All you'd really need are three VM disk images-- one for the "insecure", one for the "secure", and one "fresh" copy. Use the "insecure" one for regular browsing. Use the "insecure" one for banking, etc., and copy over the file with the "fresh" one after every session.
TIFF is used a lot in the graphic design industry as a common format. It's been around for a while, and it supports CMYK and RGB hitchlessly (as opposed to spotty CMYK JPEG support). It does have lossless compression-- LZW is a common one, and ZIP is around, but less well supported. It also supports alpha channels and (I think) arbitrary data blocks for program-specific options. There's also raster-EPS, but nobody cares.
TARGA is one of those old crusty zombie formats that just won't die. It's around in TV workflows, albeit often as the "If it chokes on everything else... (shudder)... Try sending it as a TARGA" solution.
I'm not a fan of "netcast", either. I get the reason why they called them "podcasts", because the big difference between a "podcast" and the streaming-A/V "webcasts" of earlier was that you were intended to take the show with you, and "listen to the radio" on your iPod. Granted, I never liked "podcast" either, because of the obvious specific iPod connotations (and, sorry, they are obvious). I'm all right with "audiocast", although it seems a bit generic. How about "portacast"?
(Really, though, I don't see the entire podcast producer/listener base making any major switch like this easily... or at all.)
But, OTOH, embedded computers have a limited range of inputs, actions, routines, and hardware. A PC has to run numerous types of independently-created software on numerous types of independently-created hardware, juggling between multiple actions running at the same time, with an infinitely-configurable I/O scheme (a screen/KB/mouse as opposed to, say, a button panel).
The real issue is whether a person or company can have legal domain over a series of infinitely replicable 1s and 0s
You're diminishing the value. It's not 0s and 1s-- P2P filesharing wouldn't be nearly as popular if people only played their MP3s and ISOs in a hex-editor. It's content.
when enforcing such domain hurts the public more than allowing its free public exercise hurts the company.
That's not the case though. I'd be inclined to agree with infringement in cases from patented AIDS drugs all the way to the legality of mash-ups, but face it: Most of the cases the RIAA is taking action against... and most of the cases out there right now... are a matter of simple unauthorized copying and distributing of readily-available and non-essential content. There's no "great public interest", short of the public's great interest in getting specific content for free.
a.) In the USA, this is incorrect. Copyright is assigned to the creator upon the work's creation. Additional levels of protection come with a registered copyright (that costs money), but the assignment and basic protections apply to anyone.
b.) It should not be the school system's decision what the marketability or use of a school report will be. I'll grant that aside from edge cases, there are rarely situations where profit or loss of profit would come into play, but that does not have bearing on the fact that the schools and the service have no right to copy or distribute the work unless it is granted.
c.) Fine. I'll be building a ten-foot wall in your front yard without asking. It'll help protect you from wayward automobiles, people throwing rocks, UV radiation, and numerous other hazards.
I think you're talking about two different things. Creating applications on a computer is much easier nowadays, due to simpler, high-level, fail-safe languages with interpreters included with most common computers. Faster machines also mean that optimization really isn't that big of a problem (for many things). There still is a place, though, for people who innovate both in the areas of strict and low-level implementation, as well as pushing the envelope from a more mathematical/scientific perspective.
I went through the first half of the game (then, to be honest, it got a bit tedious), but I found that the (attempted, reasonably successfully) value in it was something like an in-depth report with a little more personal involvement. It's kind of like the 9/11 Commission Report graphic novel... it applied a different medium to a popularily underunderstood event to give insight that might not be normally taken.
Do I think it could have been done better-- sure, in quite a few ways, but this for being the first game of its type put out by some guy, it was a decent experimental volley.
I get what you're saying, but on the other hand, it's not like he's calling media outlets and sending out press-releases on his own. If they're calling asking you questions about you, you're going to talk... about you.
Actually, that's something I can't stand on the Mac. I use a PC at home and a Mac at work, and the lack of any feedback on the Mac is really annoying when I try to plug in something like a card reader.
Perhaps it's just because I buy cheap peripherals that go belly-up far too often, but the indication of whether a new device is installed and working properly, is fried and functionally useless, or just "isn't", especially in an instantaneous and unobtrusive form, is quite useful.
Now I will ask an easier question, who's agenda does pulling the video serve?
Well, it certainly serves the interest of fair play. Free speech does not imply free fraud. I'm actually inclined to believe Samsung for the moment (or at least believe that they're either confident or wildly stupid), because they made the stakes double-or-nothing against them. If the video wasn't fraudulent and the phone really is that breakable, then someone will be coming around shortly with a more rigorously-conducted experiment, and Samsung will have had both low-quality parts and overzealous lawyers.
The problem is that with the short public attention span, misinformation can quickly damage someone or some company's reputation. Especially for trivial matters like this, even proving it wrong later on may not regain public opinion, since by the time it gets sorted out, nobody cares.
You don't have to actively fsck things up to get the machine pulled. IMHO, merely opening the machine up would make for a good act of civil disobediance.
Or, if that's even too heavy for your tastes, just get everyone you know to wear an office furniture key jewelry (on a necklace or lanyard, perhaps) on voting day. T'would make 'em nervous, no doubt.
It would, but can we assume that the solutions would be "equally well engineered"? Consider two such programs which were equally poorly engineered. One of the cited advantages of open-source is that the OS program would get its flaws weeded out by many more people than the closed-source program.
The problem is that, if security is important, we should assume that any and all flaws could potentially/eventually be exploited. With CSS, it tries to make that process difficult, by forcing crackers to bang against a black(er) box. With OSS, it makes that process easier, but does so as a byproduct of quickly eliminating the range of exploitable bugs.
I'll grant that this only works, in practice, when a program's desirability is such that more intelligent eyeballs would be brought on of their own volition than could be dedicated to the project by a closed-source company.
I doubt it would be hard to automate it. Just pass the information from the fake site to the real site in realtime. Granted, if there wasn't anyone on the other end, they'd either need keepalives or an automated "take all the money" script, and that could be combated.
There's ways involving using VOIP gateways, and also a few that just involve routing your call through so many third parties that an operator just comes on and asks "What's your number?". Also, I believe anyone with a PBX (PBX? Is that correct? I should know this.) can set their CID to whatever they want. There's another level of identification-- ANI-- that's much more difficult to spoof, but you generally have to be on the recieving end of a toll-free number to be get that info.
If it were sharecropping (using music as an example), I'd have to sing the song myself to get any enjoyment. Apart from karaoke CDs, that's pretty rare. It's more like rental or land-contract... or not like real-estate at all.
I'll ignor the FACT that Apple licensed Fairplay to Motorolla and just pretend I'm in your world.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but Microsoft's licensing for WMA+DRM is leaps and bounds more indiscriminate than Apple's licensing of FairPlay. Apple just wants to lock the content and sell the players, whereas Microsoft just wants to make the software. It's an ideological difference, but it does mean that you'll have more trouble finding anything other than an iPod to play AAC+DRM.
Further, I don't see how you have more "selection" by having multiple stores with the same content. The iTunes store has over 3 million songs and thousands of exclusive tracks.
I think you misread me-- I was referring to more selection of players. Still, though, the same would be true of outlets. Perhaps I want a better price or a different pricing structure. Perhaps the iPod, as a device, doesn't meet my needs in some way or another. If I'm invested in AAC+DRM, I'll practically have less latitude to switch players or providers than with WMA+DRM, and a whole lot less latitude than if I'm invested in MP3.
And finally, for the record, here is a list of supported file types: iPod : AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV Zune : MP3, AAC and WMA (unofficial) Creative Zen W : MP3, WMA, WAV
Venn diagram says... (( ding! )) MP3! (Hell, WMA even has more coverage in your diagram, and that's not taking into account the countless other players you haven't mentioned.)
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Use the "insecure" one for banking, etc.
Typo-- use the "secure" one for banking, etc.
All you'd really need are three VM disk images-- one for the "insecure", one for the "secure", and one "fresh" copy. Use the "insecure" one for regular browsing. Use the "insecure" one for banking, etc., and copy over the file with the "fresh" one after every session.
Just a couple to chime in on:
TIFF is used a lot in the graphic design industry as a common format. It's been around for a while, and it supports CMYK and RGB hitchlessly (as opposed to spotty CMYK JPEG support). It does have lossless compression-- LZW is a common one, and ZIP is around, but less well supported. It also supports alpha channels and (I think) arbitrary data blocks for program-specific options. There's also raster-EPS, but nobody cares.
TARGA is one of those old crusty zombie formats that just won't die. It's around in TV workflows, albeit often as the "If it chokes on everything else... (shudder)... Try sending it as a TARGA" solution.
I'm not a fan of "netcast", either. I get the reason why they called them "podcasts", because the big difference between a "podcast" and the streaming-A/V "webcasts" of earlier was that you were intended to take the show with you, and "listen to the radio" on your iPod. Granted, I never liked "podcast" either, because of the obvious specific iPod connotations (and, sorry, they are obvious). I'm all right with "audiocast", although it seems a bit generic. How about "portacast"?
(Really, though, I don't see the entire podcast producer/listener base making any major switch like this easily... or at all.)
Woops. I'd meant to link the one you mentioned, but copied the wrong tab's URL.
Check this out. I've had the same problem with other apps on my laptop... I'll come back hours later to find it happily sucking down battery power:
o ws2000serv/reskit/regentry/34637.mspx?mfr=true
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/wind
Just make a habit of saving all your open files before you shut down. There're no last-minute cancels with this reg setting.
But, OTOH, embedded computers have a limited range of inputs, actions, routines, and hardware. A PC has to run numerous types of independently-created software on numerous types of independently-created hardware, juggling between multiple actions running at the same time, with an infinitely-configurable I/O scheme (a screen/KB/mouse as opposed to, say, a button panel).
The real issue is whether a person or company can have legal domain over a series of infinitely replicable 1s and 0s
You're diminishing the value. It's not 0s and 1s-- P2P filesharing wouldn't be nearly as popular if people only played their MP3s and ISOs in a hex-editor. It's content.
when enforcing such domain hurts the public more than allowing its free public exercise hurts the company.
That's not the case though. I'd be inclined to agree with infringement in cases from patented AIDS drugs all the way to the legality of mash-ups, but face it: Most of the cases the RIAA is taking action against... and most of the cases out there right now... are a matter of simple unauthorized copying and distributing of readily-available and non-essential content. There's no "great public interest", short of the public's great interest in getting specific content for free.
a.) In the USA, this is incorrect. Copyright is assigned to the creator upon the work's creation. Additional levels of protection come with a registered copyright (that costs money), but the assignment and basic protections apply to anyone.
b.) It should not be the school system's decision what the marketability or use of a school report will be. I'll grant that aside from edge cases, there are rarely situations where profit or loss of profit would come into play, but that does not have bearing on the fact that the schools and the service have no right to copy or distribute the work unless it is granted.
c.) Fine. I'll be building a ten-foot wall in your front yard without asking. It'll help protect you from wayward automobiles, people throwing rocks, UV radiation, and numerous other hazards.
Thanks for the tip. Just put it in today.
I think you're talking about two different things. Creating applications on a computer is much easier nowadays, due to simpler, high-level, fail-safe languages with interpreters included with most common computers. Faster machines also mean that optimization really isn't that big of a problem (for many things). There still is a place, though, for people who innovate both in the areas of strict and low-level implementation, as well as pushing the envelope from a more mathematical/scientific perspective.
I went through the first half of the game (then, to be honest, it got a bit tedious), but I found that the (attempted, reasonably successfully) value in it was something like an in-depth report with a little more personal involvement. It's kind of like the 9/11 Commission Report graphic novel... it applied a different medium to a popularily underunderstood event to give insight that might not be normally taken.
Do I think it could have been done better-- sure, in quite a few ways, but this for being the first game of its type put out by some guy, it was a decent experimental volley.
I get what you're saying, but on the other hand, it's not like he's calling media outlets and sending out press-releases on his own. If they're calling asking you questions about you, you're going to talk... about you.
No ding noises.
Actually, that's something I can't stand on the Mac. I use a PC at home and a Mac at work, and the lack of any feedback on the Mac is really annoying when I try to plug in something like a card reader.
Perhaps it's just because I buy cheap peripherals that go belly-up far too often, but the indication of whether a new device is installed and working properly, is fried and functionally useless, or just "isn't", especially in an instantaneous and unobtrusive form, is quite useful.
stumbled on a bunch of nekkid kids wearing boxing gloves.
So? Are you saying you're against fighting child porn?
Now I will ask an easier question, who's agenda does pulling the video serve?
Well, it certainly serves the interest of fair play. Free speech does not imply free fraud. I'm actually inclined to believe Samsung for the moment (or at least believe that they're either confident or wildly stupid), because they made the stakes double-or-nothing against them. If the video wasn't fraudulent and the phone really is that breakable, then someone will be coming around shortly with a more rigorously-conducted experiment, and Samsung will have had both low-quality parts and overzealous lawyers.
The problem is that with the short public attention span, misinformation can quickly damage someone or some company's reputation. Especially for trivial matters like this, even proving it wrong later on may not regain public opinion, since by the time it gets sorted out, nobody cares.
You don't have to actively fsck things up to get the machine pulled. IMHO, merely opening the machine up would make for a good act of civil disobediance.
Or, if that's even too heavy for your tastes, just get everyone you know to wear an office furniture key jewelry (on a necklace or lanyard, perhaps) on voting day. T'would make 'em nervous, no doubt.
How big are we talking? Commercially-available bulk eraser, or bigger?
It would, but can we assume that the solutions would be "equally well engineered"? Consider two such programs which were equally poorly engineered. One of the cited advantages of open-source is that the OS program would get its flaws weeded out by many more people than the closed-source program.
The problem is that, if security is important, we should assume that any and all flaws could potentially/eventually be exploited. With CSS, it tries to make that process difficult, by forcing crackers to bang against a black(er) box. With OSS, it makes that process easier, but does so as a byproduct of quickly eliminating the range of exploitable bugs.
I'll grant that this only works, in practice, when a program's desirability is such that more intelligent eyeballs would be brought on of their own volition than could be dedicated to the project by a closed-source company.
That would only matter if you had a Neilsen logbook, in which case you could just lie.
I doubt it would be hard to automate it. Just pass the information from the fake site to the real site in realtime. Granted, if there wasn't anyone on the other end, they'd either need keepalives or an automated "take all the money" script, and that could be combated.
There's ways involving using VOIP gateways, and also a few that just involve routing your call through so many third parties that an operator just comes on and asks "What's your number?". Also, I believe anyone with a PBX (PBX? Is that correct? I should know this.) can set their CID to whatever they want. There's another level of identification-- ANI-- that's much more difficult to spoof, but you generally have to be on the recieving end of a toll-free number to be get that info.
But not a truck.
FAILURE to analogize!
If it were sharecropping (using music as an example), I'd have to sing the song myself to get any enjoyment. Apart from karaoke CDs, that's pretty rare. It's more like rental or land-contract... or not like real-estate at all.
I'll ignor the FACT that Apple licensed Fairplay to Motorolla and just pretend I'm in your world.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but Microsoft's licensing for WMA+DRM is leaps and bounds more indiscriminate than Apple's licensing of FairPlay. Apple just wants to lock the content and sell the players, whereas Microsoft just wants to make the software. It's an ideological difference, but it does mean that you'll have more trouble finding anything other than an iPod to play AAC+DRM.
Further, I don't see how you have more "selection" by having multiple stores with the same content. The iTunes store has over 3 million songs and thousands of exclusive tracks.
I think you misread me-- I was referring to more selection of players. Still, though, the same would be true of outlets. Perhaps I want a better price or a different pricing structure. Perhaps the iPod, as a device, doesn't meet my needs in some way or another. If I'm invested in AAC+DRM, I'll practically have less latitude to switch players or providers than with WMA+DRM, and a whole lot less latitude than if I'm invested in MP3.
And finally, for the record, here is a list of supported file types:
iPod : AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV
Zune : MP3, AAC and WMA (unofficial)
Creative Zen W : MP3, WMA, WAV
Venn diagram says... (( ding! )) MP3! (Hell, WMA even has more coverage in your diagram, and that's not taking into account the countless other players you haven't mentioned.)