When H.264 was designed, a strong attempt was made to avoid any patent encumbrances. (Or, more precisely, to keep the codec entirely royalty free.) It didn't work, and this is not likely to work for the same reasons.
This is dangerous. Jimmy Carter wanted to run against Ronald Reagan - 1 to 2 years out he was seen as the easiest to beat. Alas, didn't turn out that way.
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has been grinding along for almost five years, so this is something of late news. Unlike the Australian commenter in the original article, the process is inclusive only as to governments, not people or even NGOs. This has the Internet Society (ISOC) worried enough that they have an online petition on it :
This is not artificial intelligence, it is corporate intelligence - the ability of corporations to deal with situations that they really do not understand. First, IBM showed that a modern corporation could defeat a chess grandmaster, now they are taking on Jeopardy (which should actually be easier). The fact that machines are involved is incidental, given the large number of corporate employees required to program these machines, detect flaws in their code, and correct the programming accordingly.
They are being blocked as censorship, not protest. The PRC doesn't care what the BBC says, as long as the Chinese can't read things they don't want them to read.
The power industry needs to pay attention to what ISPs are doing to solve similar problems.
1.) Spend upgrade money on creating new classes of service, rather than worrying about upgrading low profit transformers. The electricity for your lights, which you need right away, should be tagged differently than the electricity for your car, which can wait for delivery. Then, make more money by charging extra for uninterrupted "light electricity."
2.) Spend more money investigating people's power usage, and threatening to shut off everyone who uses an electric car. (The power companies do this already looking for marijuana grow-lights, so this should be cheap to implement.) Couple these "deep power inspection" with blockage measures so that electric cars only get a trickle charge. Cap people's usage so that the power to the "bad actors" gets shutoff when they exceed their cap.
3.) Implement a propaganda campaign castigating electric car users for actually using the electricity that they paid for.
4.) Demand public subsidies to upgrade the power system, and use the resulting money on items # 1 - 3 above.
With these simple measures, both our power system and our broadband Internet delivery can continue to slide to third-world status, and useful employment can be extended to armies of consultants.
This is the usual incoherent TSA power grab that makes no real sense. Under what threat model do we "need" any of this. If terrorists want to disrupt air travel, they don't have to go through screening, they could blow up the security line at Dulles Airport. Heck, they could probably blow up the taxi stand and achieve that goal. Such bombings at security checkpoints were and I think still are commonplace in Iraq. I am not sure that we need security checkpoints at airports period (the threat model they were set up for is gone); we sure don't need to expand them.
Let's see, steal $ 75 million USD worth of stuff. 10% "finders feee" seems reasonable. So, with a 6 year sentence, that's over $ 1 million USD / year. (The fine is of course irrelevant in this scenario.)
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Sorry, you can make up your own language as much as you want, but that doesn't mean that anyone else will use it.
"Open standard" has a clear meaning and is commonly used.
Just as free as in speech is not the same as free as in beer, open as in standards is not the same
as open as in source.
Different kind of open. H.264 is without question an open standard, which is not the same as open source.
When H.264 was designed, a strong attempt was made to avoid any patent encumbrances. (Or, more precisely, to keep the codec entirely royalty free.) It didn't work, and this is not likely to work for the same reasons.
In the long term, they are all patent free codecs. All you have to do is wait.
This is dangerous. Jimmy Carter wanted to run against Ronald Reagan - 1 to 2 years out he was seen as the easiest to beat. Alas, didn't turn out that way.
The animal world may have its junkies, but they sure aren't doing magic mushrooms.
Sorry, this is tiresome idealogical Bullshit. It's not close enough to a plausible alternate reality to be interesting.
Well, who knows, but it would be nice if we were entering a new Maunder type Minimum. We could use some help keeping the planet from overheating.
Does anyone have a link to the actual rule they will be voting on ?
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has been grinding along for almost five years, so this is something of late news. Unlike the Australian commenter in the original article, the process is inclusive only as to governments, not people or even NGOs. This has the Internet Society (ISOC) worried enough that they have an online petition on it :
The UN Needs to Ensure an Open and Inclusive Approach to Internet Governance
(Yes, you will get a fundraising pitch at the end, but that's not the reason for this petition.)
This is not artificial intelligence, it is corporate intelligence - the ability of corporations to deal with situations that they really do not understand. First, IBM showed that a modern corporation could defeat a chess grandmaster, now they are taking on Jeopardy (which should actually be easier). The fact that machines are involved is incidental, given the large number of corporate employees required to program these machines, detect flaws in their code, and correct the programming accordingly.
They don't have a good track record so far at predicting the LHC uptime. They may get that 2011 outage after all.
They are being blocked as censorship, not protest. The PRC doesn't care what the BBC says, as long as the Chinese can't read things they don't want them to read.
My recommendation is to use multiple browsers.
Say you use Firefox for your web searches.
Then run Facebook on Safari (say)
Anything google on Opera.
Any porn on Chrome.
Etc.
There are a bunch of broswers out there - use them to silo off the nosey actors like Facebook, Google and Youporn.
The power industry needs to pay attention to what ISPs are doing to solve similar problems.
1.) Spend upgrade money on creating new classes of service, rather than worrying about upgrading low profit transformers. The electricity for your lights, which you need right away, should be tagged differently than the electricity for your car, which can wait for delivery. Then, make more money by charging extra for uninterrupted "light electricity."
2.) Spend more money investigating people's power usage, and threatening to shut off everyone who uses an electric car. (The power companies do this already looking for marijuana grow-lights, so this should be cheap to implement.) Couple these "deep power inspection" with blockage measures so that electric cars only get a trickle charge. Cap people's usage so that the power to the "bad actors" gets shutoff when they exceed their cap.
3.) Implement a propaganda campaign castigating electric car users for actually using the electricity that they paid for.
4.) Demand public subsidies to upgrade the power system, and use the resulting money on items # 1 - 3 above.
With these simple measures, both our power system and our broadband Internet delivery can continue to slide to third-world status, and useful employment can be extended to armies of consultants.
Note that these Acoustic oscillations were first predicted by the Soviet physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov - JETP 49, 345 - in 1965.
Ah, for the good old days of cosmology, when 120 orders of magnitude was nothing much to worry about.
Southpark got it correct. They might as well blame Canada.
This is the usual incoherent TSA power grab that makes no real sense. Under what threat model do we "need" any of this. If terrorists want to disrupt air travel, they don't have to go through screening, they could blow up the security line at Dulles Airport. Heck, they could probably blow up the taxi stand and achieve that goal. Such bombings at security checkpoints were and I think still are commonplace in Iraq. I am not sure that we need security checkpoints at airports period (the threat model they were set up for is gone); we sure don't need to expand them.
I bet that hypothetical American Engineer would avoid stop-overs in Beijing.
Let's see, steal $ 75 million USD worth of stuff. 10% "finders feee" seems reasonable. So, with a 6 year sentence, that's over $ 1 million USD / year. (The fine is of course irrelevant in this scenario.)
I bet a lot of people would sign up for that.
Uh, the Soviet Union has been gone for 19 years. I watched the Russian Federation flags go up 26 December 1991.
The Russian Federation is not the USSR. Neither is the PRC.
So, who, exactly is cyber-warring with whom ?
This is a scam.
These scanners were promoted by Michael Cherfoff, Head of Homeland Security under W.
Now he is CEO of the Chertoff Group, and is lobbying for Rapiscan, which makes these very machines at issue here. How convenient.