Part of the problem with software firewalls are that if the user has a problem wherein they let a spambot or other virus into their machine, that program could have the ability to disable a software firewall as well.
If it's a hardware firewall, it makes it much more challenging for a hacker-program to be able to disable it to "get out".
Ya, that was sort of what I had in-mind - or that there would be an escrow "clearing house" that would hold the encryption keys and after the copyright expired, the keys would be released to the public.
Well, copyright holders should be given the choice when their works are released to the public:
-You can have iron-clad digital restrictions on your media making it absolutely impossible for end-users to do anything other than what's explicitly approved. If you choose this route, your max copyright term is 8 years, then it's completely public domain.
-You can ease up the restrictions, allow some free use (academic, reviews and the like), device and timeshifting, backup copies, downloadable content, etc. Then your copyright is good for 30 years.
-You can tell the public that they can do whatever they want with your creation, so long as no money is being made from any derived works - then the copyright is 50 years after the date of the death of the creator.
Might be worth sending the company itself a letter saying that their "Marketing Director" is doing a fine job of representing their company on the web and should be commended for their "no-nonsense" attitude towards making sure that websites designed for the disabled were crushed without compromise.
Ah yes, nothing says "savvy PR technique" like having your Marketing Director make your company look cold and heartless towards disabled people when it's "featured" on one of the busiest websites on the planet.
But on a totally different level, I can understand their frustration. A guy who's not employed by the company designed a better and more usable system than their presumably well-paid webmonkies could create.
I'd put my money on "the source of the complaints" coming from Odeon "in-house website elements" that didn't like the free competition outdoing them...
Hmm... Interesting. Although programmers writing copy-protection techniques have been doing this sort of stuff for ages to try and keep reversers out of their code.
I'm frankly surprised that they find it so much of a hinderance that the worm checks for a debugger, that should be absolutely trivial for them to bypass. Likewise this "date" thing that they say prevents running in a sandbox.
As part of the courses I teach at a school, I introduce students to a fairly nice sound board and in doing so, turn on the tone generator and set it for 16khz.
I'm surprised (and a bit sad about) the number of students who can't hear the 16khz tone. Most of them are also the ones who had their CD players/walkmans cranked up all the time.
Just remember, if your ears are ringing, it means they're close to, or actively being damaged by the sound.
Hmm... We've done this in Canada for years. The CRTC regs required us to have logger machines recording everything the station outputs (both TV and Radio stations). We used to keep 30 days of log-tapes, but they may have increased the minimum requirement since I was last working in a station.
We always just used cheap VHS tapes on EP mode on disposable-grade VCRs - the tapes don't have to be anywhere near broadcast quality, they're just a record incase there are issues with the broadcast and a viewer complained (to my knowledge, it never happened at the station I was at). We'd just run two machines to make sure there was an overlap, then change tapes every 6 hours.
Radio stations typically just use a big reel-to-reel tape on extreme-slow speed. I think they could get an entire day on one tape.
They may accept digital recordings now (low labour and probably better quality), but the machines would have to be very reliable (probably a 2nd live redundant system as a backup).
Sorry, but I agree with the original poster. The ability to work the schedule you want, and be relatively independant is far more valuable to me than the money & time lost using my own resources for work-related projects.
I (to some extent) can do the same thing. If I've got everything accomplished that I need to do by 3pm, then I'll head off. No early meetings? I'll come in around 10:30 or 11am. To be sure, if there's an emergency, I'll stay late or come in on weekends to make sure the fire is out. The boss is happy that all of his special projects (as well as my regular work) are done on-time, or even ahead of schedule, and I'm happy that I can split early in the afternoon, beat the rush home and have a relaxing afternoon/evening.
The compensation of not being a 9-5'er from monday through friday is exactly what I like. And that's easily worth the $80 or so a month I pay for cell phone and internet that I use for work as well as my own purposes.
Hmm... Sounds to me not like so much of an anti-republican rant, but a view of how the rest of the world views the current state of politics in America...
I see this as a disadvantage myself - after I've downloaded files with BT, I usually keep seeding those which I've found to be worthwhile. I dump the chaff and stop seeding stuff that I don't find to be good.
Therefore my (somewhat limited) upstream DSL bandwidth is reserved for sharing only those files that I actively want to support, not everything I've downloaded.
Now, the other issue is that I don't know how much benefit that WW would have for individual users that are downloading "questionable P2P content". Sure, if you have proxies at the ISP or business level that are promoting caching, it is a valuable tool for distributing big open-source projects and such, but let's face it, the majority of BT/P2P traffic is stuff that ISPs and businesses certainly do NOT want on their proxy servers for fear of huge lawsuits.
So while WW does have some uses, to classify it as the successor to BT does seem just a little premature.
I'll probably get slammed for it, but I quite liked Voyager. I quite liked the characters and although it was pretty high-and-mighty on the morals at times, the idea of the ship being totally on it's own was pretty nice.
I hated DS9. I saw it as a blatent B5 ripoff, so I never bothered to watch more than the occasional episode when nothing else good was on TV.
And now that the servers are presumably being hammered into oblivion, there's no-doubt a server admin who's crying into his wafflecone as he frantically searches google to figure out how to get it installed/running.
That's one reason I really like the Azureus client - besides being a great downloading client, it can host it's own torrent server and is extremely easy to set-up & operate.
I regularly import protected CDs made by Avex and others in Japan. I don't know what the heck they're protecting them with, but my CDRW doesn't even SEE the protection much less have problems ripping the tracks.
I can copy them to my MP3 player without any difficulty, so they can count the CD as "protected" for their sales stats if they so desire, but they're deluding themselves if they think it's stopping playback-shifting.
Just two small notes on this, based on my P800 experience:
-You can set the phone to go into speakerphone mode if you need to take notes or utilize the PDA portion while you're on the phone. It works very well, provided the ambient noise isn't too loud. You can also plug-in a headset or use a bluetooth headset to talk on the phone while using the PDA (I use that a lot).
-Most (if not all) PDA/Phone combos offer a "flight mode" that disables the transmitter/receiver when you're on a plane and turns the unit into a PDA.
That's why with really large drives, it makes sense to make RAID arrays that have striping/mirroring capabilities. So long as two drives don't at once (fairly unlikely), you won't have to worry about singing the blues.
I recently quit purchasing regular ATA drives and have begun moving my systems to SATA.
While the performance difference is negligable, the reduction in wiring clutter, and not having to mess around with jumpers on the back of the drive is pretty nice.
If it were a $50 price difference, I would've stayed with regular ATA, however at a $10 price difference (or less), it's a no-brainer.
Now, my master plan of a 8 x 400gb RAID array server is starting to look rather attainable:)
Slashdot Mirror
Well, and a few other "big red flags"
-Payment by Western Union Only (RUN, DO NOT WALK from these auctions)
-I will only utilize (whatever) Escrow Company (Run awwwaaaayyy)
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Part of the problem with software firewalls are that if the user has a problem wherein they let a spambot or other virus into their machine, that program could have the ability to disable a software firewall as well.
If it's a hardware firewall, it makes it much more challenging for a hacker-program to be able to disable it to "get out".
Ya, that was sort of what I had in-mind - or that there would be an escrow "clearing house" that would hold the encryption keys and after the copyright expired, the keys would be released to the public.
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Well, copyright holders should be given the choice when their works are released to the public:
-You can have iron-clad digital restrictions on your media making it absolutely impossible for end-users to do anything other than what's explicitly approved. If you choose this route, your max copyright term is 8 years, then it's completely public domain.
-You can ease up the restrictions, allow some free use (academic, reviews and the like), device and timeshifting, backup copies, downloadable content, etc. Then your copyright is good for 30 years.
-You can tell the public that they can do whatever they want with your creation, so long as no money is being made from any derived works - then the copyright is 50 years after the date of the death of the creator.
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I wonder how much of that coverage will be about non-american athletes...
Maybe it's just me, but I like seeing competitors from other countries and seeing profiles on them as well...
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Bingo. I use a P800 but for all intents and purposes, it's hands-down the best investment I've made in portable technology.
:)
Beats all of the previous palmpilots, handsprings, nokias that I've ever owned. Sure it was expensive, but it does nearly everything I want it to.
Now I'm waiting for the Motorola MPx
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Might be worth sending the company itself a letter saying that their "Marketing Director" is doing a fine job of representing their company on the web and should be commended for their "no-nonsense" attitude towards making sure that websites designed for the disabled were crushed without compromise.
Ah yes, nothing says "savvy PR technique" like having your Marketing Director make your company look cold and heartless towards disabled people when it's "featured" on one of the busiest websites on the planet.
But on a totally different level, I can understand their frustration. A guy who's not employed by the company designed a better and more usable system than their presumably well-paid webmonkies could create.
I'd put my money on "the source of the complaints" coming from Odeon "in-house website elements" that didn't like the free competition outdoing them...
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Well, there's a lag of a couple hours between the "demand" being made and the video being delivered, but otherwise you are correct ;P
Hmm... Interesting. Although programmers writing copy-protection techniques have been doing this sort of stuff for ages to try and keep reversers out of their code.
I'm frankly surprised that they find it so much of a hinderance that the worm checks for a debugger, that should be absolutely trivial for them to bypass. Likewise this "date" thing that they say prevents running in a sandbox.
Damn.
:P
Instead of being in the "Far North", this means that I'll soon be in the "Deep South". Better brush up on my banjo playing and inbreeding skillz
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Hmm... I might even try buying a song on iTunes someday - if they ever get around to offering the service in Canada...
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As part of the courses I teach at a school, I introduce students to a fairly nice sound board and in doing so, turn on the tone generator and set it for 16khz.
I'm surprised (and a bit sad about) the number of students who can't hear the 16khz tone. Most of them are also the ones who had their CD players/walkmans cranked up all the time.
Just remember, if your ears are ringing, it means they're close to, or actively being damaged by the sound.
N.
Hmm... We've done this in Canada for years. The CRTC regs required us to have logger machines recording everything the station outputs (both TV and Radio stations). We used to keep 30 days of log-tapes, but they may have increased the minimum requirement since I was last working in a station.
We always just used cheap VHS tapes on EP mode on disposable-grade VCRs - the tapes don't have to be anywhere near broadcast quality, they're just a record incase there are issues with the broadcast and a viewer complained (to my knowledge, it never happened at the station I was at). We'd just run two machines to make sure there was an overlap, then change tapes every 6 hours.
Radio stations typically just use a big reel-to-reel tape on extreme-slow speed. I think they could get an entire day on one tape.
They may accept digital recordings now (low labour and probably better quality), but the machines would have to be very reliable (probably a 2nd live redundant system as a backup).
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I'd mod you up if I had points. Good stuff to keep an eye out for!
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Sorry, but I agree with the original poster. The ability to work the schedule you want, and be relatively independant is far more valuable to me than the money & time lost using my own resources for work-related projects.
I (to some extent) can do the same thing. If I've got everything accomplished that I need to do by 3pm, then I'll head off. No early meetings? I'll come in around 10:30 or 11am. To be sure, if there's an emergency, I'll stay late or come in on weekends to make sure the fire is out. The boss is happy that all of his special projects (as well as my regular work) are done on-time, or even ahead of schedule, and I'm happy that I can split early in the afternoon, beat the rush home and have a relaxing afternoon/evening.
The compensation of not being a 9-5'er from monday through friday is exactly what I like. And that's easily worth the $80 or so a month I pay for cell phone and internet that I use for work as well as my own purposes.
N.
Hmm... Sounds to me not like so much of an anti-republican rant, but a view of how the rest of the world views the current state of politics in America...
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I see this as a disadvantage myself - after I've downloaded files with BT, I usually keep seeding those which I've found to be worthwhile. I dump the chaff and stop seeding stuff that I don't find to be good.
Therefore my (somewhat limited) upstream DSL bandwidth is reserved for sharing only those files that I actively want to support, not everything I've downloaded.
Now, the other issue is that I don't know how much benefit that WW would have for individual users that are downloading "questionable P2P content". Sure, if you have proxies at the ISP or business level that are promoting caching, it is a valuable tool for distributing big open-source projects and such, but let's face it, the majority of BT/P2P traffic is stuff that ISPs and businesses certainly do NOT want on their proxy servers for fear of huge lawsuits.
So while WW does have some uses, to classify it as the successor to BT does seem just a little premature.
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I'll probably get slammed for it, but I quite liked Voyager. I quite liked the characters and although it was pretty high-and-mighty on the morals at times, the idea of the ship being totally on it's own was pretty nice.
I hated DS9. I saw it as a blatent B5 ripoff, so I never bothered to watch more than the occasional episode when nothing else good was on TV.
Never watched much of Enterprise.
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Well yes, you'd think that alright...
And now that the servers are presumably being hammered into oblivion, there's no-doubt a server admin who's crying into his wafflecone as he frantically searches google to figure out how to get it installed/running.
That's one reason I really like the Azureus client - besides being a great downloading client, it can host it's own torrent server and is extremely easy to set-up & operate.
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I regularly import protected CDs made by Avex and others in Japan. I don't know what the heck they're protecting them with, but my CDRW doesn't even SEE the protection much less have problems ripping the tracks.
I can copy them to my MP3 player without any difficulty, so they can count the CD as "protected" for their sales stats if they so desire, but they're deluding themselves if they think it's stopping playback-shifting.
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I'm forced to agree.
Don't get me wrong, it IS a nice hack, but not terribly practical for anyone else.
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Just two small notes on this, based on my P800 experience:
-You can set the phone to go into speakerphone mode if you need to take notes or utilize the PDA portion while you're on the phone. It works very well, provided the ambient noise isn't too loud. You can also plug-in a headset or use a bluetooth headset to talk on the phone while using the PDA (I use that a lot).
-Most (if not all) PDA/Phone combos offer a "flight mode" that disables the transmitter/receiver when you're on a plane and turns the unit into a PDA.
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That's why with really large drives, it makes sense to make RAID arrays that have striping/mirroring capabilities. So long as two drives don't at once (fairly unlikely), you won't have to worry about singing the blues.
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I recently quit purchasing regular ATA drives and have begun moving my systems to SATA.
:)
While the performance difference is negligable, the reduction in wiring clutter, and not having to mess around with jumpers on the back of the drive is pretty nice.
If it were a $50 price difference, I would've stayed with regular ATA, however at a $10 price difference (or less), it's a no-brainer.
Now, my master plan of a 8 x 400gb RAID array server is starting to look rather attainable
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Well, especially if you want to hang onto your money :)
The terms "audiophile" and "videophile" typically seem to mean "people willing to foolishly part with their money to purchase a status-symbol".
Just look at all of the "low oxygen, gold plated, gamma induced, mojo enlarging" audio cables and power cables that fools and idiots pay $200+ for.
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