I used to eat those! Wow. Look at all the good things the ban on styrofoam burger packaging brought to an end...Of course, you could just go to wendys and watch them MAKE your burger, which would have something related to actual tomato on it, which would also stay cool/hot for the amount of time you need to eat it.
I think we'd all feel a bit safer if they went ahead and leaked all the source for all the different machines.
Who wants their vote to be tallied by a black box? This is too complex for buerocracy crippled government oversight. We have a right to know exactly how our vote is being recorded!
Heh. Maybe their beam weapons will shoot incoherent light. Of course, I haven't seen a coherent plan out of the military since we started in Iraq, so maybe its just a sign of the times.
Yea, and look how effective it's been against the drug cartels. Regardless of whether it's legal or moral, the reality of the situation is that people love it, and that their efforts so far to stop it have done little but stir up a huge wave of ill will and bad press. A new paradigm will come out of all this crap, and, the way it looks right now, it isn't going to be coming from the RIAA.
Php and Java aren't the same kind of language, so why do people insist on trying to compare them? Php works great for a lot of applications, but expanding its function base is a fricking nightmare, and you're dealing with a certain amount of compile time overhead on every page view.
With Java you have easy access to a lot of OOP features that are very difficult to implement in Php, and the function base is simple to expand. Yea it's big and beefy, but that's what you need sometimes.
They're both just tools. Use the one that's appropriate. People scream about Java being bad for small pages. What kind of idiot is using Java on a small page? Conversely I've never even heard the Java vs Php agrument for a big site--it's always Java vs VB, and that's another no brainer.
The RIAA screws the artists. They steal their songs, they pay them a tiny fraction of what they make from them, and they exercise creative control through the use of unfair contracts.
The RIAA screws the retailers. This is self evident, but in case you're not observant, the CD costs the record store around 85% as much as they sell it for. They dump products on the market in the forms of "deals" in order to bump up CD sales and manipulate music charts.
The RIAA screws the public. We buy overpriced CDs for which we have no actual legal rights. Another industry would have been hit for price fixing, but since technically the RIAA isn't a company, they technically aren't a monopoly. We get treated like criminals for violating the monopoly they technically don't have.
And we're ripping THEM off? God forbid the world evolves and this 19th century shit they're trying to pull doesn't fly anymore. 110 years ago you'd have been trying to stop Ford from building his first car, so as not to put the horse people out of business.
What's happening right now is a direct result of their exploitive business practices. People are done whining about it, and they're making their displeasure felt in the only way that counts. Now the whiners are on the other side of the fence, and we're happy to tell you all the same thing you told us: Deal with it, because there's not a fucking thing you can do about it.
"Microsoft sent me a patch in my email yesterday, and after I installed it it ate my antivirus and made my whole computer work bad." ---My mother-in-law, after meeting our friend Swen.
Oh yea, what a good idea. Lets get people used to clicking on things that say patch. How about just teaching them to be responsible users instead of feeding them this crap that if only they install all patches, everything will be fine.
I used to do work for a telco (cable), and about the only thing they're CAPABLE of monitoring is usage. We had problems auditing for signal piracy, more less software piracy.
No doubt the phone companies are more on the ball, but even then I'd be surprised if they could tell what exactly was coming down the pipe without copying it and reassembling it themselves. Probably the most they could do (economically) is flag high use addresses for the RIAA to check.
Windows automatically reboots itself now. Explorer crashes, then restarts itself. Granted this is progress, but lets get rid of the whole crashing thing, eh?
I've got a really nice XP Pro box which dual boots into Linux. XP claims I've got some sort of unspecified "Driver" problem (All signed drivers, mind you) which most people think is related to memory, though my memory tests fine. Damn box goes down more often than a nickel whore. I'm about to have a really nice linux box with virtual pc on it. This crap is intolerable.
Oh yea, one more thing. In order to see the blue screen on the new Win boxes, you have to turn off the "Automatically reboot on crash" "feature".
Where would Windows be today without CTRL-ALT-DEL? I guess they would have had to add a hard reset button to all windows keyboards, which would then be in competition with the letter "e" for the key that wears out the fastest.
The beauty of the traditional firewall is it's simplicity. IPTables hasn't been exploited in forever, except through user error. It's reliable and secure, and easy to understand/debug.
Application firewalls and filters are complex. To me that means more can go wrong, more holes can be found. And they have to be super effective, if they're a line of defense. Sounds nasty, like those stupid.NET commercials "1 Degree of seperation between you and your customer!" 1 degree? In what fairyland? Do they WANT to be hacked?
For my money, leave the perimiter boxes. Defense in depth is a great strategy. They will get some, but they won't get them all.
If mobs are smarter, then why is Ahnold the frontrunner in California?
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I think, most times, secrecy is bad for the idea itself. I mean, if you share what you think with everyone, it could turn into something amazing through the efforts of many.
Of course, if it does, you won't make any money off it, no one will know your name, your kids will go to community college, and you'll die embittered and alone.
This society punishes selflessness in many ways, because there are many people who are waiting to turn your selflessness into their profit.
I agree that a subtle change in the film would be both effective, and untracable. I said that above. A digital watermark doesn't even have to be so blatant as something that could actually be SEEN...It could be something that could only be found by a programmer who already knows what he's looking for.
This would be fine if you only had to make 2 copies. But they need hundreds, and they'd all have to be unique. And, in a digital format, it's not a simple matter of clipping in another piece of film. The whole piece has to be re-rendered...or at least re-encoded. This will be HUGELY EXPENSIVE AND TIME CONSUMING.
If they want to do it, fine, but I doubt that would be their first option. Much cheaper to make people go to the theater. They're really only providing these copies as a courtesy.
Seems pretty pointless. Might as well chisel yer data on rocks, call them packets, and throw them at each other. You'll have the same bandwidth. And lessons that cause pain stand out in your mind...Of course, the same effect might be achieved if he's a bad enough bongo player.
The biggest problem with watermarking (Like this) is that it increases the production cost hugely.
Every movie released would have to be seperately encoded. If they just added the mark to some area (say right at the beginning of the disk) where there is no data, and hence no need to encode a seperate value into the data, then it could easily be stripped out by a pirate.
There are a lot of people who would be using this tech already, if there was a cheap/easy way to do it. Still might be cool to put a non-unique mark in the data you're sending out to the screeners to make sure that's where your leaks are coming from. I think it's just as likely that some guy down in the rendering room is just quietly burning himself a copy to take home with him.
I mean, if you're Microsoft, you've got a thick skin toward bad press.
I imagine it was just some chickenshit middle management type over at @stake who wet himself when his little pet security project churned out a ton of anti-microsoft press.
It's "funny" because they are so impossibly petty. The judge (who wrote the full text the little blurbs came out of) obviously just wants to be playing golf and not listening to these two sets of morons arguing about something that should, in a just world, be sent to the fricking morons at the patent office to explain.
People are already doing it! Your name is, unless you're amish, zipping through dozens of computers a day. ATM, credit card, all your bills, those stupid discount cards from the grocery store...Your cable company can monitor all the way down to what volume you watch things at. Your ISP knows all the pr0n you download, all the emails you send, all the pages you read.
And you worry about something like an electronic payment device for the subway? Worry when they don't NEED that anymore. And that day will come; it's the dark side of the information age.
Twice as many air conditioners/heaters, lots of buildings using more power, lots of bosses filling whole auditoria with hot air--the heat has to go somewhere.
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I always kind of assumed they did stuff like this. The capability is there, and its all controlled from their end. Seems logical.
I'm not a major privacy fiend, but I'd never use this sort of service.
I used to eat those! Wow. Look at all the good things the ban on styrofoam burger packaging brought to an end...Of course, you could just go to wendys and watch them MAKE your burger, which would have something related to actual tomato on it, which would also stay cool/hot for the amount of time you need to eat it.
I don't think I know anyone who's ever seen a tomato on a McDonalds hamburger.
I think we'd all feel a bit safer if they went ahead and leaked all the source for all the different machines.
Who wants their vote to be tallied by a black box? This is too complex for buerocracy crippled government oversight. We have a right to know exactly how our vote is being recorded!
Just my opinion.
Heh. Maybe their beam weapons will shoot incoherent light. Of course, I haven't seen a coherent plan out of the military since we started in Iraq, so maybe its just a sign of the times.
Yea, and look how effective it's been against the drug cartels. Regardless of whether it's legal or moral, the reality of the situation is that people love it, and that their efforts so far to stop it have done little but stir up a huge wave of ill will and bad press. A new paradigm will come out of all this crap, and, the way it looks right now, it isn't going to be coming from the RIAA.
Php and Java aren't the same kind of language, so why do people insist on trying to compare them? Php works great for a lot of applications, but expanding its function base is a fricking nightmare, and you're dealing with a certain amount of compile time overhead on every page view.
With Java you have easy access to a lot of OOP features that are very difficult to implement in Php, and the function base is simple to expand. Yea it's big and beefy, but that's what you need sometimes.
They're both just tools. Use the one that's appropriate. People scream about Java being bad for small pages. What kind of idiot is using Java on a small page? Conversely I've never even heard the Java vs Php agrument for a big site--it's always Java vs VB, and that's another no brainer.
Just my opinion.
The RIAA screws the artists.
They steal their songs, they pay them a tiny fraction of what they make from them, and they exercise creative control through the use of unfair contracts.
The RIAA screws the retailers.
This is self evident, but in case you're not observant, the CD costs the record store around 85% as much as they sell it for. They dump products on the market in the forms of "deals" in order to bump up CD sales and manipulate music charts.
The RIAA screws the public.
We buy overpriced CDs for which we have no actual legal rights. Another industry would have been hit for price fixing, but since technically the RIAA isn't a company, they technically aren't a monopoly. We get treated like criminals for violating the monopoly they technically don't have.
And we're ripping THEM off? God forbid the world evolves and this 19th century shit they're trying to pull doesn't fly anymore. 110 years ago you'd have been trying to stop Ford from building his first car, so as not to put the horse people out of business.
What's happening right now is a direct result of their exploitive business practices. People are done whining about it, and they're making their displeasure felt in the only way that counts. Now the whiners are on the other side of the fence, and we're happy to tell you all the same thing you told us: Deal with it, because there's not a fucking thing you can do about it.
Just my opinion.
"Microsoft sent me a patch in my email yesterday, and after I installed it it ate my antivirus and made my whole computer work bad."
---My mother-in-law, after meeting our friend Swen.
Oh yea, what a good idea. Lets get people used to clicking on things that say patch. How about just teaching them to be responsible users instead of feeding them this crap that if only they install all patches, everything will be fine.
This is obscene. Manson didn't get this harsh a penalty. We all hate spam, but come on! At least limit the jail term to one lifetime.
I used to do work for a telco (cable), and about the only thing they're CAPABLE of monitoring is usage. We had problems auditing for signal piracy, more less software piracy.
No doubt the phone companies are more on the ball, but even then I'd be surprised if they could tell what exactly was coming down the pipe without copying it and reassembling it themselves. Probably the most they could do (economically) is flag high use addresses for the RIAA to check.
Bah. The way the economy is right now, I'm almost for this, just for the free room and board.
Windows automatically reboots itself now. Explorer crashes, then restarts itself. Granted this is progress, but lets get rid of the whole crashing thing, eh?
I've got a really nice XP Pro box which dual boots into Linux. XP claims I've got some sort of unspecified "Driver" problem (All signed drivers, mind you) which most people think is related to memory, though my memory tests fine. Damn box goes down more often than a nickel whore. I'm about to have a really nice linux box with virtual pc on it. This crap is intolerable.
Oh yea, one more thing. In order to see the blue screen on the new Win boxes, you have to turn off the "Automatically reboot on crash" "feature".
Where would Windows be today without CTRL-ALT-DEL? I guess they would have had to add a hard reset button to all windows keyboards, which would then be in competition with the letter "e" for the key that wears out the fastest.
The beauty of the traditional firewall is it's simplicity. IPTables hasn't been exploited in forever, except through user error. It's reliable and secure, and easy to understand/debug.
.NET commercials "1 Degree of seperation between you and your customer!" 1 degree? In what fairyland? Do they WANT to be hacked?
Application firewalls and filters are complex. To me that means more can go wrong, more holes can be found. And they have to be super effective, if they're a line of defense. Sounds nasty, like those stupid
For my money, leave the perimiter boxes. Defense in depth is a great strategy. They will get some, but they won't get them all.
If mobs are smarter, then why is Ahnold the frontrunner in California?
I think, most times, secrecy is bad for the idea itself. I mean, if you share what you think with everyone, it could turn into something amazing through the efforts of many.
Of course, if it does, you won't make any money off it, no one will know your name, your kids will go to community college, and you'll die embittered and alone.
This society punishes selflessness in many ways, because there are many people who are waiting to turn your selflessness into their profit.
I agree that a subtle change in the film would be both effective, and untracable. I said that above. A digital watermark doesn't even have to be so blatant as something that could actually be SEEN...It could be something that could only be found by a programmer who already knows what he's looking for.
This would be fine if you only had to make 2 copies. But they need hundreds, and they'd all have to be unique. And, in a digital format, it's not a simple matter of clipping in another piece of film. The whole piece has to be re-rendered...or at least re-encoded. This will be HUGELY EXPENSIVE AND TIME CONSUMING.
If they want to do it, fine, but I doubt that would be their first option. Much cheaper to make people go to the theater. They're really only providing these copies as a courtesy.
My computer gives me life, since the stuff I do on it allows me to buy food and shelter. If it wants to make my wrists hurt, that's okay.
Seems pretty pointless. Might as well chisel yer data on rocks, call them packets, and throw them at each other. You'll have the same bandwidth. And lessons that cause pain stand out in your mind...Of course, the same effect might be achieved if he's a bad enough bongo player.
The biggest problem with watermarking (Like this) is that it increases the production cost hugely.
Every movie released would have to be seperately encoded. If they just added the mark to some area (say right at the beginning of the disk) where there is no data, and hence no need to encode a seperate value into the data, then it could easily be stripped out by a pirate.
There are a lot of people who would be using this tech already, if there was a cheap/easy way to do it. Still might be cool to put a non-unique mark in the data you're sending out to the screeners to make sure that's where your leaks are coming from. I think it's just as likely that some guy down in the rendering room is just quietly burning himself a copy to take home with him.
I mean, if you're Microsoft, you've got a thick skin toward bad press.
I imagine it was just some chickenshit middle management type over at @stake who wet himself when his little pet security project churned out a ton of anti-microsoft press.
It's "funny" because they are so impossibly petty. The judge (who wrote the full text the little blurbs came out of) obviously just wants to be playing golf and not listening to these two sets of morons arguing about something that should, in a just world, be sent to the fricking morons at the patent office to explain.
People are already doing it! Your name is, unless you're amish, zipping through dozens of computers a day. ATM, credit card, all your bills, those stupid discount cards from the grocery store...Your cable company can monitor all the way down to what volume you watch things at. Your ISP knows all the pr0n you download, all the emails you send, all the pages you read.
And you worry about something like an electronic payment device for the subway? Worry when they don't NEED that anymore. And that day will come; it's the dark side of the information age.
Twice as many air conditioners/heaters, lots of buildings using more power, lots of bosses filling whole auditoria with hot air--the heat has to go somewhere.