Insider releases will always be an issue as long as people outside the profit circle (shipping companies, lower echelion MPAA employees, etc) have pre-release access to the disks/tapes that the movie is on. Either they need to build encryption into the projectors/disks or they need to make the people handling the movie pre-release some how more connected to the profit stream the movie generates.
I don't know how much money it takes to replace the pride and joy an insider gets from seeing the movie out on the net before the 1st screening, but i bet it's less than the amount the MPAA would writeup as a 'loss' if they caught the person involved in the distribution.
Can anyone think of a movie in recent times (past 2 or 3 years) that *wasn't* available on the net before the 1st screening?
I get the distinction. Other examples of "classic embedded systems" would be:
1.) portable mp3 players (rio, etc) 2.) DVR's (like tivo) 3.) CCU's (camera control units, like in the Axis
series of webcams)
Generally speaking embedded systems are of a single tasking nature, designed to help in the completion of that task.
The 1000t still deserves a mention though, as it is a very cool non-traditional way of clustering CPU's, and it happened to be transmeta CPU's, so it at least seemed topical.
Its always great to see an underdog/specialty chip maker gain some market share, even if its in the mostly-corporate-lan-dominated arena of Thin-Clients.
At least Sun Micro's "Sun Ray" system will get some much needed competition out of this.
We use Sun Ray's here at work, and while they do thier job pretty admirably, they do have some quirky lock-up issues we haven't been able to resolve.
With the way our mail system is now, mail servers accepting and routing mail from any client w/o the need for any real kind of authorization or identity matching, we are screwed.
Most modern clients support digitally signing mail, either via PGP or S/MIME. This needs to become a lot more widespread, with 3rd party verification of signatures ala VeriSign/SSL-certs. When it is in place we can safely delete any mail we get w/o a real signature, and go about our business. If someone with a legit signature DOES join the dark side, they are stamped, labeled, and easily filtered.
Does anyone see any arguments against digitally signed mail, besides the large over-head of layering security onto a system that started w/o any, by design?
Cut me a GC for the Alley behind the Qwiki Market, those mean cops took my Grow Farm away and i've been fiending for bong hits all week..
The only thing saving me from serious withdraw is reading posts on slashdot! Its like i'm, there, man.
Rather than rewarding people for knowingly or unknowingly breaking the law, lets put our money towards promoting services that keep things cheap&legal, like Apples Itunes. At $.99/song that little girl could score a lot more music with Itunes than she could at $15/cd at her local Sam Rippy.
I believe firmly in concealing all wearable gadgetry deep within the sacred folds of my underpants. How long before i can purchase my precious joeBoxer.NET ElectroWare?
How long before the first 802.11w (wearable?) exploit causes my joeBoxer.NET ElectroWare to change sizes w/o my authorization.. causing groin-area pain beyond all comprehension.
This is yet another shining example of how attempting to sell a product you can never hope to control the distribution of is fataly flawed.
At the very least you can't hope to sell it at the same price you would for something you can actually touch and claim possesion of.
Apples Itunes is the right way to run this setup (and the sales figures back that up).
Another nail in this ideas coffin was the fact that books are more than just the words within them. Theres something exciting about having a 1st edition print, or the cover art, or the binding. People like to hold books, and carry them around, and look at them, and show them to thier friends, etc, etc. Its just not the same with a PDF, or an "encrypted PDF" (ebook).
Thats a pretty interesting design, i love how computers are working thier way into stranger and smaller containers all the time.
I really think there will be a market for Computers As Art someday. Like a woodcarving with a server in it, for some establishment that wants an ultra-fancy kiosk.
Or maybe we'll see a return of the "Electronics in Victorian Style Furniture" that was popular in the 30's, 40's.
Most modern systems are multi-user, so if all they have are IP's, how will they identify which user is in violation? Will they treat it like they treat automobiles, where the person on the title (in this case the owner of the dialup/cable customer) has the responsbility for the charges, or at least identifying the real culprit.
How will they close the "it was a trojan!" loop hole, where by you can duck responsibility if you can prove your system is insecure.
This will certainly set many precedents that we will have to live with in the future, lets hope they get it right (whatever "right" may be).
It would seem that the best interim option for the last mile is 802.11[abg]. The true solution would be new homes built out with fiber links, but we still have a lot of "legacy" in the area of homes.
I dream of the day when my LAN is the bottleneck and not my net connection.
My Improbability Engine just turned Darl McBride into HOT GRITS and dumped them down NATALIE PORTMAN's pants! Top that soviet russia, you think you're so cool with your Beowulf Cluster of Nigerian Spam's..
Wow.. that thing is powerful.. may it never be unleashed on slashdot again!
I hope my kids, or thier kids, get to see it come back. I only vaguely remember seeing it when i was a kid, living in a suburb of DC with all the light polution made it that much more difficult.
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Insider releases will always be an issue as long as people outside the profit circle (shipping companies, lower echelion MPAA employees, etc) have pre-release access to the disks/tapes that the movie is on. Either they need to build encryption into the projectors/disks or they need to make the people handling the movie pre-release some how more connected to the profit stream the movie generates.
I don't know how much money it takes to replace the pride and joy an insider gets from seeing the movie out on the net before the 1st screening, but i bet it's less than the amount the MPAA would writeup as a 'loss' if they caught the person involved in the distribution.
Can anyone think of a movie in recent times (past 2 or 3 years) that *wasn't* available on the net before the 1st screening?
I get the distinction. Other examples of "classic embedded systems" would be:
1.) portable mp3 players (rio, etc)
2.) DVR's (like tivo)
3.) CCU's (camera control units, like in the Axis
series of webcams)
Generally speaking embedded systems are of a single tasking nature, designed to help in the completion of that task.
The 1000t still deserves a mention though, as it is a very cool non-traditional way of clustering CPU's, and it happened to be transmeta CPU's, so it at least seemed topical.
Yes, they have had luck in embedded systems.
Checkout this company site.
They use transmeta chips in thier blade servers (multiple physical computers in one enclosure, for super high density computing).
Heres a direct link to the model 1000t, pretty neat design, and a company worth watching.
Its always great to see an underdog/specialty chip maker gain some market share, even if its in the mostly-corporate-lan-dominated arena of Thin-Clients.
At least Sun Micro's "Sun Ray" system will get some much needed competition out of this.
We use Sun Ray's here at work, and while they do thier job pretty admirably, they do have some quirky lock-up issues we haven't been able to resolve.
With the way our mail system is now, mail servers accepting and routing mail from any client w/o the need for any real kind of authorization or identity matching, we are screwed.
Most modern clients support digitally signing mail, either via PGP or S/MIME. This needs to become a lot more widespread, with 3rd party verification of signatures ala VeriSign/SSL-certs. When it is in place we can safely delete any mail we get w/o a real signature, and go about our business. If someone with a legit signature DOES join the dark side, they are stamped, labeled, and easily filtered.
Does anyone see any arguments against digitally signed mail, besides the large over-head of layering security onto a system that started w/o any, by design?
Hey, and while you're in a giving mood..
Cut me a GC for the Alley behind the Qwiki Market,
those mean cops took my Grow Farm away and i've been
fiending for bong hits all week..
The only thing saving me from serious withdraw is reading posts on slashdot! Its like i'm, there, man.
Rather than rewarding people for knowingly or unknowingly breaking the law, lets put our money towards promoting services that keep things cheap&legal, like Apples Itunes. At $.99/song that little girl could score a lot more music
with Itunes than she could at $15/cd at her local Sam Rippy.
Darl Retorts:
My Code is Rubber, your Code is Glue,
Whatever I Code bounces off me and sticks with you until you pay me my f@!#ing $699 you Finnish Son of a @$#@$!
When CowboyNeal met a Sheep named Sally.
Yeah, i know.. that was bahhhhhhhd!
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all day folks.
How long before the first 802.11w (wearable?) exploit causes my joeBoxer.NET ElectroWare to change sizes w/o my authorization.. causing groin-area pain beyond all comprehension.
I vote now to construct a counsel of Holy and/or Wise Men who can seal this technology away to prevent Quentin Tarantino from abusing it.
We could then possibly, umm, have Quentin Tarantino sealed away as well...
slashdot dosen't post duplicate articles,
they are just experimenting with RAID:
Redundant Articles Interleaving Daily
That way, just in case you miss something important
because a lot of stories are being posted, you can catch it later w/o having to back track.
Be very afraid if they try and test thier RAID5 setup, where theres a SCO article at the top of the site that just never goes away, for parity.
libTurtle SDK on the Half Shell.
WINE in a Cask.
The freshmeat.net Handbook from the Butcher.
I love all the silly food/drink references we deal with every day in the IT field.
This is yet another shining example of how attempting to sell a product you can never hope to control the distribution of is fataly flawed.
At the very least you can't hope to sell it at the same price you would for something you can actually touch and claim possesion of.
Apples Itunes is the right way to run this setup (and the sales figures back that up).
Another nail in this ideas coffin was the fact that books are more than just the words within them. Theres something exciting about having a 1st edition print, or the cover art, or the binding. People like to hold books, and carry them around, and look at them, and show them to thier friends, etc, etc. Its just not the same with a PDF, or an "encrypted PDF" (ebook).
Thats a pretty interesting design, i love how computers are working thier way into stranger and smaller containers all the time.
I really think there will be a market for Computers As Art someday. Like a woodcarving with a server in it, for some establishment that wants an ultra-fancy kiosk.
Or maybe we'll see a return of the "Electronics in Victorian Style Furniture" that was popular in the 30's, 40's.
...to see how this all plays out.
What will they use as "proof" of filetrading?
Most modern systems are multi-user, so if all they have are IP's, how will they identify which user is in violation? Will they treat it like they treat automobiles, where the person on the title (in this case the owner of the dialup/cable customer) has the responsbility for the charges, or at least identifying the real culprit.
How will they close the "it was a trojan!" loop hole, where by you can duck responsibility if you can prove your system is insecure.
This will certainly set many precedents that we will have to live with in the future, lets hope they get it right (whatever "right" may be).
Ok, but what exactly is Vash The Stampede going to do with all those computers?
Quick, flash your PHOENIX with SCO.EXE and maybe we can get Darl to claim its thier IP and destroy it from the inside.
I dream of the day when my LAN is the bottleneck and not my net connection.
(burns) *sniff* smithers *sniff* did i kill all those filetraders?
(smithers) errm yes sir, it would appear you did.
(burns) *sniff* excellent *sniff*
Wow.. that thing is powerful.. may it never be unleashed on slashdot again!
If M$ Office is good enough for the IRS it must be good enough for:
"Me fail English? That's unpossible."
Ralph, too.
oh yeah.. and hes using our quantum computer to play Duke Nukem Forever.