Re:Where's "Seven Samurai"
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I do know that the transfer was restored to some degree. It is an order of magnitude better than the VHS version which is my basis for comparison. I haven't watched Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind with a critical eye and I own neither so I can't compare. It is possible that they couldn't find an original print of the film in good shape. I certainly think that quality prints of either film you mentioned would be more common.
Where's "Seven Samurai"
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Top 50 DVDs
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· Score: 1
With the included commentary by Michael Jeck, remastered audio and new subtitles (the ones in the VHS version were atrocious), Seven Samurai is one of the best DVDs I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. There's the added benefit of the fact that it's one of the best films ever made.
The fact that it was originally shot in 4:3 and has monophonic audio may be why it was excluded from the list. Either that, or the fact that the people that made the list are nincompoops. I suspect the latter.
Unfortunately, in spite of all your speculation, you are wrong. Please refer to this NTSB incident report. Particularly the line that reads, " Fifty-one prior incidents of laser irradiations to pilots have been recorded by the Las Vegas air traffic facility over the past 2 years."
The first style has makes a white light that isn't "nice", because it's creating "white" by only combining two colors in the spectrum (blue and yellow). I can't explain it more than that, perhaps someone more knowledgeable can? This style is great for outdoor lighting (street lamps) where "niceness" doesn't matter so much; people aren't trying to read a newspaper but are merely identifying oncoming traffic..
What you're describing is CRI or color rendering index. Yellow-over-blue LEDs achieve a nice color temperature(4500-5500k), but they are relatively imbalanced over the visible spectrum, which results in a surprisingly low CRI from a light source with a high color temperature relative to incandescent lights.
Are you suggesting that we should wait until fraud makes a difference in the outcome of an election, and address the issue then?
I am suggesting precisely what I wrote, that is "...irrelevant to the results of the election." Certainly, if there is evidence of fraud, then it should be investigated and if there is inaccuracy in the voting process it should be eliminated to the extent that reasonable cost and effort provides.
Any time one measures something, there is a given level of tolerance. The amount of tolerance permitted is usually dictated by the requirements of the circumstances and the cost off both effort and fiscal outlay in achieving that tolerance.
On that basis, the original poster had a point. As long as the accuracy of the results falls within the realm of tolerance enough to establish a definitive majority, then anything else is irrelevant to the results of the election.
The author of this opinion piece makes a good point. The journalistic quality of a lot of blogs is very much lacking. However, his point, doesn't support his premise that blogs will not overtake mass media especially considering that the journalistic quality of the reporting coming from the mass media is also seriously lacking. There is no reason to suggest that bloggers can't provide accurate and well-researched information as well as any "professional" journalist.
I don't think mass media is dead yet as the overwhelming majority of people in this country still heavily rely on them for information. However, it does seem obvious to me that as more people begin to rely on the Internet for news and information that bloggers will begin to make traditional journalists less relevant. The only thing that keeps them relevant now is the fact that their employers are the ones that control the flow of information. As their control wanes, so will their relevance.
This is a trademark infringement issue. There is no "fair use" in trademark law. Haven't there been enough intellectual property discussions on slashdot by now that people would understand this?
I am a network engineer for a large ISP. When people ask me what we can do to prevent DDoS attacks I say the same thing. We've got pretty large pipes, so attacks of a couple hundred megs don't really affect any customers other than the intended. Even still, the only thing we can do is respond to the attack once it occurs.
The only effective prevention tool that I know of is available from a company called Arbor Networks. Unfortunately, the tools are very expensive and not really applicable for the individual user.
I wonder how long it will take for some employee to tell you, "Unplug our TV's again and we'll have you escorted out of the building. If you return, you'll be charged for trespassing."
They won't, they're sheep, scared sheep.
Cocky assholes like yourself need a little whipping now and then to keep you in line. There's always going to be more customers. Any spine possessing manager should have you out on your ear.
How do you think I became a cocky asshole to begin with? I'm big, mean, aggressive, and I like to bite. People don't fuck with me, which gives me the freedom to do things like power off televisions whenever the hell I like. Also, here's a newsflash sparky, there are no spine-possession[sic] managers at giant corporate retail outlets. Whine all you like, I'll still be able to power off televisions with impunity.
I occasionally shop at one of the popular retail outlets that sells linens and kitchen supplies. Given the fact that I like to cook, I'm quite keen on checking out kitchen gadgets. Unfortunately, at most of these places, they have many televisions blasting adverts for "Ronco Transmogrifiers" and other useless bullshit. My solution to this annoying problem is to walk up to the televisions and turn them off. Eventually, they disabled the power buttons on these devices, so I've since started to unplug them. I get nasty looks from the employees, but nobody ever says anything. As soon as this website is back up, I'll be purchasing one of these, and using it frequently.
However, I'm not under the mistaken impression that I have any inherent right to be free from television in a public place. What I do have is the balls and the wherewithal to act on things that annoy me. As for those people that are annoyed by the absence of television, I could care less what they think.
To my knowledge, IOS has never had a backdoor or an unchangeable password other than a read-only snmp thing. There's no reason to believe that they would start here.
People seem to be missing the point that this traffic signal wasn't installed to enhance safety or discourage speeders. It appears that it was installed to discourage commuters from using this route when the freeways are congested. I suspect that local residents aren't pleased with all the additional traffic and influenced the municipal government to do something about it. It's not uncommon for a municipal government to make changes to prevent traffic from flowing through certain constituents' neighborhoods. I could certainly point out many instances where this is obviously the case. I believe this is a widely accepted practice.
I once experienced a problem on a network that I was doing administration for. There were several DSL provisioning engineers using my network. When they would telnet into the customer's CPE it would reset itself. After much investigation with tcpdump, I discovered that the firewall was resetting the window size to zero on the third packet in the TCP handshake (syn/ack). This was the result of some sort of stupid syn proxy feature in checkpoint that the firewall administrator had enabled. In any case, this packet caused the DSL CPE router to reset itself. I contacted the CPE company, reproduced the problem for them, they acknowledged that it was an issue with their stack and had it fixed in a couple of days.
That's the best example of a problem that I can think of that can be figured out by sniffing packets.
Have you ever actually used RMON to solve a real problem? Most switches have very rudimentary support for RMON and provide anything beyond statistics, which is to say, they don't support packet capture. Dedicated RMON probes are horrendously expensive, and in my experience flaky as hell and rarely work as advertised. Once one has an RMON probe, one still needs an (expensive) piece of software to extract that information from the probe.
I've been in this industry for 10 years now and in all that time, I've never seen anyone use RMON tools to any meaningful end. I've had much better luck over the years just setting up port mirroring and using tcpdump.
Power is transferring from the state (the general state, not just California) to corporations. If this continues, companies will rule. This is perhaps the ultimate downfall of democracy, and the end point of capitalism.
This is not a failing of capitalism, but a failing of corporatism. Our economic systems is pretty far from a purely free market. We have these artificial citizens that are free from liability and have no capacity for moral behavior with a singular motive (quarterly stock price gains, not profit) and a desire for an artificial monopoly. Corporations don't seek to profit, nor do they seek to compete. These things are difficult to achieve in a corporate environment. If you perceive corporations as what they are, then actions like this are easily understood.
Far from being overtaxed, the upper 1% are (assuming that everyone should pay an equal percentage of their wealth) slightly under taxed.
Why would anyone assume that everyone should pay an equal percentage of their wealth? It is income that is taxed and the amount of which should be the basis for taxation, imho.
At other stores, however, I've seen some rather overzealous responses (a small army of "associates" immediately rushes to the door and all but surrounds the suspect). In my comments, I refer to the latter type of response as unacceptible, especially considering the former.
The worst incident of an overzealous response I've ever seen was at my old university library about 10 years ago before all these loss prevention technologies became so prevalent. Generally speaking, I will vigorously resist being detained by anybody except law-enforcement personnel that use the phrase, "you are under arrest." I take great pleasure in brow-beating loss-prevention people given that I'm fairly large and inimidating. In this particular instance however, I was so amused by the site of a librarian hurtling over the circulation desk that I really didn't mind when the little old lady forced me against the wall and began frisking me.
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I do know that the transfer was restored to some degree. It is an order of magnitude better than the VHS version which is my basis for comparison. I haven't watched Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind with a critical eye and I own neither so I can't compare. It is possible that they couldn't find an original print of the film in good shape. I certainly think that quality prints of either film you mentioned would be more common.
With the included commentary by Michael Jeck, remastered audio and new subtitles (the ones in the VHS version were atrocious), Seven Samurai is one of the best DVDs I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. There's the added benefit of the fact that it's one of the best films ever made.
The fact that it was originally shot in 4:3 and has monophonic audio may be why it was excluded from the list. Either that, or the fact that the people that made the list are nincompoops. I suspect the latter.
har har
Seriously, PSK31 can sometimes look like an AOL chat room with all the CW abbreviations:
"THX FR TH QSL, K K K"
I don't like it so much either, which is why I use PSK31 which is somewhat like IRC.
Good point. How about this?
Unfortunately, in spite of all your speculation, you are wrong. Please refer to this NTSB incident report. Particularly the line that reads, " Fifty-one prior incidents of laser irradiations to pilots have been recorded by the Las Vegas air traffic facility over the past 2 years."
The first style has makes a white light that isn't "nice", because it's creating "white" by only combining two colors in the spectrum (blue and yellow). I can't explain it more than that, perhaps someone more knowledgeable can? This style is great for outdoor lighting (street lamps) where "niceness" doesn't matter so much; people aren't trying to read a newspaper but are merely identifying oncoming traffic..
What you're describing is CRI or color rendering index. Yellow-over-blue LEDs achieve a nice color temperature(4500-5500k), but they are relatively imbalanced over the visible spectrum, which results in a surprisingly low CRI from a light source with a high color temperature relative to incandescent lights.
Are you suggesting that we should wait until fraud makes a difference in the outcome of an election, and address the issue then?
I am suggesting precisely what I wrote, that is "...irrelevant to the results of the election." Certainly, if there is evidence of fraud, then it should be investigated and if there is inaccuracy in the voting process it should be eliminated to the extent that reasonable cost and effort provides.
Any time one measures something, there is a given level of tolerance. The amount of tolerance permitted is usually dictated by the requirements of the circumstances and the cost off both effort and fiscal outlay in achieving that tolerance.
On that basis, the original poster had a point. As long as the accuracy of the results falls within the realm of tolerance enough to establish a definitive majority, then anything else is irrelevant to the results of the election.
The author of this opinion piece makes a good point. The journalistic quality of a lot of blogs is very much lacking. However, his point, doesn't support his premise that blogs will not overtake mass media especially considering that the journalistic quality of the reporting coming from the mass media is also seriously lacking. There is no reason to suggest that bloggers can't provide accurate and well-researched information as well as any "professional" journalist.
I don't think mass media is dead yet as the overwhelming majority of people in this country still heavily rely on them for information. However, it does seem obvious to me that as more people begin to rely on the Internet for news and information that bloggers will begin to make traditional journalists less relevant. The only thing that keeps them relevant now is the fact that their employers are the ones that control the flow of information. As their control wanes, so will their relevance.
Although, I'm pretty sure this is fair use...
This is a trademark infringement issue. There is no "fair use" in trademark law. Haven't there been enough intellectual property discussions on slashdot by now that people would understand this?
I am a network engineer for a large ISP. When people ask me what we can do to prevent DDoS attacks I say the same thing. We've got pretty large pipes, so attacks of a couple hundred megs don't really affect any customers other than the intended. Even still, the only thing we can do is respond to the attack once it occurs.
The only effective prevention tool that I know of is available from a company called Arbor Networks. Unfortunately, the tools are very expensive and not really applicable for the individual user.
That's not it. It's more like
interface foo
ip verify unicast source reachable-via any allow-self-ping
Also, like others have said, zombies usually don't spoof.
I wonder how long it will take for some employee to tell you, "Unplug our TV's again and we'll have you escorted out of the building. If you return, you'll be charged for trespassing."
They won't, they're sheep, scared sheep.
Cocky assholes like yourself need a little whipping now and then to keep you in line. There's always going to be more customers. Any spine possessing manager should have you out on your ear.
How do you think I became a cocky asshole to begin with? I'm big, mean, aggressive, and I like to bite. People don't fuck with me, which gives me the freedom to do things like power off televisions whenever the hell I like. Also, here's a newsflash sparky, there are no spine-possession[sic] managers at giant corporate retail outlets. Whine all you like, I'll still be able to power off televisions with impunity.
I occasionally shop at one of the popular retail outlets that sells linens and kitchen supplies. Given the fact that I like to cook, I'm quite keen on checking out kitchen gadgets. Unfortunately, at most of these places, they have many televisions blasting adverts for "Ronco Transmogrifiers" and other useless bullshit. My solution to this annoying problem is to walk up to the televisions and turn them off. Eventually, they disabled the power buttons on these devices, so I've since started to unplug them. I get nasty looks from the employees, but nobody ever says anything. As soon as this website is back up, I'll be purchasing one of these, and using it frequently.
However, I'm not under the mistaken impression that I have any inherent right to be free from television in a public place. What I do have is the balls and the wherewithal to act on things that annoy me. As for those people that are annoyed by the absence of television, I could care less what they think.
It's not "piracy" either. Unless someone is wearing an eyepatch and a parrot while they are infringing.
I replaced the battery in my dead iPod for $20. You could do the same.
To my knowledge, IOS has never had a backdoor or an unchangeable password other than a read-only snmp thing. There's no reason to believe that they would start here.
People seem to be missing the point that this traffic signal wasn't installed to enhance safety or discourage speeders. It appears that it was installed to discourage commuters from using this route when the freeways are congested. I suspect that local residents aren't pleased with all the additional traffic and influenced the municipal government to do something about it. It's not uncommon for a municipal government to make changes to prevent traffic from flowing through certain constituents' neighborhoods. I could certainly point out many instances where this is obviously the case. I believe this is a widely accepted practice.
I once experienced a problem on a network that I was doing administration for. There were several DSL provisioning engineers using my network. When they would telnet into the customer's CPE it would reset itself. After much investigation with tcpdump, I discovered that the firewall was resetting the window size to zero on the third packet in the TCP handshake (syn/ack). This was the result of some sort of stupid syn proxy feature in checkpoint that the firewall administrator had enabled. In any case, this packet caused the DSL CPE router to reset itself. I contacted the CPE company, reproduced the problem for them, they acknowledged that it was an issue with their stack and had it fixed in a couple of days.
That's the best example of a problem that I can think of that can be figured out by sniffing packets.
Have you ever actually used RMON to solve a real problem? Most switches have very rudimentary support for RMON and provide anything beyond statistics, which is to say, they don't support packet capture. Dedicated RMON probes are horrendously expensive, and in my experience flaky as hell and rarely work as advertised. Once one has an RMON probe, one still needs an (expensive) piece of software to extract that information from the probe.
I've been in this industry for 10 years now and in all that time, I've never seen anyone use RMON tools to any meaningful end. I've had much better luck over the years just setting up port mirroring and using tcpdump.
it's what runs underneath ethereal, so it's good to be aware of it
I think that you're confusing tcpdump with libpcap. Which is the capture library that both tools use.
Power is transferring from the state (the general state, not just California) to corporations. If this continues, companies will rule. This is perhaps the ultimate downfall of democracy, and the end point of capitalism.
This is not a failing of capitalism, but a failing of corporatism. Our economic systems is pretty far from a purely free market. We have these artificial citizens that are free from liability and have no capacity for moral behavior with a singular motive (quarterly stock price gains, not profit) and a desire for an artificial monopoly. Corporations don't seek to profit, nor do they seek to compete. These things are difficult to achieve in a corporate environment. If you perceive corporations as what they are, then actions like this are easily understood.
Far from being overtaxed, the upper 1% are (assuming that everyone should pay an equal percentage of their wealth) slightly under taxed.
Why would anyone assume that everyone should pay an equal percentage of their wealth? It is income that is taxed and the amount of which should be the basis for taxation, imho.
At other stores, however, I've seen some rather overzealous responses (a small army of "associates" immediately rushes to the door and all but surrounds the suspect). In my comments, I refer to the latter type of response as unacceptible, especially considering the former.
The worst incident of an overzealous response I've ever seen was at my old university library about 10 years ago before all these loss prevention technologies became so prevalent. Generally speaking, I will vigorously resist being detained by anybody except law-enforcement personnel that use the phrase, "you are under arrest." I take great pleasure in brow-beating loss-prevention people given that I'm fairly large and inimidating. In this particular instance however, I was so amused by the site of a librarian hurtling over the circulation desk that I really didn't mind when the little old lady forced me against the wall and began frisking me.