FTA:
The problem happened because the company failed to instruct certain employees to keep records of their own e-mail, other employees assumed the IT department would do that task for them, and meanwhile the company's IT system was automatically deleting most e-mail after a certain amount of time, Intel told a judge.
Excuse me for asking, but if that is their official standing, why did they need the 7 day extension? What's gone is gone, isn't it?
A friend of mine was involved in this project. From what he told me, I understood that they also noted that a similar analysis for birds, published recently in the journal Biology Letters, revealed that more than 40 avian lineages survived the mass extinctions. Most paleontologists now think that birds descended from dinosaurs. So in a sense, even dinosaurs in one form escaped the calamity. I found it pretty cool.
From source:
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Looks like Google is leaving us Opera users out. How long do you think we will need to wait before they begin supporting it?
In a study of 2,600 Americans polled via telephone and online
The sampling frame would have an inherent bias towards a higher percentage, as those without internet (ie. those who weren't part of the sampling frame, and those who are very unlikely to pirate) weren't even asked. No mention of accounting for this in TFA. Flawed study. Nothing to see here, please move along.
Well, the server is being bombed now. Here's the text from the page if you don't want to wait for 5 minutes per sentence.
The next generation of optical disc technology holds the promise to change the way we interact with and store digital media. Perhaps the most exciting change is the arrival of High Definition (HD) video, with its glorious 1920x1080 pixel resolution. It's a quantum leap forward in terms of watching digital content, as its vast resolution reveals a quality never seen before in such fine detail.
Because of the rapid escalation of digital file-sharing - especially of video files - Hollywood has been working around the clock to protect HD content. This is especially relevant for one of its primary delivery mechanisms - HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs. These next generation discs, with capacities of 30 gigabytes and 50 gigabytes respectively, have their content protected with an array of DRM (Digital Rights Management.) Both are protected with a scheme called AACS, or Advanced Access Content System. This DRM is a great leap forward compared to the weak CSS, or Content Scrambling System, that currently "protects" DVDs. Thanks to Fox, Blu-Ray has an additional layer of protection, called BD+, although most discs have yet to support this protection.
Although Hollywood has constructed enough DRM architecture to rival the Pyramid of Giza, it has long been suspected that it would be only a matter of time before HD DVD and Blu-Ray content protection were compromised. Convinced the golden DRM egg had been laid, it seemed that nothing could penetrate the great AACS wall. And to this day, that great wall still stands.
But why crash through the main gates of Constantinople when you can just pick the lock of a long forgotten rear entrance?
On December 26, 2006, a member of the Doom9.com forums named muslix64 introduced himself as circumventing the content protection - not the copy protection - of HD DVD. Additionally, he made available an open source program named BackupHDDDVD. At the time, this program was a command line program that bypassed the content protection - providing the individual successfully obtained the title and volume keys associated with the HD DVD. Once the individual has the keys, the AACS protection can be sidestepped, and the HD movie content can be extracted. According to muslix64, it took all of eight days to successfully circumvent HD DVD content protection.
Much of the more difficult work, such as extracting the keys, has been alleviated as the once encrypted information has proliferated online. To understand where this stunning turn of events is heading, Slyck.com spoke with muslix64, who agreed to a PM (private message) interview.
The mainstream media tends to have many labels for you, i.e. hacker, cracker, pirate, etc., in response to your efforts. What would you call yourself and what would you label your efforts?
I'm just an upset customer. My efforts can be called "fair use enforcement"!
What motivated you to help circumvent the content protection scheme associated with HD DVD and Blu-Ray?
With the HD-DVD, I wasn't able to play my movie on my non-HDCP HD monitor. Not being able to play a movie that I have paid for, because some executive in Hollywood decided I cannot, made me mad...
After the HD-DVD crack, I realized that things where "unbalanced" by having just one format cracked, so I did Blu-Ray too.
Explain how decrypting the device and volume keys are critical to your success. Could you explain the difference between the two?
The device keys, are the keys associated to the player.
The volume key, is the key associated to the movie.
I don't care about device keys. I do care about volume keys, because by using volume keys instead of devices keys, I totally bypass the revocation system. There is no "volume key revocation". There is content revocation, but I really doubt they will ever use it. If you use device keys, they can revoke them. Having the volume key means that you can decrypt ti
I think it's more regional than anything else. The current definition of National household electricity consumption is, in effect, an average of household electricity consumption in different regions across the United States and is affected by many factors. However, hot summers increase the amount of electricity used for air conditioning and other space cooling, so households in southern States will tend to use more electricity. Similarly, cold winters increase the amount of energy used for space heating. Although U.S. households more frequently rely on natural gas than on electricity for heating, in the South the reverse is true, meaning that households in southern States will tend to have a peak of electricity use in winter as well as in summer.
Humidity is another climate-related factor that affects electricity consumption. Households in more humid regions tend to use air-conditioners and dehumidifiers to remove humidity. Households in arid regions, such as the Mountain States, are able to use evaporative coolers instead of air-conditioning for space cooling.
One of the questions there is Why should we be worried about stealth malware? Do you see this as a big trend going forward?
To which we received only a half baked answer. Why didn't she say more about this?
Personally, however, I think it's mostly irrelevant to discuss whether this going to be a big trend or not. It's not about whether 100 companies or 100,000 companies are going to be infected next year using targeted, sophisticated attacks using "Stealth by Design" malware (i.e. one which does not create extra system objects) of Type II or Type III. It's about whether we would be aware of those infections at all. We already know it's possible to create such a malware, so we need to do something about it.
Actually, given that I am 17 and was around to play on the NES, SNES, and N64 I own, I believe that your statement is overgeneralized. It seems like nintendo won the market: anyone too young to not remember the N64 (and even gamecube?) would probably want to stick with the console that offers more child-oriented games: the Wii.
The article (a whopping 300 words long) says not much more than "people are selling mmorpg accounts on the black market". How is this not obvious, let alone even slightly newsworthy even on a slow day?
I don't believe that this has the potential to defeat some other distros. As easy as it is to use, many people will still want to have windows working once they install Freespire, but, from my experience, the installation of its boot-loader is broken and it takes some tweaking to get it to work: not something that most people who use Freespire will know how to do.
I see that backslashes are now ubiquitous on the site. Because slashdot is a news site, backslashes must be news that slashbots enjoy! I know! Lets start having backslashes on backslashes! And then we can even backslash them too! Heck, there is infinite potential here! The slashbots will love this! We have waited too long and suffered too far to keep having to read content!
I personally work for blizzard, and I feel that the introduction of Wisps allows a new and exciting game mechanic: permanent death. The ability that destroyed Archimonde is available to all Wisps as a racial ability. This power, Detonate, destroys the Wisp in an explosion of energy, sapping the mana of all surrounding adventurers, friend and foe alike. This should provide an extremely interesting addition to the many adventures of Warcraft, particularly when pitted against other players!
This is something I pushed for greatly and I hope that the gaming crowd enjoys it:).
I am by no means a M$ fan, but this ruling seems to have no basis EXCEPT to steal $30 million from M$. That's just like saying that McDonalds should be sued because they bundle salt with their fries.
...was among those who came up with the idea. He did note that there was a flaw in the plan, that is, not enough incentive for people to "buy" and "sell" stocks in these ideas, despite the few incentives put in place. The people at NYTimes are currently trying to think of a new incentive method to completely replace the current one, without costing the company much.
In addition to the various things mentioned in the article, I feel that another topic for pondering is the possibility that SLI may, or may not, ever see the official light of day under FreeBSD. While NVIDIA's code is similar between Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD, there seems to be no corporate customer at this point -- or even the appropriate lobbying for a free port. It is over three months since Linux and Solaris SLI have co-existed and to this point we have heard no official word from NVIDIA representatives in regards to this matter. Inside the FreeBSD i386 user's manual, the same SLI page as what was found in the Linux and Solaris manuals can be found, but this support has yet to be mentioned in their official release notes.
I just read about this two hours ago. Apparently, the orbit insertion was a critical moment in the mission, as two of the last four orbiters NASA sent to Mars (mentioned in summary) did not survive the final approach. Mars Observer spacecraft fell silent on approach in 1993, probably because of a leak caused when its propulsion system was pressurised. And the Mars Climate Orbiter probably broke up in the planet's atmosphere in 1999 due to a mix up between metric and Imperial units (also mentioned in summary).
I personally began to code with VB4, and I believe that that was the perfect place to start. Everything is simplified, there are no pointers to deal with, and you can get "purty" programs done in a matter of minutes. The best thing is, while it is a lot like English, the actual coding is so similar to that of the major languages (C, CPP, Java, PHP, etc.) for every type of developement that once you are able to code in VB, you can code in anything. It is similar to learning to ride a bicycle: first you use training wheels, but after you finish using training wheels you can quickly learn the real thing, after only a small amount of bumps and bruises (pointers).
I've learned this first hand: When my friend John Parsons and I started our baseball blog, Fear and Faith in Flushing, our moods used to soar and crash based on the "referrer summary" of sites that had linked to us. After a while, we noticed something odd: Our traffic kept increasing, even as our referrers held steady or decreased. Then we realized this was a good thing: Readers were coming directly to us instead of through intermediaries. Being part of a blog community is valuable, but it isn't everything. (If you're so inclined, read more about my blogging misadventures in this Real Time from October.)
I heard about this a while ago in a promotional video and rather than an explicit game-only device (as the title suggested), the Origami Project concept seems similar to existing tablet PCs, with a large touch screen display noticeably bigger than either the iPod or PSP. In the video, actors can be seen using the device to listen to music, access the Internet, edit digital photos, controlling media on a home PC and playing video games. Quite a cheezy commercial actually.
For those of you who don't know who Brilliant is, he has just the eclectic background that makes him a natural fit for Google's philanthropic thrust. He is a physican and epidemiologist who has also been heralded as a tech visionary. He spent a decade studying religion in at a Himalayan monastery in India, followed by a stint as a diplomat with the U.N. He helped lead a World Health Organization program to eradicate smallpox and later founded the Berkeley (Calif.)-based Seva Foundation, an international health nonprofit group credited with restoring sight to more than 2 million blind people.
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Excuse me for asking, but if that is their official standing, why did they need the 7 day extension? What's gone is gone, isn't it?
A friend of mine was involved in this project. From what he told me, I understood that they also noted that a similar analysis for birds, published recently in the journal Biology Letters, revealed that more than 40 avian lineages survived the mass extinctions. Most paleontologists now think that birds descended from dinosaurs. So in a sense, even dinosaurs in one form escaped the calamity. I found it pretty cool.
Looks like Google is leaving us Opera users out. How long do you think we will need to wait before they begin supporting it?
The sampling frame would have an inherent bias towards a higher percentage, as those without internet (ie. those who weren't part of the sampling frame, and those who are very unlikely to pirate) weren't even asked. No mention of accounting for this in TFA. Flawed study. Nothing to see here, please move along.
Well, the server is being bombed now. Here's the text from the page if you don't want to wait for 5 minutes per sentence.
The next generation of optical disc technology holds the promise to change the way we interact with and store digital media. Perhaps the most exciting change is the arrival of High Definition (HD) video, with its glorious 1920x1080 pixel resolution. It's a quantum leap forward in terms of watching digital content, as its vast resolution reveals a quality never seen before in such fine detail.
Because of the rapid escalation of digital file-sharing - especially of video files - Hollywood has been working around the clock to protect HD content. This is especially relevant for one of its primary delivery mechanisms - HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs. These next generation discs, with capacities of 30 gigabytes and 50 gigabytes respectively, have their content protected with an array of DRM (Digital Rights Management.) Both are protected with a scheme called AACS, or Advanced Access Content System. This DRM is a great leap forward compared to the weak CSS, or Content Scrambling System, that currently "protects" DVDs. Thanks to Fox, Blu-Ray has an additional layer of protection, called BD+, although most discs have yet to support this protection.
Although Hollywood has constructed enough DRM architecture to rival the Pyramid of Giza, it has long been suspected that it would be only a matter of time before HD DVD and Blu-Ray content protection were compromised. Convinced the golden DRM egg had been laid, it seemed that nothing could penetrate the great AACS wall. And to this day, that great wall still stands.
But why crash through the main gates of Constantinople when you can just pick the lock of a long forgotten rear entrance?
On December 26, 2006, a member of the Doom9.com forums named muslix64 introduced himself as circumventing the content protection - not the copy protection - of HD DVD. Additionally, he made available an open source program named BackupHDDDVD. At the time, this program was a command line program that bypassed the content protection - providing the individual successfully obtained the title and volume keys associated with the HD DVD. Once the individual has the keys, the AACS protection can be sidestepped, and the HD movie content can be extracted. According to muslix64, it took all of eight days to successfully circumvent HD DVD content protection.
Much of the more difficult work, such as extracting the keys, has been alleviated as the once encrypted information has proliferated online. To understand where this stunning turn of events is heading, Slyck.com spoke with muslix64, who agreed to a PM (private message) interview.
The mainstream media tends to have many labels for you, i.e. hacker, cracker, pirate, etc., in response to your efforts. What would you call yourself and what would you label your efforts?
I'm just an upset customer. My efforts can be called "fair use enforcement"!
What motivated you to help circumvent the content protection scheme associated with HD DVD and Blu-Ray?
With the HD-DVD, I wasn't able to play my movie on my non-HDCP HD monitor. Not being able to play a movie that I have paid for, because some executive in Hollywood decided I cannot, made me mad...
After the HD-DVD crack, I realized that things where "unbalanced" by having just one format cracked, so I did Blu-Ray too.
Explain how decrypting the device and volume keys are critical to your success. Could you explain the difference between the two?
The device keys, are the keys associated to the player.
The volume key, is the key associated to the movie.
I don't care about device keys. I do care about volume keys, because by using volume keys instead of devices keys, I totally bypass the revocation system. There is no "volume key revocation". There is content revocation, but I really doubt they will ever use it. If you use device keys, they can revoke them. Having the volume key means that you can decrypt ti
Looks like kdawson isn't too fertile right now.
I think it's more regional than anything else. The current definition of National household electricity consumption is, in effect, an average of household electricity consumption in different regions across the United States and is affected by many factors. However, hot summers increase the amount of electricity used for air conditioning and other space cooling, so households in southern States will tend to use more electricity. Similarly, cold winters increase the amount of energy used for space heating. Although U.S. households more frequently rely on natural gas than on electricity for heating, in the South the reverse is true, meaning that households in southern States will tend to have a peak of electricity use in winter as well as in summer.
Humidity is another climate-related factor that affects electricity consumption. Households in more humid regions tend to use air-conditioners and dehumidifiers to remove humidity. Households in arid regions, such as the Mountain States, are able to use evaporative coolers instead of air-conditioning for space cooling.
Here's a video of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/v/oNF5M3IXRbE
In Soviet Russia... nevermind. Too easy.
One of the questions there is
Why should we be worried about stealth malware? Do you see this as a big trend going forward?
To which we received only a half baked answer. Why didn't she say more about this?
Personally, however, I think it's mostly irrelevant to discuss whether this going to be a big trend or not. It's not about whether 100 companies or 100,000 companies are going to be infected next year using targeted, sophisticated attacks using "Stealth by Design" malware (i.e. one which does not create extra system objects) of Type II or Type III. It's about whether we would be aware of those infections at all. We already know it's possible to create such a malware, so we need to do something about it.
Actually, given that I am 17 and was around to play on the NES, SNES, and N64 I own, I believe that your statement is overgeneralized. It seems like nintendo won the market: anyone too young to not remember the N64 (and even gamecube?) would probably want to stick with the console that offers more child-oriented games: the Wii.
The article (a whopping 300 words long) says not much more than "people are selling mmorpg accounts on the black market". How is this not obvious, let alone even slightly newsworthy even on a slow day?
I don't believe that this has the potential to defeat some other distros. As easy as it is to use, many people will still want to have windows working once they install Freespire, but, from my experience, the installation of its boot-loader is broken and it takes some tweaking to get it to work: not something that most people who use Freespire will know how to do.
I see that backslashes are now ubiquitous on the site. Because slashdot is a news site, backslashes must be news that slashbots enjoy! I know! Lets start having backslashes on backslashes! And then we can even backslash them too! Heck, there is infinite potential here! The slashbots will love this! We have waited too long and suffered too far to keep having to read content!
I personally work for blizzard, and I feel that the introduction of Wisps allows a new and exciting game mechanic: permanent death. The ability that destroyed Archimonde is available to all Wisps as a racial ability. This power, Detonate, destroys the Wisp in an explosion of energy, sapping the mana of all surrounding adventurers, friend and foe alike. This should provide an extremely interesting addition to the many adventures of Warcraft, particularly when pitted against other players!
:).
This is something I pushed for greatly and I hope that the gaming crowd enjoys it
I am by no means a M$ fan, but this ruling seems to have no basis EXCEPT to steal $30 million from M$. That's just like saying that McDonalds should be sued because they bundle salt with their fries.
...was among those who came up with the idea. He did note that there was a flaw in the plan, that is, not enough incentive for people to "buy" and "sell" stocks in these ideas, despite the few incentives put in place. The people at NYTimes are currently trying to think of a new incentive method to completely replace the current one, without costing the company much.
In addition to the various things mentioned in the article, I feel that another topic for pondering is the possibility that SLI may, or may not, ever see the official light of day under FreeBSD. While NVIDIA's code is similar between Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD, there seems to be no corporate customer at this point -- or even the appropriate lobbying for a free port. It is over three months since Linux and Solaris SLI have co-existed and to this point we have heard no official word from NVIDIA representatives in regards to this matter. Inside the FreeBSD i386 user's manual, the same SLI page as what was found in the Linux and Solaris manuals can be found, but this support has yet to be mentioned in their official release notes.
I just read about this two hours ago. Apparently, the orbit insertion was a critical moment in the mission, as two of the last four orbiters NASA sent to Mars (mentioned in summary) did not survive the final approach. Mars Observer spacecraft fell silent on approach in 1993, probably because of a leak caused when its propulsion system was pressurised. And the Mars Climate Orbiter probably broke up in the planet's atmosphere in 1999 due to a mix up between metric and Imperial units (also mentioned in summary).
I personally began to code with VB4, and I believe that that was the perfect place to start. Everything is simplified, there are no pointers to deal with, and you can get "purty" programs done in a matter of minutes. The best thing is, while it is a lot like English, the actual coding is so similar to that of the major languages (C, CPP, Java, PHP, etc.) for every type of developement that once you are able to code in VB, you can code in anything. It is similar to learning to ride a bicycle: first you use training wheels, but after you finish using training wheels you can quickly learn the real thing, after only a small amount of bumps and bruises (pointers).
I fail to see how any corp could be making money out of instant messaging protocols...
Me too!!!!!!!!
Sorry.
I've learned this first hand: When my friend John Parsons and I started our baseball blog, Fear and Faith in Flushing, our moods used to soar and crash based on the "referrer summary" of sites that had linked to us. After a while, we noticed something odd: Our traffic kept increasing, even as our referrers held steady or decreased. Then we realized this was a good thing: Readers were coming directly to us instead of through intermediaries. Being part of a blog community is valuable, but it isn't everything. (If you're so inclined, read more about my blogging misadventures in this Real Time from October.)
I heard about this a while ago in a promotional video and rather than an explicit game-only device (as the title suggested), the Origami Project concept seems similar to existing tablet PCs, with a large touch screen display noticeably bigger than either the iPod or PSP. In the video, actors can be seen using the device to listen to music, access the Internet, edit digital photos, controlling media on a home PC and playing video games. Quite a cheezy commercial actually.
For those of you who don't know who Brilliant is, he has just the eclectic background that makes him a natural fit for Google's philanthropic thrust. He is a physican and epidemiologist who has also been heralded as a tech visionary. He spent a decade studying religion in at a Himalayan monastery in India, followed by a stint as a diplomat with the U.N. He helped lead a World Health Organization program to eradicate smallpox and later founded the Berkeley (Calif.)-based Seva Foundation, an international health nonprofit group credited with restoring sight to more than 2 million blind people.
WooHoo!!! We managed to bomb the server! Atleast Coral Cache got the title part of the page!