It's not clear from the articles....Is this guy claiming that the virus automatically downloaded the images themselves or that the virus opened up a back door for someone else to use his PC as a storage facility for their images?
The only thing that surprises me is that they have been so slow to implement it. The government already has the equivalent of this for phone tapping:
Virtually all phone calls (cellular and land line) in America run through certain switches controlled by Verint and they are always used by law enforcement for wiretapping (and are constantly accused of abusing their authority). (Google for Comverse, the company's name before the recent change to Verint.)
Here's some info on a related game that is being released. The most interesting thing is that the same CGI being used for the movie (and the trailer you just saw) is supposedly being used in the game so it's supposed to be the closest correlation between movie graphics and game graphics ever.
Now that Debian is "Trusted" (like everyone else in the freaking industry picking up the same buzzword), it's time to remember Anti-Trustworthy Computing.
I used to work for Intel in the Fab automation software department and I find it hard to believe they're can justify investing this much to start up new fabrication plants for an unproven product.
Usually, with initial chip production at this scale, they lease out fab production time from other companies. Only huge production plans (like Pentiums or PowerPCs) generally justify building entire new Fabs. Plus, with the world economy slow, there's plenty of capacity at the world's fabs. Here's a good article on fab capacity
More important than turning the minute vibrations of the device itself into energy would be to turn the vibrations of the wearer in motion into energy... Just like those little devices that measure calories burned or distance jogged based on the bouncing effect of the person running or walking.
The problem I have with there being no "show-stopping problems" is that they are white-washing the risk away. There is inherent risk in space flight and the public is stupid if they think that it's now somehow safe (until they are shocked when the next O-Ring or Leading-Edge-of-the-Wing fails.)
isn't vnc going to come out with a client for the pocketpc or palm and then this won't be necessary anyway? Why remotely access your data when you can remotely access your desktop?
This has to be a hoax for no other reason than it would be pretty much impossible to turn $800 into $350 million in a short period of time, no matter what you knew. Even Hillary Clinton only turned $1000 into $100,000 and that took a year.
Maybe's he actually a time-zone traveller who travelled 2256 miles (and 4 time zones) from the west coast. The whole thing sures smells of the wacky tobacy....
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She has already suffered because of her affiliation with DoubleClick:
"DoubleClick's appointment in particular tends to make privacy advocates suspicious, since the company's selling point is using logging data generated as users wander around the Net, to serve ads targeted to their interests.
The company's new chief privacy officer, Nuala O'Connor, appearing at the same conference, found herself bearing the brunt of years of resentment against her company. The logical question: what do these people actually do?"
and she deserves more...
Ad- and Spy-ware are the worst thing to happen online in the last 2 years and it just keeps getting worse...
Here's a good analysis on eugenics from salon.com from 3+ years ago.
Good information, but also important is the fact that things haven't changed much in the last 3 years in spite of everyone's fear of things moving too fast for the ethical consequences to be considered.
yeah, but how many of those are dial-up and how many are broadband?
Consider this:
1. When broadband support was first announced 3 years ago (after replaytv had been in business 2 years), the reasoning behind it was that over 85% of replaytv customers had broadband access at home (cable/dsl/isdn)
2. All of the devices since then have focused on broadband (any model 4000+)
I'm assuming that, at most, the dial up need is in the low 10's of thousands, not in the 100's of thousands
I've been a replaytv user for 3+ years and considering how much effort it takes to support the subscriptions, I'm assuming they will honor the lifetime subscriptions to keep customers loyal.
I mean, how much effort could it take to download a bunch of schedules from tvguide or whoever, encrypt them into the proprietary replaytv format, and put them on an FTP site. For the broadband users, they're done. For dialup, they need a simple agreement with a national ISP to support a few thousand 5 minute calls every night.
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It's not clear from the articles....Is this guy claiming that the virus automatically downloaded the images themselves or that the virus opened up a back door for someone else to use his PC as a storage facility for their images?
The only thing that surprises me is that they have been so slow to implement it. The government already has the equivalent of this for phone tapping:
Virtually all phone calls (cellular and land line) in America run through certain switches controlled by Verint and they are always used by law enforcement for wiretapping (and are constantly accused of abusing their authority). (Google for Comverse, the company's name before the recent change to Verint.)
URL for the seminar: http://www.w3.org/Talks/CompSem93/Overview.html
Here's a history provided by w3. (Note: mozilla alpha released in February 1993. Already 50 HTTP servers in existence.)
Here's a really cool seminar given at CERN in Feb 1993 on the potential of the web browser.
Isn't this review a violation of the DMCA?
I'm not joking...if you take the wording of the law literally?
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Here's some info on a related game that is being released. The most interesting thing is that the same CGI being used for the movie (and the trailer you just saw) is supposedly being used in the game so it's supposed to be the closest correlation between movie graphics and game graphics ever.
Now that Debian is "Trusted" (like everyone else in the freaking industry picking up the same buzzword), it's time to remember Anti-Trustworthy Computing.
I used to work for Intel in the Fab automation software department and I find it hard to believe they're can justify investing this much to start up new fabrication plants for an unproven product.
Usually, with initial chip production at this scale, they lease out fab production time from other companies. Only huge production plans (like Pentiums or PowerPCs) generally justify building entire new Fabs. Plus, with the world economy slow, there's plenty of capacity at the world's fabs. Here's a good article on fab capacity
More important than turning the minute vibrations of the device itself into energy would be to turn the vibrations of the wearer in motion into energy... Just like those little devices that measure calories burned or distance jogged based on the bouncing effect of the person running or walking.
This is a good example of such a device.
Turning the device's vibrations into energy is kind of stupid because you'll always run out of juice eventually...
Anyone have any idea how many of these backlogged patents are stupid attempts to cash-in on common ideas?
Like this patent on linking...
or this patent on floating banners...
The problem I have with there being no "show-stopping problems" is that they are white-washing the risk away. There is inherent risk in space flight and the public is stupid if they think that it's now somehow safe (until they are shocked when the next O-Ring or Leading-Edge-of-the-Wing fails.)
Here's a good analysis from 1996 about the Challenger disaster and inherent risk that people need to accept.
The actual researchers on this project. And a video on the air quality experiment with the palm using gps and air quality sensors to track data.
Here's a 2-year old article on kids being taught to use palm devices to measure smog and air pollution levels.
More info that Drudge doesn't mention...
isn't vnc going to come out with a client for the pocketpc or palm and then this won't be necessary anyway? Why remotely access your data when you can remotely access your desktop?
This has to be a hoax for no other reason than it would be pretty much impossible to turn $800 into $350 million in a short period of time, no matter what you knew. Even Hillary Clinton only turned $1000 into $100,000 and that took a year.
Maybe's he actually a time-zone traveller who travelled 2256 miles (and 4 time zones) from the west coast. The whole thing sures smells of the wacky tobacy....
Here's the actual FTC announcement...
She has already suffered because of her affiliation with DoubleClick:
"DoubleClick's appointment in particular tends to make privacy advocates suspicious, since the company's selling point is using logging data generated as users wander around the Net, to serve ads targeted to their interests.
The company's new chief privacy officer, Nuala O'Connor, appearing at the same conference, found herself bearing the brunt of years of resentment against her company. The logical question: what do these people actually do?"
and she deserves more...
Ad- and Spy-ware are the worst thing to happen online in the last 2 years and it just keeps getting worse...
Here's a good analysis on eugenics from salon.com from 3+ years ago.
Good information, but also important is the fact that things haven't changed much in the last 3 years in spite of everyone's fear of things moving too fast for the ethical consequences to be considered.
yeah, but how many of those are dial-up and how many are broadband?
Consider this:
1. When broadband support was first announced 3 years ago (after replaytv had been in business 2 years), the reasoning behind it was that over 85% of replaytv customers had broadband access at home (cable/dsl/isdn)
2. All of the devices since then have focused on broadband (any model 4000+)
I'm assuming that, at most, the dial up need is in the low 10's of thousands, not in the 100's of thousands
I've been a replaytv user for 3+ years and considering how much effort it takes to support the subscriptions, I'm assuming they will honor the lifetime subscriptions to keep customers loyal.
I mean, how much effort could it take to download a bunch of schedules from tvguide or whoever, encrypt them into the proprietary replaytv format, and put them on an FTP site. For the broadband users, they're done. For dialup, they need a simple agreement with a national ISP to support a few thousand 5 minute calls every night.
(Mandatory mention for every article about remote control)
The world's greatest remote.
Is it going to cost more than the current PS2?
Will the PS2 API be upgraded to include support for the hardware enhancements?
Will there be new games that only work on the new PS2?
Will PS2 Linux need significant work to run on the new PS2?
Will the new PS2 play VCD? SVCD? DivX? XviD? XVCD? XSVCD? CVD?
Just to point out the most important line in the last article:
Security through obscurity alone helps no one