Well and, what exactly is wrong with this even if it's true?
fretting that Cinedigm had unwittingly opened a Pandora's box in a bid to get attention for its low-budget release
Isn't that precisely what you're supposed to do for your project? Get attention and as many eyes on the product as possible?
Besides, we're talking about 7m of content here. It's not like they're relying on BitTorrent to sell and distribute a feature film. Though with external mechanisms, that's entirely possible. It's not like we don't have private trackers and such, and guys like Louis CK have demonstrated that a little good faith effort can make non-DRM'd content a financially viable product.
We don't need to hobble our technologies to make certain people money.
No. What you're actually advocating is making legal content inaccessible only to the niche you're in, by exclusion, for the sake of ideology.
DRM will exist in most legitimate channels. That's a fact of life for the next 5+ years, yet. The option right now is whether or not you want it to work everywhere.
Believe it or not, people care about different things.
I use the hell out of my smartphones, but I've yet to need more than a few gig of local storage. I just don't use my phones to hold my entire music and movie collections, even if I have the option.
And given how many smartphones do not have card slots, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it isn't necessarily a make-or-break feature.
If you want one that has stayed funny, I still think South Park is fantastic. I never really thought Family Guy was so great though, so I guess I'm a bit of an odd duck.
If your software is so insanely mission critical (running on XP?) that a driver certification issue is a major legal liability, then you've already built the cost of hw/sw into the cost of doing business, and you pay the $10k for the new stuff.
More than likely, in situations as described by the OP, your customer database isn't so ridiculously fanciful or connected to anything life-saving, and it's actually a non-issue. Test it in compatibility mode, and if that doesn't work, look for a solution that isn't going to come with absurd vendor lock-in.
Sure. I could, of course, always be wrong about what the general public will prefer. I've just experienced having a movie character burp over my shoulder and sneeze in my face, and while the gimmick is funny for a few minutes, it was not something I'd want to subject myself to for hours.
They do this at Disney for a few shows. It's fun for those goofy little features, but I honestly can't see myself choosing to watch a good movie this way.
I wouldn't be surprised if this gets used as a modest, but entirely negotiable bartering chip towards gun banning, since all of those bills recently failed.
this generation doesn't care to preserve the freedom of others in using their computers, the way Stallman wanted
You can complain all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of people want their code to be more open and available than gpl allows, when they think it's appropriate. That their decision.
What exactly would be the outcome of a "GPL-only" world?
A world with less freedom than a world where we can choose the license we want? Why are you so upset by people doing what they want with their own work?
Slashdot was uncharacteristically quick about that one.
I guess Twitter broke the news a full 15 minutes before CNN did. But as a friend put it, social media is absolutely unmatched at breaking the news... but it's a clusterfuck after the first 10 minutes.
Take us back a few years, and the folks at NORAD were learning about 9/11 from CNN.
It used to be you could switch from the immediate source over to the real news to get real, confirmed information. All the news outlets did this time was repost tragedy porn and random tweets. I saw a lot of just wrong info on all the news outlets.
Tech sites, though... they just can't pass on the buffet of page views.
To be fair, it's obviously not even close to the augmented reality demos we're all used to, so it doesn't have to be much more.
I mean, how amazing does the display have to be to show a small little box that says, "Your friend is calling."
If it were supposed to change my movie watching world, or overlay amazon prices on everything in the pantry as you look up and down, it'd have to be doing retina projection or cover your whole face. Nobody was going to bring that to market for $1500.
So yeah, it's to augmented reality what the VirtualBoy was to virtual reality.
This madness with Unity I never have understood, it seems like Canonical decided to merge the desktop and tablet together and I can't deal with the mess.
Wow, you got just about all of it. Also, that might rank up among the most level-headed comments in a potentially disastrous thread, ever. (insert/. joke here, i guess)
4) It is not clear if credit cards were compromised or not. While this "ryan" guy claims they were, we won't know unless the list is published or Linode admits to it.
Yeah all I saw was this:
05:42 [that ryan guy] credit cards were encrypted, sadly both the private and public keys were stored on the webserver so that provides 0 additional security
Though I've been unable to find any specific proof regarding CC#'s. A directory listing for a management console doesn't worry me so much as being able to decrypt cc's.
I guess people will have to wait to hear from linode.
You're probably right, but I think this does have "regular people" implications beyond paparazzi and government spying.
For instance, I imagine most of us have heard about the repeated issues with anti-hunting activists flying UAV's over a hunt club property to record people hunting. At least four times, hunters have just shot the thing down. The activists complain that the hunters shouldn't be able to damage their uav, where the hunters complain that outside parties shouldn't be harassing people engaging in a legal activity on private property. It's obvious to me that this is the kind of extreme assholery that (perhaps prematurely) forces us to consider what should and shouldn't be ok.
As someone with a passing interest in hobby UAV's, I don't want to see this kind of thing turn into a government-only, legal nightmare. As a human being, I don't want people being assholes with this technology, as it has gotten ridiculously easy to operate and very inexpensive. Any jamoke can own and operate a quadcopter with an HD camera.
I don't agree or disagree with Schmidt, but while I don't share his specific personal concerns, it's something that's going to have to be dealt with, somehow.
I hear you, and that's a fair point. But at the same, I think "edge of space" works well enough. We all know what altitudes they're talking about in weather balloon projects.
As far as the general public is concerned, when you're up high enough that you see inky black sky above and you're obviously looking way, way down at the planet... that's close enough for a blurb to use "edge of space", if only as very vague altitude reference.
Those of us that care will look at the listed altitude, and we're familiar enough with these projects to know they're not talking about a more textbook definition. Right?
There's a pretty obvious element the gp is ignoring here, as well. Hobby weather balloon projects couldn't possibly account for more than the very tiniest fraction of waste plastic that ends up in the ocean in the first place. There are very few of them, most of them fall on dry ground, and a fair percentage of those are probably recovered since that's a primary goal in these projects (you want your footage, flight data, etc).
I'm all for being careful about where things go, but in these cases I think we'd have to be more concerned about a popped balloon and cooler falling on moving traffic. I can't think of any way this ends up being a serious threat to marine life.
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Well and, what exactly is wrong with this even if it's true?
fretting that Cinedigm had unwittingly opened a Pandora's box in a bid to get attention for its low-budget release
Isn't that precisely what you're supposed to do for your project? Get attention and as many eyes on the product as possible?
Besides, we're talking about 7m of content here. It's not like they're relying on BitTorrent to sell and distribute a feature film. Though with external mechanisms, that's entirely possible. It's not like we don't have private trackers and such, and guys like Louis CK have demonstrated that a little good faith effort can make non-DRM'd content a financially viable product.
This is why we can't have nice things.
We don't need to hobble our technologies to make certain people money.
No. What you're actually advocating is making legal content inaccessible only to the niche you're in, by exclusion, for the sake of ideology.
DRM will exist in most legitimate channels. That's a fact of life for the next 5+ years, yet. The option right now is whether or not you want it to work everywhere.
I'm genuinely curious, since that was about the worst sales pitch ever, what makes a wholly inferior smartphone from '09 the best phone in '13.
Believe it or not, people care about different things.
I use the hell out of my smartphones, but I've yet to need more than a few gig of local storage. I just don't use my phones to hold my entire music and movie collections, even if I have the option.
And given how many smartphones do not have card slots, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it isn't necessarily a make-or-break feature.
Nobody has to look too far to understand why the Simpsons is still on. They told us...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZwgu8_b0Vw
If you want one that has stayed funny, I still think South Park is fantastic. I never really thought Family Guy was so great though, so I guess I'm a bit of an odd duck.
You can probably count on one hand all the directly life critical software running as a regular app on XP, in the whole world.
It's very unlikely there's anything at the eye doctor's office that falls in that category. This is a case of simple vendor lock-in. That's all.
If your software is so insanely mission critical (running on XP?) that a driver certification issue is a major legal liability, then you've already built the cost of hw/sw into the cost of doing business, and you pay the $10k for the new stuff.
More than likely, in situations as described by the OP, your customer database isn't so ridiculously fanciful or connected to anything life-saving, and it's actually a non-issue. Test it in compatibility mode, and if that doesn't work, look for a solution that isn't going to come with absurd vendor lock-in.
Sure. I could, of course, always be wrong about what the general public will prefer. I've just experienced having a movie character burp over my shoulder and sneeze in my face, and while the gimmick is funny for a few minutes, it was not something I'd want to subject myself to for hours.
But yeah that's just me.
No love for the Iron Man series? I'll admit it, I love 'em.
They do this at Disney for a few shows. It's fun for those goofy little features, but I honestly can't see myself choosing to watch a good movie this way.
I wouldn't be surprised if this gets used as a modest, but entirely negotiable bartering chip towards gun banning, since all of those bills recently failed.
Indeed. And I'd think everyone would realize that a $100 bet for Stephen Hawking is not an "all in" proposition, meant to force a weak position.
It's obviously just the sort of more-or-less inconsequential thing they do for giggles.
this generation doesn't care to preserve the freedom of others in using their computers, the way Stallman wanted
You can complain all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of people want their code to be more open and available than gpl allows, when they think it's appropriate. That their decision.
What exactly would be the outcome of a "GPL-only" world?
A world with less freedom than a world where we can choose the license we want? Why are you so upset by people doing what they want with their own work?
Also:
http://phonesat.org/packets.php
http://open.nasa.gov/plan/phonesat/
More details at both. I'm thinking it'll be fun to catch some of the packets as they fly by.
Slashdot was uncharacteristically quick about that one.
I guess Twitter broke the news a full 15 minutes before CNN did. But as a friend put it, social media is absolutely unmatched at breaking the news... but it's a clusterfuck after the first 10 minutes.
Take us back a few years, and the folks at NORAD were learning about 9/11 from CNN.
It used to be you could switch from the immediate source over to the real news to get real, confirmed information. All the news outlets did this time was repost tragedy porn and random tweets. I saw a lot of just wrong info on all the news outlets.
Tech sites, though... they just can't pass on the buffet of page views.
To be fair, it's obviously not even close to the augmented reality demos we're all used to, so it doesn't have to be much more.
I mean, how amazing does the display have to be to show a small little box that says, "Your friend is calling."
If it were supposed to change my movie watching world, or overlay amazon prices on everything in the pantry as you look up and down, it'd have to be doing retina projection or cover your whole face. Nobody was going to bring that to market for $1500.
So yeah, it's to augmented reality what the VirtualBoy was to virtual reality.
This madness with Unity I never have understood, it seems like Canonical decided to merge the desktop and tablet together and I can't deal with the mess.
Sound familiar?
Wow, you got just about all of it. Also, that might rank up among the most level-headed comments in a potentially disastrous thread, ever. (insert /. joke here, i guess)
Nicely done. Really.
Damn you. I'm still missing "synergistic".
4) It is not clear if credit cards were compromised or not. While this "ryan" guy claims they were, we won't know unless the list is published or Linode admits to it.
Yeah all I saw was this:
05:42 [that ryan guy] credit cards were encrypted, sadly both the private and public keys were stored on the webserver so that provides 0 additional security
Though I've been unable to find any specific proof regarding CC#'s. A directory listing for a management console doesn't worry me so much as being able to decrypt cc's.
I guess people will have to wait to hear from linode.
Or a gas line lit up and vented in two different locations. Wait and see, no point in speculating.
That was my initial thought. Sounds like they located two devices though, and are looking for a third.
You're probably right, but I think this does have "regular people" implications beyond paparazzi and government spying.
For instance, I imagine most of us have heard about the repeated issues with anti-hunting activists flying UAV's over a hunt club property to record people hunting. At least four times, hunters have just shot the thing down. The activists complain that the hunters shouldn't be able to damage their uav, where the hunters complain that outside parties shouldn't be harassing people engaging in a legal activity on private property. It's obvious to me that this is the kind of extreme assholery that (perhaps prematurely) forces us to consider what should and shouldn't be ok.
http://www.suasnews.com/2012/11/19719/activists-drone-shot-out-of-the-sky-for-fourth-time/
As someone with a passing interest in hobby UAV's, I don't want to see this kind of thing turn into a government-only, legal nightmare. As a human being, I don't want people being assholes with this technology, as it has gotten ridiculously easy to operate and very inexpensive. Any jamoke can own and operate a quadcopter with an HD camera.
I don't agree or disagree with Schmidt, but while I don't share his specific personal concerns, it's something that's going to have to be dealt with, somehow.
I hear you, and that's a fair point. But at the same, I think "edge of space" works well enough. We all know what altitudes they're talking about in weather balloon projects.
As far as the general public is concerned, when you're up high enough that you see inky black sky above and you're obviously looking way, way down at the planet... that's close enough for a blurb to use "edge of space", if only as very vague altitude reference.
Those of us that care will look at the listed altitude, and we're familiar enough with these projects to know they're not talking about a more textbook definition. Right?
There's a pretty obvious element the gp is ignoring here, as well. Hobby weather balloon projects couldn't possibly account for more than the very tiniest fraction of waste plastic that ends up in the ocean in the first place. There are very few of them, most of them fall on dry ground, and a fair percentage of those are probably recovered since that's a primary goal in these projects (you want your footage, flight data, etc).
I'm all for being careful about where things go, but in these cases I think we'd have to be more concerned about a popped balloon and cooler falling on moving traffic. I can't think of any way this ends up being a serious threat to marine life.