Didn't HyperCard also spawn AppleScript? My understanding is that without HyperCard there would be no AppleScript as we currently know it, as it was based heavily on the design of the HyperCard scripting language.
Wow, Push was my TA in Minsky's class in '96. He was an incredibly thoughtful and brilliant soul. He had the sysiphean task of grading several hundred long AI papers all by himself, and the papers all miraculously came back with voluminous detailed and insightful comments. I am just learning of this now. To see that he had achieved such great heights in his career only to end it the way he did... will we ever be able to find any meaning in this, or is it just one of those inexplicable twists of human behavior?
This whole story reminds me of the poem Richard Cory (http://www.bartleby.com/104/45.html):
WHENEVER Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich--yes, richer than a king, And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.
For the record, all of the Emacs acronym jokes are actually shipped with every Emacs distribution in a file called "etc/JOKES", which has a ton of other hilarious stuff in it too. If you don't want to go digging through a local emacs installation, here's the official copy of the JOKES file.
"GlaxoSmithKline maintains that the issue only affects Australia and New Zealand and that Ribena sold in other markets such as the United Kingdom contain the levels of vitamin C stated on the product label."
You mean the rest of the movies they have ever made or the rest of the movies they are making at the same time? As soon as a movie is done all of the data is offlined to backup storage. 300TB is for the 2-6 movies they tend to be working on at a time.
It's not a question of cracking AES. I have no problem assuming that AES won't be cracked. The question is whether or not it will be possible to crack the the process by which the AES content keys are stored on the disks. I haven't looked at the specifics of AACS, but I'm assuming that the AES keys are not themselves encrypted with AES, otherwise every disk pressed from day 1 would have to have a different copy of the keys encrypted with *every player key that will ever exist*. Clearly that is not the case. The content keys must be encrypted using some other scheme that varied player keys can uniformly decrypt. The question is whether or not this process can be cracked, and be cracked in a way that doesn't just use determined player keys.
I guess if this never happens, per-disk key databases will be the way to go.
Again, as with HD-DVD, all that's happened so far is:
- he has implemented decryption using the fully public specs
- he has recovered some per-disk keys (using a clever technique) by finding them in the memory of software players
Neither format should be considered cracked until a standalone software player could play all disks (independent of an online key database) a la DeCSS.
That said, major props to him for actually getting done what he got done. The plaintext attack he used to recover the software keys, as described in one of the forum posts, was a nice touch.
Yes, this is a known issue with XML/SGML. In fact external DTDs can do more than just log the usage, they can also be cause of various security issues. See:
Yep! That's it. Unfortunately I don't have a copy, as I read it in a doctor's office (!). I remember thinking that it was a pretty stunning find for a random article in a doctor's office magazine. (I never read Blender otherwise.) Like you I'm also a close follower of all things Beatles, and had never heard anything about this.
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This dispute has nothing to do with Beatles music being on iTunes. The Beatles music is not available via any digital store, iirc. Yes, a few of the German Tony Sheridan tracks, and 'interview' tracks, but that's about it. The major catalog is not available through any digital download means, not just iTunes. If the Beatles were trying to get back (heh) at Apple Computer, they'd license their material to Napster, or MSN, or Yahoo, or some competing network.
Yep, in fact it goes much deeper than that. The reason they're not on iTunes has nothing at all to do with the agreement between Apple Corps and Apple Computer, it has to do with the agreement between Apple Corps and EMI, who own the rights to the recordings of all Beatles songs. Here's the deal: Neil Aspinall, the man who pretty much is Apple Corps, believes that the contract between Apple Corps and EMI does not give EMI digital distribution rights. Their contract is so old that it contains no clauses (in his opinion) that would grant them such rights. In other words, Neal Aspinall wants to be able to put the Beatles songs online directly licensed from Apple Corps, bypassing EMI completely, with the proceeds going 100% to Apple Corps. But EMI won't go down without a fight, and some people believe that if he makes such a move it could be one of the biggest legal battles in the history of the music industry. (EMI believes that the contract language added to allow them sell CDs does include digital distribution rights.) A lot would be at stake, because if Apple won then it could open the floodgates for tons of older bands to examine their contracts and fight for full digital rights because of muddy or unclear contract language. In any case, Aspinall is in no rush. He doesn't want to take on the fight just yet, but also doesn't want to conceed anything yet by signing off on digital rights.
(This information was described in an article about Neil Aspinall that I read at some point last year, I think in Blender magazine.)
Yeah, I agree, this is confusing. I'm guessing it means that they brought the suit before the policy change, or that they are suing for damages from infrginements before the change?
If so, then this "news" is way less important than it seems. The big news would be if they were forced to change their policy that lets advertisers use trademarked search terms.
I was thinking the IBM nub too. But upon further reading, as far as I can tell from the description the nub is actually a *wheel*. Almost like a mini track ball.
I totally depend on Keychain as well, a brilliant builtin piece of functionality. Although, unfortunately even Apple doesn't do a great job publicizing it or explaining it (afaik). You just kinda know about it or you don't.
All of the benchmarks in that article are from Xbench running in Rosetta. When results come out from a native version of Xbench, we'll know. Oh we'll know.
... that 5G iPod has a replaceable battery? Seems like the could figure out a way to engineer it without taking away too much from the slick form factor.
Yeah, I've wondered how in post-ROM Mac history people can't just go ahead and *make* clones, even after the 90's clone debacle. Is there some other proprietary firmware that Apple won't license? Do they have an exclusive agreement with IBM/Motorola to not sell the specific CPUs used in Macs to anyone else? Is it this clause in the OS licensing agreement?
I guess it's just not a big enough market for anyone to really care enough to challenge Apple on it.
Another good one was the print graphics company "Via Grafix". Their website was "viagrafix.com". Apparently they didn't notice the double meaning until customers started to complain.
Looks like the site no longer exists as such... guess that's not a surprise.
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Didn't HyperCard also spawn AppleScript? My understanding is that without HyperCard there would be no AppleScript as we currently know it, as it was based heavily on the design of the HyperCard scripting language.
This whole story reminds me of the poem Richard Cory (http://www.bartleby.com/104/45.html):
Thank you! I'm just surprised I even had to scroll more than one page to get to this comment. :)
For the record, all of the Emacs acronym jokes are actually shipped with every Emacs distribution in a file called "etc/JOKES", which has a ton of other hilarious stuff in it too. If you don't want to go digging through a local emacs installation, here's the official copy of the JOKES file.
According to wikipedia:
"GlaxoSmithKline maintains that the issue only affects Australia and New Zealand and that Ribena sold in other markets such as the United Kingdom contain the levels of vitamin C stated on the product label."
You mean the rest of the movies they have ever made or the rest of the movies they are making at the same time? As soon as a movie is done all of the data is offlined to backup storage. 300TB is for the 2-6 movies they tend to be working on at a time.
It's not a question of cracking AES. I have no problem assuming that AES won't be cracked. The question is whether or not it will be possible to crack the the process by which the AES content keys are stored on the disks. I haven't looked at the specifics of AACS, but I'm assuming that the AES keys are not themselves encrypted with AES, otherwise every disk pressed from day 1 would have to have a different copy of the keys encrypted with *every player key that will ever exist*. Clearly that is not the case. The content keys must be encrypted using some other scheme that varied player keys can uniformly decrypt. The question is whether or not this process can be cracked, and be cracked in a way that doesn't just use determined player keys.
I guess if this never happens, per-disk key databases will be the way to go.
(arg, I hate it when I forget to select "plain old text". sorry for the formatting.)
Again, as with HD-DVD, all that's happened so far is: - he has implemented decryption using the fully public specs - he has recovered some per-disk keys (using a clever technique) by finding them in the memory of software players Neither format should be considered cracked until a standalone software player could play all disks (independent of an online key database) a la DeCSS. That said, major props to him for actually getting done what he got done. The plaintext attack he used to recover the software keys, as described in one of the forum posts, was a nice touch.
Yes, this is a known issue with XML/SGML. In fact external DTDs can do more than just log the usage, they can also be cause of various security issues. See:
/ x-tipcfsx.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library
That's basically what http://www.kittenauth.com/ is trying to do.
Yep! That's it. Unfortunately I don't have a copy, as I read it in a doctor's office (!). I remember thinking that it was a pretty stunning find for a random article in a doctor's office magazine. (I never read Blender otherwise.) Like you I'm also a close follower of all things Beatles, and had never heard anything about this.
This dispute has nothing to do with Beatles music being on iTunes. The Beatles music is not available via any digital store, iirc. Yes, a few of the German Tony Sheridan tracks, and 'interview' tracks, but that's about it. The major catalog is not available through any digital download means, not just iTunes. If the Beatles were trying to get back (heh) at Apple Computer, they'd license their material to Napster, or MSN, or Yahoo, or some competing network.
Yep, in fact it goes much deeper than that. The reason they're not on iTunes has nothing at all to do with the agreement between Apple Corps and Apple Computer, it has to do with the agreement between Apple Corps and EMI, who own the rights to the recordings of all Beatles songs. Here's the deal: Neil Aspinall, the man who pretty much is Apple Corps, believes that the contract between Apple Corps and EMI does not give EMI digital distribution rights. Their contract is so old that it contains no clauses (in his opinion) that would grant them such rights. In other words, Neal Aspinall wants to be able to put the Beatles songs online directly licensed from Apple Corps, bypassing EMI completely, with the proceeds going 100% to Apple Corps. But EMI won't go down without a fight, and some people believe that if he makes such a move it could be one of the biggest legal battles in the history of the music industry. (EMI believes that the contract language added to allow them sell CDs does include digital distribution rights.) A lot would be at stake, because if Apple won then it could open the floodgates for tons of older bands to examine their contracts and fight for full digital rights because of muddy or unclear contract language. In any case, Aspinall is in no rush. He doesn't want to take on the fight just yet, but also doesn't want to conceed anything yet by signing off on digital rights.
(This information was described in an article about Neil Aspinall that I read at some point last year, I think in Blender magazine.)
The meow gag is used by the cops in the movie Super Troopers.
If so, then this "news" is way less important than it seems. The big news would be if they were forced to change their policy that lets advertisers use trademarked search terms.
I was thinking the IBM nub too. But upon further reading, as far as I can tell from the description the nub is actually a *wheel*. Almost like a mini track ball.
I keep a few of my all-number passwords (that I can never remember) on my cellphone as bogus phone numbers in the phonebook.
I totally depend on Keychain as well, a brilliant builtin piece of functionality. Although, unfortunately even Apple doesn't do a great job publicizing it or explaining it (afaik). You just kinda know about it or you don't.
All of the benchmarks in that article are from Xbench running in Rosetta. When results come out from a native version of Xbench, we'll know. Oh we'll know.
(You just know we're gonna be seeing that one a bunch.)
... that 5G iPod has a replaceable battery? Seems like the could figure out a way to engineer it without taking away too much from the slick form factor.
ok, I just RTFM, and indeed a star next to someone's name means subscriber. He's got one. Never knew that.
I guess it's just not a big enough market for anyone to really care enough to challenge Apple on it.
Seriously? How did he get that in without getting beaten to the first post?
Looks like the site no longer exists as such ... guess that's not a surprise.