The title of this story is completely misleading. Google aren't releasing a pay-per-view thing. In fact, TFA said that those videos which were tagged free were the ones that would be available at first...
"Plenty of folks uploaded video to Google with a payment option, and that has yet to roll out"
This is a good point and one that sort of paraphrases something the was said my Ranum: security shouldn't be about stopping bad things, it should be about allowing good things.
from the article: "Such brain activity does not require the use of any nerves or muscles, so people with stroke or spinal cord injuries could use the cap effectively."
i wonder now would it be possible to do the reverse...
for example, would it be possible to adapt the technology to allow blind people to see?
I personally wouldn't tag my kids, but i'm only 20, so i'm also ready to admit that my attitude may change by the time i actually have kids
but what i think is bad about this is that it gives parents the illusion of knowing what their kids are up to. most people are lazy. they'll reckon that the kids won't try anything if they know they're being tracked.
bulls[h|p]it.
think about this. you're reading/. so you're probably a geek. if you were tagged with an RFID chip all day, particularly when you were in that inquisitive age at school, wouldn't you try your hardest to disassemble it, see how it worked, try to reprogram it? it's a child's natural instinct to push the boundaries. kids like to see what they can do. and if some smartass kid finds out a workaround, then he'll be able to act with nigh impunity.
in my opinion this is the tool of the uninterested parent. it's the sort of thing that would be used by a parent who lets TV raise their child. if you're involved with your child, and if you're intersted, then you won't need to tag your child.
if you're not and you feel the need to tag your child, then you shouldn't be allowed, thus providing you with more incentive to get involved
a child who's been over parented is still better than a child who's been under parented
This is a much better example of the application of Genetic Algorithms than the story that was on slashdot the other day (can't find a link, the one about Formula One racing).
in this case they have a very specific set of criteria.
it didn't however mention in the article how they're testing the designs (did it?)...
and are they actually manufacturing any of the designs that have come from thiss yet?
no, he's being very smart about it... he's appealing to microsoft's monopolist tendencies! he's saying to them that if you make a player that plays everything and anything, then the world will beat a path to your door. which is exactly the sort of thing that microsoft enjoy... and if microsoft chuck out this DRM shite then that must show it has now worth, right?
I remember the day i first downloaded and installed Firefox 0.8. I spent the next week runnig around trying to get my friends to install it. A few of them have and they love it.
I was talking to one of the Unix admins as well and he said that when he re-images our linux lab this summer, he's gonna give us all some firefox action...!
i set mozilla to the default browser on our home puter, and my parents were using it for 2 weeks before they even noticed...
had the favourites not been in a "Imported from IE" folder, they never would have known!
we had RMS over in Trinity (College, Dublin, Ireland) giving a talk about the Evils of Software Patents. Patricia McKenna (Green MEP/MEP Candidate) got up and she was talking about how they only narrowly defeated some bill that was going to enforce software patents... And yet patents were still issued. Her point was how low the awareness of this issue is. If people don't stand up and take notice, this is going to go how governments want it (Ireland currently holds the EU presidency. And their sponsors for this term? Microsoft). The voting is tomorrow. If you're in Ireland vote for Patricia McKenna, she knows the score and doesn't like software patents. If not, make your voice heard - vote for your local Green Party candidate.
I have a job at the minute re-imaging a bunch of machines to XP Pro. There was a soundtrack to the setup procedure that i couldn't turn off cos the drivers for the laptop's sound buttons hadn't been installed. i ended up plugging an earphone adapter into the earphone jack to kill the sound. man, worst install i've ever done. and i've installed debian and done apt-get over dialup for 14 hours!
I like the idea of the support for AAC in winamp and the like. my lil bro always uses iTunes to rip, despite being shown CDex on numerous occassions... so now we have 2 copies of a lot of albums on the computer. which is just plain silly...
The parent isn't off topic... he's urging the european readers of/. to contact their MEPs and let them know that we're concerned about European Patent law, on which there's a big election soon. and didn't the entire first page of the article talk about f/oss being strangled by patent laws in the US, but europe was still a relatively welcoming climate. RTFA and consider the issues raised before modding OT...
"the developers get paid, in theory, by companies that want to harness the spare computing cycles on thousands of computers to solve some complex computing problem."
i wouldn't actually mind giving a fwe of my spare cycles to someone if they needed them for something legitimate.
everyone i know ran the SETI@home screensaver... not only were you contributing to something, but it looked way cool too!
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and that's better than MS's philosophy of "let's make 10 products in the hopes that one of them isn't hideously buggy..." how?
The title of this story is completely misleading. Google aren't releasing a pay-per-view thing. In fact, TFA said that those videos which were tagged free were the ones that would be available at first...
"Plenty of folks uploaded video to Google with a payment option, and that has yet to roll out"
This is a good point and one that sort of paraphrases something the was said my Ranum: security shouldn't be about stopping bad things, it should be about allowing good things.
reads a little bit like an AOL is great, look at our 1337 Anti-Sp4m sk1llz sort of thing to me and not so much like a letter...
from the article: "Such brain activity does not require the use of any nerves or muscles, so people with stroke or spinal cord injuries could use the cap effectively."
i wonder now would it be possible to do the reverse...
for example, would it be possible to adapt the technology to allow blind people to see?
it'd be cool (but kinda scary) if that worked.
See the problem is with the monitoring service. according to the article, Netcraft has it, spam is dead...
such small conductors
Surely you mean semi-conductors...?
explain to me how you'd make a computer out of conductors only
i'm not being facetious, i'm genuinely interested...
Sinn feiner?
But you're american...?
Or else you're some xenophobic nationalist twat who doesn't understand pretty much anything...
Don't talk shite.
unless this was supposed to be modded funny...
I personally wouldn't tag my kids, but i'm only 20, so i'm also ready to admit that my attitude may change by the time i actually have kids
/. so you're probably a geek. if you were tagged with an RFID chip all day, particularly when you were in that inquisitive age at school, wouldn't you try your hardest to disassemble it, see how it worked, try to reprogram it? it's a child's natural instinct to push the boundaries. kids like to see what they can do. and if some smartass kid finds out a workaround, then he'll be able to act with nigh impunity.
but what i think is bad about this is that it gives parents the illusion of knowing what their kids are up to. most people are lazy. they'll reckon that the kids won't try anything if they know they're being tracked.
bulls[h|p]it.
think about this. you're reading
in my opinion this is the tool of the uninterested parent. it's the sort of thing that would be used by a parent who lets TV raise their child. if you're involved with your child, and if you're intersted, then you won't need to tag your child.
if you're not and you feel the need to tag your child, then you shouldn't be allowed, thus providing you with more incentive to get involved
a child who's been over parented is still better than a child who's been under parented
insightful??? INSTIGHTFUL?!?!
explain to me please how "it might be good. or it might be bad" is insightful.
that's like saying of a binary bit "it might be 1 or it might be 0".
dude, you left out mu... it might not be made at all
of course bush uses a mac... they're so pretty!
hehe, reminded of that show on VH1 where dubya "sent his first email" by taping a letter to the screen of a suspiciously iMac looking puter.
does that mean that it removes IE as the default browser and installs Firefox?
just like america keeping itself safe by not letting anyone in!
This is a much better example of the application of Genetic Algorithms than the story that was on slashdot the other day (can't find a link, the one about Formula One racing).
in this case they have a very specific set of criteria.
it didn't however mention in the article how they're testing the designs (did it?)...
and are they actually manufacturing any of the designs that have come from thiss yet?
nah... none of that wussy ass junk...
they're testing Longhorn on them (see here).
no, he's being very smart about it... he's appealing to microsoft's monopolist tendencies! he's saying to them that if you make a player that plays everything and anything, then the world will beat a path to your door.
which is exactly the sort of thing that microsoft enjoy...
and if microsoft chuck out this DRM shite then that must show it has now worth, right?
gallic not gaulic ;)
seen as we're being pedantic
I remember the day i first downloaded and installed Firefox 0.8. I spent the next week runnig around trying to get my friends to install it. A few of them have and they love it. I was talking to one of the Unix admins as well and he said that when he re-images our linux lab this summer, he's gonna give us all some firefox action...! i set mozilla to the default browser on our home puter, and my parents were using it for 2 weeks before they even noticed... had the favourites not been in a "Imported from IE" folder, they never would have known!
in soviet russia, spam gets you!
how come no one made this joke yet?
we had RMS over in Trinity (College, Dublin, Ireland) giving a talk about the Evils of Software Patents.
Patricia McKenna (Green MEP/MEP Candidate) got up and she was talking about how they only narrowly defeated some bill that was going to enforce software patents... And yet patents were still issued. Her point was how low the awareness of this issue is. If people don't stand up and take notice, this is going to go how governments want it (Ireland currently holds the EU presidency. And their sponsors for this term? Microsoft).
The voting is tomorrow. If you're in Ireland vote for Patricia McKenna, she knows the score and doesn't like software patents. If not, make your voice heard - vote for your local Green Party candidate.
I have a job at the minute re-imaging a bunch of machines to XP Pro.
There was a soundtrack to the setup procedure that i couldn't turn off cos the drivers for the laptop's sound buttons hadn't been installed.
i ended up plugging an earphone adapter into the earphone jack to kill the sound.
man, worst install i've ever done. and i've installed debian and done apt-get over dialup for 14 hours!
I like the idea of the support for AAC in winamp and the like.
my lil bro always uses iTunes to rip, despite being shown CDex on numerous occassions... so now we have 2 copies of a lot of albums on the computer.
which is just plain silly...
The parent isn't off topic... he's urging the european readers of /. to contact their MEPs and let them know that we're concerned about European Patent law, on which there's a big election soon. and didn't the entire first page of the article talk about f/oss being strangled by patent laws in the US, but europe was still a relatively welcoming climate.
RTFA and consider the issues raised before modding OT...
"the developers get paid, in theory, by companies that want to harness the spare computing cycles on thousands of computers to solve some complex computing problem."
i wouldn't actually mind giving a fwe of my spare cycles to someone if they needed them for something legitimate.
everyone i know ran the SETI@home screensaver... not only were you contributing to something, but it looked way cool too!
then they'd probably have to change that statistic that says you're more likely to die in a car crash than a plane crash...