Both units are equipped to transfer old videotapes to longer-lasting DVD-R or DVD-RW discs for more permanent storage. By connecting a VCR via analog inputs to the DVD recorder, transferring content becomes a snap. Unlike videotape, DVD will not degrade over time when exposed to heat and humidity. Transferring home movies from tape to disc will preserve them for future generations. DVD-R discs are best for archiving because they are write-once discs (like CD-R) and cannot be accidentally erased. Once a consumer has transferred their videotape collection to DVD, the VCR is obsolete.
I wonder what they're doing about Macrovision with this feature. It would hardly be an improvement to copy a VHS casette to a DVD if there were messed up colours and wavy lines.
Would you be willing to share a pre-print of your paper, or at least tell me the reference? My research focus is on e-mail classification and I try to keep up with what everyone's doing in the area.
If you'd rather talk privately, my e-mail address is public.
It means they have to do retrys...that means spam runs take longer, especially since they have to run...then wait for a locally defined timeout, and run all those addresses again
AND they have to do it from the same IP.
Not to mention that if this is used in conjunction with other collaborative tools (i.e. RBL, checksums), by the time that the spamming MTA can return its IP address will have been submitted to MAPS/etc. and the contents of the message will have been submitted to Razor/Pyzor/DCC.
I think that this greylisting idea will be pretty hard to beat by Joe spammer. Since the game of spam detection is pretty much an arms race, slowing him down will probably be enough to turn the battle in your favour.
I'm a pretty big guy (187cm, 100kg) and lately Air Canada has been giving me two seats for the price of one. They're very subtle and polite about it, which I like.
Here's the scenario: Last year, I was travelling from my home in Halifax to Toronto and back with a co-worker. On both legs of our trip, when we asked to be seated together, they informed us that the flight was booked and placed us in separate rows. However, both times, the seat next to me was vacant. It was very nice to actually have enough shoulder room on the plane and I'm more than grateful to Air Canada for being so nice and polite.
Hopefully, in the future more airlines will "get it" and they'll have customers as happy as I.
Make sure to keep the shocker in one hand! You never want to split the ground/voltage between two hands. If you do, the voltage runs through your heart, which is bad.
This should have been in 48-point, bold, red, blinking letters. Otherwise, they might find themselves in the soothing blue of www.darwinawards.com.:)
It costs far more than $50 to produce WindowsXP. You have to figure in the total cost of development when you do the whole "price dumping" thing. It's not like LindowsOS was free to produce either. Programmers seem to like to have paycheques to blow on Jolt! cola.
So what if they can't keep the power grid up now. If their government-sanctioned hax0r d00dz piss in the wrong corn flakes, they will have a lot more trouble with their power grid, communications systems, sewage systems and whatever else air strikes like to land on.
So what do you think? Can government-spondored hacking (I really hate the "cracking" euphemism, sorry) be considered an act of war?
DRM will only work if people actually want the content and actively consume it. I can't speak for everyone else, but I'll be damned if I'm going to buy a copy-protected CD (I haven't bought a CD since the first red book-breaking disc came out). However, I'm not going to steal it either. Essentially, the more they protect it, the less I want it.
Put copy protection on your CDs? Fuck you, I don't want anything you sell. Use that Palladium thing to put copy protection on your analyst's report? Fuck you, I won't use your services.
Hell, here goes a big Fuck you to anyone who can't respect that I am a rational person and assumes that I am incapable of following the law (if there even is one).
It's purely a matter of scale. Libraries buy a copy or two of a small selection of content and then loan it out. They're talking about spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on campus-wide licensing. Most students will never even listen to half of the content that's been licensed for them! I mean, can you picture a metalhead freshman listening to the latest in Britney Spears?
But [McCredie] added, It's a terrible precedent for universities to be essentially paying for the entertainment of its students.
He's exactly right. The idea of the school licensing music for the students is stupid. Either ban p2p on campus networks altogether or make students who want to use campus computing resources attend a brief IP seminar. Squeeze the plagiarism talk in with that and you're all set. If they abuse campus computing resources after having been educated about what they're doing, revoke their priviliges. We're all adults here and don't need any more of this childish handholding.
US$26k for a cluster is DIRT cheap. The prof next door to my supervisor made a 32-node Xeon cluster last year for a modest $125k by using commodity parts, an extraordinary feat of frugality. Most new clusters used for scientific computing cost US$500k or more.
Unfortunately for me, the kind of work that I like to do does not easily fit into a node with only 32MB of memory. This rules out any excuse I could have to apply for a grant to build a desk out of a cluster of PS2s.;)
I've been using Java for most of my projects for years because it didn't let you get away with many of the confusing things that you can do with a preprocessor. I may sound like a big geek for this, but I was actually weeping while I read the article. JDK 1.4 broke the ice with the assert keyword and now everything bad about C++ is going to pollute Java.
To the many cooks who spoiled the broth: "Thanks a lot, assholes."
It's too bad that AMD has taken this stance with their warranties. Comparatively speaking, there can't be that many people who go nuts with the thermal grease and heat sinks, and even less so the number of people who actually mess up their CPUs.
For customer relations' sake, it seems that their move was imprudent. Had they just decided to quietly replace a few CPUs and not make a fuss, they would have looked better as a "corporate citizen."
They may be saving a few dollars down the road but the bad will that their move generated may have repercussions later. Slashdotters, are you mad enough to actually switch to another vendor?
Maybe I live in a hole or something, but I have no idea why this was pulled. I don't even know who this "Strawberry Shortcake" is, unless she is a tasty treat that I like to eat when the strawberries are ripe.
$3000 for 100 users is not only on par with the competition, but is small potatoes. A few years ago, I helped with a Domino/Notes/Sametime rollout where the server software before the CALs was well over five figures.
Jabber is only an IM service. Sun ONE is a whole enterprise collaboration environment. Comparing the two is like comparing KWord and Microsoft Office.
...but if Microsoft can come up with something better, I'm all for it. An advancement in the field is still an advancement in the field, no matter who makes it. If anything, the new competition will make the leader work that much harder to stay on top.
Serving a rich market has worked fine for Apple for years. A good way to boost your profit margins is to simply sell a superior, more expensive product.
My Compaq Presario 12XL423 is a piece of garbage. Not a day goes by that I don't kick myself for not spending a few hundred more on a better laptop.
I think that you've read the deliberately misleading subject of my post and inserted statements where it fits your own agenda. I said nothing at all to the effect of the state being trusted with any information.
To summarise my previous post for you, I said that "this system is not very useful to terrorists because using this system would give away that something's up and invite scrutiny."
You do need secret communications if you want to do a terrorist attack in countries like the USA. If you've watched CNN or read the newspapers over the past 18 months, you may have noticed that the FBI and friends are actively looking for terrorists to lay the smack down on. Setting off alarm bells by using an obvious secret communications tool (Martus) would just invite them to watch you more closely.
I see this software and I find myself very afraid. It neatly packages up a military grade cryptographic communications solution and makes it freely available to the public. While the people who it is intended for will benefit greatly from it, those who intend to do harm will also have easy access to it.
Martus is a cryptographic solution: overt, secret communications. The people who this is intended for are already under surveilance by those who wish to do them and their contacts harm, so making the already-intercepted messages unreadable is the solution to this problem.
Criminal organisations would likely need more of a steganographic solution: covert, secret communications. An often-overlooked fact about secret communications is that the mere presence of secret messages can be an indicator that something is going on.
When Nazi Germany was using the Enigma, they had their communications officers send garbage messages[1] so that the Allies would not detect a sudden burst of communications activity indicating some sort of military action.
If a terrorist organisation* were to begin using a system like this, any intelligence services watching them would be tipped off and would have to figure out what's going on the old fashioned way (we all know what that means). But, the fact is that they are alerted to what's going on and can then follow up.
If you think about these points, I hope that your fears of evil people exploiting this effort may be eased. If anything, using this (or similar) software will tip their hands and expose that something is going on.
*An organisation targetting civilians with violent actions to serve political means.
[1] Simon Singh, The Code Book. (1999) Random House, New York
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Both units are equipped to transfer old videotapes to longer-lasting DVD-R or DVD-RW discs for more permanent storage. By connecting a VCR via analog inputs to the DVD recorder, transferring content becomes a snap. Unlike videotape, DVD will not degrade over time when exposed to heat and humidity. Transferring home movies from tape to disc will preserve them for future generations. DVD-R discs are best for archiving because they are write-once discs (like CD-R) and cannot be accidentally erased. Once a consumer has transferred their videotape collection to DVD, the VCR is obsolete.
I wonder what they're doing about Macrovision with this feature. It would hardly be an improvement to copy a VHS casette to a DVD if there were messed up colours and wavy lines.
Would you be willing to share a pre-print of your paper, or at least tell me the reference? My research focus is on e-mail classification and I try to keep up with what everyone's doing in the area.
If you'd rather talk privately, my e-mail address is public.
Not to mention that if this is used in conjunction with other collaborative tools (i.e. RBL, checksums), by the time that the spamming MTA can return its IP address will have been submitted to MAPS/etc. and the contents of the message will have been submitted to Razor/Pyzor/DCC.
I think that this greylisting idea will be pretty hard to beat by Joe spammer. Since the game of spam detection is pretty much an arms race, slowing him down will probably be enough to turn the battle in your favour.
Twice in a row?
Air Canada seems to be "getting it."
I'm a pretty big guy (187cm, 100kg) and lately Air Canada has been giving me two seats for the price of one. They're very subtle and polite about it, which I like.
Here's the scenario:
Last year, I was travelling from my home in Halifax to Toronto and back with a co-worker. On both legs of our trip, when we asked to be seated together, they informed us that the flight was booked and placed us in separate rows. However, both times, the seat next to me was vacant. It was very nice to actually have enough shoulder room on the plane and I'm more than grateful to Air Canada for being so nice and polite.
Hopefully, in the future more airlines will "get it" and they'll have customers as happy as I.
It costs far more than $50 to produce WindowsXP. You have to figure in the total cost of development when you do the whole "price dumping" thing. It's not like LindowsOS was free to produce either. Programmers seem to like to have paycheques to blow on Jolt! cola.
Hell has frozen over. The BitTorrent server's slashdotted too!
So what if they can't keep the power grid up now. If their government-sanctioned hax0r d00dz piss in the wrong corn flakes, they will have a lot more trouble with their power grid, communications systems, sewage systems and whatever else air strikes like to land on.
So what do you think? Can government-spondored hacking (I really hate the "cracking" euphemism, sorry) be considered an act of war?
In fact, you can do it with even less memory. All that you need to do is keep an offset stored in a variable.
The algorithm looks something like:
offset = 0
for i = 2 to n do
if a[i-1] = '/' and a[i] = '/' then
offset = offset + 1
else
a[i-offset] = a[i]
end if
end for
It saves you the trouble of having to manage the memory containing the cleaned-up string.
DRM will only work if people actually want the content and actively consume it. I can't speak for everyone else, but I'll be damned if I'm going to buy a copy-protected CD (I haven't bought a CD since the first red book-breaking disc came out). However, I'm not going to steal it either. Essentially, the more they protect it, the less I want it.
Put copy protection on your CDs? Fuck you, I don't want anything you sell. Use that Palladium thing to put copy protection on your analyst's report? Fuck you, I won't use your services.
Hell, here goes a big Fuck you to anyone who can't respect that I am a rational person and assumes that I am incapable of following the law (if there even is one).
It's purely a matter of scale. Libraries buy a copy or two of a small selection of content and then loan it out. They're talking about spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on campus-wide licensing. Most students will never even listen to half of the content that's been licensed for them! I mean, can you picture a metalhead freshman listening to the latest in Britney Spears?
He's exactly right. The idea of the school licensing music for the students is stupid. Either ban p2p on campus networks altogether or make students who want to use campus computing resources attend a brief IP seminar. Squeeze the plagiarism talk in with that and you're all set. If they abuse campus computing resources after having been educated about what they're doing, revoke their priviliges. We're all adults here and don't need any more of this childish handholding.
US$26k for a cluster is DIRT cheap. The prof next door to my supervisor made a 32-node Xeon cluster last year for a modest $125k by using commodity parts, an extraordinary feat of frugality. Most new clusters used for scientific computing cost US$500k or more.
;)
Unfortunately for me, the kind of work that I like to do does not easily fit into a node with only 32MB of memory. This rules out any excuse I could have to apply for a grant to build a desk out of a cluster of PS2s.
I've been using Java for most of my projects for years because it didn't let you get away with many of the confusing things that you can do with a preprocessor. I may sound like a big geek for this, but I was actually weeping while I read the article. JDK 1.4 broke the ice with the assert keyword and now everything bad about C++ is going to pollute Java.
To the many cooks who spoiled the broth: "Thanks a lot, assholes."
It's too bad that AMD has taken this stance with their warranties. Comparatively speaking, there can't be that many people who go nuts with the thermal grease and heat sinks, and even less so the number of people who actually mess up their CPUs.
For customer relations' sake, it seems that their move was imprudent. Had they just decided to quietly replace a few CPUs and not make a fuss, they would have looked better as a "corporate citizen."
They may be saving a few dollars down the road but the bad will that their move generated may have repercussions later. Slashdotters, are you mad enough to actually switch to another vendor?
What does this have to do with Penny Arcade?
Maybe I live in a hole or something, but I have no idea why this was pulled. I don't even know who this "Strawberry Shortcake" is, unless she is a tasty treat that I like to eat when the strawberries are ripe.
Can anyone explain to me what is going on?
$3000 for 100 users is not only on par with the competition, but is small potatoes. A few years ago, I helped with a Domino/Notes/Sametime rollout where the server software before the CALs was well over five figures.
Jabber is only an IM service. Sun ONE is a whole enterprise collaboration environment. Comparing the two is like comparing KWord and Microsoft Office.
...but if Microsoft can come up with something better, I'm all for it. An advancement in the field is still an advancement in the field, no matter who makes it. If anything, the new competition will make the leader work that much harder to stay on top.
Good luck to Microsoft in their endeavour.
Serving a rich market has worked fine for Apple for years. A good way to boost your profit margins is to simply sell a superior, more expensive product.
My Compaq Presario 12XL423 is a piece of garbage. Not a day goes by that I don't kick myself for not spending a few hundred more on a better laptop.
I think that you've read the deliberately misleading subject of my post and inserted statements where it fits your own agenda. I said nothing at all to the effect of the state being trusted with any information.
To summarise my previous post for you, I said that "this system is not very useful to terrorists because using this system would give away that something's up and invite scrutiny."
You do need secret communications if you want to do a terrorist attack in countries like the USA. If you've watched CNN or read the newspapers over the past 18 months, you may have noticed that the FBI and friends are actively looking for terrorists to lay the smack down on. Setting off alarm bells by using an obvious secret communications tool (Martus) would just invite them to watch you more closely.
I see this software and I find myself very afraid. It neatly packages up a military grade cryptographic communications solution and makes it freely available to the public. While the people who it is intended for will benefit greatly from it, those who intend to do harm will also have easy access to it.
Martus is a cryptographic solution: overt, secret communications. The people who this is intended for are already under surveilance by those who wish to do them and their contacts harm, so making the already-intercepted messages unreadable is the solution to this problem.
Criminal organisations would likely need more of a steganographic solution: covert, secret communications. An often-overlooked fact about secret communications is that the mere presence of secret messages can be an indicator that something is going on.
When Nazi Germany was using the Enigma, they had their communications officers send garbage messages[1] so that the Allies would not detect a sudden burst of communications activity indicating some sort of military action.
If a terrorist organisation* were to begin using a system like this, any intelligence services watching them would be tipped off and would have to figure out what's going on the old fashioned way (we all know what that means). But, the fact is that they are alerted to what's going on and can then follow up.
If you think about these points, I hope that your fears of evil people exploiting this effort may be eased. If anything, using this (or similar) software will tip their hands and expose that something is going on.
*An organisation targetting civilians with violent actions to serve political means.
[1] Simon Singh, The Code Book. (1999) Random House, New York
Considering that corporate office towers generally don't contain well-armed, dangerous people, I think that your point is not valid.
It's not preferential treatment. It is just common sense.
Your post is highly overrated.
Three syllables say it all:
Prototype.
As the article says, they're still doing research on mesh networks. They're not yet designing an actual product.
Karma whores.