What does TTY or IP relay have to do with this? It's simple credit-card scamming. Could happen via email or, hell, even a regular phone call. (Someone who expects to recieve $1.6M in free ill-gotten goods surely doesn't care about international long distance charges??) Seems to me any number of alarm bells should be going off in the business-owners' heads regardless of the communications medium used.
Remember? Back before they became one of the first casualties of the IP blitzkreig? Ahh, the good old days.
Well, you're right. I do the same thing you do: "Lyrics" + words + Google = you found the song. HOWEVER. You're screwed if the song you're looking for has no lyrics. "Walk, Don't Run" by The Ventures? "Green Onions" by Booker T. & The MG's? "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck? Even the article's example of "Moonlight Sonata" by Ludwig Von Beethoven? Sorry, no help from Google.
(Not to mention what happens when the song has lyrics, but you can't understand anything the singer sings.)
Anyway, this service is a nifty trick...as long as you can invoke it while listening to the song.
Wake me when you can hum it and get the right answer.
Songs (and all data) don't make decisions about how to allow themselves to be used. All that would have to happen to get around crap like this would be that someone makes a DRM-ignoring player for the data. This might mean cracking some crypto to make the data open, or it could mean cracking an existing player to always allow playing, or it might mean cloning decryption code out of an existing player and embedding it within a DRM-ignoring player framework. (Any of these things could be carried out at software or hardware levels.) At any rate, the people who go along with the DRM program will find themselves penalized for doing so. That's the point where it's all over for the DRM in question. Then someone invents a new brand of DRM and the cycle repeats.
With any luck, after enough cycles, the DRM pushers will learn.
Wouldn't it be higher in hack-value if their method was to track the game's internal variables directly rather than trying to digitize the video feed and backward-engineer the variables?
Now they'll be able to avoid calling it "outsourcing" or (worse) "offshoring", and at the same time make you move to India and take a 90% pay cut -- "it's just a transfer".
And it doesn't hurt that the process involves all the cultural cachet of sake -- mysterious far east, ritual, tradition, etc. Imagine the storm of indifferent sniffs if the process were mere carving on a plain old machine router.
As for having enough disk space -- these people have already cached the entire internet. I'd say they have plenty of firepower in this area.
To those who are worried that they'll do something sinister with their access to your mail -- who's to say that whoever you're using now (whether freemail, regular POP3, or anything else (even links in the traceroute chain from sender to recipient)) aren't already peeking?
TiVo doesn't just record everything; it keeps a sliding buffer. Same should apply here. In fact, just after I got mine, I thought how useful it would be for something like this to be mounted in one's car (kinda like those the cops have in many "wildest police videos gone wild" clips) -- you could automatically get the plate number of some jerk who hits and runs; you could prove you were not at fault in an accident; and so on.
As for wearing an odd pair of glasses to get the effect, I dunno. But ideally, you'd want to get footage all around you, not just what you're looking at (seems like half the usefulness of such a system would indeed be the ability to go back and catch something you missed the first time -- again, like TiVo).
People there have pretty commonly been simply named sequentially (ordinally). She has an uncle here in the US whose name is Tu (which translates as Fourth, which is in fact his position, in age order, amongst his siblings (plus one, since in the south they start numbering the kids at Second for some reason)). Even people who are not named for "their number" are often addressed (among family members) by them -- "Third Sister", "Fifth Aunt", etc.
I dunno for sure, but this practice may be widespread in Oriental countries. I'm guessing this is where Charlie Chan "number-one son" stuff came from.
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What does TTY or IP relay have to do with this? It's simple credit-card scamming. Could happen via email or, hell, even a regular phone call. (Someone who expects to recieve $1.6M in free ill-gotten goods surely doesn't care about international long distance charges??) Seems to me any number of alarm bells should be going off in the business-owners' heads regardless of the communications medium used.
Use Hawking radiation for the usual boiling water -> steam -> turbine -> generator progression!
Now all we need is a source of small, manageable black holes for fuel...
We're truly sorry.
First AWESOM-O and now this!
Remember? Back before they became one of the first casualties of the IP blitzkreig? Ahh, the good old days.
Well, you're right. I do the same thing you do: "Lyrics" + words + Google = you found the song. HOWEVER. You're screwed if the song you're looking for has no lyrics. "Walk, Don't Run" by The Ventures? "Green Onions" by Booker T. & The MG's? "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck? Even the article's example of "Moonlight Sonata" by Ludwig Von Beethoven? Sorry, no help from Google.
(Not to mention what happens when the song has lyrics, but you can't understand anything the singer sings.)
Anyway, this service is a nifty trick...as long as you can invoke it while listening to the song.
Wake me when you can hum it and get the right answer.
What type of hole?
Why, glassholes, of course.
"That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage."
--Dark Helmet
Songs (and all data) don't make decisions about how to allow themselves to be used. All that would have to happen to get around crap like this would be that someone makes a DRM-ignoring player for the data. This might mean cracking some crypto to make the data open, or it could mean cracking an existing player to always allow playing, or it might mean cloning decryption code out of an existing player and embedding it within a DRM-ignoring player framework. (Any of these things could be carried out at software or hardware levels.) At any rate, the people who go along with the DRM program will find themselves penalized for doing so. That's the point where it's all over for the DRM in question. Then someone invents a new brand of DRM and the cycle repeats.
With any luck, after enough cycles, the DRM pushers will learn.
"quiet cars" on trains
Sweet!! When do we get these on BART? When when when??
So, if a ball of solid iron the same size as Earth creeps up to us at 1 cm/sec, the "crater" (indentation?) will only be 45 miles across, and no one much will feel it. Also, we can expect this to happen every 800,000 years.
the project is very high in hack-value
Wouldn't it be higher in hack-value if their method was to track the game's internal variables directly rather than trying to digitize the video feed and backward-engineer the variables?
How about a list of every other industry that's down 7.6% or more for 2003? I'm guessing music is far from the only one.
On second thoughts, never mind. The only conclusion the RIAA will reach by seeing such a list is that P2P hurts those industries too! AIEEE!!
...I can convince my wife right now that it's ok for me to play (hey, maybe I can even get her to play too!).
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Now they'll be able to avoid calling it "outsourcing" or (worse) "offshoring", and at the same time make you move to India and take a 90% pay cut -- "it's just a transfer".
To me, that's an upside. No one using the machine means I can use it without waiting in line.
And it doesn't hurt that the process involves all the cultural cachet of sake -- mysterious far east, ritual, tradition, etc. Imagine the storm of indifferent sniffs if the process were mere carving on a plain old machine router.
Yahoo! Mail.
Dammit. Time to implement hash busters in my resume text.
Google rakes in a billion dollars a year -- netting $100M (penultimate paragraph). Half a million is impulse-buying gum-and-candy pocket money to them.
As for having enough disk space -- these people have already cached the entire internet. I'd say they have plenty of firepower in this area.
To those who are worried that they'll do something sinister with their access to your mail -- who's to say that whoever you're using now (whether freemail, regular POP3, or anything else (even links in the traceroute chain from sender to recipient)) aren't already peeking?
Could be worse. I'm sure a lot of people would get a lot more nervous if it were not a circle but crosshairs.
have hit the nail on the head.
TiVo doesn't just record everything; it keeps a sliding buffer. Same should apply here. In fact, just after I got mine, I thought how useful it would be for something like this to be mounted in one's car (kinda like those the cops have in many "wildest police videos gone wild" clips) -- you could automatically get the plate number of some jerk who hits and runs; you could prove you were not at fault in an accident; and so on.
As for wearing an odd pair of glasses to get the effect, I dunno. But ideally, you'd want to get footage all around you, not just what you're looking at (seems like half the usefulness of such a system would indeed be the ability to go back and catch something you missed the first time -- again, like TiVo).
For instance, Vietnam (where my wife's from).
People there have pretty commonly been simply named sequentially (ordinally). She has an uncle here in the US whose name is Tu (which translates as Fourth, which is in fact his position, in age order, amongst his siblings (plus one, since in the south they start numbering the kids at Second for some reason)). Even people who are not named for "their number" are often addressed (among family members) by them -- "Third Sister", "Fifth Aunt", etc.
I dunno for sure, but this practice may be widespread in Oriental countries. I'm guessing this is where Charlie Chan "number-one son" stuff came from.
Plain text files?
I didn't see anything in the article about IE 5. Are all versions vulnerable?