The part that caught my eye was: no non-Netflix videos are allowed?
That's not true.
I read the article back when it was in the firehose before the site went down, and from what I remember of the dialog boxes, it looked like the issue is that Microsoft's DRM appears to be incapable of storing or managing separate vendors' keys separately, so if you have a problem with netflix, and you're using keys from 30 other vendors, well tough. You have to wipe all of the keys and lose access to everything all those other keys unlocked, unless those vendors will reissue you the same key again (or a new key, AND let you re-download the stuff encrypted to the new key). This would be why Netflix told him to talk to Amazon when he complained about the key reset utility wiping all of the unrelated keys too, not because they were trying to claim it was all Amazon's fault, but because Amazon is the only one who could reissue his key once the utility helpfully nuked everything in sight.
It doesn't look like a "netflix is disabling unbox" thing, it looks like a "Microsoft can't implement a proper keyring to save Vista" thing. Maybe Microsoft should start working on a new version of their "key reset" utility that can reset a single vendor's key.
I like it. I can tell my AC to cool the house to 70F, unless it's going to cost more than $x, in which case I'll settle for 72 or 74 or...
The biggest hurdle is going to be the communication network, followed by what happens for non-smart devices (lightbulbs, etc). Somewhere in there, my AC is going to have to learn how much electricity it would need to buy in order to cool the house from X degrees to Y degrees under the current external conditions, etc. Perhaps a smart AC unit can negotiate with a smart fridge to find out how much heat the fridge is releasing into the kitchen, and based on the time of day decide to zone off the kitchen and spend its resources keeping the bedrooms cool.
For sanity (and security's) sake, I would suggest that individual devices in the house could communicate with each other, and with a single power bridge, rather than allowing whatever random machines accessing the power station directly. The power bridge would itself be responsible for buying electricity at the auction via an encrypted and authenticated tunnel out of the house (over the power line itself, I would presume). This would also give the user a single point of configuration for how much money they want to spend, before discovering that everything in his house bought a ton of cheap electricity, driving him broke. In fact, if the logic is moved towards a central bridge like that, a user could configure a default energy policy (say "conserve energy when it costs more than X), and any new thing that they plugged in could advertise that it has a "conserve energy" mode and a "normal mode", with the bridge telling it which to use when. The bridge would also be responsible for figuring out normal lightbulb and other non-smart appliance usage, and make at least good guesses at how much electricity to buy (hopefully with the ability to buy extra when someone wakes up at 3AM to go to the bathroom;).
If electricity storage (and this auction system) becomes efficient enough, I believe that the system would not work as well, since everyone would be buying the cheap electricity (driving its price up) to use instead of expensive electricity (driving its price down), leaving ever slimmer differences as storage becomes more efficient. Eventually my AC would run at only one setting, at whatever level the price stops fluctuating at, but at least that setting would be based on what I decided to pay in advance, and I could still use the centralized control to save electricity or decide where to sacrifice some energy for a slightly cooler bedroom without paying more overall.
This isn't about pushing the bosses' moral agenda: This is about preventing the loss of customers. It doesn't matter how wrong it is, it's going to happen.
Because customers have absolutely nothing better to do with their lives than sit around and google every employee of a company before they do business with them. I sure am glad I don't go to Wal-Mart (Target is a block closer), I'd have to spend centuries to do all the research required!
Come to think of it, shouldn't the bosses have something better to do with their time?
Is there a fill up station somewhere, can we exploit time from another place?
Unfortunately you cannot just "fill up" on time, however you can stop wasting time and look into saving what time you have. May I suggest that there's no better place to save it than at the Timesaving Bank.
Not to mention, hell will freeze over before they ever ticket a slow driver in the left lane.
I've been thinking of a campaign to bring back the minimum speed limits on the freeways in places where there's a perfectly usable frontage road. Any traffic in any lane of the freeway that can't go faster than the frontage road's speed limit should get ticketed.
The slogan would be "Slow Traffic Keep Right" with an exit sign pointing off the freeway;)
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This guy was going to kill someone, somewhere, somehow.
Oliver is being held without bail, a police statement said, because he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in San Diego and was on parole when Dodele was killed.
Insisting on a 100% renewable future is overly idealistic: I say, if we can fill 95% of our energy needs with renewables, go ahead, use natural gas or whatever when you need to. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Wait, wait, are you saying that we should get our energy from more than one source?! That's inconceivable! Why, I can barely manage to fill up my car correctly when I have to choose from three pumps, how can I be expected to keep this straight?
Borrowing from your SSN example, let's say that your client tells you the main way they identify customers is through the SSN, and you go by that, and then there's a case of identity theft and the customer's SSN number has to be changed?
Changing SSNs is bad enough (actually, most databases would allow you to cascade such a change with the proper foreign key configuration), but what if the customer decides to do business with a Canadian or a Mexican?
view a series of inkblots and write down the first and last letters of whatever word they associate with each inkblot. Then they combine the letters to form a password.
I got vavavapsva.
More seriously, if they're saving the word associations, doesn't that mean that they have the password you've just generated?
DOH! Looks like it was all just due to someone's assumption that someone else would do their job.
DOH! Looks like someone was making assumptions without reading the article. They considered switching to the backup, but since they didn't know whether the problem was on their end or the server's end, they were afraid that switching to the backup data center would destroy that one as well.
Once you get that combination of pieces in place, "expert" witnesses are hard to beat because they're supposedly "sworn" to the court... but everybody has their own agenda and the actual suspect is against 5 other people with their own intents... DA, police, judge, and defender... you're rights and interests are dead last.
Just look at how often the DA's charge their own star witnesses with perjury when they have been caught lying (oh, sorry, "being incorrect" despite being paid with taxpayer dollars to be correct) under oath.
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The part that caught my eye was: no non-Netflix videos are allowed?
That's not true.
I read the article back when it was in the firehose before the site went down, and from what I remember of the dialog boxes, it looked like the issue is that Microsoft's DRM appears to be incapable of storing or managing separate vendors' keys separately, so if you have a problem with netflix, and you're using keys from 30 other vendors, well tough. You have to wipe all of the keys and lose access to everything all those other keys unlocked, unless those vendors will reissue you the same key again (or a new key, AND let you re-download the stuff encrypted to the new key). This would be why Netflix told him to talk to Amazon when he complained about the key reset utility wiping all of the unrelated keys too, not because they were trying to claim it was all Amazon's fault, but because Amazon is the only one who could reissue his key once the utility helpfully nuked everything in sight.
It doesn't look like a "netflix is disabling unbox" thing, it looks like a "Microsoft can't implement a proper keyring to save Vista" thing. Maybe Microsoft should start working on a new version of their "key reset" utility that can reset a single vendor's key.
I like it. I can tell my AC to cool the house to 70F, unless it's going to cost more than $x, in which case I'll settle for 72 or 74 or...
;).
The biggest hurdle is going to be the communication network, followed by what happens for non-smart devices (lightbulbs, etc). Somewhere in there, my AC is going to have to learn how much electricity it would need to buy in order to cool the house from X degrees to Y degrees under the current external conditions, etc. Perhaps a smart AC unit can negotiate with a smart fridge to find out how much heat the fridge is releasing into the kitchen, and based on the time of day decide to zone off the kitchen and spend its resources keeping the bedrooms cool.
For sanity (and security's) sake, I would suggest that individual devices in the house could communicate with each other, and with a single power bridge, rather than allowing whatever random machines accessing the power station directly. The power bridge would itself be responsible for buying electricity at the auction via an encrypted and authenticated tunnel out of the house (over the power line itself, I would presume). This would also give the user a single point of configuration for how much money they want to spend, before discovering that everything in his house bought a ton of cheap electricity, driving him broke. In fact, if the logic is moved towards a central bridge like that, a user could configure a default energy policy (say "conserve energy when it costs more than X), and any new thing that they plugged in could advertise that it has a "conserve energy" mode and a "normal mode", with the bridge telling it which to use when. The bridge would also be responsible for figuring out normal lightbulb and other non-smart appliance usage, and make at least good guesses at how much electricity to buy (hopefully with the ability to buy extra when someone wakes up at 3AM to go to the bathroom
If electricity storage (and this auction system) becomes efficient enough, I believe that the system would not work as well, since everyone would be buying the cheap electricity (driving its price up) to use instead of expensive electricity (driving its price down), leaving ever slimmer differences as storage becomes more efficient. Eventually my AC would run at only one setting, at whatever level the price stops fluctuating at, but at least that setting would be based on what I decided to pay in advance, and I could still use the centralized control to save electricity or decide where to sacrifice some energy for a slightly cooler bedroom without paying more overall.
if they could prevent the radioactives from leaking out
;)
Maybe that's the missing part of the logic
This isn't about pushing the bosses' moral agenda: This is about preventing the loss of customers. It doesn't matter how wrong it is, it's going to happen.
Because customers have absolutely nothing better to do with their lives than sit around and google every employee of a company before they do business with them. I sure am glad I don't go to Wal-Mart (Target is a block closer), I'd have to spend centuries to do all the research required!
Come to think of it, shouldn't the bosses have something better to do with their time?
So the underpants are free when you get caught?
If they return them for a full refund, why not ship them right back out?
Of course. Because people without guns shoot other people all the time.
A lot of criminals use guns stolen from other people.
Is there a fill up station somewhere, can we exploit time from another place?
Unfortunately you cannot just "fill up" on time, however you can stop wasting time and look into saving what time you have. May I suggest that there's no better place to save it than at the Timesaving Bank.
Not to mention, hell will freeze over before they ever ticket a slow driver in the left lane.
;)
I've been thinking of a campaign to bring back the minimum speed limits on the freeways in places where there's a perfectly usable frontage road. Any traffic in any lane of the freeway that can't go faster than the frontage road's speed limit should get ticketed.
The slogan would be "Slow Traffic Keep Right" with an exit sign pointing off the freeway
when the record labels paid the radio stations to play their stuff?
They want a refund.
and maybe we can still avoid terrorist attacks without the intel that provided in the past.
Don't worry, it didn't provide us with intel any more than me twisting your arm behind your back makes me your Uncle.
Is there a law that says that telco's can't tap a line.
Various eavesdropping laws and wiretap laws?
I don't see what the cost is.
Abuse of the power. Loss of trust in the government.
No they don't. because I've been blocking any domain with "doubleclick" in the name for years.
Because they can't possibly register any other domain...
Most people said that per week, they're either playing just as many or less hours than they did last year.
Or
"Most people said that per week, they're either playing just as many or more hours than they did last year."
Both statements are true.
or, I CAN HAS NITELITE
Sure, it looks like an ordinary rock, but for the low, low price of $100, you can buy your own Privacy Invasion Repeller! This handy little thing will keep all search engines from recording your searches, prevent you from being stalked in public, and can even be used for tenderizing meat!
I have just as much evidence that my Privacy Invasion Repeller works as Ask can produce for their so-called privacy protection, but mine covers every search engine ever made!
Insisting on a 100% renewable future is overly idealistic: I say, if we can fill 95% of our energy needs with renewables, go ahead, use natural gas or whatever when you need to. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Wait, wait, are you saying that we should get our energy from more than one source?! That's inconceivable! Why, I can barely manage to fill up my car correctly when I have to choose from three pumps, how can I be expected to keep this straight?
Borrowing from your SSN example, let's say that your client tells you the main way they identify customers is through the SSN, and you go by that, and then there's a case of identity theft and the customer's SSN number has to be changed?
Changing SSNs is bad enough (actually, most databases would allow you to cascade such a change with the proper foreign key configuration), but what if the customer decides to do business with a Canadian or a Mexican?
No, the MPAA's #1 issue is their high prices and crappy movies.
I think he meant the #1 issue they could do something about.
view a series of inkblots and write down the first and last letters of whatever word they associate with each inkblot. Then they combine the letters to form a password.
I got vavavapsva.
More seriously, if they're saving the word associations, doesn't that mean that they have the password you've just generated?
Get back to me when they imprison this guy speaking out.
And then what will you do?
If it is used every day on a different issue, it seems that common sense isn't as rare of an asset as was once believed.
It's not much of an outbreak if it's a single isolated incident.
Yes it would be a suicide mission, known up front and with the intent of it being for pure research and in the name of science
You'd have to find someone suicidal enough to do it, but not so suicidal they kill themselves before they get around to doing any science.
DOH! Looks like it was all just due to someone's assumption that someone else would do their job.
DOH! Looks like someone was making assumptions without reading the article. They considered switching to the backup, but since they didn't know whether the problem was on their end or the server's end, they were afraid that switching to the backup data center would destroy that one as well.
Once you get that combination of pieces in place, "expert" witnesses are hard to beat because they're supposedly "sworn" to the court... but everybody has their own agenda and the actual suspect is against 5 other people with their own intents... DA, police, judge, and defender... you're rights and interests are dead last.
Just look at how often the DA's charge their own star witnesses with perjury when they have been caught lying (oh, sorry, "being incorrect" despite being paid with taxpayer dollars to be correct) under oath.