As an aside, a cool feature would be the cellphone speaker phone saying the number that was pressed as someone dialed. _That_ would be useful.
Yeah, it may get cellphone users to step into special closets to make their calls to prevent others from knowing what numbers they're dialing. And then maybe they'll just stay there until the call is finished.
In fact, they could just put a wired phone in there so people wouldn't have to carry a cell phone and just charge a modest fee for its use.
But no, a tap would get a five anytime. Strokes in 8 directions get the other digits other than zero. A circular stroke gets zero. How to get # and * though, I don't know.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but wouldn't someone have had to share (upload) the file before MediaSentry could download it?
Sharing isn't uploading.
Imagine needing to move a barge across a river (file across a network), but you can't be in the barge or traverse the river. Uploading is like pushing that barge to the other side with a long pole; downloading is lassoing that barge and pulling it to you. You don't need anyone to push what you're pulling, and you don't need to pull on what someone else is pushing; the barge moves by the effort of one person. One person involved, thus only one action being performed: an upload or a download. Never both.
// subtract days until you do it once too often do {
days -= ( daysThisYear = 365 + IsLeapYear( ++year )); } while( days > 0 );
// then add the last subtraction back days += daysThisYear;
Since year started with a one-year lag from origin and is pre-incremented, the year doesn't need correcting at the end. Assuming of course a definition of IsLeapYear( int year ) returning 1 when true.
i think in this case upload and download means the same thing: a transfer. technically if one person is downloading something, the other person is uploading it
That is not the technical meaning.
There is only the one person. The other is a machine responding to instructions from that person, where in the absence of instruction the machine does nothing (and no crime is committed).
Who is doing the action and where he is are as important as the direction of transfer both in the definition and usage of the terms as well as the assigning of legal liability. It is important that the correct technical meanings be held and defended against misuse.
MediaSentry caused the file to be transferred from the server to their location, ergo they downloaded it. No person uploaded it.
Betacam is a Sony format, and a very successful one at that. I have no idea how the licensing works, but it seems quite open.
Yeah, that's why I bolded "max". I don't believe the two were ever compatible.
When they're first to market or in a market when it starts, they can and do come up with ideas that stick. If they can get into the niche early enough, they can dominate. They're just arrogant enough though to think they can push their own standard when another is already in play and get everyone to switch just by name recognition. You don't wield monopoly power like Microsoft by name recognition alone.
Don't forget the 3.5" floppy disk...
That didn't fail. It's surviving until its natural end-of-life (AFAIK they are still being made and are outliving VHS).
Sony has a reputation for failure like Bill Paxton has for dying in movies: it may not be deserved, but it was earned. (Man, I wish I could get one of those custom-built Bill Paxton pinball games.)
I'm just surprised no one has come to the defense of the Cubs, if only in jest.
Sony's problem is that it wants standards to be proprietary to them. Some of the above still exist solely because of Sony's bullheadedness, typically only usable with Sony hardware, especially when it is to the exclusion of support for the open standards. Some were/may be superior technology, but keeping a stranglehold on the technology is the undoing of their efforts time and time again. My god, the cabling requirements for SACD players to stereo receivers were unreasonable, even with players that had HDMI ports (though granted DVD-Audio also failed to catch on).
Sony's formats and media succeed when partnerships with other companies (like Philips) force them to be more open. Sony's success is often in spite of their best efforts.
At least with Blu-ray and gaming the competition in the market was/is straightforward and not like their ATRAC-3 players refusing to play the established MP3 format.
(I own several Sony products, including a PS3 and a 400-disc DVD changer that also plays SACDs. I only own two SACD titles. I'm still buying HD DVD titles on the cheap. I may yet find myself buying a Sony HD video camera as Sony seems to be successfully dominating that market.)
Worst Console Ever. Dead Movie Format and a dead 'iPod killer' with a stupid brand name
It's hilarious in a pathetic sort of way to know there are huge numbers of diehard Microsoft fanboys out there who are actually dumb enough to own all three of those Microsoft turds.
If you're looking for a company with a history of failed product launches, look instead to Sony. With their sudden success with Blu-ray, I'm starting to think there's a chance the Cubs might win the World Series.
If forcing sex offenders to move 2000 feet away from schools doesn't infringe any rights, and registration doesn't infringe any rights
I'd wish it be seen that would infringe rights under the 8th Amendment, but unfortunately registration (1) isn't considered punitive (though the restrictions on registrants clearly are) and (2) you can't get people to agree that it is cruel and unusual: (a) the "essential predicate" is "that a punishment must not by its severity be degrading to human dignity," especially torture, (b) a severe punishment that is obviously inflicted in wholly arbitrary fashion, (c) a severe punishment that is clearly and totally rejected throughout society, or (d) a severe punishment that is patently unnecessary. Modern society will weigh (c) and (d) to the contrary heavier than (a) and (b) (not all four conditions need to be satisfied).
It's one thing to be a stupid user, it's another thing entirely to know that there's something you don't know - at least that's what Socrates believed.
Here's a prayer for you. It goes like this. Let's see now:
"Lord, lord, lord...." (It's best to put that bit in, just in case. You can never be too sure.) "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen."
There's another prayer that goes with it that's very important. It goes:
"Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen."
And that's it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes from missing out that last part.
(Douglas Adams, HHGGTG: Quintessential Phase or Mostly Harmless.)
The following day, while looking for a spare power supply, we stumbled on the answer. The wireless keyboard that came with the mouse he was using had been carelessly thrown in there, with another keyboard on top, mashing down a large part of the wireless keyboard's keys. The laptop was just doing as it was told by the keyboard all along.
Was the battery in the keyboard dead by then? 'Cause that's how such problems usually end up resolving themselves.
The moment they told me that, I just asked: "Why didn't you just turn the mouse by 90 degrees?" That got me five seconds of stunned silence, then "We hadn't thought of that."
You gotta be careful giving that advice lest they put the mouse in the rotisserie set to 190 degrees(*) for two hours.
(*) Because it doesn't have 90 degree setting, they'll assume you meant 190 degrees.
Oh, and a certain keyboard has been known to have firmware that would periodically type welcome datacomp phrases when left idle too long. It got a write-up in a welcome datacomp Risks Digest. Consider it a precursor to those two modern routers that would redirect some welcome datacomp http requests to an advertisement by the manufacturer.welcome datacomp
(It was a third-party Mac keyboard with ADB interface. The "welcome datacomp" phrase even managed to get into a printed edition of a book: page 273 of Visions of Sukhaavatii: Shan Tao's Commentary on the Kuan Wu-Liang-Shou-Fo, by Julian F. Pas. Albany: SUNY Press, 1995, xviii, 452 pages.)
A DVD-ROM drive with infected firmware seems unlikely but is certainly within the realm of possibility.
And more likely if the user was seeking firmware to made the drive region-free. I've wondered about the viability of such an exploit and whether it could do more than just inject virus code into a data stream read from a DVD or onto a DVD being burned. If it were master or slave on the same ATA cable as a second drive, could it not also alter the data written to or read from that hard drive?
Wasn't there also an old story (GHWB-era?) about the US using trojaned network printers to tap the LAN of a foreign military and/or disrupt their network?
Yes, it can. There's BD5, BD9, and AVCREC for Blu-Ray content on DVD media, 3x DVD and HD REC for HD DVD content on DVD media, and AVCHD which is media agnostic (BD-R, DVD-R, tape, whatever) but might not be played by Blu-Ray players.
D-VHS RECORDS HD (!)
If you were lucky enough to get an early model that didn't recognize Macrovision's HD version of copy protection. Also, I have yet to see a D-VHS deck that supported playback of S-VHS video at anything better than VHS quality. (Unfortunately S-VHS decks already are hard to find, and if you find one it's expensive.)
Consumer recording is pretty much over.
I still have my TiVos (three series of standalones), and if the source was broadcast or analog I can transfer to my desktop computer and burn to DVD (until someone forces cable companies to stop encrypting all digital non-broadcast channels) or on the one with a DVD burner built-in.
However, I did predict that VHS would be going away soon, especially with the impending digital switchover. Though there would have been an option to sell VHS decks without tuners (neither NTSC nor ATSC).
You may laugh, but I work in Air Traffic Control. We rely on absolutely precise timing in a system distributed over 1000s of kilometres. Many components can be marked as non-functional by the system if they appear to have an incorrect clock.
Every time we add a leap second we get issues raised. I have to say it is a real PITA.
Leap seconds were invented in 1972. You mean your systems didn't get leap second support addressed when you got your Y2K fixes?
I'd mod you up if I could. Instead, I'll add these bits of trivia:
The last time we had a leap second and a leap year was in 1992. The last time we had it on December 31 was 1976.
The only time we had two leap seconds (June 30 23:59:60 and December 31 23:59:60) was on leap year 1972, the first year leap seconds were applied, and making 1972 the longest year.
Oh well. A week later and the title still is not changed. Either the editors think that "Car Thief" is one of the suspect's priors, or they just don't consider that someone from Finland will notice. Is guilt before innocence to become the new standard for Slashdot now?
Granted, the Firehose submitter Frosty Piss was the first to pervert the story title, but ScuttleMonkey certainly can't escape liability for perpetuating the potential libel.
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As an aside, a cool feature would be the cellphone speaker phone saying the number that was pressed as someone dialed. _That_ would be useful.
Yeah, it may get cellphone users to step into special closets to make their calls to prevent others from knowing what numbers they're dialing. And then maybe they'll just stay there until the call is finished.
In fact, they could just put a wired phone in there so people wouldn't have to carry a cell phone and just charge a modest fee for its use.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Patents are the motherfuckers of necessity.
The parent should get one Funny mod.
But no, a tap would get a five anytime. Strokes in 8 directions get the other digits other than zero. A circular stroke gets zero. How to get # and * though, I don't know.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but wouldn't someone have had to share (upload) the file before MediaSentry could download it?
Sharing isn't uploading.
Imagine needing to move a barge across a river (file across a network), but you can't be in the barge or traverse the river. Uploading is like pushing that barge to the other side with a long pole; downloading is lassoing that barge and pulling it to you. You don't need anyone to push what you're pulling, and you don't need to pull on what someone else is pushing; the barge moves by the effort of one person. One person involved, thus only one action being performed: an upload or a download. Never both.
Since year started with a one-year lag from origin and is pre-incremented, the year doesn't need correcting at the end. Assuming of course a definition of IsLeapYear( int year ) returning 1 when true.
i think in this case upload and download means the same thing: a transfer. technically if one person is downloading something, the other person is uploading it
That is not the technical meaning.
There is only the one person. The other is a machine responding to instructions from that person, where in the absence of instruction the machine does nothing (and no crime is committed).
Who is doing the action and where he is are as important as the direction of transfer both in the definition and usage of the terms as well as the assigning of legal liability. It is important that the correct technical meanings be held and defended against misuse.
MediaSentry caused the file to be transferred from the server to their location, ergo they downloaded it. No person uploaded it.
Betacam is a Sony format, and a very successful one at that. I have no idea how the licensing works, but it seems quite open.
Yeah, that's why I bolded "max". I don't believe the two were ever compatible.
When they're first to market or in a market when it starts, they can and do come up with ideas that stick. If they can get into the niche early enough, they can dominate. They're just arrogant enough though to think they can push their own standard when another is already in play and get everyone to switch just by name recognition. You don't wield monopoly power like Microsoft by name recognition alone.
Don't forget the 3.5" floppy disk...
That didn't fail. It's surviving until its natural end-of-life (AFAIK they are still being made and are outliving VHS).
Sony has a reputation for failure like Bill Paxton has for dying in movies: it may not be deserved, but it was earned. (Man, I wish I could get one of those custom-built Bill Paxton pinball games.)
I'm just surprised no one has come to the defense of the Cubs, if only in jest.
We need to stop Lavos from destroying the world!
Some things are fixed, some things are in a flux. Yellowstone is a fixed point in history. What happens, happens. There's no stopping it.
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Betamax, DAT, MMCD, MiniDisc, ATRAC, ATRAC-3, SDDS, NetMD, Hi-MD, Memory Stick (Duo/Micro), UMD, HDV, SACD, HiFD, MicroMV, BBeB, ECP, ARccOS....
Sony's problem is that it wants standards to be proprietary to them. Some of the above still exist solely because of Sony's bullheadedness, typically only usable with Sony hardware, especially when it is to the exclusion of support for the open standards. Some were/may be superior technology, but keeping a stranglehold on the technology is the undoing of their efforts time and time again. My god, the cabling requirements for SACD players to stereo receivers were unreasonable, even with players that had HDMI ports (though granted DVD-Audio also failed to catch on).
Sony's formats and media succeed when partnerships with other companies (like Philips) force them to be more open. Sony's success is often in spite of their best efforts.
At least with Blu-ray and gaming the competition in the market was/is straightforward and not like their ATRAC-3 players refusing to play the established MP3 format.
(I own several Sony products, including a PS3 and a 400-disc DVD changer that also plays SACDs. I only own two SACD titles. I'm still buying HD DVD titles on the cheap. I may yet find myself buying a Sony HD video camera as Sony seems to be successfully dominating that market.)
Worst Console Ever.
Dead Movie Format
and a dead 'iPod killer' with a stupid brand name
It's hilarious in a pathetic sort of way to know there are huge numbers of diehard Microsoft fanboys out there who are actually dumb enough to own all three of those Microsoft turds.
If you're looking for a company with a history of failed product launches, look instead to Sony. With their sudden success with Blu-ray, I'm starting to think there's a chance the Cubs might win the World Series.
Day 365 has passed and this is day 366. This has happened before. This will happen again.
Is that you, Time Prophet?
I don't know about this dragging from letter to letter system. It'd feel too much like I'm risking waking the dead.
If forcing sex offenders to move 2000 feet away from schools doesn't infringe any rights, and registration doesn't infringe any rights
I'd wish it be seen that would infringe rights under the 8th Amendment, but unfortunately registration (1) isn't considered punitive (though the restrictions on registrants clearly are) and (2) you can't get people to agree that it is cruel and unusual: (a) the "essential predicate" is "that a punishment must not by its severity be degrading to human dignity," especially torture, (b) a severe punishment that is obviously inflicted in wholly arbitrary fashion, (c) a severe punishment that is clearly and totally rejected throughout society, or (d) a severe punishment that is patently unnecessary. Modern society will weigh (c) and (d) to the contrary heavier than (a) and (b) (not all four conditions need to be satisfied).
I are not lawyer cat.
This not be legal advice.
It's one thing to be a stupid user, it's another thing entirely to know that there's something you don't know - at least that's what Socrates believed.
Here's a prayer for you. It goes like this. Let's see now:
"Lord, lord, lord...." (It's best to put that bit in, just in case. You can never be too sure.) "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen."
There's another prayer that goes with it that's very important. It goes:
"Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen."
And that's it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes from missing out that last part.
(Douglas Adams, HHGGTG: Quintessential Phase or Mostly Harmless.)
The following day, while looking for a spare power supply, we stumbled on the answer. The wireless keyboard that came with the mouse he was using had been carelessly thrown in there, with another keyboard on top, mashing down a large part of the wireless keyboard's keys. The laptop was just doing as it was told by the keyboard all along.
Was the battery in the keyboard dead by then? 'Cause that's how such problems usually end up resolving themselves.
The moment they told me that, I just asked: "Why didn't you just turn the mouse by 90 degrees?"
That got me five seconds of stunned silence, then "We hadn't thought of that."
You gotta be careful giving that advice lest they put the mouse in the rotisserie set to 190 degrees(*) for two hours.
(*) Because it doesn't have 90 degree setting, they'll assume you meant 190 degrees.
Oh, and a certain keyboard has been known to have firmware that would periodically type welcome datacomp phrases when left idle too long. It got a write-up in a welcome datacomp Risks Digest. Consider it a precursor to those two modern routers that would redirect some welcome datacomp http requests to an advertisement by the manufacturer.welcome datacomp
(It was a third-party Mac keyboard with ADB interface. The "welcome datacomp" phrase even managed to get into a printed edition of a book: page 273 of Visions of Sukhaavatii: Shan Tao's Commentary on the Kuan Wu-Liang-Shou-Fo, by Julian F. Pas. Albany: SUNY Press, 1995, xviii, 452 pages.)
A DVD-ROM drive with infected firmware seems unlikely but is certainly within the realm of possibility.
And more likely if the user was seeking firmware to made the drive region-free. I've wondered about the viability of such an exploit and whether it could do more than just inject virus code into a data stream read from a DVD or onto a DVD being burned. If it were master or slave on the same ATA cable as a second drive, could it not also alter the data written to or read from that hard drive?
Wasn't there also an old story (GHWB-era?) about the US using trojaned network printers to tap the LAN of a foreign military and/or disrupt their network?
Hillarious.
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DVD doesn't record HD.
Yes, it can. There's BD5, BD9, and AVCREC for Blu-Ray content on DVD media, 3x DVD and HD REC for HD DVD content on DVD media, and AVCHD which is media agnostic (BD-R, DVD-R, tape, whatever) but might not be played by Blu-Ray players.
D-VHS RECORDS HD (!)
If you were lucky enough to get an early model that didn't recognize Macrovision's HD version of copy protection. Also, I have yet to see a D-VHS deck that supported playback of S-VHS video at anything better than VHS quality. (Unfortunately S-VHS decks already are hard to find, and if you find one it's expensive.)
Consumer recording is pretty much over.
I still have my TiVos (three series of standalones), and if the source was broadcast or analog I can transfer to my desktop computer and burn to DVD (until someone forces cable companies to stop encrypting all digital non-broadcast channels) or on the one with a DVD burner built-in.
However, I did predict that VHS would be going away soon, especially with the impending digital switchover. Though there would have been an option to sell VHS decks without tuners (neither NTSC nor ATSC).
exactly one encounter with Fairpoint customer dissservice
Well, that's what you always get when you try to reason with an omnipotent being.
"Thou art notified that that thy kind has infiltrated the Internet too far already. Thou art directed to return to thine own subnet immediately."
One can only hope Fairpoint turns into a giant jellyfish and buggers off into space.
You may laugh, but I work in Air Traffic Control. We rely on absolutely precise timing in a system distributed over 1000s of kilometres. Many components can be marked as non-functional by the system if they appear to have an incorrect clock.
Every time we add a leap second we get issues raised. I have to say it is a real PITA.
Leap seconds were invented in 1972. You mean your systems didn't get leap second support addressed when you got your Y2K fixes?
I'd mod you up if I could. Instead, I'll add these bits of trivia:
The last time we had a leap second and a leap year was in 1992. The last time we had it on December 31 was 1976.
The only time we had two leap seconds (June 30 23:59:60 and December 31 23:59:60) was on leap year 1972, the first year leap seconds were applied, and making 1972 the longest year.
Oh well. A week later and the title still is not changed. Either the editors think that "Car Thief" is one of the suspect's priors, or they just don't consider that someone from Finland will notice. Is guilt before innocence to become the new standard for Slashdot now?
Granted, the Firehose submitter Frosty Piss was the first to pervert the story title, but ScuttleMonkey certainly can't escape liability for perpetuating the potential libel.