The producers could defeat this by buying a brand new machine of the same configuration at retail and using that for the compare execution plan. It wouldn't be any more cheating than what you suggested.
What's not "private" about files stored on your own hard drive? Everyone else's drive is beyond the boundaries of fair use, so they won't ever show up there, right?
Because fucking around with the command line is so much easier and more intuitive than having the error message read "This disk cannot be unmounted because a file on it is in use by the program named ______________ ".
The iPhone does have a camera. I don't know what resolution it can record video at but it should be more than capable of the 320x240 size of the Youtube player window.
H.264 encoding is pretty hard but it doesn't have to be performed on the phone- it can send the raw capture (can't be that large) to Youtube's encoding cluster and have them do the heavy lifting, so the process is identical to using it on a computer.
And sure, you can't run iMovie on the thing, but I bet it's more than capable of selecting a subset of the recording and maybe even basic titles. That covers 99% of the movies on Youtube already.
I think the current view is that the efficiency of these things is questionable at best.
Suspended animation
It will requires several miracles in molecular biology before we can hibernate the way other mammals can. And no known organism larger than a microbe can survive for the durations interstellar travel will require.
Generation ships
Requires the ability to do space construction on a large scale, which requires a thriving space industrial presence, which requires several miracles down here first.
The judge didn't get the technical aspects wrong. The judge did not take technical aspects into account at all, since it's a legal decision. The finding was that the contents of a computer's memory - specifically, the persistence of a client's IP in the network stack or server software while transmitting data - was relevant to the case and it should be provided to the court. In other words, TorrentSpy's loophole of not logging anything to disk is not valid and is no different legally from creating and then deleting logfiles. Once that decision has been made, the technical aspect is someone else's problem (TorrentSpy's).
You can defeat any captcha by having your bot download it from the site to compromise, turn around and serve it to a user browsing a different site you control, then relay the solution back to the original page. You don't even need to pay the users.
IPTV uses multicast, so that rule doesn't really apply here. I expect they also use aggressive caches since interactivity is pretty minimal beyond selecting a stream.
Depending on the systems you're looking at, he may have been right. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Macs of the time were not capable of generating or properly receiving network traffic at higher rates than 150K/sec. If that's true, and you had an all-Mac network, Ethernet would be expensive overkill. And at the time AppleTalk wasn't exactly chopped liver- it had auto-detection of services working decades before zeroconf came along.
Of course, this being MIT, they had all kinds of systems that could greatly exceed that transfer rate. Jobs looks dumb from that perspective, but this is where his purpose as a Mac salesman and evangelist comes in (and the RDF).
Why has this situation persisted despite the explosive growth of text messaging? Why hasn't a new channel or one of the voice channels been reallocated as a dedicated phone-to-phone small packet transport?
I don't think you understand the problem here. A torrent file is perhaps 50K. A video is perhaps 50MB- a thousand times larger. You can't run a video streaming site on a residential or hobbyist connection, not even the 100Mbps lines everyone here likes to drool over. I have no idea what TPB uses right now but they already move enough 50K text files that when it goes down you can see the effect on the overall bandwidth usage of the entire country. Scaling that up three orders of magnitude won't happen by magic.
And there's no mention of bit rate. Apple's non-DRMed songs are 256K AAC. Amazon is going to have to really crank up LAME to produce MP3s that measure up to that.
Of course headlines and announcements affect the stock market. But there's a world of difference between "the headline affects the stock price", which is natural market behavior, and "the headline is intentionally worded and timed to affect the stock price a certain way", which is illegal.
Actually, it *is* possible to dip your hand into molten lead and quickly pull it out with no ill effects, thanks to the Leidenfrost effect. Kids, don't try this at home.
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You would have the same experience with (conscientious) employees of any other cutting-edge company. Secret projects are secret projects.
Of course, if they [i]did[/i] have a contract with google, it would open the far larger can of worms (and pile of Slashdot ire) that is sponsored search results. This is a no-win situation.
If self-signed certs were accepted at face value by browsers the entire thing would fall apart because it's just as trivial to sign your cert with "Amazon.com" as it is with your real name. And it takes money to determine that the guy who typed "Amazon.com" into the Buy Cert form and hit Submit actually works for Amazon.com, because that's far more complex than just typing his name into Google and looking for bad feedback. You have to do work in (gasp) real life.
It's absolutely a good thing that getting a secure site accepted by browser is an expensive pain in the ass, because that is a barrier to entry for real scammers. Just imagine how bad phishing would be if they could get the little padlock on the browser to light up.
Personally, a file transfered over the internet isn't worth that much to me.
A file transferred over the internet is worth exactly as much to me as a file ripped from a CD which I will never see again after I use it to transport the music home from the store and throw it in the closet.
The only real alternative is either Quicktime or whatever Microsoft's own video plugin format is. Nothing else comes bundled with all major browsers. Tracking down and installing plugins is a tedious, error-prone process most users won't go through. Making installation automatic is a huge security risk.
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The producers could defeat this by buying a brand new machine of the same configuration at retail and using that for the compare execution plan. It wouldn't be any more cheating than what you suggested.
What's not "private" about files stored on your own hard drive? Everyone else's drive is beyond the boundaries of fair use, so they won't ever show up there, right?
Because fucking around with the command line is so much easier and more intuitive than having the error message read "This disk cannot be unmounted because a file on it is in use by the program named ______________ ".
The iPhone does have a camera. I don't know what resolution it can record video at but it should be more than capable of the 320x240 size of the Youtube player window.
H.264 encoding is pretty hard but it doesn't have to be performed on the phone- it can send the raw capture (can't be that large) to Youtube's encoding cluster and have them do the heavy lifting, so the process is identical to using it on a computer.
And sure, you can't run iMovie on the thing, but I bet it's more than capable of selecting a subset of the recording and maybe even basic titles. That covers 99% of the movies on Youtube already.
Bussard ramjet
I think the current view is that the efficiency of these things is questionable at best.
Suspended animation
It will requires several miracles in molecular biology before we can hibernate the way other mammals can. And no known organism larger than a microbe can survive for the durations interstellar travel will require.
Generation ships
Requires the ability to do space construction on a large scale, which requires a thriving space industrial presence, which requires several miracles down here first.
The judge didn't get the technical aspects wrong. The judge did not take technical aspects into account at all, since it's a legal decision. The finding was that the contents of a computer's memory - specifically, the persistence of a client's IP in the network stack or server software while transmitting data - was relevant to the case and it should be provided to the court. In other words, TorrentSpy's loophole of not logging anything to disk is not valid and is no different legally from creating and then deleting logfiles. Once that decision has been made, the technical aspect is someone else's problem (TorrentSpy's).
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Yes to all. Don't expect I2 access if you're out of college (and not working at a major telecom company or research lab).
They will, but that doesn't mean you'll be able to get to it either. They only let research and education institutions on it.
Guitar Hero 1 had Bark at the Moon.
You can defeat any captcha by having your bot download it from the site to compromise, turn around and serve it to a user browsing a different site you control, then relay the solution back to the original page. You don't even need to pay the users.
I wonder how many people will try to look for sunbathing girls in here.
If the site's been saying that for more than three weeks, then no.
IPTV uses multicast, so that rule doesn't really apply here. I expect they also use aggressive caches since interactivity is pretty minimal beyond selecting a stream.
Depending on the systems you're looking at, he may have been right. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Macs of the time were not capable of generating or properly receiving network traffic at higher rates than 150K/sec. If that's true, and you had an all-Mac network, Ethernet would be expensive overkill. And at the time AppleTalk wasn't exactly chopped liver- it had auto-detection of services working decades before zeroconf came along.
Of course, this being MIT, they had all kinds of systems that could greatly exceed that transfer rate. Jobs looks dumb from that perspective, but this is where his purpose as a Mac salesman and evangelist comes in (and the RDF).
Why has this situation persisted despite the explosive growth of text messaging? Why hasn't a new channel or one of the voice channels been reallocated as a dedicated phone-to-phone small packet transport?
I don't think you understand the problem here. A torrent file is perhaps 50K. A video is perhaps 50MB- a thousand times larger. You can't run a video streaming site on a residential or hobbyist connection, not even the 100Mbps lines everyone here likes to drool over. I have no idea what TPB uses right now but they already move enough 50K text files that when it goes down you can see the effect on the overall bandwidth usage of the entire country. Scaling that up three orders of magnitude won't happen by magic.
And there's no mention of bit rate. Apple's non-DRMed songs are 256K AAC. Amazon is going to have to really crank up LAME to produce MP3s that measure up to that.
Of course headlines and announcements affect the stock market. But there's a world of difference between "the headline affects the stock price", which is natural market behavior, and "the headline is intentionally worded and timed to affect the stock price a certain way", which is illegal.
Actually, it *is* possible to dip your hand into molten lead and quickly pull it out with no ill effects, thanks to the Leidenfrost effect. Kids, don't try this at home.
You would have the same experience with (conscientious) employees of any other cutting-edge company. Secret projects are secret projects.
Of course, if they [i]did[/i] have a contract with google, it would open the far larger can of worms (and pile of Slashdot ire) that is sponsored search results. This is a no-win situation.
If self-signed certs were accepted at face value by browsers the entire thing would fall apart because it's just as trivial to sign your cert with "Amazon.com" as it is with your real name. And it takes money to determine that the guy who typed "Amazon.com" into the Buy Cert form and hit Submit actually works for Amazon.com, because that's far more complex than just typing his name into Google and looking for bad feedback. You have to do work in (gasp) real life.
It's absolutely a good thing that getting a secure site accepted by browser is an expensive pain in the ass, because that is a barrier to entry for real scammers. Just imagine how bad phishing would be if they could get the little padlock on the browser to light up.
Personally, a file transfered over the internet isn't worth that much to me.
A file transferred over the internet is worth exactly as much to me as a file ripped from a CD which I will never see again after I use it to transport the music home from the store and throw it in the closet.
The only real alternative is either Quicktime or whatever Microsoft's own video plugin format is. Nothing else comes bundled with all major browsers. Tracking down and installing plugins is a tedious, error-prone process most users won't go through. Making installation automatic is a huge security risk.
Or you could just say it worked for iTunes without any weasel-words about non-compensation of artists.