It really makes me fucking sick that we have this extradition treaty with America, I bet we wouldn't get the same in return. This guy apparently did $1m worth of 'damage' and is basically more of an embarrassment to the US governments security reputation than anything else. I doubt these 'critical' files or damages will be every fully quantified in court. Its a bit like whistling nuclear codes into a phone - "hes an evil witch/hacker and a menace to the world and must be locked up". now his life is over, totally fucking over. I would certainly top my self if i was in his shows. Mission accomplished guys London feels that extra bit safer today.
~ 1.6 million well paid programmer hours or a roughly 50 strong team of (well paid) programmers and experts working for nearly 15 years without taking holidays or weekends off. If you want you can cut that down to 8 years and you've still got about $50M to play with for your servers and networking.
Actually CSS would be child's play if browsers were as consistent as they are with 'table based layout'. The problem is that most screw it up so bad that it requires insane amounts of hacks to get a site looking good. you get used to it after a while tho and once you've learnt all the little browser bugs and tricks it becomes easier than using tables. The point is, table-layout was a hack that CSS was supposed to solve, the browsers screwed it up.
The reason porn magazines are at the back or the top shelf and why strip clubs are sometimes zoned to specific areas is because kids might pass them on the way to school etc or see the magazine next to the ones they are looking at - on the internet you don't pass sites you're not visiting. you don't see anything except the site you go to. Yeah its labelling, but why should the porn sites be forced to move, and why should non-porn sites that have adult content be forced to associate with porn sites on an xxx domain?
The point is that like HTML, the browser should give the user more control over the content - this player would be a great opportunity to put the power back in the users hands - in the same sort of way that you can override a websites colour scheme and font sizes.
All i can say is that if this project is to become mainstream (and it would be cool) please please please please please please don't screw up the implementation, it must behave _exactly_ as the real flash plug-in does (for whatever version) or we will go round in circles - one of the best reasons for using flash is consistency across platforms which is vital for graphical sites, HTML is great at getting the information across but sucks at cross platform graphics because every single browser is different and has its own bugs and unsupported CSS/HTML standards. SVG should be the standard but the user base is just too low:(
Which is why the idea is totally ridiculous - the US would never in a million years be able to get the rest of the world to cooperate in moving all adult content to.xxx (there would be.xxx.country-code tlds), however setting up a board that personally approved registrations and sites on a.safe domain and encouraging other countries to do the same would be feasible and would be far more reliable.
...then 3D Max - whatever technical/feature failings it may have are made up for by its intuitive interface, and the modelling 'stack' should be a feature of every 3D and 2D graphics program - no debate.
Yes it is an opportunity to avoid censorship but there are two ways of doing it - either force adult content into.xxx or only allow kid-safe content into.safe, even though the second method is by far the most feasible and freedom-friendly the conservatives will want to choose the first and 'kick' everyone off the 'net and onto the special.xxx domain where it can be more easily cut off - its kinda like putting criminals in prison and letting everyone run free, except with kids, you put THEM in day-care where they are safe and let everyone else run free (apart from the criminals), but you don't let the kids run free and bang up anyone over 18!
Or a far more realistic approach would be to put rules in place that said you can only have a.safe domain if its safe for kids etc, that way freedom of speech is not trampled on and its actually feasable to police.
I really hope this doesn't lead to legislation (by any country) pushing all 'adult' content onto.xxx and putting 'decency' standards on content outside.xxx
There should be a.kids or.safe tld that has enforced standards - similar to the way.edu and.gov are restricted
Bloody marvellous! an end to gears and that excuse for engineering that is the clutch. There was something like this in Japan but i think the problem was the car had extra wheels to give the extra torque. It just seems like electric cars are going to be the replacement not because of environmental/resource issues but because they're just going to be better.
Its far better to sue the cinema for the stress you endured witnessing the heart attack and missing the film - you could have chocked on your food in shock!!
Believe it or not most cinemas have these things called 'land lines' where the phone is connected by a wire to the local exchange. Its a new system that allows them to by-pass jamming or farady cages..
Of course the cage is a solution to the symptoms not the problem, i'm guessing that in about 4 years cinemas will have little lock boxes where you have to leave your phone because people will use it to record the film. Its just so unjust that that you can get 5-10 for pointing a camera at the screen but if you play the crazy-frog ring tone at full volume you'll just get thrown out, im all for the death penalty for bad ring-tones.
Well it might be illigal to jam cell phones in your cinema or theatre, but no-one said anything about fitting wire mesh in stratigic parts of the walls.. Someone really should start up a business doing that.
Will this mean you can patent elements of films - such as (assuming you had prior art) the 24 'spit screens' view, or the fade/dissolve, or perhaps subtitles, the count-down bomb-timer that stops at 1 second, the use of camera shake in a war film, the idea of sequels and prequels, books-to-films, the screen kiss!? Whats next? perhaps you could patent the use of light and shadow in paintings?
I swear the mobile (cell) industry could steal the entire broadband industry in a month if they simply offered flat-rate internet access through your phone at a decent speed (even as low as 256Kb to start with) - you plug it into your PC when your at home, and you get to take the power of the internet with you everywhere without having to worry about expensive per/mb or per/min connections or if you can find a wifi spot - this would revolutionise the industry - there would simply be no reason to have wired broadband unless you had some appalling reception, broadband providers would be forced to slash their prices and up their speeds just to stay in the business and even then, you just can't compare flat-rate home internet with flat-rate mobile internet, people will go for the mobile - the networks are loosing out on this one, i'd drop my adsl and pay the same per month to my mobile network in an instant!
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It really makes me fucking sick that we have this extradition treaty with America, I bet we wouldn't get the same in return. This guy apparently did $1m worth of 'damage' and is basically more of an embarrassment to the US governments security reputation than anything else. I doubt these 'critical' files or damages will be every fully quantified in court. Its a bit like whistling nuclear codes into a phone - "hes an evil witch/hacker and a menace to the world and must be locked up". now his life is over, totally fucking over. I would certainly top my self if i was in his shows. Mission accomplished guys London feels that extra bit safer today.
I guess at least its a deterrent.
a $100 million software project breaks down to:
~ 1.6 million well paid programmer hours
or a roughly 50 strong team of (well paid) programmers and experts working for nearly 15 years without taking holidays or weekends off. If you want you can cut that down to 8 years and you've still got about $50M to play with for your servers and networking.
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In the same way that jail is not punishment, its reluctance to see criminals on the streets?
When that sort of thing gets started in the US, states start punishing people for having too efficient cars so they tax them by the mile instead...
Well I look at it this way - in 60-odd years i'll be checking out, so as long as it stays fine until then I don't give a shit.
I swear I heard that somewhere before, maybe my grandfather... oh well.
I can do that.. /Human
Actually CSS would be child's play if browsers were as consistent as they are with 'table based layout'. The problem is that most screw it up so bad that it requires insane amounts of hacks to get a site looking good. you get used to it after a while tho and once you've learnt all the little browser bugs and tricks it becomes easier than using tables. The point is, table-layout was a hack that CSS was supposed to solve, the browsers screwed it up.
The reason porn magazines are at the back or the top shelf and why strip clubs are sometimes zoned to specific areas is because kids might pass them on the way to school etc or see the magazine next to the ones they are looking at - on the internet you don't pass sites you're not visiting. you don't see anything except the site you go to. Yeah its labelling, but why should the porn sites be forced to move, and why should non-porn sites that have adult content be forced to associate with porn sites on an xxx domain?
without a doubt the absolute only two reasons people use IE are:
1) because its already installed on most machines
2) because everyone else uses it
which by coincidence are the same reasons most dictatorships stay afloat..
actually im british - we've learnt to just put our christian fundamentalists in a corner and not take them too seriously.
The point is that like HTML, the browser should give the user more control over the content - this player would be a great opportunity to put the power back in the users hands - in the same sort of way that you can override a websites colour scheme and font sizes.
All i can say is that if this project is to become mainstream (and it would be cool) please please please please please please don't screw up the implementation, it must behave _exactly_ as the real flash plug-in does (for whatever version) or we will go round in circles - one of the best reasons for using flash is consistency across platforms which is vital for graphical sites, HTML is great at getting the information across but sucks at cross platform graphics because every single browser is different and has its own bugs and unsupported CSS/HTML standards. SVG should be the standard but the user base is just too low :(
Which is why the idea is totally ridiculous - the US would never in a million years be able to get the rest of the world to cooperate in moving all adult content to .xxx (there would be .xxx.country-code tlds), however setting up a board that personally approved registrations and sites on a .safe domain and encouraging other countries to do the same would be feasible and would be far more reliable.
I don't think anyone on slashdot has ever thrown a computer away..
...then 3D Max - whatever technical/feature failings it may have are made up for by its intuitive interface, and the modelling 'stack' should be a feature of every 3D and 2D graphics program - no debate.
Yes it is an opportunity to avoid censorship but there are two ways of doing it - either force adult content into .xxx or only allow kid-safe content into .safe, even though the second method is by far the most feasible and freedom-friendly the conservatives will want to choose the first and 'kick' everyone off the 'net and onto the special .xxx domain where it can be more easily cut off - its kinda like putting criminals in prison and letting everyone run free, except with kids, you put THEM in day-care where they are safe and let everyone else run free (apart from the criminals), but you don't let the kids run free and bang up anyone over 18!
Or a far more realistic approach would be to put rules in place that said you can only have a .safe domain if its safe for kids etc, that way freedom of speech is not trampled on and its actually feasable to police.
I really hope this doesn't lead to legislation (by any country) pushing all 'adult' content onto .xxx and putting 'decency' standards on content outside .xxx
.kids or .safe tld that has enforced standards - similar to the way .edu and .gov are restricted
There should be a
Bloody marvellous! an end to gears and that excuse for engineering that is the clutch. There was something like this in Japan but i think the problem was the car had extra wheels to give the extra torque. It just seems like electric cars are going to be the replacement not because of environmental/resource issues but because they're just going to be better.
Its far better to sue the cinema for the stress you endured witnessing the heart attack and missing the film - you could have chocked on your food in shock!!
Believe it or not most cinemas have these things called 'land lines' where the phone is connected by a wire to the local exchange. Its a new system that allows them to by-pass jamming or farady cages..
Of course the cage is a solution to the symptoms not the problem, i'm guessing that in about 4 years cinemas will have little lock boxes where you have to leave your phone because people will use it to record the film. Its just so unjust that that you can get 5-10 for pointing a camera at the screen but if you play the crazy-frog ring tone at full volume you'll just get thrown out, im all for the death penalty for bad ring-tones.
Well it might be illigal to jam cell phones in your cinema or theatre, but no-one said anything about fitting wire mesh in stratigic parts of the walls.. Someone really should start up a business doing that.
Will this mean you can patent elements of films - such as (assuming you had prior art) the 24 'spit screens' view, or the fade/dissolve, or perhaps subtitles, the count-down bomb-timer that stops at 1 second, the use of camera shake in a war film, the idea of sequels and prequels, books-to-films, the screen kiss!? Whats next? perhaps you could patent the use of light and shadow in paintings?
I swear the mobile (cell) industry could steal the entire broadband industry in a month if they simply offered flat-rate internet access through your phone at a decent speed (even as low as 256Kb to start with) - you plug it into your PC when your at home, and you get to take the power of the internet with you everywhere without having to worry about expensive per/mb or per/min connections or if you can find a wifi spot - this would revolutionise the industry - there would simply be no reason to have wired broadband unless you had some appalling reception, broadband providers would be forced to slash their prices and up their speeds just to stay in the business and even then, you just can't compare flat-rate home internet with flat-rate mobile internet, people will go for the mobile - the networks are loosing out on this one, i'd drop my adsl and pay the same per month to my mobile network in an instant!