identification of transcodes is very well-worn technology among MP3 users. Where people will take a 128kbps and transcode it to 320 and cause a small riot when people get upset getting a 320 that sounds like crap.
I imagine this is not really any different. Just look for the telltale squared loss and clipping, but in the image spectrum instead of the audio spectrum.
I'm going to be downmodded to death, but isn't science about keeping an open mind?
Well there's "open mind" and then there's "absurd". You wouldn't sanction another instructor walking into the room and trying to offer the students "alternate options" like a flat earth or the moon made of cheese.
"Open Mind" is for topics that have not been thoroughly figured out. It's good for things that we don't fully understand yet, to encourage different opinions and explore ways to get closer to the truth.
Once all reasonable doubt has been settled, it's time to accept reality and stop placing any credibility in what's written in some 2000 yr old book.
My first IT job was dealing with netware. It ran on the file servers and that's about all it did. We didn't even really pay attention to netware other than having to make sure the drivers were on the DOS boxes that accessed it.
I have no specific complaints or brags about it, it was just there, nothing special.
I really like watching the English sub titles with English dubs, its amazing where they differ.
Agreed. It's interesting to see what gets changed. I'm learning more japanese every day, and I occasionally spot translation mistakes which can be fun.
On rare occasion I watch anime english dubbed because the japanese voice actors were poorly chosen. Hellsing is an excellent example. Among other things, Alfred, the 160 lb beanpole of a butler, sounds like a sumo wrestler.
A Document Format that needs a sandbox. I don't have a sandbox around my text editor, nor my PNG viewer, nor my MP3 player... Tell me again, why do we need our document formats to be little programming languages?
Any program that interprets untrusted information could benefit from a sandbox. While directly it prevents the interpreted code from explicitly accessing outside its bounds, it also protects the system from bugs in the interpreter that could cause the interpreter itself to perform actions outside its environment.
Since you mention PNG, I have seen examples of security patches for PNG and TIFF viewers that addressed security problems because it was possible to execute arbitrary code based on a bug in the viewer's interpretation of the picture data. (usually through overflows)
This came as a surprise to me with TIFF because I thought TIFF was raw uncompressed picture data and that would be immune to interpretation, but that was not the case.
you're one of those that gets a static IP but does not have their own segment. You're using your ISP's router, sharing it with other subscribers. That allows an ISP to hand out 253 statics per/24. In my scheme where I've got my own block of 8, 5 usable, there can be 32 sets of them per/24, for a total of only 160 (32*5) statics. This is why I'm worried. They're going to have to realize there's more money to be made by pooling like what you have. But then I've had my block for quite a long time. It may not even be offered that way anymore.
How much does the condition the professional releases are in impact this?
Often the shows are edited into childrens' cartoons or at the very least drastically changed.
I tend to see the opposite. I have a number of series here that were censored when originally broadcast, having either small parts of a scene removed, or sometimes entire scenes. Those are present on the DVDs however. (Onegai Teacher is one example)
One thing that annoys me there is that the fansubs are often more accurate or make more sense than the retail subs. But I tend to watch then in Japanese with english subs, and a lot of anime fans can't stand subtitles and go with dubbed, which is a shame. Very few titles are dubbed well.
due to the very large crowd of fansubbers and their fans. Almost universally, fansubbing groups place recommendations at the start/intercession/end of their subs urging their audience to buy the anime when it becomes licensed in their area. Many also suggest that everyone cease distribution of the series at that point as well.
Hard to say how many listen to that, but I know I've ordered box sets when they became available in my area, entirely because I was able to watch the fansubs and enjoyed the series and wanted higher quality and the extras they tend to ship with, and I know many others like me that way.
I'll hit up the anime fansubbing sites every week or two, and download a few eps of what's popular, and I go from there to decide what series I follow. It's too bad more things can't work that way normally.
is when desperate (or "innovating") ISPs decide to jack up the rates on static blocks. Companies that have a static/24 will see the rate to lease that block double overnight. Then if you're only REALLY using a few dozen of them, giving some of that back is going to look really attractive. Did I say double? how about x16? if you can live with 29 usable instead of 253 I bet that's an offer many can't refuse.
I've got a block of 8 myself (5 usable naturally) so I think I'm safe from the vultures for awhile. But they're also probably going to want to start pooling people inside their/24's. As it is right now I have my own network with my own router. That's 3 of 8 addresses being somewhat wasted, and I bet they don't overlook that. If the entire/24 I'm in is carved into 32 chunks of/29's, that's 93 (32*3-3) more IPs in that block alone they could resell by consolidating gw/br/net. (/29 is admittedly quite a waste of IP space) Maybe I DO need to start worrying?
agreeing to TOS forms a contract. it tens to be disputable, but you're agreeing to something in exchange for using the service.
In such a contract, if you then receive the benefit of their service, and they do not in exchange receive the benefit of your honoring the terms, that's grounds for damages. It doesn't merely entitle them to dump you, they can sue for breach of contract and damages. If your dishonoring of the terms causes provable harm, (for example but not limited to monetary or reputation/brand) the damages can be quite high.
>Other than that, I'm not sure what recourse Facebook has.
If they agreed to those TOS and then violated them, possibly quite a lot.
Not that I'm even slightly a fan of 88 page long TOS "by clicking here I agree I've read and accept all of the above" agreements, they are often enforceable.
Plan A: make a rule that prisoners aren't allowed to have cell phones
ok that didn't work. They're already in prison, some for life, with little to lose if they get caught with a cell phone
Plan B: change the rule to a law
how is that going to affect the problem discovered with Plan A?
Seeing as people are willing to smuggle drugs/weapons/cell phones into prisons in their body cavities, you're not going to have an easy time stopping them from coming in. Seeing as they have little or nothing to lose by getting caught there's little deterrent in catching prisoners with contraband. If you can't stop them from getting them, can't discourage them from having them, the only solution is to make it less worth having them. This can be done one of two ways. The first is to reduce their usability, as many above have discussed, using faraday cages and jammers. I'm rather amazed that a cell phone works in a prison to begin with, with all the steel bars. But they probably get used out in the courtyard etc as law demands they get regular fresh air. Can't easily put a cage over the courtyard, and jammers are illegal on a federal level so that's out.
The other option, we'll call it Plan C, is to get so good at quickly catching someone with a cell phone that it gets taken away so fast that it no longer is worth the effort to get it in the first place. Either the cost is too high or the sanctions (solitary confinement etc) become a bad trade. Equipment to detect cell phones isn't that expensive. Metal detectors at the limited number of doors to the courtyards where the cell phones will work wouldn't break the bank ether. A few sets of RF triangulating hardware would then very quickly start locating places indoors that cell phones were still usable. Placing a cheap static RF alarm in those rooms that goes off when a cell phone is used within 30 feet of it closes the last of the gaps.
One of the fundamental problems the prisons are probably having here is that there will be a few guards that are SELLING cell phones the inmates. That's another problem that has to be handled by other means.
I personally don't see why a prison cell needs to have an AC outlet. They're like a hotel nowadays. But that's another rant in itself. If they had no place to charge the cell phones the problem wouldn't be a tenth of what it is now. People are thinking about smuggling of cell phones, not many are considering the AC adapters also have to be smuggled in. How any of this gets past metal detectors at the door is also amazing. (again getting back to corrupt guards)
I was referring to ash from burning, which is quite a bit different than "coal ash". Isn't coal ash a petroleum compound? fire ash is mostly just carbon.
The reason sun doesn't melt snow too fast is it's white. Sprinkle a little black ash on it and watch it just sink. Dirty snow always melts faster.
They could just be sprinkling ash around on the snowbanks and huge snowpiles to get things melting faster. Such a simple idea, I don't know why they're not doing it. Ash isn't too environmentally unfriendly... certainly better than all the salt they're using.
So basically they're saying they're just collecting information from their customers. But their toolbar is SENDING their customers to google to get the information, which is then automatically forwarded to them.
Sort of like it's OK to spy as long as you have someone doing the spying for you and don't do it directly, just tell them where to go and have them give you the information they obtain.
That's so bad its pathetic. MS is turning their customers into information mules in a very obvious sort of way.
Its worth noting that there are many many MANY exploits that own windows explorer via PDF, gif, and jpeg. (PDF being the worst offender)
As long as chrome is properly sandboxed it's not a big deal. But when clowns decide to integrate the browser into the OS, sandboxing becomes both difficult and critical, and things tend to go south. (as with IE) So although this does increase exposure, it doesn't have to increase RISK.
Don't feel bad if your review contributes to a restaurant going out of business. If it's a BAD restaurant, it deserves a bad review and deserves to go out of business. You're doing a community service in both your action and the effect it helps bring about.
it was a millitary coup that put this guy in power in the first place. Most millitaries follow command, and in a case like that the president (president for life/dictator) is at the top. So they're probably going to do just what he tells them to, until they realize his overthrow is inevitable, at which point they'll start considering what actions they'll be held accountable for by the new ruling party, and only then do you usually see them not following orders.
all this sounds really good, almost "too good to be true". Safe, uses existing nuclear waste as fuel (awesome!), produces less radioactive waste with shorter half-lifes. Sounds like an all-around winner.
I'm cautious about anything that "sounds too good to be true". What are the down-sides? Everything's got a down-side.
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Nintendo fan?
though I'd expect they'd cry like little girls of you followed up their speech with the well-deserved full-contact, class-partitipation tear-down.
identification of transcodes is very well-worn technology among MP3 users. Where people will take a 128kbps and transcode it to 320 and cause a small riot when people get upset getting a 320 that sounds like crap.
I imagine this is not really any different. Just look for the telltale squared loss and clipping, but in the image spectrum instead of the audio spectrum.
Well there's "open mind" and then there's "absurd". You wouldn't sanction another instructor walking into the room and trying to offer the students "alternate options" like a flat earth or the moon made of cheese.
"Open Mind" is for topics that have not been thoroughly figured out. It's good for things that we don't fully understand yet, to encourage different opinions and explore ways to get closer to the truth.
Once all reasonable doubt has been settled, it's time to accept reality and stop placing any credibility in what's written in some 2000 yr old book.
My first IT job was dealing with netware. It ran on the file servers and that's about all it did. We didn't even really pay attention to netware other than having to make sure the drivers were on the DOS boxes that accessed it.
I have no specific complaints or brags about it, it was just there, nothing special.
Agreed. It's interesting to see what gets changed. I'm learning more japanese every day, and I occasionally spot translation mistakes which can be fun.
On rare occasion I watch anime english dubbed because the japanese voice actors were poorly chosen. Hellsing is an excellent example. Among other things, Alfred, the 160 lb beanpole of a butler, sounds like a sumo wrestler.
Any program that interprets untrusted information could benefit from a sandbox. While directly it prevents the interpreted code from explicitly accessing outside its bounds, it also protects the system from bugs in the interpreter that could cause the interpreter itself to perform actions outside its environment.
Since you mention PNG, I have seen examples of security patches for PNG and TIFF viewers that addressed security problems because it was possible to execute arbitrary code based on a bug in the viewer's interpretation of the picture data. (usually through overflows)
This came as a surprise to me with TIFF because I thought TIFF was raw uncompressed picture data and that would be immune to interpretation, but that was not the case.
I don't think any legal systems currently support recursion. Maybe in an update or two.
you're one of those that gets a static IP but does not have their own segment. You're using your ISP's router, sharing it with other subscribers. That allows an ISP to hand out 253 statics per /24. In my scheme where I've got my own block of 8, 5 usable, there can be 32 sets of them per /24, for a total of only 160 (32*5) statics. This is why I'm worried. They're going to have to realize there's more money to be made by pooling like what you have. But then I've had my block for quite a long time. It may not even be offered that way anymore.
I tend to see the opposite. I have a number of series here that were censored when originally broadcast, having either small parts of a scene removed, or sometimes entire scenes. Those are present on the DVDs however. (Onegai Teacher is one example)
One thing that annoys me there is that the fansubs are often more accurate or make more sense than the retail subs. But I tend to watch then in Japanese with english subs, and a lot of anime fans can't stand subtitles and go with dubbed, which is a shame. Very few titles are dubbed well.
due to the very large crowd of fansubbers and their fans. Almost universally, fansubbing groups place recommendations at the start/intercession/end of their subs urging their audience to buy the anime when it becomes licensed in their area. Many also suggest that everyone cease distribution of the series at that point as well.
Hard to say how many listen to that, but I know I've ordered box sets when they became available in my area, entirely because I was able to watch the fansubs and enjoyed the series and wanted higher quality and the extras they tend to ship with, and I know many others like me that way.
I'll hit up the anime fansubbing sites every week or two, and download a few eps of what's popular, and I go from there to decide what series I follow. It's too bad more things can't work that way normally.
is when desperate (or "innovating") ISPs decide to jack up the rates on static blocks. Companies that have a static /24 will see the rate to lease that block double overnight. Then if you're only REALLY using a few dozen of them, giving some of that back is going to look really attractive. Did I say double? how about x16? if you can live with 29 usable instead of 253 I bet that's an offer many can't refuse.
I've got a block of 8 myself (5 usable naturally) so I think I'm safe from the vultures for awhile. But they're also probably going to want to start pooling people inside their /24's. As it is right now I have my own network with my own router. That's 3 of 8 addresses being somewhat wasted, and I bet they don't overlook that. If the entire /24 I'm in is carved into 32 chunks of /29's, that's 93 (32*3-3) more IPs in that block alone they could resell by consolidating gw/br/net. (/29 is admittedly quite a waste of IP space) Maybe I DO need to start worrying?
agreeing to TOS forms a contract. it tens to be disputable, but you're agreeing to something in exchange for using the service.
In such a contract, if you then receive the benefit of their service, and they do not in exchange receive the benefit of your honoring the terms, that's grounds for damages. It doesn't merely entitle them to dump you, they can sue for breach of contract and damages. If your dishonoring of the terms causes provable harm, (for example but not limited to monetary or reputation/brand) the damages can be quite high.
>Other than that, I'm not sure what recourse Facebook has.
If they agreed to those TOS and then violated them, possibly quite a lot.
Not that I'm even slightly a fan of 88 page long TOS "by clicking here I agree I've read and accept all of the above" agreements, they are often enforceable.
Plan A: make a rule that prisoners aren't allowed to have cell phones
ok that didn't work. They're already in prison, some for life, with little to lose if they get caught with a cell phone
Plan B: change the rule to a law
how is that going to affect the problem discovered with Plan A?
Seeing as people are willing to smuggle drugs/weapons/cell phones into prisons in their body cavities, you're not going to have an easy time stopping them from coming in. Seeing as they have little or nothing to lose by getting caught there's little deterrent in catching prisoners with contraband. If you can't stop them from getting them, can't discourage them from having them, the only solution is to make it less worth having them. This can be done one of two ways. The first is to reduce their usability, as many above have discussed, using faraday cages and jammers. I'm rather amazed that a cell phone works in a prison to begin with, with all the steel bars. But they probably get used out in the courtyard etc as law demands they get regular fresh air. Can't easily put a cage over the courtyard, and jammers are illegal on a federal level so that's out.
The other option, we'll call it Plan C, is to get so good at quickly catching someone with a cell phone that it gets taken away so fast that it no longer is worth the effort to get it in the first place. Either the cost is too high or the sanctions (solitary confinement etc) become a bad trade. Equipment to detect cell phones isn't that expensive. Metal detectors at the limited number of doors to the courtyards where the cell phones will work wouldn't break the bank ether. A few sets of RF triangulating hardware would then very quickly start locating places indoors that cell phones were still usable. Placing a cheap static RF alarm in those rooms that goes off when a cell phone is used within 30 feet of it closes the last of the gaps.
One of the fundamental problems the prisons are probably having here is that there will be a few guards that are SELLING cell phones the inmates. That's another problem that has to be handled by other means.
I personally don't see why a prison cell needs to have an AC outlet. They're like a hotel nowadays. But that's another rant in itself. If they had no place to charge the cell phones the problem wouldn't be a tenth of what it is now. People are thinking about smuggling of cell phones, not many are considering the AC adapters also have to be smuggled in. How any of this gets past metal detectors at the door is also amazing. (again getting back to corrupt guards)
>>How many people are a shit ton?
would you be talking about a metric or english shit ton?
(African or European?)
I was referring to ash from burning, which is quite a bit different than "coal ash". Isn't coal ash a petroleum compound? fire ash is mostly just carbon.
it's just going to go the way of the ipod and the iphone.
wait, what?
The reason sun doesn't melt snow too fast is it's white. Sprinkle a little black ash on it and watch it just sink. Dirty snow always melts faster.
They could just be sprinkling ash around on the snowbanks and huge snowpiles to get things melting faster. Such a simple idea, I don't know why they're not doing it. Ash isn't too environmentally unfriendly... certainly better than all the salt they're using.
So basically they're saying they're just collecting information from their customers. But their toolbar is SENDING their customers to google to get the information, which is then automatically forwarded to them.
Sort of like it's OK to spy as long as you have someone doing the spying for you and don't do it directly, just tell them where to go and have them give you the information they obtain.
That's so bad its pathetic. MS is turning their customers into information mules in a very obvious sort of way.
the FBI has seized the apple.com domain name for facilitating piracy.
Its worth noting that there are many many MANY exploits that own windows explorer via PDF, gif, and jpeg. (PDF being the worst offender)
As long as chrome is properly sandboxed it's not a big deal. But when clowns decide to integrate the browser into the OS, sandboxing becomes both difficult and critical, and things tend to go south. (as with IE) So although this does increase exposure, it doesn't have to increase RISK.
Don't feel bad if your review contributes to a restaurant going out of business. If it's a BAD restaurant, it deserves a bad review and deserves to go out of business. You're doing a community service in both your action and the effect it helps bring about.
it was a millitary coup that put this guy in power in the first place. Most millitaries follow command, and in a case like that the president (president for life/dictator) is at the top. So they're probably going to do just what he tells them to, until they realize his overthrow is inevitable, at which point they'll start considering what actions they'll be held accountable for by the new ruling party, and only then do you usually see them not following orders.
all this sounds really good, almost "too good to be true". Safe, uses existing nuclear waste as fuel (awesome!), produces less radioactive waste with shorter half-lifes. Sounds like an all-around winner.
I'm cautious about anything that "sounds too good to be true". What are the down-sides? Everything's got a down-side.