No, they will now get to blame widespread worm outbreaks on piracy. And so piracy and the inconvenience caused by worms will be tied together in consumer/media's mind. Actually a reasonably smart move on their part, although could well backfire if not spun properly.
The next worm will lead to headlines saying "Widespread network breakdowns caused by unpatched machines of pirates" rather than "Widespread network breakdowns caused by poor Windows security"
No, they will now get to blame widespread work outbreaks on piracy. And so piracy and the inconvenience caused by worms will be tied together in consumer/media's mind. Actually a reasonably smart move on their part, although could well backfire if not spun properly.
Forget TFA, the summary is complex enough as it it.
A summary of the summary is though:
Wired News' Kim Zetter writes that, in addition to government databases, federal agencies mine private databases of credit rating agencies, bank account numbers, student loan applications, etc. This week the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) released a report with privacy guidelines for data mining technology (PDF) development and use.
Was he shown taking it away from it's original location? I do not believe that picking it up and then sticking it back is classed as theft - ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Nowhere does it mention that one of these things was seized from the guy. What happened to assumed to be innocent until proven guilty? For all they know the thing could have broken, batteries run flat, someone drove over it, etc. Or for the conspiracy nuts - they removed it themselves just to accuse the guy.
The thinkgeek toy probably goes marginally slower (although I've seen some very fast R/C cars, so don't be too sure that it can't do 20mph) and is less rugged. Although if you are placing a really big order you can go tot he manufacturer and ask them to make the exact same thing out of a stronger plastic - add a few hundred per unit at most.
I mentioned the microphone and the sensors, those can easily be bought, and would not cost more than a thousand or so (your home security system has them).
"unified hand-held controller/view screen (with force-feedback cues to indicate direction of detected motion!)"
Like a portable color tv? somehting like the PS controler has? I didn't realize that either of those cost that much - try ebay if you really want to save money maybe:)
Range can be jacked up by giving more power to the transmitters - the 100ft range is probably more to do with not being so powerful as to come under a different set of FCC regulations, rather then the transmitter (even then, how expensive do you think a transmitter is?).
To put the cost of this toy into perspective, 40 to 50 percent of $45K is still more than what you can buy a car for - they are getting ripped of.
So the question still stands, what are the extra 40K being spent on?
I for one would like to know just how much benefit the extra $45,845.02 gets you after being able to get something similar with this ($39.99) and this ($114.99) and maybe some duct tape or super glue.
I understand that an infrared camera and a microphone will add a few extra hundred, but the thing, once again, will be defeated by stairs, and the extra bit of ruggedness can be overcome by getting a few dozen of the cheaper off the shelf things instead.
Not to make light of somebody's research, but this is just someone who is out for some grant money from the government considering the current administration's willingness to spend on all things military (well, tech in the military at least).
Not that implausible, the wire is not tight and so does not actually support the thing when it's hovering. And unless the crane adjusts the length of the wire it would still hit the ground if the engines cut off.
A more valid argument would be that it does not go all that high and potentially can't given the engines they got, also doesn't show how it would go from hovering to flying horizontally.
"Would you let a cletus like character behind the wheel of one of these things?"
This will breathe new life into the Darwin Awards. Seriously though, we license people to drive, we also license people to fly aircraft, one would imagine that we could license people to fly these things as well. And from what I've read about it it seems that there are a lot of electronics for safety (so not going to fall out of the sky when fuel runs out) and control (stabilization mainly I guess).
What, no 'but what if terrorists use it' argument yet? I'm disappointed:/
The worst part is Mac OS X handles this properly (you can set paper size universally in System Preferences) and everything follows this, even Excel... but then there's Word - and the fucking thing just won't reset to anything other than US Letter as the default. Seriously, why?
Exactly, the problems are typically with closed source proprietary codecs. Pretty much everything else VLC (www.videolan.org) or MPlayer will play. The main problem is Windows Media on the mac (real player does actually play all of the.rm stuff I've ever come across) WM3 isn't implemented anywhere, and WMP doesn't handle anything except.asf (not just the extension - it needs the wrapper). If you really want to know what codec a certain file uses, and nothing will play it or even give you an error - open it up in HexEdit, there will usually be something at the start or the end of the file that tells you (not going to help you play it though).
"The only way that the open source community is going to do well here is to provide a single coherent product without branches"
May be true for other things, but definitely not true for codecs, you can have multiple codecs loaded and not experience any problems/inconvenience (like if you were switching word processors back and forth) with switching between playing files using different ones. Think of how much trouble you have playing a VCD, DVD, DivX (MPEG-1,2, and several implementations of 4).
Keep in mind this will also likely be driven by a HUGE (and quite good quality - it's BBC) media library being available in this format.
Hmm, I was trying to be humorous in the parent, but guess it does deserve to be informative for the benefit of the US readers though (after-all I guess it's was as inappropriate as telling jokes about Stalin )
And while I got the soapbox, the grandparent is not "Redundant", it's hilarious, so what if the summary mentions AYB, it is a modification/extension.
It's easy to write a script that checksums the MP3 data while ignoring the ID3 tags.
No, it's pretty much impossible to do this unless you plan to download all the files first which sort of defeats the purpose of the checksumming.
Fortunately you are wrong, if this is implemented within the clients then the checksums sent across the network will be of the actual mp3 data without the id3 tag. It can even be implemented gradually - if implemented: send both checksums, when comparing use the mp3-only checksum if available, etc.
That poses the question of why there was such a huge scandal about missiles in Cuba while the government didn't care much about a nuke sitting a few miles from them?
WinFS strikes me as a bit odd, anyone care to explain?
Firefox is meant to be a web browser - and no extras. So why would it need to use the filesystem? It's not like somebody wants to integrate Firefox into Longhorn to such an extent as to make it 'part' of the os. Also is WinFS open, did I miss something?
"The pirated copies of music, films, games and other software were generally distributed using a separate Internet file-transfer system"
You are right, and they are getting close as well.
With newsgroups it will be even better though, since the groups are actually stored (possession) on company owned servers somewhere, which people pay subscriptions (profit) to access the messages (distribution) from - no, don't give them the idea... (actually I do wonder, how to the 'complete' newsgroup providers get away with this?)
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The real questions is, when you die, who does your finger belong to? The RIAA or can your family keep it on a keychain :)
Actually forget about when you die... Will this mean that RIAA will own my finger (you laugh now, but have you read the contract?)
Let's try that again, now spell checked:
No, they will now get to blame widespread worm outbreaks on piracy. And so piracy and the inconvenience caused by worms will be tied together in consumer/media's mind. Actually a reasonably smart move on their part, although could well backfire if not spun properly.
The next worm will lead to headlines saying "Widespread network breakdowns caused by unpatched machines of pirates" rather than "Widespread network breakdowns caused by poor Windows security"
No, they will now get to blame widespread work outbreaks on piracy. And so piracy and the inconvenience caused by worms will be tied together in consumer/media's mind. Actually a reasonably smart move on their part, although could well backfire if not spun properly.
Wait until they hear about SimEarth and Civilization...
Forget TFA, the summary is complex enough as it it.
A summary of the summary is though:
Wired News' Kim Zetter writes that, in addition to government databases, federal agencies mine private databases of credit rating agencies, bank account numbers, student loan applications, etc. This week the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) released a report with privacy guidelines for data mining technology (PDF) development and use.
Was he shown taking it away from it's original location? I do not believe that picking it up and then sticking it back is classed as theft - ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Nowhere does it mention that one of these things was seized from the guy. What happened to assumed to be innocent until proven guilty? For all they know the thing could have broken, batteries run flat, someone drove over it, etc. Or for the conspiracy nuts - they removed it themselves just to accuse the guy.
The thinkgeek toy probably goes marginally slower (although I've seen some very fast R/C cars, so don't be too sure that it can't do 20mph) and is less rugged. Although if you are placing a really big order you can go tot he manufacturer and ask them to make the exact same thing out of a stronger plastic - add a few hundred per unit at most.
:)
I mentioned the microphone and the sensors, those can easily be bought, and would not cost more than a thousand or so (your home security system has them).
"unified hand-held controller/view screen (with force-feedback cues to indicate direction of detected motion!)"
Like a portable color tv? somehting like the PS controler has? I didn't realize that either of those cost that much - try ebay if you really want to save money maybe
Range can be jacked up by giving more power to the transmitters - the 100ft range is probably more to do with not being so powerful as to come under a different set of FCC regulations, rather then the transmitter (even then, how expensive do you think a transmitter is?).
To put the cost of this toy into perspective, 40 to 50 percent of $45K is still more than what you can buy a car for - they are getting ripped of.
So the question still stands, what are the extra 40K being spent on?
"at $46,000"
I for one would like to know just how much benefit the extra $45,845.02 gets you after being able to get something similar with this ($39.99) and this ($114.99) and maybe some duct tape or super glue.
I understand that an infrared camera and a microphone will add a few extra hundred, but the thing, once again, will be defeated by stairs, and the extra bit of ruggedness can be overcome by getting a few dozen of the cheaper off the shelf things instead.
Not to make light of somebody's research, but this is just someone who is out for some grant money from the government considering the current administration's willingness to spend on all things military (well, tech in the military at least).
You are not converting for the metric measurement properly.
What you got to realize is that there are 10 bits per byte in the EU now, and so the costs are higher.
No, no, no, you got it all wrong. Winning is certain:
/wonders if a few minutes to write the script is worth it for a few shares...
Two 0-999 ranges
i.e. 1000*1000 possible combinations Need 1,000,000 submissions to 'win'
Spamgourmet.com allows dynamic forwarding
g000000.2.name@spamgourmet.com
To
g999999.2.name@spamgourmet.com
Here I come!
Not that implausible, the wire is not tight and so does not actually support the thing when it's hovering. And unless the crane adjusts the length of the wire it would still hit the ground if the engines cut off.
A more valid argument would be that it does not go all that high and potentially can't given the engines they got, also doesn't show how it would go from hovering to flying horizontally.
"public safety IS public convenience" Surely it would serve both by not having GWB at an event in the first place?
Take a look here , it has a few videos (which do look quite real before somebody brings that up).
"Would you let a cletus like character behind the wheel of one of these things?"
:/
This will breathe new life into the Darwin Awards. Seriously though, we license people to drive, we also license people to fly aircraft, one would imagine that we could license people to fly these things as well. And from what I've read about it it seems that there are a lot of electronics for safety (so not going to fall out of the sky when fuel runs out) and control (stabilization mainly I guess).
What, no 'but what if terrorists use it' argument yet? I'm disappointed
The worst part is Mac OS X handles this properly (you can set paper size universally in System Preferences) and everything follows this, even Excel... but then there's Word - and the fucking thing just won't reset to anything other than US Letter as the default. Seriously, why?
/end rant
Exactly, the problems are typically with closed source proprietary codecs. Pretty much everything else VLC (www.videolan.org) or MPlayer will play. The main problem is Windows Media on the mac (real player does actually play all of the .rm stuff I've ever come across) WM3 isn't implemented anywhere, and WMP doesn't handle anything except .asf (not just the extension - it needs the wrapper). If you really want to know what codec a certain file uses, and nothing will play it or even give you an error - open it up in HexEdit, there will usually be something at the start or the end of the file that tells you (not going to help you play it though).
"The only way that the open source community is going to do well here is to provide a single coherent product without branches"
May be true for other things, but definitely not true for codecs, you can have multiple codecs loaded and not experience any problems/inconvenience (like if you were switching word processors back and forth) with switching between playing files using different ones. Think of how much trouble you have playing a VCD, DVD, DivX (MPEG-1,2, and several implementations of 4).
Keep in mind this will also likely be driven by a HUGE (and quite good quality - it's BBC) media library being available in this format.
Hmm, I was trying to be humorous in the parent, but guess it does deserve to be informative for the benefit of the US readers though (after-all I guess it's was as inappropriate as telling jokes about Stalin )
And while I got the soapbox, the grandparent is not "Redundant", it's hilarious, so what if the summary mentions AYB, it is a modification/extension.
Not funny, and I quote:
/struggling to keep a straight face.
"a borderline terrorist threat depending on what someone interprets it to mean."
It's easy to write a script that checksums the MP3 data while ignoring the ID3 tags.
No, it's pretty much impossible to do this unless you plan to download all the files first which sort of defeats the purpose of the checksumming.
Fortunately you are wrong, if this is implemented within the clients then the checksums sent across the network will be of the actual mp3 data without the id3 tag. It can even be implemented gradually - if implemented: send both checksums, when comparing use the mp3-only checksum if available, etc.
That poses the question of why there was such a huge scandal about missiles in Cuba while the government didn't care much about a nuke sitting a few miles from them?
/Not saying it's not true, just wondering
Finally! The suitcase nuke will no longer be just a, paranoid, dream.
WinFS strikes me as a bit odd, anyone care to explain?
Firefox is meant to be a web browser - and no extras. So why would it need to use the filesystem? It's not like somebody wants to integrate Firefox into Longhorn to such an extent as to make it 'part' of the os. Also is WinFS open, did I miss something?
"The pirated copies of music, films, games and other software were generally distributed using a separate Internet file-transfer system"
You are right, and they are getting close as well.
With newsgroups it will be even better though, since the groups are actually stored (possession) on company owned servers somewhere, which people pay subscriptions (profit) to access the messages (distribution) from - no, don't give them the idea... (actually I do wonder, how to the 'complete' newsgroup providers get away with this?)