If Google are smart, they will open up VP8 and create a new format with OGG container, VP8 video and Vorbis audio. And then use it for YouTube and in Chrome (I dont know how much it costs google to pay royalties on H.264 but it would definatly be more than VP8 would cost them)
Mozilla (FF/SM/etc) would support it if it was free (and if a good decoder was available under a license Mozilla can accept) Opera would also likely support it if it was free Microsoft wont be supporting anytime soon (because they want to push Silverlight instead)
And, by using VP8 for YouTube instead of H.264 (which means they dont have to pay any royalties to MPEG LA), Apple and others will be forced to support it.
Just look at Galileo Galilei or Jean Francois Champollion for examples of what the Catholics did against science. Galileo was pushing the sun-centered universe and was persecuted by the Church for it. And the Church went after Champollion because of a fear that he would discover something in Egypt proving that the Great Flood of the bible couldn't have happened when the Church said it did.
Doesn't matter what the law is, anytime the federal government tries to blackmail the states (often with threats of withholding highway funding) into passing laws (see drinking age, drink driving, speed limits for more examples) its an abuse of power. The constitution specifically gives the power over these items to the states. The federal government should let the STATES decide whether it should be legal to drive whilst texting, putting on makeup, drunk, high on drugs, reading a book etc. And the federal government should let the STATES decide how fast it should be legal to drive on different roads and how old you have to be to consume alcohol.
What dose of this chemical is necessary to achieve the effect? And how many blue M&Ms does that equate to?
Just because the small amounts in M&Ms are safe to consume doesn't necessarily mean the larger doses in this drug will be safe (especially not if they are being injected vs taken orally)
Pretty much ALL of the problems with US companies right now (cellphone companies, car companies and many others) are a result of the changes in the last half of the 20th century where investors stopped caring about long term performance and only care about the next quarterly results statement.
One big reason in some cases is the implied threat that if they dont start doing the policing themselves voluntarily, the government will step in and pass laws forcing them to do so (which will be much worse for the ISP than doing it voluntarily)
Also, if some ISPs are doing it (e.g. those that also provide subscription TV services or otherwise license big media company content and hence have a vested interest in doing such policing) and others are not, those that do not will be seen as "bad" for allowing "illegal" activity on their networks whilst the "good" ISPs are going after the "bad guys".
I have no Apple software installed (and will not do so as long as Apple continues to push me to install iTunes and Safari every time there is a QuickTime update) and I dont have any Google software installed either (or if I do, it doesn't install the Google Updater)
I have the following updaters running on my system: Miranda IM (built into the program and just opens the URL to the new full-installer in the default browser) AVG (built into the resident parts of the program) Acrobat Reader Updater Sun Java Updater Microsoft Update (set to not download automatically since I prefer to have choice in which updates I install) various games (most of which check for updates when I connect to the online bit)
Conversely, there are programs I wish DID have automatic updaters: SeaMonkey (my copy of 1.1.x doesn't seem to have one) Nvidia Display Drivers (the only way to go seems to be manual download or via some widget that SM1.1.x doesn't support)
Even if Windows DID have a proper package manager (from Microsoft or anyone else), many companies would not want to use it since it takes away control over certain things. For example, Norton checks your serial number and details against the database of valid licenses before it will download any updates (so pirates cant crack it to get it to pull virus updates that they havent paid for) The updater for Apple products always tries to convince you to install the products you dont have (if all you have is Quick Time, it tries to push you to install iTunes and Safari as well, which is why I dont have Quick Time on any PC I own)
No, I am not the inventor, just someone who has followed this for a while. Things people dont seem to understand about this: 1.You cant easily photocopy, photograph or video tape the window contains tinting. It will only become visible when you actually hold it up against a back lit display (i.e. computer monitor). 2.There would still be a username and password associated with this (e.g. if its a bank site) so just stealing the card isn't enough to let you in. 3.Each time you visit a site or enter an incorrect, it issues a NEW challenge (with a NEW response number). Brute forcing the challenge (i.e. trying every possible PassWindow layout matched up with that challenge and trying everything that shows up a valid code) WONT work because as soon as you input the first code, it generates a NEW challenge. 4.The PassWindow pattern is highly resistant to social engineering tricks (e.g. fake bank/store employees trying to convince you to hand over your credit card number) 5.The PassWindow challenge image is resolution independent (it has a simple sizing arrow that the user uses to resize the image to be the correct size) 6.It is resistant to hardware keystroke loggers as they would be unable to steal the challenge images. 7.It is resistant to viruses and other software keystroke loggers as the keystroke loggers would need to somehow steal the challenge images AND the typed responses. Even then, due to how it works, you would need quite a few pairs of challenge/response pairs to identify the pattern of the PassWindow (remember that a given challenge can contain segments that are also present in the PassWindow pattern). Remember that every site/bank/card issuer/whatever will have different URLs for the challenge image generator so you cant just steal it via a filter that examines every accessed URL. And you have no way to know when the user is in fact accessing their PassWindow to know when to take a screenshot (which would include the challenge image)
Thing is, if you do that (take the challenge image and run it through filters to generate all possible responses), its likely to turn up multiple valid responses, any of which may be the correct code. Once you enter one of those (and get it wrong), the server sends a totally new challenge. Unless the first code you enter happens to be the right code, you will have to keep running the filter over image after image.
Also, its possible that segments in the challenge image are also present in the pass window, making it even harder to work out what the window looks like purely through brute force.
Per what the guy says on his site, its designed to be hard to photocopy or photograph since the window is opaque until you shine a light (i.e. the light from your computer or phone monitor) through it.
We need appliances that are more energy efficient. And we need to have mandatory energy efficiency labels on appliances. Here in Australia, my Fridge, Washer and Dryer all have "star rating" labels that tell you how energy efficient they are. Electronics and electrical appliances should be required to carry energy efficiency labels. Devices such as the following: Fridges and Freezers Dishwashers Electric ovens and stoves Washers and dryers Microwaves Electric hot water systems Fans and air conditioners Electric heaters Vacuum cleaners TV sets DVD players Blu-Ray Players Game consoles Set top boxes Stereo systems Home theater systems Computer monitors Computers Printers
If people could see how much power devices use they might choose more energy efficient models.
Remember that the iPhone was a gamble for both Apple (who had no experience in the cellphone biz) and AT&T (who were trying to sell a cellphone from a company with no experience in the cellphone biz).
Also, AT&T had to do a lot to support the iPhone (Visual Voicemail etc) and that doesn't come cheap.
With regards to the back flip carried out by Obama when he became president (where he changed from opposing the wiretaps to supporting them), the logical explanation is that when he became president the NSA showed him details of the wiretapping and possibly also showed him examples of things the NSA has intercepted via the wiretapping that has in some way benefited the national security of the nation or helped in the war on terror. Having seen that this wiretapping is actually producing beneficial results, he would then be more inclined to keep it going so it can keep producing these results.
The whole point of the claim central to this is that photographs of public domain works are not copyrightable in the US where the uploader and the Wikipedia servers are located. The argument is whether the NPG (a UK organization) can enforce UK copyright law (where the photographs are copyrightable) on a US uploader uploading files to a US website.
As for the issue of the NPG relying on revenue from commercial use of these images to fund the digitization of the NPG collection, maybe the answer is to license the images under one of the no-commercial-use Creative Commons licenses. If you wish to use the images for any commercial purpose, you have to pay the NPG the appropriate fees, if you wish to use it for free, you can go ahead and do that. (of course there may be other uses other than pure commercial use the NPG wants to prohibit in which case Creative Commons licensing may not work)
If you can get DSL of any kind, you CAN get a plan from an ISP like Internode that doesn't rip you off. Doesn't matter what kind of kit you are connected to, if you can get DSL from BigPond, you can get it from Internode (and if Telstra tries to say otherwise, thats what the TIO is for)
Unless Telstra NextG Wireless is your only option (which may be the case out in the bush), there is no reason you need to put up with crappy plans anymore.
Given the negative experience in Australia with the filtering trial and given that there is extra expense involved for the ISPs in installing and maintaining the filtering kit (even if the government buys the filtering kit and pays for any on-going software licenses, there are still expenses involved), why would an ISP want to sign up to this?
Unless there is some kind of carrot (i.e. "sign up to this and you will get immunity for illegal stuff downloaded by your users) or stick ("if we dont get enough ISPs signing on to the "voluntary" system, we will make it mandatory"), I dont see where the benefit for the ISP is.
Thankfully our ISPs here in Australia are fighting the Australian filter on the grounds that it wont work and that it will cost lots of money and slow down everyones internet connection.
The secrecy was maintained after the war for so long for one reason and one reason only. Namely that the USA and UK were using the same techniques to read the secret messages of a number of countries and if it became known that the USA and UK had this technology, these countries would replace their codes with something a LOT more secure.
EA is nowhere NEAR as bad as some companies *cough*Blizzard*cough*Atari*cough* I own Red Alert 3. I never had any problems with the online authenticator (it just asked for my serial number and that was it). I also never had any problems with the DRM of that game. I put the DVD in the drive and it installed first time (without even caring what hardware I do and dont have). When I booted the game, it authenticated online ONCE and then hasn't needed to authenticate again. I can also press a button in-game to de-authenticate it and get my install back (which I used last time I reinstalled Windows)
Also, with a few exceptions where EA themselves do not own the IP (music tracks, cinematics, Macromedia Flash based UI, MP3 technology, 3rd party libs) I have never heard of an instance where EA have a problem with re-using their IP (e.g. using content from one game in a mod for another)
One big reason to update from OS/2 to Windows is that its a lot easier to add new functionality to the Windows version of the ATM software than it is to add new functionality to the older OS/2 ATM software.
Examples of new functionality ATM operators may want or need to add: 1.Advertising (for loans, credit cards etc) whilst the ATM talks to all the computers and you wait for your money to come out 2.Prepaid credit vouchers of various kinds (e.g. for prepaid mobile phones) 3.Changes in the law (this last one happened recently here in Australia where there is now a new rule where if you use an ATM that doesn't belong to your bank, the owner of the ATM charges you the fee and not the bank where your account is. Also, the ATM is required to display the cost of this new "direct charge") 4.Better accessibility for disabled people (e.g. deaf or blind)
Gamebryo and Id Tech 5 are different engines for different purposes. Id Tech 5 is good for some games that Gamebryo would not be suitable for and vice versa.
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If Google are smart, they will open up VP8 and create a new format with OGG container, VP8 video and Vorbis audio. And then use it for YouTube and in Chrome (I dont know how much it costs google to pay royalties on H.264 but it would definatly be more than VP8 would cost them)
Mozilla (FF/SM/etc) would support it if it was free (and if a good decoder was available under a license Mozilla can accept)
Opera would also likely support it if it was free
Microsoft wont be supporting anytime soon (because they want to push Silverlight instead)
And, by using VP8 for YouTube instead of H.264 (which means they dont have to pay any royalties to MPEG LA), Apple and others will be forced to support it.
Just look at Galileo Galilei or Jean Francois Champollion for examples of what the Catholics did against science.
Galileo was pushing the sun-centered universe and was persecuted by the Church for it. And the Church went after Champollion because of a fear that he would discover something in Egypt proving that the Great Flood of the bible couldn't have happened when the Church said it did.
Doesn't matter what the law is, anytime the federal government tries to blackmail the states (often with threats of withholding highway funding) into passing laws (see drinking age, drink driving, speed limits for more examples) its an abuse of power. The constitution specifically gives the power over these items to the states. The federal government should let the STATES decide whether it should be legal to drive whilst texting, putting on makeup, drunk, high on drugs, reading a book etc. And the federal government should let the STATES decide how fast it should be legal to drive on different roads and how old you have to be to consume alcohol.
The FCC would not have given approval to phones like the FIC Neo OpenMoko phone.
What dose of this chemical is necessary to achieve the effect? And how many blue M&Ms does that equate to?
Just because the small amounts in M&Ms are safe to consume doesn't necessarily mean the larger doses in this drug will be safe (especially not if they are being injected vs taken orally)
Pretty much ALL of the problems with US companies right now (cellphone companies, car companies and many others) are a result of the changes in the last half of the 20th century where investors stopped caring about long term performance and only care about the next quarterly results statement.
One big reason in some cases is the implied threat that if they dont start doing the policing themselves voluntarily, the government will step in and pass laws forcing them to do so (which will be much worse for the ISP than doing it voluntarily)
Also, if some ISPs are doing it (e.g. those that also provide subscription TV services or otherwise license big media company content and hence have a vested interest in doing such policing) and others are not, those that do not will be seen as "bad" for allowing "illegal" activity on their networks whilst the "good" ISPs are going after the "bad guys".
I have no Apple software installed (and will not do so as long as Apple continues to push me to install iTunes and Safari every time there is a QuickTime update) and I dont have any Google software installed either (or if I do, it doesn't install the Google Updater)
I have the following updaters running on my system:
Miranda IM (built into the program and just opens the URL to the new full-installer in the default browser)
AVG (built into the resident parts of the program)
Acrobat Reader Updater
Sun Java Updater
Microsoft Update (set to not download automatically since I prefer to have choice in which updates I install)
various games (most of which check for updates when I connect to the online bit)
Conversely, there are programs I wish DID have automatic updaters:
SeaMonkey (my copy of 1.1.x doesn't seem to have one)
Nvidia Display Drivers (the only way to go seems to be manual download or via some widget that SM1.1.x doesn't support)
Even if Windows DID have a proper package manager (from Microsoft or anyone else), many companies would not want to use it since it takes away control over certain things. For example, Norton checks your serial number and details against the database of valid licenses before it will download any updates (so pirates cant crack it to get it to pull virus updates that they havent paid for) The updater for Apple products always tries to convince you to install the products you dont have (if all you have is Quick Time, it tries to push you to install iTunes and Safari as well, which is why I dont have Quick Time on any PC I own)
No, I am not the inventor, just someone who has followed this for a while.
Things people dont seem to understand about this:
1.You cant easily photocopy, photograph or video tape the window contains tinting. It will only become visible when you actually hold it up against a back lit display (i.e. computer monitor).
2.There would still be a username and password associated with this (e.g. if its a bank site) so just stealing the card isn't enough to let you in.
3.Each time you visit a site or enter an incorrect, it issues a NEW challenge (with a NEW response number). Brute forcing the challenge (i.e. trying every possible PassWindow layout matched up with that challenge and trying everything that shows up a valid code) WONT work because as soon as you input the first code, it generates a NEW challenge.
4.The PassWindow pattern is highly resistant to social engineering tricks (e.g. fake bank/store employees trying to convince you to hand over your credit card number)
5.The PassWindow challenge image is resolution independent (it has a simple sizing arrow that the user uses to resize the image to be the correct size)
6.It is resistant to hardware keystroke loggers as they would be unable to steal the challenge images.
7.It is resistant to viruses and other software keystroke loggers as the keystroke loggers would need to somehow steal the challenge images AND the typed responses. Even then, due to how it works, you would need quite a few pairs of challenge/response pairs to identify the pattern of the PassWindow (remember that a given challenge can contain segments that are also present in the PassWindow pattern). Remember that every site/bank/card issuer/whatever will have different URLs for the challenge image generator so you cant just steal it via a filter that examines every accessed URL. And you have no way to know when the user is in fact accessing their PassWindow to know when to take a screenshot (which would include the challenge image)
Thing is, if you do that (take the challenge image and run it through filters to generate all possible responses), its likely to turn up multiple valid responses, any of which may be the correct code. Once you enter one of those (and get it wrong), the server sends a totally new challenge. Unless the first code you enter happens to be the right code, you will have to keep running the filter over image after image.
Also, its possible that segments in the challenge image are also present in the pass window, making it even harder to work out what the window looks like purely through brute force.
Per what the guy says on his site, its designed to be hard to photocopy or photograph since the window is opaque until you shine a light (i.e. the light from your computer or phone monitor) through it.
We need appliances that are more energy efficient.
And we need to have mandatory energy efficiency labels on appliances.
Here in Australia, my Fridge, Washer and Dryer all have "star rating" labels that tell you how energy efficient they are. Electronics and electrical appliances should be required to carry energy efficiency labels. Devices such as the following:
Fridges and Freezers
Dishwashers
Electric ovens and stoves
Washers and dryers
Microwaves
Electric hot water systems
Fans and air conditioners
Electric heaters
Vacuum cleaners
TV sets
DVD players
Blu-Ray Players
Game consoles
Set top boxes
Stereo systems
Home theater systems
Computer monitors
Computers
Printers
If people could see how much power devices use they might choose more energy efficient models.
Remember that the iPhone was a gamble for both Apple (who had no experience in the cellphone biz) and AT&T (who were trying to sell a cellphone from a company with no experience in the cellphone biz).
Also, AT&T had to do a lot to support the iPhone (Visual Voicemail etc) and that doesn't come cheap.
With regards to the back flip carried out by Obama when he became president (where he changed from opposing the wiretaps to supporting them), the logical explanation is that when he became president the NSA showed him details of the wiretapping and possibly also showed him examples of things the NSA has intercepted via the wiretapping that has in some way benefited the national security of the nation or helped in the war on terror. Having seen that this wiretapping is actually producing beneficial results, he would then be more inclined to keep it going so it can keep producing these results.
The whole point of the claim central to this is that photographs of public domain works are not copyrightable in the US where the uploader and the Wikipedia servers are located. The argument is whether the NPG (a UK organization) can enforce UK copyright law (where the photographs are copyrightable) on a US uploader uploading files to a US website.
As for the issue of the NPG relying on revenue from commercial use of these images to fund the digitization of the NPG collection, maybe the answer is to license the images under one of the no-commercial-use Creative Commons licenses. If you wish to use the images for any commercial purpose, you have to pay the NPG the appropriate fees, if you wish to use it for free, you can go ahead and do that. (of course there may be other uses other than pure commercial use the NPG wants to prohibit in which case Creative Commons licensing may not work)
If you can get DSL of any kind, you CAN get a plan from an ISP like Internode that doesn't rip you off. Doesn't matter what kind of kit you are connected to, if you can get DSL from BigPond, you can get it from Internode (and if Telstra tries to say otherwise, thats what the TIO is for)
Unless Telstra NextG Wireless is your only option (which may be the case out in the bush), there is no reason you need to put up with crappy plans anymore.
Really though that site is just an extention of a corporate intranet (Extranet is one buzzword I heard to describe it)
Given the negative experience in Australia with the filtering trial and given that there is extra expense involved for the ISPs in installing and maintaining the filtering kit (even if the government buys the filtering kit and pays for any on-going software licenses, there are still expenses involved), why would an ISP want to sign up to this?
Unless there is some kind of carrot (i.e. "sign up to this and you will get immunity for illegal stuff downloaded by your users) or stick ("if we dont get enough ISPs signing on to the "voluntary" system, we will make it mandatory"), I dont see where the benefit for the ISP is.
Thankfully our ISPs here in Australia are fighting the Australian filter on the grounds that it wont work and that it will cost lots of money and slow down everyones internet connection.
Don't know about the A320 but I bet you could port MAME to the Linux based IFE that seems to be being used these days :P
The secrecy was maintained after the war for so long for one reason and one reason only. Namely that the USA and UK were using the same techniques to read the secret messages of a number of countries and if it became known that the USA and UK had this technology, these countries would replace their codes with something a LOT more secure.
EA is nowhere NEAR as bad as some companies *cough*Blizzard*cough*Atari*cough*
I own Red Alert 3. I never had any problems with the online authenticator (it just asked for my serial number and that was it). I also never had any problems with the DRM of that game. I put the DVD in the drive and it installed first time (without even caring what hardware I do and dont have). When I booted the game, it authenticated online ONCE and then hasn't needed to authenticate again. I can also press a button in-game to de-authenticate it and get my install back (which I used last time I reinstalled Windows)
Also, with a few exceptions where EA themselves do not own the IP (music tracks, cinematics, Macromedia Flash based UI, MP3 technology, 3rd party libs) I have never heard of an instance where EA have a problem with re-using their IP (e.g. using content from one game in a mod for another)
One big reason to update from OS/2 to Windows is that its a lot easier to add new functionality to the Windows version of the ATM software than it is to add new functionality to the older OS/2 ATM software.
Examples of new functionality ATM operators may want or need to add:
1.Advertising (for loans, credit cards etc) whilst the ATM talks to all the computers and you wait for your money to come out
2.Prepaid credit vouchers of various kinds (e.g. for prepaid mobile phones)
3.Changes in the law (this last one happened recently here in Australia where there is now a new rule where if you use an ATM that doesn't belong to your bank, the owner of the ATM charges you the fee and not the bank where your account is. Also, the ATM is required to display the cost of this new "direct charge")
4.Better accessibility for disabled people (e.g. deaf or blind)
Gamebryo and Id Tech 5 are different engines for different purposes. Id Tech 5 is good for some games that Gamebryo would not be suitable for and vice versa.