Still, I'd be interested to see if someone hacks a snooper that will sniff photos out of the air and display them...
There's already an app that does this for a LAN. It's called driftnet. So, if you have access to the same wireless LAN on which the data is being transmitted, you already can do this.
Decided to do a little googling to see if I could substantiate your claims....
Rupert Murdoch inhereted several newspapers, which he then built upon to create a vast multinational print empire, before he ever got involved in television. In the 80's he purchased Metromedia's independent television stations, which came with preexisting broadcast mechanisms. This was soon after his purchase of the fox movie studio, with the idea that the stations would serve as a distribution medium for the studio's programming. Therefore, not only did he not simply start his own network from scratch, as he was already a media mogul, but he used already existing stations to do so. This was in a time before today's modern media conglomerates, where such a large scale purchase of independent stations was possible. Today there are very few small independent stations, most of which are in small markets to begin with, and his approach would no longer be valid [source].
Ted turner also inhereted a media-based business from his father, in this case a billboard business, and again started by purchasing a television station, in this case a UHF station based in Atlanta, in this case in 1970, again well before the dominance of today's media moguls.[source]
So, if by "started from scratch" you mean "inherited a media business and used its profits to purchase previously existing television stations" then yes, both Murdoch and Turner started from scratch.
So, apparantly all we need to "start our own damn networks" is a daddy already involved in a media-based business, television stations available for purchase, and a media business landscape similar to that which existed 30 years ago. Anybody here fit that description? Raise of hands? Beuller?
Starting your own damn network requires access to a venue in whick to broadcast said network. This either requires a chunk of the radio spectrum from the FCC, which already licenses huge chunks to a relatively small number of entities, or access to cable television, which again is controlled by a very small number of entities. Very few Americans get their "news" from radio these days, and it's very difficult to get radio to a national level unless you're a syndicated dick and fart comedy morning show or buried so far in the AM dial that few people ever hear you.
You did. "That's liks asking "what's wrong with the mini cooper" in an aritcle about jumbo jets."
Maybe I should have said "that's like comparing apples to oranges." Would the analogy be clear enough for you then? A mini cooper and a jumbo jet have very different intended purposes. PNJ and TIFF have very different intended purposes.
Right. Ask the average user what PNG is
I'm sorry, where did I say anything about the average user. Ask the average user what the RAW output on his camera is for, and he'll give you a blank stare. Again, more of the RTFA here... THIS IS NOT INTENDED FOR THE FUCKING AVERAGE USER!
I'm through responding to your nonsense trolling, I have code to write.
Who said anything about the desktop? This article is about raw image manipulation, which is only ever likely to be used by extreme photography nerds, or professionals. There's no reason to make this format "succeed on the desktop"
In their idiotic kneejerks, 99% of the posters forgot to explain why PNG would be a better choice. Just because it's PNG doesn't automatically make it suited for everything.
It's quite simple why TIFF is a better choice for adobe: they own it and are familiar with it.
Your troll tried to use the "technical" argument to throw off the point of my post. My post wasn't about technical merit, it was about typical slashdot groupthink. You don't need a technical argument, you need an argument of simple economics. Adobe owns TIFF, therefore they used it. Simple as that. I nowhere said TIFF was technically superior to PNG, nor will I now. Neither will I argue the technical merits of each. There's a much simpler reason to use TIFF.
NAME RECOGNITION. When you go to a website, and they post their "publication-quality" pictures, almost universally those pictures will be posted as TIFFs, and not PNGs. By basing your raw data standard on TIFF, you throw out a term that is familiar to publishers and photographers alike, neither of whom really care about the nitty-gritty details of how the data format works. Familiarity breeds a warm fuzzy feeling and will make adoption of this format more likely.
There's an obvious reason to advocate PNG over GIF, and that's the ridiculous issues that we all know about. However, there's very little reason to reccomend PNG over TIFF for the pure sake of "BUT ITS PNG AND PNG IS 31337 LOL LMFAO U FAG" which is pretty much the gist of the/. arguments.
Actually, if you read the other comments here, one karma whore includes the text of the press release, and it states that this format is in fact built upon tiff.
I'm going to vomit. That's liks asking "what's wrong with the mini cooper" in an aritcle about jumbo jets. PNG is not what this format is designed to work with, RAW data from the camera is. RTFA before jumping on the open source bandwagon and screaming that everything should be PNG because you saw a blurb about it on ESR's website. Fuck, I like open source and masturbate every time I see a linux login prompt, and you zealots are starting to piss me off.
I've come up with the ultimate computer exploit, ever. You make a jpg of goatse, with this exploited code in it. The exploit code runs an application which activates any webcams, if present, and starts taking pictures, which it then sends back to the 31337 h4x0r.
Think of it, an entire gallery of horrified faces, kinda like in The Ring when people's faces went all nasty after watching the video.
I tried to moderate Jawz's comment as informative, but brain farted and somehow did troll, so I'm posting to reverse my moderation.
I am kinda bummed that the parent is loing my original Troll moderation, as he's using a play on the meaning and clearly understood implication of the term LCD to mislead people.
Microsoft themselves might be losing money on the system, but a whole lot of developers are making a killing from it. Microsoft never expected the system to make money within its first couple of years, and they have pretty much met their goals. Namely, they've established a serious market presense and obtained a wide base of developers.
One company might be posting losses on the system due to the R&D and setup costs of getting into the business, but they are going to make those losses back quite a few times, and in the meantime have made a boatload of money for their developers.
Sony had a much firmer base in home electronics before they created the playstation, hence they had significantly lower costs to get a toe in the door.
Offtopic my ass. It's a thread about video games and the parent was talking about the number of systems he has hooked up to his tv and how he'd never use this thing. I was replying to a part of his post.
Would if have been more on-topic if I'd mentioned that my xbox also has a gameboy emulator, you crackheaded mod-nazis?
Oooo maybe this is both offtopic and flamebait, good thing I have karma to burn. Idiots.
As others have pointed out, nintendo is FAR from getting spanked in terms of actual sales in the market, especially in terms of handhelds.
While it might come as shocking, not all video gamers are rabid 20-something zealots who think the kiddie gamecube games aren't manly enough for their elite skills. Even more shocking... VIDEO GAME SYSTEMS TARGETTED AT CHILDREN STILL SELL. There is, in fact, a video game market outside of the "living in mom's basement" niche.
I don't know who are worse, xbox fanboys or playstation fanboys. The gamecube crowd seems to mostly shut up and just enjoy their games. Maybe because the gamecube crowd is mostly children who go to school all day instead of posting to seven hundred online message boards while "looking for a job" in the aforementioned basement.
My point: stop your silly video game prick waving. All three systems have good and bad games. All three systems aren't going anywhere. And all three systems are going to continue make a shitload more money than you're ever going to see.
An xbox, software modded, running about a dozen emulators. There's something very rewarding about playing Asteroids or Burger Time with a groovy modern controller.
Two electrons are sitting on a bench in the park. A third electron comes strolling by, kinda tired, and asks "hey fellas, mind if I sit down and rest for a minute?"
The two electrons, indignant, reply "OF COURSE NOT... what do we look like, a pair of BOSONS?!"
You know, the really ironic part of this post is that not long ago I replied to someone who was flaming me, because I cracked on someone for quoting Dave Chappelle, while my own SIG is in fact a quote of a TV show. So now I'm a double-hypocrite in one article for quoting the VERY over-used 'all your base' joke. I even did an "in soviet russia joke" recently. I hope I get flamed for it.
I actually LINKED to someone else's writing, never took credit for it. And it's just a joke, lighten up.
If you want a rebuttal, like I was actually pissed at the parent, then I'll point out that the Chappelle joke is massively overdone these days, while relatively few do the old SNL Celebrity Jeopardy ones.
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IIRC one of the biggest selling points of Medeco locks was the fact that they patent their blank designs, and don't license the design to people. That way, to obtain copies of keys for the locks is a very difficult procedure unless you go directly through Medeco. Most places that use Medeco keys are ones where a LOT of people have keys for a certain area, and the main security risk is human rather than mechanical. Limiting peoples' ability to copy and distribute keys can be a better security investment than making the lock harder to pick.
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Still, I'd be interested to see if someone hacks a snooper that will sniff photos out of the air and display them...
There's already an app that does this for a LAN. It's called driftnet. So, if you have access to the same wireless LAN on which the data is being transmitted, you already can do this.
That looks exactly like the kind of so-bad-it's-good-again movie that i love. I'm going to have to see if I can find a torrent.
We ain't found SHIT!
Decided to do a little googling to see if I could substantiate your claims....
Rupert Murdoch inhereted several newspapers, which he then built upon to create a vast multinational print empire, before he ever got involved in television. In the 80's he purchased Metromedia's independent television stations, which came with preexisting broadcast mechanisms. This was soon after his purchase of the fox movie studio, with the idea that the stations would serve as a distribution medium for the studio's programming. Therefore, not only did he not simply start his own network from scratch, as he was already a media mogul, but he used already existing stations to do so. This was in a time before today's modern media conglomerates, where such a large scale purchase of independent stations was possible. Today there are very few small independent stations, most of which are in small markets to begin with, and his approach would no longer be valid [source].
Ted turner also inhereted a media-based business from his father, in this case a billboard business, and again started by purchasing a television station, in this case a UHF station based in Atlanta, in this case in 1970, again well before the dominance of today's media moguls.[source]
So, if by "started from scratch" you mean "inherited a media business and used its profits to purchase previously existing television stations" then yes, both Murdoch and Turner started from scratch.
So, apparantly all we need to "start our own damn networks" is a daddy already involved in a media-based business, television stations available for purchase, and a media business landscape similar to that which existed 30 years ago. Anybody here fit that description? Raise of hands? Beuller?
You gave us how much money to make a DRM technology that's able to be over-ridden with a single key press?
Well thank ya, thank ya very much
Sincerely,
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, SUNNCOMM HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
Starting your own damn network requires access to a venue in whick to broadcast said network. This either requires a chunk of the radio spectrum from the FCC, which already licenses huge chunks to a relatively small number of entities, or access to cable television, which again is controlled by a very small number of entities. Very few Americans get their "news" from radio these days, and it's very difficult to get radio to a national level unless you're a syndicated dick and fart comedy morning show or buried so far in the AM dial that few people ever hear you.
You did. "That's liks asking "what's wrong with the mini cooper" in an aritcle about jumbo jets."
Maybe I should have said "that's like comparing apples to oranges." Would the analogy be clear enough for you then? A mini cooper and a jumbo jet have very different intended purposes. PNJ and TIFF have very different intended purposes.
Right. Ask the average user what PNG is
I'm sorry, where did I say anything about the average user. Ask the average user what the RAW output on his camera is for, and he'll give you a blank stare. Again, more of the RTFA here... THIS IS NOT INTENDED FOR THE FUCKING AVERAGE USER!
I'm through responding to your nonsense trolling, I have code to write.
Who said anything about the desktop? This article is about raw image manipulation, which is only ever likely to be used by extreme photography nerds, or professionals. There's no reason to make this format "succeed on the desktop"
In their idiotic kneejerks, 99% of the posters forgot to explain why PNG would be a better choice. Just because it's PNG doesn't automatically make it suited for everything.
/. arguments.
It's quite simple why TIFF is a better choice for adobe: they own it and are familiar with it.
Your troll tried to use the "technical" argument to throw off the point of my post. My post wasn't about technical merit, it was about typical slashdot groupthink. You don't need a technical argument, you need an argument of simple economics. Adobe owns TIFF, therefore they used it. Simple as that. I nowhere said TIFF was technically superior to PNG, nor will I now. Neither will I argue the technical merits of each. There's a much simpler reason to use TIFF.
NAME RECOGNITION. When you go to a website, and they post their "publication-quality" pictures, almost universally those pictures will be posted as TIFFs, and not PNGs. By basing your raw data standard on TIFF, you throw out a term that is familiar to publishers and photographers alike, neither of whom really care about the nitty-gritty details of how the data format works. Familiarity breeds a warm fuzzy feeling and will make adoption of this format more likely.
There's an obvious reason to advocate PNG over GIF, and that's the ridiculous issues that we all know about. However, there's very little reason to reccomend PNG over TIFF for the pure sake of "BUT ITS PNG AND PNG IS 31337 LOL LMFAO U FAG" which is pretty much the gist of the
Actually, if you read the other comments here, one karma whore includes the text of the press release, and it states that this format is in fact built upon tiff.
I'm going to vomit. That's liks asking "what's wrong with the mini cooper" in an aritcle about jumbo jets. PNG is not what this format is designed to work with, RAW data from the camera is. RTFA before jumping on the open source bandwagon and screaming that everything should be PNG because you saw a blurb about it on ESR's website. Fuck, I like open source and masturbate every time I see a linux login prompt, and you zealots are starting to piss me off.
GREAT, just what we need, radioactive volcano-monsters!
I've come up with the ultimate computer exploit, ever. You make a jpg of goatse, with this exploited code in it. The exploit code runs an application which activates any webcams, if present, and starts taking pictures, which it then sends back to the 31337 h4x0r.
Think of it, an entire gallery of horrified faces, kinda like in The Ring when people's faces went all nasty after watching the video.
I tried to moderate Jawz's comment as informative, but brain farted and somehow did troll, so I'm posting to reverse my moderation.
I am kinda bummed that the parent is loing my original Troll moderation, as he's using a play on the meaning and clearly understood implication of the term LCD to mislead people.
Microsoft themselves might be losing money on the system, but a whole lot of developers are making a killing from it. Microsoft never expected the system to make money within its first couple of years, and they have pretty much met their goals. Namely, they've established a serious market presense and obtained a wide base of developers.
One company might be posting losses on the system due to the R&D and setup costs of getting into the business, but they are going to make those losses back quite a few times, and in the meantime have made a boatload of money for their developers.
Sony had a much firmer base in home electronics before they created the playstation, hence they had significantly lower costs to get a toe in the door.
Offtopic my ass. It's a thread about video games and the parent was talking about the number of systems he has hooked up to his tv and how he'd never use this thing. I was replying to a part of his post.
Would if have been more on-topic if I'd mentioned that my xbox also has a gameboy emulator, you crackheaded mod-nazis?
Oooo maybe this is both offtopic and flamebait, good thing I have karma to burn. Idiots.
As others have pointed out, nintendo is FAR from getting spanked in terms of actual sales in the market, especially in terms of handhelds.
While it might come as shocking, not all video gamers are rabid 20-something zealots who think the kiddie gamecube games aren't manly enough for their elite skills. Even more shocking... VIDEO GAME SYSTEMS TARGETTED AT CHILDREN STILL SELL. There is, in fact, a video game market outside of the "living in mom's basement" niche.
I don't know who are worse, xbox fanboys or playstation fanboys. The gamecube crowd seems to mostly shut up and just enjoy their games. Maybe because the gamecube crowd is mostly children who go to school all day instead of posting to seven hundred online message boards while "looking for a job" in the aforementioned basement.
My point: stop your silly video game prick waving. All three systems have good and bad games. All three systems aren't going anywhere. And all three systems are going to continue make a shitload more money than you're ever going to see.
An xbox, software modded, running about a dozen emulators. There's something very rewarding about playing Asteroids or Burger Time with a groovy modern controller.
UDE is your friend =)
Two electrons are sitting on a bench in the park.
A third electron comes strolling by, kinda tired, and asks "hey fellas, mind if I sit down and rest for a minute?"
The two electrons, indignant, reply "OF COURSE NOT... what do we look like, a pair of BOSONS?!"
Is that link suppose to mean something?
Yeah, it means the post was a troll, and the lazy mods who didn't bother to click the link bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Informative my ass.
Take off every SIG
For great justice.
You know, the really ironic part of this post is that not long ago I replied to someone who was flaming me, because I cracked on someone for quoting Dave Chappelle, while my own SIG is in fact a quote of a TV show. So now I'm a double-hypocrite in one article for quoting the VERY over-used 'all your base' joke. I even did an "in soviet russia joke" recently. I hope I get flamed for it.
I actually LINKED to someone else's writing, never took credit for it. And it's just a joke, lighten up.
If you want a rebuttal, like I was actually pissed at the parent, then I'll point out that the Chappelle joke is massively overdone these days, while relatively few do the old SNL Celebrity Jeopardy ones.
You're not Dave Chappelle, and you're not funny
In Soviet Russia, Nouse smells YOU
Sorry, I had to do it.
IIRC one of the biggest selling points of Medeco locks was the fact that they patent their blank designs, and don't license the design to people. That way, to obtain copies of keys for the locks is a very difficult procedure unless you go directly through Medeco. Most places that use Medeco keys are ones where a LOT of people have keys for a certain area, and the main security risk is human rather than mechanical. Limiting peoples' ability to copy and distribute keys can be a better security investment than making the lock harder to pick.