Given it looks like a direct analog to the Soccer game in Wii Fit (dodging objects/heading balls = avoiding and hitting blocks), I'd have to assume that it would be alot of fun. I spend most of my fitness credits in the balance games (mostly because I need to work on mine).
All thwarted by the fact that you had to be cool and install a side window so you could see all the pimping blinking blue neon lights you installed inside? ^_^
Tell that to the Chinese people now in jail because Google fingered them to the Chinese gov't so Google could keep doing business there.
"Do no evil" my ass...
And if you're thinking "Hey, it's only a couple of people", imagine the person in jail was YOU.
I would, you know, if it had actually been Google that had done any of that. Yahoo! fingered people, thats one of the reasons why I'd be wary of mixing their corporate culture with Google's, but I have yet to see anything indicating Google has.
Do you have a link, or are you just using your AC mask to spew FUD-ish Google-hate? Ethics work two ways you know...
If it allowed Flikr integration with the rest of Google, hell yeah.
That's about the only Yahoo! service that I still consider superior to Google's offerings.
Superficial reasoning aside, yes and no.
On one hand, a Goo-ho! would involve diluting the corporate culture of Google, risking it becoming less of a company that I look up to as an example of how to be successful and ethical. That would be bad. On the other hand, these two companies could actually mesh well when you consider WHAT they provide. The resulting conglomeration would have about the best of most of the 'big' web services that are offered out there.
A Yah-soft would just be the next interation of Microsoft Live! before it tanked yet again due to poor manaegment and a lack of any discernable goals other than "we need to be out there, doing... something!"
Actually "on hold" is more along the lines of "Microsoft has gotten what it wanted and would really like this format to die on the table so it doesn't have to actually implement any of its promises".
[corporate spin]Oh sure! MS Office 2010 was going to be fully open spec, but the ISO never got around to finalizing OOXML, and we got tired of waiting. So, Hey! Here's a new proprietary format. After all, it's not our fault, we upheld our part of the bargain and released the specs...[/corporate spin]
Nothing you've quoted indicates a file vs image hash. In fact the second quote is providing the fact that the DOD is doing it diffrently from the Center, thus making the entire rest of the statement, noise.
Let me put it another way, I agree that the arrangement is open to abuse. I also agree that as such, the arrangement merits montioring to ensure such abuse doesn't happen.
However, of the list of targets of political power and coruption used to seize control of the government and culture, the Center is well at the bottom. There are other, more powerful, more exploitable, targets out there, even in the "anti-pornography" circle. Doing a powergrab just so you can add your own hashes to this database would be a pointless exercise. Especially when, any false positive is going to be fairly easily provable as a false positive.
"I'm sorry sir, your picture of the powerful senator being arrested for a DUI offense was flaged as CP... Yes sir, I realize the only human in the picture is a 70 year old 300 pound male...."
The sort of hash you are refering to is a pure binary hash of the file and yes, that sort of hash would be a massive failure.
However any intelligent person going about creating a database of pictures for comparitive purposes is going to base their hashes off the actual properties of the images themselves, not the underlying data structures representing them.
And ANYONE using the usenet should be familiar with these ideas given most of us have had to cull duplicates out of our collections of.... dolphin waxing pictures.
Throw a stone through Google's window and you will find buckets of free, not-so free, and 'OMG this is really a virus' programs out there that offer fuzzy picture matching to help people find duplicates in their collections.
One of my favorite, "I wish they would hurry up and make it workable" programs along these lines is Imgseek (http://www.imgseek.net/) which allows you to draw a MSPaint level picture and then searches your collection for things that vaguely match it.
While I agree that having a non-transparent process is open to abuse, of the groups that I don't forsee taking over the world and imposing their facist doctrine upon us is the Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
I don't like this news for many reasons, namely the TOS trap used by the AG is a huge backdoor for other more objectional agreements, but this is not a black hat organization in my book. They aren't likely to be going around adding 'random' non-CP related images to their database unless there occurs a seperate and significant erroding of the situation. In which case their collusion will be a minor note in the whole ordeal, not the the lynchpin responsible for it.
As someone who remembers the "good 'ol days" prior to the garbage dump that the alt.* heirarchy became to escape the moderated heirarchies, I don't really feel that a culling of alt. and renewal to using the old moderated structure would be that horrible.
And you would be surprised how stupid people are. Or maybe not. But just because someone managed to barf themselves onto the newsgroups doesn't immediately mean they have a clue IT-wise. Encryption is still very much the realm of the thinking man and even they make mistakes.
Most image hashing programs are robust enough to handle random noise in a picture. The issue will be how 'close' a picture will have to be to be caught and how many false positives will result in the necessarily fuzzy logic.
Hashes, according to the article I read which may or may not be the same as the linked one.
The AG got the companies because they had in their TOS a clause that specificly prohibited child pornography. Therefore when the sting operation's user complained about it and the ISP's did their standard "nothing" it became fraud.
The ISP's will use a hash database provided by the Center of pictures they've collected, blocking anything tha matches the hash.
I don't use the Google versions, but I do have Confabulator/Yahoo! Widgets installed and do actually USE some of the widgets for more than eyecandy.
Granted 90% of the widgets out there are useless, and the other 10% probably have alternatives to them that don't involve running in a widget engine. But the fact that there are other ways to skin the cat doesn't immediately invalidate the way you prefer.
That said, when I'm expecting to do heavy duty work that will probably peg the resourse on my aging computer, the first thing that dies is this.
And if you read the PDF the GP linked to, you would realize that the merchants that allowed you to get away with that are just as screwed as the ones that don't check at all.
The purpose of signing the card is to show that you have agreed to the card holder's agreement with the CC company. Allowing you to rack up charges with an unsigned card makes their transaction just as 'fradulent' as allowing you to rack up charges on Jane Smith's card while signing your name as "Sebastian Bach".
CID is the same deal, if it isn't your signature on the card, they aren't suppose to accept it regardless of whether you have the Pope and President swearing it's you or a napkin with a polaroid stapled to it.
I think I have your answer, but hold on, I've got to issue another series of behests to my adventures in Final Fantasy - Crystal Chronicles - My Life as a King.
I've been playing it inbewteen sessions of Mario Galaxy, where I, as Mario, rescue Princess Peach and the Great Stars from Bowser, King Koopa.
......
And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm
singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a
situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into
the shrink wherever you are,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both f****** and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the
guitar......
Actually from everything I've heard the key you get for activation works for any installation you do, I.E. if you want you can get the Windows version, get the activation key and then install the Mac and Linux versions using the same key. As such, I suspect your information as incorrect.
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Given it looks like a direct analog to the Soccer game in Wii Fit (dodging objects/heading balls = avoiding and hitting blocks), I'd have to assume that it would be alot of fun. I spend most of my fitness credits in the balance games (mostly because I need to work on mine).
No, no, no. One is OOUSB and the other is OUSBF.
All thwarted by the fact that you had to be cool and install a side window so you could see all the pimping blinking blue neon lights you installed inside? ^_^
Do you have a link, or are you just using your AC mask to spew FUD-ish Google-hate? Ethics work two ways you know...
If it allowed Flikr integration with the rest of Google, hell yeah.
That's about the only Yahoo! service that I still consider superior to Google's offerings.
Superficial reasoning aside, yes and no.
On one hand, a Goo-ho! would involve diluting the corporate culture of Google, risking it becoming less of a company that I look up to as an example of how to be successful and ethical. That would be bad. On the other hand, these two companies could actually mesh well when you consider WHAT they provide. The resulting conglomeration would have about the best of most of the 'big' web services that are offered out there.
A Yah-soft would just be the next interation of Microsoft Live! before it tanked yet again due to poor manaegment and a lack of any discernable goals other than "we need to be out there, doing... something!"
What kind of weasel?
Actually "on hold" is more along the lines of "Microsoft has gotten what it wanted and would really like this format to die on the table so it doesn't have to actually implement any of its promises".
[corporate spin]Oh sure! MS Office 2010 was going to be fully open spec, but the ISO never got around to finalizing OOXML, and we got tired of waiting. So, Hey! Here's a new proprietary format. After all, it's not our fault, we upheld our part of the bargain and released the specs...[/corporate spin]
Don't worry, that was before they had Microsoft's corporate sponsorship to subsidize the cost of making copies....
Nothing you've quoted indicates a file vs image hash. In fact the second quote is providing the fact that the DOD is doing it diffrently from the Center, thus making the entire rest of the statement, noise.
Let me put it another way, I agree that the arrangement is open to abuse. I also agree that as such, the arrangement merits montioring to ensure such abuse doesn't happen.
However, of the list of targets of political power and coruption used to seize control of the government and culture, the Center is well at the bottom. There are other, more powerful, more exploitable, targets out there, even in the "anti-pornography" circle. Doing a powergrab just so you can add your own hashes to this database would be a pointless exercise. Especially when, any false positive is going to be fairly easily provable as a false positive.
"I'm sorry sir, your picture of the powerful senator being arrested for a DUI offense was flaged as CP... Yes sir, I realize the only human in the picture is a 70 year old 300 pound male...."
The sort of hash you are refering to is a pure binary hash of the file and yes, that sort of hash would be a massive failure.
However any intelligent person going about creating a database of pictures for comparitive purposes is going to base their hashes off the actual properties of the images themselves, not the underlying data structures representing them.
And ANYONE using the usenet should be familiar with these ideas given most of us have had to cull duplicates out of our collections of.... dolphin waxing pictures.
Throw a stone through Google's window and you will find buckets of free, not-so free, and 'OMG this is really a virus' programs out there that offer fuzzy picture matching to help people find duplicates in their collections.
One of my favorite, "I wish they would hurry up and make it workable" programs along these lines is Imgseek (http://www.imgseek.net/) which allows you to draw a MSPaint level picture and then searches your collection for things that vaguely match it.
While I agree that having a non-transparent process is open to abuse, of the groups that I don't forsee taking over the world and imposing their facist doctrine upon us is the Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
I don't like this news for many reasons, namely the TOS trap used by the AG is a huge backdoor for other more objectional agreements, but this is not a black hat organization in my book. They aren't likely to be going around adding 'random' non-CP related images to their database unless there occurs a seperate and significant erroding of the situation. In which case their collusion will be a minor note in the whole ordeal, not the the lynchpin responsible for it.
As someone who remembers the "good 'ol days" prior to the garbage dump that the alt.* heirarchy became to escape the moderated heirarchies, I don't really feel that a culling of alt. and renewal to using the old moderated structure would be that horrible.
And you would be surprised how stupid people are. Or maybe not. But just because someone managed to barf themselves onto the newsgroups doesn't immediately mean they have a clue IT-wise. Encryption is still very much the realm of the thinking man and even they make mistakes.
Most image hashing programs are robust enough to handle random noise in a picture. The issue will be how 'close' a picture will have to be to be caught and how many false positives will result in the necessarily fuzzy logic.
Hashes, according to the article I read which may or may not be the same as the linked one.
The AG got the companies because they had in their TOS a clause that specificly prohibited child pornography. Therefore when the sting operation's user complained about it and the ISP's did their standard "nothing" it became fraud.
The ISP's will use a hash database provided by the Center of pictures they've collected, blocking anything tha matches the hash.
Hinjo, he knows too much. Use the uranium apple.
I don't use the Google versions, but I do have Confabulator/Yahoo! Widgets installed and do actually USE some of the widgets for more than eyecandy.
Granted 90% of the widgets out there are useless, and the other 10% probably have alternatives to them that don't involve running in a widget engine. But the fact that there are other ways to skin the cat doesn't immediately invalidate the way you prefer.
That said, when I'm expecting to do heavy duty work that will probably peg the resourse on my aging computer, the first thing that dies is this.
And if you read the PDF the GP linked to, you would realize that the merchants that allowed you to get away with that are just as screwed as the ones that don't check at all.
The purpose of signing the card is to show that you have agreed to the card holder's agreement with the CC company. Allowing you to rack up charges with an unsigned card makes their transaction just as 'fradulent' as allowing you to rack up charges on Jane Smith's card while signing your name as "Sebastian Bach".
CID is the same deal, if it isn't your signature on the card, they aren't suppose to accept it regardless of whether you have the Pope and President swearing it's you or a napkin with a polaroid stapled to it.
I think I have your answer, but hold on, I've got to issue another series of behests to my adventures in Final Fantasy - Crystal Chronicles - My Life as a King.
I've been playing it inbewteen sessions of Mario Galaxy, where I, as Mario, rescue Princess Peach and the Great Stars from Bowser, King Koopa.
Alice's Restaurant Massacree
Actually from everything I've heard the key you get for activation works for any installation you do, I.E. if you want you can get the Windows version, get the activation key and then install the Mac and Linux versions using the same key. As such, I suspect your information as incorrect.
I'm sorry, I just don't understand where the car comes into the picture.
Meh, as long as my two minutes hate is on time and not a re-run, what do I care?
Avian flu is not a product....