Well, it's not a tale, really, but don't forget Ken Thompson's musings on the dangers of compiling compilers without knowing their full pedigree: the binary compiler can be a trojan horse factory that inserts weaknesses into programs it thinks should be targeted (e.g. "login"), including copying its trojan generation code into the next version of the compiiler.
Innovatek is a popular name, but this seems to be the web site for the manufacturer referenced in the article. The English version isn't ready yet, so be German or be Babelfish.
I'm not sure I understand this comment. The very link you reference states that there is no chance the purported takeover ever happened. I agree that governments are the groups you really have to worry about, but it's not clear that weaknesses of this type have already been exploited.
Whether or not this technology takes off, at least they have honest demo clips. The "IndianHead" clip shows a wide variety of dynamic video and has frame rates that drop down as low as 0.4 fps when the stream has trouble. Even the "Butch" clip has an assymetric background which causes the left side of the speaker's face to be less detailed than the right side.
While Microsoft may have gone to great lengths to make "Windows" a trademark, it did the exact opposite for "Internet Explorer". Another company had already written a browser with that name and Microsoft had its trademark revoked by arguing that the term is generic. That's why you never see a "tm" or circle-R next to Internet Explorer.
I'm still waiting for Physics for Cartoon Developers: just how long should a character remain suspended after realizing he's in mid-air? We'll need pure math computation methods for ordinary cartoons and numerical methods for interactive cartoon games.
Oh, the irony is so thick you can taste it! An article from Michael about whether online gaming adiction is something to concern us, followed immediately by one from CmdrTaco practically proclaiming "Let the Games Begin!"
Not that I'm looking for editorial consistency (far from it), but as they say, timing is everything:-)
Near the end of the article, there's a quote from Gary McGraw:
The guys at Google thought, 'How cool that we can offer this to our users' without thinking about security. If you want to do this right, you have to think about security from the beginning and have a very solid approach to software design and software development that is based on what bad guys might possibly do to cause your program grief.
I must say I couldn't disagree more. To suggest that web site administrators can somehow entrust Google to implement the "obscurity" part of their "security through obscurity" plan is unrealistic. As an external entity, Google is really just another one of those "bad guys" and the fact that they're making your mistakes obvious without actually exploiting them is what people where I come from call a Good Thing.
I just think it's incredibly amusing that no matter what this poor guy posts, whether interesting or informative, it's always rated a "4". Guess he should've waited to get User #555555.
From a purist perspective, I suspect the question is actually reversed: we shouldn't be talking about "XML data" is if it was somehow the core representation. It's usual intent is as a transmission format and, as such, needn't correspond directly to the organization of the source data.
Rather than discard the advantages of relational and object databases, should we instead ask how XML can be used to represent those kinds of relationships?
Following Gartner's recommendation to seek alternatives to IIS only accomplishes what the industrial terrorists want. The terrorists who hijacked U.S. airplanes on September 11 analyzed the airline security system until they found a weakness, and then they exploited it. Much in the same way, industrial terrorists analyzed IIS Web server security until they found a weakness, and then they exploited it. If Gartner wrote an equivalent recommendation for business travelers, would it be to take the bus rather than risk airline travel? That would be a victory for terrorism, as would abandoning IIS.
Give me a break. The implication that IIS is a jet plane while Apache is a bus is just a little over the top. How about a better analogy: ABC Airlines and XYZ Airlines each have their own security philosophies and implementations (not true, but the airline industry isn't exactly like the web server market, after all). Terrorists analyzed and subverted ABC's security methods, but were unable to subvert XYZ's. Gartner recommends fliers switch to XYZ until ABC gets its act together.
With an operating range of 18 inches, this technology might not trigger false positives from drunk passengers in taxicabs, but I don't know if I'd want to be the designated driver for my rowdy friends who say "Hey watch this!" and lean over to breathe on my car's sensors, bringing the wrath of the state police.
MAD and similar groups would be well advised to consider this chilling effect before advocating the use of such devices.
I can't even try to compare their stabilities. Netscape 4.78 on Windows 2000 can't even display the release download page. Good thing I still have Internet Explorer:-(
It's possible that an AI(tm) would not be needed for many applications. Starting from text isn't necessarily a requirement of this software. In fact, it would probably perform wonderfully when combined with the half of a speech-to-text recognizer which parses speech into phonemes. You'd just need to augment it with intonation detection.
Then you'd have a really scary application: a box you place between you and the phone to emulate any programmed voice. Smells of Mission Impossible.
Of course, there are less scary applications, like perhaps helping assure anonymity in phone calls by using a generic voice from a payphone.
If there are so many web masters out there who refuse to protect themselves, perhaps someone knowledgeable could take it upon themselves to write a worm which installs the patch to close this security hole.
I bet a lot of lawyers are recasting boilerplate for future contracts about now, too.
Most publishers changed their boilerplate in 1995/1996 when it became evident that there was a revenue stream they weren't already definitely entitled to.
The thesis fails to provide access to information critical to the conclusions it draws: the distribution of sales for each album across the years it has been available. In fact, the author's conclusions appear to be based entirely on what his "numbers do NOT show." We are unable to adequately peer-review this analysis without access to sales data more sophisticated than "the number of certified platinums times the number of years since the album's release."
Some of the eink.com literature talks about improved power comsumption relative to existing PDA LCD technologies, with the caveat that actual performance depends on how much of the display gets updated and how often. I would imagine the worst case scenario is playing Quake where the entire image is refreshed 85 times/second. The numbers seem to work out that a monochrome e-ink screen would use about half as much power as an equivalent size color active matrix. Color e-ink would probably be quite a bit worse. Doesn't bode especially well for the first generation.
Oh well... looks like it'll be a few more years before I can rip up my screen in disgust at having been fragged yet again:-)
I might ask "What are artists, inventors and programmers going to do for a living?" but I won't. The question I will ask is this: how can we measure the demand for information if you can't put a price on it? Free economies are not about moving money; they're about communicating demand. The greatest accomplishment of the free market has been the automatic determination of what everyone in the world should be doing, based on what everyone in the world wants for themselves. There are various distortions, but the idea still mostly works.
Even if we can all be guaranteed an inheritance in the earth, if information and "intellectual property" are taken out of the free market, how will an artist or a programmer know whether s/he is producing something of value to someone or simply wasting his/her time? Fan clubs?
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Well, it's not a tale, really, but don't forget Ken Thompson's musings on the dangers of compiling compilers without knowing their full pedigree: the binary compiler can be a trojan horse factory that inserts weaknesses into programs it thinks should be targeted (e.g. "login"), including copying its trojan generation code into the next version of the compiiler.
Innovatek is a popular name, but this seems to be the web site for the manufacturer referenced in the article. The English version isn't ready yet, so be German or be Babelfish.
I'm not sure I understand this comment. The very link you reference states that there is no chance the purported takeover ever happened. I agree that governments are the groups you really have to worry about, but it's not clear that weaknesses of this type have already been exploited.
Whether or not this technology takes off, at least they have honest demo clips. The "IndianHead" clip shows a wide variety of dynamic video and has frame rates that drop down as low as 0.4 fps when the stream has trouble. Even the "Butch" clip has an assymetric background which causes the left side of the speaker's face to be less detailed than the right side.
Amazing what good lawyering can do....
I'm still waiting for Physics for Cartoon Developers: just how long should a character remain suspended after realizing he's in mid-air? We'll need pure math computation methods for ordinary cartoons and numerical methods for interactive cartoon games.
The displays on the models shown are all showing:
10111
111011
110010
But every watch marketer knows that you should be showing:
01010
001010
000000
which is 10:10 AM. Apparently it's recommended for digital watches as well, so I don't see why they shouldn't use it for binary watches.
Oh, the irony is so thick you can taste it! An article from Michael about whether online gaming adiction is something to concern us, followed immediately by one from CmdrTaco practically proclaiming "Let the Games Begin!"
:-)
Not that I'm looking for editorial consistency (far from it), but as they say, timing is everything
I just think it's incredibly amusing that no matter what this poor guy posts, whether interesting or informative, it's always rated a "4". Guess he should've waited to get User #555555.
Rather than discard the advantages of relational and object databases, should we instead ask how XML can be used to represent those kinds of relationships?
Or maybe he's just really good with Photoshop :-)
Michael Lane Thomas write in his article:
Give me a break. The implication that IIS is a jet plane while Apache is a bus is just a little over the top. How about a better analogy: ABC Airlines and XYZ Airlines each have their own security philosophies and implementations (not true, but the airline industry isn't exactly like the web server market, after all). Terrorists analyzed and subverted ABC's security methods, but were unable to subvert XYZ's. Gartner recommends fliers switch to XYZ until ABC gets its act together.
Is this a victory for terrorists?
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So now I can look forward to paying 50 cents to see the blue screen of death. I wonder if the arcade attendants will need to get MCSE certification...
With an operating range of 18 inches, this technology might not trigger false positives from drunk passengers in taxicabs, but I don't know if I'd want to be the designated driver for my rowdy friends who say "Hey watch this!" and lean over to breathe on my car's sensors, bringing the wrath of the state police.
MAD and similar groups would be well advised to consider this chilling effect before advocating the use of such devices.
I can't even try to compare their stabilities. Netscape 4.78 on Windows 2000 can't even display the release download page. Good thing I still have Internet Explorer :-(
It's possible that an AI(tm) would not be needed for many applications. Starting from text isn't necessarily a requirement of this software. In fact, it would probably perform wonderfully when combined with the half of a speech-to-text recognizer which parses speech into phonemes. You'd just need to augment it with intonation detection.
Then you'd have a really scary application: a box you place between you and the phone to emulate any programmed voice. Smells of Mission Impossible.
Of course, there are less scary applications, like perhaps helping assure anonymity in phone calls by using a generic voice from a payphone.
If there are so many web masters out there who refuse to protect themselves, perhaps someone knowledgeable could take it upon themselves to write a worm which installs the patch to close this security hole.
Volunteers?
I've always been partial to a Star Trek theme:
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Most publishers changed their boilerplate in 1995/1996 when it became evident that there was a revenue stream they weren't already definitely entitled to.
The thesis fails to provide access to information critical to the conclusions it draws: the distribution of sales for each album across the years it has been available. In fact, the author's conclusions appear to be based entirely on what his "numbers do NOT show." We are unable to adequately peer-review this analysis without access to sales data more sophisticated than "the number of certified platinums times the number of years since the album's release."
Some of the eink.com literature talks about improved power comsumption relative to existing PDA LCD technologies, with the caveat that actual performance depends on how much of the display gets updated and how often. I would imagine the worst case scenario is playing Quake where the entire image is refreshed 85 times/second. The numbers seem to work out that a monochrome e-ink screen would use about half as much power as an equivalent size color active matrix. Color e-ink would probably be quite a bit worse. Doesn't bode especially well for the first generation.
Oh well... looks like it'll be a few more years before I can rip up my screen in disgust at having been fragged yet again :-)
I might ask "What are artists, inventors and programmers going to do for a living?" but I won't. The question I will ask is this: how can we measure the demand for information if you can't put a price on it? Free economies are not about moving money; they're about communicating demand. The greatest accomplishment of the free market has been the automatic determination of what everyone in the world should be doing, based on what everyone in the world wants for themselves. There are various distortions, but the idea still mostly works.
Even if we can all be guaranteed an inheritance in the earth, if information and "intellectual property" are taken out of the free market, how will an artist or a programmer know whether s/he is producing something of value to someone or simply wasting his/her time? Fan clubs?