My wife and I got up early, biked down to the islands and took the ferry over. We had a perfect vantage point as the crew compartment came down approximately a kilometre from us offshore. We were even closer to it than the emergency crews that were on hand in case it landed on the island (and you didn't see the slow moving object on parachutes coming at you...).
The levies that are being placed on blank media goes to an organization (can't remember the name right now) that represents the artists themseleves. Not the recording industry in Canada, just the artists. So, this is the action being put forth by the record companies because they missed out on the levies (or didn't want ot get money that way, or are dipsh1ts, or don't know what they are doin' anyways...) when they were first put into place years ago.
"and may affect whether technology companies can be held liable for their customers' behavior."
What if this happens and Microsoft becomes liable for all of those viruses written using their compilers? Think of all the damage the Office macro viruses cause!
Hey maybe soon we'll see Spammers head to head against each other trying to get each others business. How soon before we see MDDoS attacks between Spammers trying to take out their competition?
I ask because I'm about to move to a new job where one of the primary sources of revenue is from Universal Music. (The other bigs labels are a factor as well but...) The company deals with DRM and if Apple buys them I'd suspect that we'd loose that revenue as I'm sure Apple has their own DRM plans.
I'm a web developer and I had to investigate a technology called 'vokens'. This is the same thing as reported in the article but by another company, www.eyereturn.com. (There boast of 'the only company to offer vokens!) These vokens did work outside of IE.
After research, I found that many of the big compnays are doing this type of advertising but all under different names as if that make the technology proprietary.
So far, realmedia.com, ad4ever.com, doublclick.com, eyereturn.com are all doing them. You can see an annoying one on www.tsn.ca/nhl.
The problem with the technology is great. We found that if we let an external company put a 'voken' on our website with a Javascript Source tag, they could hijack the entire site via the DOM.
A quick presentation to my management with a development box showing how I could, with a voken stored on one of my personal servers, take over our compnay's website and put my own message up stopped our research into the technology.
Do not, under any circumstances put a tag in your code when the source is nto on a trusted server.
On Friday I went to see MI at the Paramount in Toronto, lo and behold the theatre we saw the film and ALL trailers in was using a DLP projector. This was just excellent! Everything was crisp (too crisp in terms of static text), no jittering and no defects in the 'film'! As soon as Texas Instruments gets the resolution a little higher to get rid of the last of the jaggies, consider me sold!
I'm not a big M$ guy but if you'd actually continue to look at the BugTraq postings this week, today even, they are talking about how this happenes everywhere including Oracle... I've setup many systems and application servers in my lifetime and anyone who doesn't change any default security settings like this is asking for what they get...
So this isn't an MS IE thing is it? Can someone post or direct us to the source for this exploit?
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Don't know if YOU read the article or not but you are wrong, Maxis is not going to release source code for "The Sims". They will in the future, after Sims 2.0 no doubt, release the Programming Language that controls the Sims and the objects that surrounds them. That way you can create your own objects etc...
Yeah, Apple should target the x86 side of things, and run into all the driver problems that every other x86 OS has. Soon we'll be waiting on the vendors to write drivers for OS X just like we are for Linux... {sarcasm} Oh the waits will be short I'm sure. {/sarcasm} Ever wondered why Apple is able to release quality software time and time again while make inroads to new technology? Because they know the target environment inside and out. They needed worry and test every possible environment that could crop up in the field. Oh that's right, MS and the others don't either... That's why us poor users get to pull out our premature gray hairs trying to get Board X to work with OS Y via Driver Z... Please don't assume I'm some sort of OS bigot. I work with Wintel Machines all day, I code on Linux all night, but my favorite machine is my six year old PowerMac 8100/80 that still kicks ass running the latest from Cupertino, Mac OS 9!
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IS that 2-3hrs from Toronto? That's too bad I'll be in Montreal during that time...
My wife and I got up early, biked down to the islands and took the ferry over. We had a perfect vantage point as the crew compartment came down approximately a kilometre from us offshore. We were even closer to it than the emergency crews that were on hand in case it landed on the island (and you didn't see the slow moving object on parachutes coming at you...).
It appears Paul Martin is Bushs .
I disagree: Paul Martin is not a Bush... He jsut has a nice hole and is getting ready to bend over in case Bush decides he needs to use it...
The levies that are being placed on blank media goes to an organization (can't remember the name right now) that represents the artists themseleves. Not the recording industry in Canada, just the artists.
So, this is the action being put forth by the record companies because they missed out on the levies (or didn't want ot get money that way, or are dipsh1ts, or don't know what they are doin' anyways...) when they were first put into place years ago.
"and may affect whether technology companies can be held liable for their customers' behavior."
What if this happens and Microsoft becomes liable for all of those viruses written using their compilers? Think of all the damage the Office macro viruses cause!
Hey maybe soon we'll see Spammers head to head against each other trying to get each others business. How soon before we see MDDoS attacks between Spammers trying to take out their competition?
Actually it looks like the problem began in Ohio...
I ask because I'm about to move to a new job where one of the primary sources of revenue is from Universal Music. (The other bigs labels are a factor as well but...)
The company deals with DRM and if Apple buys them I'd suspect that we'd loose that revenue as I'm sure Apple has their own DRM plans.
B'wa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... ...idiot!
I'm a web developer and I had to investigate a technology called 'vokens'. This is the same thing as reported in the article but by another company, www.eyereturn.com. (There boast of 'the only company to offer vokens!) These vokens did work outside of IE.
After research, I found that many of the big compnays are doing this type of advertising but all under different names as if that make the technology proprietary.
So far, realmedia.com, ad4ever.com, doublclick.com, eyereturn.com are all doing them. You can see an annoying one on www.tsn.ca/nhl.
The problem with the technology is great. We found that if we let an external company put a 'voken' on our website with a Javascript Source tag, they could hijack the entire site via the DOM.
A quick presentation to my management with a development box showing how I could, with a voken stored on one of my personal servers, take over our compnay's website and put my own message up stopped our research into the technology.
Do not, under any circumstances put a tag in your code when the source is nto on a trusted server.
On Friday I went to see MI at the Paramount in Toronto, lo and behold the theatre we saw the film and ALL trailers in was using a DLP projector. This was just excellent! Everything was crisp (too crisp in terms of static text), no jittering and no defects in the 'film'! As soon as Texas Instruments gets the resolution a little higher to get rid of the last of the jaggies, consider me sold!
They will document all of the 'secret' API calls and publish them so that the non-M$ world has a chance for developing WinApps...
Yeah, then their emulator will be great.
Does anybody know if RadShack will distribute these in Canada? If not, anyone South of the Border wanna pick me up one?
There will always be compiled programs... M$'s new .NET uses compiled programs.\, they are just available over HTTP...
I guess this is one definate example of where someone has lost their job to a computer!
Oh No! The Atmosphere! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...!
I'm not a big M$ guy but if you'd actually continue to look at the BugTraq postings this week, today even, they are talking about how this happenes everywhere including Oracle... I've setup many systems and application servers in my lifetime and anyone who doesn't change any default security settings like this is asking for what they get...
I think it means that the Universe is f*cked up...
I have both 'The Meaning of Liff' and 'The Even Deeper Meaning of Liff' on my bookshelf... They are very much woth the read!
So this isn't an MS IE thing is it? Can someone post or direct us to the source for this exploit?
Don't know if YOU read the article or not but you are wrong, Maxis is not going to release source code for "The Sims". They will in the future, after Sims 2.0 no doubt, release the Programming Language that controls the Sims and the objects that surrounds them. That way you can create your own objects etc...
I always knew people were watching me but I didn't think it was this bad!
Yeah, Apple should target the x86 side of things, and run into all the driver problems that every other x86 OS has. Soon we'll be waiting on the vendors to write drivers for OS X just like we are for Linux... {sarcasm} Oh the waits will be short I'm sure. {/sarcasm}
Ever wondered why Apple is able to release quality software time and time again while make inroads to new technology? Because they know the target environment inside and out. They needed worry and test every possible environment that could crop up in the field. Oh that's right, MS and the others don't either... That's why us poor users get to pull out our premature gray hairs trying to get Board X to work with OS Y via Driver Z...
Please don't assume I'm some sort of OS bigot. I work with Wintel Machines all day, I code on Linux all night, but my favorite machine is my six year old PowerMac 8100/80 that still kicks ass running the latest from Cupertino, Mac OS 9!
I too, am guilty of helping to slow the Dilbert site down...