Gee gosh, I guess it's time to shut it all down and start from scratch. This would certainly be the end or very close to it. Internet v2 (or v3, or v4, whatever).
ICANN does not have the best interests of the public in mind with this. This is a recipe for disaster.
God, I'm actually starting to miss Lynx and searching using Veronica...
First, downloading music is legal in Canada. Consumers pay a levy on CDR media to offset the "losses" from downloading; heck they tried to impose this on MP3 players as well. I think the lobbying groups would probably sacrifice that levy, to get a bigger piece of a larger pie.
Second, it should be opt-IN. As another poster noted, this would be reverse billing, and not legal in Canada.
Personally; I'm fine with the way it is. I download all the music I want and I stopped buying blank CDs years ago.
Agreed. I got RB & RB2 because of the songs that I recognize and thought would be cool to play along. I didn't bother with the 20 free tracks. Like someone said in another forum: "free sh!t".
Mind you, there's been some pearls from the indie list. I like that Main Drag song...
Thanks for info; that's probably exactly how it happens. In an environment with a captive audience, you issue your own cert and 99.9% of the corporate users won't even notice.
That's probably being sold by Thawte. And considering that a lot of browsers out there still don't support EV.
Extended validation? When I pay for a digital cert, I expect a high level of validation anyways. Makes you wonder, what level of validation they've been doing for the past few years.
SSL always MITM as one of its exploits. There's a lot of network gear (e.g. Cisco's IronPort) that do just that in order to enforce security policies of an organization.
It is obvious that the best path to maximize its user uptake is to make Hulu an OSS project. With the experience, dedication and level-headness of the millions of developers in the open source community, it will be certain that Hulu would achieve new heights.
Hulu could incorporate new functionality such as streaming MIDI files, Ogg visualation routines, Excel macro optimizations, and banner ad removal for Chrome and Firefox. Perhaps using the GPL v3 as the basic licensing framework would also provide us with the support of Bruce Perens and Bruce Schneier (not related).
Only when we focus our efforts in media content delivery engines can we wrest control of the net neutrality paradigm from DoubleClick.
Re-reading the gp, and he's probably implying he had to log into some account management web tool. Which would provide the access control. Never mind...
The problem with SSL, is that the URLs aren't (and can't) be encrypted. So any admin sniffing in points between, can get access to your SSL-protected PDF by capturing your SSL URL request. SSL provides security in the transmission, not access control.
Every visible (and not just to human eyes) object reflects radiation. By determining what is reflected, we can deduce what is absorbed. Different elements absorb different frequencies.
If you can't make it work, they won't let you take it on the plane. They always ask me to turn on the notebook.
Happened to me a few years ago. Had a CD player that had its own charging system; ran out of juice. Couldn't get it to work. US Customs said "Naw, not allowed." Had to fill out a form, leave it with them and then pick up when I got back. I guess they're concerned that you have parts that may make a bomb or detonator.
Sorry, meant to say that they should stop issuing any media using the old type of DRM so that they add to their baggage. I guess they have to re-issue existing keys if people move the media to a different system which they might.
Okay, first skip the obvious answer... it was a rhetorical question.
They don't want to support it. Fair enough, stop issuing anymore of these types of DRM keys.
Now, what would cost them to keep this operational for a few years? 2 dedicated servers? 10? 20? 2 full-time staff for 5 to 10 more years to support this and use the existing datacentre support folks for the basic 24/7 stuff. Let's round it to a nice $2.5 million for 10 years. Not a whole lot for a large company.
What heat will they get from this? This is a PR fiasco for their DRM technology in general and more importantly shows that MS is willing to leave their "followers" high and dry when it suits them. What will these pissed off users do next time? Yeah, get iTunes, pirate, avoid music altogether, and better yet, avoid MS products. Potential revenue loss from 10,000 stranded users? Probably a few million. Think about: these folks PAID for DRM music. Easy sheep to get money from. They're killing their cash cow.
Someone at the MS marketing or client services department needs to get axed.
I have a similar role. I'm pretty much under the CIO and most days have to tow the party line. It's very difficult to get the flaws addressed on some of the flagship project because they are near and dear to the CIO. CYA e-mails and TRAs don't do much when you want to clean things up.
So I'm a few levels below the other VPs and totally outclassed to be quite honest. What has served me well are the relationships I built with the (not chief) Privacy Officer, the organization's Risk Manager, the HR director, the Chief Financial Officer, and the corporate lawyer. I usually send an innoccent looking e-mail asking them for their opinion and before I know it, it bubbles up to their bosses, getting the attention of my IT bosses very quickly. Then things get done, and sometimes even exactly how I want it done.
Now, that doesn't make me very well-liked or a "team player", but allows me to sleep at night and keep my own professional integrity.
I have had meeting with senior executives and explained to them that they would be liable. That didn't go to far: "Well, it's your job to ensure that I'm compliant." That's hard to do when you have little or no authority to enforce policies.
Remove all controls at the airport. Install a self-destruct in each passengers seat in the plane. No one will dare to make a sudden move. Probably will leave some nasty stains in the seat during really long flights, but I'm sure the stewardess will bring you a pillow double-quick.
As well, we should considering having all lights in the airport powered by weights ("gravity"). Passengers will be forced to cooperate in lifting 900lbs weights 6' feet high so that can see well enough to move around the airport. This new-found collaboration will force terrorists and smugglers to gain a new appreciation for humanity and end their wicked ways. Or at least be too exhausted to care.
Considering the prize money, it would be folks who probably don't have the engineering, scientific or marketing savy necessary to succeed in the real world. Most folks around here could probably come up with a couple cool concepts.
I have one: reduce plastic in packaging. Another one: install motion sensors in office floor at key location and connect them to the lights in grids after 7pm; instant savings for everyone. Plus some cool effects as you work late and go to the washroom, lights just turn on ahead of you.
Wow. Any reason why you guys didn't report the consultant to management? He probably did it before and without being punished will probably do so again.
Sounds like a shady car mechanic who loosens a few bolts when you bring your car in for repairs.
Can they ask to see the contents of a company laptop?
Sure, they can. Any proper company would have some policy or guidelines in regards travelling with company hardware. If they know you're going to Iran or China, they may say that you're not permitted. If they allow you, it's because they are willing to assume all risks that go along having such device under the laws of a foreign country.
We have a policy: don't take our gear outside the country. If they insist, have their VP or director sign off. If the data becomes compromised you will feel the heavy hand of legal affairs (fired, criminally charged and sued for damages). 99.999% then decide not to take the notebook. Only one arrogant fool decided to take his notebook outside the country (to France, where one has to divulge your private encryption key is requested).
Figure out or guess the internal LAN subnet, create your (thousands of) fake TCP-packets and just hit random ports on a server running this. Before you know it everyone will be black-listed and someone has to go locally to the server to clean this up.
Mind you, an IDS will probably see this activity and if there's an IPS it may be able to block the fake packets. Mind you, most places don't have that.
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I had one in a combination with Matrox G400 dual-head. Ran Quake II in OpenGL like a charm. Actually that was the only thing it did.
Best $30 I ever spent back in 98 or so.
Thank you for the explanation. Makes sense now; I wish the article had explained that as well as you did.
Cheers.
I somewhat get Lego Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc ... but Rock Band?
I have both version on the XBox 360, and dozens of DLC sonts, but this is a tad pointless version.
I can already customize my band. So I can't build my own bus, to be honest, I rather play the music game with my friends.
Gee gosh, I guess it's time to shut it all down and start from scratch. This would certainly be the end or very close to it. Internet v2 (or v3, or v4, whatever).
ICANN does not have the best interests of the public in mind with this. This is a recipe for disaster.
God, I'm actually starting to miss Lynx and searching using Veronica ...
First, downloading music is legal in Canada. Consumers pay a levy on CDR media to offset the "losses" from downloading; heck they tried to impose this on MP3 players as well. I think the lobbying groups would probably sacrifice that levy, to get a bigger piece of a larger pie.
Second, it should be opt-IN. As another poster noted, this would be reverse billing, and not legal in Canada.
Personally; I'm fine with the way it is. I download all the music I want and I stopped buying blank CDs years ago.
Agreed. I got RB & RB2 because of the songs that I recognize and thought would be cool to play along. I didn't bother with the 20 free tracks. Like someone said in another forum: "free sh!t".
Mind you, there's been some pearls from the indie list. I like that Main Drag song ...
Thanks for info; that's probably exactly how it happens. In an environment with a captive audience, you issue your own cert and 99.9% of the corporate users won't even notice.
"for more widespread EV certificate deployment"
That's probably being sold by Thawte. And considering that a lot of browsers out there still don't support EV.
Extended validation? When I pay for a digital cert, I expect a high level of validation anyways. Makes you wonder, what level of validation they've been doing for the past few years.
SSL always MITM as one of its exploits. There's a lot of network gear (e.g. Cisco's IronPort) that do just that in order to enforce security policies of an organization.
It is obvious that the best path to maximize its user uptake is to make Hulu an OSS project. With the experience, dedication and level-headness of the millions of developers in the open source community, it will be certain that Hulu would achieve new heights.
Hulu could incorporate new functionality such as streaming MIDI files, Ogg visualation routines, Excel macro optimizations, and banner ad removal for Chrome and Firefox. Perhaps using the GPL v3 as the basic licensing framework would also provide us with the support of Bruce Perens and Bruce Schneier (not related).
Only when we focus our efforts in media content delivery engines can we wrest control of the net neutrality paradigm from DoubleClick.
I second this.
What about all those fine thick client apps that refuse to run unless they have elevated privileges on the workstation?
Re-reading the gp, and he's probably implying he had to log into some account management web tool. Which would provide the access control. Never mind ...
The problem with SSL, is that the URLs aren't (and can't) be encrypted. So any admin sniffing in points between, can get access to your SSL-protected PDF by capturing your SSL URL request. SSL provides security in the transmission, not access control.
Every visible (and not just to human eyes) object reflects radiation. By determining what is reflected, we can deduce what is absorbed. Different elements absorb different frequencies.
Take a look at spectrum analysis and/or Spectroscopy (also see atomic spectroscopy).
Should have been clearer. Flying to Toronto to Buffalo; so it was effectively entering the US. US Customs are on site in Toronto Canada.
If you can't make it work, they won't let you take it on the plane. They always ask me to turn on the notebook.
Happened to me a few years ago. Had a CD player that had its own charging system; ran out of juice. Couldn't get it to work. US Customs said "Naw, not allowed." Had to fill out a form, leave it with them and then pick up when I got back. I guess they're concerned that you have parts that may make a bomb or detonator.
Sorry, meant to say that they should stop issuing any media using the old type of DRM so that they add to their baggage. I guess they have to re-issue existing keys if people move the media to a different system which they might.
Okay, first skip the obvious answer ... it was a rhetorical question.
They don't want to support it. Fair enough, stop issuing anymore of these types of DRM keys.
Now, what would cost them to keep this operational for a few years? 2 dedicated servers? 10? 20? 2 full-time staff for 5 to 10 more years to support this and use the existing datacentre support folks for the basic 24/7 stuff. Let's round it to a nice $2.5 million for 10 years. Not a whole lot for a large company.
What heat will they get from this? This is a PR fiasco for their DRM technology in general and more importantly shows that MS is willing to leave their "followers" high and dry when it suits them. What will these pissed off users do next time? Yeah, get iTunes, pirate, avoid music altogether, and better yet, avoid MS products. Potential revenue loss from 10,000 stranded users? Probably a few million. Think about: these folks PAID for DRM music. Easy sheep to get money from. They're killing their cash cow.
Someone at the MS marketing or client services department needs to get axed.
I have a similar role. I'm pretty much under the CIO and most days have to tow the party line. It's very difficult to get the flaws addressed on some of the flagship project because they are near and dear to the CIO. CYA e-mails and TRAs don't do much when you want to clean things up.
So I'm a few levels below the other VPs and totally outclassed to be quite honest. What has served me well are the relationships I built with the (not chief) Privacy Officer, the organization's Risk Manager, the HR director, the Chief Financial Officer, and the corporate lawyer. I usually send an innoccent looking e-mail asking them for their opinion and before I know it, it bubbles up to their bosses, getting the attention of my IT bosses very quickly. Then things get done, and sometimes even exactly how I want it done.
Now, that doesn't make me very well-liked or a "team player", but allows me to sleep at night and keep my own professional integrity.
I have had meeting with senior executives and explained to them that they would be liable. That didn't go to far: "Well, it's your job to ensure that I'm compliant." That's hard to do when you have little or no authority to enforce policies.
Remove all controls at the airport. Install a self-destruct in each passengers seat in the plane. No one will dare to make a sudden move. Probably will leave some nasty stains in the seat during really long flights, but I'm sure the stewardess will bring you a pillow double-quick.
As well, we should considering having all lights in the airport powered by weights ("gravity"). Passengers will be forced to cooperate in lifting 900lbs weights 6' feet high so that can see well enough to move around the airport. This new-found collaboration will force terrorists and smugglers to gain a new appreciation for humanity and end their wicked ways. Or at least be too exhausted to care.
A monochrome LCD screeen powered by rabid red ants?
Actually, gee gosh, it's a power usage meter of some sort.
Considering the prize money, it would be folks who probably don't have the engineering, scientific or marketing savy necessary to succeed in the real world. Most folks around here could probably come up with a couple cool concepts.
I have one: reduce plastic in packaging. Another one: install motion sensors in office floor at key location and connect them to the lights in grids after 7pm; instant savings for everyone. Plus some cool effects as you work late and go to the washroom, lights just turn on ahead of you.
Wow. Any reason why you guys didn't report the consultant to management? He probably did it before and without being punished will probably do so again.
Sounds like a shady car mechanic who loosens a few bolts when you bring your car in for repairs.
Can they ask to see the contents of a company laptop?
Sure, they can. Any proper company would have some policy or guidelines in regards travelling with company hardware. If they know you're going to Iran or China, they may say that you're not permitted. If they allow you, it's because they are willing to assume all risks that go along having such device under the laws of a foreign country.
We have a policy: don't take our gear outside the country. If they insist, have their VP or director sign off. If the data becomes compromised you will feel the heavy hand of legal affairs (fired, criminally charged and sued for damages). 99.999% then decide not to take the notebook. Only one arrogant fool decided to take his notebook outside the country (to France, where one has to divulge your private encryption key is requested).
Figure out or guess the internal LAN subnet, create your (thousands of) fake TCP-packets and just hit random ports on a server running this. Before you know it everyone will be black-listed and someone has to go locally to the server to clean this up.
Mind you, an IDS will probably see this activity and if there's an IPS it may be able to block the fake packets. Mind you, most places don't have that.
Not sure what they're planning with Jon Stewart.
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Other solid characters: Luke Cage, Mr Terrific, Storm, Firestorm, Falcon, "Black" Lightning, Bronze Tiger, Thunder, Cyborg, Cloak, "Black" Panther, and Spawn.
More here.
In the minority, but still better represented than Latino, Asian, or Aboriginals
It took me a couple of reads of the first paragraph and then seeing the topic, that this was probably MS' XBOX 360.
I thought that "Elite" referred to the classic computer game. Silly me.