...I can see the day where an automated system can automatically flag and/or ticket you for exceeding the speed limit. Of course, they already have camera bases systems today, that photograph your license plate. And if the preponderance of technological competition in the radar-detector-detector-adnasuam world is any indication, there would soon enough be a market for phones that subtly altered the phase or seeming doppler profile of their signals to fool a single tower. Of course, if you show up at another tower 200Km away in 35 minutes, that would still be a little suspicious.;)
10/27/2002 Initial discussion with contributor 11/14/2002 Final contributor submission 12/12/2002 CUPS author notified via e-mail to cups-support@cups.org 12/12/2002 iDEFENSE clients notified 12/12/2002 Response and preliminary patch received from
CUPS author Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com) 12/12/2002 Apple, Linux Security List (vendor-sec@lst.de) 12/13/2002 Updated patch received from Michael Sweet 12/17/2002 Response received from Richard Blanchard
(rblanchard@apple.com) 12/19/2002 Coordinated Public Disclosure
That's almost a month and a half since the exploit was intially known, to when even the author of the package was informed; it was almost a month just for that! The general public got to know about this even later.
Maybe this is a good thing, but I wonder. Who had access to this dangerous knowledge while the rest of the world slept, unaware of their vulnerability to this. Sure, a truly secure setup wouldn't be running uncessary demons on anything important, but still...
It almost seems like blasphemy to be able to compile and run Visual Basic in a linux environment. Yikes! What is this interoperable world coming to? What next, a paperclip for emacs?;)
It's supposed to be a linux system call? I've never heard of it, even a google search on "mmap2 manpage" only returns a few results, all in japanese. I use mmap in my programs, I would be curious to know of other options. Why is there no manpage?! Is it an internal system call only used by glibc to wrap the normal mmap call [but wouldn't it then be prepended by an '_' or something], or what?
This is the first chapter of greg egan's book, diaspora, which describes a simulated neurogenesis in software, the technique of which was reverse engineered from the fractal patterns of human DNA.
Although this is science fiction, and art in only the literary sense, would it not qualify as prior art?
It isn't the vibrational energy that is stimulating the neurons in the feet. Instead it's the additional quantity of information (that can be conveyed to the brain along aging pathways), by mixing in some noise. It may sound counterintuitive that noise can increase the resolution of a signal, but it makes sense. Imagine a signal is quantized in steps, and a sample could possibly fall between the discretely measurable points of sensitivity, and get lost. By adding noise enough to 'blur' the sample into a range that will always cross one sample boundary, then it will be detected more frequently. Even if it's blurred to cross two or three at a time, the relative activation of the seperate 'sensor nodes' allows an accurate determination of the actual quantity being sampled [given that the sampling resolution sufficiently exceeds the time resolution of changes in the actual value being sampled]. It's called stochastic ressonance. It's used in some analog to digital converters, and in many other places in engineering, it's been used in electron microscopes, in radio telescopes. And now, it turns out, it looks like it's used in people! What is really interesting is the question of whether or not the healthy adult body actually has automatic noise generators itself, for precisely this purpose, which may have weakened in the case of the elderly.
what would it take (apart porting tons of applications) to make it a suitable alternative to X+[your toolkit of choice]+[your window manager of choice]?
Nothing! What is this thing people have about reinventing the wheel?! I mean, even linux is revolutionary only in it's implementation of un*x, that's why people started using it. As much as people gripe, X-windows is pretty well designed for a gui. Preciesely because it dosen't do much, other than act as a glorified lackey for handling input and output, leaving the rest to other programs/libraries/widget-sets/etc. And it has proven to be flexible to meet the challenges of the future, let's not forget DRI and xinerama and the like.
About the only thing X could be argued to be lacking in right now, is no good native support for vector drawing. But gtk's canvas, and I'm sure others do it well enough in 'user' space, that perhaps it wouldn't be justifiable to burden X with it, [asside from being a more universal API... but then again, who programs directly to X anyway, but widgetset creators?!]
That's great. Don't bother reading this comment. Nothing insightfull hear.
....but DAMN, that was funny. I loved the part about vimacs and emavics.... couldn't stop laughing. I don't understand why some people are posting complaints, like
How dare a serious news site like/. put this on the
main page
Does the wording on non-discriminatory licensing to OEMS mean that I will finally be able to purchase most laptops without having to pay a microsoft tax for software I delete as soon as I get it?
(Unix on the desktop is here, for those of us that want it. I've been running entirely in linux and BSD on the desktop for years now).
I have broadband, but it occurs to me that, really, what is the point!...more than half the pageviews I make come from slashdot, and what with the/. effect and all, my cable modem is usually no faster than dialup, as somewhere a server screams silently to itself. </humor>
It won't be the ultimate player until it can also play mpeg4 video. It's only a matter of time before these become common. So many people achieved substantial mp3 music holdings, that the portable cd audio players [as well as car players, home players] began to cater to consumer demand, and offer the additional function of playing.mp3's stored in a iso9660 data track.
Soon enough, the newer dvd players will be able to play "divx".avi's as a matter of course.
Admitedly, quicktime is a better file format. But avi has just caught on by popular momentum, it seems. All the media capture software I have saves to avi. Cinelerra seems to have some sort of modified quicktime which can contain divx, but I've no idea how to transcode the files I have right now into a format cine can understand. No feature would be more thrilling to me than proper avi handling. It's the -one- missing piece of this beautifull bit of software.
Wow. Those realtime effects just blow me away!!! Finally something that my K7 MP system can be overwhelmed by...errmm...Damn, I've ridden the crest and am becoming obsolete already, and I just got this thing 4 months ago. Sigh. Still, if something is going to kick my system's bottom, I'm happy to have an awesome near-professional-level marvel of open source like this to do it.
Took me about 20 minutes of fiddling to get it to make. [Course, the fact that I perversely insist on sticking everything in it's own complete directory, such as/usr/local/APP/cinelerra1.0, and then using a simple script to populate/usr/local/ with it's leafs, did add an extra few minutes bit to it;)]
Asside from the usual finessing of includes, the toughest bit of the puzzle was the need to apply the compiler -O flag to the quicktime makefile. a52dec was a pain as well. Ah, for the good old days without configure and automake... when men were men and compiling a package would put hair on your chest.;P
I ditched my vcr months ago. Just get a tv capture card with the bttv848 chip for video in [I recommend the winTV-FM, as it also has a stereo decoder and sound capture dsp on the card, leaving your existing sound card free, about $50 street]
Then, all you need is a good audio sync maintaining capture program like NewVideoRecorder and a good MP4 codec, and you're set! Oh, you probably need a least an athlon 1800 or equivilant, to do realtime 640x480 encoding capture with good deinterlacing. Much weaker systems can easily handle 320x240, which isn't much worse than vhs. Add in a few 80gig drives, a fast CDR, and you've got entertainment bliss.
Did I mention that the hauppage card comes with a remote, and it too is supported. So, sit back on the couch, with the computer hooked up to both record and play to your big screen tv, easily controlled by a remote.
It's being done right now, today, on peoples linux boxes. I've been doing it for over 4 months!
The only bad thing is that, currently, I still find the best application for editing commercials out of shows I want to archive, to be virtualdub [a win32 app]. It runs under wine, sure, but it still kind of hurts to have to do it. At least it's GPLd, though.
Look at the dialation of those guys pupils in the picture at the top! If that isn't gimped [preferable modification to the generic term photoshopped] than he was on enough LSD to to supply a minor rainbow gathering!
I currently use a hauppage bt848 card and NVrec to use my home system as a PVR. The card I have was cheap, but only records analog. The HD capable capture cards started at around $400 or so when I last looked!
Help me out, does this mean I aught to buy one of those before this passes, so as to be able to capture HD content in the future... or is the HD format as yet insufficiently negotiated/agreed upon by the players, such that if i were to drop $400 on this HD tuner and capture card, that it will be useless in a year when they come out with an new encrypted HD standard.
Basically, what I want to know, is how -standard- and commited is the current HD protocal?
If nothing else, accepting the counter offer will cause the comapny that initially tried to recruit you to concievably make a similar offer to someone else [perhaps several others, if they each accept a corresponding counter offer from their own current employers, until finally one of them is not actually worth that much to their old company, and they will transfer their employment to someone who is willing to pay what it is worth.
I'll be content as long as the kernel module is open source. I don't over-mind running untrusted code as an untrusted user [occasionaly possible [but quickly patched] local root exploits asides], but kernel mode is ring 0, baby. That's bigger than root. I don't like the idea of a propriatary kernel module one bit.
It's on tshirts, bumper stickers, why not sigs
on
DeCSS' Continuing Saga
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
Why not put the deCSS program text in your email signature, so everytime you email a friend you 'polute' their spools, servers, backups, with yet another offending copy.
Slashdot Mirror
...be that much pr0n in the world.
...I can see the day where an automated system can automatically flag and/or ticket you for exceeding the speed limit. Of course, they already have camera bases systems today, that photograph your license plate. And if the preponderance of technological competition in the radar-detector-detector-adnasuam world is any indication, there would soon enough be a market for phones that subtly altered the phase or seeming doppler profile of their signals to fool a single tower. Of course, if you show up at another tower 200Km away in 35 minutes, that would still be a little suspicious. ;)
That's almost a month and a half since the exploit was intially known, to when even the author of the package was informed; it was almost a month just for that! The general public got to know about this even later.
Maybe this is a good thing, but I wonder. Who had access to this dangerous knowledge while the rest of the world slept, unaware of their vulnerability to this. Sure, a truly secure setup wouldn't be running uncessary demons on anything important, but still...
Magic lantern, anyone?
It almost seems like blasphemy to be able to compile and run Visual Basic in a linux environment. Yikes! What is this interoperable world coming to? What next, a paperclip for emacs? ;)
...you might be eaten up in a gruesome corporate takeover!
It's supposed to be a linux system call? I've never heard of it, even a google search on "mmap2 manpage" only returns a few results, all in japanese.
I use mmap in my programs, I would be curious to know of other options. Why is there no manpage?! Is it an internal system call only used by glibc to wrap the normal mmap call [but wouldn't it then be prepended by an '_' or something], or what?
This is the first chapter of greg egan's book, diaspora, which describes a simulated neurogenesis in software, the technique of which was reverse engineered from the fractal patterns of human DNA.
Although this is science fiction, and art in only the literary sense, would it not qualify as prior art?
So that's all it takes, eh?
<grin>
It isn't the vibrational energy that is stimulating the neurons in the feet. Instead it's the additional quantity of information (that can be conveyed to the brain along aging pathways), by mixing in some noise. It may sound counterintuitive that noise can increase the resolution of a signal, but it makes sense. Imagine a signal is quantized in steps, and a sample could possibly fall between the discretely measurable points of sensitivity, and get lost. By adding noise enough to 'blur' the sample into a range that will always cross one sample boundary, then it will be detected more frequently. Even if it's blurred to cross two or three at a time, the relative activation of the seperate 'sensor nodes' allows an accurate determination of the actual quantity being sampled [given that the sampling resolution sufficiently exceeds the time resolution of changes in the actual value being sampled].
It's called stochastic ressonance.
It's used in some analog to digital converters, and in many other places in engineering, it's been used in electron microscopes, in radio telescopes.
And now, it turns out, it looks like it's used in people! What is really interesting is the question of whether or not the healthy adult body actually has automatic noise generators itself, for precisely this purpose, which may have weakened in the case of the elderly.
Nothing! What is this thing people have about reinventing the wheel?! I mean, even linux is revolutionary only in it's implementation of un*x, that's why people started using it. As much as people gripe, X-windows is pretty well designed for a gui. Preciesely because it dosen't do much, other than act as a glorified lackey for handling input and output, leaving the rest to other programs/libraries/widget-sets/etc. And it has proven to be flexible to meet the challenges of the future, let's not forget DRI and xinerama and the like.
About the only thing X could be argued to be lacking in right now, is no good native support for vector drawing. But gtk's canvas, and I'm sure others do it well enough in 'user' space, that perhaps it wouldn't be justifiable to burden X with it, [asside from being a more universal API... but then again, who programs directly to X anyway, but widgetset creators?!]
Geesh. I'm glad for it, it brightened my day.
Does the wording on non-discriminatory licensing to OEMS mean that I will finally be able to purchase most laptops without having to pay a microsoft tax for software I delete as soon as I get it?
(Unix on the desktop is here, for those of us that want it. I've been running entirely in linux and BSD on the desktop for years now).
while it goes on to state:
please review and accept the following terms and conditions before continuing on AA.com.
Instant, uh-huh...
I have broadband, but it occurs to me that, really, what is the point! ...more than half the pageviews I make come from slashdot, and what with the /. effect and all, my cable modem is usually no faster than dialup, as somewhere a server screams silently to itself. </humor>
It won't be the ultimate player until it can also play mpeg4 video. It's only a matter of time before these become common. So many people achieved substantial mp3 music holdings, that the portable cd audio players [as well as car players, home players] began to cater to consumer demand, and offer the additional function of playing .mp3's stored in a iso9660 data track.
.avi's as a matter of course.
Soon enough, the newer dvd players will be able to play "divx"
You can only download binaries. Asside from a vague promise to release the source in late summer, there however is no source available now.
Yet it claims to be under GPL. A GPL'd binary? Yeah, right.
Admitedly, quicktime is a better file format. But avi has just caught on by popular momentum, it seems. All the media capture software I have saves to avi. Cinelerra seems to have some sort of modified quicktime which can contain divx, but I've no idea how to transcode the files I have right now into a format cine can understand. No feature would be more thrilling to me than proper avi handling. It's the -one- missing piece of this beautifull bit of software.
...errmm ...Damn, I've ridden the crest and am becoming obsolete already, and I just got this thing 4 months ago. Sigh. Still, if something is going to kick my system's bottom, I'm happy to have an awesome near-professional-level marvel of open source like this to do it.
Wow. Those realtime effects just blow me away!!! Finally something that my K7 MP system can be overwhelmed by
Wow.
Took me about 20 minutes of fiddling to get it to make. [Course, the fact that I perversely insist on sticking everything in it's own complete directory, such as /usr/local/APP/cinelerra1.0, and then using a simple script to populate /usr/local/ with it's leafs, did add an extra few minutes bit to it ;)]
;P
Asside from the usual finessing of includes, the toughest bit of the puzzle was the need to apply the compiler -O flag to the quicktime makefile. a52dec was a pain as well. Ah, for the good old days without configure and automake... when men were men and compiling a package would put hair on your chest.
The bttv cards from haupauge are excellent.
I ditched my vcr months ago. Just get a tv capture card with the bttv848 chip for video in [I recommend the winTV-FM, as it also has a stereo decoder and sound capture dsp on the card, leaving your existing sound card free, about $50 street]
Then, all you need is a good audio sync maintaining capture program like NewVideoRecorder and a good MP4 codec, and you're set! Oh, you probably need a least an athlon 1800 or equivilant, to do realtime 640x480 encoding capture with good deinterlacing. Much weaker systems can easily handle 320x240, which isn't much worse than vhs. Add in a few 80gig drives, a fast CDR, and you've got entertainment bliss.
Did I mention that the hauppage card comes with a remote, and it too is supported. So, sit back on the couch, with the computer hooked up to both record and play to your big screen tv, easily controlled by a remote.
It's being done right now, today, on peoples linux boxes. I've been doing it for over 4 months!
The only bad thing is that, currently, I still find the best application for editing commercials out of shows I want to archive, to be virtualdub [a win32 app]. It runs under wine, sure, but it still kind of hurts to have to do it. At least it's GPLd, though.
Look at the dialation of those guys pupils in the picture at the top! If that isn't gimped [preferable modification to the generic term photoshopped] than he was on enough LSD to to supply a minor rainbow gathering!
I currently use a hauppage bt848 card and NVrec to use my home system as a PVR. The card I have was cheap, but only records analog. The HD capable capture cards started at around $400 or so when I last looked!
Help me out, does this mean I aught to buy one of those before this passes, so as to be able to capture HD content in the future... or is the HD format as yet insufficiently negotiated/agreed upon by the players, such that if i were to drop $400 on this HD tuner and capture card, that it will be useless in a year when they come out with an new encrypted HD standard.
Basically, what I want to know, is how -standard- and commited is the current HD protocal?
If nothing else, accepting the counter offer will cause the comapny that initially tried to recruit you to concievably make a similar offer to someone else [perhaps several others, if they each accept a corresponding counter offer from their own current employers, until finally one of them is not actually worth that much to their old company, and they will transfer their employment to someone who is willing to pay what it is worth.
I'll be content as long as the kernel module is open source. I don't over-mind running untrusted code as an untrusted user [occasionaly possible [but quickly patched] local root exploits asides], but kernel mode is ring 0, baby. That's bigger than root. I don't like the idea of a propriatary kernel module one bit.
Why not put the deCSS program text in your email signature, so everytime you email a friend you 'polute' their spools, servers, backups, with yet another offending copy.