Because people dont understand what they are. People dont check their content.
I'm not trusting Equifax, Verisign or any of the other big names delivering certificates. I've disabled all the root certificates in Firefox.
I want to be able to verify my bank certificate myself. I should be able to go into my local branch or call their number and verify their certificate fingerprints.
Before the internet, how did we trust businesses? We knew people, who knew people who knew the business. The more closely you are related to somebody the more you'll trust. You might trust them because they are member of some other organization you trust, but today's model of centralized trusted third parties does not allow you to set your own trust levels and trust networks.
The PGP idea's of Web Of Trust is so much better, why is it not being used for securing the internet ?
Dude you're so out of date, I have a 16K upgrade on my ZX-81.
The only problem now, is that the power plug is somewhat loose, and I'm missing one of the rubber pad at the bottom, so the whole thing tends to tip around when I type, so I'm lucky if I can finish writing a ten line program before triggering a power failure...
Your mistaking functions for buttons. You can clearly do everything with 6 buttons.
If they dont need to type, most people do everything on their computer with a mouse which count as 6 buttons (4 direction, 2 action buttons)
Even for the rare case you need a keyboard, you can do it with the mouse and the onscreen keyboard.
Also consider that while I'm in front in a computer, I spend most of my time typing and clicking to do things, while I'm in front of a TV I dont spend my time clicking on the remote because I dont want to do anything but watch.
Obviously you didnt keep up with the kids these days...
What's cooler than a camera phone ? An iPod ! What's cooler than an iPod ? An iBook !
Technology is cool with kids these days. Not the actual use of it, or -even worse- the making of it, just the carrying it around bit (oh and the IM thing with your friends...)
As long as you are not asking "but does it run linux?" these things are cool...
Long gone are the days of DOS and the punch card... Technology for dummies is all around you...
Well actually, this would be an interresting contest.
Its pretty obvious to recognize Linus' style when he writes email. I'd like to see the first "email impersonnator contest". Linux being the subject to impersonnate. (1 or 2 n ?? )
The point of Blu-Ray is High Definition. So your analog video and audio outputs are not going to get you HD. You are not going to plug your HDTV to your DVD player using analog if you want HiDef.
The purpose of the DRM in Blu Ray is to block you from ripping the decrypted, compressed bitsream. If all you can do with BluRay is capture the analog, then we can already do better with regular DVD, so it would be a huge success for BluRay DRMs.
And if you know about what kind of DRM they are talking about, you would realize that its not going to be simple to permanently hack, even a software implementation.
Even if you are able to get the uncompressed HD image by hijacking your display device, watermark detection will make sure that your BluRay player keys will be revoked and wont be able to play new content.
The design of BluRay's DRMs has really been though out, and covers a lot of scenarios. Off course the implementations will have problems, bugs and exploits, but what it really comes down to is how well BluRay will keep track of compromised players, and how bad they are willing to perform key revocation.
Each player is supposed to have an unique ID, but I can see it from here: some manufacturer (cheap chinese for example) will mess up and produce 1000s of player with the same ID. When one of this player his compromised, 1000s of players will stop working with new releases if the studios revoke this key. 1000s of people will complain.
In the best case the manufacturer (contractually at fault for producing clones) will change the players. In the worst case there will be lawsuits flying around between Studios, BluRay authorities, OEM, silicon vendors and consumers.
The good thing for the Japanese: the barrier of entry for cheap Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturer will be high. There will be the need to put in place "secure" production lines , making sure that keys are not leaked and that no clone are produced. The huge liabilities that the OEM will face if they screw up will be enough to give Pioneer, Sony etc.. time to make a buck on BluRay.
But they want only the best. So the recruiting process is long and complex. They sure dont have a shortage of applicants, but they might have a shortage of fitting ones.
Some people (like me) wont apply at Google, for various reasons (in my case, I already have a interresting job and I'm too lazy to go through an application process), so advertising how great the working conditions is certainly not useless.
Yes but, the artists who 1,000,000 legally downloaded songs for free might not be as popular as the one who sold 1,000,000 albums for 15$.
Considers that Britneys probably had her albums downloaded 100 millions times, while it was illegal and not straight forward... What is the ratio of "fan per sold album" vs "fan per legally downloaded album" ?
Album sales are a more a mesure of the artist popularity. Number of time you song is played on the radio is a mesure of your exposure. What is the number of legally downloaded song a mesure of ? exposure or popularity ? or a mix of both ?
Dude, try the other way around. MSTV (MSFT IPTV platform) has been here for some time now (at least 2 years), and they were all over the Press for IBC...
Google has a lot of catchup to do if they are trying to do the same thing. But maybe they aren't. MSFT is about the platform, GOOG might be about the content...
When I first moved to the US, while I was still evaluating the different broadband options, I started with a free AOL CD just to be able to connect.
I got broadband a few weeks later, and forgot to cancel rigth away. When I finally called to cancel, they asked why I cancelled. So I told them the truth: - "It was just a temporary solution until I got cable installed" - "So you never really intented to keep AOL" - "Well... no..." - "So tou're just abusing the offer" - "What ????" - "This is intended for people who really wants to try AOL."
I was flabbergasted. And I didn't even complain when then charged one month service because I cancelled 2 days late - even though I hadnt logged in AOL for a month or so before...
They dont really care about analog, but you wont but able to do much with a non DHCP DVI/HDMI.
But I've just been told that there is box for sale in germany that take encrypted HDMI in input and output clear HDMI... I guess such a box is illegal in the US though...
Prove it... I mean do you have any figures for worlwide booksales, and profits from booksales compared to software sales and profits from software sales ?
Also lets not forget that Rowling is suing like crazy because someone got to read her book a few days before the official release date... There is a lot of money involved...
For all I know, I'd rather be JK Rowling than Bill Gates... (I think Bill billions are mostly paper billions from MSFT stocks, Rowling figured out how to transform paper in real cash...)
But then again I dont have a lot of proof of that... do you ?
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Because people dont understand what they are. People dont check their content.
I'm not trusting Equifax, Verisign or any of the other big names delivering certificates. I've disabled all the root certificates in Firefox.
I want to be able to verify my bank certificate myself. I should be able to go into my local branch or call their number and verify their certificate fingerprints.
Before the internet, how did we trust businesses? We knew people, who knew people who knew the business. The more closely you are related to somebody the more you'll trust. You might trust them because they are member of some other organization you trust, but today's model of centralized trusted third parties does not allow you to set your own trust levels and trust networks.
The PGP idea's of Web Of Trust is so much better, why is it not being used for securing the internet ?
Dude you're so out of date, I have a 16K upgrade on my ZX-81.
The only problem now, is that the power plug is somewhat loose, and I'm missing one of the rubber pad at the bottom, so the whole thing tends to tip around when I type, so I'm lucky if I can finish writing a ten line program before triggering a power failure...
Your mistaking functions for buttons. You can clearly do everything with 6 buttons.
If they dont need to type, most people do everything on their computer with a mouse which count as 6 buttons (4 direction, 2 action buttons)
Even for the rare case you need a keyboard, you can do it with the mouse and the onscreen keyboard.
Also consider that while I'm in front in a computer, I spend most of my time typing and clicking to do things, while I'm in front of a TV I dont spend my time clicking on the remote because I dont want to do anything but watch.
The proposal is that you dont need an access that direct.
You flip up and down, or go through the mosaic/menu to find the channel/chapter you want.
When your channels numbers have 3 digits anyway direct access is not practical.
Obviously you didnt keep up with the kids these days...
... Technology for dummies is all around you...
What's cooler than a camera phone ? An iPod !
What's cooler than an iPod ? An iBook !
Technology is cool with kids these days. Not the actual use of it, or -even worse- the making of it, just the carrying it around bit (oh and the IM thing with your friends...)
As long as you are not asking "but does it run linux?" these things are cool...
Long gone are the days of DOS and the punch card
A 2D ipod would be much better.
Think thin as a sheet of paper.
Well actually, this would be an interresting contest.
Its pretty obvious to recognize Linus' style when he writes email.
I'd like to see the first "email impersonnator contest". Linux being the subject to impersonnate. (1 or 2 n ?? )
You are totally missing the point.
The point of Blu-Ray is High Definition. So your analog video and audio outputs are not going to get you HD. You are not going to plug your HDTV to your DVD player using analog if you want HiDef.
The purpose of the DRM in Blu Ray is to block you from ripping the decrypted, compressed bitsream. If all you can do with BluRay is capture the analog, then we can already do better with regular DVD, so it would be a huge success for BluRay DRMs.
And if you know about what kind of DRM they are talking about, you would realize that its not going to be simple to permanently hack, even a software implementation.
Even if you are able to get the uncompressed HD image by hijacking your display device, watermark detection will make sure that your BluRay player keys will be revoked and wont be able to play new content.
The design of BluRay's DRMs has really been though out, and covers a lot of scenarios. Off course the implementations will have problems, bugs and exploits, but what it really comes down to is how well BluRay will keep track of compromised players, and how bad they are willing to perform key revocation.
Each player is supposed to have an unique ID, but I can see it from here: some manufacturer (cheap chinese for example) will mess up and produce 1000s of player with the same ID. When one of this player his compromised, 1000s of players will stop working with new releases if the studios revoke this key. 1000s of people will complain.
In the best case the manufacturer (contractually at fault for producing clones) will change the players.
In the worst case there will be lawsuits flying around between Studios, BluRay authorities, OEM, silicon vendors and consumers.
The good thing for the Japanese: the barrier of entry for cheap Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturer will be high. There will be the need to put in place "secure" production lines , making sure that keys are not leaked and that no clone are produced. The huge liabilities that the OEM will face if they screw up will be enough to give Pioneer, Sony etc.. time to make a buck on BluRay.
They need and they do.
But they want only the best. So the recruiting process is long and complex. They sure dont have a shortage of applicants, but they might have a shortage of fitting ones.
Some people (like me) wont apply at Google, for various reasons (in my case, I already have a interresting job and I'm too lazy to go through an application process), so advertising how great the working conditions is certainly not useless.
- Cisco buys SA (Scientific Atlanta)h tml)s )v 04/11-30sigmadesignspr.mspx)p 05/09-08SigmaIBCPR.mspx)s /SBC04_IPTV.mspx)0 0&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=21772)
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- Cisco recently bought danish company Kiss Technology - now part of the linksys division (Some of you might remember them as the first company coming out with a Mpeg4/Divx set top DVD player)
(http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2005/corp_072205.
- Kiss has a long standing relationship with chip maker Sigma Designs, Inc.
(http://www.google.com/search?q=Kiss+Sigma+Design
- Sigma and Microsoft are working together to enable Windows Media CE product, including Kiss products
(http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/no
- Sigma is working with Microsoft on their MSTV IPTV platform.
(http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/se
- SBC plans to release IPTV service using the MSTV platform.
(http://www.microsoft.com/tv/content/PressRelease
SBC will use Motorola and SA set top boxes for this (service.http://www.sbc.com/gen/press-room?pid=48
Obviously Cisco wants to be a player in the IPTV space.
This article is interresting also, cisco was not named, so they must have realized that their were getting out of the loop. Not anymore with the SA acquisition: http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2005/09/09/t
It even outweight 2 ipods....
Neuros (40G):
136.1 x 78 x 26.5
325g
Ipod (60G):
103,5 x 61,8 x 14
157 g
In my mind, popularity is how many people like the artist, exposure is how many people have heard of the artist.
Revenues (Album sales, concert tickets sales, online song sales, endorsement deals) is a function of popularity.
Popularity is a function of exposure and the intrisic quality of the artist.
Exposure is a function of radio diffusion, tv appearence and free internet download.
So really you cant compare internet download and album sales in any meaningful way.
Yes but, the artists who 1,000,000 legally downloaded songs for free might not be as popular as the one who sold 1,000,000 albums for 15$.
Considers that Britneys probably had her albums downloaded 100 millions times, while it was illegal and not straight forward... What is the ratio of "fan per sold album" vs "fan per legally downloaded album" ?
Album sales are a more a mesure of the artist popularity. Number of time you song is played on the radio is a mesure of your exposure. What is the number of legally downloaded song a mesure of ? exposure or popularity ? or a mix of both ?
Dude, try the other way around. MSTV (MSFT IPTV platform) has been here for some time now (at least 2 years), and they were all over the Press for IBC...
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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122466,
Google has a lot of catchup to do if they are trying to do the same thing. But maybe they aren't. MSFT is about the platform, GOOG might be about the content...
First you have to fill up with Toxis methanol, then you have to breath CO2 fumes ?
No thanks....
Good luck doing your block diagrams in ascii in notepad....
Visio maybe ?
In France, by law, the iPod generation is protected (the Walkman generation too).
Dont you remember that Apple forgot to put a volume limiter feature in their French iPods so that they had to stop selling them for a while ?
Yet you can read Slashdot.... lucky you...
"...equating engine size and penis size,..."
I already have trouble putting my 2.0 Liters penis in my pants, I really wonder how these guys with a 5.0 Liters engine do....
Why? I dont think any popular open source distro is lacking mirrors...
About every University already has mirrors for some stuff... Every 2 bits project on Sourceforge is mirrored all over the planet.
When I first moved to the US, while I was still evaluating the different broadband options, I started with a free AOL CD just to be able to connect.
I got broadband a few weeks later, and forgot to cancel rigth away. When I finally called to cancel, they asked why I cancelled. So I told them the truth:
- "It was just a temporary solution until I got cable installed"
- "So you never really intented to keep AOL"
- "Well... no..."
- "So tou're just abusing the offer"
- "What ????"
- "This is intended for people who really wants to try AOL."
I was flabbergasted. And I didn't even complain when then charged one month service because I cancelled 2 days late - even though I hadnt logged in AOL for a month or so before...
Thats just rude...
In your case NRA would stands for "Not Reading All the way"....
In his case... well If you cannot figure it out by now, its hopeless...
They dont really care about analog, but you wont but able to do much with a non DHCP DVI/HDMI.
But I've just been told that there is box for sale in germany that take encrypted HDMI in input and output clear HDMI... I guess such a box is illegal in the US though...
Prove it... I mean do you have any figures for worlwide booksales, and profits from booksales compared to software sales and profits from software sales ?
...
Also lets not forget that Rowling is suing like crazy because someone got to read her book a few days before the official release date... There is a lot of money involved
For all I know, I'd rather be JK Rowling than Bill Gates...
(I think Bill billions are mostly paper billions from MSFT stocks, Rowling figured out how to transform paper in real cash...)
But then again I dont have a lot of proof of that... do you ?
> Imagine the reaction if the US had built heavily
> armed concrete fortresses for Americans to live
> in permanently in Japan, Germany, or Iraq.
You mean, they should rotate the colons every now and then like the US does in Ramstein, Okinawa and Bagdad ?