" a new step in an industry war for control of home movie viewing."
What if they started a war and nobody came?
As it stands, the major selling point Blue-Ray has is its increased resolution, which as I understand it, most people, if any, don't have the tvs to support it. If you can't tell the differnece in visual quality between the $19.99 dvd and the $39.99 blue-ray dvd, which would you rather buy?
Here's the irony. Disney has fought to extend copyrights on Mickey Mouse so it doesn't fall into "public domain". Yet, where do they get the stories for their earlier cartoons and movies? Did they pay licesing fees for "Cinderella"? If they had to pay royalties on "Snow White", would they had ever gotten off the ground financially as an animation studio? Copyrights exist for a reason. It's a balance between allowing artists to immediately profit from their creations and allowing future generations to benefit from it as well.
I, for one, am going to be following this story avidly. Any bets on when M$ issues a statement that a 'rogue programmer' put this code in, and disaavow any knowledge or responsibility?
A much as I'd like to believe Microsfot is really, truely evil (in this specific instance), I'm much more ready to beleive this was the intentional work of one of their programmers. It does make me wonder though, given how viruses, worms, and spyware that prey on OS vulnerabilities can and are being used for illict financial gain, how plausible is it that a MS programmer could be bribed into inserting a backdoor into his code? If you could afford the inital cash outlay to pay off a programmer, you'd have yourself a larger window of oppurtunity to exploit it before everyone else caught on. Plus, you wouldn't have to spend time going aroung digging for exploits.
Reading the article, I get the distinct impression that the residents don't really understand what a cyclotron is. They just see the word "nuclear" and freak out. Someone once explained why you don't see the term "Nuclear Imaging" posted in hospitals anymore-again the word "Nuclear" just doesn't go over very well (they changed it to benign names like "MRI").
Want to have fun with this? Tip off residents that someone has ordered and installed a nuclear device called a magnetron in their home. Watch what happens...
"Lockheed Martin selected RedHawk for the THAAD program due to the precision and guaranteed response time of Concurrent's RedHawk Linux real-time operating system.
That, and the fact that the Windows-based missle kept blowing up mid-flight...
As a current NYC resident (formerly from the SF bay area)... There was talk a while back of implementing this on the NYC subways. For me, the train systems are probably the only public place I can go to were i won't have to listen to people talking loudly and endlessly on their cell phones. Now I'll get it on both coasts.
I'm a huge Prisoner fan, and at first glance was very interested to see it being remade. But after more thought-it's considered one of the best sci-fi shows of all time. How to do you even hope to improve on that? Create a new CGI animated Rover? Write a more surreal and confusing final episode? Replace number EVERY week, instead of every other?
Out of curiousity, how much does hydrogen fuel go a gallon? How many MPH does one of these hydrogen cars get? Given the current price as gas (though it's dropping), any cheaper fuel source is looking pretty attractive. Honda, if you're looking to test one of these in NYC, let me know...:)
I showed the last to one of my coworkers, who immediately started worried about a recent Switchfoot CD he played on his machine. Sure enough, not only did the CD have DRM on it, but it seems to have installed the same rootkit as the example given in the Sysinternals website. Which of course makes me wonder, how many CDs did Sony put this into?
I'm starting to think it'd be worthwhile to create a domain policy to prevent this malware from running on any of our network machines....
As I understand the infinite lamb theorem correctly, if you give an infinite number of lambs playing such an organ and infinite amount of time, they will eventually play the theme song from Phantom of the Opera.
...However, I'm not sure if it would be the theme music from the original silent movie version, or the one from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Check out the book Demon In the Freezer by Richard Preston. He chronicles the smallpox eradication effort along with Soviet efforts to turn it into a weapon of mass destruction.
In theory, a bioweapon of this sort would be more of a deterent than a pratical weapon, much like nuclear weapons. The disease itself is horrible, and spreads very easily. This is one of the scarier book I've read in a while. I'd do up a review for slashdot, but I'm too lazy.
The Hot Zone is also a good book by the same author about Ebola. I'd recommended going down to your local library and checking them out. Just don't open small envelopes you might find tucked inside...
"Microsoft has hired several analysts to review how fast holes are patched in the open source software and is expected to announce that Windows compares favorably."
You gotta love it when analysts are paid to give an expected result.
Hey MS, can I have my analysts scour your source code for holes?
...as much as I like the selection of Emusic.com, their new Download manager doesn't work for me. It seems to be a firewall/proxy issue, but being that I can't modify the proxy/firewall here at work, and the DLM from Emusic doesn't let you change the proxy/firewall settings (It wants to use the default IE settings). I'm stuck at the moment, looking for a workaround. If I can't get it working, I'm obviously going to have to cancel my subscription. I'm still hopefull however. At least they offer a free trial.
The moral of the story is, make sure your delivery system works, and support it.
And for those people with no internet connection, you can mail your search requests to MIT (Please include self-addressed stamped envelope). MIT will then process your search request within 5 business days, and mail you back the results. You can then peruse the results and marvel at the wealth at information you'd be able to find... if only you had internet access.
Look very carefully at the pictures. They're not pictures of overhead transparencies, they're pictures of a paper copy (that kind that Powerpoint nicely prints out for you). You can even see some of the text on the next page showing through (for instance, in image 0221 you can see the faint outline of 0222r) . The perpective is not straight on, but rather at an angle. Also, the paper color is slightly green, suggesting he shot it under florescent light.
My guess is this was the handout at a meeting were the attendee didn't think he was going to get to keep his copy. He covertly pulls out his his camera and shots the handout right on the table in front of him.
"With this same technology, radio stations can unobtrusively transmit ads, Web site URLs, or information about music and artists..
Humans tend to filter out what they don't want to hear, especially the pop, fizz and hum of white noise."
So if I understand this correctly, the technology can transmit advertisements, spam, and pop music completely unheard by the human ear by disgusing them as advertisements, spam, and pop music?
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" a new step in an industry war for control of home movie viewing."
What if they started a war and nobody came?
As it stands, the major selling point Blue-Ray has is its increased resolution, which as I understand it, most people, if any, don't have the tvs to support it. If you can't tell the differnece in visual quality between the $19.99 dvd and the $39.99 blue-ray dvd, which would you rather buy?
*Free Tibet only with purchase of Tibet of equal or lesser value.
Here's the irony. Disney has fought to extend copyrights on Mickey Mouse so it doesn't fall into "public domain". Yet, where do they get the stories for their earlier cartoons and movies? Did they pay licesing fees for "Cinderella"? If they had to pay royalties on "Snow White", would they had ever gotten off the ground financially as an animation studio? Copyrights exist for a reason. It's a balance between allowing artists to immediately profit from their creations and allowing future generations to benefit from it as well.
I, for one, am going to be following this story avidly. Any bets on when M$ issues a statement that a 'rogue programmer' put this code in, and disaavow any knowledge or responsibility?
A much as I'd like to believe Microsfot is really, truely evil (in this specific instance), I'm much more ready to beleive this was the intentional work of one of their programmers. It does make me wonder though, given how viruses, worms, and spyware that prey on OS vulnerabilities can and are being used for illict financial gain, how plausible is it that a MS programmer could be bribed into inserting a backdoor into his code? If you could afford the inital cash outlay to pay off a programmer, you'd have yourself a larger window of oppurtunity to exploit it before everyone else caught on. Plus, you wouldn't have to spend time going aroung digging for exploits.
Reading the article, I get the distinct impression that the residents don't really understand what a cyclotron is. They just see the word "nuclear" and freak out. Someone once explained why you don't see the term "Nuclear Imaging" posted in hospitals anymore-again the word "Nuclear" just doesn't go over very well (they changed it to benign names like "MRI").
Want to have fun with this? Tip off residents that someone has ordered and installed a nuclear device called a magnetron in their home. Watch what happens...
"Lockheed Martin selected RedHawk for the THAAD program due to the precision and guaranteed response time of Concurrent's RedHawk Linux real-time operating system.
That, and the fact that the Windows-based missle kept blowing up mid-flight...
Personally I think Mr. Gosub writes better code. Sure, it's not as fast, but's it's much more readable than Mr. Goto's spagetti code.
(Wow. I'm suddenly getting flashbacks from my BASIC days...)
As a current NYC resident (formerly from the SF bay area)... There was talk a while back of implementing this on the NYC subways. For me, the train systems are probably the only public place I can go to were i won't have to listen to people talking loudly and endlessly on their cell phones. Now I'll get it on both coasts.
bah...
I'm a huge Prisoner fan, and at first glance was very interested to see it being remade. But after more thought-it's considered one of the best sci-fi shows of all time. How to do you even hope to improve on that? Create a new CGI animated Rover? Write a more surreal and confusing final episode? Replace number EVERY week, instead of every other?
Sorry, just don't see it happening...
Out of curiousity, how much does hydrogen fuel go a gallon? How many MPH does one of these hydrogen cars get? Given the current price as gas (though it's dropping), any cheaper fuel source is looking pretty attractive. Honda, if you're looking to test one of these in NYC, let me know... :)
I showed the last to one of my coworkers, who immediately started worried about a recent Switchfoot CD he played on his machine. Sure enough, not only did the CD have DRM on it, but it seems to have installed the same rootkit as the example given in the Sysinternals website. Which of course makes me wonder, how many CDs did Sony put this into?
I'm starting to think it'd be worthwhile to create a domain policy to prevent this malware from running on any of our network machines....
Windows... Is a video game!
Wintendo?
As I understand the infinite lamb theorem correctly, if you give an infinite number of lambs playing such an organ and infinite amount of time, they will eventually play the theme song from Phantom of the Opera.
...However, I'm not sure if it would be the theme music from the original silent movie version, or the one from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Great. Soon I can stare at Windows on my monitors built into my windows.
Check out the book Demon In the Freezer by Richard Preston. He chronicles the smallpox eradication effort along with Soviet efforts to turn it into a weapon of mass destruction.
In theory, a bioweapon of this sort would be more of a deterent than a pratical weapon, much like nuclear weapons. The disease itself is horrible, and spreads very easily. This is one of the scarier book I've read in a while. I'd do up a review for slashdot, but I'm too lazy.
The Hot Zone is also a good book by the same author about Ebola. I'd recommended going down to your local library and checking them out. Just don't open small envelopes you might find tucked inside...
"Microsoft has hired several analysts to review how fast holes are patched in the open source software and is expected to announce that Windows compares favorably."
You gotta love it when analysts are paid to give an expected result.
Hey MS, can I have my analysts scour your source code for holes?
well, up until today I would have recommended emusic for all but point 4, however, even that's over now. :(
...as much as I like the selection of Emusic.com, their new Download manager doesn't work for me. It seems to be a firewall/proxy issue, but being that I can't modify the proxy/firewall here at work, and the DLM from Emusic doesn't let you change the proxy/firewall settings (It wants to use the default IE settings). I'm stuck at the moment, looking for a workaround. If I can't get it working, I'm obviously going to have to cancel my subscription. I'm still hopefull however. At least they offer a free trial.
The moral of the story is, make sure your delivery system works, and support it.
On the other hand, what are all those losers whose only skill is having a big mouth and being able to follow a script going to do for a living now?
...technical support
(I'm sorry. Its been one of those kind of days)
...I say we rename FreeNet to FrenchNet. That'll show 'em.
...actually, no...wait, switch that.
Err... uh, nevermind...
And for those people with no internet connection, you can mail your search requests to MIT (Please include self-addressed stamped envelope). MIT will then process your search request within 5 business days, and mail you back the results. You can then peruse the results and marvel at the wealth at information you'd be able to find... if only you had internet access.
1) Hunt down spammers
...and now we have the missing step 2. Thanks Mark!
2) ???
3) Profit!
Look very carefully at the pictures. They're not pictures of overhead transparencies, they're pictures of a paper copy (that kind that Powerpoint nicely prints out for you). You can even see some of the text on the next page showing through (for instance, in image 0221 you can see the faint outline of 0222r) . The perpective is not straight on, but rather at an angle. Also, the paper color is slightly green, suggesting he shot it under florescent light.
My guess is this was the handout at a meeting were the attendee didn't think he was going to get to keep his copy. He covertly pulls out his his camera and shots the handout right on the table in front of him.
So the big spherical floating metallic objects in the sky really are trying to beam messages to me...
"With this same technology, radio stations can unobtrusively transmit ads, Web site URLs, or information about music and artists..
Humans tend to filter out what they don't want to hear, especially the pop, fizz and hum of white noise."
So if I understand this correctly, the technology can transmit advertisements, spam, and pop music completely unheard by the human ear by disgusing them as advertisements, spam, and pop music?