Well, since I'm not living in a country where kooks and liars are given the benefit of the doubt, let me say quite publicly that chiropractors are frauds, along with naturopaths, healing touch types and all the other absurd lying pieces of worthless trash out there who profit off of the superstition and naivety of those with more money than brains.
Well, scientific analysis might have shown that some (even many) of treatments in question are not effective in a laboratory test. Scientific analysis has also shown that many of these treatments are effective in a real-world sense. The key here is the placebo effect. It works if the patient has trust and belief in the practitioner. It was the basis of most pre-renaissance medicine. If I go to my doctor, they will probably prescribe me antibiotics or some other pills and get me out of there within a few minutes. The treatment may work because it is the scientifically tested treatment for the condition, or it may work because I have a belief in my doctor and the modern system of medicine. If I go to a naturopath, they'll spend at least half an hour with be, building trust and a relationship. Any treatment will likely be a placebo, but it will still likely work. If you separate the trust-building from the treatment, of course it won't work. That's why alternative practitioners spend so much longer with you in a consultation.
I never really had any issues with skype (in part because I never used it) until I tried in on Linux. And gee it sucks. 100% CPU when on calls. Hasn't been updated for years (stuck on version 2, without updating to newer audio systems). As a result I'm in the process of moving the organisation I've joined (which uses skype as it's primary conferencing tool) to a more open, linux friendly solution. If it _just worked_ I could look over the proprietary/closed nature of it, but it doesn't, so I'll move away. And bring others with me.
Actually I found the public transport in London quite reasonably priced, and relatively reliable. Buses were frequent and cheap (if a little slow). Individual tube lines were unreliable, but there was enough redundancy in the system that you could re-route your journey most of the time. Trains were stupidly overpriced, but that's because they had been privatised under Thatcher. The tube and buses were still govt owned when I was there 5 years ago, and created a better transport experience than most places I've been in Australia. You say that the govt can't do public transport? You'll need a better example than London (and there are plenty), but I can give you plenty of examples in mainland Europe where the govt runs extremely successful PT.
Soil being public? Sure. Who pays to put roads on it? The public. But since I don't drive I'm a bit pissed off my taxes are subsidising the road users. So why the hell not charge road users for the roads they use? What are you, a communist?
And one final note: can you imagine what trying to find a parking space in the city (any large city, but particularly one as dense as London) would be like if there were no restrictions on parking? Or the traffic? I'd love to see it, personally, but wouldn't be pretty...
There are a great deal of patents that are known to affect h.264, and you get a license for all of them when you pay up.
And there are an unknown number of patents not covered by MPEG-LA that affect h.264. There's just as likely (probably more likely due to market share) to be a patent troll holding an h.264 submarine patent than a theora submarine patent. Just because some of the patents are licensed doesn't make h.264 immune from further patents - it is in exactly the same boat as theora.
To what end? If someone wants to clone the biometric data contained on my passport, so be it. It will let them make a duplicate passport, that will still only be usable (in theory) by me. I don't see how an analog system here is any more secure than a digital one, but can give a number of arguments how it might be less secure.
If it's digital, tampering is undetectable.
A digitally signed message cannot be tampered without being detected (provided decent crypto is used). That what cryptographic signing is for - detecting tampering. Again, please explain how an analog message is less susceptible to tampering than a digital one.
I'm guessing we'll soon get with GPUs what happened with FPUs. Remember FPUs? Maths Co-processors? 80387? A seperate chip that handled floating point ops because the CPU did have those in the instruction set. Eventually merged into the main CPU chip. GPUs: initially on a seperate card, but requiring and increasingly faster bus (GPUs have driven the development of high speed buses), now often on the mainboard (true, not top-of-the-line chips yet, but I suspect that has a lot to do with marketing rather than technology) with shared access to the system's main memory. I'm guessing before long the GPU will be on the CPUs die.
I think Murdoch's vision involves shifting those who used to buy hard-cop[y newspapers but now read only that newspaper's website back to the print copy. It is mainly the older people, as the younger ones will find other sources.
Either that, or, as a parting gesture, has a crack at revolutionising Internet news so he can go down in history as the guy who made news on the Internet profitable. And if it doesn't work, well, he hasn't got much to lose.
Look; I know that this is a touchy subject, but after working for 5 years (in Australia - things aren't quite as bad here as they are in the UK or the US) as a teacher with kids from the rough side of town, I can tell you there are some seriously fscked up families out there. That warrant some kind of intervention, yet too often the departments responsible for this sort of thing are too fearful of being seen as some Orwellian over-lords. Often it comes down to an issue of human rights, particularly with children involved. Why bother having laws against child abuse if you don't police them? Democracy isn't "do whatever the hell you want" - it involves responsibilities to our fellow people, and people who don't want to undertake those responsibilities need to be handled in some way. Putting cameras in their homes might be better than sending them to jail.
I'm not for a surveillance sort of a state, but when everyone complains of governments becoming "nanny states", I see a lot of people that need a nanny.
I don't believe the person that discovered the issue was the author of the code, so would not have any legal standing to make a legal threat. But even if he was, Microsoft's response was "Oh, you're right... here, let me fix that".
I don't buy it. How can you accidentally be infringing on the GPL? It's not like the patent system where you may or may not be infringing on a patent because there's so bloody many of them covering everything up to sliced bread. Its a license that is _clearly included_ in every file covered by it. It's not as if some source code magically appeared on some programmer's desktop, stripped of all license information. Someone went looking for some code that did X, found a (GPL) version, used it, modified it, released it under a different license.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place, they were. Option 1: fight the GPL to court, probably lose, and give the GPL an even greater legal standing via the test case. Option 2: Release the code as GPL, and nullify any previous (or future) arguments they have made about it being a 'viral' license, bad for capitalism etc etc.
Option 1 would have given them the moral high ground in terms of their philosophy - "We were against the GPL and fought it and lost", but at the cost of hardening the GPL legally. Option 2 is spineless, but I'd be betting they are planning some 'comeback' about how the code evolution of the GPL version is less secure/buggier/slower than some alternative closed version they develop in-house.
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A corporate network that intercepts HTTPS traffic breaks HTTPS. The whole point of HTTPS is that it is encrypted point-to-point. If that were the case the browser should be popping up warnings all over the place, since what you have described is the definition of a man-in-the-middle attack.
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why not FTPS? A lot of clients (at least the popular filezilla, and cyberduck) support it; it's just FTP over an SSL connection, just like HTTPS is HTTP over an SSL connection.
Not sure what server support is like, but I'm sure there'd be a good few around...
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I've been grappling with the same problem of late.
FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) seems to be the answer.
WebDAV should in theory support resumable transfers (I think), but is dependent on the client to support this.
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If your proxy supports https connections, you have ssh access. You might need to run an ssh server on port 443 depending on how tight the proxy is, but most ssh clients now support using an https proxy for connections - basically they just have to issue a 'CONNECT server:port' command to the proxy, and they have a clean line.
One of the early possibilities on this crash was that the pitot tubes had frozen over. This leads to indicated airspeeds dropping. Which apparently made the computer try to speed up the airplane to compensate. The pilots tried to override the computer to slow the plane down but were unable to.
What is your basis for this? AFAIK the flight recorder hasn't been found.
And the pilots would have be able to slow the plane down (airbus has a full manual mode) unless the control system had failed as well. But even if could slow it down, what then? The plane stalls as it can't maintain lift at that pressure, and drops straight into a bad-ass storm.
Flights are getting more and more automated. It used to be up to the pilot to take off and land, and the autopilot would fly the bit in the middle in good conditions. Now the autopilot takes off and lands too. The pilot is there in case of emergencies. But I would still wager that a computer would statistically be better than a human overall, otherwise the airlines wouldn't deploy this.
This case is of a plane travelling at such high speed and altitude that it only has a tiny window of opportunity between breaking up, stalling, or falling into the tempest below. If the computer systems keeping it in that window fail, then the pilot has little chance of actually fixing things. The alternative is to fly a lot more conservatively, with bigger margins of error. That would mean flying slower, and at lower altitude. Which means longer flights, that burn more fuel, hence cost more.
Try less developed countries, but keep the focus on large ones. India and Indonesia spring to mind; basically large and anarchic enough that it will be difficult for a regime to control even if they wanted to. That in mind, corruption is always an issue, but without a huge respect for state enforced laws (due to lack of resources to enforce them), you will always get a large degree of freedom. Perhaps Mexico or parts of South America, but large and less developed will give you the freedom from the tyranny of the state you seek. That in mind, laws and customs in such countries tend to be much more localised and community enforced, which brings up another can of worms.
I'm not certain what the _actual_ situation is in China, which fits the bill somewhat, but they seem to have enough coercive power (in a large military) to be able to control a large population. This doesn't seem to be the general case, since keeping such a large police force/military is very expensive.
Perhaps the question shouldn't be so much about the laws themselves, but the state's ability to enforce them.
Thanks; I guess the issue is to make the playback as seamless and easy to the user as possible. We've looked at using cortado (the java theora app you speak of), but would need to investigate its speed etc and also penetration of java compared to flash.
The javascript shouldn't really necessary; the browser should gracefully drop _inside_ the video tag if it can't render the video, so by putting a java (or flash) object inside the video tag, other browsers should handle this well. Hopefully this also holds if the browser handles the video tag but not the particular video codec provided.
Actually, you could do a recaptcha-style trick with this to help digitize (more) books - create an image with the first part the (undigitized) book-word, then a unique code for that word, then @recaptchadomain.com. The spambot's advanced OCR would decipher the word, and send spam to word.abd27e423de@recaptcha.com, which would match the unique code to the word, and wait till a few of them match up.
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Well, since I'm not living in a country where kooks and liars are given the benefit of the doubt, let me say quite publicly that chiropractors are frauds, along with naturopaths, healing touch types and all the other absurd lying pieces of worthless trash out there who profit off of the superstition and naivety of those with more money than brains.
Well, scientific analysis might have shown that some (even many) of treatments in question are not effective in a laboratory test. Scientific analysis has also shown that many of these treatments are effective in a real-world sense. The key here is the placebo effect. It works if the patient has trust and belief in the practitioner. It was the basis of most pre-renaissance medicine. If I go to my doctor, they will probably prescribe me antibiotics or some other pills and get me out of there within a few minutes. The treatment may work because it is the scientifically tested treatment for the condition, or it may work because I have a belief in my doctor and the modern system of medicine. If I go to a naturopath, they'll spend at least half an hour with be, building trust and a relationship. Any treatment will likely be a placebo, but it will still likely work. If you separate the trust-building from the treatment, of course it won't work. That's why alternative practitioners spend so much longer with you in a consultation.
Don't they have a tradition of launching all three hundred million people into the sun every four years so they can get a clean start on things?
Not as such due to technical limitations, but the new energy-beaming satellites should overcome that hurdle.
I never really had any issues with skype (in part because I never used it) until I tried in on Linux. And gee it sucks. 100% CPU when on calls. Hasn't been updated for years (stuck on version 2, without updating to newer audio systems). As a result I'm in the process of moving the organisation I've joined (which uses skype as it's primary conferencing tool) to a more open, linux friendly solution. If it _just worked_ I could look over the proprietary/closed nature of it, but it doesn't, so I'll move away. And bring others with me.
Documents such as the EULA are supposed to be written with the reader - a non-lawyer - in mind.
Good one. Thought you were being serious there for a second.
... with the apple logo photoshopped out
Actually I found the public transport in London quite reasonably priced, and relatively reliable. Buses were frequent and cheap (if a little slow). Individual tube lines were unreliable, but there was enough redundancy in the system that you could re-route your journey most of the time. Trains were stupidly overpriced, but that's because they had been privatised under Thatcher. The tube and buses were still govt owned when I was there 5 years ago, and created a better transport experience than most places I've been in Australia. You say that the govt can't do public transport? You'll need a better example than London (and there are plenty), but I can give you plenty of examples in mainland Europe where the govt runs extremely successful PT.
Soil being public? Sure. Who pays to put roads on it? The public. But since I don't drive I'm a bit pissed off my taxes are subsidising the road users. So why the hell not charge road users for the roads they use? What are you, a communist?
And one final note: can you imagine what trying to find a parking space in the city (any large city, but particularly one as dense as London) would be like if there were no restrictions on parking? Or the traffic? I'd love to see it, personally, but wouldn't be pretty...
There are a great deal of patents that are known to affect h.264, and you get a license for all of them when you pay up.
And there are an unknown number of patents not covered by MPEG-LA that affect h.264. There's just as likely (probably more likely due to market share) to be a patent troll holding an h.264 submarine patent than a theora submarine patent. Just because some of the patents are licensed doesn't make h.264 immune from further patents - it is in exactly the same boat as theora.
In Soviet Russia, robot throws you!
How is this different to the videos linked in the summary? +5 informative?
If it's digital, exact copies are possible.
To what end? If someone wants to clone the biometric data contained on my passport, so be it. It will let them make a duplicate passport, that will still only be usable (in theory) by me. I don't see how an analog system here is any more secure than a digital one, but can give a number of arguments how it might be less secure.
If it's digital, tampering is undetectable.
A digitally signed message cannot be tampered without being detected (provided decent crypto is used). That what cryptographic signing is for - detecting tampering. Again, please explain how an analog message is less susceptible to tampering than a digital one.
I'm guessing we'll soon get with GPUs what happened with FPUs. Remember FPUs? Maths Co-processors? 80387? A seperate chip that handled floating point ops because the CPU did have those in the instruction set. Eventually merged into the main CPU chip. GPUs: initially on a seperate card, but requiring and increasingly faster bus (GPUs have driven the development of high speed buses), now often on the mainboard (true, not top-of-the-line chips yet, but I suspect that has a lot to do with marketing rather than technology) with shared access to the system's main memory. I'm guessing before long the GPU will be on the CPUs die.
I think Murdoch's vision involves shifting those who used to buy hard-cop[y newspapers but now read only that newspaper's website back to the print copy. It is mainly the older people, as the younger ones will find other sources.
Either that, or, as a parting gesture, has a crack at revolutionising Internet news so he can go down in history as the guy who made news on the Internet profitable. And if it doesn't work, well, he hasn't got much to lose.
Look; I know that this is a touchy subject, but after working for 5 years (in Australia - things aren't quite as bad here as they are in the UK or the US) as a teacher with kids from the rough side of town, I can tell you there are some seriously fscked up families out there. That warrant some kind of intervention, yet too often the departments responsible for this sort of thing are too fearful of being seen as some Orwellian over-lords. Often it comes down to an issue of human rights, particularly with children involved. Why bother having laws against child abuse if you don't police them? Democracy isn't "do whatever the hell you want" - it involves responsibilities to our fellow people, and people who don't want to undertake those responsibilities need to be handled in some way. Putting cameras in their homes might be better than sending them to jail.
I'm not for a surveillance sort of a state, but when everyone complains of governments becoming "nanny states", I see a lot of people that need a nanny.
Makes sense, but I'd still bet that there are more radios than there are mobile phones in Cambodia. But both systems are useful, in tandem.
I don't believe the person that discovered the issue was the author of the code, so would not have any legal standing to make a legal threat. But even if he was, Microsoft's response was "Oh, you're right... here, let me fix that".
I don't buy it. How can you accidentally be infringing on the GPL? It's not like the patent system where you may or may not be infringing on a patent because there's so bloody many of them covering everything up to sliced bread. Its a license that is _clearly included_ in every file covered by it. It's not as if some source code magically appeared on some programmer's desktop, stripped of all license information. Someone went looking for some code that did X, found a (GPL) version, used it, modified it, released it under a different license.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place, they were.
Option 1: fight the GPL to court, probably lose, and give the GPL an even greater legal standing via the test case.
Option 2: Release the code as GPL, and nullify any previous (or future) arguments they have made about it being a 'viral' license, bad for capitalism etc etc.
Option 1 would have given them the moral high ground in terms of their philosophy - "We were against the GPL and fought it and lost", but at the cost of hardening the GPL legally.
Option 2 is spineless, but I'd be betting they are planning some 'comeback' about how the code evolution of the GPL version is less secure/buggier/slower than some alternative closed version they develop in-house.
A corporate network that intercepts HTTPS traffic breaks HTTPS. The whole point of HTTPS is that it is encrypted point-to-point. If that were the case the browser should be popping up warnings all over the place, since what you have described is the definition of a man-in-the-middle attack.
why not FTPS? A lot of clients (at least the popular filezilla, and cyberduck) support it; it's just FTP over an SSL connection, just like HTTPS is HTTP over an SSL connection.
Not sure what server support is like, but I'm sure there'd be a good few around...
I've been grappling with the same problem of late.
FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) seems to be the answer.
WebDAV should in theory support resumable transfers (I think), but is dependent on the client to support this.
If your proxy supports https connections, you have ssh access. You might need to run an ssh server on port 443 depending on how tight the proxy is, but most ssh clients now support using an https proxy for connections - basically they just have to issue a 'CONNECT server:port' command to the proxy, and they have a clean line.
One of the early possibilities on this crash was that the pitot tubes had frozen over. This leads to indicated airspeeds dropping. Which apparently made the computer try to speed up the airplane to compensate. The pilots tried to override the computer to slow the plane down but were unable to.
What is your basis for this? AFAIK the flight recorder hasn't been found.
And the pilots would have be able to slow the plane down (airbus has a full manual mode) unless the control system had failed as well. But even if could slow it down, what then? The plane stalls as it can't maintain lift at that pressure, and drops straight into a bad-ass storm.
Flights are getting more and more automated. It used to be up to the pilot to take off and land, and the autopilot would fly the bit in the middle in good conditions. Now the autopilot takes off and lands too. The pilot is there in case of emergencies. But I would still wager that a computer would statistically be better than a human overall, otherwise the airlines wouldn't deploy this.
This case is of a plane travelling at such high speed and altitude that it only has a tiny window of opportunity between breaking up, stalling, or falling into the tempest below. If the computer systems keeping it in that window fail, then the pilot has little chance of actually fixing things. The alternative is to fly a lot more conservatively, with bigger margins of error. That would mean flying slower, and at lower altitude. Which means longer flights, that burn more fuel, hence cost more.
Try less developed countries, but keep the focus on large ones. India and Indonesia spring to mind; basically large and anarchic enough that it will be difficult for a regime to control even if they wanted to. That in mind, corruption is always an issue, but without a huge respect for state enforced laws (due to lack of resources to enforce them), you will always get a large degree of freedom. Perhaps Mexico or parts of South America, but large and less developed will give you the freedom from the tyranny of the state you seek. That in mind, laws and customs in such countries tend to be much more localised and community enforced, which brings up another can of worms.
I'm not certain what the _actual_ situation is in China, which fits the bill somewhat, but they seem to have enough coercive power (in a large military) to be able to control a large population. This doesn't seem to be the general case, since keeping such a large police force/military is very expensive.
Perhaps the question shouldn't be so much about the laws themselves, but the state's ability to enforce them.
Thanks; I guess the issue is to make the playback as seamless and easy to the user as possible. We've looked at using cortado (the java theora app you speak of), but would need to investigate its speed etc and also penetration of java compared to flash.
The javascript shouldn't really necessary; the browser should gracefully drop _inside_ the video tag if it can't render the video, so by putting a java (or flash) object inside the video tag, other browsers should handle this well. Hopefully this also holds if the browser handles the video tag but not the particular video codec provided.
Actually, you could do a recaptcha-style trick with this to help digitize (more) books - create an image with the first part the (undigitized) book-word, then a unique code for that word, then @recaptchadomain.com. The spambot's advanced OCR would decipher the word, and send spam to word.abd27e423de@recaptcha.com, which would match the unique code to the word, and wait till a few of them match up.