Test in a small, rich draconian society systems that would get you sued a zillion ways from tomorrow in modern societies, then point to statistical improvements in safety and play the "homeland security" card (which will work for automated speeding ticket systems in a few years).
This is fascinating, but since this is a geek site I'd like more geek info. Like the tech behind it, info about the lab, if there are simple ways to use similar versions of this with neat hacks etc. Combined with this article ("Light Scattering Method Reveals Details under Skin") and other research I've been following in imaging and structured light, it is clear that there are a ballooning number of applications based on clever ways of radiating and analyzing specific wavelengths, polarizations, etc. of light with computers. How about some more info?
and it gave me my father's name, profession (MD), street address (though we use a post office box not listed there) and links to three maps sites including google's.
But that's not all! Click on the Google Maps link and I get a personalized map with a cartoonish text bubble pointing to where my house is!
And guess what? A link inside that text bubble takes you to a driving directions page. Okay, I type in "New York" which is 45 minutes away by car, on the highway. Well it draws a map with a line between there and my house, and perfect driving directions down to the tenth of a mile and what direction to turn on each street.
Thank you and all the other posters, very much. You're right.
I hope more people (especially journalists) will take note that it is inappropriate for megacorporations to require consumers to submit in their homes to technology conflated with WMD, for the purpose of increasing restrictions on entertainment goods.
My fingerprint is on file already I think for driver's liscense, U.S. customs, and a foreigner card in Japan, and every time I felt it was being used to control "potential criminals". Unlike my Dad, who says "Who cares? I have nothing to hide," but does not use computers, I am more concerned about privacy and demagogues.
If it is really needed to stop a terrorist act okay. It is going to be a hard sell but if you absolutely must have video cameras, automatic identification of faces, data mining credit cards or whatever to do that, well it is in the realm of the possible, just make sure someone responsible like the Secret Service is doing it. I used to change trains in the World Trade Center and my sister knew people who worked there, so I'm not living in a fantasy world.
But it is absolutely not acceptable to me for the television, music and movie industries to invade my home, install military-style secrets, and build a digital beachead into my life simply because they no longer want to be as free with their products as they used to be. I think they ought to have to fight for that right out in the open, on the front page of newspapers, in words easy enough for people to understand. I just detest this sneakiness and I think kids should also be told about what sneaks their music and movie star idols really are when they use this lousy technology.
And I think if enough people get mad, things could change, for example competitors could arise. I didn't mean to say I don't like music. But I had a wonderful hour today in a jazz coffee shop, where CDs were played on an amazing sound system. It sounded tons better than the 10,000 dollar JBL speakers I demoed 20 minutes before down the street, and a jazz-lovers club using the place when I came in was also a wonferful serendipitous event in the real world. If things go too far I (an Internet developer) may shift a lot more of my life away from virtual things. People need to keep a balanced perspective about this stuff.
In January I had plastic sealant sprayed onto a molar that was in danger of getting a cavity, at a dentist's office in Stowe, Vermont. The sealant was fixed by UV light.
I thought that was plastic, which if true would make the post summary ("the first..") false.
Page 24: Each compliant device is given a set of secret Device keys when manufactured....The set of device keys may either be unique per device, or used commonly by multiple devices....The [Media Key Block] system is based on a large master tree of keys, with each set of Device Keys being associated with a leaf node of the tree... Further, corresponding to every sub-tree in the master tree is another set of system keys... Thus, the subset-difference tree has to store one encryption per Device Key set revoked, and occasionally additional encryptions to pick up non-revoked sets not covered by the smaller sub-trees. On average, there are 1.28 enrcryptions per revocation.
The document goes on to mention around pages 27 and 28 that devices obtain key conversion data by mechanisms called out in the AACS liscense, and recording devices must verify the signature and determine by its version number field whether a Media Key Block is more recent than the one currently on the media. "Each time the AACS LA changes the revocation, it increments the version number and inserts the new value in subsequent Media Key Blocks."
This says to me that the DVDs you buy will in fact be the transport mechanism for updated revocation keys, and presumably your player will be able to store a lot of them. So movie production companies and distributors must conspire to continually subvert the functionality of a consumer's device, and this does not require the player to be online nor will a firewall help. Once you get yourself locked into the prison of this coded delivery system, your own buying habits will keep adding additional chains to your cage. It is quite insidious, not only are they using military-level technology to control movies, the system is founded on the complicity of the entertainment industry, the electronics industry, and consumers themselves (and the consumer's PC if used) with constant policing and injection of targeted death-messages into the distribution channel. It also looks like the drive can potentially disable media (page 41) and even report hacked hosts/drives by recording onto the media (it seems kind of vague but it is writing a concatenation of the "Binding_Nonce", "Drive_Nonce" and "Host_Nonce" to the protected data area, whatever these things are), which if this is indeed true would I suppose be reported through other PCs/drives of people to whom you lend the media, or maybe through even a shared Internet connection, if you want to try extrapolating this.
Sorry I got ahead of myself. Page 55 talks a lot about online connections, online enabled content and streamed content. It talks about Title Keys and says "the word 'title' is often overloaded. For example a title can refer to a full-feature movie, a TV program, a music album, etc.... however [we].. define Title to be a distinct path.. That is, a Title is a logical grouping of content material to be presented in a specific order in time." It also mentions an "Enhanced Device" that is online and can then provide full access to Enhanced Titles that require online connections or extended player functionality. Page 56 mentions a Cacheable Permission that expires after a certain amount of time or include a "do not play until" date, and the XML based Title Usage File is based on global, not local time, which if used must be based on a "secure clock" whatever that is. Oh yeah, on page 59 it mentions the default connection protocol can operate (by https) over Ethernet, firewire, WLAN, etc. so you know this is not just about an HD DVD format but looks like it is trying to take over every device in the vicinity as well. How much you want to bet this will police titles not actually loaded in the player?
I think the cutest part is page 61, where it shows how you can go online with a PIN number and a remote Clearing House server can offer a title
I wrote the blurb. Sorry, I understood that at the time but took it from one of the linked articles because they specifically said affectsonly cancer so thought they had something else going on to direct activity. We shall see..
Hi! Yes, I understand where you are coming from. I totally agree. I think the notion of collaborating in a networked world and your position in it might be something geeks need to be truly cool, and personally I really wanted many photos of their machine and lab space. Also the room with projectors and white walls sounded exactly like what I'd like too, perhaps a great template for other people to use, but they seem to be very wrapped up in their world. Fact is they sound more like charmingly naive artists (or I suppose dysfunctional geeks) than computer scientists, and I'd like to know more about them. And the space sounded both warm (child playing) and cold (physically cold and sterile, but also only pictured blank walls and a monolithic machine somewhere). Perhaps they sign a contract with their employers and they just say everything in the room will never be photographed to cover any situation.. but for historical purposes too as you say I'd like to have seen more. At least it can't get more obscure, only less right? Hope they enjoy what they are doing and succeed, would be nice if they contributed to public forums too.
I think the point is 1) they have a very immersive cerebral life and 2) they are building the NSA's next supercomputer and mum's the word. But 3) they are probably wonderfully friendly and might even be willing to invite you over if you have something interesting to say to them.
If the new CEO had a technical clue (he probably doesn't) or was friendly with the engineers (probably isn't) they could do something like sell a tivo-like unit with a 500GB HD holding their top 200 titles, a thousand songs, an attachment to record from i-Link (firewire) outputs on Sony cameras, and a network connection for whatever (additional downloads, drm if they just can't let go, etc.) For a monthly fee you get tivo-like TV functionality, plus a digital VCR, an integral DVD burner, and the ability to play any movies you like, sequentially, all day and all night. This will succeed if they sell it as a tech item with iMovies online service to all other movie production companies or even indies. It would be a magnificent integration of Sony's technical ability and knowhow around the board. Why won't it happen? Because adding one management guy can't save a crippled company even if you spell it out for them. ( Willing to manage the project though!:) Well we'll see what happens. So far, Sony has proven that unlike M$, they do not learn from their mistakes. Which makes them a ripe target for the Koreans and whoever else can see the writing on the wall.
Actually there is. Sony makes a glasstron which is really bulky wraparoud goggles that give you the perception of sitting in front of a movie screen. I couldn't see sitting in front of it for a long time. Been out for years.
I don't think anyone has noted that if Microsoft controls your OS, security wise it doesn't matter if they store the info on your computer or theirs. Your computer is their computer.
The other merits of course are: - any info losses are your fault not theirs - ms not responsible for viruses - use your hardware so they don't have to buy more - they don't have to secure their hardware - ms comes out looking like they care even - ms has a reason to be getting data from your pc - another channel to drm enforcement - fbi might make a case for being able to get in there, another beachhead into your pc if you don't have wmp or ie.
How about switching the slashdot posting policy to be more like a newspaper. Maybe it is already something like this. (Haven't used slash myself)
You would have a number of articles queued for a single day's news. That day's newspaper, so to say, would be published at a given time that is the same for each day. If you want to trickle them out gradually, or publish the whole paper at a different time each day, that's fine too.
The merits of this would be:
You can see a list of all stories for a certain day. You can print them out and proofread on hardcopy. (Yes a revolutionary concept but it works better than online).
You can catch dupes within the same day's newspaper really easily
You can easily remember which day a story was published, and even when you see a dupe think "doh, that was in yesterday's paper!" and can it.
Reduces the constant, unendinr hysterical chaos that must be a major feature of slasdot operations.
Makes it easier to hire a real journalist or editor and give them a task like "edit the day's stories and give the final okay before we put this edition to bed".
Index stories and threads by day
More things to sell your advertisers, equivalent to one full page ad (say one story) paid by a manufacturer (as long as you say it is a paid ad). For example IBM might pay you to put in a story related to IBM once a week. Plenty of stories possible there, and they pay you to write it even.
I emailed a response to the address on your/. id. I'm an experienced software developer and business coordinator based in Tokyo. I've got a lot of experience in localization and other issues you will be running into head-on, am also a professional translator and fluent in Japanese.
Anyway, I'm willing to talk to you more about your own project to give you some pointers if you want, though from a business perspective you most likely should hire me or someone with similar qualifications to solve all the problems for you quickly and at minimum cost.
It's good to have relations between factories but if you are juggling budget and time constraints while not being experienced in Japan I think you should get an ally who can navigate you through those waters or just do the whole job. Otherwise you are likely to reiterate typical technical and cultural issues that usually accompany such projects.
Technically though going from Japanese to English is much better than the other way around, since the roman alphabet is usually supported within Japanese though many symbols are not. More likely you will have problems getting there, commmunicating without any misunderstandings (they will expect you are a pro at localization just like your company expects they are), reading documentation, and then expectations about what is acceptable technically, user-wise and culturally. Also you will likely also have to represent your company and answer business-related questions, though this will be in English probably. Anyway if you don't take this advice I sincerely wish you luck, but I doubt this is the time for expensive lessons in intercultural communications and problem solving. Anyway check the email please. I could get this done for you this week, save you a trip, and either do the whole thing or help you localize yourself.
Keep up the good work pushing the envelope! Please scan Perry Rhodan in English (#128 and higher). It is the most popular book ever I think in Germany besides the Bible, and is out of print in English. There are a thousand (really) episodes and we need to search it! Also to help learn a foreign language. Where's the science fiction!!!
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Unfortunately this reportedly amazing mathematical mind has been completely contaminated by the corporate twitspeak of the richest man of the late 20th century.
To imagine that a culture most likely hundreds of thousands to millions of years older than us would 1) have trouble deciphering a bitmap, 2) be happy to get a copy of Clippy with DRM, or 3) think generously toward us after that, is so stupid I think you have to wonder how many minds this patenting/copyrighting/EULAing/lawyering culture has utterly warped and destroyed.
An AI might be useful, especially if we have a starship we need one to drive it. Maybe to figure out how to talk to them and plead our case (better be a good AI, might be more of a human personality in silicon, no?). Aliens might be interested in what we look like and our concepts/works of beauty, maybe interstellar photographs from where we are, or measurements of physical constants here. Maybe just because there are not that many intelligent species in the galaxy. But they do not want to be given a copy-protected CD, they certainly can crack it, and the notion offered by this "grandmaster" is probably the MOST POISONOUS one you could possibly send to outer space. Hope instead they send us an AI and we can figure it out.
Honestly this guy is terminally ridiculous. Of course the idea of an AI itself isn't dumb, it's been in science fiction enough. Trying to think of useful things to trade isn't dumb either. It is the utter egotism the rest of the article displays. Reason enough for a punitive gamma ray burst nearby maybe too!
Cosmic Voyage I believe was at the Smithsonian, along with Flight (corroboration anyone?) for a long time through the 70s-90s at least.
It may be a little dated in the few seconds spent on the visible human world, but had the most impact on me as a child in understanding the universe, its scale, self similarity, and beauty. (In addition to exponential notation and a cool "trip"!) Arguably it could be the absolutely best film in the world for teaching science.
Not using it for the reasons mentioned in the post ought to be the subject of a lawsuit. walk the plank! arrr.
I designed a system called MyNet for users to send email to a system that would add entries to a personal diary page. circa 1995. This was not in production though I made a proof of concept and manually updated a blog (web nikki or diary) in 1995 online for a designer named hachiya, who designed sony's pink bear.
David Blair's waxweb system (also about the same time) also should break parts of this as it included an advanced system allowing users to add annotations to a movie that is broken up into scenes, and edit the movie.
I think if you take apart the patent line by line you will find lots of things that beat it piece by piece, and some which have more than one piece. I don't buy it that these guys invented blogging.
For example Wiki's are based circa 1994 on work from the 80's.
It looks more like the patent describes some things that have been around a while, and some already established techniques to extend them. Maybe some good development in there but not the originality as far as I can see from Amazon to be worth a patent. Not if it is circa 2003.
Anyway, I'm against software patents in general since they seem to act opposite from the way patents are supposed to act, but the main thing here is that if there is going to be such a thing as a software patent it better be something more revolutionary and less obvious to experts in the field at the time, than what they have. I'm tired of seeing "software patents" for things that ought to be laughed out of the patent office if they were based on the physical world. And then you get more into mathematical / algorithmic discoveries which are not patentable for even better (similar) reasons. I wish Amazon would fuck off. They have enough of the fucking pie.
Hi, Thanks for your response. IANAL but your interpretation could be correct in some instances. To me it seems that if you require a search engine (especially a free service like news.google.com that does not show full stories) operator to worry about this sort of thing they will never get off the ground. Chicklet-size images should be free to use for search purposes. But if the image is linked I think it should go to a page identifying the image owner's credit line and a full size version of the image or page that has it. Hopefully Google doesn't have to worry about this.
Incidentally it is not clear to me that there is a subscription Google could buy that would solve this problem. In fact if you look at afp.com you will see that Agence France-Press in fact is running a service that looks much like Google News, showing stories and photos. Some photos on the top page are the same size as what Google is using. So AFP protests their competitor being able to use their products to compete with them, however since it seems the two competing services are both free it seems moot. But it is questionable how big a photo can get and still be allowed. Would say a 4x6 cm image on your desktop (eminently "useable" I think) be free? If for search purposes (to lead people to the place where the photo and story is) I think it should be allowed.
Thanks. If TFA is right and applicable to the entire case then that sounds like you are also correct.
It might be different if for example Google was trawling an AFP database, proven by server logs, and digesting AFP-created XML files which link photos to Reuters stories, and then if Google intentionally selected AFP-provided photos for their known high quality, and matched them to highly ranked stories that did not have photos of their own. The worst case would be a little worse, in which Google does all this and also compounds the insult by hyperlinking the photo to a publication that does not even subscribe to AFP feeds.
I don't think Google is that dumb. So I think you are right. The end result is that probably a lot of AFP photos are used, so there is I would imaging a 10% chance that some judge somewhere will award AFP something but it seems like Google is being both honest and firm as to their right to use a preview. Looking forward to seeing Google win.
Hi! Thanks for the response. Of course I went to news.google.com for my example of the Boston Globe story however it is not my main news source. I don't know if it is intentional or not, but the link I chose went to a page with a story that did not have the photo on it. If in the case of a highly ranked story not having a photo it seemed to me (could be wrong of course) that Google was selecting a photo from another indexed publication, and putting it there with a link to the highest index story. That is walking a very fine line between search engine and publication, but I agree it should still be allowed.
Anyway, my premise is that Google is not wrong (although that word has a lot of interpretations depending where and when in the world you are), and should not be punished. Also I think Google's business model is legal. However, it is also true that photo agencies must pay for creation of images, and also are extremely strict about how they can be used - sizes, venues, circulation - and the more a photo is used the less other customers might want to use it. For example they probably cannot now make a contract with another search engine company to use their photos for pay. As for legality IANAL and it is probably illegal somewhere but that municipality is also behind the times.. it ought to be allowed.
I am just providing the most liberal take on this based on my experience as advocate FOR digitization and searching for the Japanese photo industry (until about 8 years ago). They turned down working with a massive database firm that wanted to eat them alive and regularly pursue unannounced usage of photos. So the bottom line is as you say, "indexing and brief preview" should be allowed (and if it is not somewhere, the law should be changed). However, if the search engine ends up creating say a custom newspaper for you with that photo size, it should not be allowed. Google's position is that the image size shown is equivalent to just showing the first few lines of a story (which they do), however because it is not directly equivalent (you can still use a photo that size), there is a gray area allowing AFP's interpretation in some cases / jurisdictions possibly. There are many photographers / artists who in fact are very uncomfortable with resized (bigger than chicklet size in fact) versions of their images being shown in google images search too. In the end I think the best thing for the world is to allow whatever Google wants to do (to the extent they have done so far) in the Images and News sections, but if a photo owner like AFP or an individual photographer strongly protests they should be able to demand and enforce NOT being displayed in a visual search by use of metadata. For example photographers and artists are likely to be quite vocal about the best size to show a work of theirs. This ignores some (not all) facets of modern digital display technology but it is not an issue that can be glibly tossed into the air. So a legal precedent for the legality of tiny images for fair use would be useful. I agree with Google but also note they have made conscious decisions on how far to push it and they are just short of the line. AFP is going for their last gasp but probably will lose since they are I believe morally wrong (but haven't seen the facts of the case).
How would you feel if you knew that over half of all photos are from AFP in fact? (Devil's Advocate)
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dry water, hot ice cubes, quick snails and miniscule skyscrapers.
Test in a small, rich draconian society systems that would get you sued a zillion ways from tomorrow in modern societies, then point to statistical improvements in safety and play the "homeland security" card (which will work for automated speeding ticket systems in a few years).
This is fascinating, but since this is a geek site I'd like more geek info. Like the tech behind it, info about the lab, if there are simple ways to use similar versions of this with neat hacks etc. Combined with this article ("Light Scattering Method Reveals Details under Skin") and other research I've been following in imaging and structured light, it is clear that there are a ballooning number of applications based on clever ways of radiating and analyzing specific wavelengths, polarizations, etc. of light with computers. How about some more info?
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and it gave me my father's name, profession (MD), street address (though we use a post office box not listed there) and links to three maps sites including google's.
But that's not all! Click on the Google Maps link and I get a personalized map with a cartoonish text bubble pointing to where my house is!
And guess what? A link inside that text bubble takes you to a driving directions page. Okay, I type in "New York" which is 45 minutes away by car, on the highway. Well it draws a map with a line between there and my house, and perfect driving directions down to the tenth of a mile and what direction to turn on each street.
This works too well.
I hope more people (especially journalists) will take note that it is inappropriate for megacorporations to require consumers to submit in their homes to technology conflated with WMD, for the purpose of increasing restrictions on entertainment goods.
My fingerprint is on file already I think for driver's liscense, U.S. customs, and a foreigner card in Japan, and every time I felt it was being used to control "potential criminals". Unlike my Dad, who says "Who cares? I have nothing to hide," but does not use computers, I am more concerned about privacy and demagogues.
If it is really needed to stop a terrorist act okay. It is going to be a hard sell but if you absolutely must have video cameras, automatic identification of faces, data mining credit cards or whatever to do that, well it is in the realm of the possible, just make sure someone responsible like the Secret Service is doing it. I used to change trains in the World Trade Center and my sister knew people who worked there, so I'm not living in a fantasy world.
But it is absolutely not acceptable to me for the television, music and movie industries to invade my home, install military-style secrets, and build a digital beachead into my life simply because they no longer want to be as free with their products as they used to be. I think they ought to have to fight for that right out in the open, on the front page of newspapers, in words easy enough for people to understand. I just detest this sneakiness and I think kids should also be told about what sneaks their music and movie star idols really are when they use this lousy technology.
And I think if enough people get mad, things could change, for example competitors could arise. I didn't mean to say I don't like music. But I had a wonderful hour today in a jazz coffee shop, where CDs were played on an amazing sound system. It sounded tons better than the 10,000 dollar JBL speakers I demoed 20 minutes before down the street, and a jazz-lovers club using the place when I came in was also a wonferful serendipitous event in the real world. If things go too far I (an Internet developer) may shift a lot more of my life away from virtual things. People need to keep a balanced perspective about this stuff.
I thought that was plastic, which if true would make the post summary ("the first..") false.
Page 24: Each compliant device is given a set of secret Device keys when manufactured. ...The set of device keys may either be unique per device, or used commonly by multiple devices. ...The [Media Key Block] system is based on a large master tree of keys, with each set of Device Keys being associated with a leaf node of the tree... Further, corresponding to every sub-tree in the master tree is another set of system keys... Thus, the subset-difference tree has to store one encryption per Device Key set revoked, and occasionally additional encryptions to pick up non-revoked sets not covered by the smaller sub-trees. On average, there are 1.28 enrcryptions per revocation.
The document goes on to mention around pages 27 and 28 that devices obtain key conversion data by mechanisms called out in the AACS liscense, and recording devices must verify the signature and determine by its version number field whether a Media Key Block is more recent than the one currently on the media. "Each time the AACS LA changes the revocation, it increments the version number and inserts the new value in subsequent Media Key Blocks."
This says to me that the DVDs you buy will in fact be the transport mechanism for updated revocation keys, and presumably your player will be able to store a lot of them. So movie production companies and distributors must conspire to continually subvert the functionality of a consumer's device, and this does not require the player to be online nor will a firewall help. Once you get yourself locked into the prison of this coded delivery system, your own buying habits will keep adding additional chains to your cage. It is quite insidious, not only are they using military-level technology to control movies, the system is founded on the complicity of the entertainment industry, the electronics industry, and consumers themselves (and the consumer's PC if used) with constant policing and injection of targeted death-messages into the distribution channel. It also looks like the drive can potentially disable media (page 41) and even report hacked hosts/drives by recording onto the media (it seems kind of vague but it is writing a concatenation of the "Binding_Nonce", "Drive_Nonce" and "Host_Nonce" to the protected data area, whatever these things are), which if this is indeed true would I suppose be reported through other PCs/drives of people to whom you lend the media, or maybe through even a shared Internet connection, if you want to try extrapolating this.
Sorry I got ahead of myself. Page 55 talks a lot about online connections, online enabled content and streamed content. It talks about Title Keys and says "the word 'title' is often overloaded. For example a title can refer to a full-feature movie, a TV program, a music album, etc. ... however [we] .. define Title to be a distinct path.. That is, a Title is a logical grouping of content material to be presented in a specific order in time." It also mentions an "Enhanced Device" that is online and can then provide full access to Enhanced Titles that require online connections or extended player functionality. Page 56 mentions a Cacheable Permission that expires after a certain amount of time or include a "do not play until" date, and the XML based Title Usage File is based on global, not local time, which if used must be based on a "secure clock" whatever that is. Oh yeah, on page 59 it mentions the default connection protocol can operate (by https) over Ethernet, firewire, WLAN, etc. so you know this is not just about an HD DVD format but looks like it is trying to take over every device in the vicinity as well. How much you want to bet this will police titles not actually loaded in the player?
I think the cutest part is page 61, where it shows how you can go online with a PIN number and a remote Clearing House server can offer a title
I wrote the blurb. Sorry, I understood that at the time but took it from one of the linked articles because they specifically said affectsonly cancer so thought they had something else going on to direct activity. We shall see..
Hi! Yes, I understand where you are coming from. I totally agree. I think the notion of collaborating in a networked world and your position in it might be something geeks need to be truly cool, and personally I really wanted many photos of their machine and lab space. Also the room with projectors and white walls sounded exactly like what I'd like too, perhaps a great template for other people to use, but they seem to be very wrapped up in their world. Fact is they sound more like charmingly naive artists (or I suppose dysfunctional geeks) than computer scientists, and I'd like to know more about them. And the space sounded both warm (child playing) and cold (physically cold and sterile, but also only pictured blank walls and a monolithic machine somewhere). Perhaps they sign a contract with their employers and they just say everything in the room will never be photographed to cover any situation.. but for historical purposes too as you say I'd like to have seen more. At least it can't get more obscure, only less right? Hope they enjoy what they are doing and succeed, would be nice if they contributed to public forums too.
I think the point is 1) they have a very immersive cerebral life and 2) they are building the NSA's next supercomputer and mum's the word. But 3) they are probably wonderfully friendly and might even be willing to invite you over if you have something interesting to say to them.
If the new CEO had a technical clue (he probably doesn't) or was friendly with the engineers (probably isn't) they could do something like sell a tivo-like unit with a 500GB HD holding their top 200 titles, a thousand songs, an attachment to record from i-Link (firewire) outputs on Sony cameras, and a network connection for whatever (additional downloads, drm if they just can't let go, etc.) For a monthly fee you get tivo-like TV functionality, plus a digital VCR, an integral DVD burner, and the ability to play any movies you like, sequentially, all day and all night. This will succeed if they sell it as a tech item with iMovies online service to all other movie production companies or even indies. It would be a magnificent integration of Sony's technical ability and knowhow around the board. Why won't it happen? Because adding one management guy can't save a crippled company even if you spell it out for them. ( Willing to manage the project though! :) Well we'll see what happens. So far, Sony has proven that unlike M$, they do not learn from their mistakes. Which makes them a ripe target for the Koreans and whoever else can see the writing on the wall.
Actually there is. Sony makes a glasstron which is really bulky wraparoud goggles that give you the perception of sitting in front of a movie screen. I couldn't see sitting in front of it for a long time. Been out for years.
I don't think anyone has noted that if Microsoft controls your OS, security wise it doesn't matter if they store the info on your computer or theirs. Your computer is their computer.
The other merits of course are:
- any info losses are your fault not theirs
- ms not responsible for viruses
- use your hardware so they don't have to buy more
- they don't have to secure their hardware
- ms comes out looking like they care even
- ms has a reason to be getting data from your pc
- another channel to drm enforcement
- fbi might make a case for being able to get in there, another beachhead into your pc if you don't have wmp or ie.
How about switching the slashdot posting policy to be more like a newspaper. Maybe it is already something like this. (Haven't used slash myself)
You would have a number of articles queued for a single day's news. That day's newspaper, so to say, would be published at a given time that is the same for each day. If you want to trickle them out gradually, or publish the whole paper at a different time each day, that's fine too.
The merits of this would be:
You can see a list of all stories for a certain day. You can print them out and proofread on hardcopy. (Yes a revolutionary concept but it works better than online).
You can catch dupes within the same day's newspaper really easily
You can easily remember which day a story was published, and even when you see a dupe think "doh, that was in yesterday's paper!" and can it.
Reduces the constant, unendinr hysterical chaos that must be a major feature of slasdot operations.
Makes it easier to hire a real journalist or editor and give them a task like "edit the day's stories and give the final okay before we put this edition to bed".
Index stories and threads by day
More things to sell your advertisers, equivalent to one full page ad (say one story) paid by a manufacturer (as long as you say it is a paid ad). For example IBM might pay you to put in a story related to IBM once a week. Plenty of stories possible there, and they pay you to write it even.
What do you think?
Darn now Apple can't patent that!
Although they did patent transparent/translucent cases with dynamic projected patterns on them.
Hi,
/. id. I'm an experienced software developer and business coordinator based in Tokyo. I've got a lot of experience in localization and other issues you will be running into head-on, am also a professional translator and fluent in Japanese.
I emailed a response to the address on your
Anyway, I'm willing to talk to you more about your own project to give you some pointers if you want, though from a business perspective you most likely should hire me or someone with similar qualifications to solve all the problems for you quickly and at minimum cost.
It's good to have relations between factories but if you are juggling budget and time constraints while not being experienced in Japan I think you should get an ally who can navigate you through those waters or just do the whole job. Otherwise you are likely to reiterate typical technical and cultural issues that usually accompany such projects.
Technically though going from Japanese to English is much better than the other way around, since the roman alphabet is usually supported within Japanese though many symbols are not. More likely you will have problems getting there, commmunicating without any misunderstandings (they will expect you are a pro at localization just like your company expects they are), reading documentation, and then expectations about what is acceptable technically, user-wise and culturally. Also you will likely also have to represent your company and answer business-related questions, though this will be in English probably. Anyway if you don't take this advice I sincerely wish you luck, but I doubt this is the time for expensive lessons in intercultural communications and problem solving. Anyway check the email please. I could get this done for you this week, save you a trip, and either do the whole thing or help you localize yourself.
mattr (at no spam) telebody (dotnet)
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Keep up the good work pushing the envelope!
Please scan Perry Rhodan in English (#128 and higher). It is the most popular book ever I think in Germany besides the Bible, and is out of print in English. There are a thousand (really) episodes and we need to search it! Also to help learn a foreign language. Where's the science fiction!!!
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Unfortunately this reportedly amazing mathematical mind has been completely contaminated by the corporate twitspeak of the richest man of the late 20th century.
To imagine that a culture most likely hundreds of thousands to millions of years older than us would 1) have trouble deciphering a bitmap, 2) be happy to get a copy of Clippy with DRM, or 3) think generously toward us after that, is so stupid I think you have to wonder how many minds this patenting/copyrighting/EULAing/lawyering culture has utterly warped and destroyed.
An AI might be useful, especially if we have a starship we need one to drive it. Maybe to figure out how to talk to them and plead our case (better be a good AI, might be more of a human personality in silicon, no?). Aliens might be interested in what we look like and our concepts/works of beauty, maybe interstellar photographs from where we are, or measurements of physical constants here. Maybe just because there are not that many intelligent species in the galaxy. But they do not want to be given a copy-protected CD, they certainly can crack it, and the notion offered by this "grandmaster" is probably the MOST POISONOUS one you could possibly send to outer space. Hope instead they send us an AI and we can figure it out.
Honestly this guy is terminally ridiculous. Of course the idea of an AI itself isn't dumb, it's been in science fiction enough. Trying to think of useful things to trade isn't dumb either. It is the utter egotism the rest of the article displays. Reason enough for a punitive gamma ray burst nearby maybe too!
Cosmic Voyage I believe was at the Smithsonian, along with Flight (corroboration anyone?) for a long time through the 70s-90s at least.
It may be a little dated in the few seconds spent on the visible human world, but had the most impact on me as a child in understanding the universe, its scale, self similarity, and beauty. (In addition to exponential notation and a cool "trip"!) Arguably it could be the absolutely best film in the world for teaching science.
Not using it for the reasons mentioned in the post ought to be the subject of a lawsuit. walk the plank! arrr.
I designed a system called MyNet for users to send email to a system that would add entries to a personal diary page. circa 1995. This was not in production though I made a proof of concept and manually updated a blog (web nikki or diary) in 1995 online for a designer named hachiya, who designed sony's pink bear.
David Blair's waxweb system (also about the same time) also should break parts of this as it included an advanced system allowing users to add annotations to a movie that is broken up into scenes, and edit the movie.
I think if you take apart the patent line by line you will find lots of things that beat it piece by piece, and some which have more than one piece. I don't buy it that these guys invented blogging.
For example Wiki's are based circa 1994 on work from the 80's.
It looks more like the patent describes some things that have been around a while, and some already established techniques to extend them. Maybe some good development in there but not the originality as far as I can see from Amazon to be worth a patent. Not if it is circa 2003.
Anyway, I'm against software patents in general since they seem to act opposite from the way patents are supposed to act, but the main thing here is that if there is going to be such a thing as a software patent it better be something more revolutionary and less obvious to experts in the field at the time, than what they have. I'm tired of seeing "software patents" for things that ought to be laughed out of the patent office if they were based on the physical world. And then you get more into mathematical / algorithmic discoveries which are not patentable for even better (similar) reasons. I wish Amazon would fuck off. They have enough of the fucking pie.
Hi,
Thanks for your response.
IANAL but your interpretation could be correct in some instances.
To me it seems that if you require a search engine (especially a free service like news.google.com that does not show full stories) operator to worry about this sort of thing they will never get off the ground. Chicklet-size images should be free to use for search purposes. But if the image is linked I think it should go to a page identifying the image owner's credit line and a full size version of the image or page that has it. Hopefully Google doesn't have to worry about this.
Incidentally it is not clear to me that there is a subscription Google could buy that would solve this problem. In fact if you look at afp.com you will see that Agence France-Press in fact is running a service that looks much like Google News, showing stories and photos. Some photos on the top page are the same size as what Google is using. So AFP protests their competitor being able to use their products to compete with them, however since it seems the two competing services are both free it seems moot. But it is questionable how big a photo can get and still be allowed. Would say a 4x6 cm image on your desktop (eminently "useable" I think) be free? If for search purposes (to lead people to the place where the photo and story is) I think it should be allowed.
Thanks. If TFA is right and applicable to the entire case then that sounds like you are also correct.
It might be different if for example Google was trawling an AFP database, proven by server logs, and digesting AFP-created XML files which link photos to Reuters stories, and then if Google intentionally selected AFP-provided photos for their known high quality, and matched them to highly ranked stories that did not have photos of their own. The worst case would be a little worse, in which Google does all this and also compounds the insult by hyperlinking the photo to a publication that does not even subscribe to AFP feeds.
I don't think Google is that dumb. So I think you are right. The end result is that probably a lot of AFP photos are used, so there is I would imaging a 10% chance that some judge somewhere will award AFP something but it seems like Google is being both honest and firm as to their right to use a preview. Looking forward to seeing Google win.
Hi!
Thanks for the response. Of course I went to news.google.com for my example of the Boston Globe story however it is not my main news source. I don't know if it is intentional or not, but the link I chose went to a page with a story that did not have the photo on it. If in the case of a highly ranked story not having a photo it seemed to me (could be wrong of course) that Google was selecting a photo from another indexed publication, and putting it there with a link to the highest index story. That is walking a very fine line between search engine and publication, but I agree it should still be allowed.
Anyway, my premise is that Google is not wrong (although that word has a lot of interpretations depending where and when in the world you are), and should not be punished. Also I think Google's business model is legal. However, it is also true that photo agencies must pay for creation of images, and also are extremely strict about how they can be used - sizes, venues, circulation - and the more a photo is used the less other customers might want to use it. For example they probably cannot now make a contract with another search engine company to use their photos for pay. As for legality IANAL and it is probably illegal somewhere but that municipality is also behind the times.. it ought to be allowed.
I am just providing the most liberal take on this based on my experience as advocate FOR digitization and searching for the Japanese photo industry (until about 8 years ago). They turned down working with a massive database firm that wanted to eat them alive and regularly pursue unannounced usage of photos. So the bottom line is as you say, "indexing and brief preview" should be allowed (and if it is not somewhere, the law should be changed). However, if the search engine ends up creating say a custom newspaper for you with that photo size, it should not be allowed. Google's position is that the image size shown is equivalent to just showing the first few lines of a story (which they do), however because it is not directly equivalent (you can still use a photo that size), there is a gray area allowing AFP's interpretation in some cases / jurisdictions possibly. There are many photographers / artists who in fact are very uncomfortable with resized (bigger than chicklet size in fact) versions of their images being shown in google images search too. In the end I think the best thing for the world is to allow whatever Google wants to do (to the extent they have done so far) in the Images and News sections, but if a photo owner like AFP or an individual photographer strongly protests they should be able to demand and enforce NOT being displayed in a visual search by use of metadata. For example photographers and artists are likely to be quite vocal about the best size to show a work of theirs. This ignores some (not all) facets of modern digital display technology but it is not an issue that can be glibly tossed into the air. So a legal precedent for the legality of tiny images for fair use would be useful. I agree with Google but also note they have made conscious decisions on how far to push it and they are just short of the line. AFP is going for their last gasp but probably will lose since they are I believe morally wrong (but haven't seen the facts of the case).
How would you feel if you knew that over half of all photos are from AFP in fact? (Devil's Advocate)
Thanks,
Matt