I will admit, patent knowledge is not something I can claim as a strong point, but a little bit of googling as to AT&T's patent on the coding of MPEG-4 brought up a lot of FAQs about MPEG-4, but not a lot of mention about AT&T. In fact, the only thing I can find relating AT&T to MPEG-4, after digging through a couple pages on Google, is that AT&T now is claiming a patent. Why isn't AT&T more prominently mentioned in a lot of these FAQs on MPEG-4 (one specifically having a section dedicated to who owns the patent)? If they had the patent, why didn't they let people know that the proprietary use of it was patent infringement? And, above all else, what specifically did AT&T contribute to MPEG-4?
I would think that on a whole, the pornography industry would see The Internet as a love/hate relationship. Granted, it allows production and sales to a degree that wasn't fathomable for porn before, however, the mass filesharing means that one well off user can make off with tons of files from the site and host it else where. I mean, I guess it's good to know know that the love that the Internet has for porn is mutual, but wow, that's an awfully warm reception.
""We use industry standard RSS so that anyone can subscribe. You do not even need a Mac," he told delegates at the Macworld conference in San Francisco.
But early tests showed that the feature fails to work with some feed readers because it deviates from common RSS practices."
This honestly sounds like the developers just got really lazy and didn't bother to check their code. Apple always says they embrace open source, and work with a lot of open source items. Odds are that they figured they had it settled, didn't check it, and put it into production anyways. This is really blown out of proportion. This quote in particular strikes me as a little odd:
""Assuming that [Apple's] intentions are good, and they're not trying to kill RSS, why don't they put some of us under [a non-disclosure agreement] and let us help them get the bugs out before they ship," he suggested."
That comes off as really arrogrant begging to me. He was a project, but doesn't want to seem like he's desperate.
cause it will have lyrics from Bohemian Rhapsody in it...which is seemingly appropriate in my mind.
Is this the real life-
Is this just fantasy-
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality-
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see-
I'm just a poor boy,i need no sympathy-
Because I'm easy come,easy go,
A little high,little low,
Anyway the wind blows,doesn't really matter to me,
To me
Mama,just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger,now he's dead,
Mama,life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away-
Mama ooo,
Didn't mean to make you cry-
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow-
Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters-
Too late,my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine-
Body's aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody-I've got to go-
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth-
Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)
I don't want to die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all-
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche,scaramouche will you do the fandango-
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-
Galileo,galileo,
Galileo galileo
Galileo figaro-magnifico-
But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me-
He's just a poor boy from a poor family-
Spare him his life from this monstrosity-
Easy come easy go-,will you let me go-
Bismillah! no-,we will not let you go-let him go-
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let him go
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go let me go
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me-
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye-
So you think you can love me and leave me to die-
Oh baby-can't do this to me baby-
Just gotta get out-just gotta get right outta here-
Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters-,nothing really matters to me,
In situations like this, the only defense you can use effectively is common sense. However, the only truly reliable defense is really your common sense, and your weapon is the ability to give people your common sense.
I work tech at an office on campus, and on slow days, it's a safe bet that most of the people in the office are on AIM. In lieu of the fact that new worms are starting to talk with people, I'm thinking giant posters that read "IF IT MENTIONS NOT HAVING A VIRUS, IT PROBABLY IS A VIRUS" might need to be posted on people's walls...however, even then I know of a few people that will eventually cave and click the link.
It is sort of frightening that so many people out there are going to fall for this simple ploy. This is reminescent of a ploy I used with my mother once when hiding a kitten I found in my room...just that the worm is one deadly kitten. A good safe-guard for the common AIM user would be very useful right about now. Perhaps something that would prevent clickable links in certain situations, like schools or office complexes?
I mean, typing its own message is good and all, but not that impressive or scary. Now, when it is able to hijack the read text feature and play psychological mind tricks on me, that's impressive:
"Click the link Dave...why haven't you clicked the link? Do you not like me any more? If you don't, I could just go over here in the corner and format myself...after all, you don't like me anymore, else you would click the link..."
The only way it can get better after that is changing psychological mind tricks to Jedi mind tricks:
Forgive me if I am wrong, but I would have to imagine that a "security exploit" of this manner is very much so like breaking into an empty room, that is, with regards to OS X. I mean, yeah, you're in, but what are you going to do in an empty room besides practice your favorite masturbation euphemism? What could be done on OS X via this exploit? Anything?
Well, even though it IS possible to just not buy the stupid Sony CDs, the issue is that there is no denying that Sony is a major market force, and as a major market force, it is going to serve as a template to other companies. Yeah, others probably will copy this and that is the issue.
If others are apathetic about it, then that's fine, but they shouldn't complain when people who do care want to take issue with Sony's actions. If enough consumers take issue with it now, the message will become clear enough in the baby-stages of the new CD DRM that at least some companies will refrain from doing this. The idea isn't to just complain over a little thing, but to stop something that people do not want to happen. I don't see an issue with that.
And it's not necessarily that anyone denies Sony's rights to provide this either; people simply do not want it, or are indifferent to it. Those who are indifferent shouldn't care either way, and those who don't want it shouldn't have to have it, and as a corporation, Sony should listen to the consumers a little and realize this is technology that people do not want.
Of course, this leads a lot into the discussion of wanted technology vs unwanted technology and how a lot of the larger corporations nowadays just put enough money into things so that they live long enough to be considered common place, and hence gain acceptance, which is altogether a frustrating business model which made me stop watching television long ago...but yeah...different topic.
In your humble opinions, what is the overall effect of the wankers who sit online all day clicking the refresh button at gaming news sites in an obsessive compulsive fashion?
That is, there are people out there who sit and wait for companies to distribute little snippets of info about upcoming games, and these people collect, rape, and consume all of this information in a matter of minutes, spewing out their morbid little opinions and creating an overall image for a game before it's even released. They do the job that the marketing folk at the company should do basically. While some pass this off as word of mouth, a great deal of it is far beyond the common word of mouth idea, and entire legions of people are influenced by the opinion of these people; and, there is no doubt in my mind that the developers probably read their fair share of the opinion pieces as well, which could result in a rushed game, a delayed game, or the overall failure of a game/device due to bad internet hype. Or, am I just too cynnical and put too little faith into the masses?
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I will admit, patent knowledge is not something I can claim as a strong point, but a little bit of googling as to AT&T's patent on the coding of MPEG-4 brought up a lot of FAQs about MPEG-4, but not a lot of mention about AT&T. In fact, the only thing I can find relating AT&T to MPEG-4, after digging through a couple pages on Google, is that AT&T now is claiming a patent. Why isn't AT&T more prominently mentioned in a lot of these FAQs on MPEG-4 (one specifically having a section dedicated to who owns the patent)? If they had the patent, why didn't they let people know that the proprietary use of it was patent infringement? And, above all else, what specifically did AT&T contribute to MPEG-4?
I would think that on a whole, the pornography industry would see The Internet as a love/hate relationship. Granted, it allows production and sales to a degree that wasn't fathomable for porn before, however, the mass filesharing means that one well off user can make off with tons of files from the site and host it else where. I mean, I guess it's good to know know that the love that the Internet has for porn is mutual, but wow, that's an awfully warm reception.
From the article:
""We use industry standard RSS so that anyone can subscribe. You do not even need a Mac," he told delegates at the Macworld conference in San Francisco.
But early tests showed that the feature fails to work with some feed readers because it deviates from common RSS practices."
This honestly sounds like the developers just got really lazy and didn't bother to check their code. Apple always says they embrace open source, and work with a lot of open source items. Odds are that they figured they had it settled, didn't check it, and put it into production anyways. This is really blown out of proportion. This quote in particular strikes me as a little odd:
""Assuming that [Apple's] intentions are good, and they're not trying to kill RSS, why don't they put some of us under [a non-disclosure agreement] and let us help them get the bugs out before they ship," he suggested."
That comes off as really arrogrant begging to me. He was a project, but doesn't want to seem like he's desperate.
Is this the real life- Is this just fantasy-
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality-
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see-
I'm just a poor boy,i need no sympathy-
Because I'm easy come,easy go,
A little high,little low,
Anyway the wind blows,doesn't really matter to me,
To me
Mama,just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger,now he's dead,
Mama,life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away-
Mama ooo,
Didn't mean to make you cry-
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow-
Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters-
Too late,my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine-
Body's aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody-I've got to go-
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth-
Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)
I don't want to die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all-
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche,scaramouche will you do the fandango-
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-
Galileo,galileo,
Galileo galileo
Galileo figaro-magnifico-
But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me-
He's just a poor boy from a poor family-
Spare him his life from this monstrosity-
Easy come easy go-,will you let me go-
Bismillah! no-,we will not let you go-let him go-
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let him go
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go let me go
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me-
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye-
So you think you can love me and leave me to die-
Oh baby-can't do this to me baby-
Just gotta get out-just gotta get right outta here-
Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters-,nothing really matters to me,
Any way the wind blows....
In situations like this, the only defense you can use effectively is common sense. However, the only truly reliable defense is really your common sense, and your weapon is the ability to give people your common sense. I work tech at an office on campus, and on slow days, it's a safe bet that most of the people in the office are on AIM. In lieu of the fact that new worms are starting to talk with people, I'm thinking giant posters that read "IF IT MENTIONS NOT HAVING A VIRUS, IT PROBABLY IS A VIRUS" might need to be posted on people's walls...however, even then I know of a few people that will eventually cave and click the link. It is sort of frightening that so many people out there are going to fall for this simple ploy. This is reminescent of a ploy I used with my mother once when hiding a kitten I found in my room...just that the worm is one deadly kitten. A good safe-guard for the common AIM user would be very useful right about now. Perhaps something that would prevent clickable links in certain situations, like schools or office complexes?
I mean, typing its own message is good and all, but not that impressive or scary. Now, when it is able to hijack the read text feature and play psychological mind tricks on me, that's impressive:
"Click the link Dave...why haven't you clicked the link? Do you not like me any more? If you don't, I could just go over here in the corner and format myself...after all, you don't like me anymore, else you would click the link..."
The only way it can get better after that is changing psychological mind tricks to Jedi mind tricks:
"You will click the link."
Forgive me if I am wrong, but I would have to imagine that a "security exploit" of this manner is very much so like breaking into an empty room, that is, with regards to OS X. I mean, yeah, you're in, but what are you going to do in an empty room besides practice your favorite masturbation euphemism? What could be done on OS X via this exploit? Anything?
Well, even though it IS possible to just not buy the stupid Sony CDs, the issue is that there is no denying that Sony is a major market force, and as a major market force, it is going to serve as a template to other companies. Yeah, others probably will copy this and that is the issue.
If others are apathetic about it, then that's fine, but they shouldn't complain when people who do care want to take issue with Sony's actions. If enough consumers take issue with it now, the message will become clear enough in the baby-stages of the new CD DRM that at least some companies will refrain from doing this. The idea isn't to just complain over a little thing, but to stop something that people do not want to happen. I don't see an issue with that.
And it's not necessarily that anyone denies Sony's rights to provide this either; people simply do not want it, or are indifferent to it. Those who are indifferent shouldn't care either way, and those who don't want it shouldn't have to have it, and as a corporation, Sony should listen to the consumers a little and realize this is technology that people do not want.
Of course, this leads a lot into the discussion of wanted technology vs unwanted technology and how a lot of the larger corporations nowadays just put enough money into things so that they live long enough to be considered common place, and hence gain acceptance, which is altogether a frustrating business model which made me stop watching television long ago...but yeah...different topic.
In your humble opinions, what is the overall effect of the wankers who sit online all day clicking the refresh button at gaming news sites in an obsessive compulsive fashion? That is, there are people out there who sit and wait for companies to distribute little snippets of info about upcoming games, and these people collect, rape, and consume all of this information in a matter of minutes, spewing out their morbid little opinions and creating an overall image for a game before it's even released. They do the job that the marketing folk at the company should do basically. While some pass this off as word of mouth, a great deal of it is far beyond the common word of mouth idea, and entire legions of people are influenced by the opinion of these people; and, there is no doubt in my mind that the developers probably read their fair share of the opinion pieces as well, which could result in a rushed game, a delayed game, or the overall failure of a game/device due to bad internet hype. Or, am I just too cynnical and put too little faith into the masses?