Is that only in the US, or in other countries too? I run a video service hosted in Germany, the organisation is based in Australia, people from all over the world view the video, and am starting to get worried what happens next year. Where does jurisdiction for this start and end? How do software patents fit into the picture? We will be moving to theora, but will need a fallback for IE and Safari, which h.264 seems a natural fit, but now have to re-think...
I believe the issue is that, even though Ogg Theora has a better license, the codec was really bad compared to other, similar codecs. At least, that has been the going concern. Given a choice between a better user experience or a better license *most* users will choose experience.
The need to prove Ogg Theora is better is to attempt to counter this concern.
Yes. Because the issue of licensing is not yet relevant. When users (or providers) start having to pay per view, then licensing becomes a lot more relevant and obvious to the user.
What if one of its (hypothetical) purposes is as a massive distributed computer? Y'know, for cracking encryption and such? Simulations? Doesn't really matter if it's disconnected from the rest of the planet - there's still a crapload of computer power available there...
Anyone in a sufficiently high position is going to be able to have you fired if they think you're stalling. So do tread carefully.
Or just make sure you've installed enough archaic or secret information in the system that only you know how to keep it running. Consider it a form of insurance.
The suppression of human rights (including the free expression of thought via the Internet) is due entirely to Chinese culture. No foreign power is imposing the current brutal form of government on China. This government has existed for decades because a majority of Chinese support it. If the minority, who oppose the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), attempted the overthrow the government, then the rest of Chinese society will kill the minority.
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China is what it is due to how the Chinese people act and think. No foreign power is imposing the CCP on China. The Chinese people support the CCP.
Well, I guess if you _are_ going to clone dinosaurs (and I'm not saying that you should), and you want your new best friend to have a fighting chance of survival, you might actually also need to clone the ecosystem of microbes and bacteria that would have lived in an on it back in its day. If you can find some dinosaur bacteria.
I used to work teaching high school kids IT. When I started, the kids (and most teachers) called (the computer) the hard drive, or CPU. I thought this was wrong, but then, on thinking about it, could actually think of what the 'computer' part of the computer is called. A discussion among other IT teachers yielded similar thoughts. The computer is the system as a whole, including screen, keyboard, and mouse. The best we came up with was to call it the 'box'. The terminonology is lacking.
The last few times I've had to install XP on a new machine, the list of things that don't work out of the box: * sound * network * usb ports Have a guess how to install a driver onto a machine that has no network or usb support? Burn a fscking CD with the driver on another machine. If you can find the driver (seems since vista came out some OEMs don't make drivers for XP easily available so you have to screw around on the chipset manufacturers' site). Talk about a waste of hours of my precious life...
Every time I've install linux in the past 5 years, all of these have worked out of the box.
Not to say that everything is smooth sailing, but for most things, on most computers, I now consider that linux (ubuntu in this case) is easier to install, use and maintain than Windows.
Bitfrost is DRM. Open DRM, but DRM nonetheless. It could (is) used to prevent the installation of other OSes on the OLPC (among other things). Reverse that logic to get what Apple might be thinking about here - preventing their OS being installed on non-Apple systems.
they're not venomous enough to kill you, which by Australian standards is a blessing.
Meh; there are two dangerous spiders in Australia - the Sydney funnel web (deadly poisonous) and the Redback (poisonous, but very rarely deadly). Even deaths from the funnel web are rare if medical treatment is provided promptly. So stop dissin' our country's creepy crawlies!
They have physical access and are sniffing cards. How do you think you can prevent that by adding encryption or authentication?
If it's malware, then they have gotten into the system's software somehow - it's not a physical card sniffing attack. Obviously physical access helps the attacker, but can still be secured against; think encrypted volumes, and a decent authentication system to stop uninvited guests accessing the system when it's running.
As far as ATM venders go, how does Diebold rank in security?
Does it really matter, when their customers are allowing the bad guys to physically work with the machines?
Yes it does matter; security is a chain as strong as its weakest link. Proper encryption and authentication systems could/should have been used here to harden the weak link of physical access. As for cost of deployment, well, security organisations (including banks and Diebold) live on their reputations to keep things out of the hands of criminals. If they fail to do this, their security suffers. We're talking about Diebold here, not some two-bit Russian ATM provider.
I have several pictures of "the couch where my daughter was a second ago" because my Nikon Coolpix inserts a huge delay between the time I push the button and the time the picture is actually recorded.
What you want is a cheap DSLR. Even the lower end ones (D-40 / D-90, heck even the ancient D-70) have much more responsive shutters. Digicams are for still lifes. The better DLSR's (like the Nikon D-300) have really stunning low light capability. Of course, it could get better, but compared to film and the older digitals it's truly amazing.
I'm sure the manufacturers will try to stuff all of these things into the digicams, but if you can spend the money and deal with a slightly larger camera, the future is here.
Ricoh have had damn fast shutters in their compacts for 5 odd years now. Other manufacturers are catching on - I haven't bothered to try many others, but panasonic are quite decent now as well. As for low light, well the size of the lens and the size of the sensor matter the most here. Tiny cameras have tiny lenses and tiny sensors.
Everyone uses it? you can plug in the SD card from the gps (or camera or whatever) straight into a card reader on _any_ computer from the last 10 years and it will read it. Moving away from it will be like moving from IPv4 to IPv6. Slow and messy. But necessary one day - those flash devices are getting bigger and bigger, and windows won't let you create a FAT fs bigger than 32G (though it is possible) as it gets horribly inefficient. MS is pushing exFAT, but being incompatible with FAT, they face the same problems as any other fs in this regard, and lawsuits like this one might end up biting them back.
A surefire way to get around keyboard monitoring is not to use one. It is admittedly rather tedious, but if you have good cause to be concerned about security, you can use an on-screen keyboard. As far as I know, they can't obtain the necessary information by monitoring your mouse signals.
Instead 'they' only need to look at your screen (or set up a vid camera) to get you password. Screen keyboards are not any more secure.
And what if you could use aluminium as the 'fuel' for your car? H2 is difficult and dangerous to store in a tank, but is nice as it runs in a more-or-less unmodified petrol engine. So if instead you could carry Al + H20 as the 'fuel', which creates H2, which your engine burns, the whole process is safer.
During the US anti-trust trial about the same thing one expert witness demonstrated a windows install stripped of IE. It was based on CE (whatever verion was based on XP tech), but this in turn demonstrated that windows can be (and is) modular - just not the one they throw on desktops.
Or for a simpler experiment at home, look for tinyXP or nLite to get rid of IE for you.
This sums up all that's wrong about facebook 'protest' groups and 'causes'. You join a cause, then get a warm and fuzzy feeling that you've actually done something. YOU HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING APART FROM CLICKING THE MOUSE! It's even more useless than email petitions. Want to make a difference? Write a letter to your politician, go to a protest, start a boycott, strike, blockade, start a campaign group, talk to people in the street, stand on a soapbox, fuck some shit up. But it's gonna take a hell of a lot more effort than joining a facebook group.
for two cameras, just use two photos (taken with a stereo camera). Depth perception is already reliant on this, so adds nothing. But it seems unlikely laptop manufacturers would add a second camera just for this purpose. Unless they also do cool 3D video stuff. But if that's the case then you could just plonk a similar laptop (which has previously recorded a 3d video grab of the subject) in front of the stereo cameras. It's the same thing, just a little more complex
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Is that only in the US, or in other countries too? I run a video service hosted in Germany, the organisation is based in Australia, people from all over the world view the video, and am starting to get worried what happens next year. Where does jurisdiction for this start and end? How do software patents fit into the picture? We will be moving to theora, but will need a fallback for IE and Safari, which h.264 seems a natural fit, but now have to re-think...
I believe the issue is that, even though Ogg Theora has a better license, the codec was really bad compared to other, similar codecs. At least, that has been the going concern. Given a choice between a better user experience or a better license *most* users will choose experience.
The need to prove Ogg Theora is better is to attempt to counter this concern.
Yes. Because the issue of licensing is not yet relevant. When users (or providers) start having to pay per view, then licensing becomes a lot more relevant and obvious to the user.
What if one of its (hypothetical) purposes is as a massive distributed computer? Y'know, for cracking encryption and such? Simulations? Doesn't really matter if it's disconnected from the rest of the planet - there's still a crapload of computer power available there...
Anyone in a sufficiently high position is going to be able to have you fired if they think you're stalling. So do tread carefully.
Or just make sure you've installed enough archaic or secret information in the system that only you know how to keep it running. Consider it a form of insurance.
The suppression of human rights (including the free expression of thought via the Internet) is due entirely to Chinese culture. No foreign power is imposing the current brutal form of government on China. This government has existed for decades because a majority of Chinese support it. If the minority, who oppose the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), attempted the overthrow the government, then the rest of Chinese society will kill the minority.
China is what it is due to how the Chinese people act and think. No foreign power is imposing the CCP on China. The Chinese people support the CCP.
Same applies to Burma, obviously.
Well, I guess if you _are_ going to clone dinosaurs (and I'm not saying that you should), and you want your new best friend to have a fighting chance of survival, you might actually also need to clone the ecosystem of microbes and bacteria that would have lived in an on it back in its day. If you can find some dinosaur bacteria.
I used to work teaching high school kids IT. When I started, the kids (and most teachers) called (the computer) the hard drive, or CPU. I thought this was wrong, but then, on thinking about it, could actually think of what the 'computer' part of the computer is called. A discussion among other IT teachers yielded similar thoughts. The computer is the system as a whole, including screen, keyboard, and mouse. The best we came up with was to call it the 'box'. The terminonology is lacking.
The last few times I've had to install XP on a new machine, the list of things that don't work out of the box:
* sound
* network
* usb ports
Have a guess how to install a driver onto a machine that has no network or usb support? Burn a fscking CD with the driver on another machine. If you can find the driver (seems since vista came out some OEMs don't make drivers for XP easily available so you have to screw around on the chipset manufacturers' site). Talk about a waste of hours of my precious life...
Every time I've install linux in the past 5 years, all of these have worked out of the box.
Not to say that everything is smooth sailing, but for most things, on most computers, I now consider that linux (ubuntu in this case) is easier to install, use and maintain than Windows.
Bitfrost is DRM. Open DRM, but DRM nonetheless. It could (is) used to prevent the installation of other OSes on the OLPC (among other things). Reverse that logic to get what Apple might be thinking about here - preventing their OS being installed on non-Apple systems.
they're not venomous enough to kill you, which by Australian standards is a blessing.
Meh; there are two dangerous spiders in Australia - the Sydney funnel web (deadly poisonous) and the Redback (poisonous, but very rarely deadly). Even deaths from the funnel web are rare if medical treatment is provided promptly. So stop dissin' our country's creepy crawlies!
Australia doesn't _yet_. The govt is trying to set up a system, but hasn't got there yet
Am I the only one who was imagining a big ship with big-ass wheels that could roll up the beach and conquer all that stood before it?
if it's p2p and widely enough distributed there won't be a need to a central control server.
They have physical access and are sniffing cards. How do you think you can prevent that by adding encryption or authentication?
If it's malware, then they have gotten into the system's software somehow - it's not a physical card sniffing attack. Obviously physical access helps the attacker, but can still be secured against; think encrypted volumes, and a decent authentication system to stop uninvited guests accessing the system when it's running.
As far as ATM venders go, how does Diebold rank in security?
Does it really matter, when their customers are allowing the bad guys to physically work with the machines?
Yes it does matter; security is a chain as strong as its weakest link. Proper encryption and authentication systems could/should have been used here to harden the weak link of physical access. As for cost of deployment, well, security organisations (including banks and Diebold) live on their reputations to keep things out of the hands of criminals. If they fail to do this, their security suffers. We're talking about Diebold here, not some two-bit Russian ATM provider.
http://xkcd.com/463/
talking about filesystems here, not device drivers... implied was that the card reader already works with the computer.
What you want is a cheap DSLR. Even the lower end ones (D-40 / D-90, heck even the ancient D-70) have much more responsive shutters. Digicams are for still lifes.
The better DLSR's (like the Nikon D-300) have really stunning low light capability. Of course, it could get better, but compared to film and the older digitals it's truly amazing.
I'm sure the manufacturers will try to stuff all of these things into the digicams, but if you can spend the money and deal with a slightly larger camera, the future is here.
Ricoh have had damn fast shutters in their compacts for 5 odd years now. Other manufacturers are catching on - I haven't bothered to try many others, but panasonic are quite decent now as well. As for low light, well the size of the lens and the size of the sensor matter the most here. Tiny cameras have tiny lenses and tiny sensors.
Everyone uses it? you can plug in the SD card from the gps (or camera or whatever) straight into a card reader on _any_ computer from the last 10 years and it will read it. Moving away from it will be like moving from IPv4 to IPv6. Slow and messy. But necessary one day - those flash devices are getting bigger and bigger, and windows won't let you create a FAT fs bigger than 32G (though it is possible) as it gets horribly inefficient. MS is pushing exFAT, but being incompatible with FAT, they face the same problems as any other fs in this regard, and lawsuits like this one might end up biting them back.
A surefire way to get around keyboard monitoring is not to use one. It is admittedly rather tedious, but if you have good cause to be concerned about security, you can use an on-screen keyboard. As far as I know, they can't obtain the necessary information by monitoring your mouse signals.
Instead 'they' only need to look at your screen (or set up a vid camera) to get you password. Screen keyboards are not any more secure.
Hmm... perhaps the 4chan spamming was caused _by_ symantec to create an 'excuse' to pull the thread(s). In fact, maybe symantec _controls_ 4chan.
And what if you could use aluminium as the 'fuel' for your car? H2 is difficult and dangerous to store in a tank, but is nice as it runs in a more-or-less unmodified petrol engine. So if instead you could carry Al + H20 as the 'fuel', which creates H2, which your engine burns, the whole process is safer.
During the US anti-trust trial about the same thing one expert witness demonstrated a windows install stripped of IE. It was based on CE (whatever verion was based on XP tech), but this in turn demonstrated that windows can be (and is) modular - just not the one they throw on desktops.
Or for a simpler experiment at home, look for tinyXP or nLite to get rid of IE for you.
This sums up all that's wrong about facebook 'protest' groups and 'causes'. You join a cause, then get a warm and fuzzy feeling that you've actually done something. YOU HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING APART FROM CLICKING THE MOUSE! It's even more useless than email petitions. Want to make a difference? Write a letter to your politician, go to a protest, start a boycott, strike, blockade, start a campaign group, talk to people in the street, stand on a soapbox, fuck some shit up. But it's gonna take a hell of a lot more effort than joining a facebook group.
for two cameras, just use two photos (taken with a stereo camera). Depth perception is already reliant on this, so adds nothing. But it seems unlikely laptop manufacturers would add a second camera just for this purpose. Unless they also do cool 3D video stuff. But if that's the case then you could just plonk a similar laptop (which has previously recorded a 3d video grab of the subject) in front of the stereo cameras. It's the same thing, just a little more complex