I believe it is actually more difficult than it would appear, mainly because you need to give people access to the machine to enter the candidates and when you do that, you are potentially giving them access to do other things.
That said, the problem is not insurmountable. I would suggest open-sourcing the software and the hardware design. There are enough people that are interested in this problem that I expect that it would be well supported and potential security flaws found and fixed quickly. It would also greatly reduce the development costs.
We would still need companies and governments to work together to build and certify the machines, but everyone could be working off a common, open blueprint.
Actually, I have been buying a ton of online music since I bought my iPod, but I don't particularily like it being DRM protected and costing more than going out and buying the CD's, so I buy from AllOfMp3.com which lets you choose the format and compression, is not protected so I can do what I want with it AND costs about $1 an album. It is out of Russia and I doubt that the record companies are getting much of a cut out of it, but I am sick of being ripped off by them.
The music companies treat me like a criminal by adding copy protection to their CDs so that I can't listen to them as I want. They rip me off by charging $.99 / song for music that I can only listen to in limited ways. It is no wonder that my CD collection of about 500 CDs hasn't been growning recently, they have drivin me away...
But hey, I'm preaching to the choir here aren't I?:D
It looks like in the end they did not have to change their name. If you read the conclusion of the ruling;
"Having considered all of Federal Express's contentions on this appeal and having found in them no merit except as indicated above, we see no basis for reversal. The order of the district court denying a preliminary injunction is affirmed."
Search for Canadian Airborne Regiment on either MSN or Google and my PHP site comes up number 1, so I expect it is just because of different ranking algorithms that yours does not.
I would expect that a company like Adobe that currently supports over 80 RAW formats would have thought of that and built it into the file format. Plus the DNG page states that the format is extendable to allow it to contain camera specific meta-data.
Hopefully this will turn into something open. Many photographers are very concerned about the archiving of their photos taken in RAW format. Will we still be able to read the many different formats 5, 10 or 100 years from now? Imagine if all of Ansel Adams negatives and prints (or any other great photographer) were now in unreadable formats!
To combat this, Adobe has introduced a new open RAW format called DNG for digital negative. They provide a free converter to convert all of the closed proprietary formats to it and are willing to work with the camera comanies to make sure that the format contains the information they need.
The RAW converter that came with $2500 Minolta SLR I bought does a terrible job. They want me to pay an extra several hundred dollars for the Pro version that does the job decently. All that just to read the damn pictures I take!
Can you imagine if you bought a film camera and got consistently crappy prints from it unless you bought a pro-upgrade lab? At least Adobe takes the time to reverse engineer these proprietary formats and even provides a free tool to convert to an open format.
My collection is nearly 25 GB and has over 4600 songs. I rip all of my CD's at 192 or 256 bit so they are fairly large. That would make for nearly 18,000 songs ranging from 128-256 bits.
I guess to get 250,000 songs they could all be at 16 or 32 bit mono and 30 seconds long;)
I write software. I do give my boss reasonable estimates based on 8 hour days. For example, for the last project, I was given a list of features in July. I estimated that my team could complete the project by late November. My PHB said that it was a business necessity that it by done by beginning Sept and they were not willing to hire anyone else.
In the end, you are left with no choice but to work overtime or look for another job. In Ontario, my employer can tell me to work as many hours as he wishes (see my other posts above) and if I do not comply fire me with cause and no severence. It looks really good in the next job interview when you say that you left or were fired from your last position because you weren't willing to put in the hours necessary to get the job done on time. Explain all you want, you won't get the job.
BTW, this isn't the first company it has been like this. In fact, it has been 70% of the companies I have worked for. You may have a better job, great for you.
IT workers are exempt from section VII - Exemptions re Hours of Work and Eating Periods and section VIII - Exemptions re Overtime Pay of the Employment Standards Act, 2000 - O. Reg. 285/01.
An IT worker is defined "information technology professional" means an employee who is primarily engaged in the investigation, analysis, design, development, implementation, operation or management of information systems based on computer and related technologies through the objective application of specialized knowledge and professional judgment
Money might equal happiness if I had time to spend it. With 12 to 14 hour days the norm, the job I love doing is burning me out and making me think of a new career. To make it worse, in Ontario, IT workers are exempt from labour laws governing working hours and overtime. One of the few other trades exempt in Ontario is farm workers. It's nice to know that we are appreciated and our bosses got to the government...
Sure, maybe you can zap your cloths, or scan them and remove hidden tags, but what about other tags they are going to force you to carry? Store scanners can scan your car keys, credit cards, gas speedpass, security card for your office and then start linking all of this information together to track you.
If corporations and the government get their way, RFID tags will be in many things we can't do without (maybe even driver's licences or national ID cards?). Add to that scanners at key locations and the last bits of our privacy are gone.
There is a difference. What Canada wants to do is decriminalize pot so that it will be more like a speeding ticket. Also, larger quantities will still be criminal (trafficing will still land you in jail.)
The argument is that we (Canadians) do not feel that people that have been caught with small amounts of pot should end up in jail or have criminal records ruining their lives. A kid that smokes a joint at a party shouldn't have his/her entire life stripped away for a stupid mistake.
Think of it more like drinking under-age (illegal, but not criminal), you get caught at a high-school party being stupid (who hasn't), your life isn't over.
The problem with that is that your implementation may be flawed - this accounts for the bulk of the cracked encryption. That's why it's best to use known good encryption.
That is probably why the export version of M$ Windows 2000 now ships with 128 bit encryption. The NSA knows that everything Microsoft does is flawed, but figures that it will lull the terrorists into a false sense of security...
The only compiler I know of for the Playstation 2 (and many game platforms) is Metrowerks CodeWarrior for PlayStation 2.
It is very expensive, but it is nice to use a compiler that works the same for multiple platforms such as Linux, Windows or the Palm OS. As for cost, you need to contact games@metrowerks.com for a pricing/packaging matrix.
Symantic just released a report on this virus. I will reproduce the text here;
This is the preliminary information known at this time.
There is a new mass-mailing worm that utilizes email to propagate itself. The threat arrives as readme.exe in an email.
In addition, the worm sends out probes to IIS servers attempting to spread by using the Unicode Web Traversal exploit similar to W32.BlueCode.Worm. Compromised servers may display a webpage prompting a visitor to download an Outlook file which contains the worm as an attachment.
Also, the worm will create an open network share allowing access to the system. The worm will also attempt to spread via open network shares.
Oh my God, their server isn't responding!!! They must be infected by that Code Red virus that I've been hearing about in the news. It's all true, the sky is falling, the Internet is grinding to a halt. Quick, everyone turn off your computers to prevent its spread!
Or maybe this is that even more insidious virus/worm I've been hearing about, the/. effect...
That is exactly the problem. Multicast has little impact on your network, but as you start going upstream and it starts splitting out to separate networks, then the bandwidth problems begin. Think of multicast like one road leading away from your house, then constantly forking out into new roads. Regular IP is more like thousands of parallel roads leading out from your house to different destinations. The end result is the same, but the single driveway out of your house is a lot easier to build and maintain.
The only difference between the road analogy and real life is that for multicast, if you sent a truck out from your house (a data packet,) at every intersection, that truck would duplicate itself at every intersection. With regular IP, you would just send out all the trucks at once.
Of course, all of this is greatly simplified (as analogies tend to be;o) but I think it gets the point across...
TV over Internet still a fair ways away
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Everyone said high speed Internet access with DSL and Cable would bring in an age of high bandwidth Internet applications like TV over IP. This article just shows that this is not going to be the case for sometime. If HDTV requires a throughput of 20 Mbps, then our fast connections at home are still a long way off. Besides, when is the last time you even managed full bandwidth when doing an upload? Something upstream is always a bottleneck.
Just think about it, a T1 is 1.5 Mbps, my cable modem max's out at 2.9 Mbps (not that I ever see that.) These bandwidth hungry applications are still a long way away, at least until the next Internet revolution when we all have fiber to the home...
I have a link on my homepage that allows you to set your browser homepage to that page. If you click on it, IE displays a message box confirming the change. Either this guy is not running IE, he clicked Okay, or there is some security setting that I don't know about that turns off warnings. In the second and third case, its his own damn fault for either accepting the change or having his security settings so open.
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I believe it is actually more difficult than it would appear, mainly because you need to give people access to the machine to enter the candidates and when you do that, you are potentially giving them access to do other things. That said, the problem is not insurmountable. I would suggest open-sourcing the software and the hardware design. There are enough people that are interested in this problem that I expect that it would be well supported and potential security flaws found and fixed quickly. It would also greatly reduce the development costs. We would still need companies and governments to work together to build and certify the machines, but everyone could be working off a common, open blueprint.
In tomorrows news, FCC commissioner resigns after phone records of calls to his mistress were leaked by the NSA.
The music companies treat me like a criminal by adding copy protection to their CDs so that I can't listen to them as I want. They rip me off by charging $.99 / song for music that I can only listen to in limited ways. It is no wonder that my CD collection of about 500 CDs hasn't been growning recently, they have drivin me away...
But hey, I'm preaching to the choir here aren't I? :D
Search for Canadian Airborne Regiment on either MSN or Google and my PHP site comes up number 1, so I expect it is just because of different ranking algorithms that yours does not.
I would expect that a company like Adobe that currently supports over 80 RAW formats would have thought of that and built it into the file format. Plus the DNG page states that the format is extendable to allow it to contain camera specific meta-data.
To combat this, Adobe has introduced a new open RAW format called DNG for digital negative. They provide a free converter to convert all of the closed proprietary formats to it and are willing to work with the camera comanies to make sure that the format contains the information they need.
The RAW converter that came with $2500 Minolta SLR I bought does a terrible job. They want me to pay an extra several hundred dollars for the Pro version that does the job decently. All that just to read the damn pictures I take!
Can you imagine if you bought a film camera and got consistently crappy prints from it unless you bought a pro-upgrade lab? At least Adobe takes the time to reverse engineer these proprietary formats and even provides a free tool to convert to an open format.
I lived in Tokyo for awhile and when it comes to tech-gadgets, the grass is greener.
My collection is nearly 25 GB and has over 4600 songs. I rip all of my CD's at 192 or 256 bit so they are fairly large. That would make for nearly 18,000 songs ranging from 128-256 bits.
;)
I guess to get 250,000 songs they could all be at 16 or 32 bit mono and 30 seconds long
Oh wait, there are a dozen in my inbox already. God you guys are quick, thanks ;)
I write software. I do give my boss reasonable estimates based on 8 hour days. For example, for the last project, I was given a list of features in July. I estimated that my team could complete the project by late November. My PHB said that it was a business necessity that it by done by beginning Sept and they were not willing to hire anyone else.
In the end, you are left with no choice but to work overtime or look for another job. In Ontario, my employer can tell me to work as many hours as he wishes (see my other posts above) and if I do not comply fire me with cause and no severence. It looks really good in the next job interview when you say that you left or were fired from your last position because you weren't willing to put in the hours necessary to get the job done on time. Explain all you want, you won't get the job.
BTW, this isn't the first company it has been like this. In fact, it has been 70% of the companies I have worked for. You may have a better job, great for you.
IT workers are exempt from section VII - Exemptions re Hours of Work and Eating Periods and section VIII - Exemptions re Overtime Pay of the Employment Standards Act, 2000 - O. Reg. 285/01.
An IT worker is defined "information technology professional" means an employee who is primarily engaged in the investigation, analysis, design, development, implementation, operation or management of information systems based on computer and related technologies through the objective application of specialized knowledge and professional judgment
Money might equal happiness if I had time to spend it. With 12 to 14 hour days the norm, the job I love doing is burning me out and making me think of a new career. To make it worse, in Ontario, IT workers are exempt from labour laws governing working hours and overtime. One of the few other trades exempt in Ontario is farm workers. It's nice to know that we are appreciated and our bosses got to the government...
In little tiny attack helicopters!!!
Sure, maybe you can zap your cloths, or scan them and remove hidden tags, but what about other tags they are going to force you to carry? Store scanners can scan your car keys, credit cards, gas speedpass, security card for your office and then start linking all of this information together to track you. If corporations and the government get their way, RFID tags will be in many things we can't do without (maybe even driver's licences or national ID cards?). Add to that scanners at key locations and the last bits of our privacy are gone.
Sounds like a really tough fix... Delete the offending page... "There, see, its secure."
There is a difference. What Canada wants to do is decriminalize pot so that it will be more like a speeding ticket. Also, larger quantities will still be criminal (trafficing will still land you in jail.) The argument is that we (Canadians) do not feel that people that have been caught with small amounts of pot should end up in jail or have criminal records ruining their lives. A kid that smokes a joint at a party shouldn't have his/her entire life stripped away for a stupid mistake. Think of it more like drinking under-age (illegal, but not criminal), you get caught at a high-school party being stupid (who hasn't), your life isn't over.
That is probably why the export version of M$ Windows 2000 now ships with 128 bit encryption. The NSA knows that everything Microsoft does is flawed, but figures that it will lull the terrorists into a false sense of security...
It is very expensive, but it is nice to use a compiler that works the same for multiple platforms such as Linux, Windows or the Palm OS. As for cost, you need to contact games@metrowerks.com for a pricing/packaging matrix.
This is the preliminary information known at this time.
There is a new mass-mailing worm that utilizes email to propagate itself. The threat arrives as readme.exe in an email.
In addition, the worm sends out probes to IIS servers attempting to spread by using the Unicode Web Traversal exploit similar to W32.BlueCode.Worm. Compromised servers may display a webpage prompting a visitor to download an Outlook file which contains the worm as an attachment.
Also, the worm will create an open network share allowing access to the system. The worm will also attempt to spread via open network shares.
Or maybe this is that even more insidious virus/worm I've been hearing about, the /. effect...
The only difference between the road analogy and real life is that for multicast, if you sent a truck out from your house (a data packet,) at every intersection, that truck would duplicate itself at every intersection. With regular IP, you would just send out all the trucks at once.
Of course, all of this is greatly simplified (as analogies tend to be ;o) but I think it gets the point across...
Just think about it, a T1 is 1.5 Mbps, my cable modem max's out at 2.9 Mbps (not that I ever see that.) These bandwidth hungry applications are still a long way away, at least until the next Internet revolution when we all have fiber to the home...
What am I trying to say? So what!
I have a link on my homepage that allows you to set your browser homepage to that page. If you click on it, IE displays a message box confirming the change. Either this guy is not running IE, he clicked Okay, or there is some security setting that I don't know about that turns off warnings. In the second and third case, its his own damn fault for either accepting the change or having his security settings so open.