Microsoft's goal of cementing WinCE /.NET in places as diverse as your toaster and cell phone, perhaps in a setup similar to how X-Windows is in relation to the Linux kernel."
Good so we can take off the WinCE bit and just replace it with X-Windows?
I passed piccadily cicus on the bus today and noticed the coke screen, the first thing that went through my head was "what a total waste of a really cool screen just to advertise coke" (thinking on the lines of quake here;) the second thing that came into my mind was "mmmm i want a coke" also i noticed that the frame rate was crap at times (when it was moving large graphics around that looked suspiciously like a flash animation) i didnt notice it doing any cool interactions but i was only there for a minute...
in the end i got a pepsi:P The hacking potential would be too cool to pass up
Wont a mass cluster of radars actually heat up the atmostphere and thus change the weather and fry pigeons? Also what if some evil mastermind went around focusing each node on one spot in the sky and at the right moment fired them off to either shoot down planes or make some sort of inter-dimensional time warp that would lead to a shoot-em-up style 3d game plotline?
Flash isnt a web standard (it has quite a large user base though). The W3C standards answer to flash is SVG which is pretty similar except it ties in with HTML/XML/CSS etc much better, flash is just a hole in the browser where a plug-in is put, while SVG (can also be a plugin) is much more integrated. SVG is also a 'text' based standard like HTML - ie its made up of tags and stuff so its in theory much easier to write generating software for it and link it with server-side scripts and even with client side java/vbs etc scripts (why re-invent the wheel with flash scripting and proprietory expensive server-side software when you can use existing layers like perl,PHP,java,asp, basically anything?). While flash is a more closed system designed by Macromedia to fill a gap in a business like manner, SVG is structually better - kindof like the way HTML tables were/are used to design sites, they are a work around where-as CSS (if the browser supports it properly) is a far better more structured way to do the job.
Flash probably runs faster and has more support, plug-ins and editors on most computers at the moment but SVG is catching up (also SVG supports compression which is cool so it can match flash in file-size).
So basically the book would talk about SVG if it talked about any vector/animation system.
(And without trying to sound like a troll: Flash = Cheap Hack, SVG = Potentially Structured Nirvana)
Remind me again how do you get a virus on a mobile network? Ive heard of text-message virii that can go around phones but thats just stupid, what idiot cant design a phone that cant handle a 160 byte plain-text message securly? buffer overflow my ass. If on the other hand they mean a virus thats affecting their actual computers that control the network then thats just as stupid unless they mean some disgruntled tech whos planted it.
DivX rips are usually 700MB (designed to fit on a CD) and can be downloaded over 56Kb dialups if you leave them running, just like ordering a dvd over the net it takes a couple of days. Broadband can get them in a few hours. They are easily availiable on Kazaa and eDonky for example.
Disclaimer: This post is not a legal confession, this is a legal confession: "nah nah nah nah can't touch this, nah nah nah nah hammer time!
They do, ive seen a divx of Bowling for Columbine that includes a warning to that extent. Maybe soon they'll stick that in all films and make sure you enter your name and address at the store so it can be tied to your dvds unique number - it would have to be pretty rugged tho - able to with-stand divx-ing and resizing and anything else rippers could think of, even then people would just do it outside america.
I for one support the MPAA on this totally - its bloody annoying downloading a whole divx and then watching it only to find text like "This film is property of (somestudio) and is for awards purposes only" popping up on screen every 5 mins! Anything that will reduce these and let the good quality rips prosper is ok by me.
I use gaim but have yahoo installed just for these emergencies. But since they are being such assholes i think we should (like kazaa) distribute a hacked ad-free version that includes any extra disruptive features that yahoo would rather you didnt have;) I know its pretty simple with reshacker or something to get rid of the adverts.
When they say reassigned they actually mean their job titles were just changed. They will still be there to screw up another day and not listen to engineers.
You can search the data protection register to see what sort of information organisations keep, "Transport for London" gives you a pretty long list but i cant find anything that says they would store the journey?
Potentially this could be done with the current card tickets, even if the stip only stored the the date and zones it would only be a software task to stick a unique id on them and track that. Monthly/yearly passes could be tracked (which cant really be swapped because they go with your photo card) all you would need is the card number. The oyster cards have the added bonus that both tube and busses have the scanners, and since all these systems can be networked up and viewed in real time (dont the busses have wireless networks and some sort of positioning?) you can get allot of information! I think its my duty to swipe my card over every scanner i see several times and get on random busses swipe the card and then get straight off and then swap it with friends;)
Great now il get sued by Kazaa for using Kazaa Lite, and the RIAA for copy-right theft and SunnComm for circumnavigation. Does anyone else want in? Come round to mine for super-hot coffee burns and violent video games!
"a small internet start-up claims they have a new technology to block access to html code and images on a site. The new technology called HyperMegaRightClickSecuriTech Technology uses a special java script to stop users from right-clicking with their mouse to view or save parts of a website. The company - HyperGlobalCompuMegaNet has already started licensing this technology to many major sites, some users claim that they have been able to crack this technology but are under fear that they could be targeted for copy-right circumnavigation. Meanwhile linux advocates are concerned that their software will be targeted under the same law. Mac users remain confused as usual."
What an interesting industry CD copy-protection is. I never thought it would be possible to base an entire busness model on selling bull-shit! Im not talking Microsoft our-software-is-secure-and-stable bull-shit, im talking about selling absolute total crap! You've got to give this group of stupid marketing people and scab sell-out engineers credit, they have managed to convince some mighty large companies that their products are worth paying millions for - either that or the RIAA is so desparate they will buy anything in the remote chance that it will fool some politicians into thinking that the RIAA is a poor little victim thats trying its best to lock the back door.
For a start wasnt wma itself cracked months ago!? thats not even the point, the cds can be ripped by anyone who knows how to use the shift key/disable autoplay or runs a non win/mac os! (mentioning analog audio patch cables has become/. cliche)
Some people say that selling air in a can or water in a bottle is stupid, but thats nothing compared with selling a card-board box as a safe!
Regardless of the morality, everyone needs to band together against the RIAA and that means the ISPs too, they should be helping their customers - the people who give them money. Firstly, ISPs should all offer dynamic IPs and if the law requires logging then they should have alot of "accidents" and "loose" the log every 3 days. Also we need a union of music listeners who will go on CD-buying strikes if needed - they could even concentrate on specific CDs or labels just to make an example for the other labels. Most people are too lazy to go on marches, but going on anti-marches (ie not going to the store to buy CDs) is easy and if you can get non-file sharing friends to strike as well (you can bribe them buy burning a free copy of the CD they want to buy). Also call up the RIAA from pay-phones regularly and demand that they check if you have been given a subpoena (give them fake details) and tie their office up with bogus calls.
Just remember to make sure you excersise your free speech rights to the max and call up as many telemarketing centers as you can, we could set up an online data base of numbers that are known to be of telemarketing companies and their employees homes, what are we selling?: The message that we dont want to be called, call them up and tell them you dont want to be called, call them up again five mins later and tell them again that you dont want to be called, if its a telemarketing company thats never bothered you in your life even better, tell them you dont want to be called. If enough people DOS the telemarketers they will be screwed, or at the very least get pissed off.
You vote on a punch card, you stick it the slot of a machine which will tell you only that the card has been correctly read and tallied, the machine records whatever information the state/feds require inside on a paper tape. At the end of the election, several people (say a couple of random votors, officials and reporters etc..) will witness/open the machine and read off the totals for each candidate down the phone to some central place and at the same time the media will see the results and so will anyone else who wants to know. That way the numbers will be counted and added by many people - not just random people at home but all the various media and officials. If any creative adding is done then it will be seen. The machine should be as simple as possible, forget windows, forget linux, it can take results in memory, paper, even abacus i dont care as long as its simple. If it has a touch screen, if it has any screen its too complex, more than one way to record results that can be compared is ok, wi-fi and microsoft databases are not.
Oh and if no-one can design a simple system where you punch a hole or make an electronic readable mark that a bloody GCSE student could come up with then the country is screwed.
Any decent system must be simple and have multiple redundancys all the way down the line. These touch screen arcade machines cost 1000's its stupid.
Hm no thanks, ill wait for the hacked version that lets you access DRM'd files no matter what their restrictions are, much more useful. But then Microsoft will see how well its doing and try and release their own patch that does the same.. OOOPS!
For a start can we call it Digital Restrictions Management, then atleast people will understand what its really about: managing what restrictions someone has placed on a file on your own computer in your own home which is no-ones business to mess with but yours.
I only hope it all stays optional and any DRM systems are cracked quickly, ill donate CPU time to any distributed DRM cracking projects!
The web and filesharing could be two major reasons, email and instant messaging could be others... Seriously do you really have to ask this? The major IP industries are shitting themselves over the fact that i can get pretty much ANY of their products for free, the governments of the world are crying because they cant stop people communicating to anyone else in private! Christian fundamentalists are stabbing themselves to the cross with nails because now i can look at naked women more easily than ever before! The phone companys are practically begging for legislation because the technology and trend is going towards free international phone/video calls to anyone and even now its common place for people to use IM instead of the phone.
We don't need star-bucks or bad remakes, sequels and adaptation films, but we still have them right?
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If shops have scanners built into the doors then they can scan any RFID tag that goes in or out with ease. This information is potentially availiable to anyone, be it police, secret government conspiracy tin-foil hat agencys or just simple hackers. And while bricks might stop the signal, windows might not. If you can develope a handheld scanner you can use it anywhere - walking past people, visiting homes as "gas-readers" and get a complete inventory log of everything around you with ease.
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RFID tags can be used by theives to find expensive items on your person or in your home.
RFID tags provide a means your you to be tracked/spied on without your knowledge.
In-order to make them useful for many tasks (recycling for example) each tag must be linked to a public database to give you its value, content, material type etc. This will allow theives (above) to see that information too. Relying on a secure database will make that a target for theft. Unless people have the choice of removing tags some will be paranoid about them.
One way it could work would be similar to clothes tags you see in shops today - Tags would be fitted to mini alarms and stuck to the side of the item. If you pull it off, the alarm sounds (it doesnt need to be that loud to attract attention) or it could send out a radio signal. Then at the counter, the tag is removed and re-used.
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Microsoft's goal of cementing WinCE / .NET in places as diverse as your toaster and cell phone, perhaps in a setup similar to how X-Windows is in relation to the Linux kernel."
Good so we can take off the WinCE bit and just replace it with X-Windows?
I passed piccadily cicus on the bus today and noticed the coke screen, the first thing that went through my head was "what a total waste of a really cool screen just to advertise coke" (thinking on the lines of quake here;) the second thing that came into my mind was "mmmm i want a coke" also i noticed that the frame rate was crap at times (when it was moving large graphics around that looked suspiciously like a flash animation) i didnt notice it doing any cool interactions but i was only there for a minute...
:P The hacking potential would be too cool to pass up
in the end i got a pepsi
Wont a mass cluster of radars actually heat up the atmostphere and thus change the weather and fry pigeons? Also what if some evil mastermind went around focusing each node on one spot in the sky and at the right moment fired them off to either shoot down planes or make some sort of inter-dimensional time warp that would lead to a shoot-em-up style 3d game plotline?
Flash isnt a web standard (it has quite a large user base though). The W3C standards answer to flash is SVG which is pretty similar except it ties in with HTML/XML/CSS etc much better, flash is just a hole in the browser where a plug-in is put, while SVG (can also be a plugin) is much more integrated. SVG is also a 'text' based standard like HTML - ie its made up of tags and stuff so its in theory much easier to write generating software for it and link it with server-side scripts and even with client side java/vbs etc scripts (why re-invent the wheel with flash scripting and proprietory expensive server-side software when you can use existing layers like perl,PHP,java,asp, basically anything?). While flash is a more closed system designed by Macromedia to fill a gap in a business like manner, SVG is structually better - kindof like the way HTML tables were/are used to design sites, they are a work around where-as CSS (if the browser supports it properly) is a far better more structured way to do the job.
Flash probably runs faster and has more support, plug-ins and editors on most computers at the moment but SVG is catching up (also SVG supports compression which is cool so it can match flash in file-size).
So basically the book would talk about SVG if it talked about any vector/animation system.
(And without trying to sound like a troll:
Flash = Cheap Hack, SVG = Potentially Structured Nirvana)
Remind me again how do you get a virus on a mobile network? Ive heard of text-message virii that can go around phones but thats just stupid, what idiot cant design a phone that cant handle a 160 byte plain-text message securly? buffer overflow my ass. If on the other hand they mean a virus thats affecting their actual computers that control the network then thats just as stupid unless they mean some disgruntled tech whos planted it.
Yeah but i want the DVD rips that come after the cinema release
DivX rips are usually 700MB (designed to fit on a CD) and can be downloaded over 56Kb dialups if you leave them running, just like ordering a dvd over the net it takes a couple of days. Broadband can get them in a few hours. They are easily availiable on Kazaa and eDonky for example.
Disclaimer: This post is not a legal confession, this is a legal confession: "nah nah nah nah can't touch this, nah nah nah nah hammer time!
They do, ive seen a divx of Bowling for Columbine that includes a warning to that extent. Maybe soon they'll stick that in all films and make sure you enter your name and address at the store so it can be tied to your dvds unique number - it would have to be pretty rugged tho - able to with-stand divx-ing and resizing and anything else rippers could think of, even then people would just do it outside america.
I for one support the MPAA on this totally - its bloody annoying downloading a whole divx and then watching it only to find text like "This film is property of (somestudio) and is for awards purposes only" popping up on screen every 5 mins! Anything that will reduce these and let the good quality rips prosper is ok by me.
I use gaim but have yahoo installed just for these emergencies. But since they are being such assholes i think we should (like kazaa) distribute a hacked ad-free version that includes any extra disruptive features that yahoo would rather you didnt have ;) I know its pretty simple with reshacker or something to get rid of the adverts.
When they say reassigned they actually mean their job titles were just changed. They will still be there to screw up another day and not listen to engineers.
You can search the data protection register to see what sort of information organisations keep, "Transport for London" gives you a pretty long list but i cant find anything that says they would store the journey?
Potentially this could be done with the current card tickets, even if the stip only stored the the date and zones it would only be a software task to stick a unique id on them and track that. Monthly/yearly passes could be tracked (which cant really be swapped because they go with your photo card) all you would need is the card number. The oyster cards have the added bonus that both tube and busses have the scanners, and since all these systems can be networked up and viewed in real time (dont the busses have wireless networks and some sort of positioning?) you can get allot of information! I think its my duty to swipe my card over every scanner i see several times and get on random busses swipe the card and then get straight off and then swap it with friends ;)
Great now il get sued by Kazaa for using Kazaa Lite, and the RIAA for copy-right theft and SunnComm for circumnavigation. Does anyone else want in? Come round to mine for super-hot coffee burns and violent video games!
(Good thing i dont live in America)
Disclaimer: This post is not a legal confession.
"a small internet start-up claims they have a new technology to block access to html code and images on a site. The new technology called HyperMegaRightClickSecuriTech Technology uses a special java script to stop users from right-clicking with their mouse to view or save parts of a website. The company - HyperGlobalCompuMegaNet has already started licensing this technology to many major sites, some users claim that they have been able to crack this technology but are under fear that they could be targeted for copy-right circumnavigation. Meanwhile linux advocates are concerned that their software will be targeted under the same law. Mac users remain confused as usual."
The RIAA is beyond a joke now
What an interesting industry CD copy-protection is. I never thought it would be possible to base an entire busness model on selling bull-shit! Im not talking Microsoft our-software-is-secure-and-stable bull-shit, im talking about selling absolute total crap! You've got to give this group of stupid marketing people and scab sell-out engineers credit, they have managed to convince some mighty large companies that their products are worth paying millions for - either that or the RIAA is so desparate they will buy anything in the remote chance that it will fool some politicians into thinking that the RIAA is a poor little victim thats trying its best to lock the back door.
/. cliche)
For a start wasnt wma itself cracked months ago!? thats not even the point, the cds can be ripped by anyone who knows how to use the shift key/disable autoplay or runs a non win/mac os! (mentioning analog audio patch cables has become
Some people say that selling air in a can or water in a bottle is stupid, but thats nothing compared with selling a card-board box as a safe!
Regardless of the morality, everyone needs to band together against the RIAA and that means the ISPs too, they should be helping their customers - the people who give them money. Firstly, ISPs should all offer dynamic IPs and if the law requires logging then they should have alot of "accidents" and "loose" the log every 3 days. Also we need a union of music listeners who will go on CD-buying strikes if needed - they could even concentrate on specific CDs or labels just to make an example for the other labels. Most people are too lazy to go on marches, but going on anti-marches (ie not going to the store to buy CDs) is easy and if you can get non-file sharing friends to strike as well (you can bribe them buy burning a free copy of the CD they want to buy). Also call up the RIAA from pay-phones regularly and demand that they check if you have been given a subpoena (give them fake details) and tie their office up with bogus calls.
Just remember to make sure you excersise your free speech rights to the max and call up as many telemarketing centers as you can, we could set up an online data base of numbers that are known to be of telemarketing companies and their employees homes, what are we selling?: The message that we dont want to be called, call them up and tell them you dont want to be called, call them up again five mins later and tell them again that you dont want to be called, if its a telemarketing company thats never bothered you in your life even better, tell them you dont want to be called. If enough people DOS the telemarketers they will be screwed, or at the very least get pissed off.
Whats wrong with this system:
You vote on a punch card, you stick it the slot of a machine which will tell you only that the card has been correctly read and tallied, the machine records whatever information the state/feds require inside on a paper tape. At the end of the election, several people (say a couple of random votors, officials and reporters etc..) will witness/open the machine and read off the totals for each candidate down the phone to some central place and at the same time the media will see the results and so will anyone else who wants to know. That way the numbers will be counted and added by many people - not just random people at home but all the various media and officials. If any creative adding is done then it will be seen. The machine should be as simple as possible, forget windows, forget linux, it can take results in memory, paper, even abacus i dont care as long as its simple. If it has a touch screen, if it has any screen its too complex, more than one way to record results that can be compared is ok, wi-fi and microsoft databases are not.
Oh and if no-one can design a simple system where you punch a hole or make an electronic readable mark that a bloody GCSE student could come up with then the country is screwed.
Any decent system must be simple and have multiple redundancys all the way down the line. These touch screen arcade machines cost 1000's its stupid.
Hm no thanks, ill wait for the hacked version that lets you access DRM'd files no matter what their restrictions are, much more useful. But then Microsoft will see how well its doing and try and release their own patch that does the same.. OOOPS!
For a start can we call it Digital Restrictions Management, then atleast people will understand what its really about: managing what restrictions someone has placed on a file on your own computer in your own home which is no-ones business to mess with but yours.
I only hope it all stays optional and any DRM systems are cracked quickly, ill donate CPU time to any distributed DRM cracking projects!
Dept of Homeland Security wants it retrieveable without a warrant/subpoena.
The web and filesharing could be two major reasons, email and instant messaging could be others... Seriously do you really have to ask this? The major IP industries are shitting themselves over the fact that i can get pretty much ANY of their products for free, the governments of the world are crying because they cant stop people communicating to anyone else in private! Christian fundamentalists are stabbing themselves to the cross with nails because now i can look at naked women more easily than ever before! The phone companys are practically begging for legislation because the technology and trend is going towards free international phone/video calls to anyone and even now its common place for people to use IM instead of the phone.
We don't need star-bucks or bad remakes, sequels and adaptation films, but we still have them right?
If shops have scanners built into the doors then they can scan any RFID tag that goes in or out with ease. This information is potentially availiable to anyone, be it police, secret government conspiracy tin-foil hat agencys or just simple hackers. And while bricks might stop the signal, windows might not. If you can develope a handheld scanner you can use it anywhere - walking past people, visiting homes as "gas-readers" and get a complete inventory log of everything around you with ease.
In-order to make them useful for many tasks (recycling for example) each tag must be linked to a public database to give you its value, content, material type etc. This will allow theives (above) to see that information too. Relying on a secure database will make that a target for theft. Unless people have the choice of removing tags some will be paranoid about them.
One way it could work would be similar to clothes tags you see in shops today - Tags would be fitted to mini alarms and stuck to the side of the item. If you pull it off, the alarm sounds (it doesnt need to be that loud to attract attention) or it could send out a radio signal. Then at the counter, the tag is removed and re-used.