out. People are gradually becoming more educated about this problem, and more dissatisfied. And it was an issue around here in western Canada, even when the conservatives were the underdog.
Is it really a surprise to see this issue come up more and more often?
Or if they just wanted a good way to get engineers who know their way around a particular family of technology, and who have a successful name backing them up...
Ultimately this approach simply encodes the rules of sudoku, and the state of an unsolved sudoku puzzle in logic statements, and then passes it off to a reasonably general logic solver, namely the dependency/conflict resolver in apt-get/aptitude. That's not really brute force at all.
Whether or not the solution is "brute force" depends on the manner in which debian's dependency/conflict resolver operates. There's many approaches to solving this problem, from gross brute force to reasonably complex machine learning approaches.
The insight in this approach (although it's not an especially new insight to people playing with this sort of idea), is the relationship between puzzles and other day-to-day computing problems purely as constraint satisfaction problems, which essentially means that we describe the problem abstractly without all the trappings of how humans interpret the problem, and let a computer with little to no "general purpose" knowledge or "common sense" come up with the solution on its own (and of course, of us being able to read out the solution once the computer nails it)
I read that article as suggesting that they'll be using nat on the carrier's side of the modem only to provide IPv4 backwards compatability if addresses run out, which is really about the best you can possible do. If you want to address > 4 b illion hosts individually, you can (and indeed by definition will have to) use the IPv6 address...
We seem to have lots of room for foreign workers around here. At the University of Alberta we've seen a noticeable increase in foreign researchers for the past several years, especially as the US tightens its borders and makes it harder and harder for people to be trusted with a visa.
I wonder if coming into the US with "bioinformatics" would raise eyebrows...
And you expect it to guess what you want accurately from you typing a single character? Keep typing!
That said, I've been shocked at how often it DOES guess correctly what I'm interested in on just 1-3 characters.
Those time zones are completely wrong, as it's earlier on the west coast than on the east coast at any given time.
Did you click the link? Doing so right now indicates that Act I is available now. Trying to open it (at least here in Canada) results in Hulu's standard boiler-plate about not streaming anything outside the US.
Really? I hadn't heard anything to that effect. Have a link handy? This would be vaguely depressing, unless again they're dropping the c2s gateway in favor of the more rational s2s federation with other servers approach.
Didn't we just a few months back hear about AOL Adopting Jabber (XMPP)? If AOL is seriously looking towards joining the non-legacy IM network, maybe this is just the latest in a long line of effort to de-emphasize and eventually scuttle ICQ in favor of something a little more modern. Or maybe not. One can dream though.
This is the way I'd really love to manage my personal communications. Give me a data line (wired or wireless, whatever the circumstances demand), and then have a total 3rd party manage phone numbers, call-routing, voice-mail etc. Anything short of that gives the telecoms too much integrated monopoly power.
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Well, except for the whole, smelling like a walking ashtray, coughing up nasty flem, and annoying the hell out of everyone around you thing.
I know I was just clamoring to get my my hands on the Jane Austin books when I was a kid. If only there was a way to get it digitally, and in a form where I could read it while making people think I was playing video games! Oh, that would have been too much to ask.
Who's going to pay a premium price for unfiltered network access when they get something they perceive to be virtually identical in value? (Not to mention the "oh, only the rich people get freedom of speech"-angle)
"let me download the damned trailer"
I think you answered your own question.
Forcing you to use their software gives them power. Forcing you to update regularly makes it difficult to find ways to download the content without their software.
Controlling how you use their media is good in the minds of these people. They want to know how you view it, when you view it, where you view it, why you viewed it, what you were wearing when you viewed it, what you ate for dinner afterward......
My mother was a SAINT!
Even just from the URL, that's a press release from 2007 and has nothing to do with this whitespace issue.
Better, the perl-based 'rename' command:
rename -n 's/(.*) (.*) (.*)/$3 $2 $1/' *
The Conservative party already put reviving bill c-61 into their election platform, and then got voted in.
Disproportionate representation is also credited with much of the blame for consistently decreasing voter turn-out. People are gradually becoming more educated about this problem, and more dissatisfied. And it was an issue around here in western Canada, even when the conservatives were the underdog.
Is it really a surprise to see this issue come up more and more often?
Nonetheless, it's still the sort of DRM where:
Isn't this a little off-base? People who are really about to commit a crime, as a rule, will be explicitly trying not to look suspicious.
Or if they just wanted a good way to get engineers who know their way around a particular family of technology, and who have a successful name backing them up...
Ultimately this approach simply encodes the rules of sudoku, and the state of an unsolved sudoku puzzle in logic statements, and then passes it off to a reasonably general logic solver, namely the dependency/conflict resolver in apt-get/aptitude. That's not really brute force at all.
Whether or not the solution is "brute force" depends on the manner in which debian's dependency/conflict resolver operates. There's many approaches to solving this problem, from gross brute force to reasonably complex machine learning approaches.
The insight in this approach (although it's not an especially new insight to people playing with this sort of idea), is the relationship between puzzles and other day-to-day computing problems purely as constraint satisfaction problems, which essentially means that we describe the problem abstractly without all the trappings of how humans interpret the problem, and let a computer with little to no "general purpose" knowledge or "common sense" come up with the solution on its own (and of course, of us being able to read out the solution once the computer nails it)
Doesn't defective by design imply a DRM story? I didn't see any indication that the 3g connectivity problems had anything to do with DRM...
I read that article as suggesting that they'll be using nat on the carrier's side of the modem only to provide IPv4 backwards compatability if addresses run out, which is really about the best you can possible do. If you want to address > 4 b illion hosts individually, you can (and indeed by definition will have to) use the IPv6 address...
We seem to have lots of room for foreign workers around here. At the University of Alberta we've seen a noticeable increase in foreign researchers for the past several years, especially as the US tightens its borders and makes it harder and harder for people to be trusted with a visa. I wonder if coming into the US with "bioinformatics" would raise eyebrows...
Theregister has a pretty nice artist's impression of the cloak
Linux with ntfs-3g has been supporting full read/write on ntfs for some time, and works out of the box on my ubuntu hardy machine anyways.
And you expect it to guess what you want accurately from you typing a single character? Keep typing! That said, I've been shocked at how often it DOES guess correctly what I'm interested in on just 1-3 characters.
How is not doing your job criminal exactly? Grounds for dismissal, sure, but jail?
Since it's hosted by Hulu, they won't stream to a computer outside the U.S. I never thought I'd have a motive to pirate a free internet video.
Really? I hadn't heard anything to that effect. Have a link handy? This would be vaguely depressing, unless again they're dropping the c2s gateway in favor of the more rational s2s federation with other servers approach.
Didn't we just a few months back hear about AOL Adopting Jabber (XMPP)? If AOL is seriously looking towards joining the non-legacy IM network, maybe this is just the latest in a long line of effort to de-emphasize and eventually scuttle ICQ in favor of something a little more modern. Or maybe not. One can dream though.
This is the way I'd really love to manage my personal communications. Give me a data line (wired or wireless, whatever the circumstances demand), and then have a total 3rd party manage phone numbers, call-routing, voice-mail etc. Anything short of that gives the telecoms too much integrated monopoly power.