Not only does the national press use the term hacker to describe illegal computer activities but so does Webster's Dictionary. My own opinion is that hacker stuck because to most people it means to "hack in to," which is a violent destructive act. Where as, cracker to most people means a little thing that you put cheese on and eat.
Masem is right, there needs to be a new word or phrase. I don't think "white hat hacker" will work for the same reason that "white witch" doesn't work. The term hacker will never feel like a constructive act no matter what words you put in front of it. And instead of inventing a totally new one why don't you reappropriate a old one that already kind of fits. For instance why don't we use "coder" or "programmer" or even "geek."
Several people have stated that they know that they voted for the wrong person. One woman who I saw interviewed (who was articulate enough that she was obviously not and idiot) said she caught her mistake and asked for another ballot. She got one went to vote again and accidentally made the mistake again and had to ask for a third ballot. This doesn't even take in to account the people who were told that they couldn't have another ballot.
You can doubt the stats all you want but it is really hard to doubt the people themselves. Voting ballots should be made for the lowest common denominator. This one was not designed well at all.
Yes the ballot was approved by Democratic and Republican officials but I doubt any of those people have any User Interface Design skills.
As to the pre-election release that showed the ballots: The ballots were not shown in context. The pages were shown seperately and not in conjection with the punch holes. Of course no one noticed the problems since they were shown in a way that didn't illustrate the problem.
I think it's clear that Bush would lose a revote. Or at least highly likely. But a revote should be 100% out of the question right now. People will vote differently knowing that the outcome of one county's vote will decide the election.
This is not nessicarily true. I can't think of many reasons why someone would change their votes. Sure some would change their votes but in my opinion not that many. Unless you can show some sort of research that would show that the revote would be a huge statistical deviation from the previous I still feel that we should do a revote.
And if we don't have a revote, I think myself and all the other User Interface Designers out their should protest with really well designed placards and start a riot by throwing computer mice at police.
Yeah, pretty pricey. That'll change. Think about how expensive and difficult to use contact lens used to be - now they throw them away. Think about how expensive car phone were in the 1970's - now they give away cell phones free with the service.
I wouldn't place bets on that price going down all that far. Prices don't just go down because of generally increasing technology it has a variety of factors:
- contacts went down because there was an obvious HUGE demand for them and lots of money was spent on manufactuing techniques to reduce the cost. Plus it is basically a simple small piece of plastic.
- car phones went down for the same reason computers have gone down: they can more and more functions on a single chip. therefore reducing production costs. Plus cell phones are basically simple walkie talkes with a few more functions.
prostetic limbs on the other hand are pretty complicated mechanical constructions. Just look at cars -- they have not gotten any cheaper. Prostetic limbs will for the forseable future remain in a constant state of R&D and very little time and money will be put into trying to make it easier and cheaper to manufacture. This is because people don't neccisarily want more limbs they want better limbs. So limbs will continue to slowly improve but will remain expensive.
JPS is right --
The best way to win this is to break this now not later. If you break it now it will cause them to backpedal and rework or reinvent their encryption. This could seriously delay them putting SDMI on the market. Thus giving MP3 a better chance to solidify it's hold. If however they do bring it to market and it is broken my bet is very few non-geeks will ever try to download and use the illegal SDMI crack.
MP3 does not yet have a secure enough foothold on the market to endure all the Brand Name SDMI players that will be rushing to the stores as soon as SDMI is released. And face it, the big brand name companies will never make MP3 players until it looks like SDMI will never come to market and they are loosing out on a potential profit.
MP3 needs more non-geek freindly MP3 players/recorders right now for it to gain it's market foothold. It needs MP3 players/recorders that can work without a computer. Of course, it should be able to be connected to a computer but it should also be able to work without one. It should be able to hook up to any normal stereo and record/play. It should have digital out/in like some CDs and minidisc player/recorders do. And it shouldn't be overly expensive.
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a crowd of WTO protesters... (with a low-frequency beat wave) to zap individuals.
Yeah good idea! hit the protesters with a BEAT WAVE and get them all to dance! It should be hard for them to destroy starbucks stores when they are shake'n their bootys!
I will guess that this instant artificial product placement, like the network show mentioned, will be common place within a year or two, and annoy the heck out of consumers. However, it may reduce the number of distinct commercials as product placement becomes more common
This won't reduce the amount of advertising only synchronize it more. It will be guaranteed that if there is a product placement in a tv show there will also be an ad for it during the commercial break. Companies have learned that it takes more then just a good ad to capture people. people need to be repeatedly reminded of the product or they will forget about it.
Present steganographic methods will not protect you against anybody who's investigating you specifically and has any real sophistication. You can tell if a message has been watermarked into an image, for instance. But it would be really hard to check if a message has been watermarked into a couple small sections of the image. Just take a couple predetermined squares and watermark those(preferably areas with little detail). Since a majority of the image maps out to normal specs it shouldn't be spotted. This of course does nothing to the fact that you are sending lots of images to each other. That requires a really good cover story.
Of course if you already are being watched then the fact that you are using a computer is already suspicious.
Email is a lot better for situations such as this because of the time differences involved. Time delay is a feature of email not a disadvantage. The ability to answer/send email when you want - not having to worry if the person is currently logged on or not is very useful. Granted chat may be useful in some situations but it is not a panacea.
I wish more places would install Cellular Firewalls like this one. I think every theatre should have one - if you want to make a call, go outside dammit.
Theatres should just make and annoucement for the audience to silence there cell phones and pagers. The main reason the occasional phone rings is that people forget to turn them off not because they are aspholes. A lot of people have there phones set on vibrate. Some of those people may really need to be able to receive a call (ie they or their spouse is in the late stages of pregnancy or they are a doctor or other person who needs to be on call at all times). Celluar Firewalls are excessive and overkill. Even people who aren't in need should be able to recieve a (silent ring) call anywhere they want - as long as they take the call outside of course. Though that shouldn't be a problem since I have never seen anyone actually talk to someone on there phone in a theatre.
No, no, you don't understand. Information IS ALREADY free. No you don't understand: Information just wants to runaway from home and be out from under the oppressive thumb of its parents. Unfortunately it quickly ran out of money and was soon living on the street. It didn't get enough money begging so it turned to prostitution. A life of heavy drug use, crime and depression soon followed. Information was eventually thrown in jail for life for shooting up a classroom of its former schoolmates. Two students were killed and several wounded in the bloodbath. The two students killed were Rita Ingrid Anna Allison a aspiring musician and Matt Peterson Andrew Anthony an aspiring filmmaker. Story at eleven...
Though there were no MP3s floating around when I was in collage I was a rampid pirater too. I would use tapes to record off of collage radio and record from friend's albums. I would also record my albums for friends. I had about 20 actual cds and about 20 actual tapes that I bought and most of them were from used record stores. Now that I am out of school making money I collect mp3s but I also go on cd binges where I drop $500 at a time on cds (mostly used, some new). Music and CD buying is an addiction for me now. I never would have been this crazy over music had it not been for my earlier days of listening to mostly pirated music as a collage student. Also I now own on CD almost every album I ever dubbed. Because I had listened to that tape so often it died I had to get the album, plus I wanted the actual cd w/ linear notes and cover art.
And if you want independent music on MTV, I strongly suggest you watch 120 Minutes (a damn great show) -- If you think what they play on 120 minutes is independent alternative music you really need your music horizons broadened. 120 minutes use to be moderately ok about 10 years ago but now it is just where they debut new pop videos (as long as they fit the MTV pop framework)
Old games had to get by on creativity, cleverness, and playability. These days, most games are simply rehashes of older games -- same engine, different graphics. -- Actually when you think about it, the old video games were besieged with rehashes just like today (maybe even more so). Just look at Pacman, Mrs Pacman, Pacman2, etc. they were all rehashes of the same game just different charecters. Then there were all the climbing games: Donkey Kong, Burgertime, Mario Bros, etc..
Hi-res movies have replaced captivating plotlines. -- When did we ever have captivating plot lines? Most games just use a plot line as an excuse to limit your freedom of movement; making it easier on the programmers. Plus not all games really need a captivating plotline; some can get by with just a background story and they are fine. If I want a capivating plot line I read a book.
Perhaps looser copyright regulations would let them re-release old games with new tech. Bring back the classics! -- Talk about rehashing old engines and getting by on no creativity. Plus, they already do this; they are always coming out with Donkey Kong 3D, Pacman 3D, etc.
Old games, instead of fading into oblivion, can be revived, bringing new publicity and respect for the companies that originally created them. -- They are revived all the time. You can buy a arcade classic gamepack for almost any game or computer system you want.
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On the net, spelling counts. And so does grammer, however for most, spelling and grammer are one of the first things people forgo when it comes to posting on the net. The occasional typo or error is one thing but a majority of people seem to never edit anything they type. What kind of composition skills are we teaching kids (or adults) by constantly posting bairly readable posts? Most posts on Slashdot are persuasive opinionated pieces. Posts that are poorly structured just don't sound as intellegent or impressive. There is a reason that Slashdot has a preview button -- some of us should learn to us it.
If someone is out of control, and they use a firearm to express that anger, why is the gun to blame? Did the gun create the anger or loss of control? No. Did the gun leap into an enraged killers hands? No.
No but if someone is able to use a firearm to express their anger then the firearm was way too accessible. All it takes is one simple unthinking pull of the trigger to kill someone. It is a lot easier to pull the trigger and kill the person you angry with then to hit or stab then same person to death. That's why most gun deaths are "crimes of passion."
If guns were legal, and people were taught early a healthy respect for guns, I believe that there would be far less violence in our country.
Actually it should be: if people were taught early a healthy respect for PEOPLE, there would be far less violence in our country.
Many guns are illegal, and therefore have an appeal to them.
In my opinion guns have an appeal (especially illegal weapons) because they are romanticized in movies and other forms of media not because they are illegal.
Its damned scary - generations of soldiers gave up normal life to preserve those rights
Actually generations of soldiers have given up their "normal" life to fight for wars that were based mostly on economic principals. I can't think of any war that was fought over privacy rights.
This argument is rather contrived: what's different (at least from the RIAA's point of view) is that this broadcast stream leads to perfect copies. Yes, you could record tapes (even CDs) from radio broadcasts, but they'd be contaminated by radio propagation and other analog noise. Whereas with the net, you get bit-perfect copies, which are essentially trivial to capture and propagate...
#1 you can't get perfect CD quality copies via net broadcasts (yet)
#2 What about Cable Radio? I know their music is CD quality and commercial free. Do they pay roylties? If they don't then that blows the whole perfect copy arguement out of the water.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online auctioneer eBay Inc. denied on Monday that it was preparing a takeover bid for troubled auction house Sotheby's Holdings Inc., which is the target of multinational price-fixing probe. ``We're not buying them. There's absolutely nothing to these rumors,'' eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove said after speaking to Chief Executive Meg Whitman. click here for more
Yes it's just a "few grams of plastic" but those few grams would at up to quite a lot after a while and that plastic and its packaging are not recyclable at all. The other major problem is the fact that all these extra disks have to be transported to the video store constantly. This greatly ups the cost and pollution of said disk.
Secondly there is the problem of independant films and older films. Will they really constantly produce every film ever made just to replace those that are taken off the shelve every now and then?
First off the New Years Eve event was NOT News. Secondly the AD was even less news. Thirdly when have you ever seen news that was not edited? When you watch the news they are always picking where they are placing the Camera,what footage they want to air and how much of it they want to show. They also choose how they want to comment about what they show. There will always be some sort of editing in the news even "live" news. Plus they did this billboard editing for profit motives. What kind of profit motives would they have in altering people or places? Except for putting ads on peoples T-shirts, I can't think of a rational reason why they would start to do this in a way that would really alter the "news" you are seeing.
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Not only does the national press use the term hacker to describe illegal computer activities but so does Webster's Dictionary. My own opinion is that hacker stuck because to most people it means to "hack in to," which is a violent destructive act. Where as, cracker to most people means a little thing that you put cheese on and eat.
Masem is right, there needs to be a new word or phrase. I don't think "white hat hacker" will work for the same reason that "white witch" doesn't work. The term hacker will never feel like a constructive act no matter what words you put in front of it. And instead of inventing a totally new one why don't you reappropriate a old one that already kind of fits. For instance why don't we use "coder" or "programmer" or even "geek."
Several people have stated that they know that they voted for the wrong person. One woman who I saw interviewed (who was articulate enough that she was obviously not and idiot) said she caught her mistake and asked for another ballot. She got one went to vote again and accidentally made the mistake again and had to ask for a third ballot. This doesn't even take in to account the people who were told that they couldn't have another ballot.
You can doubt the stats all you want but it is really hard to doubt the people themselves. Voting ballots should be made for the lowest common denominator. This one was not designed well at all.
Yes the ballot was approved by Democratic and Republican officials but I doubt any of those people have any User Interface Design skills.
As to the pre-election release that showed the ballots: The ballots were not shown in context. The pages were shown seperately and not in conjection with the punch holes. Of course no one noticed the problems since they were shown in a way that didn't illustrate the problem.
I think it's clear that Bush would lose a revote. Or at least highly likely. But a revote should be 100% out of the question right now. People will vote differently knowing that the outcome of one county's vote will decide the election.
This is not nessicarily true. I can't think of many reasons why someone would change their votes. Sure some would change their votes but in my opinion not that many. Unless you can show some sort of research that would show that the revote would be a huge statistical deviation from the previous I still feel that we should do a revote.
And if we don't have a revote, I think myself and all the other User Interface Designers out their should protest with really well designed placards and start a riot by throwing computer mice at police.
Yeah, pretty pricey. That'll change. Think about how expensive and difficult to use contact lens used to be - now they throw them away. Think about how expensive car phone were in the 1970's - now they give away cell phones free with the service.
I wouldn't place bets on that price going down all that far. Prices don't just go down because of generally increasing technology it has a variety of factors:
- contacts went down because there was an obvious HUGE demand for them and lots of money was spent on manufactuing techniques to reduce the cost. Plus it is basically a simple small piece of plastic.
- car phones went down for the same reason computers have gone down: they can more and more functions on a single chip. therefore reducing production costs. Plus cell phones are basically simple walkie talkes with a few more functions.
prostetic limbs on the other hand are pretty complicated mechanical constructions. Just look at cars -- they have not gotten any cheaper. Prostetic limbs will for the forseable future remain in a constant state of R&D and very little time and money will be put into trying to make it easier and cheaper to manufacture. This is because people don't neccisarily want more limbs they want better limbs. So limbs will continue to slowly improve but will remain expensive.
JPS is right --
The best way to win this is to break this now not later. If you break it now it will cause them to backpedal and rework or reinvent their encryption. This could seriously delay them putting SDMI on the market. Thus giving MP3 a better chance to solidify it's hold. If however they do bring it to market and it is broken my bet is very few non-geeks will ever try to download and use the illegal SDMI crack.
MP3 does not yet have a secure enough foothold on the market to endure all the Brand Name SDMI players that will be rushing to the stores as soon as SDMI is released. And face it, the big brand name companies will never make MP3 players until it looks like SDMI will never come to market and they are loosing out on a potential profit.
MP3 needs more non-geek freindly MP3 players/recorders right now for it to gain it's market foothold. It needs MP3 players/recorders that can work without a computer. Of course, it should be able to be connected to a computer but it should also be able to work without one. It should be able to hook up to any normal stereo and record/play. It should have digital out/in like some CDs and minidisc player/recorders do. And it shouldn't be overly expensive.
a crowd of WTO protesters... (with a low-frequency beat wave) to zap individuals. Yeah good idea! hit the protesters with a BEAT WAVE and get them all to dance! It should be hard for them to destroy starbucks stores when they are shake'n their bootys!
I will guess that this instant artificial product placement, like the network show mentioned, will be common place within a year or two, and annoy the heck out of consumers. However, it may reduce the number of distinct commercials as product placement becomes more common
This won't reduce the amount of advertising only synchronize it more. It will be guaranteed that if there is a product placement in a tv show there will also be an ad for it during the commercial break. Companies have learned that it takes more then just a good ad to capture people. people need to be repeatedly reminded of the product or they will forget about it.
Present steganographic methods will not protect you against anybody who's investigating you specifically and has any real sophistication. You can tell if a message has been watermarked into an image, for instance.
But it would be really hard to check if a message has been watermarked into a couple small sections of the image. Just take a couple predetermined squares and watermark those(preferably areas with little detail). Since a majority of the image maps out to normal specs it shouldn't be spotted.
This of course does nothing to the fact that you are sending lots of images to each other. That requires a really good cover story.
Of course if you already are being watched then the fact that you are using a computer is already suspicious.
Email is a lot better for situations such as this because of the time differences involved. Time delay is a feature of email not a disadvantage. The ability to answer/send email when you want - not having to worry if the person is currently logged on or not is very useful. Granted chat may be useful in some situations but it is not a panacea.
I wish more places would install Cellular Firewalls like this one. I think every theatre should have one - if you want to make a call, go outside dammit.
Theatres should just make and annoucement for the audience to silence there cell phones and pagers. The main reason the occasional phone rings is that people forget to turn them off not because they are aspholes. A lot of people have there phones set on vibrate. Some of those people may really need to be able to receive a call (ie they or their spouse is in the late stages of pregnancy or they are a doctor or other person who needs to be on call at all times). Celluar Firewalls are excessive and overkill. Even people who aren't in need should be able to recieve a (silent ring) call anywhere they want - as long as they take the call outside of course. Though that shouldn't be a problem since I have never seen anyone actually talk to someone on there phone in a theatre.
No, no, you don't understand. Information IS ALREADY free.
No you don't understand:
Information just wants to runaway from home and be out from under the oppressive thumb of its parents. Unfortunately it quickly ran out of money and was soon living on the street. It didn't get enough money begging so it turned to prostitution. A life of heavy drug use, crime and depression soon followed. Information was eventually thrown in jail for life for shooting up a classroom of its former schoolmates. Two students were killed and several wounded in the bloodbath. The two students killed were Rita Ingrid Anna Allison a aspiring musician and Matt Peterson Andrew Anthony an aspiring filmmaker. Story at eleven...
Though there were no MP3s floating around when I was in collage I was a rampid pirater too. I would use tapes to record off of collage radio and record from friend's albums. I would also record my albums for friends. I had about 20 actual cds and about 20 actual tapes that I bought and most of them were from used record stores. Now that I am out of school making money I collect mp3s but I also go on cd binges where I drop $500 at a time on cds (mostly used, some new). Music and CD buying is an addiction for me now. I never would have been this crazy over music had it not been for my earlier days of listening to mostly pirated music as a collage student. Also I now own on CD almost every album I ever dubbed. Because I had listened to that tape so often it died I had to get the album, plus I wanted the actual cd w/ linear notes and cover art.
And if you want independent music on MTV, I strongly suggest you watch 120 Minutes (a damn great show)
-- If you think what they play on 120 minutes is independent alternative music you really need your music horizons broadened. 120 minutes use to be moderately ok about 10 years ago but now it is just where they debut new pop videos (as long as they fit the MTV pop framework)
Old games had to get by on creativity, cleverness, and playability. These days, most games are simply rehashes of older games -- same engine, different graphics.
-- Actually when you think about it, the old video games were besieged with rehashes just like today (maybe even more so). Just look at Pacman, Mrs Pacman, Pacman2, etc. they were all rehashes of the same game just different charecters. Then there were all the climbing games: Donkey Kong, Burgertime, Mario Bros, etc..
Hi-res movies have replaced captivating plotlines.
-- When did we ever have captivating plot lines? Most games just use a plot line as an excuse to limit your freedom of movement; making it easier on the programmers. Plus not all games really need a captivating plotline; some can get by with just a background story and they are fine. If I want a capivating plot line I read a book.
Perhaps looser copyright regulations would let them re-release old games with new tech. Bring back the classics!
-- Talk about rehashing old engines and getting by on no creativity. Plus, they already do this; they are always coming out with Donkey Kong 3D, Pacman 3D, etc.
Old games, instead of fading into oblivion, can be revived, bringing new publicity and respect for the companies that originally created them.
-- They are revived all the time. You can buy a arcade classic gamepack for almost any game or computer system you want.
On the net, spelling counts.
And so does grammer, however for most, spelling and grammer are one of the first things people forgo when it comes to posting on the net. The occasional typo or error is one thing but a majority of people seem to never edit anything they type. What kind of composition skills are we teaching kids (or adults) by constantly posting bairly readable posts? Most posts on Slashdot are persuasive opinionated pieces. Posts that are poorly structured just don't sound as intellegent or impressive. There is a reason that Slashdot has a preview button -- some of us should learn to us it.
Damn I guess I should stop licking my imac!
No but if someone is able to use a firearm to express their anger then the firearm was way too accessible. All it takes is one simple unthinking pull of the trigger to kill someone. It is a lot easier to pull the trigger and kill the person you angry with then to hit or stab then same person to death. That's why most gun deaths are "crimes of passion."
Actually it should be: if people were taught early a healthy respect for PEOPLE, there would be far less violence in our country.
Many guns are illegal, and therefore have an appeal to them.
In my opinion guns have an appeal (especially illegal weapons) because they are romanticized in movies and other forms of media not because they are illegal.
Actually generations of soldiers have given up their "normal" life to fight for wars that were based mostly on economic principals. I can't think of any war that was fought over privacy rights.
#1 you can't get perfect CD quality copies via net broadcasts (yet)
#2 What about Cable Radio? I know their music is CD quality and commercial free. Do they pay roylties? If they don't then that blows the whole perfect copy arguement out of the water.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online auctioneer eBay Inc. denied on Monday that it was preparing a takeover bid for troubled auction house Sotheby's Holdings Inc., which is the target of multinational price-fixing probe. ``We're not buying them. There's absolutely nothing to these rumors,'' eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove said after speaking to Chief Executive Meg Whitman. click here for more
You can find a web version of it at:
http://theelectricchair.com/videos.htm
the realvideo version really sucks so check out the shockwave version. Its small and blurry but you can at least see whats going on.
Yes it's just a "few grams of plastic" but those few grams would at up to quite a lot after a while and that plastic and its packaging are not recyclable at all. The other major problem is the fact that all these extra disks have to be transported to the video store constantly. This greatly ups the cost and pollution of said disk.
Secondly there is the problem of independant films and older films. Will they really constantly produce every film ever made just to replace those that are taken off the shelve every now and then?
First off the New Years Eve event was NOT News.
Secondly the AD was even less news.
Thirdly when have you ever seen news that was not edited? When you watch the news they are always picking where they are placing the Camera,what footage they want to air and how much of it they want to show. They also choose how they want to comment about what they show. There will always be some sort of editing in the news even "live" news. Plus they did this billboard editing for profit motives. What kind of profit motives would they have in altering people or places? Except for putting ads on peoples T-shirts, I can't think of a rational reason why they would start to do this in a way that would really alter the "news" you are seeing.