I think its important that Mr. Gartenberg, after exhausting reasonable methods to restore access to his content, then immediately reached for a (presumably) illegal DMCA-breaking tool to gain access. By his own advocacy these tools will not be available if his viewpoint prevails.
In his follow-up blog entries he completely avoids this point.
This issue crops up on Slashdot at least once a year. The specific mechanisms change, but a few priciples seem to be the rule:
Organize your data into a reasonable heirarchy.
Create metadata records descibing the content and the format it is stored into. (file type, compression format, internal organization, etc.)
Set up an online/nearline/offline workflow. Work files, files needed often or used recently are stored locally on RAID-1 or better devices. Files that might be needed soon are stored to readily-accessible media like DVD-R and local tape. Archive data goes to multiple long-term tapes or optical media, stored alongside paper records containing metadata and placed offsite in secure, climate-controlled storage. (For home and small businesses, nearline=offline.)
Test your backups for recovery at least once or twice every six months.
Stick to your workflow.
Whatever your chosen archive data format is, keep a known working drive of that format near or with the archived material. Even better, get a cheap/cheap/cheap PC minimally configured for the drive and the backup software, and keep that with the data.
Evaluate your long term storage every ten years, and be prepared to spend the time and money to migrate your archived data to new storage formats and media.
Procedures, workflow, maintaining metadata and thinking long-term are all at least as important as the specific drive types you might select.
Given the reasonable price of Mini-DV camcorders, you'd be better off purchasing two or three identical units and rotate their use. If something fails you can pull out the backup. You might also find it useful to record your work from different positions and edit them together.
Since you asked, I've had good experience with a hand-sized Sony DCR-PC9 -- it's been beat up but remains completely functional and reliable.
Apart from morality/ethical concerns, I'd like to know
By what standards the London authorities will be calibrating the microphones to
Whether they will be using a pair of microphones to localize sound emissions
How they will handle multiple simultaneous loud sources, and
(Since the system will be wireless) How long before private companies produce anti-listening and threshold detecting devices (similar to car radar detectors)?
How much would it cost, and would it be feaible, to plan to send up a couple of Soyuz capsules in the event that the shuttle can't de-orbit? I'm sure we could make a deal with the Russians. And it would seem do-able to find a way to link up and transfer over to Soyuz capsules. Could they squeeze four people in if they had to?
The basic problem is not the specifics of the money tendered. The basic problem is that, at least in the Slashdot community, Best Buy has a terrible reputation and we are ready to believe anything negative about them.
Since Slashdot nominally represents a large group of technically savvy consumers, if I were in Best Buy management, I would work to address this directly, for the good of the company.
Not sure if you are kidding or not, but if the funding ever runs out, it will be because they can't get any more reasonable science out of the rovers, which implies that one or more major malfunctions will have compromised them. By definition they won't be operable for non-science uses. Plus controlling them would require costly access and time on NASA's Deep Space Network, which is overtasked already.
It wouldn't take much for someone to replicate the rover's camera scene and rock abrasion tool in a building here on Earth and sell what seems to be access to the rover. How would you know the difference?
How much of the yearly cost of the Voyager program is access to, and time on the NASA Deep Space Network for receiving the data? Even if another country or a company wanted to pay for the program, if they can't access this telemetry network, then they'll never be able to receive any data Voyager sends. This may be most of the cost and most of the problem leading to the program being killed.
I used RHL9 exclusively for my production servers along with a subscription to Red Hat Network for each machine, for the security patches. I've never needed RedHat's other support services and couldn't justify the cost of purchasing them to my clients. When RH discontinued RHL9 and provided no upgrade path from RHL9 to RHEL3 (re-install from scratch only), I had no choice but to put all the old servers on Fedora Legacy support and plan to use other distributions. I begged for an upgrade installer path from Red Hat salesmen with no effect -- I even had approval from most of my clients to purchase RHEL3 for their machines, but the danger of installing from scratch was too high.
Even now I don't understand why they did that. That kind of move fails Marketing 101.
(This is addressing only the privacy issues of deleting search histories, not the patent issues.)
*Of course* when I deleted my search history on A9, it only pretended to delete it by hiding it from me, but still providing it to other "clients of the event history server" (from the patent application). I mean, toolbar applications like the Google toolbar (appear to) have set the standard that you can delete your personally-identifiable search history to prevent privacy intrusions, but why should that prevent Amazon from profiting from that information to my detriment? Concerns like morally corrupt, ethically challenged, etc., only apply to flesh-based persons with human issues, not legal-based persons (corporations) with only money issues.
I love the new A9 search tools, but until their overt privacy policies correspond to their covert privacy policies, I'm going to be highly discriminating in when I use A9/Amazon to search for anything.
This is very cool -- LEDs mean less heat, size and battery power means you can embed the unit in custom displays or think up novel uses for them.
Portable drive-in movie! Sit the projector on your dashboard and aim it at your garage door. Park next to a vending machine for the concession stand.
When traveling, no more sitting at the desk in your hotel room watching movies on your laptop screen. Pack this and relax on the bed, or have several friends in the room.
"The ultimate goal of large content providers is to create a world where they take your money each and every time you view their content. NO EXCEPTIONS!"
The parent posting is on target, but I'd like to add this observation from seeing the same thing happen in the Simpsons world.
The producers of content depend on the imaginations of consumers to embrace their product, whether it be anime or Simpsons episodes.
success == profit == consumer enthusiasm == consumer desire to share/contribute back/develop a community of like-minded consumers.
Unless the content producers understand that it's not a zero-sum game and accept the nature of this relationship and integrate consumers into their product, they won't make as much money as they otherwise could, and we'll continue to see these battles and everyone involved will feel unappreciated and abused.
I agree that the problem is overblown, but I see this as a chance to trade some of the listed DVD's I've had second thoughts about purchasing, so I tried to request the claim form as in the website instructions. You should note that:
1. The claim form is *only* available by calling a toll-free (in the US) phone number. Why they couldn't make it available for download and submittal online isn't clear. Also not clear is what you are supposed to do if you are not in the US. (Perhaps the settlement only applies to US residents?) Maybe they think less people will respond if they make it more of a hassle.
2. When you call the number a voice mail robot will ask you for the title of one of the disks you want to claim, compare it to its internal list, and then ask you for your name and postal address. The wait while you speak your address is VERY short -- just about too shore to speak it. I had to call back to get the whole address in. Again, the website should have been an easier way to do this.
Headline: "New Therapy Extends Life to Millenia". (Next day) Headline: Asteroid Discovered To Collide With Earth In Three Days".
Calculate trajectories before and after.
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NASA's Deep Impact
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I'm sure they must be doing this, but I hadn't read of anyone speculating. This would be an excellent opportunity to direct the slug in, to change the comet's path slightly, and then measure the resultant path and check on their accuracy.
I'm pretty sure we're going to need that capability sooner or later.
NASA has been studying for years setting up enough automation to launch and return the shuttle unmanned. We know we can get people to/and from the ISS using the Russian hardware -- if we used the heavy-lift capability of the shuttles without having to worry about losing people, it would seem to be a good solution to the problem. We would just have to worry about getting the flight ops automated and how to maneuver into close proximty to the station remotely without slamming into it.
It's got to be cheaper to run the shuttle on autopilot then to figure out how to repair them in space.
If they are any good at what they do, wouldn't a trained cadre of hackers be more dangerous to the North Korean Government then to anyone outside of North Korea? Again, if they are any good at what they do, how would you tell them "go forth and cause problems for our enemies" and still believe they wouldn't hack into their own government's systems? How would NK prevent these hackers from doing that, and possibly retasking national assets or releasing incriminating or embarrassing information? For that matter, wouldn't it be easy to turn some of these people and have them help *us* against their own government, whether for money or revolutionary zeal?
Does anyone ever run trajectory calculations for a strike on the Moon, rather than Earth? And what size Moon strike would cause problems here? Could the moon eject a chunk in our direction sufficiently large to be a problem? For that matter, what would happen to the Moon in that situation?
Too many questions -- no idea of the impact (pun intended.)
Since the G5 iMac will support a VESA mount, you can mount it on any floating arm, wall-mount it, etc. Take a look at Ergotron for instance. You could mount two iMacs side-by-side on the same mount, or mount the iMac on an arm with the keyboard floating underneath.
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Then call it Bellus.
I think its important that Mr. Gartenberg, after exhausting reasonable methods to restore access to his content, then immediately reached for a (presumably) illegal DMCA-breaking tool to gain access. By his own advocacy these tools will not be available if his viewpoint prevails.
In his follow-up blog entries he completely avoids this point.
- Organize your data into a reasonable heirarchy.
- Create metadata records descibing the content and the format it is stored into. (file type, compression format, internal organization, etc.)
- Set up an online/nearline/offline workflow. Work files, files needed often or used recently are stored locally on RAID-1 or better devices. Files that might be needed soon are stored to readily-accessible media like DVD-R and local tape. Archive data goes to multiple long-term tapes or optical media, stored alongside paper records containing metadata and placed offsite in secure, climate-controlled storage. (For home and small businesses, nearline=offline.)
- Test your backups for recovery at least once or twice every six months.
- Stick to your workflow.
- Whatever your chosen archive data format is, keep a known working drive of that format near or with the archived material. Even better, get a cheap/cheap/cheap PC minimally configured for the drive and the backup software, and keep that with the data.
- Evaluate your long term storage every ten years, and be prepared to spend the time and money to migrate your archived data to new storage formats and media.
Procedures, workflow, maintaining metadata and thinking long-term are all at least as important as the specific drive types you might select.Given the reasonable price of Mini-DV camcorders, you'd be better off purchasing two or three identical units and rotate their use. If something fails you can pull out the backup. You might also find it useful to record your work from different positions and edit them together.
Since you asked, I've had good experience with a hand-sized Sony DCR-PC9 -- it's been beat up but remains completely functional and reliable.
And then link every two inmates together, so that if they ever get separated, both get fried!
That might make a good movie.
The answer to the durability problem is simple. Find the right board for your application and buy two.
How much would it cost, and would it be feaible, to plan to send up a couple of Soyuz capsules in the event that the shuttle can't de-orbit? I'm sure we could make a deal with the Russians. And it would seem do-able to find a way to link up and transfer over to Soyuz capsules. Could they squeeze four people in if they had to?
I think I'll keep a copy of this posting. You never know when it might be useful.
The basic problem is not the specifics of the money tendered. The basic problem is that, at least in the Slashdot community, Best Buy has a terrible reputation and we are ready to believe anything negative about them.
Since Slashdot nominally represents a large group of technically savvy consumers, if I were in Best Buy management, I would work to address this directly, for the good of the company.
Not sure if you are kidding or not, but if the funding ever runs out, it will be because they can't get any more reasonable science out of the rovers, which implies that one or more major malfunctions will have compromised them. By definition they won't be operable for non-science uses. Plus controlling them would require costly access and time on NASA's Deep Space Network, which is overtasked already.
It wouldn't take much for someone to replicate the rover's camera scene and rock abrasion tool in a building here on Earth and sell what seems to be access to the rover. How would you know the difference?
How much of the yearly cost of the Voyager program is access to, and time on the NASA Deep Space Network for receiving the data? Even if another country or a company wanted to pay for the program, if they can't access this telemetry network, then they'll never be able to receive any data Voyager sends. This may be most of the cost and most of the problem leading to the program being killed.
If this were a cheesy college-spoof movie, the 119 "cheaters" would be recruited to the goofball school for their display of initiative.
Kobayashi Maru indeed.
I used RHL9 exclusively for my production servers along with a subscription to Red Hat Network for each machine, for the security patches. I've never needed RedHat's other support services and couldn't justify the cost of purchasing them to my clients. When RH discontinued RHL9 and provided no upgrade path from RHL9 to RHEL3 (re-install from scratch only), I had no choice but to put all the old servers on Fedora Legacy support and plan to use other distributions. I begged for an upgrade installer path from Red Hat salesmen with no effect -- I even had approval from most of my clients to purchase RHEL3 for their machines, but the danger of installing from scratch was too high.
Even now I don't understand why they did that. That kind of move fails Marketing 101.
(This is addressing only the privacy issues of deleting search histories, not the patent issues.)
*Of course* when I deleted my search history on A9, it only pretended to delete it by hiding it from me, but still providing it to other "clients of the event history server" (from the patent application). I mean, toolbar applications like the Google toolbar (appear to) have set the standard that you can delete your personally-identifiable search history to prevent privacy intrusions, but why should that prevent Amazon from profiting from that information to my detriment? Concerns like morally corrupt, ethically challenged, etc., only apply to flesh-based persons with human issues, not legal-based persons (corporations) with only money issues.
I love the new A9 search tools, but until their overt privacy policies correspond to their covert privacy policies, I'm going to be highly discriminating in when I use A9/Amazon to search for anything.
This is very cool -- LEDs mean less heat, size and battery power means you can embed the unit in custom displays or think up novel uses for them.
The parent posting is on target, but I'd like to add this observation from seeing the same thing happen in the Simpsons world.
The producers of content depend on the imaginations of consumers to embrace their product, whether it be anime or Simpsons episodes.
.
success == profit == consumer enthusiasm
== consumer desire to share/contribute back/develop a community of like-minded consumers
Unless the content producers understand that it's not a zero-sum game and accept the nature of this relationship and integrate consumers into their product, they won't make as much money as they otherwise could, and we'll continue to see these battles and everyone involved will feel unappreciated and abused.
I agree that the problem is overblown, but I see this as a chance to trade some of the listed DVD's I've had second thoughts about purchasing, so I tried to request the claim form as in the website instructions. You should note that:
1. The claim form is *only* available by calling a toll-free (in the US) phone number. Why they couldn't make it available for download and submittal online isn't clear. Also not clear is what you are supposed to do if you are not in the US. (Perhaps the settlement only applies to US residents?) Maybe they think less people will respond if they make it more of a hassle.
2. When you call the number a voice mail robot will ask you for the title of one of the disks you want to claim, compare it to its internal list, and then ask you for your name and postal address. The wait while you speak your address is VERY short -- just about too shore to speak it. I had to call back to get the whole address in. Again, the website should have been an easier way to do this.
I believe you mean the Earth-facing side of the Moon. The "bright side" changes as the Moon rotates.
Headline: "New Therapy Extends Life to Millenia".
(Next day)
Headline: Asteroid Discovered To Collide With Earth In Three Days".
I'm sure they must be doing this, but I hadn't read of anyone speculating. This would be an excellent opportunity to direct the slug in, to change the comet's path slightly, and then measure the resultant path and check on their accuracy.
I'm pretty sure we're going to need that capability sooner or later.
NASA has been studying for years setting up enough automation to launch and return the shuttle unmanned. We know we can get people to/and from the ISS using the Russian hardware -- if we used the heavy-lift capability of the shuttles without having to worry about losing people, it would seem to be a good solution to the problem. We would just have to worry about getting the flight ops automated and how to maneuver into close proximty to the station remotely without slamming into it.
It's got to be cheaper to run the shuttle on autopilot then to figure out how to repair them in space.
If they are any good at what they do, wouldn't a trained cadre of hackers be more dangerous to the North Korean Government then to anyone outside of North Korea? Again, if they are any good at what they do, how would you tell them "go forth and cause problems for our enemies" and still believe they wouldn't hack into their own government's systems? How would NK prevent these hackers from doing that, and possibly retasking national assets or releasing incriminating or embarrassing information? For that matter, wouldn't it be easy to turn some of these people and have them help *us* against their own government, whether for money or revolutionary zeal?
How do you keep these guys under control?
Does anyone ever run trajectory calculations for a strike on the Moon, rather than Earth? And what size Moon strike would cause problems here? Could the moon eject a chunk in our direction sufficiently large to be a problem? For that matter, what would happen to the Moon in that situation?
Too many questions -- no idea of the impact (pun intended.)
Since the G5 iMac will support a VESA mount, you can mount it on any floating arm, wall-mount it, etc.
Take a look at Ergotron for instance. You could mount two iMacs side-by-side on the same mount, or mount the iMac on an arm with the keyboard floating underneath.