The first company to come out with fully interactive, fully immersive tactile VR body suits will have a CEO with wealth that rivals Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Get on it!
No, the first company that makes a fully VR body suit that can clean itself will have that money. Would you really want to clean that suit out yourself every time?
To be honest, I doubt the market can truly be over saturated. It like books, movies and music, no matter how many are made, someone will always be willing to buy more. As for those production companies that have folded, I've heard of this issue and the big issue seems to be that too many people are making their own 'home-made porno' which is flooding the market with too easy 'cheap/free' porn.
It's not so much that they expected the information to be private, its that the kid was arrested and we don't know the details. Would you like to be arrested for an angry rant you wrote on your livejournal?
Considering its illegal to make death threats, its kind of expected. Just because it's a minor doesn't mean they might not be willing to go through with it (though in this article its a 19 year old). Look at all the high school shootings that were done by minors. While it might be a stupid thing to have posted an angry rant on something like livejournal doesn't make it any better. If someone makes death threats, then its going to be investigated.
Seriously, how many times will we have these stories of 'Facebook found to have X issues with privacy'? Facebook is not PrivateBook, it never was nor was it ever intended to be. It was designed to be shared and be public. And when you put something in the public, guess what? People and organizations will look at it regardless of whether you want them to or not.
Its like going to 4chan and hoping it will be a clean and mature forum. It isn't going to happen. Its been designed to make you been seen by as many people as possible while remaining pretty close to anonymous. Some people will enjoy this but many will see it as a way to release their inner 'dickhead'...
Lets see here, Zombieland made $102,297,496 with a budget of $23.6 million
The vast majority of movies either lose money or break even, so the big studios subsidize them with the profits made by the big hits. Picking a single very successful movie and trying to make an argument about the entire industry then isn't going to work.
The problem is with movies that either lose money or break even is that they are shit movies. You can throw billions of dollars at shit, its still shit. These movies that aren't making money should be the wake up call that maybe they should try to write something decent that people will want to watch.
It doesn't take millions of dollars to make a good movie that will sell, think of these movies. Most of them are now considered classics (depending on your tastes) and they didn't take mulit-millions to make. Some of them were also made in the last 10 years so internet downloading shows that its not some death blow to movies:
The Blair Witch Project (1999), Budget: $35,000, Worldwide Gross: $248,300,000.
Mad Max (1979), Budget: $200,000, Worldwide Gross: $99,750,000.
Super Size Me (2004), Budget: $65,000, Worldwide Gross: $29,500,000.
Errr, not really. Ipad can be jailbroken and fully modified. App Store apps can be ripped and cracked and pirated.
And those laws with things like jailbreaking are getting tougher. Many of those groups that do things like this do it in countries where the law is at best grey. With ACTA moving in you'll find more of these groups will just stop as they won't want to risk the legal battles (court fees alone). Look at DarkAlex of the PSP scene. He's gone from what I've heard was Sony was breathing down his neck a little too much. Just because you can jailbreak the device today doesn't mean the options will be as easy tomorrow. Then we are all left which devices like the iPad that aren't truly ours anymore, and might be able to call home if you've jailbroken it sending you to jail for 'bypassing a security measure' a la hardened DMCA laws.
Natal, or 'Kinect' is different though, unfortunately not many people seem to have the imagination capable of seeing why so far however and just dismiss it as a clone of the Wii's control system.
The fundamental difference with Kinect is it's controllerless nature.
And being a controllerless concept is, at least to me, its biggest failure. It sounds like a great idea until you try it. Without something like a controller or equivalent object to provide a feed back, it leads to more frustration and lack of immersion to me. This is where the Wii had issues with me too. Sure it seems like fun at first but when your supposed to be striking something and you swing through it and the game shows you can't (like trying to deflect a weapon in game) the immersion is gone. There is no way I can smack around a 20 foot anything like nothing. I need at least something to can some vibrations to at least get the 'feel' something happened.Try these webcam games and be honest. How fun are they really? This is pretty much what Kinect is going to be. And I feel that the lack of being able to feel anything is what makes it lacking. At least I need something to feel or hold, even if it is just a controller as it is at least real at lets me feel in some way there is a limitation somewhere even in control options.
Besides, multiple discs aren't really that big of a deal. I agree, it's nice having everything on one disc, but seriously...is it that hard to change the disc out every 10+ hours?
From what I've heard about games like Star Ocean on the 360, its not as much hard then as much of a pain. From the buzz I've heard since it's an open world RPG, different locations are on different discs so switching discs can turn into as short as 30 minutes if you need to go from world to world since you might need to start on a world on disc 1 and then go to one on disc 2, only to turn around and need to go back to the one on disc 1. As more games take the 'open world sandbox' effect with more game information, there is a good chance more games will have to place different area's onto different discs leaving the player to play musical discs then playing the game itself.
I have one of the new IdealPads with face recognition. The computers are gorgeous and face recognition works well. The first thing I tried was to print a photography of mine with good quality on a 4 arc of paper to see if i could fool the program to think that it was the real me. It didn't work, so I think it's ***reasonably*** secure.
it also frequently spreads by tricking the user into thinking they want to execute it (which Linux can't protect against)
Thats why I wrote that 'preventing you from installing anything randomly unless you at least somewhat understand it might be bad to just install anything'. Its a warning to basic users that this isn't a trusted program from the safer channels and your taking your own risks installing it. If the user is tricked into installing it anyways even after having to go around such a warning then it's their fault and there isn't much you could do. Not everything you download from the internet isn't going to be good for your computer, but not everything you download will be bad either. By at least taking these steps to help prevent against problems like these (while offering a wide selection of pre-approved software like those found in the Ubuntu Software Centre) it only helps the user I see. Sure it's a minor annoyance to have to keep checking the box to install whatever you want, but you still have that freedom while beginners are given a good, solid warning. And I feel that this is a much better approach to software security then Windows annoying 'Are you sure you want to do this?' warnings as there are safe, pre-approved selections (that a free so it's not someone trying to make the biggest kickback).
As for security holes, there is only so much that can be done. In Ubuntu I have a Update Program that updates both the OS and programs that were installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre. I can also (following very basic instructions on many sites) have it update software from other locations I feel are safe. While security can never be perfect (history shows this time and time again), there are steps that can be taken to help improve it and I feel many of these steps are taken in Linux.
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The first company to come out with fully interactive, fully immersive tactile VR body suits will have a CEO with wealth that rivals Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Get on it!
No, the first company that makes a fully VR body suit that can clean itself will have that money. Would you really want to clean that suit out yourself every time?
Standards have fallen in adult entertainment.
All we need is someone to write some amazing porn story... like Orgazmo.
To be honest, I doubt the market can truly be over saturated. It like books, movies and music, no matter how many are made, someone will always be willing to buy more. As for those production companies that have folded, I've heard of this issue and the big issue seems to be that too many people are making their own 'home-made porno' which is flooding the market with too easy 'cheap/free' porn.
Trust me, you'll believe it when you see it...
As Michael J. Fox one said 'You can yell at it, curse it, smack it around... but that only encourages it..'
I'd estimate only about ~20% are actual porn (sex).
You also have to remember the difference between porn and erotica, the differences being of course the lighting.
Thats more porn then you can shake a fist at...
Your more likely going to be flagged for using Blink 182 lyrics then anything else.
It's not so much that they expected the information to be private, its that the kid was arrested and we don't know the details. Would you like to be arrested for an angry rant you wrote on your livejournal?
Considering its illegal to make death threats, its kind of expected. Just because it's a minor doesn't mean they might not be willing to go through with it (though in this article its a 19 year old). Look at all the high school shootings that were done by minors. While it might be a stupid thing to have posted an angry rant on something like livejournal doesn't make it any better. If someone makes death threats, then its going to be investigated.
Seriously, how many times will we have these stories of 'Facebook found to have X issues with privacy'? Facebook is not PrivateBook, it never was nor was it ever intended to be. It was designed to be shared and be public. And when you put something in the public, guess what? People and organizations will look at it regardless of whether you want them to or not.
Its like going to 4chan and hoping it will be a clean and mature forum. It isn't going to happen. Its been designed to make you been seen by as many people as possible while remaining pretty close to anonymous. Some people will enjoy this but many will see it as a way to release their inner 'dickhead'...
The vast majority of movies either lose money or break even, so the big studios subsidize them with the profits made by the big hits. Picking a single very successful movie and trying to make an argument about the entire industry then isn't going to work.
The problem is with movies that either lose money or break even is that they are shit movies. You can throw billions of dollars at shit, its still shit. These movies that aren't making money should be the wake up call that maybe they should try to write something decent that people will want to watch.
It doesn't take millions of dollars to make a good movie that will sell, think of these movies. Most of them are now considered classics (depending on your tastes) and they didn't take mulit-millions to make. Some of them were also made in the last 10 years so internet downloading shows that its not some death blow to movies:
The Blair Witch Project (1999), Budget: $35,000, Worldwide Gross: $248,300,000.
Mad Max (1979), Budget: $200,000, Worldwide Gross: $99,750,000.
Super Size Me (2004), Budget: $65,000, Worldwide Gross: $29,500,000.
Rocky (1976), Budget: $1,000,000, Worldwide Gross: $225,000,000.
Night of the Living Dead (1968), Budget: $114,000, Worldwide Gross: $30,000,000
Halloween (1978), Budget: $325,000, Worldwide Gross: $70,000,000.
American Graffiti (1973), Budget: $777,000, Worldwide Gross: $140,000,000.
Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Budget: $400,000, Worldwide Gross: $46,000,00.
Friday the 13th (1980), Budget: $550,000, Worldwide Gross: $59,700,000.
Open Water (2004), Budget: $500,000, Worldwide Gross: $52,100,000.
Once (2007), Budget: $150,000, Worldwide Gross: $19,000,000.
Saw (2003), Budget: $1,200,000, Worldwide Gross: $103,000,000.
The Evil Dead (1981), Budget: $375,000, Worldwide Gross: $29,400,000.
Errr, not really. Ipad can be jailbroken and fully modified. App Store apps can be ripped and cracked and pirated.
And those laws with things like jailbreaking are getting tougher. Many of those groups that do things like this do it in countries where the law is at best grey. With ACTA moving in you'll find more of these groups will just stop as they won't want to risk the legal battles (court fees alone). Look at DarkAlex of the PSP scene. He's gone from what I've heard was Sony was breathing down his neck a little too much. Just because you can jailbreak the device today doesn't mean the options will be as easy tomorrow. Then we are all left which devices like the iPad that aren't truly ours anymore, and might be able to call home if you've jailbroken it sending you to jail for 'bypassing a security measure' a la hardened DMCA laws.
Can't forget the odd/funny song Konami Code, a tribute to this old code.
This is great news because this could help wipe out Afghanistan's poverty, the actual biggest obstacle to a functioning government.
Just like how all the oil in Iraq has helped them form a functioning government after the US invasion took out Saddam Hussein...
Would love to see one of those NoPiracy.org ads that have been popping up here on Slashdot to show up suddenly on a site like The Pirate Bay.
Natal, or 'Kinect' is different though, unfortunately not many people seem to have the imagination capable of seeing why so far however and just dismiss it as a clone of the Wii's control system.
The fundamental difference with Kinect is it's controllerless nature.
And being a controllerless concept is, at least to me, its biggest failure. It sounds like a great idea until you try it. Without something like a controller or equivalent object to provide a feed back, it leads to more frustration and lack of immersion to me. This is where the Wii had issues with me too. Sure it seems like fun at first but when your supposed to be striking something and you swing through it and the game shows you can't (like trying to deflect a weapon in game) the immersion is gone. There is no way I can smack around a 20 foot anything like nothing. I need at least something to can some vibrations to at least get the 'feel' something happened.Try these webcam games and be honest. How fun are they really? This is pretty much what Kinect is going to be. And I feel that the lack of being able to feel anything is what makes it lacking. At least I need something to feel or hold, even if it is just a controller as it is at least real at lets me feel in some way there is a limitation somewhere even in control options.
Besides, multiple discs aren't really that big of a deal. I agree, it's nice having everything on one disc, but seriously...is it that hard to change the disc out every 10+ hours?
From what I've heard about games like Star Ocean on the 360, its not as much hard then as much of a pain. From the buzz I've heard since it's an open world RPG, different locations are on different discs so switching discs can turn into as short as 30 minutes if you need to go from world to world since you might need to start on a world on disc 1 and then go to one on disc 2, only to turn around and need to go back to the one on disc 1. As more games take the 'open world sandbox' effect with more game information, there is a good chance more games will have to place different area's onto different discs leaving the player to play musical discs then playing the game itself.
I second Picasa, and it works fine under Wine too.
Works well under beer and vodka too. Editing those pictures can truly become a night to remember... even if you don't remember it the next morning
Or that you actually were a good boy, so you'd be more likely to obey whatever daddy NSA tells you to do.
Oh come on, everyone knows that the NSA means No Such Agency. Its just a figment of your imagination...
One thing that does help in almost all circumstances (as I understand it) is a dose of Benzodiazepines.
That would make for a great polygraph question. "Have you taken any Benzodiazepines to help cheat this test?"
Penn & Teller taught a random woman who answered a Craig's List ad how to fake a polygraph response in less than 30 minutes.
For those interested, here are the videos of that: Part 1 and Part 2./a.
subjecting the person under assessment to unfamiliar, semi-stressful conditions while asking probing questions..
So its like being abducted by aliens but with less anal probing and more question probing...
I have one of the new IdealPads with face recognition. The computers are gorgeous and face recognition works well. The first thing I tried was to print a photography of mine with good quality on a 4 arc of paper to see if i could fool the program to think that it was the real me. It didn't work, so I think it's ***reasonably*** secure.
Now try 'playing' with some makeup and give yourself a fake black-eye with typical squinting eye or equal facial marking and let us know if it still recognizes you. How about try smiling/frowning at the camera as the older versions of this kind of software couldn't understand that it could be the same person. Hat or other head accessory?
it also frequently spreads by tricking the user into thinking they want to execute it (which Linux can't protect against)
Thats why I wrote that 'preventing you from installing anything randomly unless you at least somewhat understand it might be bad to just install anything'. Its a warning to basic users that this isn't a trusted program from the safer channels and your taking your own risks installing it. If the user is tricked into installing it anyways even after having to go around such a warning then it's their fault and there isn't much you could do. Not everything you download from the internet isn't going to be good for your computer, but not everything you download will be bad either. By at least taking these steps to help prevent against problems like these (while offering a wide selection of pre-approved software like those found in the Ubuntu Software Centre) it only helps the user I see. Sure it's a minor annoyance to have to keep checking the box to install whatever you want, but you still have that freedom while beginners are given a good, solid warning. And I feel that this is a much better approach to software security then Windows annoying 'Are you sure you want to do this?' warnings as there are safe, pre-approved selections (that a free so it's not someone trying to make the biggest kickback).
As for security holes, there is only so much that can be done. In Ubuntu I have a Update Program that updates both the OS and programs that were installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre. I can also (following very basic instructions on many sites) have it update software from other locations I feel are safe. While security can never be perfect (history shows this time and time again), there are steps that can be taken to help improve it and I feel many of these steps are taken in Linux.