the deaf community has been using videophones
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for a long time now.
first we used netmeeting types on the pc but the size are real small and the motion is jerky.
so now we are using either D-Link I-2-Eye (www.i-2-eye.com) or Sorenson, a pioneer in this field, (www.sorensonvrs.com). It has spread around the community like wildfire - I would estimate between 5,000 to 10,000 have one already.
Basically its set on top of a tv but the quality is great as we get around 25 to 30 fps, we can call relay services (real interpreters) to call hearing individuals using sign language. And we can call point to point to chat up with old friends or keep in touch with new friends.
I am sure in the future this technology will be built in tv sets and connected wirelessly to the router and thus to the internet.
I think this has better future than these tiny screens on phones because you can see bigger sizes - as big as the tv allows.
just my take.
han solo
Hi xxxx,
This is from our Chairman and Founder Mark Surfas:
GameSpy welcomes any and all help finding genuine bugs and security breaches on our servers. What we don't welcome are people publishing security hacks that have the potential to hurt our products. GameSpy products are supposed to be about having fun, but hacks and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks take the fun out of it. It doesn't simply hurt GameSpy; it hurts every person playing games with our products.
What this person did was more than reverse engineer two of our products, RogerWilco and GameSpy3D-he was describing our backend services and publishing CDkey generation information without letting us know. At first we welcomed his bug alerts. We responded to him immediately and thanked him for his bug research, as we do with everyone who contacts us with bug information. We even sent him a thank you letter, which we have on file.
But then we found out he was also publishing how to brute force our RogerWilco CDkeys and had published hacks on other game CDkeys as well. He was doing more than reporting bugs; he was publishing game pirating techniques. He published how to attack our network. This is not the way ethical security researchers operate. It was at this point that we stopped our communication with him and asked him to remove the materials in question.
When we were first contacted, this person was associated with a small software security company. They asked if GameSpy wanted to pay a "consulting fee" to fix the hacks. However, these were not bugs; it was information about how our products work. When we brought this to the software security company's attention, they disavowed their relationship with that person and removed him from their servers.
Let me repeat-we welcome any bug alerts and will fix any and all security breaches that come to our attention. We find and fix nearly all of them before any external sources find them. It's all about playing games and having fun, people! That's why we do what we do! However, we won't pay "consulting fees" to people who create CDkey hacks of our proprietary software, then post the results if we don't pay them.
Gamers trust us. We have to protect them from any and all attacks on our network that affects gamers.
Mark Surfas
Chairman & Founder
GameSpy
If there's anything else we can do to help, please let us know.
Karen "Cobby" Cobb
Customer Service Manager
GameSpy Industries
karen@gamespy.com
everyone calling these board members at home and sell them the merits of Slashdot or ThinkGeek?
After all it wouldn't be harrassment as long as you are calling to solicit these sites for their unique geekness eh?
Sic em Slashdotters.
VeriSign spokesperson Brian O'Shaughnessy said the company has not yet seen the lawsuit and that it doesn't comment on pending litigation."
They should just build an ASIMO robot in the mold of a spokesperson. There would be only 2 lines of code for the robot to speak out everytime they are contacted on a story:
"The company has not seen the lawsuit."
"No comment"
Then we can skip the obligatory spokesperson quote in articles in the future as its' pretty much all they say nowdays.
Slashdot Mirror
for a long time now. first we used netmeeting types on the pc but the size are real small and the motion is jerky. so now we are using either D-Link I-2-Eye (www.i-2-eye.com) or Sorenson, a pioneer in this field, (www.sorensonvrs.com). It has spread around the community like wildfire - I would estimate between 5,000 to 10,000 have one already. Basically its set on top of a tv but the quality is great as we get around 25 to 30 fps, we can call relay services (real interpreters) to call hearing individuals using sign language. And we can call point to point to chat up with old friends or keep in touch with new friends. I am sure in the future this technology will be built in tv sets and connected wirelessly to the router and thus to the internet. I think this has better future than these tiny screens on phones because you can see bigger sizes - as big as the tv allows. just my take. han solo
then we could be traveling via these around the globe instead of up and down.
remark that there will be no more spam by 2006? I guess this is one of his solutions. han solo
said software for Windows only? How about developing one for *nix? and for Mac too? han solo
have the website designed in China and maintained by illegal immigrants in the USA.
Hi xxxx, This is from our Chairman and Founder Mark Surfas: GameSpy welcomes any and all help finding genuine bugs and security breaches on our servers. What we don't welcome are people publishing security hacks that have the potential to hurt our products. GameSpy products are supposed to be about having fun, but hacks and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks take the fun out of it. It doesn't simply hurt GameSpy; it hurts every person playing games with our products. What this person did was more than reverse engineer two of our products, RogerWilco and GameSpy3D-he was describing our backend services and publishing CDkey generation information without letting us know. At first we welcomed his bug alerts. We responded to him immediately and thanked him for his bug research, as we do with everyone who contacts us with bug information. We even sent him a thank you letter, which we have on file. But then we found out he was also publishing how to brute force our RogerWilco CDkeys and had published hacks on other game CDkeys as well. He was doing more than reporting bugs; he was publishing game pirating techniques. He published how to attack our network. This is not the way ethical security researchers operate. It was at this point that we stopped our communication with him and asked him to remove the materials in question. When we were first contacted, this person was associated with a small software security company. They asked if GameSpy wanted to pay a "consulting fee" to fix the hacks. However, these were not bugs; it was information about how our products work. When we brought this to the software security company's attention, they disavowed their relationship with that person and removed him from their servers. Let me repeat-we welcome any bug alerts and will fix any and all security breaches that come to our attention. We find and fix nearly all of them before any external sources find them. It's all about playing games and having fun, people! That's why we do what we do! However, we won't pay "consulting fees" to people who create CDkey hacks of our proprietary software, then post the results if we don't pay them. Gamers trust us. We have to protect them from any and all attacks on our network that affects gamers. Mark Surfas Chairman & Founder GameSpy If there's anything else we can do to help, please let us know. Karen "Cobby" Cobb Customer Service Manager GameSpy Industries karen@gamespy.com
Identify the poor code writers at Microsoft and present them with a copy of OpenBSD.
everyone calling these board members at home and sell them the merits of Slashdot or ThinkGeek? After all it wouldn't be harrassment as long as you are calling to solicit these sites for their unique geekness eh? Sic em Slashdotters.
SCO Open Source Tools Found it under talkback posted on that page. Talk about ultimate hypocrisy.