Repeatedly all I can find is that this is hardware/OS independent, and that non 'MPV-aware' software/hardware will still play the media because its just an extension system, that it is royalty-free...
Granted it appears to be non-OS specific, but I did find this in section 10.6.4."Computer Harddisks"
The user may expect that many different MPV-aware applications should be able to access the same set of albums. This requires a convention for locating a root MPV collection. the following directories are recommended for storing the root MPV collection, in order of preference:
*/Desktop/My Documents/My Pictures
* C:/Documents and Settings/users/My Documents/My Pictures
* C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Applications Data/MPV/user.PVM
* Breath-first aplhabetical scan of all directories up to three levels below the root directory.
If that doesn't sound OS oriented, I don't know what does...
They should get better proofreaders too. Section 11.5 starts with the heading "Finding an Photo/Video Manifest File"
Last time I checked, "an" was only used before words that started with a vowel or a vowel sound, such as the words Hour, or Image.
I haven't read all the other posts so I apologize if this is redundant.. but...
the commercial products were more expensive for the first four to six years of lifetime costs
While this may justify some commercial products TCO. It shows that for the average lifespan of a vendor supported microsoft product the TCO will probably be higher because we all know microsoft is prone to retire a product (and support) well before it reaches 10 years of age. Heck, windows 2000 is already slated for retirement and it's hardly 3 years old.
Looks like if bill's goons want to beat us on a TCO ISSUE they will have to make a product that isn't so buggy it has to be retired every 5 years.
Our HR director is scared to death of these new HIPAA Rules. Main thing that worries him is that we are going to overlook something and that it will come down on him.
We spoken with our "insurance managers" and since we are a small group (less than $5 Mil/yr) we have that extended deadline to be in full compliance. Still, we were asked to find a simple and convenient way to encrypt email.
What I ended up using, even though our provider isn't ready for it yet, is a little tool called GPGRelay. This tool allows you to use GPG transparently of the email client. It might be easier to use a server based product to do this, but then you'd have to have some way for the server to authenticate the sender without a password being sent plain text across the network.
Anyhow, thats what we'll probably do unless our provider makes us do otherwise.
I'd like to back jsonmez to some extent on the idea that the machine doesn't have to validate the voter. If any of you have ever voted in the US you might recall that you SIGN IN when you get there. A live person validates that you are eligible to vote.
As far as the vote itself being "validated," something does have to happen there. Something also has to happen to make sure the voter doesnt enter the booth and vote 15 times.
I think a combination of a paper ballot with a barcode to activate the machine and generate a hash could be a start. You have security that the ballot can't be used more than once to vote (the hash is saved and is not tied to the voter, just the vote). From there the voter is allowed to select which party and candidate they wish to vote for. Before their final vote is made they are presented with a screen that both shows the name, and a picture of the candidate. For blind voters an audible confirmation could be made via headphones, I think these voters get assistance anyway.
I do think if managed properly electronic ballots would be better thn paper ballots, especially when a blind person is left to the whim of an assistant or someone who could influence their vote at the booth. Until the technology gets there though, it's going to be the candidate that has the most $$$ and buys the right people.
Anyhow, y'all can go ahead and flame me, I'm sure I missed something in the 2 seconds it took me to come up with those ideas;)
speaking of bugtraq, this just came through my e-mail from Greg Chatten with St. Louis Internet. Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:32:17 -0500 Subject: MS02-023 Patch Breaks JAVASCRIPT To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
The installation of the 15-May-2002 Cumulative Patch for IE (V6 in this case) breaks the following Javascript code. This code works in IE versions *not* patched with Q321232 but fails to execute on IE6 which has been patched. I don't have IE 5 or below so I don't know if they broke those versions as well.
Then there is lots of javascript. Just like microsoft to break something else while they fix another thing. The original message should be in the bugtraq archive by now;)
Some (most) try to. On my DVD player I always put in the CD and when it starts playing the ads I hit Stop, Play, Root Menu then I can select the menu item to play the movie.
I haven't come across a DVD yet that this didn't work with. On the other hand I don't have many DVD's and I don't rent very often either.
Exactly! (Being one of the few/.'s that reads before he posts, I wanted so see if someone clearly stated what MS is trying to do
For those that still don't get it. This is their way of saying.. If you take these specs and optimize the code, we're going to take it, implement it, and give you nothing for it. On the other hand if you take the specs, make it where ms can't "steal" it then they'll sue you for violating their patent.
IMHO, this doesn't stop the SAMBA team from developing samba any further. It would just required the team to release the module or modules that implement the news cifs as BSD or something else MS could steal in an 'intellectual' way.
They say it is illegal according to section 1201(b), but they don't get too specific.
By their own argument you can say that section 1201 (b) section 2) paragraphs (A) and (B) protect YOU because
``(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
``(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose oruse other than to circumvent atechnological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
Furthermore, section 3) paragraph (A) States,
``(A) to `circumvent a technological measure' means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a tech- nological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner;
Does this device actually descramble or decrypt anything? Dont they put copy protection on their roms?
By using those two statements in section 2, they are implying the only commercial use of this device is to copy ROMs. The defense is that the device is intended to allow a would-be game programmer to program a flash device and develop his/her own games for the GBA. I believe in the USA you are guilty until proven innocent. This means the burden of proof that this device has no other commercial use is upon NOA. Either they prove it or they shut the fsck up.
On the other hand, money buys politicians. Good Luck, you'll need it against them arseholes!
I'll agree with you, since I was just thinking about this the other day.
I was even debating whether or not the open source community should/would add a module to the precompiled binaries that acts as a nag screen (like shareware stuff) to compel the user to migrate to linux or to obtain a compiler and compile the source code themselves (minus the nag module). Of course you wouldn't want the nag screen to harass the user based on time, more like the winzip products that nag you on startup but don't disable the softwares feature or pop back up while your uncompressing your pr0n movie you just downloaded;)
just my 2cents, (and there goes my 2 karma points too)
You think ODB-II is screwing us, wait till OBD-III goes live. Here are some of the features as stated by the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA).
---
OBD-III TECHNOLOGIES
Three ways to send/receive data:
Roadside reader
Local station network
Satellite
---
That's right, a radio link to tell big brother where you are, and what your car is doing. Why??
---
ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS
Incorporate into biennial I/M program
Read fault code to screen for vehicles that need complete testing
Pass or short test for vehicles with no fault code
Does not speed up repair process
Out-of-cycle inspection
Compile and screen data
Mail notice to vehicle owner requiring out-of-cycle inspection within 10 days
Require Certificate of Compliance (C of C) on next registration/resale, or
Require C of C within 30-60 days, with citation for noncompliance
Enforce citation via court and/or DMV penalty at next registration
Roadside Pullover
CHP flags down vehicles with fault codes
Technician verifies problem by inspecting and/or testing vehicle
Issuance of notice requiring out-of-cycle inspection
Same enforcement (C of C/citation)
---
On the other hand they also realise that there are legal issues by this statement on their site.
---
OBD-III raises 4th Amendment search and seizure privacy issues:
''The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated...''
---
But afterwards state that the OBD system should be leagal because it's a nondiscrimitory, mass population product. Whereas the 4th amendment only protects individual privacy and not a group of individuals.
When you've got a couple hundred watts of surround sound. I hardly notice anything other than the rockets exploding around me. That's especially handy when the wife's naggin ya...
Since everyone's brought up the matrix, it's obvious that the movie industry thought of this idea first and will be the appropriate content holders. Everyone will have to pay a tax to generate body heat and will no longer be allowed to share body heat without paying royalties.
In my opinion thats way too hot. I believe the white papers for those processors list that as being close to the maximum sustainable temperature. I'd find a better cooler and quick. Even with my 900 o/c to a meazly gig, I rarely get above 140 F (60C) and my case is no shining example of a proper cooling setup... You might also try some heat transfer compound, any decent electronics store will carry it...
This may be a day late and a dollar short, but in my state we have one of those no call lists and if you read the fine print it says that telemarketers are exempted from the list if you've done business with them in the past. In other words, if joe blow does business with them, the telemarketers have every right to harass joe blow till he turns blue in the face... And of course, in our world of giant corporations, doing business with verizon probably gives some nobodies who are considered "corporate partners" with verizon the right to harass joe blow..
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Repeatedly all I can find is that this is hardware/OS independent, and that non 'MPV-aware' software/hardware will still play the media because its just an extension system, that it is royalty-free...
/Desktop/My Documents/My Pictures
Granted it appears to be non-OS specific, but I did find this in section 10.6.4."Computer Harddisks"
The user may expect that many different MPV-aware applications should be able to access the same set of albums. This requires a convention for locating a root MPV collection. the following directories are recommended for storing the root MPV collection, in order of preference:
*
* C:/Documents and Settings/users/My Documents/My Pictures
* C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Applications Data/MPV/user.PVM
* Breath-first aplhabetical scan of all directories up to three levels below the root directory.
If that doesn't sound OS oriented, I don't know what does...
They should get better proofreaders too. Section 11.5 starts with the heading "Finding an Photo/Video Manifest File"
Last time I checked, "an" was only used before words that started with a vowel or a vowel sound, such as the words Hour, or Image.
I haven't read all the other posts so I apologize if this is redundant.. but...
the commercial products were more expensive for the first four to six years of lifetime costs
While this may justify some commercial products TCO. It shows that for the average lifespan of a vendor supported microsoft product the TCO will probably be higher because we all know microsoft is prone to retire a product (and support) well before it reaches 10 years of age. Heck, windows 2000 is already slated for retirement and it's hardly 3 years old.
Looks like if bill's goons want to beat us on a TCO ISSUE they will have to make a product that isn't so buggy it has to be retired every 5 years.
Our HR director is scared to death of these new HIPAA Rules. Main thing that worries him is that we are going to overlook something and that it will come down on him.
We spoken with our "insurance managers" and since we are a small group (less than $5 Mil/yr) we have that extended deadline to be in full compliance. Still, we were asked to find a simple and convenient way to encrypt email.
What I ended up using, even though our provider isn't ready for it yet, is a little tool called GPGRelay. This tool allows you to use GPG transparently of the email client. It might be easier to use a server based product to do this, but then you'd have to have some way for the server to authenticate the sender without a password being sent plain text across the network.
Anyhow, thats what we'll probably do unless our provider makes us do otherwise.
Hope this Helps...
I'd like to back jsonmez to some extent on the idea that the machine doesn't have to validate the voter. If any of you have ever voted in the US you might recall that you SIGN IN when you get there. A live person validates that you are eligible to vote.
;)
As far as the vote itself being "validated," something does have to happen there. Something also has to happen to make sure the voter doesnt enter the booth and vote 15 times.
I think a combination of a paper ballot with a barcode to activate the machine and generate a hash could be a start. You have security that the ballot can't be used more than once to vote (the hash is saved and is not tied to the voter, just the vote). From there the voter is allowed to select which party and candidate they wish to vote for. Before their final vote is made they are presented with a screen that both shows the name, and a picture of the candidate. For blind voters an audible confirmation could be made via headphones, I think these voters get assistance anyway.
I do think if managed properly electronic ballots would be better thn paper ballots, especially when a blind person is left to the whim of an assistant or someone who could influence their vote at the booth. Until the technology gets there though, it's going to be the candidate that has the most $$$ and buys the right people.
Anyhow, y'all can go ahead and flame me, I'm sure I missed something in the 2 seconds it took me to come up with those ideas
speaking of bugtraq, this just came through my e-mail from Greg Chatten with St. Louis Internet.
;)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:32:17 -0500
Subject: MS02-023 Patch Breaks JAVASCRIPT
To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
The installation of the 15-May-2002 Cumulative Patch for IE (V6 in this
case) breaks the following Javascript code. This code works in IE versions
*not* patched with Q321232 but fails to execute on IE6 which has been
patched. I don't have IE 5 or below so I don't know if they broke those
versions as well.
Then there is lots of javascript. Just like microsoft to break something else while they fix another thing.
The original message should be in the bugtraq archive by now
Some (most) try to. On my DVD player I always put in the CD and when it starts playing the ads
I hit Stop, Play, Root Menu then I can select the menu item to play the movie.
I haven't come across a DVD yet that this didn't work with.
On the other hand I don't have many DVD's and I don't rent very often either.
Exactly! (Being one of the few /.'s that reads before he posts, I wanted so see if someone clearly stated what MS is trying to do
For those that still don't get it. This is their way of saying.. If you take these specs and optimize the code, we're going to take it, implement it, and give you nothing for it. On the other hand if you take the specs, make it where ms can't "steal" it then they'll sue you for violating their patent.
IMHO, this doesn't stop the SAMBA team from developing samba any further. It would just required the team to release the module or modules that implement the news cifs as BSD or something else MS could steal in an 'intellectual' way.
--IANAL--
They say it is illegal according to section 1201(b), but they don't get too specific.
By their own argument you can say that section 1201 (b) section 2) paragraphs (A) and (B) protect YOU because
``(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
``(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose oruse other than to circumvent atechnological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
Furthermore, section 3) paragraph (A) States,
``(A) to `circumvent a technological measure' means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a tech-
nological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner;
Does this device actually descramble or decrypt anything? Dont they put copy protection on their roms?
By using those two statements in section 2, they are implying the only commercial use of this device is to copy ROMs. The defense is that the device is intended to allow a would-be game programmer to program a flash device and develop his/her own games for the GBA. I believe in the USA you are guilty until proven innocent. This means the burden of proof that this device has no other commercial use is upon NOA. Either they prove it or they shut the fsck up.
On the other hand, money buys politicians. Good Luck, you'll need it against them arseholes!
I'll agree with you, since I was just thinking about this the other day.
;)
I was even debating whether or not the open source community should/would add a module to the precompiled binaries that acts as a nag screen (like shareware stuff) to compel the user to migrate to linux or to obtain a compiler and compile the source code themselves (minus the nag module). Of course you wouldn't want the nag screen to harass the user based on time, more like the winzip products that nag you on startup but don't disable the softwares feature or pop back up while your uncompressing your pr0n movie you just downloaded
just my 2cents, (and there goes my 2 karma points too)
You think ODB-II is screwing us, wait till OBD-III goes live. Here are some of the features as stated by the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA).
/citation)
---
OBD-III TECHNOLOGIES
Three ways to send/receive data:
Roadside reader
Local station network
Satellite
---
That's right, a radio link to tell big brother where you are, and what your car is doing. Why??
---
ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS
Incorporate into biennial I/M program
Read fault code to screen for vehicles that need complete testing
Pass or short test for vehicles with no fault code
Does not speed up repair process
Out-of-cycle inspection
Compile and screen data
Mail notice to vehicle owner requiring out-of-cycle inspection within 10 days
Require Certificate of Compliance (C of C) on next registration/resale, or
Require C of C within 30-60 days, with citation for noncompliance
Enforce citation via court and/or DMV penalty at next registration
Roadside Pullover
CHP flags down vehicles with fault codes
Technician verifies problem by inspecting and/or testing vehicle
Issuance of notice requiring out-of-cycle inspection
Same enforcement (C of C
---
On the other hand they also realise that there are legal issues by this statement on their site.
---
OBD-III raises 4th Amendment search and seizure privacy issues:
''The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated...''
---
But afterwards state that the OBD system should be leagal because it's a nondiscrimitory, mass population product. Whereas the 4th amendment only protects individual privacy and not a group of individuals.
Read more about this at
Sema web site
When you've got a couple hundred watts of surround sound. I hardly notice anything other than the rockets exploding around me. That's especially handy when the wife's naggin ya...
"What did you say, I can't hear you!?"
:)
But they use Linux to sort mail. (old article, was on slashdot some time ago, this is the only link I coud find)
http://www.pnwsoft.com/linux.htm
Since everyone's brought up the matrix, it's obvious that the movie industry thought of this idea first and will be the appropriate content holders. Everyone will have to pay a tax to generate body heat and will no longer be allowed to share body heat without paying royalties.
In my opinion thats way too hot. I believe the white papers for those processors list that as being close to the maximum sustainable temperature. I'd find a better cooler and quick. Even with my 900 o/c to a meazly gig, I rarely get above 140 F (60C) and my case is no shining example of a proper cooling setup... You might also try some heat transfer compound, any decent electronics store will carry it...
This may be a day late and a dollar short, but in my state we have one of those no call lists and if you read the fine print it says that telemarketers are exempted from the list if you've done business with them in the past. In other words, if joe blow does business with them, the telemarketers have every right to harass joe blow till he turns blue in the face... And of course, in our world of giant corporations, doing business with verizon probably gives some nobodies who are considered "corporate partners" with verizon the right to harass joe blow..
Are you trying to say most slashdotters are wet behind the ears or are you trying to say some of us who remember that are getting old?!? ;)