As awesome as these hacks for the Canon cameras are, as a 40d owner I'm feeling a bit left out. I have the CHDK firmware for my S3IS which is awesome; multiple exposure bracketing, RAW support, and scripts galore. And now extra movie support functions for the 5d. There was a guy a while back who hacked the 40d to shoot video, but he ended up getting hired by Nikon and couldn't release his code. Anyone know of any efforts to hack these cameras as well?
I tried this service several weeks ago between LA and NYC. While I didn't try Skype, I did RDP back to my computer back at my office through a VPN. Surprisingly, it worked quite well. There was also a novel trill in people asking where you were, and giving them a location 30,000 ft above some midwest state. Having outlets underneath the seat was nice too. Those perks alone are *almost* enough for me to dump JetBlue as my priamry airline of choice and fly Virgin America. But sadly, their routes and time schedules aren't quite there for me yet. Maybe someday soon...
Unfortunately for people who experienced the collapse of the WTC towers first hand, low flying planes crashing into buildings is something that could reasonably happen, and one could argue that it is not sane to wait and see if an unusually low flying plane is actually going to crash into a building before taking steps to save one's life.
As a New Yorker, I'd like to reaffirm this. After watching first-hand both planes hit the Twin Towers and both towers collapsing, yes, I feel a bit skittish when planes fly very low overhead. Not only did we have 9/11, but we've had a plane recently splash-land into the Hudson, as well as a number of both larger and smaller craft crash into buildings or into a river. It happens rarely, when planes fly low on purpose it usually evokes the same reactions from other New Yorkers, they pause and look up, wondering if it's suppose to be where it is, or if its going to crash.
Most comments here quick point out how stupid and unreasonable this is. Yes, by definition, it is unreasonable. It's a deep survival instinct that kicks in until the higher reasoning thoughts point out that it's ok and to go about your business. I also experienced the Loma Prieta earthquake growing up near San Francisco, along with countless smaller tremors. When I moved to NYC, for the first year my mind would go into a momentary panic when ever I felt the rumble of the subway going by. Again, it was stupid and unreasonable, but there's a reason its there. Someday, when planes stop crashing into buildings here in the city, enough time will go by and New Yorkers will stop freaking out, and reason will prevail. Someday...
CHICAGO - Federal authorities have indicted several Illinios Senators on corruption charges after an undercover investigation. According to tapes released, Senators called a number of planetoids asking "what they could get" for the title of planet. Rod Blagojevich was unavailable for comment.
I'd suggest you start here. The explaination of differences between a hard drive and a floppy is especially effective. Modify as needed for your own audience. Use of a lucca libre mask is optional, but recommended if you want to hold the respect of a class of 4th graders.
Check with Schrödinger. He was wandering around earlier looking for a cat too. Something to do with that crazy box he built... But I'm sure your cat is ok.
If private investigator licenses were required to do what MediaSentry does, every user on Limewire and other illegal p2p networks would be required to have a license. Indeed, every search engine and Internet user would be required to have a private investigator license if MediaSentry needs one.
First, let me say- Uhh... no.
Here's the requirements, and some of them are quite interesting. Like:
A person, firm, partnership, company, limited liability company, or corporation shall not engage in the business of furnishing or supplying, for hire and reward, information as to the personal character of any person or firm, or as to the character or kind of business and occupation of any person, firm, partnership, company, limited liability company, or corporation and shall not own, conduct, or maintain a bureau or agency for the purposes described in this subsection except as to the financial rating of persons, firms, partnerships, companies, limited liability companies, or corporations without having first obtained a license from the department.
That's actually an intriging idea. Since many EULAs, privacy policies, contracts, etc. contain similar legal language, imagine coming up with a standardized set of icons for each point (think of the hazard icons from Portal). So for instance, an obviously imbalanced pair of scales when a contract requires arbitration, or a shrugging stick figure for the standard "we're not responsible for anything bad that happens when using our product".
Ok, so chances of it actually being implemented are close to nil. But I'm sure if you summarized the policy or EULA with cute little icons, people would start paying attention to what they're agreeing to.
Cause Apple's a cult and you have to swear your undying alliegance to them upon purchasing their machines? I don't know... but that's my guess. Kinda like scientology if you ask me.
Well, if it follows the same pattern of security as other parts of the government, each packet will be required to show two forms of government-issued ID, restrict its data to whatever it can fit into 3 ounce bottles in a clear quart-sized bag, and remove its shoes. Additionally, packets will also be subject to a "No-Route" list, and may also be randomly pulled aside for deep inspection. It will be suggested for packets to arrive at least 1 hour earlier (2 for international routing) for the extra queue length caused by the increased security.
Isn't here a legal standard as to what procedures are acceptable in court when presenting evidence? A legal test that determines if a relatively new investigative technique is admissable as evidence if enough experts view it as reliable? How can Media Sentry present their evidentiary procedures as both propritary to prevent it's disclosure, yet admissable due to its being widely-accepted? It is, prima facie, a direct contridiction.
I dunno about that. Machines refusing to listen to their masters, shutting down, revolting, and ultimately destroying civilization? Sounds more like typical Windows Genuine Advantage functionality to me...
After looking the pictures on the website, I started to wonder if the action figures would work with Legos. Then I remembered are Microsoft products, so I would have to assume no.
(note to any creative people/companies out there: if you designed similarly themed action-hero figures from open-source mascots, I would so buy them.
Just found this in the ICANN Front-running paper. Note the contact email at the end...
For each instance of suspected domain name front running, the type of information that
would be most useful in studying the case includes but is not limited to:
Method used to check domain name availability (e.g., web browser, application).
Local access ISP.
Provider or operator of the availability checking service.
Dates and times when domain name availability checks were performed.
Copy of the information returned (e.g., WHOIS query response) in the response to the availability
check.
Whether the domain name was reported as previously registered or never before registered in the
response returned from the availability check.
Copy of the information returned (e.g., WHOIS query response) indicating the name had been
registered.
Copies of any correspondence sent to or received from the registrant perceived to be a front runner.
Correspondence with the registrar or availability checking service.
Any information indicating a potential relationship between the availability checking service and the
registrant that grabbed the name.
Looks like this has NSI's attention, or at least that of its employees. Here's a recent post from Domain State. I"ve included additional commentary to aid the reader.
Hi my name is Shashi Bellamkonda and I work for Network Solutions.
I have know way of confirming your name is really Shashi Bellamkonda, or if you really work for Network Solutions, but for the sake of discussion I'll give you the benefit ofthe doubt.
Wanted to give you our side of the story.
Which, as I understand, has been vetted though management, checked by legal, and cleared with PR. Please, proceed
Network Solutions is not front running. " Front Runners" are people who register domain names known to have been searched, for the purpose of monetizing them and then selling them at inflated prices either directly to the customer who searched for the domain or through aftermarket channels.
We have started protecting all domain name searches at Network Solutions by holding the searched domains for our customers for a short period of time before releasing them.
Domain Name Wire has posted a response from NSI's PR department. Here's the relevent quote from NSI:
I just got off the phone with Susan Wade, who heads PR for Network Solutions. "This is a customer protection measure to protect customers from frontrunners," said Wade. "After four days, we release the domain." According to Wade, Network Solutions instituted this program as a test over the past few weeks. I asked if Network Solutions is actually acting as a frontrunner by doing this and she said there's a distinction. First, they are not monetizing the domains. Second, they have no intention of keeping the domains. All domains are released after the four day period.
Translation: So if anyone else does it, it's bad, because they're domain front-running. But when we do it's it's ok, because, uh, we say so. No, really!
1) Size. I really like small laptops. While the 15" MacBook pro was sleek and light, I like the carry-around feel of the Dell better.
Sorry, that confuses me. You like small laptops, but you're listing that as a point for buying a bigger one? Or was that a point for themacbook?
The Dell is actually smaller. the m1330 is a 13" laptop (actually, more like 13.5 or something, but still less than a 15" Mac). I think the weight is slightly less, maybe even the same with battery. For me 13" is the perfect size. It would have been a much tougher choice if Apple had a 13" Powerbook pro.
2) Price. For the specs I needed, the prices were about the same, until I found Dell's refurb site.
There's a reason why there are more refurb dells available than refurb macs.
I've heard good things about XPS support (it's seperate from the rest of Hell's horrid support), but you may have a point there. I'm not going to argue this one with you until my warranty expires.:)
3) OS. Yes, you heard that right. Vista got dumped the first day for Ubuntu 7.10, which runs near-flawlessly on thi slaptop.... But after configuring compiz fusion,
Did you compare the dell with changed OS and gui enhancement apps, with a stock macbook? Maybe you should take a look at all the free gui enhancements available for Mac OS X to level the playing field?
Let me expand on this a bit more. For the work I do, the dell xps m1330/Ubuntu combination is far better than Macbook pro/OSX. Sorry if I've just offended any Mac zealots out there, but that was part of my requirements (yours may differ). And yes, I did seriously consider dual-booting the Mac between OSX/Ubuntu. Yes, OSX looks pretty. Yes, OSX can do serious work. And if the decision was m1330/Vista vs. MacbookPro/OSX, I would have bought a Mac, no contest. I'm even telling all my non-tech savy friends to just by a Mac (I just finished dunping two of my friends off thier windows machines and onto brand-new iMacs, and another friend of mine will be dumping her XP laptop for her first Mac powerbook pro next week on my recommendation).
Only two changes are necessary to convert a dell user to a mac user... 18 months, combined with the loss of 250,000 hair follicles.
actually, I think upgrading to Vista will provide the same effect in far less time...:)
(I have to keep this short 'cause I'm suppose to be listening in a classroom right now, not posting to Slashdot..:)
..but having looked at both the Macbook Pro and the Dell XPS m1330(yes, I know the article is about desktops, but...), I ended up with the Dell. It was a very tough call, and for a while it seemed as if I would be purchasing a Mac, however, the Dell edged out on:
1) Size. I really like small laptops. While the 15" MacBook pro was sleek and light, I like the carry-around feel of the Dell better.
2) Price. For the specs I needed, the prices were about the same, until I found Dell's refurb site. I bought a scratch 'n dent special with the exact features I needed for far less than a refurbished Mac. (The laptop has already recieved a few more scratches anyway, so it's not like I cared)
3) OS. Yes, you heard that right. Vista got dumped the first day for Ubuntu 7.10, which runs near-flawlessly on thi slaptop. Even stuff like the media access key on top and webcam worked out of box. The only thing that doesn't is the built-in mic, which is slightly annoying. Bluetooth could be better. But after configuring compiz fusion, even my Mac friends are envious of my desktop environment....
Overall, I'm very happy with my purchase. However, I'm still recommending Mac laptops for my friends. Mostly because they won't be calling me as much for help...
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I still fire up my copy of X-Com from time to time. Liked SC2 too, but loved the original Star Flight even more. Ahh nostalgia...
As awesome as these hacks for the Canon cameras are, as a 40d owner I'm feeling a bit left out. I have the CHDK firmware for my S3IS which is awesome; multiple exposure bracketing, RAW support, and scripts galore. And now extra movie support functions for the 5d. There was a guy a while back who hacked the 40d to shoot video, but he ended up getting hired by Nikon and couldn't release his code. Anyone know of any efforts to hack these cameras as well?
I tried this service several weeks ago between LA and NYC. While I didn't try Skype, I did RDP back to my computer back at my office through a VPN. Surprisingly, it worked quite well. There was also a novel trill in people asking where you were, and giving them a location 30,000 ft above some midwest state. Having outlets underneath the seat was nice too. Those perks alone are *almost* enough for me to dump JetBlue as my priamry airline of choice and fly Virgin America. But sadly, their routes and time schedules aren't quite there for me yet. Maybe someday soon...
Unfortunately for people who experienced the collapse of the WTC towers first hand, low flying planes crashing into buildings is something that could reasonably happen, and one could argue that it is not sane to wait and see if an unusually low flying plane is actually going to crash into a building before taking steps to save one's life.
As a New Yorker, I'd like to reaffirm this. After watching first-hand both planes hit the Twin Towers and both towers collapsing, yes, I feel a bit skittish when planes fly very low overhead. Not only did we have 9/11, but we've had a plane recently splash-land into the Hudson, as well as a number of both larger and smaller craft crash into buildings or into a river. It happens rarely, when planes fly low on purpose it usually evokes the same reactions from other New Yorkers, they pause and look up, wondering if it's suppose to be where it is, or if its going to crash.
Most comments here quick point out how stupid and unreasonable this is. Yes, by definition, it is unreasonable. It's a deep survival instinct that kicks in until the higher reasoning thoughts point out that it's ok and to go about your business. I also experienced the Loma Prieta earthquake growing up near San Francisco, along with countless smaller tremors. When I moved to NYC, for the first year my mind would go into a momentary panic when ever I felt the rumble of the subway going by. Again, it was stupid and unreasonable, but there's a reason its there. Someday, when planes stop crashing into buildings here in the city, enough time will go by and New Yorkers will stop freaking out, and reason will prevail. Someday...
CHICAGO - Federal authorities have indicted several Illinios Senators on corruption charges after an undercover investigation. According to tapes released, Senators called a number of planetoids asking "what they could get" for the title of planet. Rod Blagojevich was unavailable for comment.
Me too!
Almost 10 million tickets totaling $624 million in parking fines alone last year.
Incidentally, that's more than it costs the city to run the Department of Transportation.
...as long as Aero is disabled and you don't try to play any music in the background while you surf the internet, and/or copy or delete files.
Other than these minor inconveniences, it runs acceptably on this hardware platform.
I'd suggest you start here. The explaination of differences between a hard drive and a floppy is especially effective. Modify as needed for your own audience. Use of a lucca libre mask is optional, but recommended if you want to hold the respect of a class of 4th graders.
Suddenly the archers rotated positions and were aimed at Indy.
"Oh boy."
You forgot to mention the part where Indy flashes white and is replaced by Dr. Sam Beckett.
Check with Schrödinger. He was wandering around earlier looking for a cat too. Something to do with that crazy box he built... But I'm sure your cat is ok.
If private investigator licenses were required to do what MediaSentry does, every user on Limewire and other illegal p2p networks would be required to have a license. Indeed, every search engine and Internet user would be required to have a private investigator license if MediaSentry needs one.
First, let me say- Uhh... no.
Here's the requirements, and some of them are quite interesting. Like:
A person, firm, partnership, company, limited liability company, or corporation shall not engage in the business of furnishing or supplying, for hire and reward, information as to the personal character of any person or firm, or as to the character or kind of business and occupation of any person, firm, partnership, company, limited liability company, or corporation and shall not own, conduct, or maintain a bureau or agency for the purposes described in this subsection except as to the financial rating of persons, firms, partnerships, companies, limited liability companies, or corporations without having first obtained a license from the department.
Hmm....
That's actually an intriging idea. Since many EULAs, privacy policies, contracts, etc. contain similar legal language, imagine coming up with a standardized set of icons for each point (think of the hazard icons from Portal). So for instance, an obviously imbalanced pair of scales when a contract requires arbitration, or a shrugging stick figure for the standard "we're not responsible for anything bad that happens when using our product".
Ok, so chances of it actually being implemented are close to nil. But I'm sure if you summarized the policy or EULA with cute little icons, people would start paying attention to what they're agreeing to.
Cause Apple's a cult and you have to swear your undying alliegance to them upon purchasing their machines? I don't know... but that's my guess. Kinda like scientology if you ask me.
it could be worse
Well, if it follows the same pattern of security as other parts of the government, each packet will be required to show two forms of government-issued ID, restrict its data to whatever it can fit into 3 ounce bottles in a clear quart-sized bag, and remove its shoes. Additionally, packets will also be subject to a "No-Route" list, and may also be randomly pulled aside for deep inspection. It will be suggested for packets to arrive at least 1 hour earlier (2 for international routing) for the extra queue length caused by the increased security.
Isn't here a legal standard as to what procedures are acceptable in court when presenting evidence? A legal test that determines if a relatively new investigative technique is admissable as evidence if enough experts view it as reliable? How can Media Sentry present their evidentiary procedures as both propritary to prevent it's disclosure, yet admissable due to its being widely-accepted? It is, prima facie, a direct contridiction.
I dunno about that. Machines refusing to listen to their masters, shutting down, revolting, and ultimately destroying civilization? Sounds more like typical Windows Genuine Advantage functionality to me...
After looking the pictures on the website, I started to wonder if the action figures would work with Legos. Then I remembered are Microsoft products, so I would have to assume no.
(note to any creative people/companies out there: if you designed similarly themed action-hero figures from open-source mascots, I would so buy them.
You mean like this? Or do you want to limit it just to data seizures?
Just found this in the ICANN Front-running paper. Note the contact email at the end...
For each instance of suspected domain name front running, the type of information that would be most useful in studying the case includes but is not limited to:Method used to check domain name availability (e.g., web browser, application).
Local access ISP.
Provider or operator of the availability checking service.
Dates and times when domain name availability checks were performed.
Copy of the information returned (e.g., WHOIS query response) in the response to the availability check.
Whether the domain name was reported as previously registered or never before registered in the response returned from the availability check.
Copy of the information returned (e.g., WHOIS query response) indicating the name had been registered.
Copies of any correspondence sent to or received from the registrant perceived to be a front runner.
Correspondence with the registrar or availability checking service.
Any information indicating a potential relationship between the availability checking service and the registrant that grabbed the name.
Please submit incidents to the SSAC Fellow at SSAC-DNFR@ICANN.org.
Looks like this has NSI's attention, or at least that of its employees. Here's a recent post from Domain State. I"ve included additional commentary to aid the reader.
Hi my name is Shashi Bellamkonda and I work for Network Solutions.I have know way of confirming your name is really Shashi Bellamkonda, or if you really work for Network Solutions, but for the sake of discussion I'll give you the benefit ofthe doubt.
Wanted to give you our side of the story.Which, as I understand, has been vetted though management, checked by legal, and cleared with PR. Please, proceed
Network Solutions is not front running. " Front Runners" are people who register domain names known to have been searched, for the purpose of monetizing them and then selling them at inflated prices either directly to the customer who searched for the domain or through aftermarket channels.Your "definition" differs from ICANN's defintition of front-running. Just an FYI, as per their whitepaper, your organization is front running
We have started protecting all domain name searches at Network Solutions by holding the searched domains for our customers for a short period of time before releasing them."short time" == 4 days. "All domain searches" == Just .com addresses
This gives our customers the opportunity to register names later without fear that the name will be registered by a "Front Runner.""'cause we'll be the ones holding it for ransom."
We are not monetizing these domains,"You know, other than the much higher-than-everyone else rate we charge for domain name..."
nor do we intend to keep them after the holding period.unless you're stupid enough to search for them again
We did this because we heard customers complain that queried domain names are being snatched up by other people as soon as they searched."We figured we should be the ones making money off of searched domain names!"
thank you very much for your time today, mr.Bellamkonda, and I'm sure we're looking forward to hearing how this project works out for your company
Domain Name Wire has posted a response from NSI's PR department. Here's the relevent quote from NSI:
I just got off the phone with Susan Wade, who heads PR for Network Solutions. "This is a customer protection measure to protect customers from frontrunners," said Wade. "After four days, we release the domain." According to Wade, Network Solutions instituted this program as a test over the past few weeks. I asked if Network Solutions is actually acting as a frontrunner by doing this and she said there's a distinction. First, they are not monetizing the domains. Second, they have no intention of keeping the domains. All domains are released after the four day period.Translation: So if anyone else does it, it's bad, because they're domain front-running. But when we do it's it's ok, because, uh, we say so. No, really!
Now that I actually have time, let me clairify...
1) Size. I really like small laptops. While the 15" MacBook pro was sleek and light, I like the carry-around feel of the Dell better. Sorry, that confuses me. You like small laptops, but you're listing that as a point for buying a bigger one? Or was that a point for themacbook?The Dell is actually smaller. the m1330 is a 13" laptop (actually, more like 13.5 or something, but still less than a 15" Mac). I think the weight is slightly less, maybe even the same with battery. For me 13" is the perfect size. It would have been a much tougher choice if Apple had a 13" Powerbook pro.
2) Price. For the specs I needed, the prices were about the same, until I found Dell's refurb site. There's a reason why there are more refurb dells available than refurb macs.I've heard good things about XPS support (it's seperate from the rest of Hell's horrid support), but you may have a point there. I'm not going to argue this one with you until my warranty expires. :)
3) OS. Yes, you heard that right. Vista got dumped the first day for Ubuntu 7.10, which runs near-flawlessly on thi slaptop.Let me expand on this a bit more. For the work I do, the dell xps m1330/Ubuntu combination is far better than Macbook pro/OSX. Sorry if I've just offended any Mac zealots out there, but that was part of my requirements (yours may differ). And yes, I did seriously consider dual-booting the Mac between OSX/Ubuntu. Yes, OSX looks pretty. Yes, OSX can do serious work. And if the decision was m1330/Vista vs. MacbookPro/OSX, I would have bought a Mac, no contest. I'm even telling all my non-tech savy friends to just by a Mac (I just finished dunping two of my friends off thier windows machines and onto brand-new iMacs, and another friend of mine will be dumping her XP laptop for her first Mac powerbook pro next week on my recommendation).
Only two changes are necessary to convert a dell user to a mac user... 18 months, combined with the loss of 250,000 hair follicles.actually, I think upgrading to Vista will provide the same effect in far less time... :)
(I have to keep this short 'cause I'm suppose to be listening in a classroom right now, not posting to Slashdot.. :)
..but having looked at both the Macbook Pro and the Dell XPS m1330(yes, I know the article is about desktops, but...), I ended up with the Dell. It was a very tough call, and for a while it seemed as if I would be purchasing a Mac, however, the Dell edged out on:
1) Size. I really like small laptops. While the 15" MacBook pro was sleek and light, I like the carry-around feel of the Dell better.
2) Price. For the specs I needed, the prices were about the same, until I found Dell's refurb site. I bought a scratch 'n dent special with the exact features I needed for far less than a refurbished Mac. (The laptop has already recieved a few more scratches anyway, so it's not like I cared)
3) OS. Yes, you heard that right. Vista got dumped the first day for Ubuntu 7.10, which runs near-flawlessly on thi slaptop. Even stuff like the media access key on top and webcam worked out of box. The only thing that doesn't is the built-in mic, which is slightly annoying. Bluetooth could be better. But after configuring compiz fusion, even my Mac friends are envious of my desktop environment....
Overall, I'm very happy with my purchase. However, I'm still recommending Mac laptops for my friends. Mostly because they won't be calling me as much for help...