He asked for it. Totally asked for it. By being really annoying. I mean REALLY, REALLY annoying. Did you see how annoying he was? That was the most annoying thing you could ever do - ASKING STUPID AND ANNOYING QUESTIONS. They should have tased him earlier. In fact I wish police would tase people when they honk their car horns, or if they talk too loudly or have bad breath. Nothing shuts people up like tasing them. And they deserve it. Because they are so annoying.
People should just stop being so annoying, then police wouldn't have to tase them. I mean really, just stop being such jerks and the police will leave you alone.
I agree - I'm disgusted by most of the comments. Saying he is an "attention seeker" and "wouldn't give up the mic" - so that is a good reason to taze him? Simply escort him out of the building. Why did they need to hold him down, cuff him and then taze him? You can hear him asking why he was being arrested and then telling the officers that he will leave, but they continue to use more force. But because he is in "tin-foil hat land" and asking about skull and bones he must be a loon and therefore should be shocked.
I've never had any problem with AdSense paying out on a site that I help with. It typically get 3000-5000 hits a day and the Google checks arrive regularly.
non-story? Uh not quite. Google does a tremendous amount for the site owner:
tracks the clicks (not all clicks pay out at the same rate, site owner doesn't know how much each click is worth)
Google sends out the checks (prints them out, mails them and I believe takes care of W2s or 1040s)
Google is trusted broker. It's a big issue to get customers to trust some small site to pay them the correct amount.
This is going to be EASY to utilize. Imagine HDTV feeds delivered via broadband rather than over the air or through your cable system. This amount bandwidth enables a whole variety of high definition video applications.
Changing a small to moderate amount of code may not take six months but testing that changed code could require quite a bit of testing. What if it was necessary to change some of their code to prevent cheating? Writing the code seems like it might only be an insignifigant part of of the process. First they would need to figure out what to change, then write the code and then do another whole round of testing to make sure that nothing was broken. The testing alone could take months even for small to moderate code changes.
Using the software together with a headset, which can be plugged into a computer's U.S.B. port, the students can make local or long-distance telephone calls free. Each student is assigned a traditional seven-digit phone number.
I had a Linux machine of mine hacked a few years back and the attacker completely wiped one of my hardrives. I happened to log on during the middle of the attack though, noticed something weird was going on and pulled the ethernet cable to my box. I was able to look through my logs before the attacker had a chance to erase them. In there was his IP address, when he logged on, etc. Next I called the local police. They didn't think that there was anything that they could do, but said they'd call back. Next I called my ISP. They didn't care either. Next I called the FBI and they didn't care either because there weren't enough monetary damages. Next I called the attacker's ISP. (I had his IP address from the logs). They didn't care either.
The local police finally called back and said that there was nothing that they could do. I finally asked the cop on the line that if there was nothing that could be done by seemingly anyone if I should just hack him back. He said that if it was him in my situation that is exactly what he would do! Not being a 1337 hacker though, I had no idea what to do and just gave up. I had already spent tons of time investigating and being pissed off. I was tired of the whole mess and I couldn't come up with anything to do. Thinking back on it now though, it still makes me mad. Maybe the only solution is to come up with an online posse to dole out a bit of online frontier justice.
I agree that this is nice from the standpoint that it gets people out into parks, etc, etc. But why do people need to have a GPS device and the web to enjoy the outdoors? Why can't people hike, run, ride their bike without having some connection to the internet?
I never get the guys in the park with their metal detectors though, so maybe it's just me.
While it is tempting to raise the warning about DRM, as some posters have done, this standard doesn't have any DRM anything in it. This is a standard that is very much aimed at normal end-user consumers for doing things like organizing their digital photos and relating them to each other in interesting ways.
As others have said, this is a metadata standard. It's not a new video/image format. It's about how existing formats relate to each other. It works over existing file systems and is file system neutral.
This is a standard for defining collections of digital media in an xml-based format. This can be useful for things like stating explicitly in metadata the relationship between a full size image and its thumbnail (simple example). A more complex and interesting scenario would involve defining a collection of images, video and audio so that they can be played in a certain order, creating a slideshow. If a device is MPV aware, it parses the xml file that defines the slideshow and presents the media. If the device is not MPV aware all of the files are still on the file system, just as they are today and they can still be accessed.
Another example: Say you had an MPV-aware digital camera that stored this metadata. You decide to burn the MPV and files created by your camera onto a CD. You could then watch it in your MPV aware DVD player or MPV aware PC. Nothing would stop you from seeing the underlying files.
There are numerous other examples of why having extensive metadata information on digital assets can be quite useful.
The other cool thing about this is that it is open source and available on sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpvtools.
This standard is similar to the High-MAT standard announced recently by Microsoft and Panasonic. But MPV is actually out and unlike High-MAT it is open source and requires no licensing fees.
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He asked for it. Totally asked for it. By being really annoying. I mean REALLY, REALLY annoying. Did you see how annoying he was? That was the most annoying thing you could ever do - ASKING STUPID AND ANNOYING QUESTIONS. They should have tased him earlier. In fact I wish police would tase people when they honk their car horns, or if they talk too loudly or have bad breath. Nothing shuts people up like tasing them. And they deserve it. Because they are so annoying. People should just stop being so annoying, then police wouldn't have to tase them. I mean really, just stop being such jerks and the police will leave you alone.
I agree - I'm disgusted by most of the comments. Saying he is an "attention seeker" and "wouldn't give up the mic" - so that is a good reason to taze him? Simply escort him out of the building. Why did they need to hold him down, cuff him and then taze him? You can hear him asking why he was being arrested and then telling the officers that he will leave, but they continue to use more force. But because he is in "tin-foil hat land" and asking about skull and bones he must be a loon and therefore should be shocked.
I've never had any problem with AdSense paying out on a site that I help with. It typically get 3000-5000 hits a day and the Google checks arrive regularly.
non-story? Uh not quite. Google does a tremendous amount for the site owner: tracks the clicks (not all clicks pay out at the same rate, site owner doesn't know how much each click is worth) Google sends out the checks (prints them out, mails them and I believe takes care of W2s or 1040s) Google is trusted broker. It's a big issue to get customers to trust some small site to pay them the correct amount.
This is going to be EASY to utilize. Imagine HDTV feeds delivered via broadband rather than over the air or through your cable system. This amount bandwidth enables a whole variety of high definition video applications.
emusic.com doesn't have DRM, just regular old mp3s. Their catalog is a little thin though.
Changing a small to moderate amount of code may not take six months but testing that changed code could require quite a bit of testing. What if it was necessary to change some of their code to prevent cheating? Writing the code seems like it might only be an insignifigant part of of the process. First they would need to figure out what to change, then write the code and then do another whole round of testing to make sure that nothing was broken. The testing alone could take months even for small to moderate code changes.
RTFA:
Using the software together with a headset, which can be plugged into a computer's U.S.B. port, the students can make local or long-distance telephone calls free. Each student is assigned a traditional seven-digit phone number.
I for one welcome our new vote machine hacking overlords.
I had a Linux machine of mine hacked a few years back and the attacker completely wiped one of my hardrives. I happened to log on during the middle of the attack though, noticed something weird was going on and pulled the ethernet cable to my box. I was able to look through my logs before the attacker had a chance to erase them. In there was his IP address, when he logged on, etc.
Next I called the local police. They didn't think that there was anything that they could do, but said they'd call back.
Next I called my ISP. They didn't care either.
Next I called the FBI and they didn't care either because there weren't enough monetary damages.
Next I called the attacker's ISP. (I had his IP address from the logs). They didn't care either.
The local police finally called back and said that there was nothing that they could do. I finally asked the cop on the line that if there was nothing that could be done by seemingly anyone if I should just hack him back. He said that if it was him in my situation that is exactly what he would do! Not being a 1337 hacker though, I had no idea what to do and just gave up. I had already spent tons of time investigating and being pissed off. I was tired of the whole mess and I couldn't come up with anything to do.
Thinking back on it now though, it still makes me mad.
Maybe the only solution is to come up with an online posse to dole out a bit of online frontier justice.
I agree that this is nice from the standpoint that it gets people out into parks, etc, etc. But why do people need to have a GPS device and the web to enjoy the outdoors? Why can't people hike, run, ride their bike without having some connection to the internet? I never get the guys in the park with their metal detectors though, so maybe it's just me.
While it is tempting to raise the warning about DRM, as some posters have done, this standard doesn't have any DRM anything in it. This is a standard that is very much aimed at normal end-user consumers for doing things like organizing their digital photos and relating them to each other in interesting ways.
As others have said, this is a metadata standard. It's not a new video/image format. It's about how existing formats relate to each other. It works over existing file systems and is file system neutral.
This is a standard for defining collections of digital media in an xml-based format. This can be useful for things like stating explicitly in metadata the relationship between a full size image and its thumbnail (simple example). A more complex and interesting scenario would involve defining a collection of images, video and audio so that they can be played in a certain order, creating a slideshow. If a device is MPV aware, it parses the xml file that defines the slideshow and presents the media. If the device is not MPV aware all of the files are still on the file system, just as they are today and they can still be accessed.
Another example: Say you had an MPV-aware digital camera that stored this metadata. You decide to burn the MPV and files created by your camera onto a CD. You could then watch it in your MPV aware DVD player or MPV aware PC. Nothing would stop you from seeing the underlying files.
There are numerous other examples of why having extensive metadata information on digital assets can be quite useful.
The other cool thing about this is that it is open source and available on sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpvtools.
This standard is similar to the High-MAT standard announced recently by Microsoft and Panasonic. But MPV is actually out and unlike High-MAT it is open source and requires no licensing fees.