I wonder how many IT jobs have been created in the overseas market. It would be interesting to compare how many persons over there it requires to supplement one US IT worker.
It's just in case the government wants to take a whack at decoding drives I guess, I don't know. I'm sure some where they've got machines capable of breaking encryption that good. Another cool thing about it is that you can enter up to five passwords so you have to enter them all before getting into the drive itself, and each password can be huge.
That's why I use the 256 bit blowfish on my encrypted drives. Not only is it sufficiently secure but it runs at a decent speed on all my systems (even the 400mhz Cellery I keep in my car). It scales all the way down to 4bit if I remember correctly.
That's why I use DriveCrypt. I got my version years ago and it's pretty antiquated but it supports up to 1024 bit encryption (granted it makes things relatively slow).
This will be great for adding speech recognition support to embedded devices and low-power computers. We'll have palm tops that allow us to speak into our date book like a secretary.
I wonder how many users signed up for broadband particularly for Xbox Live. I've got several customers at the store where I work (we sell games) that discuss Xbox Live and how they're considering signing up for broadband particularly for this purpose.
FreeNet was sold on a bunch of users for just that but quite simply no one is willing to dump hard drive space to random users out there.
However, I would use this sort of thing on an internal network because I directly control how much space is availible and I'd be able to, with adoption, access video from one of my three computers from a set-top-box in the living room and manage it as a single library. That's the sort of thing we need to be looking at, but unfortunately very few companies are officially designing network-aware set-top-boxes with DiVX decoding and hackers are left to design such things themselves. I had a similar tool for the PS2, but it was unusually flaky when it came to sending the decoded video over the network (since the PS2 could never decode the video itself, the application on my computer had to do it before hand).
I heard about a technology a few years ago nicknamed "Ants" for phone lines that found the best possible route from point to point in much the same way that ants leave chemical trails to tell the other ants where food etc. is.
I'm sure there's more practical uses of programming "ant brains" that this contest will uncover.
Is it just me or are people having similar issues with seeing the comments on this entry? When I first click it (every time) it shows 0 comments, when I refresh it shows them. It's done it across several browsing sessions.
But here's my babble about the article itself so this doesn't get killed as off-topic:
I would like to see a company spend more of their money to create proper handwriting recognition under Linux for such endeavors instead of half-assed QWERTY keyboards (which leaves out Dvorak users such as myself) on devices that amount to nothing more than low-end laptops without a keyboard (with full Linux functionality). Secondly, what's with the interface?
I for one am glad DirecTV is making this development since it will encourage companies to make the transition to HDTV and abandon their analog transmissions (since most will be required to do so anyway). Sure, the content offered right now may be sub-par as far as programming goes, but that's only because there haven't been many reasons for networks to make that push.
Isn't this the sort of thing that causes nightmares in the minds of TV show makeup persons?
I know HDTV caused many a sleepless night, but seriously... Maybe next they'll implement real-time airbrushing and iBotox.
It's finally good to see Diebold get its come-uppens. It's highly important to see this as the first step in realizing that commercial companies are incapable of securely managing our infrastructure (applies to voting and Diebold's ATMs) without the people's ability to scrutinize such products.
The exact same thing happened here and I'm sure its going on just about everywhere in this country. People have forgotten than sports aren't the only thing schools are around for. Quite frankly, I don't think schools should have sports programs to begin with unless their ticket sales from the events can pay for the program. But then again, the same thing happens with professional sports, but at least pro-sports encourage tourism.
How about we stop wasting money on sports programs and put it toward paying teachers properly and giving students the tools they need in order to achieve greatness?
DirectTV's box needs a phone line not for TV listings like TV, it uses the phone line to dial in to report pay-per-view purchases. Without a phone line you can pretty much rack up PPV purchases and never pay for them but most of the boxes I've owned put a stop to it after like 25 or so.
It's not so much that I'm asking Apple to make any changes, I love their hardware and their OS, but I'm asking Macromedia and Adobe to support x86 Unix flavors.
Apple is plenty mainstream and if I had the money I'd throw my PC out the window and grab a G5, but alas I'm a student with a part time job.
This could eventually be expanded to resemble Amazon's product reccomendations based upon what you're wearing, what sort of items are in your bag (RFID), etc.
I just can't wait until it gets as bad as Snow Crash where they can hack into the LCDs implanted into your eyes and display commercials constantly until you commit suicide.
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I wonder how many IT jobs have been created in the overseas market. It would be interesting to compare how many persons over there it requires to supplement one US IT worker.
Wouldn't any proper CVS of Linux (or even IBM's UNIX if they use CVS) have all of that already? Seems like SCO just needs to go on sourceforge.
So they're asking IBM to open the source that was stolen to SCO so they can investigate it?
I thought the thing they were investigating in the first place was source that was already opened that SCO found.
Am I missing something?
It's just in case the government wants to take a whack at decoding drives I guess, I don't know. I'm sure some where they've got machines capable of breaking encryption that good. Another cool thing about it is that you can enter up to five passwords so you have to enter them all before getting into the drive itself, and each password can be huge.
That's why I use the 256 bit blowfish on my encrypted drives. Not only is it sufficiently secure but it runs at a decent speed on all my systems (even the 400mhz Cellery I keep in my car). It scales all the way down to 4bit if I remember correctly.
Now we can have Advanced Technocolgy Chinese Finger Traps with 128bit encryption sporting a 200mhz Dragonball Processor.
That's why I use DriveCrypt. I got my version years ago and it's pretty antiquated but it supports up to 1024 bit encryption (granted it makes things relatively slow).
How is Yahoo! aquiring MusicMatch narrowing the market? There are still just as many music services out there.
None the less, its just the first step in MusicMatch's failure.
This will be great for adding speech recognition support to embedded devices and low-power computers. We'll have palm tops that allow us to speak into our date book like a secretary.
Is it just me or does the first picture look a little like the old Phantom mockups?
I wonder how many users signed up for broadband particularly for Xbox Live. I've got several customers at the store where I work (we sell games) that discuss Xbox Live and how they're considering signing up for broadband particularly for this purpose.
FreeNet was sold on a bunch of users for just that but quite simply no one is willing to dump hard drive space to random users out there.
However, I would use this sort of thing on an internal network because I directly control how much space is availible and I'd be able to, with adoption, access video from one of my three computers from a set-top-box in the living room and manage it as a single library. That's the sort of thing we need to be looking at, but unfortunately very few companies are officially designing network-aware set-top-boxes with DiVX decoding and hackers are left to design such things themselves. I had a similar tool for the PS2, but it was unusually flaky when it came to sending the decoded video over the network (since the PS2 could never decode the video itself, the application on my computer had to do it before hand).
I heard about a technology a few years ago nicknamed "Ants" for phone lines that found the best possible route from point to point in much the same way that ants leave chemical trails to tell the other ants where food etc. is.
I'm sure there's more practical uses of programming "ant brains" that this contest will uncover.
Is it just me or are people having similar issues with seeing the comments on this entry? When I first click it (every time) it shows 0 comments, when I refresh it shows them. It's done it across several browsing sessions. But here's my babble about the article itself so this doesn't get killed as off-topic: I would like to see a company spend more of their money to create proper handwriting recognition under Linux for such endeavors instead of half-assed QWERTY keyboards (which leaves out Dvorak users such as myself) on devices that amount to nothing more than low-end laptops without a keyboard (with full Linux functionality). Secondly, what's with the interface?
I wonder if you could legally view child pornography if you classified it as part of the belief of a religion.
I'm not sayin', but I'm sayin'.
Secondly, I wonder if the law had passed if ISPs would have done anything about FreeNet.
I for one am glad DirecTV is making this development since it will encourage companies to make the transition to HDTV and abandon their analog transmissions (since most will be required to do so anyway). Sure, the content offered right now may be sub-par as far as programming goes, but that's only because there haven't been many reasons for networks to make that push.
Isn't this the sort of thing that causes nightmares in the minds of TV show makeup persons? I know HDTV caused many a sleepless night, but seriously... Maybe next they'll implement real-time airbrushing and iBotox.
It's finally good to see Diebold get its come-uppens. It's highly important to see this as the first step in realizing that commercial companies are incapable of securely managing our infrastructure (applies to voting and Diebold's ATMs) without the people's ability to scrutinize such products.
The exact same thing happened here and I'm sure its going on just about everywhere in this country. People have forgotten than sports aren't the only thing schools are around for. Quite frankly, I don't think schools should have sports programs to begin with unless their ticket sales from the events can pay for the program. But then again, the same thing happens with professional sports, but at least pro-sports encourage tourism.
How about we stop wasting money on sports programs and put it toward paying teachers properly and giving students the tools they need in order to achieve greatness?
A source would have been nice.
I love how we censor the very things that could swing the election.
DirectTV's box needs a phone line not for TV listings like TV, it uses the phone line to dial in to report pay-per-view purchases. Without a phone line you can pretty much rack up PPV purchases and never pay for them but most of the boxes I've owned put a stop to it after like 25 or so.
It's not so much that I'm asking Apple to make any changes, I love their hardware and their OS, but I'm asking Macromedia and Adobe to support x86 Unix flavors. Apple is plenty mainstream and if I had the money I'd throw my PC out the window and grab a G5, but alas I'm a student with a part time job.
This could eventually be expanded to resemble Amazon's product reccomendations based upon what you're wearing, what sort of items are in your bag (RFID), etc. I just can't wait until it gets as bad as Snow Crash where they can hack into the LCDs implanted into your eyes and display commercials constantly until you commit suicide.