15 hours is really nothing. it's easy to go 15 hours on the internet, but i work at an ISP so i kind of have to. the only breaks i get are driving to/from my place of work. aside from that, i'm quite happy to do this if it's for the better good of keeping things running smoothly. what's really so bad about spending a lot of time working? there are a lot of worse things that a internet user can be doing.
i quite agree that children/teenagers should learn to do things away from the internet, if and only if they are doing things that are not beneficial to themselves or others. i consider idle messaging/forums to be a bad use of time (/. excluded).
it can be automated. looking for particular actors faces should be possible. in the uk we have face recognition systems for cctv. it would not be impossible to go through uploaded videos looking for actors faces.
But using small sections of TV shows, movies, etc. in original works is allowed as long as you properly credit the sources. Just because a certain person appears in a video doesn't mean it constitutes copyright violation.
At best the face recognition system could only flag videos that it recognized faces in, to allow someone to review them later. Otherwise they'd be taking down many legitimate videos along with the illegitimate ones. ok but one can at least get a short list of potential violations.
it can be automated. looking for particular actors faces should be possible. in the uk we have face recognition systems for cctv. it would not be impossible to go through uploaded videos looking for actors faces.
but could changing the aspect ratio not fool that system? for face recognition in the streets, ok... noone changes his face to 16:9 for a change;)
and even if that would work - not every clip of, say, george clooney is copyrighted, filmed public appearences for example. either this video is "censored" by fault, or you still need a lot of manual work... yes it will need work, but it also cuts out a lot of work that has to be done browsing all the uploads. id rather look at a short list of suspected copyrights
...;)
as TFA mentions, this process of cheching for copyrighted material ist not automated.
i wonder, is there e technical/software based/automated possibility to check contents at all, except for watermarks, etc, embedded in the video? i can't think of any (that's possibly the cause for my being not a millionaire) it can be automated. looking for particular actors faces should be possible. in the uk we have face recognition systems for cctv. it would not be impossible to go through uploaded videos looking for actors faces.
Yeah. Stripped down Linux doesn't take up that much RAM. Even today most embedded platforms have 64 MB of RAM or less. I've used ones with 16MB and that was more than enough. The resource hogs are the graphics systems. Linux systems can run on about 2MB. X windows takes about 5MB for all the graphics. Clock speed isn't so important. I'm sure Linux runs much better than windows. in this situation the great thing is that the processes are normally c binaries so things are as efficient as possible. there are also an abundance of perl scripts, but i imagine that these will be rewritten as c if they're used frequently.
this is exactly where having everyone's data in the same place is a problem. the government should invest in monitoring the access and controlling who can do what with it. queries should be controlled, and mechanisms have to be put in place to ensure that no user can extract too much data in a short period of time. i'm not in a position to suggest exactly how that should be implemented in the office as i do not work there, but i can see how organisations without access controls can easily be abused.
what if there was a bug that caused the software to delete your files without a pirated serial being entered?
I recall a day where I bought myself a copy of Quake III Arena, and the key the game came with was already in use and identified as a pirate key - thanks to keygens.
Makes me wonder how bulletproof this is. would be interesting to see how ID resolved that one.
Bottom line - the more people use Firefox, the more people look for bugs and vulnerabilities, the more people find them. The same thing happened with IE.
But, how can that be ? We are constantly being told marketshare is irrelevant !
its not market share at all. lynx had a vuln, hardly anyone uses that.
its just about speed of code changes. if thousands of people are all changing the code at once it becomes more work for the programmers to check all the diffs and work on code at the same time.
No that's brilliant - thanks for your opinion. A lot of people are pushing me for python, but I always figured it's reveared status for text processing/manipulation & wealth of existing scripts/implementations would mean perl would win hands down.
I had the same misconception! Turns out it's not much harder to do regexp stuff in python than in Perl:
PERL
----
$foo =~ s/bar/baz/;
if ($foo =~/bar(...)) { print $1 }
PYTHON
------
from re import *
replace(foo, 'bar', 'baz')
match = search(foo, 'bar(...)')
if match: print match.group(1)
So... there's a little bit of extra boilerplate in Python, but that's it! For one-liners, Perl still wins, but for anything longer I think you'll appreciate the extra clarity of Python.
The best part is, the Python regexp syntax is an exact duplicate of the Perl syntax. The Python people made the decision to use the exact same syntax for the regular expressions as in Perl. A very smart decision I think. All my knowledge about \s and [A-Za-z] and (?:foo) transferred directly over with Python. Awesome! sometimes reading through all the extra lines just makes things harder to understand. sometimes i prefer to just read a short snippet to get the gist.
crap, I was wondering why Tom Cruise, John Travolta and R Kelly were with me in this smallish room filled with coat hangers and ties. ... tom cruise, john travolta and r kelly won't come out of the closet...
I love the way that people involved in DRM think it adds to the product. You can do less with this product now! Whoo-hoo!
It may be shameless self-promotion but I made a visualisation of the Ultimate DRM just the other day. What happened to giving the customer what they want? no i think that's ok. if you had put your page address or something else stamped all over the image then i guess that'd be self promotion. i think your image is quite a nice idea and does get the message across. you might find it worthwhile seeing if there is a campaign who would use it as their logo.
Rubbish. One of the biggest myths in server sales today is that blades consume more power. If you fill racks full of them they consume more power per square metre of floor space, not per server. If you need the same number of servers they should consume less power, largely due to the centralised AC/DC conversion.
HP especially are working to make blades some of the most efficient servers on the market.
i agree. the problem i think is that today computers are cheaper than before. it's so easy for people to think that they can improve uptime through distributing the processes on hardware.
imo this reduces uptime since there are more components involved. but that's just my opinion of it.
I find it quicker than ssh logins. of course its quicker, it has no encryption to do. and the initial seeding (at connect time) also takes a LONG time on some boxes (ssh to a cisco box; come back after lunch and you'll get your login prompt). i think you might find that the reason you cant login promptly is because the nameservers are not right and the ssh login is doing a reverse dns lookup on your socket.
telnet over a wan is dumb. telnet over a 10' piece of wire is NOT dumb.
telnet has its place. it has a very small place. telnet is ok for debugging other services like http or smtp where one writes raw commands. but to be honest, there's no reason to get the telnet client out just yet. ssh is so much more powerful with tunnels alone that it knocks telnet way down the list of useful tools.
i disagree, the west is very used to this problem. i for one have inboxes full of junk mail from trojan'd windows boxes. it doesnt get much clearer than this. particularly with the advent of a new popular os, there's probably hundreds of thousands of people getting keygens around the world right now.
Now if I try to commit suicide will I be charged with Attempted Murder? attempted suicide is an offense, and you will be charged. succeeding is ok though... just your insurance wont payout, get someone else to do it for you.
For instance a completely new file system. i'm always left wondering why they dont use an opensource filesystem. it seems whenever someone reaches compatibility with their current default file system they go and change it. it would be really cool if they could just use ext3 or jfs...
every system admin out there has to battle with their inept business practices. we all use samba, so they go and change that. most things that are closed protocols die in a few years because there's no way of keeping up with their means of communication, so people flock to whatever is easy to implement and update with. pretty soon ms will be left on an island all of their own with no one who wants to talk with them.
I like how I bust my ass and write a paragraph long summary that actually explains the issues behind the case and what both Putin and Gorbachev have said about it, and it's still lounging in 'pending' while this one liner sits pretty on/.[/bitch] /. editors are just lazy people. they only approve things that they think are interesting. how about you follow up here with the article you were waiting to get approved just so that i can read it.
Vista is not a server OS. You would not run a web server on it. While it does come with IIS 7, I presume that it has a limited number of connections like IIS 5.1 does in XP. i think when apache runs on it, the connections are limitless, at least until it gets laggy because someone is sending syns that cause consecutive hash hits...
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15 hours is really nothing. it's easy to go 15 hours on the internet, but i work at an ISP so i kind of have to. the only breaks i get are driving to/from my place of work. aside from that, i'm quite happy to do this if it's for the better good of keeping things running smoothly. what's really so bad about spending a lot of time working? there are a lot of worse things that a internet user can be doing.
i quite agree that children/teenagers should learn to do things away from the internet, if and only if they are doing things that are not beneficial to themselves or others. i consider idle messaging/forums to be a bad use of time (/. excluded).
At best the face recognition system could only flag videos that it recognized faces in, to allow someone to review them later. Otherwise they'd be taking down many legitimate videos along with the illegitimate ones. ok but one can at least get a short list of potential violations.
but could changing the aspect ratio not fool that system? for face recognition in the streets, ok... noone changes his face to 16:9 for a change
and even if that would work - not every clip of, say, george clooney is copyrighted, filmed public appearences for example. either this video is "censored" by fault, or you still need a lot of manual work... yes it will need work, but it also cuts out a lot of work that has to be done browsing all the uploads. id rather look at a short list of suspected copyrights
...i wonder, is there e technical/software based/automated possibility to check contents at all, except for watermarks, etc, embedded in the video? i can't think of any (that's possibly the cause for my being not a millionaire) it can be automated. looking for particular actors faces should be possible. in the uk we have face recognition systems for cctv. it would not be impossible to go through uploaded videos looking for actors faces.
who? britney shears?
... in soviet russia you tube monitors you!!
this is exactly where having everyone's data in the same place is a problem. the government should invest in monitoring the access and controlling who can do what with it. queries should be controlled, and mechanisms have to be put in place to ensure that no user can extract too much data in a short period of time. i'm not in a position to suggest exactly how that should be implemented in the office as i do not work there, but i can see how organisations without access controls can easily be abused.
kids ... dont install binary programs - please - ktnx. unless its a tar, ./configure, make installation, then it's probably got some big gotchas.
I recall a day where I bought myself a copy of Quake III Arena, and the key the game came with was already in use and identified as a pirate key - thanks to keygens.
Makes me wonder how bulletproof this is. would be interesting to see how ID resolved that one.
Bottom line - the more people use Firefox, the more people look for bugs and vulnerabilities, the more people find them. The same thing happened with IE.
But, how can that be ? We are constantly being told marketshare is irrelevant !
its not market share at all. lynx had a vuln, hardly anyone uses that. its just about speed of code changes. if thousands of people are all changing the code at once it becomes more work for the programmers to check all the diffs and work on code at the same time.I had the same misconception! Turns out it's not much harder to do regexp stuff in python than in Perl:
PERL
----
$foo =~ s/bar/baz/;
if ($foo =~
PYTHON
------
from re import *
replace(foo, 'bar', 'baz')
match = search(foo, 'bar(...)')
if match: print match.group(1)
So... there's a little bit of extra boilerplate in Python, but that's it! For one-liners, Perl still wins, but for anything longer I think you'll appreciate the extra clarity of Python.
The best part is, the Python regexp syntax is an exact duplicate of the Perl syntax. The Python people made the decision to use the exact same syntax for the regular expressions as in Perl. A very smart decision I think. All my knowledge about \s and [A-Za-z] and (?:foo) transferred directly over with Python. Awesome! sometimes reading through all the extra lines just makes things harder to understand. sometimes i prefer to just read a short snippet to get the gist.
It may be shameless self-promotion but I made a visualisation of the Ultimate DRM just the other day. What happened to giving the customer what they want? no i think that's ok. if you had put your page address or something else stamped all over the image then i guess that'd be self promotion. i think your image is quite a nice idea and does get the message across. you might find it worthwhile seeing if there is a campaign who would use it as their logo.
YEAAAAH. what seems to be the officer problem?
Rubbish. One of the biggest myths in server sales today is that blades consume more power. If you fill racks full of them they consume more power per square metre of floor space, not per server. If you need the same number of servers they should consume less power, largely due to the centralised AC/DC conversion.
HP especially are working to make blades some of the most efficient servers on the market.
i agree. the problem i think is that today computers are cheaper than before. it's so easy for people to think that they can improve uptime through distributing the processes on hardware.imo this reduces uptime since there are more components involved. but that's just my opinion of it.
Shouldn't youre have an apostrophe there, since you're is an abbreviation of you are. am i being pedantic?
but ONLY on trusted lans, of course.
I find it quicker than ssh logins. of course its quicker, it has no encryption to do. and the initial seeding (at connect time) also takes a LONG time on some boxes (ssh to a cisco box; come back after lunch and you'll get your login prompt). i think you might find that the reason you cant login promptly is because the nameservers are not right and the ssh login is doing a reverse dns lookup on your socket.
telnet over a wan is dumb. telnet over a 10' piece of wire is NOT dumb.
telnet has its place.
it has a very small place. telnet is ok for debugging other services like http or smtp where one writes raw commands. but to be honest, there's no reason to get the telnet client out just yet. ssh is so much more powerful with tunnels alone that it knocks telnet way down the list of useful tools.
i disagree, the west is very used to this problem. i for one have inboxes full of junk mail from trojan'd windows boxes. it doesnt get much clearer than this. particularly with the advent of a new popular os, there's probably hundreds of thousands of people getting keygens around the world right now.
...ads watch you. ahahagiven the current state of affairs in CCCP i don't know if that's far off.
For instance a completely new file system. i'm always left wondering why they dont use an opensource filesystem. it seems whenever someone reaches compatibility with their current default file system they go and change it. it would be really cool if they could just use ext3 or jfs...
every system admin out there has to battle with their inept business practices. we all use samba, so they go and change that. most things that are closed protocols die in a few years because there's no way of keeping up with their means of communication, so people flock to whatever is easy to implement and update with. pretty soon ms will be left on an island all of their own with no one who wants to talk with them.
anyone seen the vi clippy? http://www.petebevin.com/archives/vim.gif