You'll hate *much* more the day the H.264 licensing moster raises its ugly head.
Next round for starting asking for licensing fees is 2015
Royalty increases max out to 10% per five year term. H.264 royalties are for all practical purposes of no concern to all but the largest commercial distributers of H.264 hardware and content. The geek may have noticed that Chrome still supports H.264 with no changes in prospect and Firefox will support it when video hardware supports it --- and hardware support for H.264 is universal.
Or like fingerprints that start giving off larger number of false-positives when compared against a large enough database of entries.
The false positive is significant only when it is plausible.
Their partial prints may be a close match, but the 86 year old wheelchair-bound Vet in a hospice on Staten Island is probably not the killer who shot up a liquor store in Buffalo last week.
By the civil war, technology had almost made (agricultural) slavery barely a breakeven (and more popular in the South largely because they had slow-moving swamps rather than the North's swiftly flowing rivers).
None of this makes historical or geographic sense.
Cotton was famously resistant to mechanization. There is no such thing as a commercially viable mechanical cotton picker until 1943. Cotton picker
. The crop comprised more than half the total value of domestic exports in the period 1815-1860, and in 1860, earnings from cotton paid for 60 percent of all imports.
The South had as prosperous and extensive a riverine and coastal trade as existed anywhere on earth. Before the Erie Canal and the railroad almost all commercial traffic in the US states and territories moved north to south by water.
The pull would later threaten the foundations of Canadian nationalism.
information exchange at the speed of molasses in an age where milliseconds matter.
If milliseconds matter, then something has gone seriously wrong. It is part of the SEC's job to keep markets reasonably stable and on the rails. Hair-triggered reflexes are usually a sign that you are about to shoot the wrong man.
That is nothing! If I were a big company, I would just buy the big three, fire them all, and be done with it.
The big three are Universal Music Group Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group.
UMG in turn is a division of Vivendi and WMG a division of Access Industries.
Access Industries is one those blandly named, incredibly rich --- and all-but-invisible --- privately held conglomerates that seem to have a hand in almost everything: Russian oil, petrochemicals, aluminum, broadcasting, mobile communications, hotels, real estate and so on.
Vivendi's assets, which include 61% of Activision Blizzard, are worth about 56 billion euros, which is by no means pocket change.
It may have escaped the geek's attention, but companies that actually make big investments in popular entertainment --- not fantasy buy-outs on Slashdot --- tend to be very protective of their IP.
The little bastards already spend too much time hunched over keyboards and phones as it is. Get them outside. They'll have their whole lives to spend in cubes.
In 2008 the New York Times ranked French Woods as one of the top three performance arts camps.
But when an institution to which I am paying money for a service wants my fingerprints so they can track me, they can just fuck right off. And the government too, for that matter.
This assumes you are paying all costs up-front with no loans, grants, or subsides of any kind to you or to your school. It is far more likely, I suspect, that a great many people have very good reasons for holding your feet to the fire.
People who will want to know if you they have invested in you wisely.
That your grades are living up to expectations. That you are making reasonable progress towards a degree.
The campus is not your private playground.
You do not have unlimited --- unconditional --- access to the grounds, facilities or services.
You can be required to show ID.
I can't think of a single public or private employer whose physical facilities are on the same scale as a college or university campus that doesn't play by the same rules.
My suggestion was that we do wifi-pinging from student mobiles to cover most cases (as in you download an app and it checks you're in-range of our wifi), and use attendance at tutorials and 2-3 annual full checks (as in turn up with your passport so we can double check everything) to cover the requirement for more in-depth checks.
What makes this simpler, cheaper, or more reliable then the fingerprint ID check at the entrance to the lecture hall?
MobileMedia has garnered the unflattering descriptor "patent troll" from some observers.
MobileMedia licenses patents held by Sony, Nokia, and MPEG LA. MPEG LA in turn licenses tech developed by global giants in manufacturing and R&D like Cisco, Mitsubishi, NTT, Philips, Samsung, Toshiba and so on. It is idiotic to argue that these guys don't make product or that their contributions to the evolution of mobile technologies are trivial.
The geek blames his every failure in law and politics on bribery.
His only satisfaction the instant mod up to "+5, Insightful" on Slashdot.
The impeachment of Samuel Chase in 1804 is the only impeachment of a Supreme Court justice to have ended in trial in the Senate. The issues were framed by the conflict between Jefferson and a Federalist judiciary --- and in the end, by very wide margins, even a Jeffersonian controlled Senate refused to convict,
In the entire history of the United States, there have been about sixty more or less serious attempts to impeach a federal judge or to shame him into resignation. Perhaps ten were built around credible or proven allegations of bribery. Impeachment investigations of United States federal judges
Until he gets on a plane to Britain where he is also a citizen.
You can run but you can't hide.
Territories designated under part 2 are non-EU members of the European Convention on Extradition; or the London Scheme for Extradition within the Commonwealt; or else they are parties to bilateral extradition treaties with the UK. The countries involved are:
Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize....
The Treaty is one of a series of modern mutual legal assistance treaties being negotiated by the United States in order to counter criminal activities more effectively. The Treaty should be an effective tool to assist in the prosecution of a wide variety of crimes, including drug trafficking, money laundering, and terrorism offenses. The Treaty is self-executing.
The Treaty provides for a broad range of cooperation in criminal matters. Mutual assistance available under the Treaty includes: taking the testimony or statements of persons; providing documents, records, and articles of evidence; locating or identifying persons; serving documents; transferring persons in custody for testimony or other purposes;executing requests for searches and seizures; assisting in proceedings related to immobilization and forfeiture of assets, restitution to the victims of crime and collection of fines; and any other form of assistance not prohibited by the laws of the State from whom the assistance is requested.
I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the Treaty, and give its advice and consent to ratification.
This tiny nation of only 280,000 people does seem to draw a surprising number of fugitives. They come here ''for the same reasons as the tourists,'' says Gerald Westby, Belize's police commissioner. ''It's English-speaking and close to Mexico.'' Some try to blend in with vacationers on sun-drenched coastal islands like Ambergris Cay, and others...try to find sanctuary in the jungle. They also appear to find comfort in the poverty (hence, their money goes further) and lawlessness (figuring they won't be a priority for local cops). Belize City is a violent place, currently suffering from a rash of ''pedal by'' shootings--executions by gunmen on bicycles.
Belize signed an extradition treaty with the United States in 2000, but officials are often quite willing to expedite a deportation instead of the lengthy extradition process. ''Belize is very close to being one of the most cooperative Central American nations,'' says James Schield, chief of international investigations for the U.S. Marshals Service.
To a sensible default that will satisfy most users in most cases.
I personally don't want image searches to return pornographic content that I haven't explicitly requested. It wastes my time and it is needlessly provocative, inappropriate or offensive in many environments.
I don't want this to happen at work.
I don't want this to happen on a plane even when I am travelling alone.
I imagine this would only rear its technical head in very limited circumstances, before being kicked from the courtroom altogether when it turns out some kind of process in common recording devices interferes with it's 100% accuracy (noise cancellation,for example, converters on the circuits, etc).
Forensic evidence is admissible even when you cannot guarantee 100% accuracy.
The goal line for conviction is set at " beyond a reasonable doubt" not a distant - impossible - metaphysical - certainty,
Most respectable recordings eliminate these hums by adding a realtime filter called a "noise gate" that eliminates all sounds of any frequency under XX decibels
Inaudible to the human ear isn't the same thing as undetectable.
A security system may be designed to capture and record all potentially relevant sounds. Filters can be applied in playback.
If he was smart he wouldn't be in this predicament.
The Central American republic signs the extradition treaty when the rich but whacko American expatriate on the run from the law has finally worn out his welcome.
A live, simple plea over worldwide streaming video without conventional media spin, circus or filter, and 48 hours later, he's released.
Belize has had a "mutual assistance in law enforcement" treaty with the US for twelve years. That means that McAfee can be sent back to Belize if his testimony is needed in a on-going criminal investigation.
It would be very interesting to know whether the common law rule that "evidence of flight is evidence of guilt" still holds in Belize.
The Playstation 3 had some very advanced client-side security. It still got broken. It took them awhile, but it fell, as all client side security must.
I'll take "server side" as implying at least three components that are going to limit the geek's options dramatically: the always-on internet connection, the app-store and hardware that is much less physically accessible.
Will you make a stand or continue to be bleating sheep?
Ubuntu has strong OEM support --- and is positioning itself as a mass market *NIX based OS. That strategy has worked out rather well for both Apple and Google.
Pharmaceutical companies make too much money from cancer for there to be a cure for cancer on the market.
The "cure for cancer" implies a level of competence so high that every product you bring to market will show the benefits. You just might learn enough along the way to begin treating aging itself as a chronic disease.
Guatemala has no extradition treaty with Belize. The fact that he is an American citizen means that automatically, that is where he should be sent when deported, he has no say in the matter since he has entered the country illegally.
Since when is an extradition treaty required to return a fugitive from Belize to Belize?
Belize has a broadly worded "mutual legal assistance" treaty with the U.S. It doesn't have to charge McAfee with a crime before demanding his return. It only has to show that hos testimony is needed and relevant to a a criminal investigation.
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You'll hate *much* more the day the H.264 licensing moster raises its ugly head.
Next round for starting asking for licensing fees is 2015
Royalty increases max out to 10% per five year term. H.264 royalties are for all practical purposes of no concern to all but the largest commercial distributers of H.264 hardware and content. The geek may have noticed that Chrome still supports H.264 with no changes in prospect and Firefox will support it when video hardware supports it --- and hardware support for H.264 is universal.
And for those who did not notice, Dell exists only because MS has made it so.
Hell.
You could say the same for every entrant into the PC market since 1980 --- and every last one of them spent their days crying all the way to the bank.
Their business support doesn't suck though.
Dell's latest entrant into Windows 8 market looks solid as well Review: Dell's acrobatic XPS 12 is the Windows 8 convertible to beat
Or like fingerprints that start giving off larger number of false-positives when compared against a large enough database of entries.
The false positive is significant only when it is plausible.
Their partial prints may be a close match, but the 86 year old wheelchair-bound Vet in a hospice on Staten Island is probably not the killer who shot up a liquor store in Buffalo last week.
By the civil war, technology had almost made (agricultural) slavery barely a breakeven (and more popular in the South largely because they had slow-moving swamps rather than the North's swiftly flowing rivers).
None of this makes historical or geographic sense.
Cotton was famously resistant to mechanization. There is no such thing as a commercially viable mechanical cotton picker until 1943. Cotton picker
. The crop comprised more than half the total value of domestic exports in the period 1815-1860, and in 1860, earnings from cotton paid for 60 percent of all imports.
Cotton
The South had as prosperous and extensive a riverine and coastal trade as existed anywhere on earth. Before the Erie Canal and the railroad almost all commercial traffic in the US states and territories moved north to south by water.
The pull would later threaten the foundations of Canadian nationalism.
information exchange at the speed of molasses in an age where milliseconds matter.
If milliseconds matter, then something has gone seriously wrong. It is part of the SEC's job to keep markets reasonably stable and on the rails. Hair-triggered reflexes are usually a sign that you are about to shoot the wrong man.
That is nothing! If I were a big company, I would just buy the big three, fire them all, and be done with it.
The big three are Universal Music Group Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group.
UMG in turn is a division of Vivendi and WMG a division of Access Industries.
Access Industries is one those blandly named, incredibly rich --- and all-but-invisible --- privately held conglomerates that seem to have a hand in almost everything: Russian oil, petrochemicals, aluminum, broadcasting, mobile communications, hotels, real estate and so on.
Vivendi's assets, which include 61% of Activision Blizzard, are worth about 56 billion euros, which is by no means pocket change.
It may have escaped the geek's attention, but companies that actually make big investments in popular entertainment --- not fantasy buy-outs on Slashdot --- tend to be very protective of their IP.
The little bastards already spend too much time hunched over keyboards and phones as it is. Get them outside. They'll have their whole lives to spend in cubes.
In 2008 the New York Times ranked French Woods as one of the top three performance arts camps.
These photographs may give you some idea why: French Woods, Festival of the Performing Arts summer camp, French Woods, Festival of the Performing Arts summer camp Part II
There is something to be said for going "unplugged."
But when an institution to which I am paying money for a service wants my fingerprints so they can track me, they can just fuck right off. And the government too, for that matter.
This assumes you are paying all costs up-front with no loans, grants, or subsides of any kind to you or to your school. It is far more likely, I suspect, that a great many people have very good reasons for holding your feet to the fire.
People who will want to know if you they have invested in you wisely.
That your grades are living up to expectations. That you are making reasonable progress towards a degree.
The campus is not your private playground.
You do not have unlimited --- unconditional --- access to the grounds, facilities or services.
You can be required to show ID.
I can't think of a single public or private employer whose physical facilities are on the same scale as a college or university campus that doesn't play by the same rules.
My suggestion was that we do wifi-pinging from student mobiles to cover most cases (as in you download an app and it checks you're in-range of our wifi), and use attendance at tutorials and 2-3 annual full checks (as in turn up with your passport so we can double check everything) to cover the requirement for more in-depth checks.
What makes this simpler, cheaper, or more reliable then the fingerprint ID check at the entrance to the lecture hall?
Ask him who's the boss? If he says you, give him a big thumbs up!
Oh, God. No.
That will sink you both.
MobileMedia has garnered the unflattering descriptor "patent troll" from some observers.
MobileMedia licenses patents held by Sony, Nokia, and MPEG LA. MPEG LA in turn licenses tech developed by global giants in manufacturing and R&D like Cisco, Mitsubishi, NTT, Philips, Samsung, Toshiba and so on. It is idiotic to argue that these guys don't make product or that their contributions to the evolution of mobile technologies are trivial.
They have been bought off by the RIAA
The geek blames his every failure in law and politics on bribery.
His only satisfaction the instant mod up to "+5, Insightful" on Slashdot.
The impeachment of Samuel Chase in 1804 is the only impeachment of a Supreme Court justice to have ended in trial in the Senate. The issues were framed by the conflict between Jefferson and a Federalist judiciary --- and in the end, by very wide margins, even a Jeffersonian controlled Senate refused to convict,
In the entire history of the United States, there have been about sixty more or less serious attempts to impeach a federal judge or to shame him into resignation. Perhaps ten were built around credible or proven allegations of bribery. Impeachment investigations of United States federal judges
Until he gets on a plane to Britain where he is also a citizen.
You can run but you can't hide.
Territories designated under part 2 are non-EU members of the European Convention on Extradition; or the London Scheme for Extradition within the Commonwealt; or else they are parties to bilateral extradition treaties with the UK. The countries involved are:
Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize....
Extradition from the UK: Extradition Act 2003 - part 2
The Treaty is one of a series of modern mutual legal assistance treaties being negotiated by the United States in order to counter criminal activities more effectively. The Treaty should be an effective tool to assist in the prosecution of a wide variety of crimes, including drug trafficking, money laundering, and terrorism offenses. The Treaty is self-executing.
The Treaty provides for a broad range of cooperation in criminal matters. Mutual assistance available under the Treaty includes: taking the testimony or statements of persons; providing documents, records, and articles of evidence; locating or identifying persons; serving documents; transferring persons in custody for testimony or other purposes;executing requests for searches and seizures; assisting in proceedings related to immobilization and forfeiture of assets, restitution to the victims of crime and collection of fines; and any other form of assistance not prohibited by the laws of the State from whom the assistance is requested.
I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the Treaty, and give its advice and consent to ratification.
GEORGE W. BUSH.
TREATY WITH BELIZE ON MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS
This tiny nation of only 280,000 people does seem to draw a surprising number of fugitives. They come here ''for the same reasons as the tourists,'' says Gerald Westby, Belize's police commissioner. ''It's English-speaking and close to Mexico.'' Some try to blend in with vacationers on sun-drenched coastal islands like Ambergris Cay, and others...try to find sanctuary in the jungle. They also appear to find comfort in the poverty (hence, their money goes further) and lawlessness (figuring they won't be a priority for local cops). Belize City is a violent place, currently suffering from a rash of ''pedal by'' shootings--executions by gunmen on bicycles.
Belize signed an extradition treaty with the United States in 2000, but officials are often quite willing to expedite a deportation instead of the lengthy extradition process. ''Belize is very close to being one of the most cooperative Central American nations,'' says James Schield, chief of international investigations for the U.S. Marshals Service.
Trouble in Paradise : U.S. fugitives may think they can hide in Belize, but here's the untold story of how some get caught
Cooperation on this level works both ways. If Belize wants McAfee they will very likely get him.
It amounts to censorship. Enough said.
It amounts to choice.
To a sensible default that will satisfy most users in most cases.
I personally don't want image searches to return pornographic content that I haven't explicitly requested. It wastes my time and it is needlessly provocative, inappropriate or offensive in many environments.
I don't want this to happen at work.
I don't want this to happen on a plane even when I am travelling alone.
I imagine this would only rear its technical head in very limited circumstances, before being kicked from the courtroom altogether when it turns out some kind of process in common recording devices interferes with it's 100% accuracy (noise cancellation,for example, converters on the circuits, etc).
Forensic evidence is admissible even when you cannot guarantee 100% accuracy.
The goal line for conviction is set at " beyond a reasonable doubt" not a distant - impossible - metaphysical - certainty,
Most respectable recordings eliminate these hums by adding a realtime filter called a "noise gate" that eliminates all sounds of any frequency under XX decibels
Inaudible to the human ear isn't the same thing as undetectable.
A security system may be designed to capture and record all potentially relevant sounds. Filters can be applied in playback.
If he was smart he wouldn't be in this predicament.
The Central American republic signs the extradition treaty when the rich but whacko American expatriate on the run from the law has finally worn out his welcome.
A live, simple plea over worldwide streaming video without conventional media spin, circus or filter, and 48 hours later, he's released.
Belize has had a "mutual assistance in law enforcement" treaty with the US for twelve years. That means that McAfee can be sent back to Belize if his testimony is needed in a on-going criminal investigation.
It would be very interesting to know whether the common law rule that "evidence of flight is evidence of guilt" still holds in Belize.
The Playstation 3 had some very advanced client-side security. It still got broken. It took them awhile, but it fell, as all client side security must.
It took about five years.
It happens at the risk of civil and criminal prosecution. Digital Millennium Copyright Act
I'll take "server side" as implying at least three components that are going to limit the geek's options dramatically: the always-on internet connection, the app-store and hardware that is much less physically accessible.
There's no attack here. Somebody's modifying software on his own machine for his own use
Without paying for it.
Some would call it a hack, others simply theft.
The geek earns his bad press. That is how he loses control over the meaning of words like hack and hacking.
Will you make a stand or continue to be bleating sheep?
Ubuntu has strong OEM support --- and is positioning itself as a mass market *NIX based OS. That strategy has worked out rather well for both Apple and Google.
Pharmaceutical companies make too much money from cancer for there to be a cure for cancer on the market.
The "cure for cancer" implies a level of competence so high that every product you bring to market will show the benefits. You just might learn enough along the way to begin treating aging itself as a chronic disease.
Guatemala has no extradition treaty with Belize. The fact that he is an American citizen means that automatically, that is where he should be sent when deported, he has no say in the matter since he has entered the country illegally.
Since when is an extradition treaty required to return a fugitive from Belize to Belize?
Belize has a broadly worded "mutual legal assistance" treaty with the U.S. It doesn't have to charge McAfee with a crime before demanding his return. It only has to show that hos testimony is needed and relevant to a a criminal investigation.