I thought we were against kill-switches, and certainly wasn't aware that there were any built into Firefox...
There are some situations where a kill-switch is useful - this seems like one of them per TFA.
So, I don't think "we" are against kill-switches per se, but rather against undisclosed/secret kill-switches.
Firefox is open source, so the kill-switch mechanism is visible in the source somewhere - right?
It would take some code review to be "aware", but it is openly available to be found.
Whereas... Microsoft, Apple and Amazon (Kindle) are delivering closed source products where
a kill-switch mechanism would be hidden/secret unless explicitly disclosed by the manufacturer.
In 1999 Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum bought the Egyptian contents from the Niagra Falls Museum and relocated this collection to Atlanta.
Subsequently, one of the mummies was positively identified as the missing Ramesses I and was returned to Egypt.
More info here: http://www.carlos.emory.edu/RAMESSES/
Most of the posts here seem to be stating that AutoCAD isn't the "standard" because it isn't the leader in the arena of 3D design.
AutoCAD is _not_ the standard for 3D design. I'm not sure it ever was... Autodesk competes in that arena with their Inventor product - but I don't think that they are anywhere near the market leader. It's a pretty fragmented market.
However, I believe the AutoCAD _is_ the standard for 2D architectural drawing. This is the arena where architects (or, rather, the draftsman working for an architect) draw the 2D drawings. Buildings, landscapes, etc.
Relax... This particular information is only about which cameras are being used to take pictures posted on Flickr. It has nothing to do with pro photographers, non-pro photographers, "best" cameras or or "best" photos. Please adjust your expectations.
Ya know... instead of Google spending all the time and money digitizing copyrighted books, maybe it would be good if they spent those resources digitizing the government documents which are available today. That might allow that we - the citizens that fund this government - would have access to these documents when the government decides to reclassify them.
It seems like in 10 years that I will be able to go to the library and look at a work of fiction - but I won't be able to see govt. docs that are on the shelves today. Which will be more important to preserve for public access?
There's a whole forum dedicated to hacking the CVS/Ritz/Wolf/Rite-aid digital cameras and camcorders here: http://www.camerahacking.com/. Beyond hacks for reusing these "one time use" cameras, there are a number of folks taking them in the directions discussed by this book (i.e. lens mods, flash memory modification, IR lighting, etc.)
But, alas, recent CVS camcorders are now almost unhackable since the developer has closed most holes that were there intially. The still cameras are still accessible via some hardware hacks.
I started thinking about it and it is an interesting point.
Seems to me that this is heading towards the situation that other mechanical environments have - a certified expert would be used to sort out (if possible) where the responsibility lies between man and machine. When a car moves forward and kills someone the expert is used to sort out whether there's a machine problem (say, accelerator flaw) or not.
Engineering disciplines have a system for certifying a "Professional Engineer" who is qualified to testify in court. What would certify such a person for testifying about software security?
Ahhh - mayhem and anarchy. What better way to, um, "organize" a protest....
But, if you're going to war against the law enforcement in Miami then my only request is that you make them look really bad so that we can get the FTAA Secretariat in Atlanta.
Bah...
Don't bother rioting in the streets of Miami. While that might seem like an attack on the FTAA concepts/treaty it is - IMHO - just an attack on against Miami law enforcement (and, if they're having an off day, perhaps it would attack part of the FTAA treaty process). Besides, I'd like to live in a country where people can work with the system for change instead of blindly attacking it.
The FTAA - as currently proposed - probably won't go through. The US agricultural lobby will probably prevent us from engaging in free and fair trade with countries where farmers aren't highly subsidized like ours.
Write your Senator - explain to him/her how the FTAA policies will adversely affect your business operating in his/her state. This could make a substantive, positive difference.
(And if you just have to riot then do it the traditional way: go to a British soccer game!)
After reading responses for a few minutes it occurs to me that our military has basically solved these issues on their P-3 Orion or E-2 Hawkeye type planes, right? Both of these use computerized data monitoring why flying.
Now, I expect that the systems on these things are pretty hardened, but I also expect that the engineers know what kind of RF radiation needs to be shielded to keep the avionics "happy".
Since we taxpayers have already paid to figure this stuff out, why don't we just have the military give this clue to the commercial airplane manufacturers?
Without understanding the details much, this sounds like "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" in Fantasia where Mickey's attempt to kill the helper just splinters him into more helpers.;-)
Hmmm... An interesting "between the lines" view of Hollywood.
After reading the article (obviously I'm new around here:-) it seems that the movie studios believe that people will cancel their plans to see a movie if a friend tells them that it's bad.
This seems to also presume that people don't heed the press reviews for a movie - they value their friends' reviews much higher.
Also, it seems that Hollywood is depending on this. They had found that if they hype something well enough then people would go see it on the first weekend - before they got "friend reviews" which said "don't bother". This fits with that industry's obsession with the first weekend box-office revenues - some movies won't make money if people don't go the first weekend.
Now, with faster communications, the "friend reviews" can get out before the first viewings.
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I thought we were against kill-switches, and certainly wasn't aware that there were any built into Firefox...
There are some situations where a kill-switch is useful - this seems like one of them per TFA. So, I don't think "we" are against kill-switches per se, but rather against undisclosed/secret kill-switches. Firefox is open source, so the kill-switch mechanism is visible in the source somewhere - right? It would take some code review to be "aware", but it is openly available to be found. Whereas... Microsoft, Apple and Amazon (Kindle) are delivering closed source products where a kill-switch mechanism would be hidden/secret unless explicitly disclosed by the manufacturer.
In 1999 Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum bought the Egyptian contents from the Niagra Falls Museum and relocated this collection to Atlanta. Subsequently, one of the mummies was positively identified as the missing Ramesses I and was returned to Egypt. More info here: http://www.carlos.emory.edu/RAMESSES/
Most of the posts here seem to be stating that AutoCAD isn't the "standard" because
it isn't the leader in the arena of 3D design.
AutoCAD is _not_ the standard for 3D design. I'm not sure it ever was...
Autodesk competes in that arena with their Inventor product - but I don't think
that they are anywhere near the market leader. It's a pretty fragmented market.
However, I believe the AutoCAD _is_ the standard for 2D architectural drawing.
This is the arena where architects (or, rather, the draftsman working for an architect)
draw the 2D drawings. Buildings, landscapes, etc.
Relax... This particular information is only about which cameras are being used to take pictures posted on Flickr. It has nothing to do with pro photographers, non-pro photographers, "best" cameras or or "best" photos. Please adjust your expectations.
Ya know... instead of Google spending all the time and money digitizing copyrighted books, maybe it would be good if they spent those resources digitizing the government documents which are available today. That might allow that we - the citizens that fund this government - would have access to these documents when the government decides to reclassify them.
It seems like in 10 years that I will be able to go to the library and look at a work of fiction - but I won't be able to see govt. docs that are on the shelves today. Which will be more important to preserve for public access?
There's a whole forum dedicated to hacking the CVS/Ritz/Wolf/Rite-aid digital cameras and camcorders here: http://www.camerahacking.com/. Beyond hacks for reusing these "one time use" cameras, there are a number of folks taking them in the directions discussed by this book (i.e. lens mods, flash memory modification, IR lighting, etc.)
But, alas, recent CVS camcorders are now almost unhackable since the developer has closed most holes that were there intially. The still cameras are still accessible via some hardware hacks.
- Rich
Sounds like an old Apple approach to address piracy directly - but with a slightly different attitude now. Here's the old approach from the original Mac BIOS: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macin tosh&story=Stolen_From_Apple.txt&showcomments=1
Now they're just asking folks not to steal their stuff...
I started thinking about it and it is an interesting point. Seems to me that this is heading towards the situation that other mechanical environments have - a certified expert would be used to sort out (if possible) where the responsibility lies between man and machine. When a car moves forward and kills someone the expert is used to sort out whether there's a machine problem (say, accelerator flaw) or not. Engineering disciplines have a system for certifying a "Professional Engineer" who is qualified to testify in court. What would certify such a person for testifying about software security?
Ahhh - mayhem and anarchy. What better way to, um, "organize" a protest.... But, if you're going to war against the law enforcement in Miami then my only request is that you make them look really bad so that we can get the FTAA Secretariat in Atlanta.
Bah... Don't bother rioting in the streets of Miami. While that might seem like an attack on the FTAA concepts/treaty it is - IMHO - just an attack on against Miami law enforcement (and, if they're having an off day, perhaps it would attack part of the FTAA treaty process). Besides, I'd like to live in a country where people can work with the system for change instead of blindly attacking it. The FTAA - as currently proposed - probably won't go through. The US agricultural lobby will probably prevent us from engaging in free and fair trade with countries where farmers aren't highly subsidized like ours. Write your Senator - explain to him/her how the FTAA policies will adversely affect your business operating in his/her state. This could make a substantive, positive difference. (And if you just have to riot then do it the traditional way: go to a British soccer game!)
After reading responses for a few minutes it occurs to me that our military has basically solved these issues on their P-3 Orion or E-2 Hawkeye type planes, right? Both of these use computerized data monitoring why flying.
Now, I expect that the systems on these things are pretty hardened, but I also expect that the engineers know what kind of RF radiation needs to be shielded to keep the avionics "happy".
Since we taxpayers have already paid to figure this stuff out, why don't we just have the military give this clue to the commercial airplane manufacturers?
Without understanding the details much, this sounds like "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" in Fantasia where Mickey's attempt to kill the helper just splinters him into more helpers. ;-)
Hmmm... An interesting "between the lines" view of Hollywood.
:-) it seems that the movie studios believe that people will cancel their plans to see a movie if a friend tells them that it's bad.
After reading the article (obviously I'm new around here
This seems to also presume that people don't heed the press reviews for a movie - they value their friends' reviews much higher.
Also, it seems that Hollywood is depending on this. They had found that if they hype something well enough then people would go see it on the first weekend - before they got "friend reviews" which said "don't bother". This fits with that industry's obsession with the first weekend box-office revenues - some movies won't make money if people don't go the first weekend.
Now, with faster communications, the "friend reviews" can get out before the first viewings.
Cool! Maybe we'll get better movies!
As thoroughly discussed above, it seems pretty clear that GPL isn't at odds with the Copyright laws.
:-)
But, it is interesting that SCO feels the need to comment about GPL at all. Perhaps they feel threatened by it somehow?
Yep /.ing is a cross-platform "feature" - works against Windows, Linux, and Contiki servers!
There is space reserved for Egyptian Hieroglyphics in "Plane 1" (i.e. 00010000 - 0001FFFF) of ISO 10646.
ISO 10646 is a 32-bit character mapping standard which includes Unicode as "Plane 0" (00000000 - 0000FFFF).
Here's some more info:
http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n2461.pdf
I'm not sure if anything really supports ISO 10646 characters yet, though it can be encoded as UTF-8.