Perhaps my use for the word "command" is being taken to literally. I simply meant to suggest that it sounds like simple steps can be taken to unlock the software.
But still, have someone pay for it once (or discover it through brute force if they dare wait that long) and then simply hand the private key out to everyone else. $200 to fix a catastrophe seems like a cheap price to pay. Hell, maybe you'd get lucky and catch the guy by following the money.
Assuming this virus is telling the truth (and I highly highly highly doubt it is), doesn't that mean that there's a simple command you can send to it to fix the problem? What's to prevent anti-virus companies from figuring this out and providing a quick fix?
Music Brainz first checks the audio fingerprint before checking ID3 tags. It only uses the ID3 tags if it can't find a matching fingerprint. If anything, I would assume this would be less accurate, as sound quality over phones is less than that of even low-encoded mp3's.
I KNOW how bit torrent works - but what good is a trackerless torrent if you still need a host somewhere who's up and running to connect to, as specified by the.torrent file.
I'm talking about a protocol level. This doesn't seem to accomplish much in the way of providing anonymity if everyone in the swarm still had to go through the same starting node somewhere. I don't see how else it could work though.
That still doesn't explain what the A-end is connected to. Another peer one would assume (C, D, E, whoever,) but how did A find this peer in the first place?
I wasn't trying to lie. I was just pointing out his reasoning to sticking with FireFox. And it doesn't really surprise me that there's an Ad Blocker for Opera, he just failed to mention it - probably didn't come across it in his investigation.
Funny that he chooses FF over Opera because of the AdBlock extension. Especially considering that, not only does Opera not have AdBlock, but it throws in a few banners of its own.
You're right - it doesn't resemble an iPod. Read damn my post. Yet, relative to its previous incarnation, it is much more interesting and creative. I'm not saying its god's gift to designers, just that it shows a more interesting and relaxed design from a rigid black box.
Does it copy the Dell? Maybe, but better that than another squat black box.
I wouldn't call it the vain light. Rather, the iPod, in this case, inspired designers to break out of there black box designs.
It's also obvious these don't copy the iPod. What they do is suggest more creative and liberal industrial design - empowered by Apple's success. More power to everyone for that.
But more units sold does make a more attractive market to game publishers, since the number of units sold does not indicate the number of units modded. Mind you also that a lot of XBox games will be designed for Live, which may or may not work on modded boxes (probably won't.) Thus to play them, people will still have to buy the game and use it on an umodded box.
At the same time, I'm not sure I believe the grandparent poster...
It may not be creating itself from what most would consider "raw" materials, but from its own world view it is. It has a few fundamental building blocks from which it can create more advanced structurues - copies of itself in this case.
If you watch the video, the very last demonstration is that of them generating the image of a King (of hearts?) that was not directly visible to the camera. Rather, its face was reflected onto the page of an open book - much more complicated that just, say, a mirror. The cards reflection is not visible in the still image of the book and is only made possible through pixel scanning with the projector.
In sum, they are seeing around a corner and are seeing something the camera could not see (directly).
Slashdot Mirror
Mirror mirror on the web
please copy this website
so that this slashdotting might ebb.
(anyone?)
Actually, I'd say it's about 2 Libraries of Congress in size.
One day we complain that /. reports week-old news. The next we complain that it's reporting on rumors and unconfirmed reports. Honestly people!
Left Wing Propaganda ahoy! Honestly, while I like your idea, I'm not convinced fingerprints are the best solution.
Perhaps my use for the word "command" is being taken to literally. I simply meant to suggest that it sounds like simple steps can be taken to unlock the software.
But still, have someone pay for it once (or discover it through brute force if they dare wait that long) and then simply hand the private key out to everyone else. $200 to fix a catastrophe seems like a cheap price to pay. Hell, maybe you'd get lucky and catch the guy by following the money.
Assuming this virus is telling the truth (and I highly highly highly doubt it is), doesn't that mean that there's a simple command you can send to it to fix the problem? What's to prevent anti-virus companies from figuring this out and providing a quick fix?
Chances are, you don't want to be squirting Clorox cleaning fluids into your carpet. On the other hand, this is the sibling of the roomba.
Music Brainz first checks the audio fingerprint before checking ID3 tags. It only uses the ID3 tags if it can't find a matching fingerprint. If anything, I would assume this would be less accurate, as sound quality over phones is less than that of even low-encoded mp3's.
Yeah, I did find that a bit odd :) I guess I just skimmed it enough to know that it didn't answer my original question.
I KNOW how bit torrent works - but what good is a trackerless torrent if you still need a host somewhere who's up and running to connect to, as specified by the .torrent file.
I'm talking about a protocol level. This doesn't seem to accomplish much in the way of providing anonymity if everyone in the swarm still had to go through the same starting node somewhere. I don't see how else it could work though.
That still doesn't explain what the A-end is connected to. Another peer one would assume (C, D, E, whoever,) but how did A find this peer in the first place?
I know how bit torrent works - how does trackerless bit torrent work? Don't you still need a starting point?
More specifically, how can you connect to a torrent download if you don't know where to start? Isn't the starting point the same as a tracker?
Can someone explain the gist of how this works?
I wasn't trying to lie. I was just pointing out his reasoning to sticking with FireFox. And it doesn't really surprise me that there's an Ad Blocker for Opera, he just failed to mention it - probably didn't come across it in his investigation.
Funny that he chooses FF over Opera because of the AdBlock extension. Especially considering that, not only does Opera not have AdBlock, but it throws in a few banners of its own.
Someone doesn't remember their basic physics equations. It means the action accelerates at a contant rate - duh!
sigh...
You're right - it doesn't resemble an iPod. Read damn my post. Yet, relative to its previous incarnation, it is much more interesting and creative. I'm not saying its god's gift to designers, just that it shows a more interesting and relaxed design from a rigid black box.
Does it copy the Dell? Maybe, but better that than another squat black box.
I wouldn't call it the vain light. Rather, the iPod, in this case, inspired designers to break out of there black box designs.
It's also obvious these don't copy the iPod. What they do is suggest more creative and liberal industrial design - empowered by Apple's success. More power to everyone for that.
Adobe does have plugin. Installation instructions for FireFox here.
slightly off-topic, but those images would have been great (and much more band-width conserving) as svg.
But more units sold does make a more attractive market to game publishers, since the number of units sold does not indicate the number of units modded. Mind you also that a lot of XBox games will be designed for Live, which may or may not work on modded boxes (probably won't.) Thus to play them, people will still have to buy the game and use it on an umodded box.
At the same time, I'm not sure I believe the grandparent poster...
It may not be creating itself from what most would consider "raw" materials, but from its own world view it is. It has a few fundamental building blocks from which it can create more advanced structurues - copies of itself in this case.
Half truth:
If you watch the video, the very last demonstration is that of them generating the image of a King (of hearts?) that was not directly visible to the camera. Rather, its face was reflected onto the page of an open book - much more complicated that just, say, a mirror. The cards reflection is not visible in the still image of the book and is only made possible through pixel scanning with the projector.
In sum, they are seeing around a corner and are seeing something the camera could not see (directly).