Seems to me that a pair of rubber gloves would be sufficient to prevent a shock to an attacker. Household rubber gloves may not be thick enough, but I'm sure something exists at the consumer level which would protect an attacker without being too cumbersome.
Should samples be protected by copyright? As long as copyright law and the DMCA exist in their current form, Hell yes! Many uses of copyrighted material appear "fair" but are prohibited by current US and international law. Just because one of those uses is especially lucrative (read: desired by the masses enough to pay for it) doesn't mean we should ask that enforcement be relaxed for that use. In fact, quite the opposite.
If you believe fair use should be broader than it currently is, then this is your chance for corporations to work to your benefit: they may just decide to lobby for new law which makes such uses legal for everyone, not just corporations. Just make sure your representative (presuming you have one) doesn't let the law be too specific.
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In my opinion the technology isnt quite ready for John Doe and his girlfriend to make HD pr0n.
Actually, I think the porn actor spells his name John Dough:-)
Poor Lance is already in violation of the restrictions on the media they gave him... he made an illegal copy and posted it on the Internet.
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While I've never used a 3D GUI (other than Quake), the problem I perceive from the outside looking in (so to speak) is that a 15 inch, 19 inch, or even 24 inch computer monitor is an awfully narrow window through which to view the world. My eyes can flit about the physical 3D space of my office quite quickly, but if the virtual 3D space I want to view is larger than my screen, I can't move my eyes beyond the screen edge without using my hands.
Until this problem is overcome, either with giant screens, head-mounted displays, or some bizarre gesture-controlled scrolling (like head tilts), I can't see 3D GUIs becoming more than a curiosity because they consume too much 2D screen space without giving enough virtual space back.
The article was light on detail, and I don't know enough about wireless, so I guess I'll ask the/. community: How will a cashier "give" you an hour of access? Will there be a code printed on your receipt? Is there an easy way for a user to configure his/her PC to gain access to an otherwise closed wireless LAN for a limited time? Or do I have to open my laptop at the counter and read off my MAC address (the people in line behind me would love that)?
What ever happened to Apple's agreement with the Beatles? Way back in the early 80s (or so), the Beatles were concerned about trademark infringement against their "Apple Corps" music label, but the issue was settled when it was clear that Apple would not be in the music business. Things got dicey again when music processing became a normal everyday computer-based activity, but I could still see a clear distinction. A service like this, though, would be a likely trademark conflict.
When a friend of mine said he was going to loan me a book by this name (about a year ago), I replied "Killin' People? Sounds like a great book!" When he told me what it was reallly about, I never bothered to read it.
They are touting a "consumer friendly" standard, but only allowing 90 minutes to view a recorded "restricted" show is not very friendly.
I think a lot of people are confused by this limitation. My interpretation is that this kind of restriction is only placed on pay-per-view materials which are rebroadcast every hour anyway; if you wanted to watch it later, you'd record it later.
Maybe I'm the only one here who is OK with distinguishing pay and non-pay programming, but my interpretation is that the fair use limitations apply only to pay-per-view/video-on-demand. This pact doesn't even cement those limitations; it simply defers its resolution while giving us fair use for non-pay programming.
1) TV imprisonment ended at least 15 years ago; cable-ready TV freed us for non-pay NTSC programming and cable-ready HDTV will free us for non-pay HDTV programming.
2) Failing to send output through the analog connection for selected materials was a possible way to close the "analog hole." This ensures that hole remains open for non-pay HDTV.
3) My read is that this standard will make it possible for any manufacturer to construct cable-ready HDTV equipment, including Tivo and the like. The inclusion of Firewire connectors permits those digital recorders of digital signals to digitally transfer them to your digital display.
Of course, this is all concerning only "non-pay HDTV." Currently this would definitely include broadcast HDTV. Whether A&E, MTV, QVC and the rest of the "Expanded Basic Cable Service" cadre will be labeled "pay programming" when they make HDTV signals available is still up for grabs.
Granted, people who drive hybrids or all-electric vehicles (or CNG or propane, for that matter) get a free (or at least discounted) ride with gasoline taxes. I think they deserve it for keeping the state's air cleaner.
Perhaps so, but if you like user taxes (and I suppose I do), a better solution might be to further discriminate the user tax elements, separating road maintenance from environmental maintenance. GPS, combined with information about the vehicle type (for weight) and its regularly checked emissions status, makes it possible to separately regulate these two issues. Not that this alleviates any of the troubling privacy concerns...
I don't have the specs on my 1-year-old machine, but a quick test turned up a transfer rate of about 140mpbs transfer off my IDE hard drive while the CD-ROM was busy reading a CD on the second IDE channel. That's well short of the 176mpbs claimed for the 16x burners, suggesting the market for these devices may be smaller than anticipated for the first few years, keeping their price higher.
Hopefully SATA will be fast enough to compensate and widely available in time to make this product marketable.
I prefer Buzz Aldrin's response... The Daily Show featured a video by a hoax advocate as he harrassed the astronaut on a city street. Aldrin simply ignored the guy until he got in his face calling him a liar and demanding that he tell the world the truth, at which point he punched the guy in the face and continued on his way.
A couple possible risk mitigaters would be to rotate your media more often (no pun intended) and use a RAID rather than single drive as an archive of any given media.
For media rotation, you should depend on any one drive for no more than a couple years and then retire it (copying its contents to a new drive if they weren't already expired). It may be a bit expensive, but if you're looking for high speed storage, it may just beat the alternatives. Depending on the size of your organization, you can perhaps "waterfall" the retired drives into less critical roles (e.g. desktops)
Backing up to a RAID would involve using (possibly) trios of hard drives together, plugged into removable bays that connect to a RAID controller. That permits one of the drives to fail while still allowing your data to be recovered without having to think about it.
I don't know if Slashdot admins fiddle with the settings sometimes, but the fortune message at the bottom of the page (as of this moment) is quite appropriate:
I can't read the slashdotted article right now, but if by "immediate hit" they mean that the stock jumped almost 12% in one day, they're right. Of course, maybe that's just related to their confirmation of projected 4th quarter earnings.
This is slightly OT, but it seems to happen often enough to warrant a comment on the point.
I don't know what tools the Slashdot editors have available to them already, but it seems that the Slashcode already extracts all the links from previous stories (the Related Links box), so it shouldn't be too difficult to compose a story posting utility which looks for stories posted in the last x days which contain any of the same links as the proposed story, flagging possible duplicates.
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Seems to me that a pair of rubber gloves would be sufficient to prevent a shock to an attacker. Household rubber gloves may not be thick enough, but I'm sure something exists at the consumer level which would protect an attacker without being too cumbersome.
Should samples be protected by copyright? As long as copyright law and the DMCA exist in their current form, Hell yes! Many uses of copyrighted material appear "fair" but are prohibited by current US and international law. Just because one of those uses is especially lucrative (read: desired by the masses enough to pay for it) doesn't mean we should ask that enforcement be relaxed for that use. In fact, quite the opposite.
If you believe fair use should be broader than it currently is, then this is your chance for corporations to work to your benefit: they may just decide to lobby for new law which makes such uses legal for everyone, not just corporations. Just make sure your representative (presuming you have one) doesn't let the law be too specific.
Actually, I think the porn actor spells his name John Dough :-)
I wonder... How many chips could a chipset set if a chipset could set chips?
As it happens, when I view the story, I see this advertising image. Interesting message, I think: Don't be afraid, be a PATRIOT.
Poor Lance is already in violation of the restrictions on the media they gave him... he made an illegal copy and posted it on the Internet.
While I've never used a 3D GUI (other than Quake), the problem I perceive from the outside looking in (so to speak) is that a 15 inch, 19 inch, or even 24 inch computer monitor is an awfully narrow window through which to view the world. My eyes can flit about the physical 3D space of my office quite quickly, but if the virtual 3D space I want to view is larger than my screen, I can't move my eyes beyond the screen edge without using my hands.
Until this problem is overcome, either with giant screens, head-mounted displays, or some bizarre gesture-controlled scrolling (like head tilts), I can't see 3D GUIs becoming more than a curiosity because they consume too much 2D screen space without giving enough virtual space back.
The article was light on detail, and I don't know enough about wireless, so I guess I'll ask the /. community: How will a cashier "give" you an hour of access? Will there be a code printed on your receipt? Is there an easy way for a user to configure his/her PC to gain access to an otherwise closed wireless LAN for a limited time? Or do I have to open my laptop at the counter and read off my MAC address (the people in line behind me would love that)?
What ever happened to Apple's agreement with the Beatles? Way back in the early 80s (or so), the Beatles were concerned about trademark infringement against their "Apple Corps" music label, but the issue was settled when it was clear that Apple would not be in the music business. Things got dicey again when music processing became a normal everyday computer-based activity, but I could still see a clear distinction. A service like this, though, would be a likely trademark conflict.
Anybody know what became of that agreement?
Yeah, but he didn't buy it... he just downloaded it for free :-)
That's about as funny as a screendoor on a battleship :-)
When a friend of mine said he was going to loan me a book by this name (about a year ago), I replied "Killin' People? Sounds like a great book!" When he told me what it was reallly about, I never bothered to read it.
Now we can finally update that tired knock-knock joke:
I think a lot of people are confused by this limitation. My interpretation is that this kind of restriction is only placed on pay-per-view materials which are rebroadcast every hour anyway; if you wanted to watch it later, you'd record it later.
Maybe I'm the only one here who is OK with distinguishing pay and non-pay programming, but my interpretation is that the fair use limitations apply only to pay-per-view/video-on-demand. This pact doesn't even cement those limitations; it simply defers its resolution while giving us fair use for non-pay programming.
I'm not sure that you do have this right...
1) TV imprisonment ended at least 15 years ago; cable-ready TV freed us for non-pay NTSC programming and cable-ready HDTV will free us for non-pay HDTV programming.
2) Failing to send output through the analog connection for selected materials was a possible way to close the "analog hole." This ensures that hole remains open for non-pay HDTV.
3) My read is that this standard will make it possible for any manufacturer to construct cable-ready HDTV equipment, including Tivo and the like. The inclusion of Firewire connectors permits those digital recorders of digital signals to digitally transfer them to your digital display.
Of course, this is all concerning only "non-pay HDTV." Currently this would definitely include broadcast HDTV. Whether A&E, MTV, QVC and the rest of the "Expanded Basic Cable Service" cadre will be labeled "pay programming" when they make HDTV signals available is still up for grabs.
Perhaps so, but if you like user taxes (and I suppose I do), a better solution might be to further discriminate the user tax elements, separating road maintenance from environmental maintenance. GPS, combined with information about the vehicle type (for weight) and its regularly checked emissions status, makes it possible to separately regulate these two issues. Not that this alleviates any of the troubling privacy concerns...
I don't have the specs on my 1-year-old machine, but a quick test turned up a transfer rate of about 140mpbs transfer off my IDE hard drive while the CD-ROM was busy reading a CD on the second IDE channel. That's well short of the 176mpbs claimed for the 16x burners, suggesting the market for these devices may be smaller than anticipated for the first few years, keeping their price higher.
Hopefully SATA will be fast enough to compensate and widely available in time to make this product marketable.
I prefer Buzz Aldrin's response... The Daily Show featured a video by a hoax advocate as he harrassed the astronaut on a city street. Aldrin simply ignored the guy until he got in his face calling him a liar and demanding that he tell the world the truth, at which point he punched the guy in the face and continued on his way.
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A couple possible risk mitigaters would be to rotate your media more often (no pun intended) and use a RAID rather than single drive as an archive of any given media.
For media rotation, you should depend on any one drive for no more than a couple years and then retire it (copying its contents to a new drive if they weren't already expired). It may be a bit expensive, but if you're looking for high speed storage, it may just beat the alternatives. Depending on the size of your organization, you can perhaps "waterfall" the retired drives into less critical roles (e.g. desktops)
Backing up to a RAID would involve using (possibly) trios of hard drives together, plugged into removable bays that connect to a RAID controller. That permits one of the drives to fail while still allowing your data to be recovered without having to think about it.
I don't know if Slashdot admins fiddle with the settings sometimes, but the fortune message at the bottom of the page (as of this moment) is quite appropriate:
I just tried the same thing. Number two on the list?
Number three?Somebody at MSN likes us.
See also the article posted in September on this topic
I can't read the slashdotted article right now, but if by "immediate hit" they mean that the stock jumped almost 12% in one day, they're right. Of course, maybe that's just related to their confirmation of projected 4th quarter earnings.
This is slightly OT, but it seems to happen often enough to warrant a comment on the point.
I don't know what tools the Slashdot editors have available to them already, but it seems that the Slashcode already extracts all the links from previous stories (the Related Links box), so it shouldn't be too difficult to compose a story posting utility which looks for stories posted in the last x days which contain any of the same links as the proposed story, flagging possible duplicates.