Could an $80 DVD player, which is about the same cost of a normal RCA player, have enough memory to do this? Will a connection be needed for every movie?
You will be able to buy additional CD's (from Walmart) full of edits, maybe 100 per CD. You essentially load the new CD at which point it flashes the player with the new edits. This would obviously not require a subscription to the ClearPlay product.
I'm guessing you'll also be able to download the movie codes which would then require the subscription.
Either way though, you'll be able to get new movie edits into your player.
will Walmart accept the return on the open package. I think they should on the grounds it is defective.
There would be nothing defective with the movie, because the edit database (ClearPlay) and the movie are two seperate entities.
Yup, you've got it. You will have a disk with say 100 movie edits preloaded. You insert the disk into the RCA player, it spits it out after reading the codes, then you insert your movie.
Since the movie is controlled by a database telling the player when to skip forward or mute, there's no ability for you to change which things the player blocks out. Maybe in the future you'll be able to tell it things like 'show me everything except nudity' or something, but for now no.
In order to check if the movie is available or not, you simply have to visit the company's website that produces the database. ClearPlay
If you RTFA and follow the reference to ClearPlay therein, you'll see that the RCA player makes use of the ClearPlay technology, which is essentially a database telling the player when to mute, when to skip forward, etc.
you'll need some software on your server to make this work
AdSense uses javascript. You place a small script on your webpage, and the rest of the script is downloaded from Google's website.
Im guessing this guy hacked this software so he can send bad any data he wants
Therefore, since it's javascript, the program runs between the client and Google's server. There's nothing that really "runs" on the originating website server.
The only way that this guy could have done what he claims would be to automatically request a page with an ad running on it, screen scrape the page for the ad link, then request the ad link. They use a random "key" of sorts with every ad displayed, so it's not like you can just repeatedly "click on" the same url over and over. Once the key has been clicked on, it's no longer valid for any more clicks.
Also, Google would obviously be monitoring IP addresses, so for this threat to have worked, he would have had access to multiple machines across the internet. It's not like you could just request the ad link with a spoofed IP either, since Google has at least one redirect in their reply. The zombie client would have to at least receive and follow the 301 redirect back from the Google link in order to count as a click.
1. No he wasn't 'rooted'. The bogus httpds could have run as any user, theorectically. But, in this case ran as www-data because that's what the valid httpd was running as which had the php exploit. I'm not sure how www-data was able to open a listening socket on a priviledged port though. Someone more knowledgeable would have to give an answer here.
2. No, no escalation was necessary./tmp is (usually) readable and writeable by anyone. Therefore, it wouldn't be too hard to download a file in/tmp and chmod it.
3. This solves a lot of problems, but no of course this is not enough. It's only enough when you are running perfectly secure bug free software. When will it be enough then? Probably never. The exploit did work though because of this poor default setting of PHP (new versions now default to register_globals=off). Part of the problem too was that he was running software that the source was available so that the exploiter was able to scan the software looking for the perfect condition to interject his code. I'm sure there's probably tons of these 'bugs' which are known by these types of spammers but which haven't been found by the developers yet.
4. Your ISP is probably the easiest one to tell you. But, of course, there's probably tons of various firewalls and such that could report that information. I'm sure/. would be the crowd to answer that question.
Microsoft's interest in Ask Jeeves, Inc. is not about Ask Jeeves, the pose-a-search-query-in-the-form-of-a-question search engine. It's interest obviously lies in Teoma, whose search site has potential to be the 'next google'.
Depending on how all this shakes out, maybe Google's future IPO will be its downfall and its search relevance gets sacrificed for the sake of profit. This might send searches scrambling to a new search engine.
Backed with some MS marketing might, it may very well play out a decent move for MS because Teoma's results are actually pretty decent.
This is a good idea, and in fact I've seen lights in my area that do this exact thing.
Basically, what happens is all of a sudden all of the light on the intersection turn red. We're all sitting there staring around wondering what's going on, when then appears an ems vehicle.
Because all of the traffic is stopped, the ambulance driver simply jumps into the opposing traffic lane and passes everyone sitting at the light. He then crosses diagonally mid-intersection back into the proper lane.
You know, I'm so sick of hearing this argument. While I agree we are split between KDE & Gnome, do you really think that either one of these projects would be as good as they are if it weren't for the competition between them?
You just naturally think that if all the KDE and Gnome developers were to join teams, you'd instantly see a doubling of production for that one 'definitive' gui. This is just simply foolish thinking.
The Open Source community thrives because of the opportunities for competition. It allows the market to truly determine the winners and losers, rather than the big company monarchs of years past.
No, it would be like taking crayolas to a reproduction of a Rembrandt. The original art isn't defiled in any way.
Hell, it's not even that. What Clearplay does would be like taking crayolas to a removable plastic sheet sitting on top of a reproduction of a Rembrandt.
ya, but you're talking about _fine_ art. This is not about fine art, this is about commodity movies. Once a movie has been mass produced, it really looses any sense of it being fine, exquisite or unique. It would clearly be a pretty messed up thing to edit the original master film sets, but again, such thinking doesn't really apply to the mass produced VHS or DVD that we consumers can get our hands on.
I think you're refering to ClearPlay This is exactly how it works, though they also control the audio as well and can mute the player at appropriate times too.
Ya know, the technology exists for putting 'tags' in the dvd itself so with extra firmware the dvd player could be configured to show a film that is rated R as PG or even G by skipping the tagged portions of the film. (Hey maybe I should patent that Idea! You are all my witnesses, I though of it first!).
Uh, dude, this is exactly what the folks at ClearPlay are doing. Granted there wasn't a convenient link for you to follow, but do a little research before declaring you're the first with an idea.;)
Quite the exagerating statement. There are several 'true Christians' who have been in office and will continue to be in office. I could name probably a hundred right now without thinking too hard.
However, I agree with what point you're trying to make. It sure is easy for Christians to do the wrong things when in power. I guess this is the dilemma of being human too.
... explicitly labeled with "Precedence: bulk". Legitimate mailing lists carry that label, but spam never does.
The last thing I want to do with my legit mailing list is to include 'Precendence: bulk' in the header as this is a sure fire way to end up in, for instance, Yahoo's Bulk mail folder. Maybe rightly so, however my Yahoo Bulk mail folder only ever gets emptied, never read, and I'm sure I speak for the majority of Yahoo email users. I'm sure many spam filtering software use this header as criteria for identifying spam. Too bad really.
The marketroids may not yet realize it, but computer geeks know how to use technology, too!
This type of advertising would never be targeted to the geeks in the first place. The marketdroids are counting on the fact that there's a whole lot more non-geeks who won't likely be able to do anything about it.
The problem is that the marketers have to find new ways to force advertisements down our throats because we (the geeks) have created such successful solutions that even the non-geeks are able to implement. For instance, the pop-up blocker funtionality in Mozilla or Opera, the various proxies, etc.
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Could an $80 DVD player, which is about the same cost of a normal RCA player, have enough memory to do this? Will a connection be needed for every movie?
You will be able to buy additional CD's (from Walmart) full of edits, maybe 100 per CD. You essentially load the new CD at which point it flashes the player with the new edits. This would obviously not require a subscription to the ClearPlay product.
I'm guessing you'll also be able to download the movie codes which would then require the subscription.
Either way though, you'll be able to get new movie edits into your player.
will Walmart accept the return on the open package. I think they should on the grounds it is defective.
There would be nothing defective with the movie, because the edit database (ClearPlay) and the movie are two seperate entities.
You'll also be able to buy the CD's with movie updates at Walmart. So, aunt tillie will still be set, since she's shopping at Walmart everyday anyway.
Yup, you've got it. You will have a disk with say 100 movie edits preloaded. You insert the disk into the RCA player, it spits it out after reading the codes, then you insert your movie.
Since the movie is controlled by a database telling the player when to skip forward or mute, there's no ability for you to change which things the player blocks out. Maybe in the future you'll be able to tell it things like 'show me everything except nudity' or something, but for now no.
In order to check if the movie is available or not, you simply have to visit the company's website that produces the database. ClearPlay
If you RTFA and follow the reference to ClearPlay therein, you'll see that the RCA player makes use of the ClearPlay technology, which is essentially a database telling the player when to mute, when to skip forward, etc.
The player is powered by a database produced by a company called ClearPlay. The ClearPlay database says when to mute, when to skip, etc.
They also have ads on OTHER peoples websites and pay those websites for that.
I assume you're referring to AdSense?
you'll need some software on your server to make this work
AdSense uses javascript. You place a small script on your webpage, and the rest of the script is downloaded from Google's website.
Im guessing this guy hacked this software so he can send bad any data he wants
Therefore, since it's javascript, the program runs between the client and Google's server. There's nothing that really "runs" on the originating website server.
The only way that this guy could have done what he claims would be to automatically request a page with an ad running on it, screen scrape the page for the ad link, then request the ad link. They use a random "key" of sorts with every ad displayed, so it's not like you can just repeatedly "click on" the same url over and over. Once the key has been clicked on, it's no longer valid for any more clicks.
Also, Google would obviously be monitoring IP addresses, so for this threat to have worked, he would have had access to multiple machines across the internet. It's not like you could just request the ad link with a spoofed IP either, since Google has at least one redirect in their reply. The zombie client would have to at least receive and follow the 301 redirect back from the Google link in order to count as a click.
Which is why we should move to something like XML based configuration files. Lets gui tool configurators and manual tweakers coexist happily.
1. No he wasn't 'rooted'. The bogus httpds could have run as any user, theorectically. But, in this case ran as www-data because that's what the valid httpd was running as which had the php exploit. I'm not sure how www-data was able to open a listening socket on a priviledged port though. Someone more knowledgeable would have to give an answer here.
/tmp is (usually) readable and writeable by anyone. Therefore, it wouldn't be too hard to download a file in /tmp and chmod it.
/. would be the crowd to answer that question.
2. No, no escalation was necessary.
3. This solves a lot of problems, but no of course this is not enough. It's only enough when you are running perfectly secure bug free software. When will it be enough then? Probably never. The exploit did work though because of this poor default setting of PHP (new versions now default to register_globals=off). Part of the problem too was that he was running software that the source was available so that the exploiter was able to scan the software looking for the perfect condition to interject his code. I'm sure there's probably tons of these 'bugs' which are known by these types of spammers but which haven't been found by the developers yet.
4. Your ISP is probably the easiest one to tell you. But, of course, there's probably tons of various firewalls and such that could report that information. I'm sure
it's pronounced 'wee-ber' not 'web-er'
don't worry, sportscasters get it wrong all the time.
Microsoft's interest in Ask Jeeves, Inc. is not about Ask Jeeves, the pose-a-search-query-in-the-form-of-a-question search engine. It's interest obviously lies in Teoma, whose search site has potential to be the 'next google'.
Depending on how all this shakes out, maybe Google's future IPO will be its downfall and its search relevance gets sacrificed for the sake of profit. This might send searches scrambling to a new search engine.
Backed with some MS marketing might, it may very well play out a decent move for MS because Teoma's results are actually pretty decent.
This is a good idea, and in fact I've seen lights in my area that do this exact thing.
Basically, what happens is all of a sudden all of the light on the intersection turn red. We're all sitting there staring around wondering what's going on, when then appears an ems vehicle.
Because all of the traffic is stopped, the ambulance driver simply jumps into the opposing traffic lane and passes everyone sitting at the light. He then crosses diagonally mid-intersection back into the proper lane.
Works really really well.
hmm...
That's funny, because I just followed the link, opened up the editor to test, and found it does fonts through inline style sheets (like in a span tag)
You know, I'm so sick of hearing this argument. While I agree we are split between KDE & Gnome, do you really think that either one of these projects would be as good as they are if it weren't for the competition between them?
You just naturally think that if all the KDE and Gnome developers were to join teams, you'd instantly see a doubling of production for that one 'definitive' gui. This is just simply foolish thinking.
The Open Source community thrives because of the opportunities for competition. It allows the market to truly determine the winners and losers, rather than the big company monarchs of years past.
Now I have justification to stiff my waiter when he doesn't have my glass refilled immediately!
Hell, it's not even that. What Clearplay does would be like taking crayolas to a removable plastic sheet sitting on top of a reproduction of a Rembrandt.
ya, but you're talking about _fine_ art. This is not about fine art, this is about commodity movies. Once a movie has been mass produced, it really looses any sense of it being fine, exquisite or unique. It would clearly be a pretty messed up thing to edit the original master film sets, but again, such thinking doesn't really apply to the mass produced VHS or DVD that we consumers can get our hands on.
I think you're refering to ClearPlay This is exactly how it works, though they also control the audio as well and can mute the player at appropriate times too.
Uh, dude, this is exactly what the folks at ClearPlay are doing. Granted there wasn't a convenient link for you to follow, but do a little research before declaring you're the first with an idea.
Quite the exagerating statement. There are several 'true Christians' who have been in office and will continue to be in office. I could name probably a hundred right now without thinking too hard.
However, I agree with what point you're trying to make. It sure is easy for Christians to do the wrong things when in power. I guess this is the dilemma of being human too.
Try google's cache...
or d) They are seeing a decrease in profit, which means they have to send more in order to make up for the losses.
The last thing I want to do with my legit mailing list is to include 'Precendence: bulk' in the header as this is a sure fire way to end up in, for instance, Yahoo's Bulk mail folder. Maybe rightly so, however my Yahoo Bulk mail folder only ever gets emptied, never read, and I'm sure I speak for the majority of Yahoo email users. I'm sure many spam filtering software use this header as criteria for identifying spam. Too bad really.
The marketroids may not yet realize it, but computer geeks know how to use technology, too!
This type of advertising would never be targeted to the geeks in the first place. The marketdroids are counting on the fact that there's a whole lot more non-geeks who won't likely be able to do anything about it.
The problem is that the marketers have to find new ways to force advertisements down our throats because we (the geeks) have created such successful solutions that even the non-geeks are able to implement. For instance, the pop-up blocker funtionality in Mozilla or Opera, the various proxies, etc.
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