He is no more innocent than someone who gets a bunch of people's cc#'s and makes them public. Just because he personally didn't financially benefit is totally beyond the point. Just because he did it against a "large faceless/heartless corp" and many "common folk just trying to exercise their god given right to watch ESPN" benefitted doesn't make it any more right.
Quite a few people are chanting the "cut your landline" mantra. My question is, since the FCC also regulates the cell companies, are they (cellular carriers) really any better about not screwing everyone? Somehow I doubt it. Many of these cellular guys are the ones screwing you over on the landline side. Anyone have a cell phone bill handy to see what mysterious "FCC charges" might also be on there?
Technology, encryption, reverse engineering, mp3's, drm, sniffers.. they arne't inherently evil. It's the usage and if they go against your morals, ethics and general desires, if they are good or not.
Oh, so you mean: "mp3's don't kill record companies, _people_ kill record companies";)
Actually I'd like to see it in pure 70mm. By "pure" I mean that I'm hoping it was shot on 70mm stock, then to see it on a good 70mm screen would be way too awesome. Forget digital, this would kick it's butt two ways to Tuesday.
What if some substantial (either quantity or quality) amount of their proprietary code has made its way into the Linux source? If IBM put it there, should they not be punished for doing so? If RedHat et.al are making/made money from it, shouldn't they pay royalties? I know that SCO is the popular bad guy right now, but what if they have a point, does this still make them bad?
but you won't see millions spent on "you must be this tall to enter" signs.
Just had this vision of usb wired height meters attached to pc's around the world. Before a site lets you access it, you have to measure how tall you are:)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the hypocrisy in Theo's statement. He hopes that one less missle can be made, puleeze. If he really cared a damn about the issue, he wouldn't be accepting DARPA money to work on his OS. OK, so one less missle is made, how about if OpenBSD is then used to guide the remaining missles to their targets, would he feel any better? Or will he hide behind "hey I just make the tool, it's up to DARPA/DoD to use it as they see fit" or "OSS doesn't kill people, people kill people"?
Hopefully Cisco will find a way to build auditing tools into this to help promote responsible use.
Actually I would think that the bigger hope is that the laws that are designed to prevent abuse of this type of tapping hold up. From a technical point of view, you absolutely don't want an "easy" way to do auditing. Again, looking at it from the standpoint of the "users" of this tapping ability, you want complete anonymity (i.e. you don't even want some curious sys admin to peek and see how many, if any, taps are currently going on.
But as a citizen, you would hope that if you get thrown in jail with some encriminating evidence derived from this sort of surveillence, that the authorities would had to have gotten a search warrant, which means that they would have to have some type of reasonble suspicion and to prove it to a judge. I know, it doesn't always work this way, but like I said, from the bigger picture, this isn't a technology issue, you really want the social/political side of this to "work".
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IMHO, in 10 years we've progressed in the negative direction in regards to online applications thanks to Mosiac/http/html. 10 years later we're stuck with ecommerce pages that get hopelessly confused if you press the back button. Annoying website timeouts. Complex logic on the backend to handle stateless connections. Ugly front end development models. Half/assed Java Applets/Javascript attempts to actually create decent applications.
Now as a presentation model, the web is great. But as an application infrastructure, we've gone nowhere if not backwards.
Well if you're talking websites, it probably started about 2 minutes after Mosiac was available for download. After all, there was all that bbs material that now found itself a new home.
Of all the big money superhero movies. I guess this is the first one where the primary character is physically larger than life. The trailer makes it almost look like a photorealstic cartoon vs a "live action" movie with the scenes including the Hulk (and I guess technically those scenes probably are).
I was very surprised by how much of the Hulk they actually showed. I would have expected much more "teasing" up until the very end.
a very aggressive caching algo? I mean other than the battery backed part. You should be able to attain similar performance benefits using a purely software solution assuming your app doesn't do a lot of "important" writing to "small" files (where Conquest would do it all in RAM and still be able to persist it). But things like dll's,exes and whatnot don't change.
I guess I can understand the benefits (as minor as they may be relative to price), but the thing that bothers me the most is why does it take 4 years and NSF funds to come up with something that seems so obvious?
And one major problem would be getting over the fact that if the machine craters, you can't just yank the drive and have everything there, though I assume they have some way to "flush" the ram (can't read the.ps files to check).
What's interesting is that many who would decry the lack of personal privacy are also the same ones that lash out against DRM in any form. After all, isn't DRM all about protecting content (personal information) based on the wishes of the owner of that content? And just as quick as anti-DRM people like to point out that there is no perfect DRM, they hopefully realize that there is no such thing as personal privacy, at least not in the casual sense. Unless you are willing to go to extremes, much of who you are and what you do can easily be tracked. The article earlier about social engineering should give one pause enough to know that despite any safe guards and reassurances, that any information kept about you digitally (and now days that's almost everything) can be gotten to by someone who wants to get to it.
In the information age, privacy is "virtual". The govt wants us to fight the id card, because A) it gives the illusion that we might still have some privacy B) it keeps people focused on a specific technology/item (the id card), basically a red herring.
Well not FUD really. The carriers never said that they CAN'T do it, they just said that it would be expensive (prohibitively they claim) to do. And this may be true, I don't know as I've never seen any actual #'s for how much retrofitting systems would cost, only vague arm waving on both sides.
If the wireless companies could cooperate, you wouldn't have to pay for this
Actually one carrot the FCC is dangling in front of the telcos is allowing them to charge you a fee for keeping your #. I personally think this is a reasonable compromise.
According to the article 90% of them gave their password away,
not 75%.
No, I said that 75% of them answered the direct question ("What is your password"). The article says that eventually 90% gave up their passwords, but it took a couple more questions to get to that percentage. That's what was so amazing, that 75% didn't even have to be "tricked", they just gave it up when asked.
Depends a lot on the software and what you mean by 1-50 times. As an example, take your OS (please;), I reboot maybe once every couple of weeks. If we said an average of once a week, we're talking one OS crash every year, now that's not too shabby. If we're talking web servers that crashed every 50th http request, that obviously would not be good. If we're talking web broswers that crashed every 50th page request, that would suck. If it crashed every 50th time I fired it up, that would be great (again since I have a usage pattern that starts the browser once and I never close it).
The shuttle is similar, given that almost any problem can easily turn into a catastophic problem, how much of that failure rate is intrinisic in the activity (e.g. no matter how safe you try to make mountain climbing, there is always an element of risk that is higher than many other activities). And the frequency of that activity, if we're talking 50 missions at two missions a year, that's a lot of years between failures. Hey, that's what makes being an astronaut what it is, a risk, that's why they are elevated to such a high status (unfortunately often times not until AFTER something bad happens).
Why is everyone whining on about "ohh, these phones have too much" and "ohh who needs a pda + phone" and "waah, I don't want a camera on my phone". Your solution is simple, buy a phone without it. If you go over to say at&t wireless, they have like a dozen GSM phones alone. All the way from relatively simple phones with bw displays up to the 3650 (and soon the P800).
Fine, great, you don't want that stuff. Just don't buy it then, don't whine about it. There are those that do want those features.
Wait a minute, sometimes they say "have access to the internet" and other times they say "use the internet". With libraries offering free internet _access_, pretty much anyone who is willing to get off their butts and head over to a public library can have the access. Also, how about 18 and under? A poor kid from the ghetto may not have the latest PowerMac at home, but their school probably has access, and therefore the kid. I think they need to be a bit more clear here.
Plus there is the obvious breakdown by occupation. Since blacks represent a very small percentage of IT workers (IT in the broader sense) vs population, but IT workers obviously comprise a very high percentage of those with "internet access", the numbers are going to be skewed.
Well, as more and more cgi houses move off of SGI (and on to whatever), they are only really left with their server business. It's really a shame to see a once proud pioneer in the industry reduced to a mere shadow of their former selves, though I guess in this industry, its very common (e.g. DEC, Lotus, Compaq, etc). At this rate it's hard to even see them being around in 4 years, a definite takeover target.
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SGI (aka Silicon Graphics Inc.) was found dead today at the age of 20. After being a high flyer in his youth, often seen hobnobbing with Hollywoods power elite, the latter years were not so kind and saw him in the throes of an identity crisis. Eventually his reliance on a small circle of friends was his undoing, as he was slowly replaced by more mainstream competitors. He will be sorely missed, as while he was at the top, he was a role model for "cool" in the industry, and helped to usher in one of the most exciting (and abused) technology shifts in the motion picture/video entertainment industry since the advent of talkies and color.
Just because something is hard to set up doesn't mean it has to be hard to use. Most computers are hard to set up, but people use Windows and Macs because they are easy to use.
I agree, but his comment related to the user not knowing what the ".." meant, not that having ".." was a usability issue. The usuability issue here really is that you can't use the triangle to go back, not that the ".." exists. AAMOF, if the triangle was enabled, having it could be a usability issue because of the poor way it handles long lists. If you scrolled down through a long list and accidentially pressed the triangle, that could be annoying. Then again being forced to go to the top of the list to go back also sounds terrible. A good alternative might have been to do what many apps that do navigation do, and that's to have common nav buttons easily gotten to at all times.
Anyway, we both seem to agree that it sounds like the whole thing (interface, setup) needs a fair bit of work to become a consumer device vs a nerd device.
The user interface, apart from not handling long lists well, has several usability problems. To go up a directory, you select the ".." directory, which is something that Unix geeks know, but most PS2 users would expect to use the triangle button or something.
Seems to me that with all the effort required to get things setup (e.g. manually entering ip addresses, having the mp3/divx files to begin with) that you HAVE to be somewhat of a computer person to even get the thing up and running, so this particular comment seems out of place.
Interesting concept, though overall they seem to drop the ball as far as usability or they decided to target the serious nerd market. It would be interesting to see what Sony themselves could do with this kind of product (or even Apple).
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He is no more innocent than someone who gets a bunch of people's cc#'s and makes them public. Just because he personally didn't financially benefit is totally beyond the point. Just because he did it against a "large faceless/heartless corp" and many "common folk just trying to exercise their god given right to watch ESPN" benefitted doesn't make it any more right.
Quite a few people are chanting the "cut your landline" mantra. My question is, since the FCC also regulates the cell companies, are they (cellular carriers) really any better about not screwing everyone? Somehow I doubt it. Many of these cellular guys are the ones screwing you over on the landline side. Anyone have a cell phone bill handy to see what mysterious "FCC charges" might also be on there?
Technology, encryption, reverse engineering, mp3's, drm, sniffers.. they arne't inherently evil. It's the usage and if they go against your morals, ethics and general desires, if they are good or not.
;)
Oh, so you mean: "mp3's don't kill record companies, _people_ kill record companies"
Actually I'd like to see it in pure 70mm. By "pure" I mean that I'm hoping it was shot on 70mm stock, then to see it on a good 70mm screen would be way too awesome. Forget digital, this would kick it's butt two ways to Tuesday.
What if some substantial (either quantity or quality) amount of their proprietary code has made its way into the Linux source? If IBM put it there, should they not be punished for doing so? If RedHat et.al are making/made money from it, shouldn't they pay royalties? I know that SCO is the popular bad guy right now, but what if they have a point, does this still make them bad?
but you won't see millions spent on "you must be this tall to enter" signs.
:)
Just had this vision of usb wired height meters attached to pc's around the world. Before a site lets you access it, you have to measure how tall you are
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the hypocrisy in Theo's statement. He hopes that one less missle can be made, puleeze. If he really cared a damn about the issue, he wouldn't be accepting DARPA money to work on his OS. OK, so one less missle is made, how about if OpenBSD is then used to guide the remaining missles to their targets, would he feel any better? Or will he hide behind "hey I just make the tool, it's up to DARPA/DoD to use it as they see fit" or "OSS doesn't kill people, people kill people"?
Hopefully Cisco will find a way to build auditing tools into this to help promote responsible use.
Actually I would think that the bigger hope is that the laws that are designed to prevent abuse of this type of tapping hold up. From a technical point of view, you absolutely don't want an "easy" way to do auditing. Again, looking at it from the standpoint of the "users" of this tapping ability, you want complete anonymity (i.e. you don't even want some curious sys admin to peek and see how many, if any, taps are currently going on.
But as a citizen, you would hope that if you get thrown in jail with some encriminating evidence derived from this sort of surveillence, that the authorities would had to have gotten a search warrant, which means that they would have to have some type of reasonble suspicion and to prove it to a judge. I know, it doesn't always work this way, but like I said, from the bigger picture, this isn't a technology issue, you really want the social/political side of this to "work".
IMHO, in 10 years we've progressed in the negative direction in regards to online applications thanks to Mosiac/http/html. 10 years later we're stuck with ecommerce pages that get hopelessly confused if you press the back button. Annoying website timeouts. Complex logic on the backend to handle stateless connections. Ugly front end development models. Half/assed Java Applets/Javascript attempts to actually create decent applications.
Now as a presentation model, the web is great. But as an application infrastructure, we've gone nowhere if not backwards.
Well if you're talking websites, it probably started about 2 minutes after Mosiac was available for download. After all, there was all that bbs material that now found itself a new home.
Of all the big money superhero movies. I guess this is the first one where the primary character is physically larger than life. The trailer makes it almost look like a photorealstic cartoon vs a "live action" movie with the scenes including the Hulk (and I guess technically those scenes probably are).
I was very surprised by how much of the Hulk they actually showed. I would have expected much more "teasing" up until the very end.
a very aggressive caching algo? I mean other than the battery backed part. You should be able to attain similar performance benefits using a purely software solution assuming your app doesn't do a lot of "important" writing to "small" files (where Conquest would do it all in RAM and still be able to persist it). But things like dll's,exes and whatnot don't change.
.ps files to check).
I guess I can understand the benefits (as minor as they may be relative to price), but the thing that bothers me the most is why does it take 4 years and NSF funds to come up with something that seems so obvious?
And one major problem would be getting over the fact that if the machine craters, you can't just yank the drive and have everything there, though I assume they have some way to "flush" the ram (can't read the
What's interesting is that many who would decry the lack of personal privacy are also the same ones that lash out against DRM in any form. After all, isn't DRM all about protecting content (personal information) based on the wishes of the owner of that content? And just as quick as anti-DRM people like to point out that there is no perfect DRM, they hopefully realize that there is no such thing as personal privacy, at least not in the casual sense. Unless you are willing to go to extremes, much of who you are and what you do can easily be tracked. The article earlier about social engineering should give one pause enough to know that despite any safe guards and reassurances, that any information kept about you digitally (and now days that's almost everything) can be gotten to by someone who wants to get to it.
In the information age, privacy is "virtual". The govt wants us to fight the id card, because A) it gives the illusion that we might still have some privacy B) it keeps people focused on a specific technology/item (the id card), basically a red herring.
Well not FUD really. The carriers never said that they CAN'T do it, they just said that it would be expensive (prohibitively they claim) to do. And this may be true, I don't know as I've never seen any actual #'s for how much retrofitting systems would cost, only vague arm waving on both sides.
If the wireless companies could cooperate, you wouldn't have to pay for this
Actually one carrot the FCC is dangling in front of the telcos is allowing them to charge you a fee for keeping your #. I personally think this is a reasonable compromise.
It's the combination of my luggage!
Oh, you man 1-2-3-4-5 (homage to SpaceBalls).
According to the article 90% of them gave their password away, not 75%.
No, I said that 75% of them answered the direct question ("What is your password"). The article says that eventually 90% gave up their passwords, but it took a couple more questions to get to that percentage. That's what was so amazing, that 75% didn't even have to be "tricked", they just gave it up when asked.
Would you use software that crashed 1-in-50 times
;), I reboot maybe once every couple of weeks. If we said an average of once a week, we're talking one OS crash every year, now that's not too shabby. If we're talking web servers that crashed every 50th http request, that obviously would not be good. If we're talking web broswers that crashed every 50th page request, that would suck. If it crashed every 50th time I fired it up, that would be great (again since I have a usage pattern that starts the browser once and I never close it).
Depends a lot on the software and what you mean by 1-50 times. As an example, take your OS (please
The shuttle is similar, given that almost any problem can easily turn into a catastophic problem, how much of that failure rate is intrinisic in the activity (e.g. no matter how safe you try to make mountain climbing, there is always an element of risk that is higher than many other activities). And the frequency of that activity, if we're talking 50 missions at two missions a year, that's a lot of years between failures. Hey, that's what makes being an astronaut what it is, a risk, that's why they are elevated to such a high status (unfortunately often times not until AFTER something bad happens).
Why is everyone whining on about "ohh, these phones have too much" and "ohh who needs a pda + phone" and "waah, I don't want a camera on my phone". Your solution is simple, buy a phone without it. If you go over to say at&t wireless, they have like a dozen GSM phones alone. All the way from relatively simple phones with bw displays up to the 3650 (and soon the P800).
Fine, great, you don't want that stuff. Just don't buy it then, don't whine about it. There are those that do want those features.
As new Minister of Marketing.
..they are lost in the Australian desert...they can not read a compass...they are retarded."
"Those infidels at Sony don't even have the rights to the character at all. If they think they do, it's all in their minds"
"I feel safe from Sony, so should you"
"They are going to surrender or burn inside their little rice burners"
"Sony has never made a Spiderman film! This I tell you!"
"We will welcome them, with lawyers and taunts!"
"they are nowhere near completion on the sequel
Wait a minute, sometimes they say "have access to the internet" and other times they say "use the internet". With libraries offering free internet _access_, pretty much anyone who is willing to get off their butts and head over to a public library can have the access. Also, how about 18 and under? A poor kid from the ghetto may not have the latest PowerMac at home, but their school probably has access, and therefore the kid. I think they need to be a bit more clear here.
Plus there is the obvious breakdown by occupation. Since blacks represent a very small percentage of IT workers (IT in the broader sense) vs population, but IT workers obviously comprise a very high percentage of those with "internet access", the numbers are going to be skewed.
Well, as more and more cgi houses move off of SGI (and on to whatever), they are only really left with their server business. It's really a shame to see a once proud pioneer in the industry reduced to a mere shadow of their former selves, though I guess in this industry, its very common (e.g. DEC, Lotus, Compaq, etc). At this rate it's hard to even see them being around in 4 years, a definite takeover target.
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SGI (aka Silicon Graphics Inc.) was found dead today at the age of 20. After being a high flyer in his youth, often seen hobnobbing with Hollywoods power elite, the latter years were not so kind and saw him in the throes of an identity crisis. Eventually his reliance on a small circle of friends was his undoing, as he was slowly replaced by more mainstream competitors. He will be sorely missed, as while he was at the top, he was a role model for "cool" in the industry, and helped to usher in one of the most exciting (and abused) technology shifts in the motion picture/video entertainment industry since the advent of talkies and color.
Imagine if everyone connected their computers and created a beowulf cluster!
They could then calculate the average time it's been since any one of them actually had a date (hopefully no overflow errors occur).
Just because something is hard to set up doesn't mean it has to be hard to use. Most computers are hard to set up, but people use Windows and Macs because they are easy to use.
I agree, but his comment related to the user not knowing what the ".." meant, not that having ".." was a usability issue. The usuability issue here really is that you can't use the triangle to go back, not that the ".." exists. AAMOF, if the triangle was enabled, having it could be a usability issue because of the poor way it handles long lists. If you scrolled down through a long list and accidentially pressed the triangle, that could be annoying. Then again being forced to go to the top of the list to go back also sounds terrible. A good alternative might have been to do what many apps that do navigation do, and that's to have common nav buttons easily gotten to at all times.
Anyway, we both seem to agree that it sounds like the whole thing (interface, setup) needs a fair bit of work to become a consumer device vs a nerd device.
The user interface, apart from not handling long lists well, has several usability problems. To go up a directory, you select the ".." directory, which is something that Unix geeks know, but most PS2 users would expect to use the triangle button or something.
Seems to me that with all the effort required to get things setup (e.g. manually entering ip addresses, having the mp3/divx files to begin with) that you HAVE to be somewhat of a computer person to even get the thing up and running, so this particular comment seems out of place.
Interesting concept, though overall they seem to drop the ball as far as usability or they decided to target the serious nerd market. It would be interesting to see what Sony themselves could do with this kind of product (or even Apple).