so they have a couple more days to plan outages as necessary
It's withholding information on vulnerabilities (that if available shouldn't be withheld) from customers (everyone using their products is their customer) that haven't paid an Additional Fee.
Tell MSDN Subscribers / Developers about new products early? Fine. Give my competition preferencial treatment, through advanced notice of upcoming updates? Not cool. More time to plan patches / outages can mean shorter down time. Turn around on flaw exploits used to be months, now it's days. I just think everyone should have equal opportunity to prepare.
Competition means better products at lower prices. The intertwined/alternating point on the graph in the article makes me happy about the state of hardware.
Nothing like competition to make a good company's products better.
I sense a great disturbance in The Force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, then were suddenly moderated to -1 Troll. I fear something terrible has happened.
Although the HDR-FX1 is technically the first HDV camcorder, the HDV specification is based on a compression standard first introduced in a JVC camcorderHDV specification. That camcorder from JVC was the first consumer HD camcorder, the GR-HD1. The GR-HD1 also had a companion camcorder, the JY-HD10U, based on the same technology in JVC's professional line. The key distinction between the JVC HD camcorders and the Sony HDR-FX1 is their shooting mode. The JVC camcorders shot 720 lines of resolution at a rate of 30 progressive frames per second, while the Sony shoots 1080 lines of resolution at 60 interlaced frames per second. The two rates contain nearly identical amounts of information; however, one offers the benefits of progressive scan, and one a higher resolution picture. Both camcorders compress the information into an MPEG2 signal and save it on standard MiniDV tapes. Like the JVC, the HDR-FX1 is capable of recording a standard DV signal as well as an HDV signal.
It will be interesting to see how comanies like vonage and local phone companies react to free internet.
Although it might be billed as free to users, everyone involved will be getting paid for services provided. However, small local service providers are screwed and a small heterogeneous internet market would be painfully shifted to a small consortium of large providers over time (because a single provider is easier to manage, not because you'd get the best service).
Someone has to be chosen to provide access and some corporate entity is going to want to provide some kind of sponsorship to get their branding on it. In addition to all of this, the example a successful implementation would set could mean similar implementations in other small cities.
Best (realistic) case scenario: The little guys are going to get crushed. There's going to be some corporate elbowing delaying the entire process after which whoever gets the job is going to (initially) screw it up because they're completely unprepared to, in any realistic amount of time, coordiante the implementation and maintenance of an entire city. But hey, it's got to start somewhere ^_^
Or maybe the government will figure out some managable process with multiple providers that doesn't end up costing the taxpayers 3 times as much they were paying before the project...
Free software is like that, one million eyeballs and one burnt out developer!
That's the beauty of free software... all it takes is one burn out developer to get the ball rolling, with no allegiance or agenda other than getting the necessary job done.
LOAF lets you check whether someone emailing you for the first time is a complete stranger, or appears in the address books of some of your trusted correspondents.
What's the difference? Some of my most trusted confidants have systems riddled with spyware and viri. They're great people but Horrible users. I rarely give out my real email address for that very reason.
They clog up the carpool lane (as well as any other you might want to pass in) and now they're striking out against advances in technology that would surely spell their demise...
Microsoft is a master at switching enough labels to "keep things interesting". New bells and whistles to hold your attention. (I'm a sucker for a pretty interface) Kind of makes it seem like Java isn't moving at all. Java never left and it's not going to "die". It is a young language that has survived and grown on its own merits and not through billions in marketing hype and R&D and despite it's creaters over protectiveness. It's just getting started.
Either the tool you're using allows you to get the job done or it doesn't. Either the tool improves over time to make your job easier or it doesn't. If you want to see Java thrive, use it.
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...his real job is to better understand Linux so Microsoft can do a better job of crushing it. In 2001 Microsoft Chief Steve Ballmer likened Linux to "cancer." Now, says Taylor, "Linux is going to be around forever. We've got to understand it.
After all the marketing people have gone home... After all the white papers have been published...
The fact is, there are and have been people at Microsoft, dedicated to truly understanding Linux. Taylor gets it. Linux IS going to be around forever because anyone with a computer and a decent internet connection (or lots of patience) can get their hands on it. Difficulty of mastery is neglegable when entry is free. For the first time, in a long time, I think they're being forced to think outside of their box.
Microsoft has crushed it's competition in the past with superior marketing (not necessarily something to be proud of...) and ease of use (at the expense of security). The MS corporate cultures biggest achilles heel (besides the IDIOTS that go through the Win2K Server install wizard and think they're done) has been it's overconfidence and sincere belief that it knows what's best. This attitude has allowed them to justify their questionable and litigatable tactics and ignore for far too long true innovation from it's competitors.
MS will improve in product strengh, quality, and reliability. They have the money and now the motivation, so it's only a matter of time, but it will not be free. The greatest strength of Linux is the community. I look forward to increased ease of use from the Linux platform, allowing increased growth of that community, but not at the expense of the quality and stability of the platform. The quality and dedication of the individuals in the community shuold not be sacrificed for greater numbers.
it means a loss of the company's intellectual property
That's not the voter's problem.
and unfettered access could lead to a compromise of the voting system, if a determined cracker could find and exploit flaws in the code.
Or it could lead to anyone in the community blowing the whistle on propriatary back doors or the poor coding practices of the developers or.... These arguments are completely backwards. how hard is it to say 'add one to this vote'?
Why not model these voting machines after ATM's? Every registered voter starts out with a single vote per election. Accounts are credited and debited and everyone is accountable... Automatic Voting Machine anyone?
Taken from Wired article: "The bill as it is currently drafted is extremely broad and not entirely clear. It would, at a minimum, undermine the Sony Betamax decision."
Innovation isn't the target, just an acceptable liability. Politicians that submit/subscribe to such legislation are clearly more concerned about protecting the pockets of corporations/industries at the expense of technological innovation or cultural changes that would shift power away from them.
Taken from news.com story: DirecTV sells its TiVo stake"There are about 1.6 million TiVo subscribers in total. About a million of those are DirecTV subscribers signed up for the TiVo service. TiVo has a contract with DirecTV for DVRs that runs through February 2007, according to TiVo's annual report for the period ending Jan. 31, 2004."
and from: DirecTV exec quits TiVo board"TiVo in late May reported strong subscriber growth, adding about 264,000 subscribers in its first quarter. The majority of those came from DirecTV customers. There are about 1.6 million TiVo subscribers in total."
TiVo owes a good chunk of its current subscriber population to it's relationship with DirecTV. Unfortunately, in my experience, DirecTV has had it's head up it's ass. I've had consistent hardware issues (2 bad hard drives) I've not seen reflected in TiVo forums as well as horrendous experience with their customer service. And I've never opened the unit. (Is that the problem?)
I sincerely hope Tivo has built enough of a name for itself to stand without continued DirecTV support. I've refrained from buying the new HD DVR for fear of complete lack of future support.
...offers no services over a pda that I would want to use on the go. Unless of course you're talking about laptop-type activities, in which case, the laptop is the natural choice.
I almost agree. Despite the hype thrown behind the tablet PC, I consider it to be, at best, an evolution of the laptop. That's not a bad thing.
I bought the Toshiba Protege M200 when it came out and was really excited. Within a couple of months, I was using only it's laptop functionality 90% of the time. However, it's that 10% that keeps things interesting. A tablet has capabilities beyond that of existing laptops which opens doors to interactions that just weren't possible before. Alias Sketchbook Pro rocks! I'm excited about that untapped potential. My Treo 600 can record voice,(crappy) video, and act as a webcam now. It couldn't do that when I bought it.
Don't even bother asking about why one would need X to do Y when you've got A, B & C. For me it's about exploring the possibilities.
Some day the line between laptop and tablet will be nonexistant. Until then, save your money unless you're interested in helping that future get here a day or two sooner. Someone's got to be an early adopter. I can't wait for a Linux Tablet, which is made increasingly probable by lower priced hardware. Sometimes the slow, steady progress just isn't that impressive.
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Personally, I'm still not sure that I believe in file sharing. Just because something isn't tangible (it's music or it's words or it's code) doesn't mean someone didn't work hard for it and invest in it.
I believe the growth of intangibles in our society will require a cultural/corporate paradigm shift. As much as we'd like to believe otherwise, the amount of effort we exert is not the only factor which determines our effort's worth. Supply and Demand.
The proliferation of books and music has traditionally be limited by access and the physical space they take up amongst your personal belongings (unless you go to your Library - Does anyone know if there have been similar historical issues with brick and mortar libraries?). The internet has become a digital library with no return date but, current laws make this illegal.
Here's an idea... How about instead of creating wrapper technologies which block sharing songs, books, and code, all are freely available but wraped in technologies which allow for easy donation to the effort's creator? An encoder which integrates certificates and paypal. I got nothing against middle (wo)men... they can maintain the servers. I can't imagine that this doesn't exist somewhere already...
I think the university officials need to thank the students for their work in exploiting the security vulnerabilities.
MAYBE, if their exploit didn't involve publishing the vulnerability to the general populace. Worst case scenario, it gets picked up by the BBC and/or/.
It is 100 times better for two students without malicious cause to break into the internal networks than for malicious individuals to do the same.
They've publicly invited every literate/malicious individual to do so. Getting a killer scoop at the expense of the school's security comes close enough to malicious in my book. In the real world, few (statistic pulled out of my ass based on number of companies/organizations who plug in/install and go, not size or profitability) have "adequately" secure systems, be it the refusal or inability to spend the time or money do so, let alone keep up. Anonymity IS part of a system's security. By publishing this article they've opend up the schools network to attention it wouldn't have received othewise. Mabe the Admins will be able to make necessary adjustments before backdoors are added. Maybe they didn't even have the staff to secure it properly. Point is, the consequence of their actions is that students are more vulnerable than they were before the story was published. Intentions be damned, they f^@%ed up.
From the same article mentioned above 'The new console from Nintendo is codenamed "Revolution"'
Although no official statement has been given, this codename does give credence to runors that all games on this console will carry the Revolution moniker and be manipulated via dancepad controllers. As expressed by the promotional video for the Nintendo DS at the 2004 E3, Nintendo wants to improve the quality of life of it's consumers. The "Revolutiion" console will do so by ensuring the physical fitness of it's users.
One of the first peripherals on tap for this new system is a ceiling mounted harness to allow for real time super and double jumps...
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so they have a couple more days to plan outages as necessary
It's withholding information on vulnerabilities (that if available shouldn't be withheld) from customers (everyone using their products is their customer) that haven't paid an Additional Fee.
Tell MSDN Subscribers / Developers about new products early? Fine. Give my competition preferencial treatment, through advanced notice of upcoming updates? Not cool. More time to plan patches / outages can mean shorter down time. Turn around on flaw exploits used to be months, now it's days. I just think everyone should have equal opportunity to prepare.
Competition means better products at lower prices. The intertwined/alternating point on the graph in the article makes me happy about the state of hardware.
Nothing like competition to make a good company's products better.
'A novice's greatest fear is sitting in front of a motionless command prompt with no idea what to type;
It's as if he's looked into my very soul... or tapped into my webcam.
I sense a great disturbance in The Force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, then were suddenly moderated to -1 Troll. I fear something terrible has happened.
Screw Porn (HAHAHA). Throw caution to the DCMA and BOOTLEG, BOOTLEG, BOOTLEG. Now all I need is 3700$, some milk duds, and a rear seat.
...and something to obscure you from the projectionist's night vision goggles.
From the first referenced story:
Although the HDR-FX1 is technically the first HDV camcorder, the HDV specification is based on a compression standard first introduced in a JVC camcorderHDV specification. That camcorder from JVC was the first consumer HD camcorder, the GR-HD1. The GR-HD1 also had a companion camcorder, the JY-HD10U, based on the same technology in JVC's professional line. The key distinction between the JVC HD camcorders and the Sony HDR-FX1 is their shooting mode. The JVC camcorders shot 720 lines of resolution at a rate of 30 progressive frames per second, while the Sony shoots 1080 lines of resolution at 60 interlaced frames per second. The two rates contain nearly identical amounts of information; however, one offers the benefits of progressive scan, and one a higher resolution picture. Both camcorders compress the information into an MPEG2 signal and save it on standard MiniDV tapes. Like the JVC, the HDR-FX1 is capable of recording a standard DV signal as well as an HDV signal.
It will be interesting to see how comanies like vonage and local phone companies react to free internet.
Although it might be billed as free to users, everyone involved will be getting paid for services provided. However, small local service providers are screwed and a small heterogeneous internet market would be painfully shifted to a small consortium of large providers over time (because a single provider is easier to manage, not because you'd get the best service).
Someone has to be chosen to provide access and some corporate entity is going to want to provide some kind of sponsorship to get their branding on it. In addition to all of this, the example a successful implementation would set could mean similar implementations in other small cities.
Best (realistic) case scenario: The little guys are going to get crushed. There's going to be some corporate elbowing delaying the entire process after which whoever gets the job is going to (initially) screw it up because they're completely unprepared to, in any realistic amount of time, coordiante the implementation and maintenance of an entire city. But hey, it's got to start somewhere ^_^
Or maybe the government will figure out some managable process with multiple providers that doesn't end up costing the taxpayers 3 times as much they were paying before the project...
Free software is like that, one million eyeballs and one burnt out developer!
That's the beauty of free software... all it takes is one burn out developer to get the ball rolling, with no allegiance or agenda other than getting the necessary job done.
LOAF lets you check whether someone emailing you for the first time is a complete stranger, or appears in the address books of some of your trusted correspondents.
What's the difference? Some of my most trusted confidants have systems riddled with spyware and viri. They're great people but Horrible users. I rarely give out my real email address for that very reason.
Seriously...
They clog up the carpool lane (as well as any other you might want to pass in) and now they're striking out against advances in technology that would surely spell their demise...
got bored watching
Microsoft is a master at switching enough labels to "keep things interesting". New bells and whistles to hold your attention. (I'm a sucker for a pretty interface) Kind of makes it seem like Java isn't moving at all. Java never left and it's not going to "die". It is a young language that has survived and grown on its own merits and not through billions in marketing hype and R&D and despite it's creaters over protectiveness. It's just getting started.
Either the tool you're using allows you to get the job done or it doesn't. Either the tool improves over time to make your job easier or it doesn't. If you want to see Java thrive, use it.
Been here, done this still cool
...his real job is to better understand Linux so Microsoft can do a better job of crushing it. In 2001 Microsoft Chief Steve Ballmer likened Linux to "cancer." Now, says Taylor, "Linux is going to be around forever. We've got to understand it.
After all the marketing people have gone home...
After all the white papers have been published...
The fact is, there are and have been people at Microsoft, dedicated to truly understanding Linux. Taylor gets it. Linux IS going to be around forever because anyone with a computer and a decent internet connection (or lots of patience) can get their hands on it. Difficulty of mastery is neglegable when entry is free. For the first time, in a long time, I think they're being forced to think outside of their box.
Microsoft has crushed it's competition in the past with superior marketing (not necessarily something to be proud of...) and ease of use (at the expense of security). The MS corporate cultures biggest achilles heel (besides the IDIOTS that go through the Win2K Server install wizard and think they're done) has been it's overconfidence and sincere belief that it knows what's best. This attitude has allowed them to justify their questionable and litigatable tactics and ignore for far too long true innovation from it's competitors.
MS will improve in product strengh, quality, and reliability. They have the money and now the motivation, so it's only a matter of time, but it will not be free. The greatest strength of Linux is the community. I look forward to increased ease of use from the Linux platform, allowing increased growth of that community, but not at the expense of the quality and stability of the platform. The quality and dedication of the individuals in the community shuold not be sacrificed for greater numbers.
Scary headline to read while I'm in the middle of installing it right now!
It should only really be scary if you're installing it and you work for IBM...
I wonder where we could find one of those.
ROFLMAO
it means a loss of the company's intellectual property
That's not the voter's problem.
and unfettered access could lead to a compromise of the voting system, if a determined cracker could find and exploit flaws in the code.
Or it could lead to anyone in the community blowing the whistle on propriatary back doors or the poor coding practices of the developers or....
These arguments are completely backwards.
how hard is it to say 'add one to this vote'?
Why not model these voting machines after ATM's? Every registered voter starts out with a single vote per election. Accounts are credited and debited and everyone is accountable... Automatic Voting Machine anyone?
Just because it's the law doesn't mean it's fair. Why is it a company can own my ideas, but I can't own their software? How about leasing our ideas?
I am interested to see how this will affect sales in new CPU's and video cards.
I expect PriceWatch to feel the burn if it hasn't already. I used it as a starting point to build my last couple systems.
Aside from tweaking options, is custom built still cheaper/better than off the line?
Taken from Wired article: "The bill as it is currently drafted is extremely broad and not entirely clear. It would, at a minimum, undermine the Sony Betamax decision."
Innovation isn't the target, just an acceptable liability. Politicians that submit/subscribe to such legislation are clearly more concerned about protecting the pockets of corporations/industries at the expense of technological innovation or cultural changes that would shift power away from them.
seems uncannily appropriate.
Taken from news.com story: DirecTV sells its TiVo stake "There are about 1.6 million TiVo subscribers in total. About a million of those are DirecTV subscribers signed up for the TiVo service. TiVo has a contract with DirecTV for DVRs that runs through February 2007, according to TiVo's annual report for the period ending Jan. 31, 2004."
and from: DirecTV exec quits TiVo board "TiVo in late May reported strong subscriber growth, adding about 264,000 subscribers in its first quarter. The majority of those came from DirecTV customers. There are about 1.6 million TiVo subscribers in total."
TiVo owes a good chunk of its current subscriber population to it's relationship with DirecTV. Unfortunately, in my experience, DirecTV has had it's head up it's ass. I've had consistent hardware issues (2 bad hard drives) I've not seen reflected in TiVo forums as well as horrendous experience with their customer service. And I've never opened the unit. (Is that the problem?)
I sincerely hope Tivo has built enough of a name for itself to stand without continued DirecTV support. I've refrained from buying the new HD DVR for fear of complete lack of future support.
...offers no services over a pda that I would want to use on the go. Unless of course you're talking about laptop-type activities, in which case, the laptop is the natural choice.
I almost agree. Despite the hype thrown behind the tablet PC, I consider it to be, at best, an evolution of the laptop. That's not a bad thing.
I bought the Toshiba Protege M200 when it came out and was really excited. Within a couple of months, I was using only it's laptop functionality 90% of the time. However, it's that 10% that keeps things interesting. A tablet has capabilities beyond that of existing laptops which opens doors to interactions that just weren't possible before. Alias Sketchbook Pro rocks! I'm excited about that untapped potential. My Treo 600 can record voice,(crappy) video, and act as a webcam now. It couldn't do that when I bought it.
Don't even bother asking about why one would need X to do Y when you've got A, B & C. For me it's about exploring the possibilities.
Some day the line between laptop and tablet will be nonexistant. Until then, save your money unless you're interested in helping that future get here a day or two sooner. Someone's got to be an early adopter. I can't wait for a Linux Tablet, which is made increasingly probable by lower priced hardware. Sometimes the slow, steady progress just isn't that impressive.
Personally, I'm still not sure that I believe in file sharing. Just because something isn't tangible (it's music or it's words or it's code) doesn't mean someone didn't work hard for it and invest in it.
I believe the growth of intangibles in our society will require a cultural/corporate paradigm shift. As much as we'd like to believe otherwise, the amount of effort we exert is not the only factor which determines our effort's worth. Supply and Demand.
The proliferation of books and music has traditionally be limited by access and the physical space they take up amongst your personal belongings (unless you go to your Library - Does anyone know if there have been similar historical issues with brick and mortar libraries?). The internet has become a digital library with no return date but, current laws make this illegal.
Here's an idea... How about instead of creating wrapper technologies which block sharing songs, books, and code, all are freely available but wraped in technologies which allow for easy donation to the effort's creator? An encoder which integrates certificates and paypal. I got nothing against middle (wo)men... they can maintain the servers. I can't imagine that this doesn't exist somewhere already...
I think the university officials need to thank the students for their work in exploiting the security vulnerabilities.
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MAYBE, if their exploit didn't involve publishing the vulnerability to the general populace. Worst case scenario, it gets picked up by the BBC and/or
It is 100 times better for two students without malicious cause to break into the internal networks than for malicious individuals to do the same.
They've publicly invited every literate/malicious individual to do so. Getting a killer scoop at the expense of the school's security comes close enough to malicious in my book. In the real world, few (statistic pulled out of my ass based on number of companies/organizations who plug in/install and go, not size or profitability) have "adequately" secure systems, be it the refusal or inability to spend the time or money do so, let alone keep up. Anonymity IS part of a system's security. By publishing this article they've opend up the schools network to attention it wouldn't have received othewise. Mabe the Admins will be able to make necessary adjustments before backdoors are added. Maybe they didn't even have the staff to secure it properly. Point is, the consequence of their actions is that students are more vulnerable than they were before the story was published. Intentions be damned, they f^@%ed up.
From the same article mentioned above 'The new console from Nintendo is codenamed "Revolution"'
Although no official statement has been given, this codename does give credence to runors that all games on this console will carry the Revolution moniker and be manipulated via dancepad controllers. As expressed by the promotional video for the Nintendo DS at the 2004 E3, Nintendo wants to improve the quality of life of it's consumers. The "Revolutiion" console will do so by ensuring the physical fitness of it's users.
One of the first peripherals on tap for this new system is a ceiling mounted harness to allow for real time super and double jumps...