It is not regular obsolescence. It is Microsoft rewriting the driver model so that digital media streams are encrypted point-to-point, the Protected Video Path. DRM means a new driver is required for every device, and all your old devices that the manufacturers decided they got all their money out of are now bricked (I have a $600 Alps printer and a $300 Canon scanner that are useless with Windows 7, and it took years for a driver for my digitizing tablet). Still works in Linux distros that were compiled last night though.
If the account was logged into from China, it was already Pwnd, it wasn't just "flagged". Getting the account back is a luxury - all the emails could have been wiped and the account deleted after child porn was sent to every contact in the contact list.
I would think committing sexual assault would be already against the law in every US state. If you discover after you go through security that you are going to have your genitals and breasts groped, you are threatened with arrest and financial penalty if you do not submit or if you attempt to escape the false imprisonment. The TSA saying it is a voluntary search would be an easily broken defence. There's a few top hands at the TSA that could have arrest warrants set on them for conspiracy to commit sex crimes.
How about Texas boots the TSA out of their state, loads up planes using their own security procedures that follows the US constitution (namely the 4th [rights against unreasonable search and seizure], 5th [no person shall be deprived of property and liberty], 2nd [the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed], common law[right to travel], and especially the 10th [powers not delegated to the US by the constitution are reserved to the states]). Then they can see if the US government is willing to shoot down planes full of US citizens or let them crash after they run out of fuel instead of granting a landing. Be ready to hire your own air traffic controllers too. Security theatre is unnecessary, a terrorist would have to buy every ticket on the flight to have a chance of committing another 9/11 attack, because passengers would beat a hijacker to death with their bare hands.
I win, I have MR-DOS 6.0 sealed, with the 4cm thick manual. Also have MS-DOS 5.0 manual, about 3cm thick. It's amazing when you can open a book to learn your OS instead of trying to type an applicable search term in help that will bring up a command reference, and then try to find some screen real estate to drag that to.
Aliasing is distortion due to digital encoding, such as the pixel blockiness when pixels are stair-stepped and jagged from nearest-neighbor sampling, or are just low resolution low color depth, like those the article's technique is designed to work on.
Anti-aliasing is to use techniques to minimize those effects, such as blending adjacent pixels and super-sampling. It is possible to even anti-alias in 4 color...
Speed limiters are not rare. They are just set a reasonable speed, usually something like the top speed of the stock tire rating. My car will start cutting fuel injectors at 139mph on a stock ECU program.
So, why are T-Mobile not in violation of these provisions? Are there any legal types who can explain how this can be legitimate?
Good luck fighting that one in binding arbitration. They have your signature on their terms and conditions:, which they can change any time they feel like it, really meaning you already agreed to anything they want.
- To provide a good experience for the majority of our customers and minimize capacity issues and degradation in network performance, we may take measures including temporarily reducing data throughput for a subset of customers who use a disproportionate amount of bandwidth. If your total usage exceeds 5GB (amount is subject to change without notice; please check T-Mobile’s T&Cs on www.T-Mobile.com for updates) during a billing cycle, we may reduce your data speed for the remainder of that billing cycle.
and
You agree not to misuse the Service or Device, including but not limited to:... (g) using the Service in connection with server devices or host computer applications, including continuous Web camera posts or broadcasts, automatic data feeds, automated machine-to-machine connections or peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications that are broadcast to multiple servers or recipients, “bots” or similar routines that could disrupt net user groups or email use by others or other applications that denigrate network capacity or functionality;.... (i) running software or other devices that maintain continuously active Internet connections when a computer’s connection would otherwise be idle, or “keep alive” functions (e.g. using a Data Plan for Web broadcasting, operating servers, telemetry devices and/or supervisory control and data acquisition devices); or (j) assisting or facilitating anyone else in any of the above activities. Unless authorized by T-Mobile, you agree that you won't install, deploy, or use any regeneration equipment or similar mechanism (for example, a repeater) to originate, amplify, enhance, retransmit or regenerate a transmitted RF signal. You agree that a violation of this section harms T-Mobile, which cannot be fully redressed by money damages, and that T-Mobile shall be entitled to immediate injunctive relief in addition to all other remedies available.
Other notable one-sided crap in the contract:
- WE EACH AGREE THAT ANY DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEEDINGS,... WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT IN A CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION OR AS A MEMBER IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION.
-...WE EACH WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL
- WE CAN CHANGE ANY TERMS IN THE AGREEMENT AT ANY TIME.
You need to join a pool. Acting alone, and at the current rate processing power is being added with all the pump and dump slashspam, you likely won't win a 50 coin fabulous prize if you left your computer running for four years.
That means with ten of these, you could have the majority of the compute power, enough to earn majority trust and poison the bitcoin system with your own fake transaction records and wipe everybody's funny-money into oblivion. I'm sure the NSA has enough compute power they could do that now if they wanted to crypto bitcoins instead of your emails for a day. The FBI would probably pay as much attention to a bad actor crashing a fake currency as they would someone hacking your WoW and selling your Traveler's Tundra Mammoth.
.... I think it's pretty obvious that WebM is destined for the same place as VESA and HD-VHS landed. Nice idea..... not adopted by the general public.
You mean VESA graphics modes? The ones supported by every video card since ~1998? The ones used in Windows Vista-7 for graphical setup and video fallback? If you like installing a Linux distro with the graphical user interface, you should be thanking the Video Electronics Standards Organization for making a common way of talking to all video cards.
That mere fact that I am reading this article indicates that WebP has enough momentum to potentially be useful.
Google is the one that is pushing Webp. They acquired the video compression codecs through their takeover of on2 technologies for $106 million. Duh that they are going to add it in their cloud services.
You are reading that the largest open source web browser says no, which would be a lower hurdle than than trying to get it supported in Internet Explorer (which it won't anytime soon, because WebP in HTML5 is not only a Adobe Flash video replacement, but also a Microsoft Silverlight video replacement). Those two browsers alone mean that over 70% of the web cannot see WebP files in their web browser. That is not momentum.
See: browser support for Motion JPEG 2000, which is an ISO Standard
If you read the article instead of looking at the pictures, the authors point out that this is one situation where the algorithm fails - the method is optimized for edge-finding in hand-drawn 8-bit pixel graphics. In more photo-realistic images like the doom face, especially later games where the graphics were rendered in 3d/hi-res and imported into the game (Donkey Kong Country would be a good example of this), vectorization doesn't work well due to the smoothed anti-aliased graphics.
The article is a puff 'news' piece regurgitating a new NatGeo documentary Area 51 Declassified that premiered on May 22. Check your local listings or favourite video sharing site.
This is corporate money buying off politicians to protect their monopoly. It's to prevent nightmare scenarios like Ashland, OR, which in the year 2000 had public utility fiber optic to every home, and offers internet service starting at $9 a month.
Google reveals that besides the state senate passing the bill, the non-veto vote was likely illegally bought--and--paid--for a long time ago.
The biggest entitlement problem with people and their own devices is they feel like they can use their work time for personal phone calls, tweeting, updating their facebook status, IMing, etc. The policy should be more like steal the company's time, your frickin' fired!
Your router can't understand the destination network of 60hz 120VAC. Clearly as this little thread shows, you need to have your routing tables set up to send all traffic off the LAN before you plug in one of these. I recommend setting your netmask on all internal machines to 255.255.255.255 first just to be safe.
No, I just pay protection money to those with infinitely more power than me, so they don't seize my property and imprison me. Someone set up this arrangement before I was born.
If bitcoin payments can be used to prevent a back-alley beating, it would be more valuable, especially so if the beatings were mandatory.
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It is not regular obsolescence. It is Microsoft rewriting the driver model so that digital media streams are encrypted point-to-point, the Protected Video Path. DRM means a new driver is required for every device, and all your old devices that the manufacturers decided they got all their money out of are now bricked (I have a $600 Alps printer and a $300 Canon scanner that are useless with Windows 7, and it took years for a driver for my digitizing tablet). Still works in Linux distros that were compiled last night though.
If the account was logged into from China, it was already Pwnd, it wasn't just "flagged". Getting the account back is a luxury - all the emails could have been wiped and the account deleted after child porn was sent to every contact in the contact list.
I would think committing sexual assault would be already against the law in every US state. If you discover after you go through security that you are going to have your genitals and breasts groped, you are threatened with arrest and financial penalty if you do not submit or if you attempt to escape the false imprisonment. The TSA saying it is a voluntary search would be an easily broken defence. There's a few top hands at the TSA that could have arrest warrants set on them for conspiracy to commit sex crimes.
Just following orders has not been proven an infallible defence.
How about Texas boots the TSA out of their state, loads up planes using their own security procedures that follows the US constitution (namely the 4th [rights against unreasonable search and seizure], 5th [no person shall be deprived of property and liberty], 2nd [the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed], common law[right to travel], and especially the 10th [powers not delegated to the US by the constitution are reserved to the states]). Then they can see if the US government is willing to shoot down planes full of US citizens or let them crash after they run out of fuel instead of granting a landing. Be ready to hire your own air traffic controllers too. Security theatre is unnecessary, a terrorist would have to buy every ticket on the flight to have a chance of committing another 9/11 attack, because passengers would beat a hijacker to death with their bare hands.
I win, I have MR-DOS 6.0 sealed, with the 4cm thick manual. Also have MS-DOS 5.0 manual, about 3cm thick. It's amazing when you can open a book to learn your OS instead of trying to type an applicable search term in help that will bring up a command reference, and then try to find some screen real estate to drag that to.
I played the Picard song on youtube to my 21 year old roommate. He asked 'what is pick-urd?'...
This kind of humour is very polarizing...
Fourier transform is the most stupid and obvious principle ever. Eigenvalues too. They apply to everything.
Aliasing is distortion due to digital encoding, such as the pixel blockiness when pixels are stair-stepped and jagged from nearest-neighbor sampling, or are just low resolution low color depth, like those the article's technique is designed to work on.
Anti-aliasing is to use techniques to minimize those effects, such as blending adjacent pixels and super-sampling. It is possible to even anti-alias in 4 color...
.... that are not criminal offenses but merely infarctions (matters of civil law). Speeding is an infarction....
I think that word means not what you think it means.
Speed limiters are not rare. They are just set a reasonable speed, usually something like the top speed of the stock tire rating. My car will start cutting fuel injectors at 139mph on a stock ECU program.
So, why are T-Mobile not in violation of these provisions? Are there any legal types who can explain how this can be legitimate?
Good luck fighting that one in binding arbitration. They have your signature on their terms and conditions:, which they can change any time they feel like it, really meaning you already agreed to anything they want.
- To provide a good experience for the majority of our customers and minimize capacity issues and degradation in network performance, we may take measures including temporarily reducing data throughput for a subset of customers who use a disproportionate amount of bandwidth. If your total usage exceeds 5GB (amount is subject to change without notice; please check T-Mobile’s T&Cs on www.T-Mobile.com for updates) during a billing cycle, we may reduce your data speed for the remainder of that billing cycle.
and
You agree not to misuse the Service or Device, including but not limited to: ... (g) using the Service in connection with server devices or host computer applications, including continuous Web camera posts or broadcasts, automatic data feeds, automated machine-to-machine connections or peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications that are broadcast to multiple servers or recipients, “bots” or similar routines that could disrupt net user groups or email use by others or other applications that denigrate network capacity or functionality; .... (i) running software or other devices that maintain continuously active Internet connections when a computer’s connection would otherwise be idle, or “keep alive” functions (e.g. using a Data Plan for Web broadcasting, operating servers, telemetry devices and/or supervisory control and data acquisition devices); or (j) assisting or facilitating anyone else in any of the above activities. Unless authorized by T-Mobile, you agree that you won't install, deploy, or use any regeneration equipment or similar mechanism (for example, a repeater) to originate, amplify, enhance, retransmit or regenerate a transmitted RF signal. You agree that a violation of this section harms T-Mobile, which cannot be fully redressed by money damages, and that T-Mobile shall be entitled to immediate injunctive relief in addition to all other remedies available.
Other notable one-sided crap in the contract:
- WE EACH AGREE THAT ANY DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEEDINGS, ... WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT IN A CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION OR AS A MEMBER IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION.
- ...WE EACH WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL
- WE CAN CHANGE ANY TERMS IN THE AGREEMENT AT ANY TIME.
Yes and No. You can write your code, but good luck finding a punch card reader for the Cray....
You need to join a pool. Acting alone, and at the current rate processing power is being added with all the pump and dump slashspam, you likely won't win a 50 coin fabulous prize if you left your computer running for four years.
That means with ten of these, you could have the majority of the compute power, enough to earn majority trust and poison the bitcoin system with your own fake transaction records and wipe everybody's funny-money into oblivion. I'm sure the NSA has enough compute power they could do that now if they wanted to crypto bitcoins instead of your emails for a day. The FBI would probably pay as much attention to a bad actor crashing a fake currency as they would someone hacking your WoW and selling your Traveler's Tundra Mammoth.
.... I think it's pretty obvious that WebM is destined for the same place as VESA and HD-VHS landed. Nice idea..... not adopted by the general public.
You mean VESA graphics modes? The ones supported by every video card since ~1998? The ones used in Windows Vista-7 for graphical setup and video fallback? If you like installing a Linux distro with the graphical user interface, you should be thanking the Video Electronics Standards Organization for making a common way of talking to all video cards.
That mere fact that I am reading this article indicates that WebP has enough momentum to potentially be useful.
Google is the one that is pushing Webp. They acquired the video compression codecs through their takeover of on2 technologies for $106 million. Duh that they are going to add it in their cloud services.
You are reading that the largest open source web browser says no, which would be a lower hurdle than than trying to get it supported in Internet Explorer (which it won't anytime soon, because WebP in HTML5 is not only a Adobe Flash video replacement, but also a Microsoft Silverlight video replacement). Those two browsers alone mean that over 70% of the web cannot see WebP files in their web browser. That is not momentum.
See: browser support for Motion JPEG 2000, which is an ISO Standard
If you read the article instead of looking at the pictures, the authors point out that this is one situation where the algorithm fails - the method is optimized for edge-finding in hand-drawn 8-bit pixel graphics. In more photo-realistic images like the doom face, especially later games where the graphics were rendered in 3d/hi-res and imported into the game (Donkey Kong Country would be a good example of this), vectorization doesn't work well due to the smoothed anti-aliased graphics.
The article is a puff 'news' piece regurgitating a new NatGeo documentary Area 51 Declassified that premiered on May 22. Check your local listings or favourite video sharing site.
Greetings Professor Falken
A strange game.
The only winning move is
not to play.
This is corporate money buying off politicians to protect their monopoly. It's to prevent nightmare scenarios like Ashland, OR, which in the year 2000 had public utility fiber optic to every home, and offers internet service starting at $9 a month.
Google reveals that besides the state senate passing the bill, the non-veto vote was likely illegally bought--and--paid--for a long time ago.
The biggest entitlement problem with people and their own devices is they feel like they can use their work time for personal phone calls, tweeting, updating their facebook status, IMing, etc. The policy should be more like steal the company's time, your frickin' fired!
this...
Virus? Why not throw some files like ccnumparser.exe and ccnumdb.sh. Of course exe is a rootkit with a remote, and sh can just be a sudo rm -rf /*.
Your router can't understand the destination network of 60hz 120VAC. Clearly as this little thread shows, you need to have your routing tables set up to send all traffic off the LAN before you plug in one of these. I recommend setting your netmask on all internal machines to 255.255.255.255 first just to be safe.
No, I just pay protection money to those with infinitely more power than me, so they don't seize my property and imprison me. Someone set up this arrangement before I was born.
If bitcoin payments can be used to prevent a back-alley beating, it would be more valuable, especially so if the beatings were mandatory.