Ok, so it's not quite at the same level, but my Logitech webcam will stick a hat or beard on my face in real time, or completely replace my video with video of a shark or a cat or a stick figure whose mouth, eyes and expressions mimic mine. Way, way cheesier looking effect, but hey it's just a webcam!
Yes there are of course other circumstances here, the thing is the ruling here has wide implications that will affect other cases which do not necessarily have the same circumstances.
Does it? I can't tell from the overly biased and inaccurate blog that is trying to present this as news. Who freaking knows anymore when everybody and their brother can start a mob scene with zero information or facts to back up assertions. *sigh*
Is this the same Lori Drew that drove a teenager to suicide by pretending to be a teen aged boy that intentionally was scorning the teen girl?
So there might be a little more to this story...
Is there a way to test all my installed extension in advance?
VirtualBox. Just spin up a VM of your favorite (supported) distro and test away. You could even run in seamless mode for a while if you're inclined to think "blah, then I'd have to use the VM for a while which would mean switching windows constantly etc, etc".
What is the point in advertising this thing? It is completely useless once it becomes public knowledge.
This is a University marketing department pushing the latest accomplishment of one of their faculty in order to flash it around in a bid for more money from similar programs. This isn't adopted technology, this isn't an official "government technology", it's not really even a practical technology. It's just a researcher/university that wanted their name in the paper and an accomplishment under their belt. It happens all the time at universities because they are all competing for the same research funding from the various agencies that provide it. If a university doesn't stand out as cutting edge it's less likely to get funding.
Whenever my office has been tempted to put non-HP ink in our business class printers they have had printing issues or leaked inside the printer, resulting in having to buy another cartridge and clean the printer. So HP cartridges end up being a lot cheaper than the cost of an off-brand cartridge + printer service call + replacement cartridge for the one that didn't work. Maybe at the consumer level refills and off brand can work, but not for high volume or accurate color printing.
This story has a lot of FUD. This is not the official release, it's still the Beta testing. When it goes full release it'll be a simple Windows Update.
The comments (so far) on this story are unbelievable. If you don't want to buy the game, then don't buy it. If you don't want to pay for the game but you steal it to play it anyway (or sell/distribute it illegally), then suck up the consequences.
Real, actual, non-fictional people's salaries are based on the fact that if people play these games (or music, or movies) then they will pay for them. If you don't like the way the market works due to levels of compensation, etc. then feel free to get your media from those that offer it freely or at a rate you agree with and who base their economic plans on that fact.
However if it's a commercial product and you steal it, then go to jail and shut up. You broke the law. Quit whining, quit the straw man style "rapists and murderers" blathering and learn something for a change. If you advocate open source and freely available media, quit giving our community a black eye by encouraging theft and cheering on pirates. If the new media model is going to work, it will work by being a better model, not by undermining the current system we have. Undermining rather than supplanting only encourages harsher laws and more intense DRM which will make the transition harder to accomplish in the end. Like I said, unbelievable.
Is there anything that prevents a Californian from selling his California-purchased car outside of California today?
From TFA:
Not only can't you buy one, but the government says it's currently illegal for automakers to sell these green cars outside of the special states. Under terms of the Clean Air Act--in the kind of delicious irony only our government can pull off--anyone (dealer, consumer, automaker) involved in an out-of-bounds PZEV sale could be subject to civil fines of up to $27,500.
So the answer would be "Yes". That's the whole point of the article.
Now I could see California saying they will only pay a subsidy for cars sold IN California, which would mean they would cost more in other states that don't subsidize. But I don't see why they would care.
Um, if you could buy an expensive car in state X, or the same car for cheaper from some guy that bought one in California, marked it up to less than you could buy it in state X and delivered it to you, which would you buy? They have to completely restrict sales to prevent this.
For some time now I have had push email on a Windows Mobile Treo. Exchange natively does everything that Blackberry or Goodlink can do if you have the right devices.
I can't believe this kind of a red herring post got an insightful score. Do I really have to explain the difference between some screen shots on an article and the actual research? If you actually look, the *entire image* has been compressed to all hell, probably by the website hosting it, to save bandwidth.
The Defense Security Service is the same group that felt it was a good idea to ban access to their websites based on top level domain name. You see, they figured no one with a.edu domain name could be trusted despite universities being a large consumer of their services. I asked them how the heck we were supposed to view their site. They suggested that we "buy a.com" and then it would work fine. After weeks of explaining to them how bonehead an idea that was they changed their policy. *sigh*
Opticoms activations are very, very obvious, including a confirmation light from the direction of the emergency vehicle. It would be pretty blatantly obvious for a police car cruising along at a regular rate of speed to use one. They can also be quite long range, so in the congested areas you typically find red light cameras they could trigger multiple signals down the road.
Because you just know that www.mybank.safe.ru isn't going to fool ANYONE because after all is SAYS "safe" in the URL! Wait, did I just contradict myself? This internet is hard.
That's a full scale model of the very same technology! I imagine in this day and age of computer control it will be more successful, especially as a UAV, but how can this guy get a patent on technology from 1958 and claim it as new?
If it's proper for an ISP to block email that has questionable or unwanted content (eg, spam), why is it not proper for that same ISP to block Websites that also have questionable or unwanted content (eg, phishing sites)?
If those website were spewing http requests at my browser without having been asked to do so, your comment would make sense. However that's not how it works. Website do not take up my bandwidth, storage, resources or time without an explicit request on my part for a reply. It is an entirely different situation. If you moved this into the area of spam sites that flood your screen with unrequested popups, then you might have a point. For the majority of websites, however, that does not apply.
Also as a volunteer firefighter, I beg to differ. This is a perfect rehab device for any long duration incident. You aren't supposed to wear this coffee pot sized thing into the fire!
Yes, because you know that you're allow to bring a portable generator, six hours of fuel for it and a large menacing transmitter onto a plane. Yup, sure.
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Ok, so it's not quite at the same level, but my Logitech webcam will stick a hat or beard on my face in real time, or completely replace my video with video of a shark or a cat or a stick figure whose mouth, eyes and expressions mimic mine. Way, way cheesier looking effect, but hey it's just a webcam!
Of course ex-users of Scrabulous are going to tank the official version. This is news?
Is this really a realistic test? Wouldn't space urine have a significantly different composition based on the restricted diet of a long journey?
Does it? I can't tell from the overly biased and inaccurate blog that is trying to present this as news. Who freaking knows anymore when everybody and their brother can start a mob scene with zero information or facts to back up assertions. *sigh*
Is this the same Lori Drew that drove a teenager to suicide by pretending to be a teen aged boy that intentionally was scorning the teen girl? So there might be a little more to this story...
Here's an article from 2004 about the fact that the Little Ice Age was most likely responsible for slowing tree growth and creating perfect wood for violins: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0107_040107_violin.html
That's called Differential GPS, although WAAS is more commonly available on consumer units.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waas
Is there a way to test all my installed extension in advance?
VirtualBox. Just spin up a VM of your favorite (supported) distro and test away. You could even run in seamless mode for a while if you're inclined to think "blah, then I'd have to use the VM for a while which would mean switching windows constantly etc, etc".
What is the point in advertising this thing? It is completely useless once it becomes public knowledge.
This is a University marketing department pushing the latest accomplishment of one of their faculty in order to flash it around in a bid for more money from similar programs. This isn't adopted technology, this isn't an official "government technology", it's not really even a practical technology. It's just a researcher/university that wanted their name in the paper and an accomplishment under their belt. It happens all the time at universities because they are all competing for the same research funding from the various agencies that provide it. If a university doesn't stand out as cutting edge it's less likely to get funding.
Whenever my office has been tempted to put non-HP ink in our business class printers they have had printing issues or leaked inside the printer, resulting in having to buy another cartridge and clean the printer. So HP cartridges end up being a lot cheaper than the cost of an off-brand cartridge + printer service call + replacement cartridge for the one that didn't work. Maybe at the consumer level refills and off brand can work, but not for high volume or accurate color printing.
This story has a lot of FUD. This is not the official release, it's still the Beta testing. When it goes full release it'll be a simple Windows Update.
The comments (so far) on this story are unbelievable. If you don't want to buy the game, then don't buy it. If you don't want to pay for the game but you steal it to play it anyway (or sell/distribute it illegally), then suck up the consequences.
Real, actual, non-fictional people's salaries are based on the fact that if people play these games (or music, or movies) then they will pay for them. If you don't like the way the market works due to levels of compensation, etc. then feel free to get your media from those that offer it freely or at a rate you agree with and who base their economic plans on that fact.
However if it's a commercial product and you steal it, then go to jail and shut up. You broke the law. Quit whining, quit the straw man style "rapists and murderers" blathering and learn something for a change. If you advocate open source and freely available media, quit giving our community a black eye by encouraging theft and cheering on pirates. If the new media model is going to work, it will work by being a better model, not by undermining the current system we have. Undermining rather than supplanting only encourages harsher laws and more intense DRM which will make the transition harder to accomplish in the end. Like I said, unbelievable.
F-Secure has information as well.
Is there anything that prevents a Californian from selling his California-purchased car outside of California today?
From TFA:
Not only can't you buy one, but the government says it's currently illegal for automakers to sell these green cars outside of the special states. Under terms of the Clean Air Act--in the kind of delicious irony only our government can pull off--anyone (dealer, consumer, automaker) involved in an out-of-bounds PZEV sale could be subject to civil fines of up to $27,500.
So the answer would be "Yes". That's the whole point of the article.
Now I could see California saying they will only pay a subsidy for cars sold IN California, which would mean they would cost more in other states that don't subsidize. But I don't see why they would care.
Um, if you could buy an expensive car in state X, or the same car for cheaper from some guy that bought one in California, marked it up to less than you could buy it in state X and delivered it to you, which would you buy? They have to completely restrict sales to prevent this.
I'm sure they'll all be running Spam@Home
For some time now I have had push email on a Windows Mobile Treo. Exchange natively does everything that Blackberry or Goodlink can do if you have the right devices.
I can't believe this kind of a red herring post got an insightful score. Do I really have to explain the difference between some screen shots on an article and the actual research? If you actually look, the *entire image* has been compressed to all hell, probably by the website hosting it, to save bandwidth.
The Defense Security Service is the same group that felt it was a good idea to ban access to their websites based on top level domain name. You see, they figured no one with a .edu domain name could be trusted despite universities being a large consumer of their services. I asked them how the heck we were supposed to view their site. They suggested that we "buy a .com" and then it would work fine. After weeks of explaining to them how bonehead an idea that was they changed their policy. *sigh*
Opticoms activations are very, very obvious, including a confirmation light from the direction of the emergency vehicle. It would be pretty blatantly obvious for a police car cruising along at a regular rate of speed to use one. They can also be quite long range, so in the congested areas you typically find red light cameras they could trigger multiple signals down the road.
Because you just know that www.mybank.safe.ru isn't going to fool ANYONE because after all is SAYS "safe" in the URL! Wait, did I just contradict myself? This internet is hard.
Linked from the Wikipedia article in the summary is the Avrocar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avrocar_(aircraft)
That's a full scale model of the very same technology! I imagine in this day and age of computer control it will be more successful, especially as a UAV, but how can this guy get a patent on technology from 1958 and claim it as new?
If it's proper for an ISP to block email that has questionable or unwanted content (eg, spam), why is it not proper for that same ISP to block Websites that also have questionable or unwanted content (eg, phishing sites)?
If those website were spewing http requests at my browser without having been asked to do so, your comment would make sense. However that's not how it works. Website do not take up my bandwidth, storage, resources or time without an explicit request on my part for a reply. It is an entirely different situation. If you moved this into the area of spam sites that flood your screen with unrequested popups, then you might have a point. For the majority of websites, however, that does not apply.
Also as a volunteer firefighter, I beg to differ. This is a perfect rehab device for any long duration incident. You aren't supposed to wear this coffee pot sized thing into the fire!
Yes, because you know that you're allow to bring a portable generator, six hours of fuel for it and a large menacing transmitter onto a plane. Yup, sure.