This looks to be just their modifications to GPL software. It's their changes to the kernel and some commands.
Tivo obviously has a program which does copy-from-TV-signal-to-disk and play-from-disk-to-TV. I did not recognize that program, and if they wrote their own they do not have to publish it. With the Linux video interfaces it might not be technically difficult, but it sounds like they created a nice user interface and that's what is important (well, picture quality probably is most important..and a lot of Monday Night Football fans just found how important sound is to them when it failed).
"Before you could even do business you would have to apply for and receive sales tax certificates from all 48 or so states that require sales tax."
It's worse than that. Try State, County, and City taxes. Any accounting department has a set of books which summarizes tax laws. Some states need many pages to list the assorted tax variations due to the many local taxes.
On the bright side, if you really want to implement such a tax calculation system you can probably buy the database from a company that has assembled it already. Unfortunately, you may find a continual flow of inquiries from cities you haven't paid properly due to ongoing changes in local laws...
Actually, if the USPS tries to charge "too much" for their ZIP data then someone will simply set up a business where they buy one copy from the USPS and then sell it more cheaply at the price the market will accept. [Unless the USPS has a compilation copyright..]
There are other examples of public information which has been used by private business: Lexis-Nexis compiles public court and regulation information, along with assorted government publications, although mixed in are private copyrighted news and reports. There are also a lot of real estate data collection companies wading through public tax and property records.
If you don't like the cost of one, there are alternatives...look it up yourself or pay someone to do it for you [there are even companies which will go to a courthouse and get a copy of a public record specifically upon your request].
Anyone find more info about the contract? I searched through the obvious places and couldn't identify it. Searching for "Microsoft" comes up with a lot of procurement announcements, but adding "Department of Labor" produces zero...but it could be listed under the subdivisions.
The quoted item does not have the proprietary characters in the Corel press release. For example, "Labor's" has an apostrophe in it rather than a proprietary character as in "Labor?s".
Librarians have been indexing things for a long time, and for decades researchers have been trying to make computers do indexing. Applying AI technologies for indexing is nothing new. The challenge is making a computer understand a topic and text well enough to properly index.
Browse a few relevant papers and find some keywords to search for more of the part of the field in which you are interested:
The registration situation might be worse than we thought. Scan your bookmarks and see if any have evaporated.
I've noticed some oddities in the last few days, and just found one with inconsistent WHOIS data between NSI and InterNIC. Darned if I know what NSI would do if they registered a domain to two people...
An anonymous email address is not enough. You need email-reading programs which enforce your desired level of privacy.
For example, if you just got the "Quicken TurboTax December Tax Alert" email and you read it with a web browser, then they've made a connection between your name on file, your IP address, the email address configured in your browser, and other HTTP data. Look in that message and you'll see
Visibility shouldn't be a factor, as you're responsible for not hitting anything with that vehicle which you're allegedly in control of.
This HUD is actually installed under the line of sight. Visually it appears above the dashboard and under the front edge of the hood. You can still see everything outside the car normally. This HUD only gives you additional information, it does not block your view.
How can junkbuster remove parts of an image URL? If it does not know which parts of a URL are an identification code, it can't block an HTML-interpreting email program from leaking info back to the sender's server.
For example, several months ago TurboTax sent email announcing their newest update. The email included HTML which told TurboTax when you read the mail. It was just a retrieval of an image with a certain code to identify who they sent the mail to.
But if there is any HTML in the email, and your email program retrieves something from a server, that can be logged. The trigger is usually actually a retrieval of an IMG URL, with the URL of the image containing a code which identifies you. Cookie stuff is an additional tracking method.
Browsers don't warn you about sending a request for an image. Read the article. Email containing HTML which requests an image can contain a URL with a code which uniquely identifies you. The server which processes that request is what picks up the ID which was sent you to, so they know you read that email.
How many months old were you when you learned how to type? You apparently had enough plasticity.
Actually, recall that during the last year or two that it has been found that new brain cells are continually wandering around and fastening themselves hither and yon in the brain. Even brains several decades old are getting new neurons which are learning stuff to do.
We could feed video directly into the optic nerve. A few months ago researchers tapped into a few of the optic nerves of a cat and were able to decode the image which was coming from the retina. This confirms that we know how the signals on the optic nerve are encoded. If taps to the optic nerve were safely installed, we could indeed feed signals to it.
I don't know how fast the processing would have to be to be realtime, but from what I know of the retina it should not be all that difficult.
You can find the cat's eye discussion right here on Slashdot. Just do a search for cat eye optic nerve.
The Retinal Prosthesis Project has a lot of info about the technology. The doctor and university which are mentioned in the Stevie Wonder news reports are mentioned several places there.
There's no way anyone could economically prosper off of this bug, and if they do, it's illegal because of the spam factor, and won't appeal to reputable companies
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Tivo obviously has a program which does copy-from-TV-signal-to-disk and play-from-disk-to-TV. I did not recognize that program, and if they wrote their own they do not have to publish it. With the Linux video interfaces it might not be technically difficult, but it sounds like they created a nice user interface and that's what is important (well, picture quality probably is most important..and a lot of Monday Night Football fans just found how important sound is to them when it failed).
Well, now someone with the TIVO remote control has to create a configuration file for the Linux Infrared Remote Control program.
Or check the card catalog of your local libraries.
USoA stock is indeed up due to this news. 10-year Treasury notes.
CmdrTaco, why didn't you whip out your PRESS pass and phone the NYPD to find why they were involved?
It's worse than that. Try State, County, and City taxes. Any accounting department has a set of books which summarizes tax laws. Some states need many pages to list the assorted tax variations due to the many local taxes.
On the bright side, if you really want to implement such a tax calculation system you can probably buy the database from a company that has assembled it already. Unfortunately, you may find a continual flow of inquiries from cities you haven't paid properly due to ongoing changes in local laws...
There are other examples of public information which has been used by private business: Lexis-Nexis compiles public court and regulation information, along with assorted government publications, although mixed in are private copyrighted news and reports. There are also a lot of real estate data collection companies wading through public tax and property records.
If you don't like the cost of one, there are alternatives...look it up yourself or pay someone to do it for you [there are even companies which will go to a courthouse and get a copy of a public record specifically upon your request].
Anyone find more info about the contract? I searched through the obvious places and couldn't identify it. Searching for "Microsoft" comes up with a lot of procurement announcements, but adding "Department of Labor" produces zero...but it could be listed under the subdivisions.
The quoted item does not have the proprietary characters in the Corel press release. For example, "Labor's" has an apostrophe in it rather than a proprietary character as in "Labor?s".
Browse a few relevant papers and find some keywords to search for more of the part of the field in which you are interested:
I've noticed some oddities in the last few days, and just found one with inconsistent WHOIS data between NSI and InterNIC. Darned if I know what NSI would do if they registered a domain to two people...
Was that supposed to be a reference to the poster's name: Invalid?
Remind me to remind you do to a web search when you're looking for something.
For example, if you just got the "Quicken TurboTax December Tax Alert" email and you read it with a web browser, then they've made a connection between your name on file, your IP address, the email address configured in your browser, and other HTTP data. Look in that message and you'll see
And every time you reread that message and tickle that web server they get another look.
This HUD is actually installed under the line of sight. Visually it appears above the dashboard and under the front edge of the hood. You can still see everything outside the car normally. This HUD only gives you additional information, it does not block your view.
For example, several months ago TurboTax sent email announcing their newest update. The email included HTML which told TurboTax when you read the mail. It was just a retrieval of an image with a certain code to identify who they sent the mail to.
Certainly there is a way. Just ask Microsoft to remove HTML from Outlook.
But if there is any HTML in the email, and your email program retrieves something from a server, that can be logged. The trigger is usually actually a retrieval of an IMG URL, with the URL of the image containing a code which identifies you. Cookie stuff is an additional tracking method.
Browsers don't warn you about sending a request for an image. Read the article. Email containing HTML which requests an image can contain a URL with a code which uniquely identifies you. The server which processes that request is what picks up the ID which was sent you to, so they know you read that email.
Actually, recall that during the last year or two that it has been found that new brain cells are continually wandering around and fastening themselves hither and yon in the brain. Even brains several decades old are getting new neurons which are learning stuff to do.
I don't know how fast the processing would have to be to be realtime, but from what I know of the retina it should not be all that difficult.
You can find the cat's eye discussion right here on Slashdot. Just do a search for cat eye optic nerve.
The Retinal Prosthesis Project has a lot of info about the technology. The doctor and university which are mentioned in the Stevie Wonder news reports are mentioned several places there.