Charles Cooper's opinion on Kapor's plan goes straight into non-related issues, no supporting facts for his arguement, and a personal attack on Kapor.
Having a wireless network makes you wired?
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I bet every person on this board has the stuff in Catherine Bell's house. Except she makes news because she's famous and a woman:>)
Seriously, I think the doorbell webcam/image pusher is the most interersting aspect, not that she has a Zaurus (more than likely she gets these gadgets as promo items so they are seem by the 'cool crowd')
Even more suprising is that it's getting a game cube release, a platform that has segmented out a family environment. Nintendo's the same company that refused to give a 3rd party publisher (wasn't it akklaim as well) to use "red" blood in Mortal Kombat 2 for SNES (it was changed to grey to give the illusion of sweat).
Yes, I know Nintendo's changed their policy over the years to accomodate fighting, but I'm surprised that they are going beyond the line that WalMart draws.
The instructions talk about switching from Netscape Navigtor on Mac to a PC, but I don't quite understand these directions because it says to load Internet Explorer up on the Mac and copy the links to the zip disk.
Step 2: Importing Favorites
I copied hundreds of Web Favorites from the Mac onto a Zip disk, then into the Favorites folder on the PC. Internet Explorer has an Import/Export Wizard that you can use to import Netscape bookmarks, but I found it faster to do it this way.
To copy Web Favorites:
1. Connect the Zip drive to your Macintosh, and insert a Zip disk with plenty of room.
2. On the Mac, start Internet Explorer. From the Window menu, click Favorites.
Here is the article which I submitted but was rejected. Sacramento Bee Article
I wonder if it would have helped Lik Sang (which provided hardware to use circumvented copy protection), as opposed to personal use copying devices (which the bill focuses on)
I just finished reading Dealers of Lightning which has extensive writing about how Simiyoni got to Xerox and his career there.
Even Funnier - You can't register with Konq
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I tried to register for the show using Konq. The site has some browser checking to allow Netscape & IE only. Is the site being run by the GNOME fans:>) (just kidding)
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldexpo/v31/i ndex.cvn?ID=10002&p_navid=1
This article in San Jose Merc highlighhts some additional interesting battles. It states that tv manufacturers are battling cable companies to integrate the box into the TV set (something long overdue), and that has spilled into the HDTV war.
What's especially interesting is that the tuner is only used to pull air-based HDTV signals, thus adding additional cost with no practical use to all the cable/sat owners if the boxes.
It's not just MSFT with performance restrictions
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As I mentioned in an earlier post there are many companies that enforce this in their EULA. It becomes especially common if the software package targets the enterprise.
One item that I find of particular interest is the EULAs which specifically forbid the end user to do a) performance testing on the software or b) publish any results of a performance test unless the vendor is given prior notification. The vendor reasoning is that there are too many variables in any performance test so any result is skewed. But these types of experiments are important especially when the vendor is make a claim about how great their performance is, and whether certain software will do the job in a given scenario.
Companies choose solutions based that makes the most sense, and the finances play a HUGE part of it.
So if you have two solutions, one based on Microsoft, perhaps not the best tool for the job, but it has some TCO numbers to make a decision, and you have another solution based on Linux, with great technical data but no long term financials, then guess who wins?
I think nearly all TCO studies have flaws, but like it or not, it's a big factor for enterprise decision makers.
Hopefully, now that analysts are doing TCO on linux solutions, this will all change.
Anyone know if Comodo's cross-signed with another provider? I dont' see Comodo listed with their own top-level pre-trusted root in Konq 3.0 or Mozilla 1.0, so I sure hope they are cross-signed with someone. That would be truly unfortunate for the victim to fall for this and end up with a cert that nobody's browser trusts.
I bet that any Microsoft dev with knowledge of the BIOS would find these tasks trivial. Place $200K in front of one of the devs, and it'd be interesting whether they may "creatively" find ways to solve all these tasks.
Who Moved My Cheese and Dale Carnegie
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I don't usually recomend too many pseudo philosophy books, but you'd be surprised how many times you'll be asked to compromise, especially when the best solution isn't the cheapest.
People don't always associate compromise and complacency with business goals, as long as you're not losing sight of your values and recogize the greater good, then I think having a little of both will cut your levels of stress immensely.
I want to make sure that we have that nanotechnology ready in case those borg terrorists show up again. I'm not counting on the Borg forgetting to close up that "sleep" backdoor that witty androids hack into using an unsecured terminal that calls itself Picard.
First off, the title is misleading, because the story is announcing studio releases on DVHS, not DVHS itself. The subsequent responses seem geared against the player itself, not the story regarding studio releases
But why do I want a DVHS recorder?
1) why not? it's backwards compatible with VHS and records at far superior quality than s-vhs.
2) copying digital camcorder video to a vhs recorder seems ridiculous and I sure am not going to buy another digital camcorder to make archives of my home movies. I'd rather get a dvhs recorder instead.
3) copying non-macrovisioned dvd's to tape in real time (through the analogs) seems to be a better use of my time that fiddling with the computer and a dvdr to make a digital copy. Sometimes I want to watch the commentary track from a rental but I don't get enough time to watch it before Blockbuster wants their DVD back.
4) I think I read somewhere that there are players on the market that ignore the digital encyption stuff, (Toshiba?, not sure). It was in one of this month's home theater mags.
5) it's a real shame that people who have HDTV-enabled sets don't realize that they don't need a HDTV to get benefits out of their set. They really marketed that term HDTV-enabled wrong (especially with the number of cheap prog-scan dvd players available)
Now, as for the cover story - I am not really crazy about buying dvhs studio releases, even if it is double the line resolution of DVD. Much like MiniDisc, they tried to make a market out of studio releases on the format and failed, but even without those releases, the recorder/players have found a comfortable market.
One way to add protection is to make only the application that uses the data the only thing that has the ability to encrypt/decrypt data to the database, and keep the two separate. Sort of like a mail store - namely you don't encrypt the mail store, but rather the end-user retains the responsibility for encrypting/dencrypting the mail.
Of course, this isn't true security, because if you crack the app, you still get the data. But at least you don't put the keys in the front door of the safe this way.
I read that lucas doesn't consider piracy a deterent to the box office receipts, rather he is more concerned about the effects that it has on home video sales. I suspect that the cam corder versions aren't going to make a big impact but once the DVD-ripped versions appear, then the point starts to become more poignant.
However, I'd also like to point out that the subject is far more complicated than it appears. Wilco, for instance, made their entire CD available on the Internet last year, and now the album's out, it's the best selling album they ever had (previous records sold less than 100 thousand copies total, the current record sold 57 thousand in the first week alone and on the top 15)
Before making too many conclusions, it should be noted that the CD is already available, released on a non-traditional Sunday. So part of that stat is mixed with legit sales.
"Thus, "The Eminem Show," originally slated for a June 4 release, hit stores Sunday -- an unusual step, as albums are typically released on Tuesdays. That move came after it was earlier announced that the release date would be pushed up to today -- roughly two weeks after the album's unsanctioned Internet debut."
We want to hear Katz' insight into why a modern government military complex like the Jedi do not have e-mail and Internet access. Especially if Katz declares on behalf of geeks everywhere that If jodi foster did not have internet access in the panic room, then it must drive geeks batty that Jedi's in a galaxy far far away can't send instant messaging over secure shell back to coruscant.
At Toys R Us, they have an activision 2600 games device which plays something like 10 different games. It's shaped like a controller that plugs directly into the RCA jacks of the tv, so it's portable in the sense that don't actually carry a console around to play.
I think that the existance of the feature isn't what's troubling. It's the fact that you don't have central control over it, and you have to hunt it down to know it even exists.
I think it's like the firewall/network card relationship. You go buy a network card to browse the web, but there's no way to tell what software is using the card unless you get a firewall too.
Same goes with the camera - you buy it because you wanted to take some silly photos but now users are finding out that they have no idea how much software has control over it.
It doesn't matter if the defaults off, because now it's just another point of entry for hackers to gain access of your hardware, and it's a point of access you probably didn't even know about.
There really needs to be a set of access controls for hardware, settable at the driver level.
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Charles Cooper's opinion on Kapor's plan goes straight into non-related issues, no supporting facts for his arguement, and a personal attack on Kapor.
Seriously, I think the doorbell webcam/image pusher is the most interersting aspect, not that she has a Zaurus (more than likely she gets these gadgets as promo items so they are seem by the 'cool crowd')
Yes, I know Nintendo's changed their policy over the years to accomodate fighting, but I'm surprised that they are going beyond the line that WalMart draws.
The instructions talk about switching from Netscape Navigtor on Mac to a PC, but I don't quite understand these directions because it says to load Internet Explorer up on the Mac and copy the links to the zip disk. Step 2: Importing Favorites I copied hundreds of Web Favorites from the Mac onto a Zip disk, then into the Favorites folder on the PC. Internet Explorer has an Import/Export Wizard that you can use to import Netscape bookmarks, but I found it faster to do it this way. To copy Web Favorites: 1. Connect the Zip drive to your Macintosh, and insert a Zip disk with plenty of room. 2. On the Mac, start Internet Explorer. From the Window menu, click Favorites.
Here is the article which I submitted but was rejected. Sacramento Bee Article I wonder if it would have helped Lik Sang (which provided hardware to use circumvented copy protection), as opposed to personal use copying devices (which the bill focuses on)
I just finished reading Dealers of Lightning which has extensive writing about how Simiyoni got to Xerox and his career there.
I tried to register for the show using Konq. The site has some browser checking to allow Netscape & IE only. Is the site being run by the GNOME fans :>) (just kidding)
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldexpo/v31/i ndex.cvn?ID=10002&p_navid=1
What's especially interesting is that the tuner is only used to pull air-based HDTV signals, thus adding additional cost with no practical use to all the cable/sat owners if the boxes.
As I mentioned in an earlier post there are many companies that enforce this in their EULA. It becomes especially common if the software package targets the enterprise.
One item that I find of particular interest is the EULAs which specifically forbid the end user to do a) performance testing on the software or b) publish any results of a performance test unless the vendor is given prior notification. The vendor reasoning is that there are too many variables in any performance test so any result is skewed. But these types of experiments are important especially when the vendor is make a claim about how great their performance is, and whether certain software will do the job in a given scenario.
So if you have two solutions, one based on Microsoft, perhaps not the best tool for the job, but it has some TCO numbers to make a decision, and you have another solution based on Linux, with great technical data but no long term financials, then guess who wins?
I think nearly all TCO studies have flaws, but like it or not, it's a big factor for enterprise decision makers.
Hopefully, now that analysts are doing TCO on linux solutions, this will all change.
Anyone know if Comodo's cross-signed with another provider? I dont' see Comodo listed with their own top-level pre-trusted root in Konq 3.0 or Mozilla 1.0, so I sure hope they are cross-signed with someone.
That would be truly unfortunate for the victim to fall for this and end up with a cert that nobody's browser trusts.
Yes, fonts can be quite frustrating, but kfontinst (which is now in KDE 3) makes it much easier. It's in Control Panel->System->Font Installer
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btw - I am a marketroid with a linux box, using Kmail, Konq and Open Office
I bet that any Microsoft dev with knowledge of the BIOS would find these tasks trivial. Place $200K in front of one of the devs, and it'd be interesting whether they may "creatively" find ways to solve all these tasks.
People don't always associate compromise and complacency with business goals, as long as you're not losing sight of your values and recogize the greater good, then I think having a little of both will cut your levels of stress immensely.
that this article is about phasing out pre-recorded VHS tapes. It doesn't say that it will phase out VCRs.
Sure must have cost a lot of money to build the ultimate computer, considered its total output resulted in a two digit number.
I want to make sure that we have that nanotechnology ready in case those borg terrorists show up again. I'm not counting on the Borg forgetting to close up that "sleep" backdoor that witty androids hack into using an unsecured terminal that calls itself Picard.
First off, the title is misleading, because the story is announcing studio releases on DVHS, not DVHS itself. The subsequent responses seem geared against the player itself, not the story regarding studio releases
But why do I want a DVHS recorder?
1) why not? it's backwards compatible with VHS and records at far superior quality than s-vhs.
2) copying digital camcorder video to a vhs recorder seems ridiculous and I sure am not going to buy another digital camcorder to make archives of my home movies. I'd rather get a dvhs recorder instead.
3) copying non-macrovisioned dvd's to tape in real time (through the analogs) seems to be a better use of my time that fiddling with the computer and a dvdr to make a digital copy. Sometimes I want to watch the commentary track from a rental but I don't get enough time to watch it before Blockbuster wants their DVD back.
4) I think I read somewhere that there are players on the market that ignore the digital encyption stuff, (Toshiba?, not sure). It was in one of this month's home theater mags.
5) it's a real shame that people who have HDTV-enabled sets don't realize that they don't need a HDTV to get benefits out of their set. They really marketed that term HDTV-enabled wrong (especially with the number of cheap prog-scan dvd players available)
Now, as for the cover story - I am not really crazy about buying dvhs studio releases, even if it is double the line resolution of DVD. Much like MiniDisc, they tried to make a market out of studio releases on the format and failed, but even without those releases, the recorder/players have found a comfortable market.
One way to add protection is to make only the application that uses the data the only thing that has the ability to encrypt/decrypt data to the database, and keep the two separate. Sort of like a mail store - namely you don't encrypt the mail store, but rather the end-user retains the responsibility for encrypting/dencrypting the mail.
Of course, this isn't true security, because if you crack the app, you still get the data. But at least you don't put the keys in the front door of the safe this way.
I read that lucas doesn't consider piracy a deterent to the box office receipts, rather he is more concerned about the effects that it has on home video sales. I suspect that the cam corder versions aren't going to make a big impact but once the DVD-ripped versions appear, then the point starts to become more poignant.
However, I'd also like to point out that the subject is far more complicated than it appears. Wilco, for instance, made their entire CD available on the Internet last year, and now the album's out, it's the best selling album they ever had (previous records sold less than 100 thousand copies total, the current record sold 57 thousand in the first week alone and on the top 15)
"Thus, "The Eminem Show," originally slated for a June 4 release, hit stores Sunday -- an unusual step, as albums are typically released on Tuesdays. That move came after it was earlier announced that the release date would be pushed up to today -- roughly two weeks after the album's unsanctioned Internet debut."
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We want to hear Katz' insight into why a modern government military complex like the Jedi do not have e-mail and Internet access. Especially if Katz declares on behalf of geeks everywhere that If jodi foster did not have internet access in the panic room, then it must drive geeks batty that Jedi's in a galaxy far far away can't send instant messaging over secure shell back to coruscant.
At Toys R Us, they have an activision 2600 games device which plays something like 10 different games. It's shaped like a controller that plugs directly into the RCA jacks of the tv, so it's portable in the sense that don't actually carry a console around to play.
I think it's like the firewall/network card relationship. You go buy a network card to browse the web, but there's no way to tell what software is using the card unless you get a firewall too.
Same goes with the camera - you buy it because you wanted to take some silly photos but now users are finding out that they have no idea how much software has control over it.
It doesn't matter if the defaults off, because now it's just another point of entry for hackers to gain access of your hardware, and it's a point of access you probably didn't even know about.
There really needs to be a set of access controls for hardware, settable at the driver level.