Surely this guy could have avoided all problems in the first place by getting permission. I'm sure if he'd pointed out what he was doing, he could perhaps have got himself into a lucrative deal with EMI, whereby he uses the samples, and in turn releases the album under them. I know the record industry is getting a bad press at the moment, but he didn't even ask permission.
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This is very true, but would you consider Bill Gates more of a hacker or more of a businessman? I agree that Bill Gates has changed the face of modern computing an awful lot, but as a businessman than as any form of system hacker
I'm a little surprised that this has never happened before, as they often have featured logos. I guess those fractals must have just looked too alluring, and people had to see them. Then again, i'm quite surprised that so many people click on the featured graphic, perhaps people who aren't familiar with Julia, and were interested in what the graphic meant?
I'm actually a student at Exeter University and this IS old news. It was a big thing back in September in all the local and student newspapers. Plus the article is slightly misleading, as he wasn't a University student when the attack was committed, something the University is keen to point out.
Apparantly it is still over a year away, I bet a lot of these leaked rumours etc. will turn out to be quite wrong by the time the actual film comes around. Maybe a bit of Hollywood spin to get people talking?
What is worse is that a talented few can produce tools that could be used by otherwise reasonably unknowledgeable people to compromise hosts and set up similar spam servers. A scary thought indeed, as these occurences will become more and more common
With a password hash, all hashes generated are of the same length. Therefore someone bruteforcing the hash will take the same amount of time no matter what the password is. A longer password though may save you from a dictionary attack, especially passphrases, as it greatly reduces the chance of a brute force dictionary crack finding your password.
It was one of the challenges on Scrapheap Challenge (Junkyard Wars) last year. Very cool, and they worked pretty well. Wonder how responsive they are to control?
I think Google has something very important. It is now almost a generic name now for searching. I know a lot of computer illiterate people who have heard of Google, and have no idea that there are other search engines out there, and that google IS the internet's search engine. As long as people hold on to the association of the word "Google" with "searching" they will have no problem.
Yeah, this is true. I use MSN and AIM, and MSN is very good about this, however AIM is not so good, it usually let's anyone e-mail you out of the blue, unless you set it up to only allow people from your buddy list to contact you
Last year I had a lot of spam from users on AIM, it stopped after a while, but I got a few a day for a few weeks, before it tailed off. I haven't had an unsolicited message now for over a year. The point was that the ignore lists didn't work, because although it was presumably the same spammer, or group of spammers, the screen name was never the same twice. I think what programs like AIM need is a one click button, that marks the person as a spimmer. If say 5 or 10 DIFFERENT people mark the same user they could be marked as a spimmer, and AIM could be set up to automatically ignore IM's from spimmers. Very similar to the warning level, but subtely different, because the warning level controls the spimmmers send rate, whereas this method puts the control in the hands of the people on the recieving end. You could also allow people to alter the spimmer level they accept messages from.
I saw a complete lunar eclipse over Cornwall in the UK about 12 years ago, when I was about 8. It was one of the most beautiful things that I have ever seen, as I have never witnessed the sky so clear, and seen so many stars. I recommend having a look at the Milky Way whilst the eclipse is at totality. I think I enjoyed the Lunar Eclipse better than the Solar Eclipse that appeared right over Cornwall in 1999, as it was just too cloudy.
Ok, it may seem a little sad and geeky, but I can see it pushing the realism of digital human models. It'll be a place where people can show off their amazing new techniques for realistic hair, or natural movement animation etc.
I don't understand why anyone would think that people would like to walk around with their fingers in their ears. Especially when discrete ear phones have been around for years, they're more hygenic, more discrete
This reminds me a bit of people who try to introduce non-native species to control a pest. Sometimes it works and sometimes the imported predator can end up causing more damage than the original pest ever did. Not saying this will happen, but is it not a possibility?
Pest control gone wrong:
http://www.sheddnet.org/con_shedd_02.html
I didn't mean that scamming never happens here, but tricking someone into excepting one note instead of another doesn't, because of the different colours and sizes.
Doesn't having all green bills contribute to small scale fraud though? Like duping barmen with little slight of hand tricks? I know it sounds like something insignificant, but i'm sure it all adds up. Here in England things like this are impossible as all the notes are different colours.
No-one is ever going to solve the problem of an infinite Universe, because it would involve the proof of travelling to the end of it (or not), something I doubt will ever happen before the end of the human race!
Is it just me, or are most of the features listed like bill checking and payment nothing to do with the main fact that it is a combination mirror and TV, which the main point of the article seems to be getting at? Seems like quite suggestive advertising
I can imagine initially much more expensive chip,s because the chances of the chips being produced at existing plants using existing equipment is pretty slim, so new manufacturing plants will need to be built, or at a minimum modified
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Surely this guy could have avoided all problems in the first place by getting permission. I'm sure if he'd pointed out what he was doing, he could perhaps have got himself into a lucrative deal with EMI, whereby he uses the samples, and in turn releases the album under them. I know the record industry is getting a bad press at the moment, but he didn't even ask permission.
This is very true, but would you consider Bill Gates more of a hacker or more of a businessman? I agree that Bill Gates has changed the face of modern computing an awful lot, but as a businessman than as any form of system hacker
No, you say this angrily when a condom breaks. Like "Damn it broke! f'rubber!"
I'm a little surprised that this has never happened before, as they often have featured logos. I guess those fractals must have just looked too alluring, and people had to see them. Then again, i'm quite surprised that so many people click on the featured graphic, perhaps people who aren't familiar with Julia, and were interested in what the graphic meant?
I'm actually a student at Exeter University and this IS old news. It was a big thing back in September in all the local and student newspapers. Plus the article is slightly misleading, as he wasn't a University student when the attack was committed, something the University is keen to point out.
Netscape 7 is fine too
Apparantly it is still over a year away, I bet a lot of these leaked rumours etc. will turn out to be quite wrong by the time the actual film comes around. Maybe a bit of Hollywood spin to get people talking?
What is worse is that a talented few can produce tools that could be used by otherwise reasonably unknowledgeable people to compromise hosts and set up similar spam servers. A scary thought indeed, as these occurences will become more and more common
With a password hash, all hashes generated are of the same length. Therefore someone bruteforcing the hash will take the same amount of time no matter what the password is. A longer password though may save you from a dictionary attack, especially passphrases, as it greatly reduces the chance of a brute force dictionary crack finding your password.
It was one of the challenges on Scrapheap Challenge (Junkyard Wars) last year. Very cool, and they worked pretty well. Wonder how responsive they are to control?
I think Google has something very important. It is now almost a generic name now for searching. I know a lot of computer illiterate people who have heard of Google, and have no idea that there are other search engines out there, and that google IS the internet's search engine. As long as people hold on to the association of the word "Google" with "searching" they will have no problem.
It could grip it by the husk!
Yeah, this is true. I use MSN and AIM, and MSN is very good about this, however AIM is not so good, it usually let's anyone e-mail you out of the blue, unless you set it up to only allow people from your buddy list to contact you
Last year I had a lot of spam from users on AIM, it stopped after a while, but I got a few a day for a few weeks, before it tailed off. I haven't had an unsolicited message now for over a year. The point was that the ignore lists didn't work, because although it was presumably the same spammer, or group of spammers, the screen name was never the same twice. I think what programs like AIM need is a one click button, that marks the person as a spimmer. If say 5 or 10 DIFFERENT people mark the same user they could be marked as a spimmer, and AIM could be set up to automatically ignore IM's from spimmers. Very similar to the warning level, but subtely different, because the warning level controls the spimmmers send rate, whereas this method puts the control in the hands of the people on the recieving end. You could also allow people to alter the spimmer level they accept messages from.
Is it just me, but I think it looks like a Tron unicycle
I saw a complete lunar eclipse over Cornwall in the UK about 12 years ago, when I was about 8. It was one of the most beautiful things that I have ever seen, as I have never witnessed the sky so clear, and seen so many stars. I recommend having a look at the Milky Way whilst the eclipse is at totality. I think I enjoyed the Lunar Eclipse better than the Solar Eclipse that appeared right over Cornwall in 1999, as it was just too cloudy.
Ok, it may seem a little sad and geeky, but I can see it pushing the realism of digital human models. It'll be a place where people can show off their amazing new techniques for realistic hair, or natural movement animation etc.
I don't understand why anyone would think that people would like to walk around with their fingers in their ears. Especially when discrete ear phones have been around for years, they're more hygenic, more discrete
This reminds me a bit of people who try to introduce non-native species to control a pest. Sometimes it works and sometimes the imported predator can end up causing more damage than the original pest ever did. Not saying this will happen, but is it not a possibility? Pest control gone wrong: http://www.sheddnet.org/con_shedd_02.html
It says in the article, that the Soundbug is the "toy version" of the product. Cheap, but not great sound quality.
I didn't mean that scamming never happens here, but tricking someone into excepting one note instead of another doesn't, because of the different colours and sizes.
Doesn't having all green bills contribute to small scale fraud though? Like duping barmen with little slight of hand tricks? I know it sounds like something insignificant, but i'm sure it all adds up. Here in England things like this are impossible as all the notes are different colours.
No-one is ever going to solve the problem of an infinite Universe, because it would involve the proof of travelling to the end of it (or not), something I doubt will ever happen before the end of the human race!
Is it just me, or are most of the features listed like bill checking and payment nothing to do with the main fact that it is a combination mirror and TV, which the main point of the article seems to be getting at? Seems like quite suggestive advertising
I can imagine initially much more expensive chip,s because the chances of the chips being produced at existing plants using existing equipment is pretty slim, so new manufacturing plants will need to be built, or at a minimum modified