Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, the minister attempting to ram the great firewall of Oz down everyone's throat has been removing all traces of the unpopular legislation from his main website with a javascript filter.
The summary of this article is a ball-faced lie. The JavaScript in question removes the term "ISP filter" from the tag cloud on the home page of the site, nothing more.
There are still plenty of pages on the site that mention "ISP Filtering" such as the following:
PS: I still think Conroy is an ass-hat. It's a very small minority of Australian citizens who want internet censorship - Kevin Rudd and his government need to remember that they were voted in by the majority. Say "NO" to Kevin in 11!
Doing that for POP3-MD5 (or any other challenge authentication scheme), for example, would open you up to replay attacks, because the challenge would have to be the same for each login attempt.
What about credit cards? Credit card numbers in a PCI-compliant credit card vault are encrypted, and only decrypted (by a master key in the billing system) when needed for bill processing. If they were salted and hashed you'd never be able to bill anybody for anything.
Excuse me, I hold the rights to my own image. That has SHIT to do with freedom of speech.
Ok, you hold the rights to your own image. But do you hold the rights to other peoples' images in the videos you shoot?
I disagree with the judge's verdict, but not for the reason you cite. If this was a video for television, such as a commercial, it would be up to the production agency filming the commercial to get signed permissions from all of the participants in the commercial. This is called a "release." If the commercial gets played on television and one of the participants sues (assuming they didn't sign a release) they'd have to sue the production agency, not the television station, if they wanted any joy.
In this case, the poster of the video is the production agency and Google is the television station. The judge was incorrect to rule against Google, especially since the poster must agree that he has rights to the video before posting it (thus, a waiver).
For many companies that's not a problem because they have competent server admin staff and the community support is often way better than what you'd get for money.
That latter part is debatable. Community support often yields conflicting (and incorrect) answers in my experience.
Mind you, I've been waiting for Microsoft to fix Windows Search's ability to find matches in Unicode text files since NT 4.0 days (find and findstr work from the command line, why not the GUI?) so the level of support is probably no worse.
You're absolutely correct, AC. The reported issue isn't about a linear/nonlinear gamma bug at all - it's an averaging side effect.
The sample Dalai Lama image on TFA's page is intentionally constructed of interlaced lines of red and green data to thwart the averaging of source data used in common scaling algorithms. If you use the Gimp with the "None" scaling method, which will just pick-up every other row and column when scaling by 50%, (instead of trying to average 2x2 grids) you get a mostly-green image instead of the grey image advertised.
Given the tone of my response, especially the concluding statement, I would have thought it obvious. But for you... I wholly support a big FU to the IOC.
The figure sounds surprising when you first see it, but is probably correct if you think about it.
Isolated subsystems, like power window controllers, lock controllers, gearbox, accelerator and brake controllers are probably all based on low-power embedded CPU's (similar in nature to AMTEL/PIC devices) each with code line counts probably in the high-hundred to low-thousands. But then you start getting GPS devices and head units into the mix which are probably running custom applications on top of Windows CE.
There used to be a joke about the head of GM commenting on "If Microsoft made cars..." but that has, in effect, actually been happening for a long time now. Hell, even radio control transmitters for model cars and aircraft have been running on top of Windows CE for years.
...it seems that Bungie's basic philosophy has been: 'The sequels to the first Halo sucked. Let's fix that.'
That's because the L lost a fleck of ink and came out I.
Actually, I really enjoyed the first Halo. I felt extremely ripped off at the end of Halo 2, though, since it felt like I'd only gotten to play half the story. I skipped Halo 3 altogether as a result.
He's a Canadian citizen reporting on a Canadian sporting event, his domain is registered to a Charlottetown, CA address via a Canadian name register. So far he's got a good case to give the big FU to the IOC (which I wholly support).
Unfortunately it looks as though his site is hosted in Chesterfield, USA (according to cqcounter's visual traceroute), so the IOC may be able to leverage a shut down at the hosting provider. Sometimes it's unfortunate that the Internet is international.
You seem to forget that those funny fuzzy animal movies are only marketing tools for the related computer games and McDonalds toys. The games are about the same in terms of look as the movies themselves because they're often based on movie assets.
For example, see an interview with the Avatar game developers where they talk about getting the models from Lightstorm Entertainment (who were responsible for the movie graphics).
Wow, you must be at our hosting provider. We gave them a week's notice that we were migrating our applications to a new server (in the same farm, even gave them the pre-change and post-change IP addresses, ports and some URLs), but when D-day came we had to wait about 12 hours for someone to arrive at the data centre to change the IP addresses, etc., in their monitoring system.
Since OLED is a technology that once printable like newspaper will be cheaper than manufacturing LCD panels, even with worse reliability they will find their way first as a cheap solution
That's not strictly correct. The OLED polymer layers responsible for emitting the red/green/blue light are in fact printable, but they still have to be printed on top of a TFT semiconductor backplane (virtually the same as in an LCD panel). Because of the TFT backplane they'll never get (much) cheaper than equivalent sized LCD panel.
Excuse me? ClearType is a rip-off of Apple's (and many other vendors of the day) technique for anti-aliasing fonts on a CRT screen - otherwise known as Displaced Filtering. MS white papers have some of the same pixel diagrams and even reference SIGGRAPH 80 papers (from when LCD screens didn't even exist). ClearType is a (marginally) incremental improvement, it's definitely not a new technique.
War is about greed. War is governments killing people, both people of their enemies and their own, instead of being reasonable and sorting out their differences.
If government officials themselves had to go into armed conflict with each other when negotiations failed (instead of sending in their armies or assassins), how many disagreements do you think would get resolved over a conference table?
Yes - you can only predict nature, not politics or the sweeping winds of change.
Really? Could you tell me when the next earthquake will occur in California?
The World Trade Towers were designed to survive an impact of a fully-laden Boeing 707, I heard. 747's were far off in the future.
Last I heard they sustained the impacts just fine - it was the heat generated from the fuel fires that caused the floor trusses to sag and eventually compromised the core columns in the buildings.
Security experts say business customers have the means to foster safer products by demanding that vendors follow common-sense safety measures such as verifying that all team members successfully clear a background investigation and be trained in secure programming techniques. [citation needed]
The idea is that the light sensitive components have a minimum response time that is too large to capture high frame-rate digital data without tricks.
It's not actually a minimum response time issue, at least not from a CCD sensor point of view (as opposed to CMOS sensors you tend to see in consumer-level digital video and photography products).
"Traditional" high-speed photography with CCD sensors usually works by lighting the scene with high-intensity light sources so that the sensors are able to gather enough photons within the short exposure times to be "useful." Have a look around GooTube for things like the "SawStop demo" on the Discovery Time Wrap program for a good example of this.
If you look at a single pixel element on a CCD sensor it's essentially a photon well - it receives photons from the environment and converts them to an electric charge. Assuming the electronics reading charges out of the CCD sensor are good enough, a single photon striking a pixel element would be detectable, thus it's not really a pixel-related minimum response time issue.
The conventional electronics used in the "read out " process of a CCD sensor essentially do the following: they enable a "row" of pixel elements and clock the electric charges across the "columns" by using something akin to a bucket bridge network. The charge from the column getting clocked off the side of the sensor is read by an ADC (analogue-digital convertor) and stored in a digital buffer (RAM) before being sent to the host device. Each row is "clocked out" and read in this fashion, then the whole CCD sensor is shorted to reset any residual charges ready for the next exposure. Any response time issues are in the clocking out process, since the weakest link in the chain will be the time needed by the ADC to capture and convert a single charge.
The proposed technique changes the read out process in several ways, vastly increasing the complexity of the CCD sensor's bucket bridge network and reset electronics in the process. Say, for example, the sensor is setup as an array of 2x2 elements (the article proposes 4x4 elements). The read out process needs to read out pixels in four phases: even columns on even rows, odd columns on even rows, even columns on odd rows, odd rows on odd rows. That sounds complex already, right, but it's worse: because the sensor will essentially be exposed continuously you also need to reset the charges in those groups individually otherwise you'll get residual charge build-up that skews the data over time. If you don't all pixel elements will eventually read as full charges.
Electronics complexity issues aside, I'm wondering how useful this technique will be for high-speed scientific research. When looking at the resultant high-speed video each frame will be offset slightly in both the horizontal and vertical directions (1/2 pixel in a 2x2 network, 1/4 pixel in a 4x4 network). To some degree this will able to be corrected using sub-pixel blending, but this will introduce errors into the frames thus reducing their utility. Nonetheless, it sounds like a very interesting technique.
I'm sure you could trawl every organisation involved with Web Standards to find faults on their sites, though. For example:
http://www.w3.org/Help/ has an empty <a></a> tag pair that should throw a warning in W3C's "strict" XHTML 1.0 validator but doesn't: Validate this
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/site-comments/ doesn't include a type="text/css" attribute on one of its stylesheet <link...> tags, but again this isn't picked-up in the W3C validator: Validate this which instead complains about an issue with the DOCTYPE tag.
Its generally recognized that if you need this many columns, you are doing it wrong.
If you're not needing this many columns you're doing it wrong. You've not dealt with scientific results in any way, where a single sample result from a laboratory can contain hundreds of test predictors. It's even worse with the results from simulations.
I actually went out and found a copy of 3.0.0 on a shareware site, and put the files there. 3.0.0 still refuses to uninstall.
Step 1: Stop randomly deleting stuff from your system - most applications have Uninstallers for a reason.
Step 2: Stop hanging out on "shareware sites". Go to Google and type the following inurl:mirror/pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0 Use the official mirrors to avoid nasties like worms and viruses.
Step 3: Download and do a full install of OOo 3.0.0.
Step 4: Go to Add/Remove Programs in the control panel and Uninstall OOo 3.0.0 - don't just delete it.
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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, the minister attempting to ram the great firewall of Oz down everyone's throat has been removing all traces of the unpopular legislation from his main website with a javascript filter.
The summary of this article is a ball-faced lie. The JavaScript in question removes the term "ISP filter" from the tag cloud on the home page of the site, nothing more.
There are still plenty of pages on the site that mention "ISP Filtering" such as the following:
Media Release - Measures to improve safety of the internet for families
Measures to improve safety of the internet for families
Media Release - Optus to participate in ISP filtering pilot
Media Release - Pilot to assess technical feasibility of ISP filtering
PS: I still think Conroy is an ass-hat. It's a very small minority of Australian citizens who want internet censorship - Kevin Rudd and his government need to remember that they were voted in by the majority. Say "NO" to Kevin in 11!
It's a VPS. They could just fork an image off in another session and hack it to pieces if they wanted.
Passwords should always be salted and hashed.
Unless they shouldn't be.
Doing that for POP3-MD5 (or any other challenge authentication scheme), for example, would open you up to replay attacks, because the challenge would have to be the same for each login attempt.
What about credit cards? Credit card numbers in a PCI-compliant credit card vault are encrypted, and only decrypted (by a master key in the billing system) when needed for bill processing. If they were salted and hashed you'd never be able to bill anybody for anything.
Excuse me, I hold the rights to my own image. That has SHIT to do with freedom of speech.
Ok, you hold the rights to your own image. But do you hold the rights to other peoples' images in the videos you shoot?
I disagree with the judge's verdict, but not for the reason you cite. If this was a video for television, such as a commercial, it would be up to the production agency filming the commercial to get signed permissions from all of the participants in the commercial. This is called a "release." If the commercial gets played on television and one of the participants sues (assuming they didn't sign a release) they'd have to sue the production agency, not the television station, if they wanted any joy.
In this case, the poster of the video is the production agency and Google is the television station. The judge was incorrect to rule against Google, especially since the poster must agree that he has rights to the video before posting it (thus, a waiver).
For many companies that's not a problem because they have competent server admin staff and the community support is often way better than what you'd get for money.
That latter part is debatable. Community support often yields conflicting (and incorrect) answers in my experience.
Mind you, I've been waiting for Microsoft to fix Windows Search's ability to find matches in Unicode text files since NT 4.0 days (find and findstr work from the command line, why not the GUI?) so the level of support is probably no worse.
You're absolutely correct, AC. The reported issue isn't about a linear/nonlinear gamma bug at all - it's an averaging side effect.
The sample Dalai Lama image on TFA's page is intentionally constructed of interlaced lines of red and green data to thwart the averaging of source data used in common scaling algorithms. If you use the Gimp with the "None" scaling method, which will just pick-up every other row and column when scaling by 50%, (instead of trying to average 2x2 grids) you get a mostly-green image instead of the grey image advertised.
Given the tone of my response, especially the concluding statement, I would have thought it obvious. But for you... I wholly support a big FU to the IOC.
The figure sounds surprising when you first see it, but is probably correct if you think about it.
Isolated subsystems, like power window controllers, lock controllers, gearbox, accelerator and brake controllers are probably all based on low-power embedded CPU's (similar in nature to AMTEL/PIC devices) each with code line counts probably in the high-hundred to low-thousands. But then you start getting GPS devices and head units into the mix which are probably running custom applications on top of Windows CE.
There used to be a joke about the head of GM commenting on "If Microsoft made cars..." but that has, in effect, actually been happening for a long time now. Hell, even radio control transmitters for model cars and aircraft have been running on top of Windows CE for years.
It's like parking your car outside a convenience store with the keys in the ignition and the engine still running, along with your US Customs-issued firearm sitting on the front seat, and then complaining about your car being "stolen". Dumbasses.
...it seems that Bungie's basic philosophy has been: 'The sequels to the first Halo sucked. Let's fix that.'
That's because the L lost a fleck of ink and came out I.
Actually, I really enjoyed the first Halo. I felt extremely ripped off at the end of Halo 2, though, since it felt like I'd only gotten to play half the story. I skipped Halo 3 altogether as a result.
He's a Canadian citizen reporting on a Canadian sporting event, his domain is registered to a Charlottetown, CA address via a Canadian name register. So far he's got a good case to give the big FU to the IOC (which I wholly support).
Unfortunately it looks as though his site is hosted in Chesterfield, USA (according to cqcounter's visual traceroute), so the IOC may be able to leverage a shut down at the hosting provider. Sometimes it's unfortunate that the Internet is international.
You seem to forget that those funny fuzzy animal movies are only marketing tools for the related computer games and McDonalds toys. The games are about the same in terms of look as the movies themselves because they're often based on movie assets.
For example, see an interview with the Avatar game developers where they talk about getting the models from Lightstorm Entertainment (who were responsible for the movie graphics).
Wow, you must be at our hosting provider. We gave them a week's notice that we were migrating our applications to a new server (in the same farm, even gave them the pre-change and post-change IP addresses, ports and some URLs), but when D-day came we had to wait about 12 hours for someone to arrive at the data centre to change the IP addresses, etc., in their monitoring system.
Since OLED is a technology that once printable like newspaper will be cheaper than manufacturing LCD panels, even with worse reliability they will find their way first as a cheap solution
That's not strictly correct. The OLED polymer layers responsible for emitting the red/green/blue light are in fact printable, but they still have to be printed on top of a TFT semiconductor backplane (virtually the same as in an LCD panel). Because of the TFT backplane they'll never get (much) cheaper than equivalent sized LCD panel.
Excuse me? ClearType is a rip-off of Apple's (and many other vendors of the day) technique for anti-aliasing fonts on a CRT screen - otherwise known as Displaced Filtering. MS white papers have some of the same pixel diagrams and even reference SIGGRAPH 80 papers (from when LCD screens didn't even exist). ClearType is a (marginally) incremental improvement, it's definitely not a new technique.
War is about greed. War is governments killing people, both people of their enemies and their own, instead of being reasonable and sorting out their differences.
If government officials themselves had to go into armed conflict with each other when negotiations failed (instead of sending in their armies or assassins), how many disagreements do you think would get resolved over a conference table?
Yes - you can only predict nature, not politics or the sweeping winds of change.
Really? Could you tell me when the next earthquake will occur in California?
The World Trade Towers were designed to survive an impact of a fully-laden Boeing 707, I heard. 747's were far off in the future.
Last I heard they sustained the impacts just fine - it was the heat generated from the fuel fires that caused the floor trusses to sag and eventually compromised the core columns in the buildings.
Security experts say business customers have the means to foster safer products by demanding that vendors follow common-sense safety measures such as verifying that all team members successfully clear a background investigation and be trained in secure programming techniques. [citation needed]
The idea is that the light sensitive components have a minimum response time that is too large to capture high frame-rate digital data without tricks.
It's not actually a minimum response time issue, at least not from a CCD sensor point of view (as opposed to CMOS sensors you tend to see in consumer-level digital video and photography products).
"Traditional" high-speed photography with CCD sensors usually works by lighting the scene with high-intensity light sources so that the sensors are able to gather enough photons within the short exposure times to be "useful." Have a look around GooTube for things like the "SawStop demo" on the Discovery Time Wrap program for a good example of this.
If you look at a single pixel element on a CCD sensor it's essentially a photon well - it receives photons from the environment and converts them to an electric charge. Assuming the electronics reading charges out of the CCD sensor are good enough, a single photon striking a pixel element would be detectable, thus it's not really a pixel-related minimum response time issue.
The conventional electronics used in the "read out " process of a CCD sensor essentially do the following: they enable a "row" of pixel elements and clock the electric charges across the "columns" by using something akin to a bucket bridge network. The charge from the column getting clocked off the side of the sensor is read by an ADC (analogue-digital convertor) and stored in a digital buffer (RAM) before being sent to the host device. Each row is "clocked out" and read in this fashion, then the whole CCD sensor is shorted to reset any residual charges ready for the next exposure. Any response time issues are in the clocking out process, since the weakest link in the chain will be the time needed by the ADC to capture and convert a single charge.
The proposed technique changes the read out process in several ways, vastly increasing the complexity of the CCD sensor's bucket bridge network and reset electronics in the process. Say, for example, the sensor is setup as an array of 2x2 elements (the article proposes 4x4 elements). The read out process needs to read out pixels in four phases: even columns on even rows, odd columns on even rows, even columns on odd rows, odd rows on odd rows. That sounds complex already, right, but it's worse: because the sensor will essentially be exposed continuously you also need to reset the charges in those groups individually otherwise you'll get residual charge build-up that skews the data over time. If you don't all pixel elements will eventually read as full charges.
Electronics complexity issues aside, I'm wondering how useful this technique will be for high-speed scientific research. When looking at the resultant high-speed video each frame will be offset slightly in both the horizontal and vertical directions (1/2 pixel in a 2x2 network, 1/4 pixel in a 4x4 network). To some degree this will able to be corrected using sub-pixel blending, but this will introduce errors into the frames thus reducing their utility. Nonetheless, it sounds like a very interesting technique.
Surprisingly there's actually a book on reinarnation...
http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/ma9/36148.shtml
I'm sure you're attempting to be funny, but for those actually interested in reading TFA...
http://www.networkmirror.com/VB47vkBkoAUZdJvS/www.platohistory.org/blog/2010/02/perhaps-the-first-denial-of-service-attack.html
Google? HTML? I think not
I'm sure you could trawl every organisation involved with Web Standards to find faults on their sites, though. For example:
http://www.w3.org/Help/ has an empty <a></a> tag pair that should throw a warning in W3C's "strict" XHTML 1.0 validator but doesn't: Validate this
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/site-comments/ doesn't include a type="text/css" attribute on one of its stylesheet <link...> tags, but again this isn't picked-up in the W3C validator: Validate this which instead complains about an issue with the DOCTYPE tag.
Its generally recognized that if you need this many columns, you are doing it wrong.
If you're not needing this many columns you're doing it wrong. You've not dealt with scientific results in any way, where a single sample result from a laboratory can contain hundreds of test predictors. It's even worse with the results from simulations.
I actually went out and found a copy of 3.0.0 on a shareware site, and put the files there. 3.0.0 still refuses to uninstall.
Step 1: Stop randomly deleting stuff from your system - most applications have Uninstallers for a reason.
Step 2: Stop hanging out on "shareware sites". Go to Google and type the following /pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0
inurl:mirror
Use the official mirrors to avoid nasties like worms and viruses.
Step 3: Download and do a full install of OOo 3.0.0.
Step 4: Go to Add/Remove Programs in the control panel and Uninstall OOo 3.0.0 - don't just delete it.
Step 5: Install OOo 3.2.0
Step 6: ...
Step 7: Profit!