Read the comment directly above your own, particularly the quote "Now what I mean by "not a real crime," is something that doesn't cause harm to others."
It wouldnt be sold by dealers if it were legal (I assume this is part of the point). It would be sold just like any other product of this nature such as alcohol and tobacco. How many black market booze dealers do you know? The point is that it would no longer be sold by underground groups (or rather it would no longer be proffitable) therefor cutting off the cash flow to the bad guys connected with the harder drugs such as crack, ice and heroin. One of the problems with the way things are currently is that those selling pot are also usually selling other drugs such as ice, crack, meth, heroin. And when people go to buy pot from them they are pushed the other drugs leading to the bad life. I've seen it happen so many times. Hence the term gateway drug. So if you make pot legal it would then hopefully make it not worth while to sell for the poly drug dealers.
This all seems very bad and very wrong. Using online pharmacies as the primary reason just doesn’t wash with me. No one country should 'own' the internet. And without due process you have to really wonder what the hell is going on here. I thought the Australian government was going to far with mandatory censorship but this is pretty frightening.
I've wondered why this hasnt been done sooner. There are some relatively small groups out there with class A blocks (16.7m) still. Make those who own these blocks justify their use. I believe back when the internet was just a wee bub, IP addresses were handed out to anyone who wanted them. And some companies just took huge chunks.
Some organizations, such as Stanford University, formerly using 36.0.0.0/8, have returned their allocated block to assist in the delay of the exhaustion of addresses. Perhaps some others could follow in their steps.
How is it legal for a carrier to block messages from a legitimate customer unless the messages were spam? If they are offensive or illegal then its up to the police, yes? Isn't there regulations to stop carriers from either spying on or interfering with communications?
I've seen loads of similar devices (Moxa) on several networks managing the safety systems, HVAC, environmental in tunnels and mines. All with default passwords on the same vlan as several windows machines with internet access and a history of malware. I'm sure there are many others out there. My question though is why go after industrial stuff? Perhaps in the hope they will hit something big and get some ego wank from it. Its not like anyone will benefit financially. It looks like true evilness.
a text C&P from the article
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HDR Video a Reality
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· Score: 4, Informative
C&P from the linked page (assuming a/.'ing imminent)
Soviet Montage Productions releases information on the first true High Dynamic Range (HDR) video using DSLRs
San Francisco, CA, September 9, 2010: Soviet Montage Productions demonstrated today the first true HDR video sourced from multiple exposures. Unlike HDR timelapse videos that only capture a few frames per minute, true HDR video can capture 24 or more frames per second of multiple exposure footage. Using common DSLRs, the team was able to composite multiple HD video streams into a single video with an exposure gamut much greater than any on the market today. They are currently using this technology to produce an upcoming film.
Benefits of Motion HDR HDR imaging is an effect achieved by taking multiple disparate exposures of a subject and combining them to create images of a higher exposure range. It is an increasingly popular technique for still photography, so much so that it has recently been deployed as a native application on Apple’s iPhone. Until now, however, the technique was too intensive and complex for motion. Soviet Montage Productions believes they have solved the issue with a method that produces stunning–and affordable–true HDR for film and video.
The merits of true HDR video are various. The most obvious benefit is having an exposure variation in a scene that more closely matches the human eye–think of filming your friend with a sunset at his or her back, your friend’s face being as perfectly captured as the landscape behind them. HDR video also has the advantage of reduced lighting needs. Finally, the creative control of multiple exposures, including multiple focus points and color control, is unparalleled with true HDR video.
“I believe HDR will give filmmakers greater flexibility not only in the effects they can create but also in the environments they can shoot in” said Alaric Cole, one of the members of the production team, “undoubtedly, it will become a commonplace technique in the near future. ”
Contact: Michael Safai Soviet Montage 201 Spear Street #1100 San Francisco, CA 94105 1 415 489 0437 mike@sovietmontage.com
The story looks to be about this post http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20041001/0941211.shtml regarding Jeftel in which the company is called out for being a spam sham. This guy doesnt exactly look like the next Richard Branson:) Jeftel.com doesnt exactly resolve to a legit operation either. Just a default holder page. Is this guy just pissed for being caught out? What a douche
here here.. You should run for president. Given that this site really doesnt have anything to do with what facebook does apart from teachers talking with other teachers, it makes me wonder why. Perhaps the legal department needs something to do? Which is surprising given the number of dickheads spreading hate on fb. I think the question I am most interested in is how on earth can someone claim to own the rights to a word like 'book'.. Perhaps it is just a scaresuit. Anyway, lawyers are douchebags and trademarks are fail. Facebook has become a giant twat.
Exactly, how on earth can this type of evidence collection be considered valid when anyone with a grudge or a twisted sense of humour can simply doctor the license plate in an image to incriminate somebody else? What a joke.
If you think about it, China is a very big market for porn. Considering there is no competition what so ever and the shear size of the population, it must be extremely proffitable for those who can get in there even if for a few weeks, days or even hours. So if an owner of a handfull of porn sites is able to keep from being filtered, perhaps by a sizable under the counter bribe, then they still stand to make a lot of money. Either way it shows that whoever is in charge of looking after the filter is either corrupt or incompitent and thus a very good argument to why the whole idea is very bad in the first place.
1/ Get ambiguous patent to a seemingly obvious method of spam control 2/ Wait 15 years 3/ Sue every IT firm under the sun 4/ Profit
What is claimed is:
1. A method of obtaining context information about a sender of an electronic message using a mail processing comprising the steps of:
Scanning the message, usinig the mail processine program to determine if the message contains a reference in a header portion of the message to at least one feature of the sender's context, wherein the sender's context is information about the sender or the message that is usefiul to the recipient in understanding more about the context in which the sender sent the message;
If the message contains such reference, using the mail processing program and such reference to obtain [sender] the context information from a location external to the message; If the message does not contain such reference, using the mail processing program and information present in the message to indirectly obtain the [sender] context information using external reference sources to find a reference to the [sender] context information.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference to at least one feature is a reference to a location where context information is stored. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference to at least one feature is a hint usable to retrieve a location where context information is stored.
Is there not some rule that says you cant just sit there for all that time until making an infringement claim? There is something rather dishonest about waiting all this time to make such a claim for what looks like a rather obvious method.
Looking at the study it immediately appears to be fundamentally flawed by the simple fact that the trackers analysed were in fact pirate trackers? What on earth did they expect. I'm actually quite surprised that there was even 0.3% legit content shared. If this test was to have been conducted properly they should have;
Sampled traffic at ISP using DPI to look for torrent data Sampled from several ISPs Sampled in multiple geographic locations
Not go to a well known warez tracker and click sort by most seeded and then write them all down. I can only assume that this was funded by a large organisation to reinforce their already decided oppinion.
I have to admitt that seeing www.sexparty.org.au does not make me think of politics at a first glance. But it's interesting however that filters will pick it up as adult content when i'm sure other sites contain sex somewhere in the url - for example deliveriesexpress.com.au. I assume since sex is the first part of the url it is picked up. What about sextantrepairs.com or any of these http://www.morewords.com/starts-with/sex/ ?
Whats wrong with finger print readers? I have a Lenovo laptop with a finger print reader and I couldnt be happier with it. This article is not entirely correct in saying face recognition to replace passwords since passwords are only used as backup authentication with most existing Lenovos. It sounds interesting but I dont really see the point. Unless of course you dont have fingers but then using a keyboard would be a bit hard to start with. Sound more trouble than its worth tho given skin tone issues.
McAfee is for those who have no idea and therefore the warnings make perfect sense. Ethically wrong, sure. Its been made up by the marketing department with the sole purpose of getting the likely clueless user to cough up. And that i'm sure they do. Tobacco causes cancer yet cigarette companies will still do whatever they can to flog their products to anyone who will buy them. It doesnt mean its right. What do you think about Microsofts 'Windows Genuine Advantage' program? It does absolutely nothing for the user but certainly helps Microsoft make a lot more money. Yet its pushed as giving some sort of advantage.
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This is a song by the streets called "The Irony of it all" that I think sums up the whole argument quite nicely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCbDF-OPDX4
Read the comment directly above your own, particularly the quote "Now what I mean by "not a real crime," is something that doesn't cause harm to others."
It wouldnt be sold by dealers if it were legal (I assume this is part of the point). It would be sold just like any other product of this nature such as alcohol and tobacco. How many black market booze dealers do you know? The point is that it would no longer be sold by underground groups (or rather it would no longer be proffitable) therefor cutting off the cash flow to the bad guys connected with the harder drugs such as crack, ice and heroin. One of the problems with the way things are currently is that those selling pot are also usually selling other drugs such as ice, crack, meth, heroin. And when people go to buy pot from them they are pushed the other drugs leading to the bad life. I've seen it happen so many times. Hence the term gateway drug. So if you make pot legal it would then hopefully make it not worth while to sell for the poly drug dealers.
Google still seems to be keeping search results good - http://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=Liu+Xiaobo .. But then I am not up to date on whether google is blocked or not. Either way I sense a streisand effect about to woop some commie butt.
Is ICANN tied to the UN or the USA?
This all seems very bad and very wrong. Using online pharmacies as the primary reason just doesn’t wash with me. No one country should 'own' the internet. And without due process you have to really wonder what the hell is going on here. I thought the Australian government was going to far with mandatory censorship but this is pretty frightening.
I've wondered why this hasnt been done sooner. There are some relatively small groups out there with class A blocks (16.7m) still. Make those who own these blocks justify their use. I believe back when the internet was just a wee bub, IP addresses were handed out to anyone who wanted them. And some companies just took huge chunks.
Have a look at this list for starters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks or http://abhishek.nagar.me/content/class-ip-address-and-owners
Some organizations, such as Stanford University, formerly using 36.0.0.0/8, have returned their allocated block to assist in the delay of the exhaustion of addresses. Perhaps some others could follow in their steps.
Those access fees are quite high compared to some of the competition. Possibly why they are using dishonest advertising to trick people who dont know or care that much into using them instead. Just looking at broadbandchoice.com.au shows several providers offering 150gb for $90 a month. A bit more than 12gb. Worth looking at this comparison http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/?action=search&state=any&class=0&type=res&pre=3000&cost=100&speed=512&upspeed=0&ip=1&contract=99&upfront=999999&needhw=yes&conntype=1&conntype=4&conntype=5&sort=0
How is it legal for a carrier to block messages from a legitimate customer unless the messages were spam? If they are offensive or illegal then its up to the police, yes? Isn't there regulations to stop carriers from either spying on or interfering with communications?
I've seen loads of similar devices (Moxa) on several networks managing the safety systems, HVAC, environmental in tunnels and mines. All with default passwords on the same vlan as several windows machines with internet access and a history of malware. I'm sure there are many others out there. My question though is why go after industrial stuff? Perhaps in the hope they will hit something big and get some ego wank from it. Its not like anyone will benefit financially. It looks like true evilness.
C&P from the linked page (assuming a /.'ing imminent)
HDR demo @ http://vimeo.com/14821961
Press Release:
HDR Video A Reality
Soviet Montage Productions releases information on the first true High Dynamic Range (HDR) video using DSLRs
San Francisco, CA, September 9, 2010: Soviet Montage Productions demonstrated today the first true HDR video sourced from multiple exposures. Unlike HDR timelapse videos that only capture a few frames per minute, true HDR video can capture 24 or more frames per second of multiple exposure footage. Using common DSLRs, the team was able to composite multiple HD video streams into a single video with an exposure gamut much greater than any on the market today. They are currently using this technology to produce an upcoming film.
Benefits of Motion HDR
HDR imaging is an effect achieved by taking multiple disparate exposures of a subject and combining them to create images of a higher exposure range. It is an increasingly popular technique for still photography, so much so that it has recently been deployed as a native application on Apple’s iPhone. Until now, however, the technique was too intensive and complex for motion. Soviet Montage Productions believes they have solved the issue with a method that produces stunning–and affordable–true HDR for film and video.
The merits of true HDR video are various. The most obvious benefit is having an exposure variation in a scene that more closely matches the human eye–think of filming your friend with a sunset at his or her back, your friend’s face being as perfectly captured as the landscape behind them. HDR video also has the advantage of reduced lighting needs. Finally, the creative control of multiple exposures, including multiple focus points and color control, is unparalleled with true HDR video.
“I believe HDR will give filmmakers greater flexibility not only in the effects they can create but also in the environments they can shoot in” said Alaric Cole, one of the members of the production team, “undoubtedly, it will become a commonplace technique in the near future. ”
Contact:
Michael Safai
Soviet Montage
201 Spear Street #1100
San Francisco, CA 94105
1 415 489 0437
mike@sovietmontage.com
Good game, Mr Goodgame. Haters just be hatin. Somehow I think if there was a god he wouldnt take to kindly to all this nastyness.
The story looks to be about this post http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20041001/0941211.shtml regarding Jeftel in which the company is called out for being a spam sham. This guy doesnt exactly look like the next Richard Branson :) Jeftel.com doesnt exactly resolve to a legit operation either. Just a default holder page. Is this guy just pissed for being caught out? What a douche
here here.. You should run for president. Given that this site really doesnt have anything to do with what facebook does apart from teachers talking with other teachers, it makes me wonder why. Perhaps the legal department needs something to do? Which is surprising given the number of dickheads spreading hate on fb. I think the question I am most interested in is how on earth can someone claim to own the rights to a word like 'book' .. Perhaps it is just a scaresuit. Anyway, lawyers are douchebags and trademarks are fail. Facebook has become a giant twat.
Exactly, how on earth can this type of evidence collection be considered valid when anyone with a grudge or a twisted sense of humour can simply doctor the license plate in an image to incriminate somebody else? What a joke.
If you think about it, China is a very big market for porn. Considering there is no competition what so ever and the shear size of the population, it must be extremely proffitable for those who can get in there even if for a few weeks, days or even hours. So if an owner of a handfull of porn sites is able to keep from being filtered, perhaps by a sizable under the counter bribe, then they still stand to make a lot of money. Either way it shows that whoever is in charge of looking after the filter is either corrupt or incompitent and thus a very good argument to why the whole idea is very bad in the first place.
I just saw this website which takes on these issues using a labour catchphrase - http://www.movingaustraliaforward.com/
They did it to stop 'premature unnecessary debate', apparently.
They don't want any facts or public opinion getting in the way of something they have already decided on and that serves nobody else but themselves.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/no-minister-90-of-web-snoop-document-censored-to-stop--premature-unnecessary-debate-20100722-10mxo.html?rand=1279849637950
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/354283/government_stifles_debate_web_browser_history_retention/
Like they were popular enough already with the manditor filter? And comming up to an election I have to ask, WTF?
1/ Get ambiguous patent to a seemingly obvious method of spam control
2/ Wait 15 years
3/ Sue every IT firm under the sun
4/ Profit
What is claimed is:
1. A method of obtaining context information about a sender of an electronic message using a mail processing comprising the steps of:
Scanning the message, usinig the mail processine program to determine if the message contains a reference in a header portion of the message to at least one feature of the sender's context, wherein the sender's context is information about the sender or the message that is usefiul to the recipient in understanding more about the context in which the sender sent the message;
If the message contains such reference, using the mail processing program and such reference to obtain [sender] the context information from a location external to the message;
If the message does not contain such reference, using the mail processing program and information present in the message to indirectly obtain the [sender] context information using external reference sources to find a reference to the [sender] context information.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference to at least one feature is a reference to a location where context information is stored.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference to at least one feature is a hint usable to retrieve a location where context information is stored.
Is there not some rule that says you cant just sit there for all that time until making an infringement claim? There is something rather dishonest about waiting all this time to make such a claim for what looks like a rather obvious method.
Time to jump ship by the looks of things. Best vote with your choice of ISP.
Looking at the study it immediately appears to be fundamentally flawed by the simple fact that the trackers analysed were in fact pirate trackers? What on earth did they expect. I'm actually quite surprised that there was even 0.3% legit content shared. If this test was to have been conducted properly they should have;
Sampled traffic at ISP using DPI to look for torrent data
Sampled from several ISPs
Sampled in multiple geographic locations
Not go to a well known warez tracker and click sort by most seeded and then write them all down. I can only assume that this was funded by a large organisation to reinforce their already decided oppinion.
I have to admitt that seeing www.sexparty.org.au does not make me think of politics at a first glance. But it's interesting however that filters will pick it up as adult content when i'm sure other sites contain sex somewhere in the url - for example deliveriesexpress.com.au. I assume since sex is the first part of the url it is picked up. What about sextantrepairs.com or any of these http://www.morewords.com/starts-with/sex/ ?
Why don't they make gas stations check their pumps once a day for skimmers? Perhaps when they set the price in the morning. Seems relatively simple.
Simple
Just like any other crap, bundle it all up and put it on ebay. The alternative is landfill.
Whats wrong with finger print readers? I have a Lenovo laptop with a finger print reader and I couldnt be happier with it. This article is not entirely correct in saying face recognition to replace passwords since passwords are only used as backup authentication with most existing Lenovos. It sounds interesting but I dont really see the point. Unless of course you dont have fingers but then using a keyboard would be a bit hard to start with. Sound more trouble than its worth tho given skin tone issues.
McAfee is for those who have no idea and therefore the warnings make perfect sense. Ethically wrong, sure. Its been made up by the marketing department with the sole purpose of getting the likely clueless user to cough up. And that i'm sure they do. Tobacco causes cancer yet cigarette companies will still do whatever they can to flog their products to anyone who will buy them. It doesnt mean its right. What do you think about Microsofts 'Windows Genuine Advantage' program? It does absolutely nothing for the user but certainly helps Microsoft make a lot more money. Yet its pushed as giving some sort of advantage.