Implement flashblock in the flash plugin itself, so that users have to explicitly request flash content be run, even if it's packaged in a way that manages to slip by flashblock.
Don't want to use the data service? There's a scam for that. Want to upgrade your phone? There's a scam for that. No matter what you want to do, we'll get your money. Because there's a scam for that.
I say this after recently hearing an outspoken business man up here in Canada say that he'd be willing to pay big to see a movie the day it was released if he could see it in his own home.
The studios don't need to disable "the analog hole" to release movies directly to TV. Any more than they need to disable "the analog hole" to release movies in all zones simultaneously. They stage their releases NOT because they're afraid of "piracy"... in fact staged releases *increase* "piracy", but because they make more money that way. If they get the ability to disable the analog hole they will continue to stage their releases, and the cable company will start using it to extort more money from MY pocket after they make "analog support" an extra cost option, even for things like Mythbusters.
And, man, I can't believe you're trying to make me feel sorry for a "poor businessman" who's making more money than I'll ever make if he's willing to pay $100 just to watch a frigging movie a few months earlier. I'm certainly not willing to accept that I should be willing to have my own property crippled because of it. If he's willing to buy everyone in the US a new TV for the sake of avoiding the kid with the running nose, THEN he can come back with an offer and I'll consider it.
Every six months I was reinstalling my daughter's PC. Then I got her a used Mac, and despite her doing the same kinds of crazy things as on the PC (for example, deleting Terminal.app to make space on the boot drive) she was never able to break it.
You took one statement out of my entire rant to rebut?
It happened to be a pretty important statement, because it shows you're focusing on irrelevant and trivial implementation details.
"YES" there are a few non-ASCII languages out there
Sure, I've used a number of them, starting with APL in the '70s and Smalltalk in the early '80s. I've even implemented back-ends for graphical process control languages. I'm pretty up on the subject.
But all the ones I have seen are basically the same procedural language structures in another skin.
Well, of course. Whether a language is rendered as flat files or pointy ones is just noise. Smalltalk is a perfect example of that. It would still be a breakthrough language design without the integrated GUI, the GUI is a distraction, it hides the language's real strengths from people who are hung up on the presentation. The important differences between language are in the grammar and semantics. The stuff under the skin.
Dennis Ritchie patented the setuid bit in what was probably the first software patent ever, and released the patent to the public domain. I think that counts as a slam dunk prior art, no?
Programs that are written in flat ASCII files, it all makes me sick.
There's plenty of languages that don't use flat ASCII files. They don't get anywhere because they're inherently ghettoized. It's hard to even talk *about* Smalltalk, for example, without digressions about the workspaces and the GUI... even though these are the least interesting features of the language itself.
How do you figure Biosphere II was a "disastrous" experiment? Its termination was political, not technical.
Are you thinking of the CO2 sequestration in the concrete structure? That was such a small effect that if it hadn't been hermetically sealed to the point where opening a door was considered "vandalism" it'd never have been noticed.
Back in the '90s there was a system called "CritLink" that allowed you to annotate web pages by using their front end at crit.org almost like a proxy (don't bother going there, it's been a domain park for years). A little while later a group with the somewhat incongruous name of "just say no to TV" tried to create a more commercialized and obtrusive variant, and got roundly criticized for "vandalizing" the web (an assertion I found odd, since nobody could see the so-called vandalism unless they signed up for it).
There's been several variants of this that require a plug-in, instead of using a proxy.
This is not a new idea. Google might well have copied the interface, but Reframe It was hardly the inventor of the idea.
Having a default password is bad enough, but my question is: why does the celluar network in Australia permit direct device-to-device connections over the air?
Once you're running an IP stack, you'd have to make a deliberate and non-trivial effort to prevent direct connections, no?
You've just invented crowdsourcing based on people's fears and phobias.
I think that one was invented back when we were living in mud brick cities.
At least this one could vecome an amazingly useful tool for tracking the spread of pathogens with far more accuracy and precision than is currently available.
I have cheap paperbacks I bought in the '70s, with copyright dates in the '60s, that I can still read. They're not in great condition compared to even older quality bound hardbacks, but they're still completely readable.
I have digital books I got in the '80s (mostly fanfics, of course) and the '90s, I can still read.
I've got a CD somewhere with some DRMed books I got about seven or eight years ago, they were free downloads that came with a PDA, used part of the credit card number I use to download them as the PIN... the gimmick was that once they had your card on file you'd be more inclined to buy more ebooks. I wouldn't have the faintest idea what credit card number was on my now-twice-renewed card I bought them on. So even if the publisher was still in operation (I don't know if they were) there's no way I could hope to get them reactivated. I've got another DRMed eBook that I bought, because it was the only way to get the annotated version of A Fire Upon the Deep, and I think I could reactivate it if I wanted to.
I've also got three or four programs I got on that PDA that I'm now running on an emulator of that PDA because the company that sold them is out of business, but I happened to have activated them on that emulator. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to use them any more.
DRM isn't like a lojack, DRM is like buying a book printed on nitrocellulose. It's like buying a car that disables the engine after five years, and you can't resell or even loan to a friend.
I haven't looked at all the options listed here, but they all seem pretty geeky. What's wrong with just running speaker wire through the walls? Having to walk twenty feet to change what's playing doesn't seem like much of a hardship to me.
After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writers Union Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier In that case for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?
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With a cash-register sound every time the voice-over says "there's a scam for that".
Isn't this bug specifically talking about cross-site scripting?
No.
What origin policy does Silverlight use?
This isn't specific to Flash, it applies to ANY active content that automatically runs.
Implement flashblock in the flash plugin itself, so that users have to explicitly request flash content be run, even if it's packaged in a way that manages to slip by flashblock.
It is in there somewhere. Just like "we can change the terms and conditions whenever we like" too.
Like you said, "double-talk". "Want to understand the contract? There's a scam for that."
Where does it say "we'll charge you $1.99 every time you hit the wrong key when you flip the phone open" on the contract?
Don't want to use the data service? There's a scam for that. Want to upgrade your phone? There's a scam for that. No matter what you want to do, we'll get your money. Because there's a scam for that.
I say this after recently hearing an outspoken business man up here in Canada say that he'd be willing to pay big to see a movie the day it was released if he could see it in his own home.
The studios don't need to disable "the analog hole" to release movies directly to TV. Any more than they need to disable "the analog hole" to release movies in all zones simultaneously. They stage their releases NOT because they're afraid of "piracy"... in fact staged releases *increase* "piracy", but because they make more money that way. If they get the ability to disable the analog hole they will continue to stage their releases, and the cable company will start using it to extort more money from MY pocket after they make "analog support" an extra cost option, even for things like Mythbusters.
And, man, I can't believe you're trying to make me feel sorry for a "poor businessman" who's making more money than I'll ever make if he's willing to pay $100 just to watch a frigging movie a few months earlier. I'm certainly not willing to accept that I should be willing to have my own property crippled because of it. If he's willing to buy everyone in the US a new TV for the sake of avoiding the kid with the running nose, THEN he can come back with an offer and I'll consider it.
Every six months I was reinstalling my daughter's PC. Then I got her a used Mac, and despite her doing the same kinds of crazy things as on the PC (for example, deleting Terminal.app to make space on the boot drive) she was never able to break it.
Given who's involved, they coulda called it 9½, or maybe stepped past Inferno and called it Paradisio.
You took one statement out of my entire rant to rebut?
It happened to be a pretty important statement, because it shows you're focusing on irrelevant and trivial implementation details.
"YES" there are a few non-ASCII languages out there
Sure, I've used a number of them, starting with APL in the '70s and Smalltalk in the early '80s. I've even implemented back-ends for graphical process control languages. I'm pretty up on the subject.
But all the ones I have seen are basically the same procedural language structures in another skin.
Well, of course. Whether a language is rendered as flat files or pointy ones is just noise. Smalltalk is a perfect example of that. It would still be a breakthrough language design without the integrated GUI, the GUI is a distraction, it hides the language's real strengths from people who are hung up on the presentation. The important differences between language are in the grammar and semantics. The stuff under the skin.
Dennis Ritchie patented the setuid bit in what was probably the first software patent ever, and released the patent to the public domain. I think that counts as a slam dunk prior art, no?
Programs that are written in flat ASCII files, it all makes me sick.
There's plenty of languages that don't use flat ASCII files. They don't get anywhere because they're inherently ghettoized. It's hard to even talk *about* Smalltalk, for example, without digressions about the workspaces and the GUI... even though these are the least interesting features of the language itself.
Well, it's almost certainly running Windows, what do you expect?
But the demo videos at http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/ strike me as extremely weird and creepy.
Yeh, making me install Silverlight to see a video is totally creepy.
How do you figure Biosphere II was a "disastrous" experiment? Its termination was political, not technical.
Are you thinking of the CO2 sequestration in the concrete structure? That was such a small effect that if it hadn't been hermetically sealed to the point where opening a door was considered "vandalism" it'd never have been noticed.
Back in the '90s there was a system called "CritLink" that allowed you to annotate web pages by using their front end at crit.org almost like a proxy (don't bother going there, it's been a domain park for years). A little while later a group with the somewhat incongruous name of "just say no to TV" tried to create a more commercialized and obtrusive variant, and got roundly criticized for "vandalizing" the web (an assertion I found odd, since nobody could see the so-called vandalism unless they signed up for it).
There's been several variants of this that require a plug-in, instead of using a proxy.
This is not a new idea. Google might well have copied the interface, but Reframe It was hardly the inventor of the idea.
Having a default password is bad enough, but my question is: why does the celluar network in Australia permit direct device-to-device connections over the air?
Once you're running an IP stack, you'd have to make a deliberate and non-trivial effort to prevent direct connections, no?
I was referring to the notorious "field service" back door DEC had back in the '70s.
They should have required you to set a password on initial install.
Holy Mother of Cheswick.
What was it, username "FIELD" password "SERVICE"?
You've just invented crowdsourcing based on people's fears and phobias.
I think that one was invented back when we were living in mud brick cities.
At least this one could vecome an amazingly useful tool for tracking the spread of pathogens with far more accuracy and precision than is currently available.
I have cheap paperbacks I bought in the '70s, with copyright dates in the '60s, that I can still read. They're not in great condition compared to even older quality bound hardbacks, but they're still completely readable.
I have digital books I got in the '80s (mostly fanfics, of course) and the '90s, I can still read.
I've got a CD somewhere with some DRMed books I got about seven or eight years ago, they were free downloads that came with a PDA, used part of the credit card number I use to download them as the PIN... the gimmick was that once they had your card on file you'd be more inclined to buy more ebooks. I wouldn't have the faintest idea what credit card number was on my now-twice-renewed card I bought them on. So even if the publisher was still in operation (I don't know if they were) there's no way I could hope to get them reactivated. I've got another DRMed eBook that I bought, because it was the only way to get the annotated version of A Fire Upon the Deep, and I think I could reactivate it if I wanted to.
I've also got three or four programs I got on that PDA that I'm now running on an emulator of that PDA because the company that sold them is out of business, but I happened to have activated them on that emulator. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to use them any more.
DRM isn't like a lojack, DRM is like buying a book printed on nitrocellulose. It's like buying a car that disables the engine after five years, and you can't resell or even loan to a friend.
I haven't looked at all the options listed here, but they all seem pretty geeky. What's wrong with just running speaker wire through the walls? Having to walk twenty feet to change what's playing doesn't seem like much of a hardship to me.
The Solution
After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
-- Bertolt Brecht
5 for osx: you forgot ppc64
So has Apple. *rimshot*