I truly see Frontline as one of the last and only truly investigative journalism programs on TV. It's the only show where I have found myself thinking "wow what they are reporting is interesting but it raises question A" and then as if by magic, the show continues: "we decided to further investigate and here's what we found about question A and this lead us to questions B, C and D"
That may be fine for you but not everyone uses an email as a public contact point. In fact not everyone even lists their phone number.
See the thing is, people have a funny way of deciding for themselves how they want to use technology (and, well, everything). And there really is nothing wrong with some people wanting a semi-private email.
I think the commenting could be helpful if you could set up communities too. For instance, a group of python enthusiasts could see comments by other python enthusiasts. It could really reduce the blogspam if the group kept spammers out, or even kept spammer numbers low.
Sweet. Next time we need someone to be flippant and dismissive, we'll be sure to look you up!
There's a saying where all stories ever written can be summed up as man versus man, man versus environment, or man versus himself. And while this is true, it doesn't make all stories worthless.
I personally enjoyed Anarchy Online's story quite a bit and found it a unique telling with much depth, mystery and imagination even though it was a "rehash."
I think you are right in that it's just a transmission encryption but I think the idea is to use it as another link in the DRM chain (the other being access control via SWF hashing ).
To be fair though, when was the last time you heard of a company that makes flawless products that always work as advertised? If you think the quality of Adobe's product is substandard, then don't buy it. But I wouldn't blame them for people futilely wanting to encrypt their content. They're a business trying to fill a market need.
In fact, hasn't every DRM scheme been cracked at some point?
how does the machine know what your password is to do the encryption on the string before it sends it if you never sent it over the wire? or is this like public/private key exchange? Something like Diffie-Hellman?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie-Hellman
And you'd want to stop regulations on medecines? If you did that, medecines would be even LESS tested than they are now... The customers would be "beta testers" like they are in software...
Doc, level with me. Is it bad? Do I have the BSOD?
I gather Cable + movies (maybe eventually games) is what they are after here. It seems as though the idea is to be able to deliver content faster and with less stress on a centralized data center than we have now for things like digital cable et al.
The thing I am wondering though is how would they maintain quality with such an uncontrollable system. Basically it seems that it will, of course, benefit the content delivery company in reducing bandwidth overhead. But where is the benefit to the user? What happens when a particular "torrent" is less popular? Will it be able to stream fast enough for the end user to see the video in reasonably close to real-time? Or, would they be distributing every file equally? essentially consuming the user's bandwidth and hard drive space for files they don't use/need/watch?
In some ways I chalk this up to the media. They have become increasingly good over the years at capitalizing on scandal and drama with reductionist articles like this one. Stereotyping the arguments and behaviors of each cap in order to enrage the other and you have yourself an anger inspiring sound bite a talking head can use to sell some commercials. I'll be willing to bet if you look at what candidates themselves are saying it isn't, to any drastic extent, more or less intelligent than 20 or 30 years ago. But if you look to open public internet forums for ideas on politics you may come across some people literally frothing at the mouth posting any sort of stab they can think of on both sides.
So yeah considering Wikipedia as some kind of "omen" of general consensus among voters just makes me think of the jokes (from SNL i think?) around when WP was created like: "Wikipedia this July will celebrate America's 600th anniversary of independence thanks to General Hello Kitty's heroic strategies in the war with China."
And TFA is wrong for not implicating it. Flash's only role in this was to redirect on a timer to another site that used javascript to close windows and pop up all those "You're infected! Download Now?" messages. Flash and actionscript piggy back on the browser and do not, by themselves, have any way to close windows or prompt security alerts. Rather Flash does have a way to prevent these kinds of unauthorized auto-redirects but MLB.com and others seem to have ignored that feature. I know it's easy to demonize a technology that is often abused with big flashing "Click Here!!!" banners, but the reality is that Flash's security features are for the most part beyond that of javascript's. Admittedly, it did have some role in this but it could have just as easily been hidden in javascript with "setTimeout" and "window.location" methods hidden in some obfuscated javascript.
Some have speculated that this could be a move to drive adoption of the Silverlight plugin to compete with Adobe's flash. There is evidence that could work too. When MySpace was hacked that involved some clever javascript and a SWF, the admins pushed Flash Player 9 (which had added security) on the userbase and it's adoption rate, many have speculated, is largely due to that. One of Microsoft's biggest challenges with unseating Adobe's Flash is it's insanely high adoption. (something like 95% of computers have flash 8) and now they just bought into a userbase of 20 million "early adopters." Will it be effective? who knows. But I would be surprised if we didn't start seeing Silverlight widgets and ads on facebook.
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David Brooks? I believe he is a Republican (though moderate) Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times.
I truly see Frontline as one of the last and only truly investigative journalism programs on TV. It's the only show where I have found myself thinking "wow what they are reporting is interesting but it raises question A" and then as if by magic, the show continues: "we decided to further investigate and here's what we found about question A and this lead us to questions B, C and D"
(and I think for speak for everyone), this is how I feel about it:
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That may be fine for you but not everyone uses an email as a public contact point. In fact not everyone even lists their phone number.
See the thing is, people have a funny way of deciding for themselves how they want to use technology (and, well, everything). And there really is nothing wrong with some people wanting a semi-private email.
Charles, I really would like for you to please stop posting my email address online. This is like the fourth time this week.
Regards,
-Jeffery
Even worse, what if they italicized the "word" terrorist. That'd be a sure tip off.
I think the commenting could be helpful if you could set up communities too. For instance, a group of python enthusiasts could see comments by other python enthusiasts. It could really reduce the blogspam if the group kept spammers out, or even kept spammer numbers low.
How to do that though, I am not sure.
Take a deep breath. It's OK if AMD and intel both have good chips. The question really comes down to the brand of salsa anyways.
You even quoted that part of his statement.
But hey, maybe you're right maybe it's for convenience of political argument that the earth's climate works that way.
There's a saying where all stories ever written can be summed up as man versus man, man versus environment, or man versus himself. And while this is true, it doesn't make all stories worthless.
I personally enjoyed Anarchy Online's story quite a bit and found it a unique telling with much depth, mystery and imagination even though it was a "rehash."
I think you are right in that it's just a transmission encryption but I think the idea is to use it as another link in the DRM chain (the other being access control via SWF hashing ).
To be fair though, when was the last time you heard of a company that makes flawless products that always work as advertised? If you think the quality of Adobe's product is substandard, then don't buy it. But I wouldn't blame them for people futilely wanting to encrypt their content. They're a business trying to fill a market need.
In fact, hasn't every DRM scheme been cracked at some point?
how does the machine know what your password is to do the encryption on the string before it sends it if you never sent it over the wire? or is this like public/private key exchange? Something like Diffie-Hellman? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie-Hellman
And you'd want to stop regulations on medecines? If you did that, medecines would be even LESS tested than they are now... The customers would be "beta testers" like they are in software...
Doc, level with me. Is it bad? Do I have the BSOD?
I gather Cable + movies (maybe eventually games) is what they are after here. It seems as though the idea is to be able to deliver content faster and with less stress on a centralized data center than we have now for things like digital cable et al.
The thing I am wondering though is how would they maintain quality with such an uncontrollable system. Basically it seems that it will, of course, benefit the content delivery company in reducing bandwidth overhead. But where is the benefit to the user? What happens when a particular "torrent" is less popular? Will it be able to stream fast enough for the end user to see the video in reasonably close to real-time? Or, would they be distributing every file equally? essentially consuming the user's bandwidth and hard drive space for files they don't use/need/watch?
Content = text for reading + graphics for illustration.
Hmm illustrated porn. I wonder if it had helpful arrows and thought bubbles.
but being smart at reading legalese isn't always an important skill for a job.
So you're saying it was an EPIC auto-fail?
ooo2goo
If it's anything like web 2.0, we'll be fine.
The parent is correct. Calibration of a monitor can help nicely too as described in this post: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=21627&cid=2302809 as slashdot covered this exact topic quite a lont time ago: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/14/1516207
In some ways I chalk this up to the media. They have become increasingly good over the years at capitalizing on scandal and drama with reductionist articles like this one. Stereotyping the arguments and behaviors of each cap in order to enrage the other and you have yourself an anger inspiring sound bite a talking head can use to sell some commercials. I'll be willing to bet if you look at what candidates themselves are saying it isn't, to any drastic extent, more or less intelligent than 20 or 30 years ago. But if you look to open public internet forums for ideas on politics you may come across some people literally frothing at the mouth posting any sort of stab they can think of on both sides.
So yeah considering Wikipedia as some kind of "omen" of general consensus among voters just makes me think of the jokes (from SNL i think?) around when WP was created like: "Wikipedia this July will celebrate America's 600th anniversary of independence thanks to General Hello Kitty's heroic strategies in the war with China."
does fdisk /mbr. affect data already on the drive though?
And TFA is wrong for not implicating it. Flash's only role in this was to redirect on a timer to another site that used javascript to close windows and pop up all those "You're infected! Download Now?" messages. Flash and actionscript piggy back on the browser and do not, by themselves, have any way to close windows or prompt security alerts. Rather Flash does have a way to prevent these kinds of unauthorized auto-redirects but MLB.com and others seem to have ignored that feature. I know it's easy to demonize a technology that is often abused with big flashing "Click Here!!!" banners, but the reality is that Flash's security features are for the most part beyond that of javascript's. Admittedly, it did have some role in this but it could have just as easily been hidden in javascript with "setTimeout" and "window.location" methods hidden in some obfuscated javascript.
Some have speculated that this could be a move to drive adoption of the Silverlight plugin to compete with Adobe's flash. There is evidence that could work too. When MySpace was hacked that involved some clever javascript and a SWF, the admins pushed Flash Player 9 (which had added security) on the userbase and it's adoption rate, many have speculated, is largely due to that. One of Microsoft's biggest challenges with unseating Adobe's Flash is it's insanely high adoption. (something like 95% of computers have flash 8) and now they just bought into a userbase of 20 million "early adopters." Will it be effective? who knows. But I would be surprised if we didn't start seeing Silverlight widgets and ads on facebook.