Apple is very careful to keep a squeeky-clean image.
Reminds me of those Microsoft ads promoting IE's new private browsing feature. Their example was of a husband using it to hide from his wife a purchase of flowers to show how he loves her... not only is there a huge elephant in the room, but the visible efforts of the writers to look away from it only serve to further direct attention to its presence. Everyone knows the *real* reason for private browsing. Something for which internet is really, really great...
Small thing I'd really like: My phone can be used as a USB tethered internet connection. But my android tablet doesn't support using the same device to get it's connection - if I hook phone to tablet, all I can do is transfer files. It'd be nice to have internet too.
USB does USB and power. The iAccessory port does USB, power, analog audio output and playback control. Very nice for accessory manufacturers, as it means they don't need complex and expensive electronics.
Reduce character set to 32 - that's 26 letters, plus a handful of numbers and punctuation. Insert spaces at random. Apply capitalisation as grammar appropriate. You're encoding at a little under five bits per byte, so the overhead is a lot worse than yenc, but your binaries would look almost exactly like text to a computer. It'd just lead to months of an arms race, as pirates devise better ways to hide their data.
They work only if you can get enough customers to join in to have a serious impact. Despite the constant claims of hollywood that internet piracy is killing their industry, they are still churning out a series of blockbusters every year that rake in the cash with ease.
Anon needs the script kiddies. At best they can be trained up to become competant hackers... and if not, they serve as an army of highly visible targets to hide behind.
There is no difference between text and binaries to usenet - binaries are just yencoded as text. It's only a convention that binaries be posted in the alt.binaries groups. If those groups were closed down, you'd see binaries appear in the discussion groups.
It's a continent. There is land under all that ice. As opposed to the Arctic, which is just ice all the way down until it becomes ocean. You can send a submarine under there right to the pole.
Any child abuser with half a brain knows that you don't make the wounds in a place they can be spotted. Go for the back, rear, upper thighs and chest... places always covered by clothing.
False: You don't have the information, but the information could, in princible, by obtained. Even if it would require omniscience.
True: So random that the information to predict it does not exist anywhere, even if you had a hypercomputer and knew the positions of every particle in the universe down to the limits of uncertainty.
Pure randomness is easy to get. Just not in a deterministic environment like a computer. I could cobble together a source of true randomness from a smoke detector and a handful of transistors. Quantum random, the best there is. If you want lots of random, you can buy devices that plug into an expansion slot to provide it.
I can only guess, but I note that it's next to impossible to get a WUXGA laptop other than a Macbook Pro now. Dell used to sell them, but they withdrew that feature - replaced it on their high-end line with a lower resolution screen. I would not be at all surprised if Apple had simply purchased the entire supply of WUXGA panels, given that it's a niche part - only the most expensive laptops ever used them, and it seems plausable that Apple's demand for the 17" macbook pro could be great enough that Dell was forced to replace them with lower-resolution screens.
Huh... only filters port 80? Which actually makes perfect sense - it means that BT have achieved the block by simply adding newsbin to the list of websites hosting child pornography, and so repurposed their existing child-porn filter CleanFeed. If they were doing it by a new IP block, they would have blocked all traffic to the IP rather than just port 80. Cleanfield works by redirecting only port 80 to a transparent proxy. Technically elegant - why set up a whole new filtering policy if you already have the infrastructure in place? - but in PR terms a little embarassing, as it serves to validate the claims by CleanFeed's critics that once a convenient censorship system is built, even for a purpose so widely supported as blocking child porn, it's all but inevitable that it will eventually be put to other uses that that for which it was intended.
I think the idea is to make piracy sufficiently inconvenient and risky that most pirates just give up. As an approach, it could actually work - it'll never stop the core pirates who have been in it since the days of trading casettes and floppies, but it'll complicate things enough to drive away the casual pirates. Then just throw in a few high-profile prosecutions or expensive settlements of individual common p2p users to scare the rest off.
Even America doesn't have an absolute right. You can say what you please so long as it isn't libelous, or copyrighted, or an immediate risk to public safety, or infringes upon an established trademark, or obscene. Not that anyone enforces that last one.
If snuff films were legal, I imagine that very nearly every single one sold would be a fake... including the ones that boasted loudly of being genuine. It's just so much safer to fake it, and if you do the effects right the audience would never know.
Laws relating to sex are full of strange standards. Here in the UK, for example, you can have sex legally at sixteen... but you can't look at pornography legally until eighteen. I assume people in between need to wear a blindfold.
If this capability is in use, then wouldn't Verizon have an incentive to make their regular, non-turbo service, well, crap? If people are satisfied with the regular service, they'll have no reason to pay extra for the turbo mode. I doubt Verizon will deliberatly drop packets, but I imagine that once the turbo money rolls in they'll be in no hurry to upgrade their network and thus reduce demand for their new turbo service.
The good old AK47 is still the weapon of choice for many militias on a budget. It's cheap, takes cheap bullets, easily maintained and nearly indestructable. In rain or sand, snow or mud, twenty below or fifty above, it'll keep on killing. Russian engineering at it's best.
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Apple is very careful to keep a squeeky-clean image.
Reminds me of those Microsoft ads promoting IE's new private browsing feature. Their example was of a husband using it to hide from his wife a purchase of flowers to show how he loves her... not only is there a huge elephant in the room, but the visible efforts of the writers to look away from it only serve to further direct attention to its presence. Everyone knows the *real* reason for private browsing. Something for which internet is really, really great...
Small thing I'd really like: My phone can be used as a USB tethered internet connection. But my android tablet doesn't support using the same device to get it's connection - if I hook phone to tablet, all I can do is transfer files. It'd be nice to have internet too.
USB does USB and power. The iAccessory port does USB, power, analog audio output and playback control. Very nice for accessory manufacturers, as it means they don't need complex and expensive electronics.
Reduce character set to 32 - that's 26 letters, plus a handful of numbers and punctuation. Insert spaces at random. Apply capitalisation as grammar appropriate. You're encoding at a little under five bits per byte, so the overhead is a lot worse than yenc, but your binaries would look almost exactly like text to a computer. It'd just lead to months of an arms race, as pirates devise better ways to hide their data.
They work only if you can get enough customers to join in to have a serious impact. Despite the constant claims of hollywood that internet piracy is killing their industry, they are still churning out a series of blockbusters every year that rake in the cash with ease.
Anon needs the script kiddies. At best they can be trained up to become competant hackers... and if not, they serve as an army of highly visible targets to hide behind.
There is no difference between text and binaries to usenet - binaries are just yencoded as text. It's only a convention that binaries be posted in the alt.binaries groups. If those groups were closed down, you'd see binaries appear in the discussion groups.
I still see a lot of land there, even if the ice extends some way off what would otherwise be the coasts.
It's a continent. There is land under all that ice. As opposed to the Arctic, which is just ice all the way down until it becomes ocean. You can send a submarine under there right to the pole.
Brain scans, though informative, are not of much practical use in writing law.
Any child abuser with half a brain knows that you don't make the wounds in a place they can be spotted. Go for the back, rear, upper thighs and chest... places always covered by clothing.
False: You don't have the information, but the information could, in princible, by obtained. Even if it would require omniscience.
True: So random that the information to predict it does not exist anywhere, even if you had a hypercomputer and knew the positions of every particle in the universe down to the limits of uncertainty.
Pure randomness is easy to get. Just not in a deterministic environment like a computer. I could cobble together a source of true randomness from a smoke detector and a handful of transistors. Quantum random, the best there is. If you want lots of random, you can buy devices that plug into an expansion slot to provide it.
I can only guess, but I note that it's next to impossible to get a WUXGA laptop other than a Macbook Pro now. Dell used to sell them, but they withdrew that feature - replaced it on their high-end line with a lower resolution screen. I would not be at all surprised if Apple had simply purchased the entire supply of WUXGA panels, given that it's a niche part - only the most expensive laptops ever used them, and it seems plausable that Apple's demand for the 17" macbook pro could be great enough that Dell was forced to replace them with lower-resolution screens.
Huh... only filters port 80? Which actually makes perfect sense - it means that BT have achieved the block by simply adding newsbin to the list of websites hosting child pornography, and so repurposed their existing child-porn filter CleanFeed. If they were doing it by a new IP block, they would have blocked all traffic to the IP rather than just port 80. Cleanfield works by redirecting only port 80 to a transparent proxy. Technically elegant - why set up a whole new filtering policy if you already have the infrastructure in place? - but in PR terms a little embarassing, as it serves to validate the claims by CleanFeed's critics that once a convenient censorship system is built, even for a purpose so widely supported as blocking child porn, it's all but inevitable that it will eventually be put to other uses that that for which it was intended.
I think the idea is to make piracy sufficiently inconvenient and risky that most pirates just give up. As an approach, it could actually work - it'll never stop the core pirates who have been in it since the days of trading casettes and floppies, but it'll complicate things enough to drive away the casual pirates. Then just throw in a few high-profile prosecutions or expensive settlements of individual common p2p users to scare the rest off.
BT is a major UK ISP. One of the oldest, and, possibly the largest. If not, it's certainly in the top three.
Even America doesn't have an absolute right. You can say what you please so long as it isn't libelous, or copyrighted, or an immediate risk to public safety, or infringes upon an established trademark, or obscene. Not that anyone enforces that last one.
If snuff films were legal, I imagine that very nearly every single one sold would be a fake... including the ones that boasted loudly of being genuine. It's just so much safer to fake it, and if you do the effects right the audience would never know.
Laws relating to sex are full of strange standards. Here in the UK, for example, you can have sex legally at sixteen... but you can't look at pornography legally until eighteen. I assume people in between need to wear a blindfold.
Huh. Actual communists. Don't see many of those around now.
If this capability is in use, then wouldn't Verizon have an incentive to make their regular, non-turbo service, well, crap? If people are satisfied with the regular service, they'll have no reason to pay extra for the turbo mode. I doubt Verizon will deliberatly drop packets, but I imagine that once the turbo money rolls in they'll be in no hurry to upgrade their network and thus reduce demand for their new turbo service.
The good old AK47 is still the weapon of choice for many militias on a budget. It's cheap, takes cheap bullets, easily maintained and nearly indestructable. In rain or sand, snow or mud, twenty below or fifty above, it'll keep on killing. Russian engineering at it's best.
I doubt that. IE-of-some-specified-version sounds plausable, but IE-including-all-versions? Give source.
There is no downside today. I've not seen anyone express concern about this *today*. The fear is the direction this is heading.