That is not true at all. I had my disagreements with the BB crowd, and agreements as well, like any intelligent person. Just like on Slashdot, most of my comments get rated up to 5, but a few get rated down to -1 Troll. People remember the disagreements more than the agreements. And of course, it is useful to consider the provenance of YOUR remarks, Mr. Anonymous Coward.
Cory doesn't seem to understand the basics of public key cryptosystems. He seems to think that anyone who has the encoded file abd the public key can deduce the private key. Not hardly. I don't have the time to delineate all the flaws in his rambling essay, it's gibberish.
Please consider the moral issues that derive from making money off a war and its reconstruction. Do you want to be part of the military-industrial complex, to join the likes of Haliburton or Kellog, Brown & Root? Do you want to be a war profiteer?
Your logic is degrading rapidly. First you claim you can physically receive CDs over the net via Amazon, which isn't possible unless they've invented a matter transporter. Then you continue on with logic that is the equivalent of "if wishes were horses, then beggars would ride." Save it for someone who cares.
Your logic doesn't seem to work any better than Cory's.
Ok, let's compare iTunes to CDs and tapes. Tell me how you can download physical media like CDs and tapes over the internet.
Traditional copyright law doesn't allow you to make copies for your friends, except under limited circumstances like scholarly fair use. Your point is invalid.
Apple had extended the limit to 5 CPUs at the time Cory delivered the lecture to MS. The point was moot, but he's still whining.
iTunes DRM is transparent with the one exception of the auth key. If you have an unbreakable DRM method without auth keys, I'm sure the industry would love to hear it.
It doesn't matter if the media cartels WOULD release without DRM, the fact is they don't, and people ARE buying the DRM product today. Didn't you notice the front page/. article that the #1 CD is copy protected?
Cory's points don't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny. I'm appalled that he would attempt to explain how cryptography works in front of an audience at Microsoft that actually CODES crypto, considering how many fundamental errors he makes. But the kicker is his anecdotal evidence that there's no market demand for DRM. He whines about how he hit the 3 CPU limit of iTunes DRM, because he forgot to decertify one of his Powerbooks before he sent it back to Apple for repair, and that he already used up his other two authorizations on his other machine, and his mom's machine. Skipping over the apparent violation of the terms of the DRM by using one auth for his mom in another household, he failed to mention several points, like how you can call Apple and they will remove the dead auth for the dead machine, and that Apple extended the limit to 5 CPUs. But that doesn't even account for the fact that Cory was just a damn idiot that didn't deauth his machine before sending it in for service. Still, Cory whined and ranted about this problem on BB, rather than placing the blame on himself for making a stupid error. The ultimate point of his lecture is where he rants about how nobody's calling up manufacturers and begging them for features that restrict rights, therefore there is no market demand for DRM. But he overlooks the obvious fact there are whole markets that would not exist if not for DRM. Like iTunes and DVDs, for example. If the manufacturers won't release the products without DRM, and customers want the product, they'll buy it with DRM, therefore, there IS market demand for DRM. Hey, I'm no fan of DRM, but this sort of sloppy thinking isn't going to help his case, even if he throws in 1337 5p33k and pirate voice "arrr.."s into his lame lecture.
Hey! Don't go labelling "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" is "crappy." Folk music isn't my scene, but I can't help but shed a tear when I hear Pete Seeger sing it. Maybe to appreciate it, you had to be alive during the Vietnam War era, and watched your high school buddies go off and get killed. Maybe you had to watch the newspapers for your draft number, hoping your birthday didn't get at the top of the draft lottery list. Maybe you will be appreciating this tune soon, when YOU get your new draft number and have to worry about being drafted and sent to Iraq. Anyway, computer types should appreciate that song, with its circular logic and looping structure. So don't tell me that's "another crappy song." And for GOD sakes, don't tell me I filked.
If they're not reading manga on the subways, they're not buying manga. People used to carry around manga to read in their spare time, and most people's spare time was spent in transit, on subways, buses, etc. If they're not reading manga on the subway, they're not reading manga. Manga kissa aren't as common as the fanboy press would have you believe. There are far more cybercafes than manga kissa. And in case you didn't know, the recession in Japan is basically over, the collapse of manga is relatively recent, coming with the rise of keitai email. Manga sales were pretty strong through the recession, but dropping rapidly now.
You seem to be operating under some mistaken assumptions. Winer still owns Userland. He is being disingenuous when he says he no longer runs Userland. Maybe he doesn't hold the official title of CEO, but he still owns the company, and it is operated under his direction. You also seem to be assuming that this hostility towards Winer is unjustified because he gave out these services for free. I assure you from personal experience that Winer treats you like shit even if you're a paying customer. You also seem to believe it when Dave says he's getting out of the hosting business. Wrong again. He's just killing off the FREE weblogs (with the exception of his suck-up buddies like Searls). His servers still host the paid customers of Radio Userland, hosted on radio.weblogs.com, so he can't dump all of weblogs.com like he claims he's doing. The big question is why did he have all those websites moved to HIS server if they were paid customers of Userland? You also seem to think these criticisms are unnecessarily harsh. I disagree. Winer is notorious for baiting people, then editing the exchange of messages. His usual tactic is to say something offensive, then someone responds in a similarly hotheaded manner, then Winer edits his original remark to something innocuous, so it seems like the response is a completely flaming response to a polite remark. So it is not too surprising that people jump at the chance to respond to Winer's insanity in a forum that isn't controlled by Winer. These remarks are quite civil by Winer's standards of conduct.
Winer argued that it would have been impossible to perform backups, it would have overwhelmed the system if he'd preannounced the closure, it would have killed his system from overload.
I call Bullshit.
Notice this handy feature on the Harvard weblog host site created by Winer:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/weblogBackup
You just submit the request, and your backup runs overnight, presumably it's a cron job to tar all your files (or the Windoze equivalent, since Winer seems stuck on Windoze platform).
So Winer was lying when he said it would have been impossible to offer backups without shutting down the whole system like he did. Software was already written to perform backups. He could have just made the blog webspaces read-only, so blog authors could no longer post new content, but the blogs could still be available to the public, until they got backed up. This transition was handled extremely poorly, it must have been a deliberate decision to do it this way. Dave apparently WANTED to piss everyone off.
He had health problems like 3 years ago. Every time he does something that pisses people off (which is quite often) he starts whining about his poor health and how it's unfair to pick on him. It's just one of his bullshit tactics.
Fundraising isn't the issue. Winer's a millionaire, he just sold his house in CA. According to the Wired Magazine biography of Winer, he paid $2 million for a house in an exclusive neighborhood, next to Joan Baez's house. Winer is sitting on millions of bucks, it's not like he couldn't afford to pay for hosting. He just decided he no longer wanted to, so he killed the blogs of everyone who wasn't his buddy (i.e. Searls). So if you haven't sucked up to Winer sufficiently, your blog is toast. Such are the tribulations of dealing with millionaire dilletantes.
Winer is freaking out. His "fellowship" at Berkman is over, he's got no job and nobody wants him around anymore, even his sycophants are no longer willing to help him find his next gig.
I was over in Japan last month, I was astonished to see how things had changed over the last few years since I was there. I used to see everyone in the subways reading manga, now NOBODY reads manga anymore, they're all doing email on their keitai (cel phones). I talked to some publishers, they admitted that the market for manga was collapsing, authors and inkers that were barely making money before the collapse are now getting out of the business.
What will the poor fanboys do when there are no longer any new comic books from Japan? Better start learning Korean. Too bad that Japanese you tried to learn was a big waste of time.
Where have all the VCs gone? Long time passing Where have all the VCs gone? Long time ago Where have all the VCs gone? Dotcoms fleeced them every one When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?
No, it would not be possible using the lenticular system you described. Conventional lenticular systems can only store 2 views, as in stereographic imaging. More advanced (and expensive) lenticular lenses can produce 4 or 6 views, for animated stereograms (in a limited way). But even 8 stereo views isn't going to be sufficient coverage to cover 180 degrees of camoflauge. The only way to do this would be with computer generated holograms, which woul d be a pretty amazing mathematical trick, even aside from the impossibility of live animated hologram displays.
There is one obvious problem with the "invisibility cloak" that nobody has mentioned. In fact, the demonstrations of the device take advantage of the flaw and use it to make the device look like it will work.
The problem is, this device will make you "invisible" only to ONE PERSON. Or more correctly, the image projected on the cloak will only work for one point of view. So when the device is demoed to a camera, the camera is placed at the spot where the illusion works. If you place another camera 10 feet to the left, it would show that the image doesn't match the background, so the illusion of "invisibility" doesn't work. It's a parallax thing.
So everyone just knock of the stupid theorizing about how this is going to be battlefield camoflauge, it just isn't going to happen. It might be useful for limited circumstances, for a single viewer, for example, a surgeon might be able to see a computer-graphic overlay of the surgical operating field right through his hands. But it's not going to be a magic invisibility cloak.
This story reminds me of a story I was told when I visited MIT long ago, maybe someone can verify it or fill in the details. There's a famous domed building on the MIT campus, a gymnasium I think, that was built on a geodesic frame with concrete cast over it, it was the first building of its type, built with plans carefully calculated by a PhD student of architecture. So a few years later, another PhD student comes along and as his thesis, does calculations on the building that showed there was a miscalculation in the original plans, and the dome would start to crack down the center within 10 years. The architecture faculty was furious, they had approved the prior PhD candidate's plans, they said there was no way there was an error in the design, and they rejected the poor guy's thesis, he never got his PhD and he left MIT. So of course, about 10 years later, the dome starts to crack. The architecture faculty digs up the guy's thesis, he was proven correct, and they award him the PhD he sought, and conduct repairs according to his recommendations. Now there was only one detail missing in this story as I heard it, what happened to the guy who designed the original plans? If there was any justice, he would have his PhD revoked.
No, they're not "moving towards" an RSS standard. They're merely supporting RSS as well as Atom. Doesn't seem like they're moving towards anything, they're not moving away from Atom.
You ought to see some of the latest CG blood splatter effects in real live-action movies. I just got ahold of the new Zatoichi film via Torrent. The original Zatoichi series merely suspended disbelief, you had to imagine the blood and gore. But the new film uses CG effects to show the swords sticking out the back side of the stabbed actors, with composited blood spurts. It doesn't look particularly convincing, the blood flies through the air but nobody ever gets bloody.
This topic reminds me of an old episode of Doctor Who. A society has android robots but people start developing "robophobia." The Doctor says it's because the robots have lifelike responses in all but one area, facial expressions. The robots all have beautifully sculpted but immobile faces, so this freaks people out on a subliminal level, it's like talking to a dead person. Of course this was partly a sly commentary on the cheapness of the BBC's special effects on the show, of course they didn't have the budget to do really great robot effects, so they just wrote crappy effects into the storyline. But maybe they were on to something, they were ahead of their time in anticipating the social effects of lifelike robots.
I've been using DVDSP 2 for a while, it's probably overkill for some of my projects, but at the time, it was the only way to achieve some specific things, like putting more than 120 min on a DVD using greater compression, iDVD wouldn't do that, AFAIK it still doesn't. I've been archiving some broadcast and cable TV shows from my TiVo and old VHS tapes onto DVDRs, the image quality isn't that great to start with, so they aren't greatly damaged by high levels of compression. But I've found the DVDSP 3 interface a little daunting after using DVDSP1 and 2, I haven't quite gotten off the ground with it yet. I suppose I should RTFM, but this is a Mac app, we don't have to read manuals, right? Hmmm..
The article makes it seem like Turing has been adopted as the cause celebre of gay rights activists, and is memorialized for his lifestyle and his tragic death rather than his amazing accomplishments in mathematics. How fucked up is that?
The word "transit" also applies to buses, trains, and subways. But that's not what we're talking about either. The transit of Venus begins when Venus is observed passing the limb of the sun. Bringing up unrelated data about the corona is not going to make the Transit of Venus start any sooner.
Apparently there has been a sudden decline in the quality of university education in astronomy, if this is the sort of sloppy thinking that is pushed onto students today.
No, transits do not start out in the corona. No, passing NEAR the sun is NOT a transit. FYI, SOHO has a wide field to track coronal mass ejections, which are propelled OUT of the corona, it has an opaque disk that obscures the sun and its corona because it would overwhelm the sensor.
Um, NO. Venus is still very far away from the Sun. I'm looking at the blue Lasco3 image, in case you don't know how to read these images, the little white circle represents the position of the sun, not the flat blue circle. By my crude measurements off the screen, Venus is still about 5 solar diameters away from the beginning of the transit.
A transit begins when Venus is observed passing the limb of the sun, not when it passes the corona.
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That is not true at all. I had my disagreements with the BB crowd, and agreements as well, like any intelligent person. Just like on Slashdot, most of my comments get rated up to 5, but a few get rated down to -1 Troll. People remember the disagreements more than the agreements. And of course, it is useful to consider the provenance of YOUR remarks, Mr. Anonymous Coward.
Cory doesn't seem to understand the basics of public key cryptosystems. He seems to think that anyone who has the encoded file abd the public key can deduce the private key. Not hardly. I don't have the time to delineate all the flaws in his rambling essay, it's gibberish.
Please consider the moral issues that derive from making money off a war and its reconstruction. Do you want to be part of the military-industrial complex, to join the likes of Haliburton or Kellog, Brown & Root? Do you want to be a war profiteer?
Your logic is degrading rapidly. First you claim you can physically receive CDs over the net via Amazon, which isn't possible unless they've invented a matter transporter. Then you continue on with logic that is the equivalent of "if wishes were horses, then beggars would ride." Save it for someone who cares.
Your logic doesn't seem to work any better than Cory's.
/. article that the #1 CD is copy protected?
Ok, let's compare iTunes to CDs and tapes. Tell me how you can download physical media like CDs and tapes over the internet.
Traditional copyright law doesn't allow you to make copies for your friends, except under limited circumstances like scholarly fair use. Your point is invalid.
Apple had extended the limit to 5 CPUs at the time Cory delivered the lecture to MS. The point was moot, but he's still whining.
iTunes DRM is transparent with the one exception of the auth key. If you have an unbreakable DRM method without auth keys, I'm sure the industry would love to hear it.
It doesn't matter if the media cartels WOULD release without DRM, the fact is they don't, and people ARE buying the DRM product today. Didn't you notice the front page
Cory's points don't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny. I'm appalled that he would attempt to explain how cryptography works in front of an audience at Microsoft that actually CODES crypto, considering how many fundamental errors he makes. But the kicker is his anecdotal evidence that there's no market demand for DRM. He whines about how he hit the 3 CPU limit of iTunes DRM, because he forgot to decertify one of his Powerbooks before he sent it back to Apple for repair, and that he already used up his other two authorizations on his other machine, and his mom's machine. Skipping over the apparent violation of the terms of the DRM by using one auth for his mom in another household, he failed to mention several points, like how you can call Apple and they will remove the dead auth for the dead machine, and that Apple extended the limit to 5 CPUs. But that doesn't even account for the fact that Cory was just a damn idiot that didn't deauth his machine before sending it in for service. Still, Cory whined and ranted about this problem on BB, rather than placing the blame on himself for making a stupid error.
The ultimate point of his lecture is where he rants about how nobody's calling up manufacturers and begging them for features that restrict rights, therefore there is no market demand for DRM. But he overlooks the obvious fact there are whole markets that would not exist if not for DRM. Like iTunes and DVDs, for example. If the manufacturers won't release the products without DRM, and customers want the product, they'll buy it with DRM, therefore, there IS market demand for DRM.
Hey, I'm no fan of DRM, but this sort of sloppy thinking isn't going to help his case, even if he throws in 1337 5p33k and pirate voice "arrr.."s into his lame lecture.
Hey! Don't go labelling "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" is "crappy." Folk music isn't my scene, but I can't help but shed a tear when I hear Pete Seeger sing it. Maybe to appreciate it, you had to be alive during the Vietnam War era, and watched your high school buddies go off and get killed. Maybe you had to watch the newspapers for your draft number, hoping your birthday didn't get at the top of the draft lottery list. Maybe you will be appreciating this tune soon, when YOU get your new draft number and have to worry about being drafted and sent to Iraq.
Anyway, computer types should appreciate that song, with its circular logic and looping structure. So don't tell me that's "another crappy song." And for GOD sakes, don't tell me I filked.
If they're not reading manga on the subways, they're not buying manga. People used to carry around manga to read in their spare time, and most people's spare time was spent in transit, on subways, buses, etc. If they're not reading manga on the subway, they're not reading manga.
Manga kissa aren't as common as the fanboy press would have you believe. There are far more cybercafes than manga kissa.
And in case you didn't know, the recession in Japan is basically over, the collapse of manga is relatively recent, coming with the rise of keitai email. Manga sales were pretty strong through the recession, but dropping rapidly now.
You seem to be operating under some mistaken assumptions. Winer still owns Userland. He is being disingenuous when he says he no longer runs Userland. Maybe he doesn't hold the official title of CEO, but he still owns the company, and it is operated under his direction.
You also seem to be assuming that this hostility towards Winer is unjustified because he gave out these services for free. I assure you from personal experience that Winer treats you like shit even if you're a paying customer.
You also seem to believe it when Dave says he's getting out of the hosting business. Wrong again. He's just killing off the FREE weblogs (with the exception of his suck-up buddies like Searls). His servers still host the paid customers of Radio Userland, hosted on radio.weblogs.com, so he can't dump all of weblogs.com like he claims he's doing. The big question is why did he have all those websites moved to HIS server if they were paid customers of Userland?
You also seem to think these criticisms are unnecessarily harsh. I disagree. Winer is notorious for baiting people, then editing the exchange of messages. His usual tactic is to say something offensive, then someone responds in a similarly hotheaded manner, then Winer edits his original remark to something innocuous, so it seems like the response is a completely flaming response to a polite remark. So it is not too surprising that people jump at the chance to respond to Winer's insanity in a forum that isn't controlled by Winer. These remarks are quite civil by Winer's standards of conduct.
Winer argued that it would have been impossible to perform backups, it would have overwhelmed the system if he'd preannounced the closure, it would have killed his system from overload.
I call Bullshit.
Notice this handy feature on the Harvard weblog host site created by Winer:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/weblogBackup
You just submit the request, and your backup runs overnight, presumably it's a cron job to tar all your files (or the Windoze equivalent, since Winer seems stuck on Windoze platform).
So Winer was lying when he said it would have been impossible to offer backups without shutting down the whole system like he did. Software was already written to perform backups. He could have just made the blog webspaces read-only, so blog authors could no longer post new content, but the blogs could still be available to the public, until they got backed up. This transition was handled extremely poorly, it must have been a deliberate decision to do it this way. Dave apparently WANTED to piss everyone off.
He had health problems like 3 years ago. Every time he does something that pisses people off (which is quite often) he starts whining about his poor health and how it's unfair to pick on him. It's just one of his bullshit tactics.
Fundraising isn't the issue. Winer's a millionaire, he just sold his house in CA. According to the Wired Magazine biography of Winer, he paid $2 million for a house in an exclusive neighborhood, next to Joan Baez's house. Winer is sitting on millions of bucks, it's not like he couldn't afford to pay for hosting. He just decided he no longer wanted to, so he killed the blogs of everyone who wasn't his buddy (i.e. Searls). So if you haven't sucked up to Winer sufficiently, your blog is toast. Such are the tribulations of dealing with millionaire dilletantes.
Winer is freaking out. His "fellowship" at Berkman is over, he's got no job and nobody wants him around anymore, even his sycophants are no longer willing to help him find his next gig.
I was over in Japan last month, I was astonished to see how things had changed over the last few years since I was there. I used to see everyone in the subways reading manga, now NOBODY reads manga anymore, they're all doing email on their keitai (cel phones).
I talked to some publishers, they admitted that the market for manga was collapsing, authors and inkers that were barely making money before the collapse are now getting out of the business.
What will the poor fanboys do when there are no longer any new comic books from Japan? Better start learning Korean. Too bad that Japanese you tried to learn was a big waste of time.
Where have all the VCs gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the VCs gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the VCs gone?
Dotcoms fleeced them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
No, it would not be possible using the lenticular system you described. Conventional lenticular systems can only store 2 views, as in stereographic imaging. More advanced (and expensive) lenticular lenses can produce 4 or 6 views, for animated stereograms (in a limited way). But even 8 stereo views isn't going to be sufficient coverage to cover 180 degrees of camoflauge.
The only way to do this would be with computer generated holograms, which woul d be a pretty amazing mathematical trick, even aside from the impossibility of live animated hologram displays.
There is one obvious problem with the "invisibility cloak" that nobody has mentioned. In fact, the demonstrations of the device take advantage of the flaw and use it to make the device look like it will work.
The problem is, this device will make you "invisible" only to ONE PERSON. Or more correctly, the image projected on the cloak will only work for one point of view. So when the device is demoed to a camera, the camera is placed at the spot where the illusion works. If you place another camera 10 feet to the left, it would show that the image doesn't match the background, so the illusion of "invisibility" doesn't work. It's a parallax thing.
So everyone just knock of the stupid theorizing about how this is going to be battlefield camoflauge, it just isn't going to happen. It might be useful for limited circumstances, for a single viewer, for example, a surgeon might be able to see a computer-graphic overlay of the surgical operating field right through his hands. But it's not going to be a magic invisibility cloak.
This story reminds me of a story I was told when I visited MIT long ago, maybe someone can verify it or fill in the details. There's a famous domed building on the MIT campus, a gymnasium I think, that was built on a geodesic frame with concrete cast over it, it was the first building of its type, built with plans carefully calculated by a PhD student of architecture. So a few years later, another PhD student comes along and as his thesis, does calculations on the building that showed there was a miscalculation in the original plans, and the dome would start to crack down the center within 10 years. The architecture faculty was furious, they had approved the prior PhD candidate's plans, they said there was no way there was an error in the design, and they rejected the poor guy's thesis, he never got his PhD and he left MIT.
So of course, about 10 years later, the dome starts to crack. The architecture faculty digs up the guy's thesis, he was proven correct, and they award him the PhD he sought, and conduct repairs according to his recommendations.
Now there was only one detail missing in this story as I heard it, what happened to the guy who designed the original plans? If there was any justice, he would have his PhD revoked.
No, they're not "moving towards" an RSS standard. They're merely supporting RSS as well as Atom. Doesn't seem like they're moving towards anything, they're not moving away from Atom.
You ought to see some of the latest CG blood splatter effects in real live-action movies. I just got ahold of the new Zatoichi film via Torrent. The original Zatoichi series merely suspended disbelief, you had to imagine the blood and gore. But the new film uses CG effects to show the swords sticking out the back side of the stabbed actors, with composited blood spurts. It doesn't look particularly convincing, the blood flies through the air but nobody ever gets bloody.
This topic reminds me of an old episode of Doctor Who. A society has android robots but people start developing "robophobia." The Doctor says it's because the robots have lifelike responses in all but one area, facial expressions. The robots all have beautifully sculpted but immobile faces, so this freaks people out on a subliminal level, it's like talking to a dead person.
Of course this was partly a sly commentary on the cheapness of the BBC's special effects on the show, of course they didn't have the budget to do really great robot effects, so they just wrote crappy effects into the storyline. But maybe they were on to something, they were ahead of their time in anticipating the social effects of lifelike robots.
Right, like I said, iDVD doesn't allow you to put OVER 120 min on a disc. 180 min is the target for a lot of my projects.
I've been using DVDSP 2 for a while, it's probably overkill for some of my projects, but at the time, it was the only way to achieve some specific things, like putting more than 120 min on a DVD using greater compression, iDVD wouldn't do that, AFAIK it still doesn't. I've been archiving some broadcast and cable TV shows from my TiVo and old VHS tapes onto DVDRs, the image quality isn't that great to start with, so they aren't greatly damaged by high levels of compression.
But I've found the DVDSP 3 interface a little daunting after using DVDSP1 and 2, I haven't quite gotten off the ground with it yet. I suppose I should RTFM, but this is a Mac app, we don't have to read manuals, right? Hmmm..
The article makes it seem like Turing has been adopted as the cause celebre of gay rights activists, and is memorialized for his lifestyle and his tragic death rather than his amazing accomplishments in mathematics. How fucked up is that?
The word "transit" also applies to buses, trains, and subways. But that's not what we're talking about either. The transit of Venus begins when Venus is observed passing the limb of the sun. Bringing up unrelated data about the corona is not going to make the Transit of Venus start any sooner.
Apparently there has been a sudden decline in the quality of university education in astronomy, if this is the sort of sloppy thinking that is pushed onto students today.
No, transits do not start out in the corona. No, passing NEAR the sun is NOT a transit. FYI, SOHO has a wide field to track coronal mass ejections, which are propelled OUT of the corona, it has an opaque disk that obscures the sun and its corona because it would overwhelm the sensor.
Um, NO. Venus is still very far away from the Sun. I'm looking at the blue Lasco3 image, in case you don't know how to read these images, the little white circle represents the position of the sun, not the flat blue circle. By my crude measurements off the screen, Venus is still about 5 solar diameters away from the beginning of the transit.
A transit begins when Venus is observed passing the limb of the sun, not when it passes the corona.