I would be willing to bet a large sum of money that Tivo is going to try its best to encrypt the movie stream and you will probably have to hack your Tivo to be able to offload the movie off your Tivo and decrypt it.
Very possible. But it will be trivial to take the video out and run it to a MythTV box to archive the movies.
Hire him, but log his activities to a machine he doesn't have the skills to crack. Periodic reviews of those logs would then be appropriate.
If you can't trust him/her you shouldn't hire them. I doubt this person has such terrific skills that it would be worth paying someone else to babysit them and make sure they're being honest.
I heard Kerry say if he were president, he would take a tough-guy stance with OPEC and pressure them to release more oil.
Good luck with that plan.
No kidding.
Maybe he'll get them to release enough to balace out the $0.50 / gallon gas tax increase he wants to impose (yeah, right). I'm sure that will really help the poor and cause the cost of goods to drop since EVERYTHING is shipped by truck eventually.
The way I see it, we had many more years of prosperity under Clinton than under Bush. Period. It might have sucked towards the end of Clinton, but it's sucked during Bush's entire presidency.
Correct, because the economy was strong after 12 years of Reagan and Bush Sr. Clinton put the economy on a crash course resulting in a recession that began before Bush got in office. It's taken him most of his term to correct Clintons mess.
It would be a miracle of Puget Sound Energy could keep power running for 6 months straight. No power, no long uptime. Not many home users, or small busineses, have their systems hooked up to a UPS and a generator.
A study by crime reduction charity NACRO found the technology reduced crime by only 3 percent to 4 percent while better street lighting led to a 20 percent reduction. The Home Office is conducting its own evaluation.
I'm sure they're a big help in solving crime after its been comitted, but at least in the UK cameras don't seem to be much of a deterant to crime.
Sorry for posting the same link in two replies, but it was more appropriate to follow this post.
Some people are concerned about big brother invading their privacy but Mayor Daley says the cameras will be located in public areas.
So what does that mean, I can't have privacy in a public place?
You can't have privacy or security. England has done the same thing, installed 4.2 million cameras, and according to this article:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/08/31/constants urveillance.ap/index.html cameras only drop crime by 3-4% while installing lights dropped crime by 20%.
It would help some, but unless they also ban using laptops and allowing people to bring them in and out of the office it's not going to stop someone from taking confidential and proprietary information out of the office.
Either that, or the complete absence of terrorist strikes in the US since 9/11 indicates -- not that we are fighting "terror" and winning -- but that there is no terrorist threat to the United States of America.
You don't suppose that might be because the US military destroyed a huge terrorist stronghold and one of their major sources of funding, do you?
The web may not be but browers are used for mission critical applications on internal networks all the time therefore are not relying on a public infastructure full of infected and unpatched computers operated by people who didn't realise they needed to install things on their computers to make them keep working.
I'd tend to agree. My site gets about 25,000 unique visitors / month and while it's showing an increase in Netscape 7 traffic it's no where near 15%. Last month Netscape 7x was about 2.5%. I too use Mozilla when writing my pages and test them with IE after getting it looking the way I want.
Here are the top 10 browsers at my site for August, everything else has a fraction of a percent. These are based off visits not page views.
1 Internet Explorer 6.x 77.69%
2 Internet Explorer 5.x 7.81%
3 Netscape 6.x 5.23%
4 Netscape 7.x 3.08%
5 Others 1.73%
6 Opera 1.00%
7 Netscape 3.x 0.86%
8 Netscape 4.x 0.69%
9 MSN TV (WebTV) 0.62%
10 Internet Explorer 4.x 0.48%
Yes, AOL owns Netscape, but they signed an agreement with MS to use IE. Don't ask me why. I think MS gave them a whole mound of cash, but that's just speculation.
It was reported months ago that MS paid $750 million to AOL to settle the browser antitrust suit, and they agreed to use IE for 7 years.
Google results might be skewed slightly in favor of non MS browsers, I'd think CNN would have a more neutral sampling and would be large enough to be statisticaly significant.
Yeah, people bitch about high insurance rates, but when an acceptable(?) solution comes around they seem to balk at it. After all, if you want a low rate, why not prove it? Is Big Brother/privacy concerns worth the $?
Who says having the insurance company spy on your driving habits is an acceptable solution?
No accidents in 800,000 miles should be proof enough that I'm not a dangerous driver. Yes, eight hundred thousand, I used to drive for a living.
I would venture that most people who have SUV's can't even drive them properly
No more than people who drive anything else can't drive them properly. There are more than a few idiots driving every make and model of car on the road who should never have been issued a license.
Driving 80 mph "as the crow flies" would cause me to use less gas and get to work 5 minutes faster with less congestion of the single lane onramp to I-87.
You'd only save 5 minutes? If I could go 80 mph as the crow files my commute would be cut down by 2/3 saving me a good 30-40 minutes each way.
Don't worry, if it sucks anywhere near as much as Turbines last release, AC2, it won't be fun and won't be addictive at all.
After their last fiasco I'm not holding my breath for future Turbine products.
Aside from that, there's always room for yet another MMORPG. More competition means the existing companies have to constantly improve to keep their customers or sooner or later a significantly better game will come out and they'll lose their marketshare.
Even if it's a pure web service, why do you assume that you are required to use Microsoft's server? Ever hear of an intranet where you run your own web apps?
Because this is Microsoft we're talking about and they're not likely to write a web service that runs on something other than IIS.
Or use the money learning how to read, write and basic math.
He says his device can find a market in developing countries, particularly those with large populations of people who cannot read, because it can be controlled by a simple TV remote control and can function as a television, telephone and videophone."
How much use are they going to get out of this appliance without being able to read? So they'll have an expensive way to watch movies, but they still won't be able to use it to do research that might help them improve themselves.
Many people don't want to spring the $200+ it costs to buy windows XP professional (XP home is a joke).
You're right on both counts. But people can spend $299 and get an entirely new 2.7ghz+ machine with CD burner and all the bells and whistles and WinXP.
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Very possible. But it will be trivial to take the video out and run it to a MythTV box to archive the movies.
They will do exactly the same as religion will do for you: absolutely nothing.
Proove it. Otherwise you're just saying your theory is better than his.
If you can't trust him/her you shouldn't hire them. I doubt this person has such terrific skills that it would be worth paying someone else to babysit them and make sure they're being honest.
Good luck with that plan.
No kidding.
Maybe he'll get them to release enough to balace out the $0.50 / gallon gas tax increase he wants to impose (yeah, right). I'm sure that will really help the poor and cause the cost of goods to drop since EVERYTHING is shipped by truck eventually.
Correct, because the economy was strong after 12 years of Reagan and Bush Sr. Clinton put the economy on a crash course resulting in a recession that began before Bush got in office. It's taken him most of his term to correct Clintons mess.
It would be a miracle of Puget Sound Energy could keep power running for 6 months straight. No power, no long uptime. Not many home users, or small busineses, have their systems hooked up to a UPS and a generator.
These stats cover about 40,000 unique IPs, around 2 million hits 400,000 page views on my site:
Of course he can, he's in the procastination phase, not the get it done tomorrow phase. :)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/08/31/constants urveillance.ap/index.html
I'm sure they're a big help in solving crime after its been comitted, but at least in the UK cameras don't seem to be much of a deterant to crime.
Sorry for posting the same link in two replies, but it was more appropriate to follow this post.
You can't have privacy or security. England has done the same thing, installed 4.2 million cameras, and according to this article: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/08/31/constants urveillance.ap/index.html cameras only drop crime by 3-4% while installing lights dropped crime by 20%.
It would help some, but unless they also ban using laptops and allowing people to bring them in and out of the office it's not going to stop someone from taking confidential and proprietary information out of the office.
You don't suppose that might be because the US military destroyed a huge terrorist stronghold and one of their major sources of funding, do you?
The web may not be but browers are used for mission critical applications on internal networks all the time therefore are not relying on a public infastructure full of infected and unpatched computers operated by people who didn't realise they needed to install things on their computers to make them keep working.
Here are the top 10 browsers at my site for August, everything else has a fraction of a percent. These are based off visits not page views.
1 Internet Explorer 6.x 77.69%
2 Internet Explorer 5.x 7.81%
3 Netscape 6.x 5.23%
4 Netscape 7.x 3.08%
5 Others 1.73%
6 Opera 1.00%
7 Netscape 3.x 0.86%
8 Netscape 4.x 0.69%
9 MSN TV (WebTV) 0.62%
10 Internet Explorer 4.x 0.48%
It was reported months ago that MS paid $750 million to AOL to settle the browser antitrust suit, and they agreed to use IE for 7 years.
http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/29/technology/microso ft/
Google results might be skewed slightly in favor of non MS browsers, I'd think CNN would have a more neutral sampling and would be large enough to be statisticaly significant.
Who says having the insurance company spy on your driving habits is an acceptable solution?
No accidents in 800,000 miles should be proof enough that I'm not a dangerous driver. Yes, eight hundred thousand, I used to drive for a living.
No more than people who drive anything else can't drive them properly. There are more than a few idiots driving every make and model of car on the road who should never have been issued a license.
You'd only save 5 minutes? If I could go 80 mph as the crow files my commute would be cut down by 2/3 saving me a good 30-40 minutes each way.
Go to Las Vegas, get a cab, tell him to take you to Little Darlins...bring lots of cash. :)
After their last fiasco I'm not holding my breath for future Turbine products.
Aside from that, there's always room for yet another MMORPG. More competition means the existing companies have to constantly improve to keep their customers or sooner or later a significantly better game will come out and they'll lose their marketshare.
Because this is Microsoft we're talking about and they're not likely to write a web service that runs on something other than IIS.
There has been overhead lights long before there were globes ore electricity. Think torchs and candles.
You're right on both counts. But people can spend $299 and get an entirely new 2.7ghz+ machine with CD burner and all the bells and whistles and WinXP.