As a source for a blu-ray, theatre prints (also consider they've been used a lot) and the intra-positive prints made of the film also seem to not be practical:
[Searching for a good quality copy,] Lucas had screened some prints in 1994 but none of them were presentable. "By the summer of '94 George said, 'I'm worried about the negative because every print we get is bad,'" Rick McCallum remembers. "That's when we got really scared about the presentation of this film."
What they found when they opened up the cans of film in late 1994 [13] was horrifying--the original negatives had been severely deteriorated.
So the only practical way to get a HD+ quality version of the original film is to go back and find not just the segments of film that were replaced in the original negative with the 'special edition' content, but one would ideally digitally scan in the original camera negatives of effects shots and digitally re-composite them (this was redone in 1997 at high expense, but it was still done optically with just better equipment than was used in 1977). Many layers were composited to make the space scenes - one negative for the background, one for the moving ships, one for the laser effects, etc, causing the effects shots to not only be very grainy, but also to have multiple black matte outlines around objects from the optical printing process that would be very noticeable and ridiculous-looking on HD with our modern sensibilities. Basically one would be re-doing all the effects shots, basically remaking the movie to get the original presentation up to digital standards for 1080p and beyond.
All this doesn't matter anyway: since Lucas owns all three films (he got Star Wars ownership back from Fox around 1998, probably as part of Fox's payoff to Lucas to distribute his new prequels), he was able to give the finger to the fans and say his new revised version is the 'version he intended' and will be the only version from now on. Seeing the original film in HD/bluray/2k+ might only happen after he's dead.
The film's original negative was in bad condition in 1997 (color fading badly) when they took it out of the can for the creation of the special edition, and they actually spliced in restorations, and inter-prints that were better quality that the damaged original, along with the new optical composites from the camera negatives, and the 'special edition enhancements' into the original negative of the film to create a new 'original negative'. After the SE film release, all prints of the original film still in circulation (always owned by the studio) were recalled and probably destroyed. There is no more Star Wars-The Original Version.
In 2004, to do a DVD release, they digitally scanned the film and did digital restoration to make a 1080p restored master (no, not 2k or 4k or even 8k, 1080p is the new digital master) with scratches and dirt digitally removed, along with the color being re-timed badly. This 1080p version is now the canon, It has been show as the HD version on tv and printed on film for further cinematic releases, and the Blu-ray will probably get a hardly-fixed version of this digital transfer. You will not see Star Wars again in the original version: the original movie no longer exists (a very awesome long article about the quality and treatment of the original Star Wars negatives.)
Patents protect exclusive distribution of inventions. We do not do the exact same thing with patents. Patents allow you to take legal action and prohibit competitors from making infringing products.
Trade secrets are secrets as long as they are kept secret, but 'infringing' products are not actionable. You have not publicly declared that you invented something, so if someone else invents it they can use it too (and might even be able to patent it if you haven't created prior art implementing your invention). There are only legal covenants (and criminal liability in some states) to prevent employee disclosure, theft, or espionage. Trade secrets can include non-copyrightable or non-patentable things such as the formula for Red Bull.
Software, which is currently under discussion, can have all: patentable (think Amazon one-click checkout patent), under copyright (as the Amazon web server software is, even if undisclosed), and contain trade secrets (such as server cloud optimization routines to speed processing).
If you work for Apple and released the source code to 1984's Macintosh File System you would be breaching your non-disclosure trade secret agreement with Apple. The disclosed software would still be covered by copyright, and features or inventions implemented in the software may be covered by patents too. Many software patents are so vague in their description (merely describing the end result or user interface) that the actual implementation in code may indeed be a trade secret too.
I got no joy trying to connect to SMB over port 445 or 137, or to remote desktop connection. If Windows sharing was on and not firewalled, with the admin account the OP could have dumped a tracking program in \\ipaddress\c$\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Startup.
OP might still bait the person into running a tracking trojan sent to that email address as 'your new banking password.doc.exe' or something, or just a reg policy to enable remote desktop and open the ports for it. If there are neighboring WiFis that can be picked up and are in Google's SSID wardriving database, the machine can be geolocated quite accurately. Maybe you can even trick the current possessor into entering their Fuse ISP username into a fake login popup.
most phone users do not really "own" they phones during the initial 2 years
You do own the phone (physically), but in consideration for the discount you got on it, the phone company pwns joo for a $350 early termination fee if you stop sending them their monthly ransom on the service contract. The phone is still yours to do with as you please.
Mobile phone carriers have just tried to give you the impression that you don't own the phone, by making the phone you own useless for doing anything other than connecting to their network and buying ringtones on their web portal that cost more than the full song download.
They do this through technical hindrance such as unique protocols (cdma vs GSM), unique frequencies (3G on 1900MHz vs 2100MHz), carrier SIM lock (or no sim at all), or vendor-specific firmware (see CDMA phones), auto-jamming your phone with their service books and restriction software (i.e. put the carrier's SIM card into the unlocked Blackberry you bought outright [don't even need to connect to their network] and your phone's wi-fi & GPS mapping software is disabled so they can sell it back to you for $10-$30/mo), and by black-listing the device's IMEI if they didn't like how you left their service.
To be annoyed by/r9k/ (at least audibly), Javascript is required. You almost got a mod down 'offtopic' because I block this kind of nonsense by default.
Don't forget that you are on the hook for a just-in-time-for-the-iPhone-4 $350 early termination fee from AT&T.
When they increased from $175 to $350 for a smart phone, does that mean that you get $175 more discount on a new phone? Hardly. It just means more $$$ in their pocket if you try to get out of paying them $600 in data fee profit they expected over your contract, (that's for the $25 2gb a month plan, expect to pay more when you go over.) Do the math, you could buy a nice laptop for real price of your iPhone.
The camera that the reporter was carrying was mistaken for a rocket launcher. The reporter's fate was sealed when he aimed that thing in the direction of our troops on the ground.
There were no allied troops in the area. It took about 10 minutes for US Bradley vehicles to show up after they were ordered to the site. The helicopters were just blowing people up they thought looked suspicious, on open city streets. The pilot states that there are AK-47s and rocket launchers, but in the video (purported to be higher quality than what the gunner sees), I can make no such identification.
The fate of the occupants of the van later driving by, two adults and two children, was also sealed when they saw the Reuters cameraman's driver badly injured on the sidewalk (by a previous volley of American bullets from the sky). They stopped, got out to assist, carried him to their van, and then were repeatedly blasted by another hail of bullets from the Apache pilot.
They arrested a hero whistleblower, at least for revealing this video. The government lied, and denied Reuters FOIA requests for information regarding how their reporters were killed, to continue the coverup. The pentagon probably wants to contact Assange to get a statement or any evidence about receiving '260,000 pages' (perhaps a fantasy) so they can throw Bradley in prison for life for the embarrassment, while the Apache gunner gets his GI bill to live another life (and probably become a police officer).
...Already done. OSU student-developed Ultra-Mobile PC based on a 500MHz ARM Cortex-A8. Now playing Doom II on a campus near me. Not too bad, since when I went to OSU a dozen years ago I had to buy my own $2000 Pentium 75Mhz machine to do computer sci on...
The beauty here: this is patenting the problem and not the solution.
Where are the code snippets, the algorithms to detect the motions, the heuristics to reject false positives in this patent application?
It would have been so much easier for Edison if he could patent the idea 'glass bulb that produces light when electricity flows through it', instead of actually showing that he could do it.
The USPTO seems to think that this is fine these days though - patenting an idea instead of an invention.
You don't get to keep the hours you've wasted collecting virtual prizes?
I would break the game CD in half so it can never be used to sucker anyone in again, mail it back to Blizzard, along with a letter saying that you do not do business with companies that sue their customers. If a few thousand people did this along with their account cancellation, and a list of games that they will never be purchasing now, maybe these slimeballs would get the idea.
You sir, are incorrect. The original PDF from the police department (which was copied by and is still being hosted on Wired.com's website with their follow-up article) has a layer of black 'redaction' blocks, but all the personal data is still there and can be cut-and-pasted.
The reporter sanitized the PDF for the cops by printing it, scanning it, and making another PDF (I would have just raster printed it direct to another PDF file), and replaced the original on the web site with the new one.
Do I get mega-win for being the first commenter (as 'BootyFooz') in the original article to point out the flawed PDF 'blackouts', revealing SSN, drivers license, and DOB info for both the CEO and the other Lifelock employee?!
The Lifelock thing is clearly a scam founded by a guy who was already lifetime-banned from the credit repair industry. The only thing they did was use robo-dialers to call one credit reporting agency to set fraud alerts on subscribers's credit reports, and when the credit reporting agency stopped them from doing that, they now have no service at all except a false promise with a false $1 million guarantee. They had $12 million in liquid assets once, but a government fine completely cleaned out their bank accounts (yet allowed them to stay in business), so they couldn't even pay this guarantee even though their fine print says they really don't have to pay it anyway.
This sorta gotcha is why GPL developers prefer the GPL.
It is also why Apple developers prefer the BSD license - they can charge for a cut-and-paste of something that is free/free.
It is ironic how Berkeley students and faculty are now paying Apple to use code their institution gave to the world for free - and only because they made it too free.
You joke, but I can print white (and silver and gold foil, metallic magenta, clear finish, etc). Alps thermal resin printers FTW - too bad they pulled out of the US market - they didn't adapt to the cheap printer/expensive ink scam (and had major design flaw/warranty issue with many printers). You had to know why the printer was worth $600...thermal transfer ink ribbons that never dry out and can be put back in the printer after 10 years and print as good as new. Oh, and dye sublimation photo printing too.
iProduct: An interface with a simple grid of pictures to click on instead a design where any literacy is required, no need to worry about any background programs running you won't be able to see/comprehend, no need to worry about programs being installed without a matching deduction from your credit card, no need to be able to watch a video that hasn't been monetized by the man behind the curtain... Even the simple advertising campaigns - just a picture of someone cool (like you want to be) using the product (and a song if on tv) - all designed for those with low cognitive fluency
e.g. "If you build something even stupid people can use, only stupid people will use it".
Stupid people often make the best customers though - to them, you can sell shit and get thanks. They are the ones clicking on the mobile phone carrier's preinstalled spamware to buy $5 ringtones instead of downloading the whole song for $0.99.
In California you're supposed to turn it in to the police,....
So the police can do absolutely nothing to find the original owner except throw it in a box, and then sell it at police auction for their own 'legal' profit? If your intention is for the item to ever be returned to the original owner, you should do all you can to avoid giving possession of it to the police.
To say that the warrant is broadly overreaching is putting it mildly. The warrant describes that they should take his credit cards, keys, titles to his car, anything remotely electronic, including digital cameras and ANY media, any mail, bills, or receipts, anything in safes, etc. They essentially can gut his house and identity and leave the furniture. There's an inventory of what they took, including multiple computers, digital cameras, a bunch of drives, and lots of personal paperwork.
Although they blacked out some stuff, the warrant still specifically names the 'Apple prototype 4G iphone', and also says they want any information on any research or searches done on Apple employee Gray Powell. Tell me this isn't the cops bashing in the front door (which they did), and seizing everything the guy owns for the benefit of Apple.
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As a source for a blu-ray, theatre prints (also consider they've been used a lot) and the intra-positive prints made of the film also seem to not be practical:
[Searching for a good quality copy,] Lucas had screened some prints in 1994 but none of them were presentable. "By the summer of '94 George said, 'I'm worried about the negative because every print we get is bad,'" Rick McCallum remembers. "That's when we got really scared about the presentation of this film."
What they found when they opened up the cans of film in late 1994 [13] was horrifying--the original negatives had been severely deteriorated.
So the only practical way to get a HD+ quality version of the original film is to go back and find not just the segments of film that were replaced in the original negative with the 'special edition' content, but one would ideally digitally scan in the original camera negatives of effects shots and digitally re-composite them (this was redone in 1997 at high expense, but it was still done optically with just better equipment than was used in 1977). Many layers were composited to make the space scenes - one negative for the background, one for the moving ships, one for the laser effects, etc, causing the effects shots to not only be very grainy, but also to have multiple black matte outlines around objects from the optical printing process that would be very noticeable and ridiculous-looking on HD with our modern sensibilities. Basically one would be re-doing all the effects shots, basically remaking the movie to get the original presentation up to digital standards for 1080p and beyond.
All this doesn't matter anyway: since Lucas owns all three films (he got Star Wars ownership back from Fox around 1998, probably as part of Fox's payoff to Lucas to distribute his new prequels), he was able to give the finger to the fans and say his new revised version is the 'version he intended' and will be the only version from now on. Seeing the original film in HD/bluray/2k+ might only happen after he's dead.
The film's original negative was in bad condition in 1997 (color fading badly) when they took it out of the can for the creation of the special edition, and they actually spliced in restorations, and inter-prints that were better quality that the damaged original, along with the new optical composites from the camera negatives, and the 'special edition enhancements' into the original negative of the film to create a new 'original negative'. After the SE film release, all prints of the original film still in circulation (always owned by the studio) were recalled and probably destroyed. There is no more Star Wars-The Original Version.
In 2004, to do a DVD release, they digitally scanned the film and did digital restoration to make a 1080p restored master (no, not 2k or 4k or even 8k, 1080p is the new digital master) with scratches and dirt digitally removed, along with the color being re-timed badly. This 1080p version is now the canon, It has been show as the HD version on tv and printed on film for further cinematic releases, and the Blu-ray will probably get a hardly-fixed version of this digital transfer. You will not see Star Wars again in the original version: the original movie no longer exists (a very awesome long article about the quality and treatment of the original Star Wars negatives.)
This is perhaps the most ill-constructed wealth of ignorance posted on Slashdot for a while, at least without original intent to be tardy.
Copyright protects creative works. Whereas published works may have required copyright notice on the work (before 1989), or deposit with the Library of Congress, unpublished works have never required a copyright notice for protection. If you created it, you have the copyright on it, and can take protective action against others distributing copies of your work.
Patents protect exclusive distribution of inventions. We do not do the exact same thing with patents. Patents allow you to take legal action and prohibit competitors from making infringing products.
Trade secrets are secrets as long as they are kept secret, but 'infringing' products are not actionable. You have not publicly declared that you invented something, so if someone else invents it they can use it too (and might even be able to patent it if you haven't created prior art implementing your invention). There are only legal covenants (and criminal liability in some states) to prevent employee disclosure, theft, or espionage. Trade secrets can include non-copyrightable or non-patentable things such as the formula for Red Bull.
Software, which is currently under discussion, can have all: patentable (think Amazon one-click checkout patent), under copyright (as the Amazon web server software is, even if undisclosed), and contain trade secrets (such as server cloud optimization routines to speed processing).
If you work for Apple and released the source code to 1984's Macintosh File System you would be breaching your non-disclosure trade secret agreement with Apple. The disclosed software would still be covered by copyright, and features or inventions implemented in the software may be covered by patents too. Many software patents are so vague in their description (merely describing the end result or user interface) that the actual implementation in code may indeed be a trade secret too.
I got no joy trying to connect to SMB over port 445 or 137, or to remote desktop connection. If Windows sharing was on and not firewalled, with the admin account the OP could have dumped a tracking program in \\ipaddress\c$\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Startup.
OP might still bait the person into running a tracking trojan sent to that email address as 'your new banking password.doc.exe' or something, or just a reg policy to enable remote desktop and open the ports for it. If there are neighboring WiFis that can be picked up and are in Google's SSID wardriving database, the machine can be geolocated quite accurately. Maybe you can even trick the current possessor into entering their Fuse ISP username into a fake login popup.
most phone users do not really "own" they phones during the initial 2 years
You do own the phone (physically), but in consideration for the discount you got on it, the phone company pwns joo for a $350 early termination fee if you stop sending them their monthly ransom on the service contract. The phone is still yours to do with as you please.
Mobile phone carriers have just tried to give you the impression that you don't own the phone, by making the phone you own useless for doing anything other than connecting to their network and buying ringtones on their web portal that cost more than the full song download.
They do this through technical hindrance such as unique protocols (cdma vs GSM), unique frequencies (3G on 1900MHz vs 2100MHz), carrier SIM lock (or no sim at all), or vendor-specific firmware (see CDMA phones), auto-jamming your phone with their service books and restriction software (i.e. put the carrier's SIM card into the unlocked Blackberry you bought outright [don't even need to connect to their network] and your phone's wi-fi & GPS mapping software is disabled so they can sell it back to you for $10-$30/mo), and by black-listing the device's IMEI if they didn't like how you left their service.
To be annoyed by /r9k/ (at least audibly), Javascript is required. You almost got a mod down 'offtopic' because I block this kind of nonsense by default.
Don't forget that you are on the hook for a just-in-time-for-the-iPhone-4 $350 early termination fee from AT&T.
When they increased from $175 to $350 for a smart phone, does that mean that you get $175 more discount on a new phone? Hardly. It just means more $$$ in their pocket if you try to get out of paying them $600 in data fee profit they expected over your contract, (that's for the $25 2gb a month plan, expect to pay more when you go over.) Do the math, you could buy a nice laptop for real price of your iPhone.
You will shoot bricks...
The camera that the reporter was carrying was mistaken for a rocket launcher. The reporter's fate was sealed when he aimed that thing in the direction of our troops on the ground.
There were no allied troops in the area. It took about 10 minutes for US Bradley vehicles to show up after they were ordered to the site. The helicopters were just blowing people up they thought looked suspicious, on open city streets. The pilot states that there are AK-47s and rocket launchers, but in the video (purported to be higher quality than what the gunner sees), I can make no such identification.
The fate of the occupants of the van later driving by, two adults and two children, was also sealed when they saw the Reuters cameraman's driver badly injured on the sidewalk (by a previous volley of American bullets from the sky). They stopped, got out to assist, carried him to their van, and then were repeatedly blasted by another hail of bullets from the Apache pilot.
They arrested a hero whistleblower, at least for revealing this video. The government lied, and denied Reuters FOIA requests for information regarding how their reporters were killed, to continue the coverup. The pentagon probably wants to contact Assange to get a statement or any evidence about receiving '260,000 pages' (perhaps a fantasy) so they can throw Bradley in prison for life for the embarrassment, while the Apache gunner gets his GI bill to live another life (and probably become a police officer).
And once again, Apple (nee AT&T) calls in the cops to criminalize publicising its goofs, and have jackboot thugs toss the media's computers...
...Already done. OSU student-developed Ultra-Mobile PC based on a 500MHz ARM Cortex-A8. Now playing Doom II on a campus near me. Not too bad, since when I went to OSU a dozen years ago I had to buy my own $2000 Pentium 75Mhz machine to do computer sci on...
The beauty here: this is patenting the problem and not the solution.
Where are the code snippets, the algorithms to detect the motions, the heuristics to reject false positives in this patent application?
It would have been so much easier for Edison if he could patent the idea 'glass bulb that produces light when electricity flows through it', instead of actually showing that he could do it.
The USPTO seems to think that this is fine these days though - patenting an idea instead of an invention.
You don't get to keep the hours you've wasted collecting virtual prizes?
I would break the game CD in half so it can never be used to sucker anyone in again, mail it back to Blizzard, along with a letter saying that you do not do business with companies that sue their customers. If a few thousand people did this along with their account cancellation, and a list of games that they will never be purchasing now, maybe these slimeballs would get the idea.
And, how many bad password entries does it take for a Blackberry to wipe ALL its data? 10 (or less if you want).
You sir, are incorrect. The original PDF from the police department (which was copied by and is still being hosted on Wired.com's website with their follow-up article) has a layer of black 'redaction' blocks, but all the personal data is still there and can be cut-and-pasted.
The reporter sanitized the PDF for the cops by printing it, scanning it, and making another PDF (I would have just raster printed it direct to another PDF file), and replaced the original on the web site with the new one.
Do I get mega-win for being the first commenter (as 'BootyFooz') in the original article to point out the flawed PDF 'blackouts', revealing SSN, drivers license, and DOB info for both the CEO and the other Lifelock employee?!
The Lifelock thing is clearly a scam founded by a guy who was already lifetime-banned from the credit repair industry. The only thing they did was use robo-dialers to call one credit reporting agency to set fraud alerts on subscribers's credit reports, and when the credit reporting agency stopped them from doing that, they now have no service at all except a false promise with a false $1 million guarantee. They had $12 million in liquid assets once, but a government fine completely cleaned out their bank accounts (yet allowed them to stay in business), so they couldn't even pay this guarantee even though their fine print says they really don't have to pay it anyway.
This sorta gotcha is why GPL developers prefer the GPL.
It is also why Apple developers prefer the BSD license - they can charge for a cut-and-paste of something that is free/free.
It is ironic how Berkeley students and faculty are now paying Apple to use code their institution gave to the world for free - and only because they made it too free.
Why don't you just move up a pay grade this way:
You joke, but I can print white (and silver and gold foil, metallic magenta, clear finish, etc). Alps thermal resin printers FTW - too bad they pulled out of the US market - they didn't adapt to the cheap printer/expensive ink scam (and had major design flaw/warranty issue with many printers). You had to know why the printer was worth $600...thermal transfer ink ribbons that never dry out and can be put back in the printer after 10 years and print as good as new. Oh, and dye sublimation photo printing too.
iProduct: An interface with a simple grid of pictures to click on instead a design where any literacy is required, no need to worry about any background programs running you won't be able to see/comprehend, no need to worry about programs being installed without a matching deduction from your credit card, no need to be able to watch a video that hasn't been monetized by the man behind the curtain... Even the simple advertising campaigns - just a picture of someone cool (like you want to be) using the product (and a song if on tv) - all designed for those with low cognitive fluency
e.g. "If you build something even stupid people can use, only stupid people will use it".
Stupid people often make the best customers though - to them, you can sell shit and get thanks. They are the ones clicking on the mobile phone carrier's preinstalled spamware to buy $5 ringtones instead of downloading the whole song for $0.99.
He made the mistake of presuming that the circuitry inside would be no bigger than the effective external contact area.
One does not need to presume where the pin-head-sized chip is located, Illustrations are available of the internals of a SIM card.
Whereas Windows 7 is more like when someone takes an upper decker at your party - you are in for a nasty surprise later...
In California you're supposed to turn it in to the police,....
So the police can do absolutely nothing to find the original owner except throw it in a box, and then sell it at police auction for their own 'legal' profit? If your intention is for the item to ever be returned to the original owner, you should do all you can to avoid giving possession of it to the police.
To say that the warrant is broadly overreaching is putting it mildly. The warrant describes that they should take his credit cards, keys, titles to his car, anything remotely electronic, including digital cameras and ANY media, any mail, bills, or receipts, anything in safes, etc. They essentially can gut his house and identity and leave the furniture. There's an inventory of what they took, including multiple computers, digital cameras, a bunch of drives, and lots of personal paperwork.
Although they blacked out some stuff, the warrant still specifically names the 'Apple prototype 4G iphone', and also says they want any information on any research or searches done on Apple employee Gray Powell. Tell me this isn't the cops bashing in the front door (which they did), and seizing everything the guy owns for the benefit of Apple.