If they used the 700 - 640 = 60MB that older cd players cant read to store compressed DRM/whatever the original CD part would be exactly the same with no loss of space, is this what they are doing i didnt RTFA? or would it not be possible to do so that old players could still read it?
Most products would advertise this feature as one line in a change-log. Microsoft has to make it a big revolutionisng bloody deal. They couldnt even add it as a windows-update fix they had to wait for half a year to put it in the service pack! and what about windows 2000? No doubt they will screw this feature up too.
A lot of people are overpaid because there are certain things consumers just don't want screwed up," said Bill Coleman, senior vice president of compensation for Salary.com. "You wouldn't want to board a plane flown by a second-rate pilot
Actually allot of commercial pilots (yes people that fly the plane you go on) are paid surprisingly low wages. Infact in general all the people that do the jobs that we really need - firefighters, police, doctors/nurses/paramedics, teachers etc are paid very little.
How ironic that the next story linked at the top of the page is "Microsoft Moving Into Chip Design With Xbox Next" Its one thing when they create shoddy software, but hardware! why they could kill us all!
Yes there is the joy of recognition and sometimes theres nothing i like more than to sit down and watch "The Worlds Greatest Police Videos 8" or some film involving blowing up everything in sight in slow motion and also theres the music that forfils some sort of itch because it has a catchy tune even though you know its bad reprocessed teeny-pop (although allot of it doesnt even have a catchy tune, or has such bad acting and explosions its not even worth that). Personally i think these things are the entertainment vice of our time like drugs, alcohol, caffine, and shoot-em-ups and while i easily get hooked and consume them, im damnd if im going to pay the drug-dealing producers, so financially ive stopped falling for it.
Yeah they are making it in an easy way but how different are they from drug dealers? we are addicts so we cant say we're much better.
I wish hollywood would stop using these cheep sales tactics, afew very long stories - eg Lord Of The Rings, series - eg Harry Potter, James Bond justify having more than one film, but often they are just taking the piss knowing that people who liked the first will undoubtedly go see the second and only be dissapointed after they have paid their money. I dont want to live in a world where there are no original films and every month there are only sequels, prequels, remastered re-releases, remakes, adaptations, remakes of previous adaptations and directors cuts.
Lets see in the past couple years theres been: T3, X-men 2, Legally Blonde 2, Bad Boys 2, Scary Movie 3? American Pie er 2, no 3? Austin Powers (ok it was quite good), Men In Black 2, The italian job, Texas Chainsaw massacre, Oceans 11, The Mummy Returns, Rush Hour 2, Planet of the Apes, Jurrasic Park 3, MI:2.
Most of them were blaitently milking money.
Its the same with the music industry - covers, re-mixes, re-mixes of covers, re-mixed dance versions of covers and bands that sound so similar that not even their parents could tell them apart.
Do they actually have a bounty on VB script virus writers? seriously? don't they even see something slightly wrong with that? Infact where do they draw the line between "its an evil hacker exploit" and "it was obviously our fault that time"? where do the police draw the line between "the burgler broke in through the window" and "sir you have been burgled 300 times in the last month and every single time you had left the door propped open with a different expensive item and gone out for 10 minutes please just close your door"
And what exactly is the reward? if its $250,000 worth of microsoft redemable software vouchers then i dont think they will have much luck.
Thats a pretty cheap excuse for protection money to the RIAA. Most students i know couldnt give a crap about music downloading morals, they've just got out of school and after rent, food and drinking they have no money because the government that used to give them free housing and look after them now gives them nothing and wants them to pay for even more, most students cannot afford overpriced data therefore the product isnt aimed at them, therefore the RIAA is not loosing sales. This might seem like a selfish and even trolling view but it goes to show that people need to see what they are paying for - if you buy a computer you can see that your paying for all the labour and parts thats gone into that computer and even though you know theres a profit being made it makes you more comfortable handing over the money knowing that your paying for a real world object. If you buy a CD or song on the net however is very hard to see what your money is doing, you know some of it is going into pressing the CD and some to packaging and shipping and sales wages but thats only a fraction of the total, all you know is that you dont want your money to go into the pockets of big suit RIAA coke sniffers and then theres the rest for the band, which in most cases are spoilt little girls who think they are all that. They sing the song ONCE and then it gets processed to make them sound in tune and copied 1,000,000 times onto CDs! then in allot of cases its used in their concert as mime material!! what are they asking me to pay for here? pop-idol etc has just prooved that they are not special there are millions of people in this world that can sing cheap covers and manufactured songs just as well but no, the record company charges just as much for them aswell.
Please please please please please make IE W3C compliant fixing all the CSS etc bugs and including SVG support. You can not imagine how cool it would be for webdesigners around the world to be able to design things properly and my faith in you would be.. erm created.
An entire business set up on the basis that Microsoft leaves this stupid thing turned on. They get caught, (and yes the burgler is still responsible even if the door is left open) and Microsoft gets absolutely nothing, no "you should be more careful leaving un-needed services like that on by default it just encourages them" no bad press coverage about how all these things (pop up windows, pop-up messages, VB viri) could have been prevented if microsoft had changed 1 line of code.
These people were probably just spooked, what we need is a way of destroying anything incriminating from your hard-drive very quickly that you can activate as the police knock on your door. Maybe a hardend enclosure for your drive that contained its own battery and upon activation (with a code or something) would wipe everything as fast as possible before the police could stop it. You could even have it only destroy selective files and leave no evidence that it had been activated (destroying evidence could be seen as criminal in some circumstances but if theres no evidence that you destroyed evidence - i.e nothing to say you activated the device, then what can they do?). Something like this could be pretty easy to make (infact homemade versions would be better than commercial ones because the police wouldnt be able to "learn" weaknesses to stop it in time) it just needs to be tough enough to survive and has to send the right commands to the drive, and once its done one pass it can continue multiple bonus passes until the battery dies or its stopped.
Does anyone see anything wrong with the legal implications of something like this? assuming there is no actual evidence that you deleted anything, is it illigal to own something that would do this? im surprised it hasnt been done before as you always see the police carrying PCs out of raids on the news and wonder if they had checkd for booby traps.
I think they probably realised that everything they had downloaded over the past years on their 56k modem was crap and now they had broadband they could get higher quality rips.
If they drove to a sheilded garage the police would still have the trail up to that point, even if the system only reported position once a minute or so it would still give a general area, the question is - can they disable the alarm fast enough before the police and their helicopter reaches them?
Arnt most traffic systems connected to a network? simply give the police etc codes that are transmitted to the lights when they press the button, the lights then check this code against a central computer and the lights change. Then they can add on whatever level of security - eg rotating codes, revoking if they are cracked etc, encrypted links. using a simple signal in this sort of thing is just stupid and bound to be found out sooner or later, i dont know why they are so surprised.
Hm lets see a probe explores the solar system completing numerous diverse missions, travels though space for 26 years dodging planets and bits of rock and still provides useful data. Voting machine whos sole purpose is to count the number of times people press buttons, lasts 5 minutes in an airconditioned room and even then provides no useful data.
The only thing that would come close to explaining it would be that NASA had 50 Billion times more money for their project, do i see bad budgeting by the government?
e voting could have been implemented decades ago, and they probably would have come up with a better name for it. NASA uses old proccessors for some systems because they are simple and have been tried and tested for years. e voting isnt about pushing the edge of what technology can do its about making the most an effecient, secure, easy to use system without blowing the bank or having anything to do with any party.
I've paid my overpriced London cinema tax 3 times and i have the vhs of the first film, the key grip's been paid, the cleaners been paid, keanus sitting in his limo and the wackoski brothers are cracking open the booze, im bloody damnd if anyone else is getting money out of me.
A system like this is going to have inherent immense complexity from the overlaying software right down to device drivers and firmware and complex systems are generally unstable and not very secure. Well designed systems for all the most mission critical systems are going to work on the basis of making things as simple as possible and laying down afew ground rules and double checking everything, then if you find a problem you dont just patch it up or work around it you figure out right down the basics what it means to the project and if you have to you start again after rethinking the whole thing.
2004 is going to be a great year for entertainment if the media runs this story, otherwise it will be another cover up and smug faced bush.
I think the matrix films are either very very very good but need to be understood, or just very very very bad hollywood marketing tricks to make you not only watch the next film because you want to know whats going on but also to make you watch the same film over and over again to try and figure out whats happening. After watching all 3 and reading a theory on the first 2 (before 3 came out) im still confused, can anyone point out a site that can explain to idiots like me roughly whats going on, is neo's gold vision representing a matrix outside the matrix or a trick matrix (the kid with the bent spoon in 2)? or are they saying that there is a 'matrix' outside the matrix which is actually real life and hes in real life but actually has supernatural powers that are paralelled in the matrix?? I know a good film makes you ask questions at the end but come on:P
Now i have to download all 3 so i can watch them again;)
What we have these days is a new type of security that i would like to call "legislative token security". How this works is simple: the actual security is virtually non-existant but still manages to be irritating. If you try and break the security in your own home or even talk about breaking it then you get arrested slapped with a law-suit and jail time while muggers still run the streets.
Cant RTFA because the site seems to be down (wouldnt surprise me given the software its running).
a smattering of teenagers too young to work at Redmond, hackers, virus creators, and a menagerie of others with whom you will feel great pride in entrusting your IT infrastructure.
Bill Gates was once a teenage hacker too young to work at.. oh wait he created Microsoft and made his fortune off a system that leaves gaping holes open for years, yeah your right i wouldnt want to trust them.
Could it be that the RIAA planned their latest law-suits and even planned to sue the 12 year old to get media attention and timed the whole thing to happen at the same time as online music sites rolled out so that the public would be scared into going to pay sites? A comparision of music-sharing vs paid downloading vs cd sales would be interesting. Even so this has got to be one of the sketchyest and weirdest business areas ever but it seems to be working. Business people everywhere must be scratching their heads and wondering if they should go into a market where the competition is actually better (no DRM) and free and where the entire model relies on good-faith or scare tactics.
Obviously if the number of pay-site users is about the same as the loss of cd sales then its just a switch of people from one place to another.
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If they used the 700 - 640 = 60MB that older cd players cant read to store compressed DRM/whatever the original CD part would be exactly the same with no loss of space, is this what they are doing i didnt RTFA? or would it not be possible to do so that old players could still read it?
Most products would advertise this feature as one line in a change-log. Microsoft has to make it a big revolutionisng bloody deal. They couldnt even add it as a windows-update fix they had to wait for half a year to put it in the service pack! and what about windows 2000? No doubt they will screw this feature up too.
Ok guys its time again for the very confusing, but hopefully effective "FREE NG" T-shirts!
I hate this world sometimes really i do.
A lot of people are overpaid because there are certain things consumers just don't want screwed up," said Bill Coleman, senior vice president of compensation for Salary.com. "You wouldn't want to board a plane flown by a second-rate pilot
Actually allot of commercial pilots (yes people that fly the plane you go on) are paid surprisingly low wages. Infact in general all the people that do the jobs that we really need - firefighters, police, doctors/nurses/paramedics, teachers etc are paid very little.
How ironic that the next story linked at the top of the page is "Microsoft Moving Into Chip Design With Xbox Next" Its one thing when they create shoddy software, but hardware! why they could kill us all!
Yes there is the joy of recognition and sometimes theres nothing i like more than to sit down and watch "The Worlds Greatest Police Videos 8" or some film involving blowing up everything in sight in slow motion and also theres the music that forfils some sort of itch because it has a catchy tune even though you know its bad reprocessed teeny-pop (although allot of it doesnt even have a catchy tune, or has such bad acting and explosions its not even worth that). Personally i think these things are the entertainment vice of our time like drugs, alcohol, caffine, and shoot-em-ups and while i easily get hooked and consume them, im damnd if im going to pay the drug-dealing producers, so financially ive stopped falling for it.
Yeah they are making it in an easy way but how different are they from drug dealers? we are addicts so we cant say we're much better.
I wish hollywood would stop using these cheep sales tactics, afew very long stories - eg Lord Of The Rings, series - eg Harry Potter, James Bond justify having more than one film, but often they are just taking the piss knowing that people who liked the first will undoubtedly go see the second and only be dissapointed after they have paid their money. I dont want to live in a world where there are no original films and every month there are only sequels, prequels, remastered re-releases, remakes, adaptations, remakes of previous adaptations and directors cuts.
Lets see in the past couple years theres been:
T3, X-men 2, Legally Blonde 2, Bad Boys 2, Scary Movie 3? American Pie er 2, no 3? Austin Powers (ok it was quite good), Men In Black 2, The italian job, Texas Chainsaw massacre, Oceans 11, The Mummy Returns, Rush Hour 2, Planet of the Apes, Jurrasic Park 3, MI:2.
Most of them were blaitently milking money.
Its the same with the music industry - covers, re-mixes, re-mixes of covers, re-mixed dance versions of covers and bands that sound so similar that not even their parents could tell them apart.
Do they actually have a bounty on VB script virus writers? seriously? don't they even see something slightly wrong with that? Infact where do they draw the line between "its an evil hacker exploit" and "it was obviously our fault that time"? where do the police draw the line between "the burgler broke in through the window" and "sir you have been burgled 300 times in the last month and every single time you had left the door propped open with a different expensive item and gone out for 10 minutes please just close your door"
And what exactly is the reward? if its $250,000 worth of microsoft redemable software vouchers then i dont think they will have much luck.
Thats a pretty cheap excuse for protection money to the RIAA. Most students i know couldnt give a crap about music downloading morals, they've just got out of school and after rent, food and drinking they have no money because the government that used to give them free housing and look after them now gives them nothing and wants them to pay for even more, most students cannot afford overpriced data therefore the product isnt aimed at them, therefore the RIAA is not loosing sales. This might seem like a selfish and even trolling view but it goes to show that people need to see what they are paying for - if you buy a computer you can see that your paying for all the labour and parts thats gone into that computer and even though you know theres a profit being made it makes you more comfortable handing over the money knowing that your paying for a real world object. If you buy a CD or song on the net however is very hard to see what your money is doing, you know some of it is going into pressing the CD and some to packaging and shipping and sales wages but thats only a fraction of the total, all you know is that you dont want your money to go into the pockets of big suit RIAA coke sniffers and then theres the rest for the band, which in most cases are spoilt little girls who think they are all that. They sing the song ONCE and then it gets processed to make them sound in tune and copied 1,000,000 times onto CDs! then in allot of cases its used in their concert as mime material!! what are they asking me to pay for here? pop-idol etc has just prooved that they are not special there are millions of people in this world that can sing cheap covers and manufactured songs just as well but no, the record company charges just as much for them aswell.
To Microsoft:
Please please please please please make IE W3C compliant fixing all the CSS etc bugs and including SVG support. You can not imagine how cool it would be for webdesigners around the world to be able to design things properly and my faith in you would be.. erm created.
An entire business set up on the basis that Microsoft leaves this stupid thing turned on. They get caught, (and yes the burgler is still responsible even if the door is left open) and Microsoft gets absolutely nothing, no "you should be more careful leaving un-needed services like that on by default it just encourages them" no bad press coverage about how all these things (pop up windows, pop-up messages, VB viri) could have been prevented if microsoft had changed 1 line of code.
These people were probably just spooked, what we need is a way of destroying anything incriminating from your hard-drive very quickly that you can activate as the police knock on your door. Maybe a hardend enclosure for your drive that contained its own battery and upon activation (with a code or something) would wipe everything as fast as possible before the police could stop it. You could even have it only destroy selective files and leave no evidence that it had been activated (destroying evidence could be seen as criminal in some circumstances but if theres no evidence that you destroyed evidence - i.e nothing to say you activated the device, then what can they do?). Something like this could be pretty easy to make (infact homemade versions would be better than commercial ones because the police wouldnt be able to "learn" weaknesses to stop it in time) it just needs to be tough enough to survive and has to send the right commands to the drive, and once its done one pass it can continue multiple bonus passes until the battery dies or its stopped.
Does anyone see anything wrong with the legal implications of something like this? assuming there is no actual evidence that you deleted anything, is it illigal to own something that would do this? im surprised it hasnt been done before as you always see the police carrying PCs out of raids on the news and wonder if they had checkd for booby traps.
I think they probably realised that everything they had downloaded over the past years on their 56k modem was crap and now they had broadband they could get higher quality rips.
I thought Glen Oaks produced flares in the 1970's? Sun have a long way to go if they are going to break into the clothing industry.
How cool will it be when planes get fitted with these things?
If they drove to a sheilded garage the police would still have the trail up to that point, even if the system only reported position once a minute or so it would still give a general area, the question is - can they disable the alarm fast enough before the police and their helicopter reaches them?
Arnt most traffic systems connected to a network? simply give the police etc codes that are transmitted to the lights when they press the button, the lights then check this code against a central computer and the lights change. Then they can add on whatever level of security - eg rotating codes, revoking if they are cracked etc, encrypted links. using a simple signal in this sort of thing is just stupid and bound to be found out sooner or later, i dont know why they are so surprised.
Hm lets see a probe explores the solar system completing numerous diverse missions, travels though space for 26 years dodging planets and bits of rock and still provides useful data. Voting machine whos sole purpose is to count the number of times people press buttons, lasts 5 minutes in an airconditioned room and even then provides no useful data.
The only thing that would come close to explaining it would be that NASA had 50 Billion times more money for their project, do i see bad budgeting by the government?
e voting could have been implemented decades ago, and they probably would have come up with a better name for it. NASA uses old proccessors for some systems because they are simple and have been tried and tested for years. e voting isnt about pushing the edge of what technology can do its about making the most an effecient, secure, easy to use system without blowing the bank or having anything to do with any party.
I've paid my overpriced London cinema tax 3 times and i have the vhs of the first film, the key grip's been paid, the cleaners been paid, keanus sitting in his limo and the wackoski brothers are cracking open the booze, im bloody damnd if anyone else is getting money out of me.
A system like this is going to have inherent immense complexity from the overlaying software right down to device drivers and firmware and complex systems are generally unstable and not very secure. Well designed systems for all the most mission critical systems are going to work on the basis of making things as simple as possible and laying down afew ground rules and double checking everything, then if you find a problem you dont just patch it up or work around it you figure out right down the basics what it means to the project and if you have to you start again after rethinking the whole thing.
2004 is going to be a great year for entertainment if the media runs this story, otherwise it will be another cover up and smug faced bush.
I think the matrix films are either very very very good but need to be understood, or just very very very bad hollywood marketing tricks to make you not only watch the next film because you want to know whats going on but also to make you watch the same film over and over again to try and figure out whats happening. After watching all 3 and reading a theory on the first 2 (before 3 came out) im still confused, can anyone point out a site that can explain to idiots like me roughly whats going on, is neo's gold vision representing a matrix outside the matrix or a trick matrix (the kid with the bent spoon in 2)? or are they saying that there is a 'matrix' outside the matrix which is actually real life and hes in real life but actually has supernatural powers that are paralelled in the matrix?? I know a good film makes you ask questions at the end but come on :P
;)
Now i have to download all 3 so i can watch them again
What we have these days is a new type of security that i would like to call "legislative token security". How this works is simple: the actual security is virtually non-existant but still manages to be irritating. If you try and break the security in your own home or even talk about breaking it then you get arrested slapped with a law-suit and jail time while muggers still run the streets.
Cant RTFA because the site seems to be down (wouldnt surprise me given the software its running).
a smattering of teenagers too young to work at Redmond, hackers, virus creators, and a menagerie of others with whom you will feel great pride in entrusting your IT infrastructure.
Bill Gates was once a teenage hacker too young to work at.. oh wait he created Microsoft and made his fortune off a system that leaves gaping holes open for years, yeah your right i wouldnt want to trust them.
Could it be that the RIAA planned their latest law-suits and even planned to sue the 12 year old to get media attention and timed the whole thing to happen at the same time as online music sites rolled out so that the public would be scared into going to pay sites? A comparision of music-sharing vs paid downloading vs cd sales would be interesting. Even so this has got to be one of the sketchyest and weirdest business areas ever but it seems to be working. Business people everywhere must be scratching their heads and wondering if they should go into a market where the competition is actually better (no DRM) and free and where the entire model relies on good-faith or scare tactics.
Obviously if the number of pay-site users is about the same as the loss of cd sales then its just a switch of people from one place to another.