The fact that they're recording license plates with location data and saving it isn't necessarily the bad part. That is legal, even if you or I did it. Public domain.
What is scary is that the police have access to the names and other information of the people who are attached to those license plates. That join of info is what scares the ACLU and us.
If the police want to build their database, and then get a warrant to query it for specific plates or locations, that is fine. But the gross attachment of people to places, in such high volume is an invasion of privacy.
And the mere fact that such a database would exist, even if plates were de-coupled from people, is ripe for exploitation.
Radmind is exactly what you're looking for. It makes managing lab, office and kiosk machines a snap. It works on Linux, Solaris and OS X. I've been using it for years as have many other schools that use these operating systems. It's pretty easy to use (I had no real command line experience coming to use it on OS X, but do it all via command line now), fast and actively developed.
Essentially it is a filesystem manager, but works with transcripts (essentially lists) of files and there is a priority system for what can override what. It gives you lots of control and is very scriptable. I highly suggest you check it out.
The solution is to impliment authentication images, much like paypal or the like use when you register. It generates some odd-looking image with a few characters and digits in it, and you as the user have to type it in.
There is a system like this for wordpress called wp-authimage that works quite well. You do have to know a bit of php and it requires GD on your websever, but neither of those things are super-difficult. I used it on a blog I run with some friends and it works quite well. Our comment spam went from 100+ per day with MT to 0 with wordpress and this system.
Nokia has the bester interface of any other phone maker out there, except perhaps SonyEricson. The symbian OS interface is one of the best available (esp on large screen phones like the 3650).
Actually apple pays a significant ammount to get their products placed in television and movies. They just don't want you to know that. They also have a whole department who works on product placement. They even have a website on it.
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Couldn't they be sued for not providing some way for users to discontinue use of their service? It's like the shrink wrapped EULA, except on a way more annoying scale.
We're all going to have to call their tech support to ask them how to discontinue use of the service because we do not agree with their terms of use.
The iPod is not in the same class not because it is inferior, but because it doesn't try to be everything like the Acrhos. The Acrhos tries to do both MP3 playing and video playing, and suffers as a result. Who wants to spend that much money for a bulky device with poor battery life that's windows only? The iPod keeps it simple, doing music and other PDA like things. Plus, lets not forget that the interface on the iPod takes a backseat to no one.
Is pocket video really the killer app? I doubt it. The whole point of an MP3 player is that you can listen while you do other things. Video obviously is not the same way, and has less of a need to be so portable. These devices will never see anywhere near as much success as the iPod.
You're not going to find a color laser printer for $500. Not even close. You'd be pressed to find a decent black and white laser printer that does postscript for that price.
You might want to look into a printer like the Epson 2200. We have several of them where I work, and while not postscript or laster based, there is a continuous flow kit that works pretty well, and they're firewire based so not too bad in terms of speed.
As a note on the price range, we spent ~$5k on our last crummy color laser printer and are finally getting a really nice one in a few weeks for $25k. They're not cheap by any means.
This isn't so bad. Perhaps they'll make parents actually think about what DVDs they let their children watch instead of thinking technology can parent for them.
(yeah, fat chance, I know)
(also, Double standards: I can have them, you can't)
No one would argue that a photographer has the rights to a photograph he took, even if the subject of the photograph is public domain. What reasoning do you have that a font is so different from any other peice of software or device that someone concieved, worked on and wants to garner money from? Copyright isn't always a bad thing.
Apple has a rather large legal team, and is not exactly a small company. They don't have much to leverage over MS, but would MS tout this, it certainly wouldn't help their antitrust case.
They are still working on the mpeg4 thing, btw, and in case you didn't notice, they're working on it so that we, the consumer, don't get screwed paying a per hour rate.
Apple, in addition to a heck of a lot of other companies, would not stand for MS claiming ownership over parts of OpenGL. They're making heavy use of it in QuartzXtreme.
But, thankfully, as someone noted, it appears to be a non-issue. Although, this kind of thing still is scary.
I am still waiting for them to find the giant face that tells us martians created humans and the giant atmospheric converters burried under those mountains.
d on Monday October 22, @08:20PM (#2463284)
In fact, I'd pay $10/month for no images at all
Maybe you should switch to lynx, it'd be cheaper:P
Or just use Opera and turn images off...
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Yes! We always talked about doing this at my old job (small IT department in a small college). It would be both funny, and effective.
Countdown to fucksheboygan.com 3...2...1.. Except of course, No one can spell "Sheboygan".
I'd check out Roman Verostko, one of the pioneers of algorithmic art.
The fact that they're recording license plates with location data and saving it isn't necessarily the bad part. That is legal, even if you or I did it. Public domain.
What is scary is that the police have access to the names and other information of the people who are attached to those license plates. That join of info is what scares the ACLU and us.
If the police want to build their database, and then get a warrant to query it for specific plates or locations, that is fine. But the gross attachment of people to places, in such high volume is an invasion of privacy.
And the mere fact that such a database would exist, even if plates were de-coupled from people, is ripe for exploitation.
Radmind is exactly what you're looking for. It makes managing lab, office and kiosk machines a snap. It works on Linux, Solaris and OS X. I've been using it for years as have many other schools that use these operating systems. It's pretty easy to use (I had no real command line experience coming to use it on OS X, but do it all via command line now), fast and actively developed. Essentially it is a filesystem manager, but works with transcripts (essentially lists) of files and there is a priority system for what can override what. It gives you lots of control and is very scriptable. I highly suggest you check it out.
The solution is to impliment authentication images, much like paypal or the like use when you register. It generates some odd-looking image with a few characters and digits in it, and you as the user have to type it in.
There is a system like this for wordpress called wp-authimage that works quite well. You do have to know a bit of php and it requires GD on your websever, but neither of those things are super-difficult. I used it on a blog I run with some friends and it works quite well. Our comment spam went from 100+ per day with MT to 0 with wordpress and this system.
A stikingly similar product? You mean, like, a hard drive or something? Heaven forbid Western Digital come out with a hard drive!
Nokia has the bester interface of any other phone maker out there, except perhaps SonyEricson. The symbian OS interface is one of the best available (esp on large screen phones like the 3650).
The real question is what the hell is a p? Is that like a gil, or something?
Actually apple pays a significant ammount to get their products placed in television and movies. They just don't want you to know that. They also have a whole department who works on product placement. They even have a website on it.
Couldn't they be sued for not providing some way for users to discontinue use of their service? It's like the shrink wrapped EULA, except on a way more annoying scale.
We're all going to have to call their tech support to ask them how to discontinue use of the service because we do not agree with their terms of use.
The iPod is not in the same class not because it is inferior, but because it doesn't try to be everything like the Acrhos. The Acrhos tries to do both MP3 playing and video playing, and suffers as a result. Who wants to spend that much money for a bulky device with poor battery life that's windows only? The iPod keeps it simple, doing music and other PDA like things. Plus, lets not forget that the interface on the iPod takes a backseat to no one. Is pocket video really the killer app? I doubt it. The whole point of an MP3 player is that you can listen while you do other things. Video obviously is not the same way, and has less of a need to be so portable. These devices will never see anywhere near as much success as the iPod.
You're not going to find a color laser printer for $500. Not even close. You'd be pressed to find a decent black and white laser printer that does postscript for that price. You might want to look into a printer like the Epson 2200. We have several of them where I work, and while not postscript or laster based, there is a continuous flow kit that works pretty well, and they're firewire based so not too bad in terms of speed. As a note on the price range, we spent ~$5k on our last crummy color laser printer and are finally getting a really nice one in a few weeks for $25k. They're not cheap by any means.
I think it would be better as the Department of Persecution, actually.
This isn't so bad. Perhaps they'll make parents actually think about what DVDs they let their children watch instead of thinking technology can parent for them. (yeah, fat chance, I know) (also, Double standards: I can have them, you can't)
I think in the second one you can see the reflection of the arc in the coil on the left. If it is photoshopped, he did a damn good job.
No one would argue that a photographer has the rights to a photograph he took, even if the subject of the photograph is public domain. What reasoning do you have that a font is so different from any other peice of software or device that someone concieved, worked on and wants to garner money from? Copyright isn't always a bad thing.
Apple has a rather large legal team, and is not exactly a small company. They don't have much to leverage over MS, but would MS tout this, it certainly wouldn't help their antitrust case. They are still working on the mpeg4 thing, btw, and in case you didn't notice, they're working on it so that we, the consumer, don't get screwed paying a per hour rate.
Apple, in addition to a heck of a lot of other companies, would not stand for MS claiming ownership over parts of OpenGL. They're making heavy use of it in QuartzXtreme. But, thankfully, as someone noted, it appears to be a non-issue. Although, this kind of thing still is scary.
Everyone knows that lingo hax0rs are the l337est and s3xiest hax0rs around. (Lingo is the native tripe in director/shockwave).
I am still waiting for them to find the giant face that tells us martians created humans and the giant atmospheric converters burried under those mountains.
d on Monday October 22, @08:20PM (#2463284) In fact, I'd pay $10/month for no images at all Maybe you should switch to lynx, it'd be cheaper :P
Or just use Opera and turn images off...