I don't see how an open map solves the problem of the annotated street map that is "politically incorrect" but useful. Bike lanes marked which are dangerously exposed and poorly maintained, especially in winter. Streets and neighborhoods even the prostitutes avoid.
Joshua, a self-described ''white hat'' security researcher, said he was motivated by a desire to improve online security. He first contacted PTV by email on Boxing Day, but received no response. He later contacted Fairfax Media.
It's a very strange time of year for an sixteen year old kid to be trying to gain the attention of anyone in or out of government. People are on vacation. Offices are closed or very thinly staffed...
Unauthorized access to systems and data --- white hat or black hat hacking --- is a crime under Australian law.
You do not have the right to not identify yourself.
Lies and malice are profoundly corrupting. They degrade free speech. Silence free speech That is why we have laws against libel. That is why anonymity can never be absolute,
They began their research with Project Gutenberg, a database of 44,500 books in the public domain. Then, they added some books not in the Gutenberg database, including Charles Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities," and Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." They also added...books that have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and other awards.
How does Project Gutenberg select its texts?
A book was considered successful when it was critically acclaimed and had a high download count.
"Critically acclaimed" by who and when?
How many of the most downloaded titles are on academically "required" or "recommended" reading lists?
The prize-winner can sometimes tell you more about the internal and external dynamics of the judging than the quality of the book,
The Wrights were machinists who built and sold bicycles of their own --- recognizably --- modern design. Original St. Clair bicycle [1898]
In their view, dynamic control in three dimensions was essential to successful heavier-than-air flight. It's an insight that would come naturally to a cyclist.
It was heroin. Someone else could have injected it.
It was a drug cocktail.
Evidence of long-tern drug and alcohol abuse isn't likely to escape the notice of a competent pathologist.
The autopsy report has now been made available and says Mr Jack had shown "no visible or palpable evidence of trauma".
Instead, his physical symptoms indicated an accidental overdose of heroin, cocaine, and prescription drugs.
The report said Mr Jack's girlfriend had found him lying in bed unresponsive, with "multiple bottles of beer and champagne in the garbage can".
While YouTube's preference is VP9, [YouTube's Francisco ] Varela left open the possibility that the site might use HEVC in the future. ''We are not announcing that we will not support HEVC,'' said Varela, adding that YouTube supports 17 different codecs currently.
According to YouTube, the first partner TVs and other devices that incorporate VP9 will start hitting the market in 2015. In 2014, YouTube will start transcoding HD video into VP9.
I am not convinced that the transcode to YouTube will be enough to derail HEVC.
On May 9, 2013, NHK and Mitsubishi Electric announced that they had jointly developed the first HEVC encoder for 8K Ultra HD TV, which is also called Super Hi-Vision (SHV). The HEVC encoder supports the Main 10 profile at Level 6.1 allowing it to encode 10-bit video with a resolution of 7680x4320 at 60 fps.
On October 16, 2013, the OpenHEVC decoder was added to FFmpeg.
On October 29, 2013, Elemental Technologies announced support for real-time 4K HEVC video processing. Elemental provided live video streaming of the 2013 Osaka Marathon on October 27, 2013, in a workflow designed by K-Opticom, a telecommunications operator in Japan. Live coverage of the race in 4K HEVC was available to viewers at the International Exhibition Center in Osaka. This transmission of 4K HEVC video in real-time was an industry-first.
On November 14, 2013, DivX developers released information on HEVC decoding performance using an Intel i7 CPU at 3.5 GHz which had 4 cores and 8 threads. The DivX 10.1 Beta decoder was capable of 210.9 fps at 720p, 101.5 fps at 1080p, and 29.6 fps at 4K.
An inbuilt HEVC decoder is not entirely new of course, as LG's LA970 series of UHDTVs released last year also offered the same feature. However, the company's latest 4K Ultra HD TVs due to be unveiled at CES 2014 will use a ViXS XCode 6400 SoC (system on chip) that can decode HEVC-based content at 3840x2160 resolution with support for 60p frame rate and 10-bit colour depth, a world's first.
Is LG Ditching Google TV? Working On WebOS TV? Goodbye Patent Evil H.264; YouTube Switches To WebM
Opera Welcomes Google's Move To Drop H.264 Support
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Netflix has tossed their hat in the 4K ring with the announcement of 4K streaming starting next month.
The jump from streaming 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 is not something that can be done by just flipping a switch. First of all, viewers need a 4K TV, which practically no one has yet. PCMag's Chloe Albanesius has informed us that Netflix's 4K content will require ''somewhere between 12 and 15 Mbps'' to stream properly. That;s a pretty serious connection which, again, not many.
By using H.265 HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) moving forward instead of the currently popular AVC H.264, Netflix thinks they will be able to stream the same quality they currently transmit at half the bitrate. Not only does this mean there's room for higher quality 4K streams, but the current HD content will be transmitted more efficiently.
It's unclear when we'll see 4K streaming available in standalone set-top boxes any time soon, or whether or not it will require new hardware in order to handle the increased resolution in the future, but for now it looks like the TV itself is the home for 4K streaming.
I am not a geek, never have been, never met one face-to-face. I am simply a Windows user, a senior, with a bit of curiosity --- and perfectly comfortable and at home with Win 8.1. Desktop and Modern UI alike.
Is it the completely, un-mouse friendly interface to reach your settings, or anything at all actually?
Mouse to upper corner > Search, Devices, and Settings
Desktop > Right click on Windows icon > Exposes fifteen basic to advanced level system options
Or could it be that you're referring to the fact that I have to run a shell command to setup which programs start with Windows?
Paste your (desktop only) shortcuts here:
Single user: C:\Users\(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
What if some major performer came out with an alt coin?
There are a bare handful of performers who become icons of their generation --- and beyond --- and while the geek may remain eternally adolescent, artists age. The concert tour becomes more physically demanding and disruptive with each passing year.
For most of our history, the US has was extremely reluctant to issue coins, stamps or currency based on the image of any living person or anyone dead for less than 25 years. It kept the mint or the printing press non-partisan.
US Representative refuses all donations to his campaign.
That gives the candidate who is independently wealthy a decided advantage even in the least populated and most compact of districts.
The average congressman represents about 700,000 people.
When labor unions were strong, union workers on the street and canvassing door to door were an enormous resource for the Democratic candidate.
It's naive to assume that financial contributions are the only ones that matters. It's naive to assume that in an era of political action groups that direct financial contributions to the campaign fund are the only ones that matters.
The constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and freedom of speech imply that even if campaigns were federally funded nothing much would fundamentally change.
Decreasing the size of congressional districts only increases the power of congressional committees --- and committee assignments are prized only when they align with your experience and the interests of your district.
I need to get remote access to my home PC. At home, it's basically for watching TV, whereas at the office, I need it to work on files I am not allowed to take out when leaving.
The best sense I can make of this is that you want to watch TV on the job and work at home on documents you are not cleared to access outside the premises. Security at that level comes with teeth that bite. Hard.
In Frozen, the Snow Queen is defiantly human and not an otherworldly abstraction.
Frozen is rooted in the meaning and power of sacrificial love --- and familial love --- as expressed in the two sisters. Everything else is subordinated to that end.
Does the geek who comments on stories in the public domain ever read them beyond the title?
When the Disney version of a fairy take supersedes all other adaptations of the story, it is no small part due to the voice and presence of a vividly realized and compelling villain.
In the 2002 Census of Governments, the United States Census Bureau enumerated the following numbers of school systems in the United States:
13,506 school district governments
178 state-dependent school systems
1,330 local-dependent school systems
1,196 education service agencies (agencies providing support services to public school systems)
How about Glass for an auto mechanic. Look under the hood of a car and it overlays the wiring diagram, exhaust diagram, part you're looking at with price and local availability, etc. Switch layers on and off with a glance or voice command.
Uses of this sort involve no social interaction whatever. It makes Google Glass simply another tool like a jeweler's loupe.
How about an app for foreign tourists. Auto translate whatever written material you look at. Read street signs, menus, directions, brochures, etc.
Oh look, a tourist, an easy mark, and a rich one as well.
And the real irony is that Disney built its animated empire on stories in the public domain - Bambi? Nope, they stole that one too, from a 1923 work of Felix Salten
It is never wise to take anything a geek says about Disney at face value.
In 1933, Sidney Franklin, a producer and director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, purchased the film rights to Felix Salten's novel Bambi, A Life in the Woods, intending to adapt it as a live-action film. After years of experimentation, he eventually decided that it would be too difficult to make such a film and he sold the film rights to Walt Disney in April 1937. Disney began work on crafting an animated adaptation immediately, intending it to be the company's second feature-length animated film and their first to be based on a specific, recent work.
Slashdot Mirror
Shut your machine OFF before you get to the border; don't put it to sleep.
The first question to ask is "Why you are carrying high risk/high value files across an international border?"
Who cares. The only people that watch this show are people that fell asleep in front of their tv 20 years ago.
But they have the money to support the campaigns that touch on the issues they care about and wake up each November in time to vote.
I don't see how an open map solves the problem of the annotated street map that is "politically incorrect" but useful. Bike lanes marked which are dangerously exposed and poorly maintained, especially in winter. Streets and neighborhoods even the prostitutes avoid.
Joshua, a self-described ''white hat'' security researcher, said he was motivated by a desire to improve online security. He first contacted PTV by email on Boxing Day, but received no response. He later contacted Fairfax Media.
Schoolboy hacks Public Transport Victoria website
The Age is owned by Faitax Media.
Boxing Day in Australia is a public holiday.
It's a very strange time of year for an sixteen year old kid to be trying to gain the attention of anyone in or out of government. People are on vacation. Offices are closed or very thinly staffed...
Unauthorized access to systems and data --- white hat or black hat hacking --- is a crime under Australian law.
The end doesn't justify the means.
As middleman, what percentage of the transaction goes to Coinbase?
You do not have the right to not identify yourself.
Lies and malice are profoundly corrupting. They degrade free speech. Silence free speech That is why we have laws against libel. That is why anonymity can never be absolute,
They began their research with Project Gutenberg, a database of 44,500 books in the public domain.
Then, they added some books not in the Gutenberg database, including Charles Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities," and Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." They also added...books that have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and other awards.
How does Project Gutenberg select its texts?
A book was considered successful when it was critically acclaimed and had a high download count.
"Critically acclaimed" by who and when?
How many of the most downloaded titles are on academically "required" or "recommended" reading lists?
The prize-winner can sometimes tell you more about the internal and external dynamics of the judging than the quality of the book,
Orville and Wilbur Wright ran a bicycle shop.
The Wrights were machinists who built and sold bicycles of their own --- recognizably --- modern design. Original St. Clair bicycle [1898]
In their view, dynamic control in three dimensions was essential to successful heavier-than-air flight. It's an insight that would come naturally to a cyclist.
This seems like something I've heard of before, wasn't it called UseNet?
Nothing to fear. The geek will write a client app that no ordinary mortal will ever be able to use.
Secure, auditable, and distributed or downright personal servers should be the way of the future
How do you secure and audit any other server than your own?
For the money you spend going to CES you could reach so many more people in other ways I think
Reaching more people is easy.
Reaching the right people in the right places is hard.
It was heroin. Someone else could have injected it.
It was a drug cocktail.
Evidence of long-tern drug and alcohol abuse isn't likely to escape the notice of a competent pathologist.
The autopsy report has now been made available and says Mr Jack had shown "no visible or palpable evidence of trauma".
Instead, his physical symptoms indicated an accidental overdose of heroin, cocaine, and prescription drugs.
The report said Mr Jack's girlfriend had found him lying in bed unresponsive, with "multiple bottles of beer and champagne in the garbage can".
Elite Hacker Barnaby Jack 'overdosed on drugs'
While YouTube's preference is VP9, [YouTube's Francisco ] Varela left open the possibility that the site might use HEVC in the future. ''We are not announcing that we will not support HEVC,'' said Varela, adding that YouTube supports 17 different codecs currently.
According to YouTube, the first partner TVs and other devices that incorporate VP9 will start hitting the market in 2015. In 2014, YouTube will start transcoding HD video into VP9.
YouTube's Ultra HD Strategy Could Spark Battle Over 4K Video-Delivery Tech
I am not convinced that the transcode to YouTube will be enough to derail HEVC.
On May 9, 2013, NHK and Mitsubishi Electric announced that they had jointly developed the first HEVC encoder for 8K Ultra HD TV, which is also called Super Hi-Vision (SHV). The HEVC encoder supports the Main 10 profile at Level 6.1 allowing it to encode 10-bit video with a resolution of 7680x4320 at 60 fps.
On October 16, 2013, the OpenHEVC decoder was added to FFmpeg.
On October 29, 2013, Elemental Technologies announced support for real-time 4K HEVC video processing. Elemental provided live video streaming of the 2013 Osaka Marathon on October 27, 2013, in a workflow designed by K-Opticom, a telecommunications operator in Japan. Live coverage of the race in 4K HEVC was available to viewers at the International Exhibition Center in Osaka. This transmission of 4K HEVC video in real-time was an industry-first.
On November 14, 2013, DivX developers released information on HEVC decoding performance using an Intel i7 CPU at 3.5 GHz which had 4 cores and 8 threads. The DivX 10.1 Beta decoder was capable of 210.9 fps at 720p, 101.5 fps at 1080p, and 29.6 fps at 4K.
High Efficiency Video Coding
An inbuilt HEVC decoder is not entirely new of course, as LG's LA970 series of UHDTVs released last year also offered the same feature. However, the company's latest 4K Ultra HD TVs due to be unveiled at CES 2014 will use a ViXS XCode 6400 SoC (system on chip) that can decode HEVC-based content at 3840x2160 resolution with support for 60p frame rate and 10-bit colour depth, a world's first.
LG's 2014 4K TV Models Gets HDMI 2.0 & 10-Bit HEVC/H.265 Decoder [Jan 3]
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There are some very big players moving in HEVC.
Netflix has tossed their hat in the 4K ring with the announcement of 4K streaming starting next month.
The jump from streaming 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 is not something that can be done by just flipping a switch. First of all, viewers need a 4K TV, which practically no one has yet. PCMag's Chloe Albanesius has informed us that Netflix's 4K content will require ''somewhere between 12 and 15 Mbps'' to stream properly. That;s a pretty serious connection which, again, not many .
By using H.265 HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) moving forward instead of the currently popular AVC H.264, Netflix thinks they will be able to stream the same quality they currently transmit at half the bitrate. Not only does this mean there's room for higher quality 4K streams, but the current HD content will be transmitted more efficiently.
It's unclear when we'll see 4K streaming available in standalone set-top boxes any time soon, or whether or not it will require new hardware in order to handle the increased resolution in the future, but for now it looks like the TV itself is the home for 4K streaming.
Netflix is bringing 4K streaming to TVs with H.265 and House of Cards [Dec 19]
I am not a geek, never have been, never met one face-to-face.
I am simply a Windows user, a senior, with a bit of curiosity --- and perfectly comfortable and at home with Win 8.1.
Desktop and Modern UI alike.
Is it the completely, un-mouse friendly interface to reach your settings, or anything at all actually?
Mouse to upper corner > Search, Devices, and Settings
Desktop > Right click on Windows icon > Exposes fifteen basic to advanced level system options
Or could it be that you're referring to the fact that I have to run a shell command to setup which programs start with Windows?
Paste your (desktop only) shortcuts here:
Single user: C:\Users\(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
All users: (As Administrator)
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
What if some major performer came out with an alt coin?
There are a bare handful of performers who become icons of their generation --- and beyond --- and while the geek may remain eternally adolescent, artists age. The concert tour becomes more physically demanding and disruptive with each passing year.
For most of our history, the US has was extremely reluctant to issue coins, stamps or currency based on the image of any living person or anyone dead for less than 25 years. It kept the mint or the printing press non-partisan.
US Representative refuses all donations to his campaign.
That gives the candidate who is independently wealthy a decided advantage even in the least populated and most compact of districts.
The average congressman represents about 700,000 people.
When labor unions were strong, union workers on the street and canvassing door to door were an enormous resource for the Democratic candidate.
It's naive to assume that financial contributions are the only ones that matters. It's naive to assume that in an era of political action groups that direct financial contributions to the campaign fund are the only ones that matters.
The constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and freedom of speech imply that even if campaigns were federally funded nothing much would fundamentally change.
Decreasing the size of congressional districts only increases the power of congressional committees --- and committee assignments are prized only when they align with your experience and the interests of your district.
Classification: Russian register KM ice class
Year built: 1984
Accommodation: 50 berths expedition, 30 crew
Shipyard: Finland
Main engines: power 2x1560 bhp (2x 1147 Kw) Register: Russia
Maximum speed: 12 knots (2 engines)
Cruising speed: 10 knots(one engine)
Bunker capacity: 320 tons
I need to get remote access to my home PC. At home, it's basically for watching TV, whereas at the office, I need it to work on files I am not allowed to take out when leaving.
The best sense I can make of this is that you want to watch TV on the job and work at home on documents you are not cleared to access outside the premises. Security at that level comes with teeth that bite. Hard.
really crazy, impossible things like selling an educational chemistry set.
You mean like this successful Kickstarter project launched by the sconce store H.M.S. Beagle?
Heirloom Chemistry Set
Frozen ...
In Frozen, the Snow Queen is defiantly human and not an otherworldly abstraction.
Frozen is rooted in the meaning and power of sacrificial love --- and familial love --- as expressed in the two sisters. Everything else is subordinated to that end.
Does the geek who comments on stories in the public domain ever read them beyond the title?
Nice, but Maleficent isn't Sleeping Beauty, generic or otherwise.
Eleanor Audley (1905-1991), actress, Sleeping Beauty, 1959, Maleficent, Cinderella, 1950, Lady Tremaine. (The Wicked Stepmother)
you always fall for the rascal
When the Disney version of a fairy take supersedes all other adaptations of the story, it is no small part due to the voice and presence of a vividly realized and compelling villain.
In the 2002 Census of Governments, the United States Census Bureau enumerated the following numbers of school systems in the United States:
13,506 school district governments
178 state-dependent school systems
1,330 local-dependent school systems
1,196 education service agencies (agencies providing support services to public school systems)
School district
In a statistical universe this size, "49 incidents" tells me nothing.
I need to know where these incidents took place.
I need to know if decisions were being made on the state or local level.
I need to know how these incidents were resolved --- and how that has changed over the years.
A breakdown by age group, title, author and subject is essential as well.
How about Glass for an auto mechanic. Look under the hood of a car and it overlays the wiring diagram, exhaust diagram, part you're looking at with price and local availability, etc. Switch layers on and off with a glance or voice command.
Uses of this sort involve no social interaction whatever. It makes Google Glass simply another tool like a jeweler's loupe.
How about an app for foreign tourists. Auto translate whatever written material you look at. Read street signs, menus, directions, brochures, etc.
Oh look, a tourist, an easy mark, and a rich one as well.
$1500 in eye wear alone.
And the real irony is that Disney built its animated empire on stories in the public domain
- Bambi? Nope, they stole that one too, from a 1923 work of Felix Salten
It is never wise to take anything a geek says about Disney at face value.
In 1933, Sidney Franklin, a producer and director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, purchased the film rights to Felix Salten's novel Bambi, A Life in the Woods, intending to adapt it as a live-action film. After years of experimentation, he eventually decided that it would be too difficult to make such a film and he sold the film rights to Walt Disney in April 1937. Disney began work on crafting an animated adaptation immediately, intending it to be the company's second feature-length animated film and their first to be based on a specific, recent work.
Bambi
Philip Pullman's Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version retells fifty of these classic tales in a four hundred page book. Call it eight pages on average per story.
That is barely enough material to sustain a one-act stage play.
The truth is that the adaptation becomes memorable through its embellishments, its richness in detail. ''Hansel & Gretel'' at Columbia Marionette Theatre: A Sweet Artistic Triumph
It isn't a generic Sleeping Beauty the geek wants to appropriate from Disney, it is Maleficent.