How much money would this culture cost the entertainment producers? If fair use is really fair then it should still allow
I do not think that media should be allowed to be replayed for free. Significant amounts of money went into making TV shows and movies and the like and any system must ensure that the producer gets his cut. Contrary to the demands of my sig, not all information should be completely free. Using the CC license is a happy medium. The I really think that this speaker has the right approach, so to speak. From TFA:
He also noted that there are two ways of approaching the argument for free culture. The first is the "lefty" way of talking about ideals, which doesn't seem to get very far with many people. The "right" approach discusses why expanded rights for users under copyright law would be good for business, good for growth, and good for the economy and society.
I see this as being very useful in big cities where warwalking is easy. Imagine the data you could gather by walking around Manhatten for a day with this device. I know that a while back 2600 made a color-coded map of open/secured wifi APs in Manhatten, but it would be even more interesting to learn which of those APs are suceptible to different attacks.
It is especially important to note the Bluetooth abilities in this context. IF properly tweaked, one hacker could wander around a major public event and automatically attempt to break into every Bluetooth device in range. You can get within range of thousands of people.
I wonder what errors this device has that need ironing out. Would it be able to detect its own security holes? (Ow, head asploding)
Immunity expects to sell Silica for about $3,000 and is working with external beta testers to iron out kinks before a projected October 2006 launch date.
I don't know where you are getting your data, but it takes substancially longer than 29 minutes! From NASA:
So how far are the Voyager spacecraft from Earth? The answer could take the form of miles or kilometers...billions of miles or kilometers. To put this large distance into a different prospective, as of January 5, 2004, a command signal sent from one of the DSN antennas, traveling at the speed of light towards Voyager-1, takes about 12 hours and 39 minutes, to reach Voyager-1's receiver. Compare this to sending a signal to Mars, a command going to the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, in orbit around Mars would only take about 15 minutes.
Considering the original expectations of the probe, we are getting amazing data! When launched, no one expected there to be any signal at all being transmitted after this long. This is a major feat of engineering.
Technology is interesting. It has taken 30 years to move a record this far into space. Compare that to an MP3, which can be streamed that same distance in only half a day!
First off, I an inclined to say that this is an ultimate waste of money. I lost so many coats as a child in Michigan that I cannot imagine having held onto a cell phone at age 6. The lost and found will gradually resemble Radioshack.
It really depends on why you are equipping your child with a cell phone. As TFA points out, many parents are not doing it for social reasons:
One company that has picked up on the concerns of parents is Disney Mobile. Disney Mobile was set up in the US this June and provides families with mobile phones specifically designed for "tweens, young teens and parents who want to keep an eye on them", according to the Disney Mobile Web site. Unlike standard mobile phones, these handsets feature software that allows parents to limit texts, calls and downloads, restrict phone usage and even locate their children via GPS.
Their latest phone, pictured on PhoneArena, is the Disney D100 (pictured), which features a Mickey Mouse-style keypad and a picture of Winnie the Pooh on the casing -- Disney Mobile seems to be marketing itself as a family solution, aimed at concerned parents, and not directly at children.
If a child can hold onto the phone, this could be a nice way to keep track of children. I can think of two major caveats to tracking: the aforementioned loss issue and the fact that kidnappers will search their victims for cell phones now thus in a true emergency they will not really help.
It is especially apt compared to the original claims about the platform. This was supposed to be revolutionary, now it seems like it will be yet another pay-to-play PC progam. HardOCP was perhaps the most skeptical of the device's claims back in 2003 when other tech news outlets were still drooling over the proposed specs.
The company's website still features the Lapboard as coming soon. I hope that they get the Lapboard out the door and into the market as it has some promise and seems feasible to design. However if it does appear in stores it will still have heavy competition from Logitech, Microsoft and all the other usual suspects.
My first love is Java, but I am required to work with databases for the project I am starting. I have taught myself how to code in it and have some experience but the proper use of some of the more obscure commands often evades me. Although the reviewer found navigating the book hard at times I think it will make a nice addition to my select next-to-computer library. Even reading the review I feel better informed about SQL!
If you have never coded in SQL before, this book is not for you. Instead try this excellent website.
Anyway, mass spectrometry is an interesting technology that works very very well in the lab. The question is how practical can they make this machine? How much does it cost? TFA talks about how terrorism is mega expesive, so I get the feeling that they are just trying to lessen the sticker shock. And as the saying goes, no matter how idiotproof they make the device, TSA will just make a better idiot.
Fortunately (according to the manufacturer) this machine finds more than your run of the mill explosives, it can also find drugs:
The instrument has been calibrated to identify narcotics, chemical warfare agents such as the nerve gas Sarin, toxic industrial chemicals, and peroxide-based explosives including TATP and HMTD, both used in the July 2005 London bombings.
For all of its faults, I do not think that there is harm in renewing ICANN's contract. I do not know if they should be renewing it for 5 years, though, as that is an eternity in Internet time.
Those who complain about ICANN cite generally now-resolved issues that have arisen but fail to demonstrate how another agency would have prevented them from becoming problems. On the flipside of the argument, eWeek has a detailed op-ed piece of ICANN's issues.
So the question is, if you are going to target your application to a virtual machine, why use vmware? Why wouldn't you use java or python, for example?
The contest was sponsored by VMware therefore it is only natural that they used their own platform. Look at the domain of TFA.
I remember all of the predictions about the PS2's accessories and how you would be able to do this and that and use your own face in every game, etc. The EyeToy is nice but I never viewed it as being good for more than about 15 minutes of fun. XBox 360 has more power and a better chance of actually doing something new. Considering how long we have been using the same control pad (or occassionally steering wheel) paradigm on consoles, we are long overdue for a change. I sincerely hope that this latest generation of gaming systems brings a new experience to the table. The Wii also seems to be trying some new ideas.
I hate to knitpick, but how can the included game be "free" if you have to buy the camera to use it?
First prize was awarded to Mikko Hiltunen, Erno Kuusela, Joachim Viide, Mika Seppänen and Jani Kenttälä of Oulu, Finland, for creating HowNetWorks. HowNetWorks is an always-on, all-in-one, personal network troubleshooting console for those tired of the "laborious work" of network debugging. No more writing complicated sniffer filters, no more searching for ways to reproduce failures. HowNetWorks takes the next step in sniffer evolution-simply fetch the relevant data and throw it to your favorite analyzer.
Second prize was awarded to Andrew Macdonell, Michael Closson, Paul Nalos and Paul Lu of Edmonton, Alberta, for creating the Trellis NAS Bridge Appliance. The Trellis NAS Bridge Appliance makes it simple to access files across the network regardless of location, operating system or type of file sharing technology (SSH, NFS, SMB, etc.). It simplifies file access while maintaining security.
Third prize was awarded to Michael C. Jett of Senath, Mo., and Kennieth A. Goodwin of Paragould, Ark., for creating Sieve Firewall. Sieve Firewall makes it easy for Windows users to set up and use a transparent bridging firewall without having to learn Linux. The virtual appliance is managed by a Windows GUI application. The resulting XML configuration files are loaded to the Sieve Firewall virtual appliance and filtering can be up and running in minutes. Because the firewall is completely invisible to the outside world, it is not vulnerable to attacks that target more traditional firewalls. Not only can this appliance be used to create safe home networks, it can be used to manage and prioritize traffic in a multi-department, complex business network.
The three bullet points in the parent are quoted from TFA. The cite was cut off, apologies.
I hope there isn't life on 2003UB313 (which is very highly unlikely) because then we would have to talk about the 2003UB313ians and that would just be annoying.
This is an interesting approach, though I am not sure why they even bother with the definition of planet anymore. Just consider Plutons as their own thing. I wonder if elementary students will now have to recite all 12 planets.
Here are the three additions: *The asteroid Ceres, which is round, would be recast as a dwarf planet in the new scheme.
*Pluto would remain a planet and its moon Charon would be reclassified as a planet. Both would be called "plutons," however, to distinguish them from the eight "classical" planets.
*A far-out Pluto-sized object known as 2003 UB313 would also be called a pluton.
This is a big bonus to AMD. With the competition between AMD and Intel so close now it will be interesting to see how the two companies change their tactics. I wonder what the power consumption of this new quad core will be. Power consumption and heat production are becoming increasingly important.
I am glad to see AMD making progress on its quad core chip. No longer can megahertz bring mega bucks. Moore's law doesn't mean Moore money. (Ok, I'll stop now.) We have seen more chip innovation over that past 4 years than I thought was possible.
In case you are wondering what the differences are between AMD and Intel in quad core designs, this comes from TFA:"Intel has recently accelerated its quad-core plans; the company recently announced that quad-core desktop and server chips will be available this year. Intel's initial quad-core designs are significantly different than AMD's approach. The quad-core Intel Kentsfield processor is essentially two Conroe dice attached to the same package. AMD's native quad-core, on the other hand, incorporates all four cores onto the same die."
I cannot wait for comparative benchmarks. I wonder how much ground Intel will gain by being first to market.
Depending on the license that they choose, OSS purists can now utilize Java in their programs. OpenOffice.org ran into some issues when it began using Java to power some of its components. Hopefully the license under which this is released will be acceptable.
This happens with every Internet advancement. People proclaimed the end of EBay with time, but it is as strong as ever because they adjust to the situation better than most companies (buying PayPal, partnering with the USPS, et cetera). Other examples are the search engine wars and e-mail. When GMail blew the top off of wimpy e-mail capacities, the competitors were quick to match it.
Something important to note is that one user can upload videos to any or all of the top video sites. YouTube et al will have to offer some incentive for a user to stay with their service for the long term.
I interned in the DC office of a national Republican politician last semester. An anon group (we figured out who it probably was eventually) set up an autodialer to call the people in our district with a message about how bad we were. It ended with the plea to "Press 1 to tell him to get some backbone!" Pressing 1 would connect them with our office. We were bombarded with calls of people who did not understand the messages and would start yelling at us to stop calling them. It took some work to calm these people down and explain that were were definitely not responsible for the calls. As luck would have it we got to talk policy with people who would never intentionally call their congressman.
Make sure you know what these calls are about before letting it influence your voting. When I worked phone banks for Bush/Cheney 2004 we kept running lists of the results of our calls. People who did not want to be called again were noted and erased from the list. We were looking for volunteers, not money and I didn't get paid for it. We only called people who were registered Republicans and had been active in the party in the past. It is a waste of time to call people again and again who are not interested.
The Eco Challenge does not have anything to do with TFA. The Challenge did not have people voted off thus it does not implement Nash's Theories.
Anyway, back on topic. Nash created ways of describing so many behaviors but he did it so simply. In addition to his mind, his theories are beautiful. Whether competing in an outdoor gameshow or trying to pick up ladies at the club, game theory works wonders. (And no, I am not suggesting that you walk up to a girl and start talking to her about math. It doesn't work so well. Trust me.)
I disagree with you logic, but Linux definitely has a large consumer base. The debate over desktop Linux has overshadowed the adoption of Linux in servers and embedded devices. For the latter two applications, there is no doubt that it is mainstream. Linux on the desktop has grown by leaps and bounds over the past 5 years and it is gaining in popularity every day.
It is nice to see that LinuxWorld seems to be thriving. Although I am sure that we will get daily/. stories about the conference, the reletively slow first day still shows promise. Nokia's presence is a big boost, and their latest product looks like it is positioned to sell. Linux is big in the embedded devices market and is capeable on the desktop, so it seems natural to me that it should have a strong presence in the less-than-laptop market. This trend will grow much larger after Palm's software division releases its new version of the Palm OS
I am glad that Google has made this upgrade. Blogger has always had a pretty clean layout that doesn't get in the way of the content (are you listening MySpace?) and makes sites pretty easy to read. Ever since they announced Google Pages I wondered when they were going to integrate it into Blogger. I played with Pages and found that while it lacks power and advanced features, it just plain works. That is the most important thing. After all, most people above a certain coding ability will probably have their own sites and will not be using Blogger in the first place.
You know that Google has come up with something great when they announce that it has made it out of testing and into Beta stage.
As with all of these hacks, the key is vigilence. I know that Runescape has an optional banking PIN number that has to be selected by clicking on randomly positioned numbers. I know that screengrabbers can still read it, but it is a good step. Change your password often, especially if you game from public computers. Even reputable Internet cafes can have a malicious user who installed a small hardware keylogger a few hours ago to steal passwords.
I have read many tales on gaming forums of "I gave my password to person X for this reason and now 300 people have it." Do not give your password or other information to anyone for any reason. Report players who try to get it from you to the appropriate authority. Also avoid websites that offer training or any other gimmick that requires account info. I know that identity theft (real or virtual) is impossible to prevent 100% but common sense steps can make it much more difficult.
This shouldn't really matter to Apple anyway. This will increase speculation about the OS on sites like/. and any publicity is good publicity. The mainstream media will probably not even care about this whatsoever. A quick glance at Google News shows that very few non-geeky news sources have picked up the story.
Obviously you don't know many people who do IVs. I was trying to make a joke about missing the vein until the patient dies. I guess/. is the wrong forum for morbid healthcare jokes.
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How much money would this culture cost the entertainment producers? If fair use is really fair then it should still allow
I do not think that media should be allowed to be replayed for free. Significant amounts of money went into making TV shows and movies and the like and any system must ensure that the producer gets his cut. Contrary to the demands of my sig, not all information should be completely free. Using the CC license is a happy medium. The I really think that this speaker has the right approach, so to speak. From TFA:
It is especially important to note the Bluetooth abilities in this context. IF properly tweaked, one hacker could wander around a major public event and automatically attempt to break into every Bluetooth device in range. You can get within range of thousands of people.
I wonder what errors this device has that need ironing out. Would it be able to detect its own security holes? (Ow, head asploding)
Considering the original expectations of the probe, we are getting amazing data! When launched, no one expected there to be any signal at all being transmitted after this long. This is a major feat of engineering.
Technology is interesting. It has taken 30 years to move a record this far into space. Compare that to an MP3, which can be streamed that same distance in only half a day!
It really depends on why you are equipping your child with a cell phone. As TFA points out, many parents are not doing it for social reasons:
If a child can hold onto the phone, this could be a nice way to keep track of children. I can think of two major caveats to tracking: the aforementioned loss issue and the fact that kidnappers will search their victims for cell phones now thus in a true emergency they will not really help.
The company's website still features the Lapboard as coming soon. I hope that they get the Lapboard out the door and into the market as it has some promise and seems feasible to design. However if it does appear in stores it will still have heavy competition from Logitech, Microsoft and all the other usual suspects.
If you have never coded in SQL before, this book is not for you. Instead try this excellent website.
Anyway, mass spectrometry is an interesting technology that works very very well in the lab. The question is how practical can they make this machine? How much does it cost? TFA talks about how terrorism is mega expesive, so I get the feeling that they are just trying to lessen the sticker shock. And as the saying goes, no matter how idiotproof they make the device, TSA will just make a better idiot.
Fortunately (according to the manufacturer) this machine finds more than your run of the mill explosives, it can also find drugs:
For all of its faults, I do not think that there is harm in renewing ICANN's contract. I do not know if they should be renewing it for 5 years, though, as that is an eternity in Internet time.
Those who complain about ICANN cite generally now-resolved issues that have arisen but fail to demonstrate how another agency would have prevented them from becoming problems. On the flipside of the argument, eWeek has a detailed op-ed piece of ICANN's issues.
The contest was sponsored by VMware therefore it is only natural that they used their own platform. Look at the domain of TFA.
I hate to knitpick, but how can the included game be "free" if you have to buy the camera to use it?
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I hope there isn't life on 2003UB313 (which is very highly unlikely) because then we would have to talk about the 2003UB313ians and that would just be annoying.
Here are the three additions:
*The asteroid Ceres, which is round, would be recast as a dwarf planet in the new scheme.
*Pluto would remain a planet and its moon Charon would be reclassified as a planet. Both would be called "plutons," however, to distinguish them from the eight "classical" planets.
*A far-out Pluto-sized object known as 2003 UB313 would also be called a pluton.
I am glad to see AMD making progress on its quad core chip. No longer can megahertz bring mega bucks. Moore's law doesn't mean Moore money. (Ok, I'll stop now.) We have seen more chip innovation over that past 4 years than I thought was possible.
In case you are wondering what the differences are between AMD and Intel in quad core designs, this comes from TFA:"Intel has recently accelerated its quad-core plans; the company recently announced that quad-core desktop and server chips will be available this year. Intel's initial quad-core designs are significantly different than AMD's approach. The quad-core Intel Kentsfield processor is essentially two Conroe dice attached to the same package. AMD's native quad-core, on the other hand, incorporates all four cores onto the same die."
I cannot wait for comparative benchmarks. I wonder how much ground Intel will gain by being first to market.
Depending on the license that they choose, OSS purists can now utilize Java in their programs. OpenOffice.org ran into some issues when it began using Java to power some of its components. Hopefully the license under which this is released will be acceptable.
Something important to note is that one user can upload videos to any or all of the top video sites. YouTube et al will have to offer some incentive for a user to stay with their service for the long term.
Make sure you know what these calls are about before letting it influence your voting. When I worked phone banks for Bush/Cheney 2004 we kept running lists of the results of our calls. People who did not want to be called again were noted and erased from the list. We were looking for volunteers, not money and I didn't get paid for it. We only called people who were registered Republicans and had been active in the party in the past. It is a waste of time to call people again and again who are not interested.
Anyway, back on topic. Nash created ways of describing so many behaviors but he did it so simply. In addition to his mind, his theories are beautiful. Whether competing in an outdoor gameshow or trying to pick up ladies at the club, game theory works wonders. (And no, I am not suggesting that you walk up to a girl and start talking to her about math. It doesn't work so well. Trust me.)
I disagree with you logic, but Linux definitely has a large consumer base. The debate over desktop Linux has overshadowed the adoption of Linux in servers and embedded devices. For the latter two applications, there is no doubt that it is mainstream. Linux on the desktop has grown by leaps and bounds over the past 5 years and it is gaining in popularity every day.
It is nice to see that LinuxWorld seems to be thriving. Although I am sure that we will get daily /. stories about the conference, the reletively slow first day still shows promise. Nokia's presence is a big boost, and their latest product looks like it is positioned to sell. Linux is big in the embedded devices market and is capeable on the desktop, so it seems natural to me that it should have a strong presence in the less-than-laptop market. This trend will grow much larger after Palm's software division releases its new version of the Palm OS
I am glad that Google has made this upgrade. Blogger has always had a pretty clean layout that doesn't get in the way of the content (are you listening MySpace?) and makes sites pretty easy to read. Ever since they announced Google Pages I wondered when they were going to integrate it into Blogger. I played with Pages and found that while it lacks power and advanced features, it just plain works. That is the most important thing. After all, most people above a certain coding ability will probably have their own sites and will not be using Blogger in the first place.
You know that Google has come up with something great when they announce that it has made it out of testing and into Beta stage.
I have read many tales on gaming forums of "I gave my password to person X for this reason and now 300 people have it." Do not give your password or other information to anyone for any reason. Report players who try to get it from you to the appropriate authority. Also avoid websites that offer training or any other gimmick that requires account info. I know that identity theft (real or virtual) is impossible to prevent 100% but common sense steps can make it much more difficult.
This shouldn't really matter to Apple anyway. This will increase speculation about the OS on sites like
Wait, I didn't think that any country had net nutrality. Does Sweden?
Obviously you don't know many people who do IVs. I was trying to make a joke about missing the vein until the patient dies. I guess /. is the wrong forum for morbid healthcare jokes.