It would just be a simple feature to add to Orkut, Friendster, or Yahoo Groups. I don't see anything special about Meetup.com that would require anything more than just a little tinkering with already existing services from other websites.
This falls down because DRM is not a layer of encryption
You're right, I glossed over that distinction between DRM and encryption. By referring to it as an 'argument', I wasn't implying it was a concrete reason to open up Windows code, but could be one of those obscure legal precedents that could somehow lead to it down the line. In a way, this can be analogous to platform lock-in due to the way software is written.
If a case is put forward in which an Apple file format has to be opened up for other companies, then it would be a precedent for Microsoft file formats like Microsoft Office files to be opened up for other companies. It could mean that commercially distributed software has to work on different platforms which could probably be done by the use of fat binaries or Java. Also, if Apple's DRM codec and encryption has to be opened up, then wouldn't that be an argument to open up the Windows source code to competitors?
Whatever legal manoeuvres are used to allow Apple's competitors to get into their digital music market share can also allow Apple to get into Microsoft's OS platform market share. Could that be why Apple didn't bother attending the hearing and are just sitting it out?
He may have been referring to this story. May be FUD, or it may be a prelude to SCO tactics. Here's an except from the article in the story which appeared last year...
In a study to be released this week, New York based Open Source Risk Management will announce it has studied the Linux "kernel" and discovered it infringes on about 283 issued patents. Twenty-seven of those patents are owned by Microsoft. Patent attorney Dan Ravicher, who conducted the study, advises the open-source community to either design around those patents or to start preparing to knock them down in court. (Recent research reveals that about half of all patents are invalidated in the courtroom--more evidence that the federal government is too lenient with patent applications.)
If you're on a Mac running Safari right now, you can right-click or ctrl-click on the "comment" field for slashdot submissions and tick "Spelling -> Check Spelling as you Type". The word "resurection" would be underlined in red and you could right-click or ctrl-click on it to correct it. I'm not nitpicking about spelling, but I actually think it's a neat feature that not many Mac users are aware of for posting on the net. It's a system-wide feature for text fields in OS X, just a neat little insight into the design quality of what goes on under the hood.
Are you using a GUI on it? I'm just curious because I have an old Toshiba Tecra 740CDT that I've been thinking of installing Linux on. However, the video drivers on Linux only get it up to 256 colours when it actually handles thousands. KDE is too sluggish, and the other less bloated GUIs don't appear properly because they use colours not visible in the 256 colour palette. It's just waiting for a Linux installation.
I've tried on no less than 7 occasions to make changes or additions to some rather innocuous pages only to return some moments later to a message telling me to stop defacing or trolling the site. I'm not talking about crazy political trolling or anything of that nature, merely additions of relevant links, changes to dates, spelling and grammar mistakes etc..
I've only done one edit on Wikipedia. It was just a simple formatting thing on a page I came across, where carriage returns in the source text interfered with the indentation of bulleted items. I edited it, and was surprised to see that the changes were immediately there. I was surprised that I didn't have to log in or anything, and that nobody had to review it before the changes were allowed.
Maybe it was a software bug that was giving you those errors. For a while, I kept getting barred from submitting comments on Slashdot because either "I or someone on my subnet" was trolling the site. I never did any trolling, I didn't have bad karma, or any posts modded down, so I found this confusing. They fixed that bug eventually, though. If you just received an automated message, that could have been exactly the same sort of thing that happened to you, but on Wikipedia.
It's really good that you've made some effort to contribute - if you come across that sort of thing when you've done nothing wrong, bring it to someone's attention on the site who could review the situation, because for all you know it could be a software error or some malicious users who got into the system to try and mess with it.
I wonder if this new science will be used to prove the guily or innocent in crimes?
TFA is about signals in the brain regarding physical movement. What does this have to do with proving innocence or guilt with crimes? "Scientists Discover What You Are Thinking" was just the title. It's not a story about scientists being able to peer into people's memories or complex thoughts.
An ISP can better control voice quality by avoiding using the public internet.
I think giving their own customers priority wouldn't be effective, except for local calls in an area where the ISP has a monopoly. From what I gather about VOIP, it is supposed to also get even cheaper if the recipient is also using VOIP. Two parties on different ISPs using VOIP to call each other wouldn't benefit if both ISPs are crippling each other's packets. That could be the case in areas where ISP coverage overlaps. That would also be the case for international phone calls, like one to Bulgaria mentioned in the article.
On a side note, I'm curious about how networks will be able to distinguish VOIP packets from others. Perhaps it would be easy to do that with hardware-based VOIP connections, but with software it could be trickier, like with theswitchboard.ca example in the article. Calling someone through a computer may end up being an integration of Instant Messaging audioconferencing and VOIP. The call could be routed different ways...
If the person being called is online using the same Instant Messaging software, the audio is streamed between computers.
If the person being called is not online but has a VOIP hardware setup, then the call is routed to his/her phone that way.
If the person being called isn't online and doesn't have VOIP, then the call is handled as a regular call as close to the recipient as possible.
I also see there is a major parallel between the functions of VOIP, Instant Messaging, and P2P software. Maybe that was the whole reason for the KaZaA/Skype bundle. Conference calls and filesharing with multiple users is technically very similar from a software perspective and could use the same code. In fact streaming an audio call to several recipients is just like uploading an audio file to several users simultaneously, except that is is being recorded on-the-fly. One application could handle all the following, using much of the same code, blurring the distinctions between them so that it's all pretty much the same thing...
Address Book (automatically determines if call recipient can be reached by email, IM, or phone number)
Check this one out- a friend of mine told me once about how proud he was about his sister because he found out that she had an evil side just like him. She was at a kegger where someone took a piss in a pitcher and left it nearby. Another guy came along and asked her if it was beer, and she said "yes". The guy went on to skolling down the whole damn thing, then walked off without a clue.
Why do they make it sound like it's a suprise that the placebo effect is biochemical and that the "mind can affect the body"??
Here's an excellent example of how the mind can affect the body physiologically; check out this link to Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran's work with phantom limbs.
It was as though Philip had some temporary inhibition or block of the neural circuits that would ordinarily move the phantom and the visual feedback had overcome this block. More amazing still, these bodily sensations of the arm's movements were revived instantly, even though they had never been felt in the preceding ten years!
Because gambling dens use positive reinforcement, they keep telling you you are going to win
I recall seeing something on television about a physiological study on gambling addiction. They found that normal people got a brain reward response when they won, but people with gambling addictions actually got a reward response when they lost. Strange as it sounds, it was as if they got a high out of losing.
I wouldn't know for sure with OS X, but I think it would be possible for an operating system to prevent applications from accessing administrator rights. I'm under the impression that OS X handles anything outside of the user directory itself, and doesn't allow applications to, like with the standard OS X installer. Even with sudo. It wouldn't be any use for an application to get an administrator's password if the OS doesn't accept passwords from applications, but rather from direct user input only. I'm just completely guessing, though. It's just my impression. The Vise X installer seems to bypass OS X's standard installation process, but maybe it is extremely restricted and still has to use the OS X installation process at the code level. As for administration tools, I guess they are actually part of OS X, so they don't have the limitations of regular applications.
Does anyone know of any consumer-level thermography DV cams? Something like a regular DV cam with audio that you can plug into a Mac or PC through firewire and do standard video editing with. I came across this on the net, but apparently the infra-red attachment costs around 14 thousand dollars (US). I was hoping there was a much cheaper one out there for hobbyists who are interested in the aesthetic quality of the images.
Skype is bundled with the latest version of Kazaa, and Skype's CEO was a co-creator of Kazaa who jumped ship after the lawsuits first started. Since Skype is the most popular internet call provider, and there have been someattempts to hamper the progress of VOIP, will Kazaa's bad reputation affect VOIP in general?
Sort of like what the homosexuals have done to the word "gay"...now they appear to have "pride" in their sights too.
Perhaps we should just stick to wearing the pink triangles Nazis made us wear to make you happy? The word "Gay" has been used to describe homosexuality for over a century and a half. Deal with it.
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It would just be a simple feature to add to Orkut, Friendster, or Yahoo Groups. I don't see anything special about Meetup.com that would require anything more than just a little tinkering with already existing services from other websites.
This falls down because DRM is not a layer of encryption
You're right, I glossed over that distinction between DRM and encryption. By referring to it as an 'argument', I wasn't implying it was a concrete reason to open up Windows code, but could be one of those obscure legal precedents that could somehow lead to it down the line. In a way, this can be analogous to platform lock-in due to the way software is written.
Furthermore, I couldn't find anything on Napster complaining about DRM.
FTA...
I never said that they wanted the government to handle it, just that they wanted it opened.
If a case is put forward in which an Apple file format has to be opened up for other companies, then it would be a precedent for Microsoft file formats like Microsoft Office files to be opened up for other companies. It could mean that commercially distributed software has to work on different platforms which could probably be done by the use of fat binaries or Java. Also, if Apple's DRM codec and encryption has to be opened up, then wouldn't that be an argument to open up the Windows source code to competitors?
Whatever legal manoeuvres are used to allow Apple's competitors to get into their digital music market share can also allow Apple to get into Microsoft's OS platform market share. Could that be why Apple didn't bother attending the hearing and are just sitting it out?
Napster complaining about DRM? Did they forget how they became popular in the first place? Pot... Kettle... black.
He may have been referring to this story. May be FUD, or it may be a prelude to SCO tactics. Here's an except from the article in the story which appeared last year...
Exterminate! Exterminate!
Check out that "fine motivational strategy" sign on page 10...
Yay. I feel so motivated just reading it.
but on my 10.2.x at home doesn't have spell available for Firefox like it does Safari
I recall there was a plug-in for Firefox and did a quick google, and apparently there's one called Spellbound that does the same thing.
If you're on a Mac running Safari right now, you can right-click or ctrl-click on the "comment" field for slashdot submissions and tick "Spelling -> Check Spelling as you Type". The word "resurection" would be underlined in red and you could right-click or ctrl-click on it to correct it. I'm not nitpicking about spelling, but I actually think it's a neat feature that not many Mac users are aware of for posting on the net. It's a system-wide feature for text fields in OS X, just a neat little insight into the design quality of what goes on under the hood.
Are you using a GUI on it? I'm just curious because I have an old Toshiba Tecra 740CDT that I've been thinking of installing Linux on. However, the video drivers on Linux only get it up to 256 colours when it actually handles thousands. KDE is too sluggish, and the other less bloated GUIs don't appear properly because they use colours not visible in the 256 colour palette. It's just waiting for a Linux installation.
One more word: Enough!
I've tried on no less than 7 occasions to make changes or additions to some rather innocuous pages only to return some moments later to a message telling me to stop defacing or trolling the site. I'm not talking about crazy political trolling or anything of that nature, merely additions of relevant links, changes to dates, spelling and grammar mistakes etc..
I've only done one edit on Wikipedia. It was just a simple formatting thing on a page I came across, where carriage returns in the source text interfered with the indentation of bulleted items. I edited it, and was surprised to see that the changes were immediately there. I was surprised that I didn't have to log in or anything, and that nobody had to review it before the changes were allowed.
Maybe it was a software bug that was giving you those errors. For a while, I kept getting barred from submitting comments on Slashdot because either "I or someone on my subnet" was trolling the site. I never did any trolling, I didn't have bad karma, or any posts modded down, so I found this confusing. They fixed that bug eventually, though. If you just received an automated message, that could have been exactly the same sort of thing that happened to you, but on Wikipedia.
It's really good that you've made some effort to contribute - if you come across that sort of thing when you've done nothing wrong, bring it to someone's attention on the site who could review the situation, because for all you know it could be a software error or some malicious users who got into the system to try and mess with it.
I wonder if this new science will be used to prove the guily or innocent in crimes?
TFA is about signals in the brain regarding physical movement. What does this have to do with proving innocence or guilt with crimes? "Scientists Discover What You Are Thinking" was just the title. It's not a story about scientists being able to peer into people's memories or complex thoughts.
An ISP can better control voice quality by avoiding using the public internet.
I think giving their own customers priority wouldn't be effective, except for local calls in an area where the ISP has a monopoly. From what I gather about VOIP, it is supposed to also get even cheaper if the recipient is also using VOIP. Two parties on different ISPs using VOIP to call each other wouldn't benefit if both ISPs are crippling each other's packets. That could be the case in areas where ISP coverage overlaps. That would also be the case for international phone calls, like one to Bulgaria mentioned in the article.
On a side note, I'm curious about how networks will be able to distinguish VOIP packets from others. Perhaps it would be easy to do that with hardware-based VOIP connections, but with software it could be trickier, like with theswitchboard.ca example in the article. Calling someone through a computer may end up being an integration of Instant Messaging audioconferencing and VOIP. The call could be routed different ways...
I also see there is a major parallel between the functions of VOIP, Instant Messaging, and P2P software. Maybe that was the whole reason for the KaZaA/Skype bundle. Conference calls and filesharing with multiple users is technically very similar from a software perspective and could use the same code. In fact streaming an audio call to several recipients is just like uploading an audio file to several users simultaneously, except that is is being recorded on-the-fly. One application could handle all the following, using much of the same code, blurring the distinctions between them so that it's all pretty much the same thing...
Check this one out- a friend of mine told me once about how proud he was about his sister because he found out that she had an evil side just like him. She was at a kegger where someone took a piss in a pitcher and left it nearby. Another guy came along and asked her if it was beer, and she said "yes". The guy went on to skolling down the whole damn thing, then walked off without a clue.
Why do they make it sound like it's a suprise that the placebo effect is biochemical and that the "mind can affect the body"??
Here's an excellent example of how the mind can affect the body physiologically; check out this link to Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran's work with phantom limbs.
His work isn't about the Placebo effect, but rather about how the surface of the body is mapped on the brain in neuroscience.
Because gambling dens use positive reinforcement, they keep telling you you are going to win
I recall seeing something on television about a physiological study on gambling addiction. They found that normal people got a brain reward response when they won, but people with gambling addictions actually got a reward response when they lost. Strange as it sounds, it was as if they got a high out of losing.
I wouldn't know for sure with OS X, but I think it would be possible for an operating system to prevent applications from accessing administrator rights. I'm under the impression that OS X handles anything outside of the user directory itself, and doesn't allow applications to, like with the standard OS X installer. Even with sudo. It wouldn't be any use for an application to get an administrator's password if the OS doesn't accept passwords from applications, but rather from direct user input only. I'm just completely guessing, though. It's just my impression. The Vise X installer seems to bypass OS X's standard installation process, but maybe it is extremely restricted and still has to use the OS X installation process at the code level. As for administration tools, I guess they are actually part of OS X, so they don't have the limitations of regular applications.
Would that be able to show the ROYGBIV type of thermographic images, or would it just be a black & white version?
Does anyone know of any consumer-level thermography DV cams? Something like a regular DV cam with audio that you can plug into a Mac or PC through firewire and do standard video editing with. I came across this on the net, but apparently the infra-red attachment costs around 14 thousand dollars (US). I was hoping there was a much cheaper one out there for hobbyists who are interested in the aesthetic quality of the images.
Skype is bundled with the latest version of Kazaa, and Skype's CEO was a co-creator of Kazaa who jumped ship after the lawsuits first started. Since Skype is the most popular internet call provider, and there have been some attempts to hamper the progress of VOIP, will Kazaa's bad reputation affect VOIP in general?
Sort of like what the homosexuals have done to the word "gay"...now they appear to have "pride" in their sights too.
Perhaps we should just stick to wearing the pink triangles Nazis made us wear to make you happy? The word "Gay" has been used to describe homosexuality for over a century and a half. Deal with it.