If IP addresses are personal data, and you visit my web page, and my access logs show I served an IP that you used at a certain time (or even just that I served an IP you used), am I now subject to laws regarding the holding of personal information? If you were to contact me and request that information how would I authenticate you? If I was to disclose certain parts of the "personal data" that you claimed belonged to you, how could I know that I was not disclosing someone else's personal information, given that I can't necessarily authenticate you or anyone else and IP's can be re-allocated? If I ban an IP address for abusing my server and it is later re-allocated to someone else, is that slander? If I forward an e-mail whose headers contain IP addresses of relay servers, is that unlawful disclosure of personal information?
Really though, this is nothing new. IIRC, some builds of Sub7 had a reverse backdoor (not covered in the wiki article), as well as a master password that let the Sub7 crew take over a server (covered by the wiki article), and some builds even included hard drive killer when the master password was in use.
Extensive, well-organized documentation is: * Something the company is only really going to need if they fire you * Something that makes it easier for the company to fire you
If only everyone had easy access to something like PGP for their e-mail. PGP Desktop costs around $100 (last I checked), GPG is a pain to set up, and the UI's available really aren't all that pretty and certainly not designed for the average user.
If I compare the number of people I exchange e-mail with, and the number of people in that set that I'm aware are using PGP (or compatible), I estimate around 3% of my communications could reasonably be secured, and even then I bet recipients would quickly tire of decrypting every e-mail I send them to view it. Maybe every e-mail is not sensitive enough to encrypt though - but then if you don't encrypt everything it makes the ones that are encrypted seem more suspicious. And who knows what the government may one day use against you - how much confidence do you have that the person on the other end of the e-mail exchange is not tied to a suspected terrorist, given what qualifies a person as a terrorist suspect these days?
Encryption is basically still such a pain to work with that I bet most people would reject reasonable suggestion to use it.
Here's another idea: Create some competition to SDGE, and the first time they start turning off my A/C during the summer watch me switch to a new provider who builds an infrastructure that can keep up with demand and is willing to provide the energy I pay for.
Four trams derailed in the process injuring a number of passengers.
I know he hacked this together out of a remote control, but that's a horribly inefficient process he created - surely it's possible to injure the passengers without derailing the trams!;)
No network-aware services listening out of the box? No remote-unattended exploits! Oh! You must have got the Windows 95 special edition without netbios running wide open to the world by default, the ICMP kernel-mode vulnerabilites, the out of band data exploit, and others.
Or perhaps you've been styling it up with the rose-tinted spectacles lately?
Sorry to bring it up, but how does licensing work in the world of open-source hardware? Normally manufacturers can't just go around adding any technology they like to their devices because there are all kinds of patent or service licensing issues attached.
Who becomes responsible/liable in the case of open-source hardware, the project owner? The people manufacturing the hardware? The people selling the hardware? Only one thing is guaranteed: If it is successful and makes money there will be lawsuits. Heck, if it threatens someone else's business there will probably be lawsuits.
I personally have to smirk at the Apple brigade who on one hand spent the year touting everything Apple as more secure, and on the other hand rushed to jailbreak their iPhones by simply viewing a web page embedding a malformed image.
That also implies never sharing your identity or your work (which presumably you are proud of) to any co-workers, or any friends who may know your co-workers, and so forth. Got an unmasked domain name registration? Link to your IM, personal e-mail, myspace, linkedin, facebook from your site? It's very hard to actually hide an identity.
The way I see it, the bigger problem is that there is so much "at will" employment and at the end of the day nothing stops your boss firing you because he doesn't like the color of your shirt, because your hairstyle is all wrong, or just because he's having a bad day.
You don't compress differently when exporting to MP3 than you do when exporting to CD. Let's not look upon an MP3 as a majestical format where audio mysteriously takes on a life of its own and sounds strikingly different. It doesn't. An MP3 is simply the same signal that you find on a CD transformed into the frequency domain, frequencies with lesser engery quantized greater, or dropped if below the absolute threshold of hearing, some spatial information discarded (depending on the encoding mode), and written out as a bitstream. An MP3 is certainly a degraded version of the original signal, but the degradation can't really be compensated for via compression. If anything, EQ would be a better solution.
I really think this article is completely off-base. Compression is completely unrelated to MP3, it's a technique used independently of the format.
It may be true that MP3 encoders do tend to (but don't necessarily always) make some trade-offs at the high or low frequencies. For example, very low frequency sound may lose stereo positioning, and most encoders employ a low-pass filter to reduce the data rate (or artifacts at a given data rate) by taking out some of the high-end frequencies. However, this has (almost) nothing to do with compression, which is more about adjusting dynamics to make quiet sounds sound louder while trying to minimize distortion in the louder parts.
Compression is a horrible thing, of course, because essentially what is happening today is that even those of us who buy CDs hoping to avoid the artifacts of lossy formats are subject to some random guy deciding during mastering that "hey, this will stand out more against the competition if the whole thing is really loud and unsubtle". But to tie this against MP3 is a very far stretch of the imagination, IMO.
Works probably don't have to be created in the US. I'm not a big GPL buff, but when you contribute to a (large) project I don't think it's uncommon for rights to be assigned to an entity (the project "owner"), which may be a US national or company.
I guess this means the GPL is also null and void there as well. Only for GPL projects where the copyright holder is a US national?
Also, they have a limited dollar amount. GPL projects may not have a price attached, but it seems that the WTO didn't intend unlimited infringement of rights, so I would think at some point derived works would become a liability. I don't know what that crossing point would be.
True. But let's do some math for a 4K frame with 4:2:0 color.
4096w x 2160h x 1.5Bpp x 24fps = 310MB per second of video. 96000hz x 3Bps x 7ch = 1.923MB per second of audio.
2 hour post-production movie = ~2.2TB
Now add all the original source (which is much more than will make the final cut) and project files, consider that they are maybe using 8K @ 4:4:4 instead of 4:2:0 for mastering, that there are all the "extra" features to store also, and you are realistically looking at well over 10TB.
DVD's have a fraction of the resolution of the original digital video and have already undergone lossy compression (e.g. MPEG2 video, AC3 audio). HD DVD/Bluray is also lower resolution than the original, and the compression is still lossy. As some others have mentioned, you ideally want to store all the film's components (unedited footage, audio, etc.) at the highest quality possible for re-mastering to new formats in later years.
Beyond that, single-bit errors in encoded data streams (e.g. MPEG2, AVC, MP3, AC3) can lead to large distortions in the decoded data. You really have to store everything raw in order to reduce the chances of severe corruption and increase the chances of recovery.
One day someone will actually do diligence before proclaiming the "Macs are more secure" line of propaganda/conventional wisdom. Or then again, maybe not. Maybe we'll just have to wait for the first occasion where someone actually cares to mass-exploit one of these vulnerabilities and Mac users everywhere suddenly realize that their systems are infected, that they have infected their friends systems, that they have no anti-virus, and that they have to take their computers back to the Apple store for repairs.
Really? How many vendors of proprietary applications have their source repositories sitting on the Internet with a visible public interface and developers who may never have even met each other logging in from all over the world?
I also like how you blanket-troll all vendors of proprietary applications as if none posses basic ethics.
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If IP addresses are personal data, and you visit my web page, and my access logs show I served an IP that you used at a certain time (or even just that I served an IP you used), am I now subject to laws regarding the holding of personal information? If you were to contact me and request that information how would I authenticate you? If I was to disclose certain parts of the "personal data" that you claimed belonged to you, how could I know that I was not disclosing someone else's personal information, given that I can't necessarily authenticate you or anyone else and IP's can be re-allocated? If I ban an IP address for abusing my server and it is later re-allocated to someone else, is that slander? If I forward an e-mail whose headers contain IP addresses of relay servers, is that unlawful disclosure of personal information?
This is totally ridiculous.
.. you just can't trust malware anymore!
Really though, this is nothing new. IIRC, some builds of Sub7 had a reverse backdoor (not covered in the wiki article), as well as a master password that let the Sub7 crew take over a server (covered by the wiki article), and some builds even included hard drive killer when the master password was in use.
Will Apple provide similar immunity to DTrace for any competitor who requests it? Otherwise aren't they unfairly protecting their iTMS monopoly?
Extensive, well-organized documentation is:
* Something the company is only really going to need if they fire you
* Something that makes it easier for the company to fire you
No documentation at all, of course, is bad.
If only everyone had easy access to something like PGP for their e-mail. PGP Desktop costs around $100 (last I checked), GPG is a pain to set up, and the UI's available really aren't all that pretty and certainly not designed for the average user.
If I compare the number of people I exchange e-mail with, and the number of people in that set that I'm aware are using PGP (or compatible), I estimate around 3% of my communications could reasonably be secured, and even then I bet recipients would quickly tire of decrypting every e-mail I send them to view it. Maybe every e-mail is not sensitive enough to encrypt though - but then if you don't encrypt everything it makes the ones that are encrypted seem more suspicious. And who knows what the government may one day use against you - how much confidence do you have that the person on the other end of the e-mail exchange is not tied to a suspected terrorist, given what qualifies a person as a terrorist suspect these days?
Encryption is basically still such a pain to work with that I bet most people would reject reasonable suggestion to use it.
Here's another idea: Create some competition to SDGE, and the first time they start turning off my A/C during the summer watch me switch to a new provider who builds an infrastructure that can keep up with demand and is willing to provide the energy I pay for.
Four trams derailed in the process injuring a number of passengers.
;)
I know he hacked this together out of a remote control, but that's a horribly inefficient process he created - surely it's possible to injure the passengers without derailing the trams!
Or perhaps you've been styling it up with the rose-tinted spectacles lately?
What has this got to do with Apple?
Sorry to bring it up, but how does licensing work in the world of open-source hardware? Normally manufacturers can't just go around adding any technology they like to their devices because there are all kinds of patent or service licensing issues attached.
Who becomes responsible/liable in the case of open-source hardware, the project owner? The people manufacturing the hardware? The people selling the hardware? Only one thing is guaranteed: If it is successful and makes money there will be lawsuits. Heck, if it threatens someone else's business there will probably be lawsuits.
That projector is going to need an impressive resizing algorithm in order to downscale goatse to 500 feet in real time.
I personally have to smirk at the Apple brigade who on one hand spent the year touting everything Apple as more secure, and on the other hand rushed to jailbreak their iPhones by simply viewing a web page embedding a malformed image.
Dude, your keyboard is being sniffed! I just saw everything you typed posted on the internet!!
That also implies never sharing your identity or your work (which presumably you are proud of) to any co-workers, or any friends who may know your co-workers, and so forth. Got an unmasked domain name registration? Link to your IM, personal e-mail, myspace, linkedin, facebook from your site? It's very hard to actually hide an identity.
The way I see it, the bigger problem is that there is so much "at will" employment and at the end of the day nothing stops your boss firing you because he doesn't like the color of your shirt, because your hairstyle is all wrong, or just because he's having a bad day.
Agree 100%.
You don't compress differently when exporting to MP3 than you do when exporting to CD. Let's not look upon an MP3 as a majestical format where audio mysteriously takes on a life of its own and sounds strikingly different. It doesn't. An MP3 is simply the same signal that you find on a CD transformed into the frequency domain, frequencies with lesser engery quantized greater, or dropped if below the absolute threshold of hearing, some spatial information discarded (depending on the encoding mode), and written out as a bitstream. An MP3 is certainly a degraded version of the original signal, but the degradation can't really be compensated for via compression. If anything, EQ would be a better solution.
I really think this article is completely off-base. Compression is completely unrelated to MP3, it's a technique used independently of the format.
It may be true that MP3 encoders do tend to (but don't necessarily always) make some trade-offs at the high or low frequencies. For example, very low frequency sound may lose stereo positioning, and most encoders employ a low-pass filter to reduce the data rate (or artifacts at a given data rate) by taking out some of the high-end frequencies. However, this has (almost) nothing to do with compression, which is more about adjusting dynamics to make quiet sounds sound louder while trying to minimize distortion in the louder parts.
Compression is a horrible thing, of course, because essentially what is happening today is that even those of us who buy CDs hoping to avoid the artifacts of lossy formats are subject to some random guy deciding during mastering that "hey, this will stand out more against the competition if the whole thing is really loud and unsubtle". But to tie this against MP3 is a very far stretch of the imagination, IMO.
Works probably don't have to be created in the US. I'm not a big GPL buff, but when you contribute to a (large) project I don't think it's uncommon for rights to be assigned to an entity (the project "owner"), which may be a US national or company.
I get all my IP from DHCP for free, catch me if you can!!
Also, they have a limited dollar amount. GPL projects may not have a price attached, but it seems that the WTO didn't intend unlimited infringement of rights, so I would think at some point derived works would become a liability. I don't know what that crossing point would be.
Interesting comment, btw
Rather like optical media already does, really.
AFAIK, optical media today (e.g. CD's, DVD's), provide error detection, not correction.
Read the grandparent post (mine).
Any form of compression increases the impact of errors and reduces the ease at which data can be recovered.
True. But let's do some math for a 4K frame with 4:2:0 color.
4096w x 2160h x 1.5Bpp x 24fps = 310MB per second of video.
96000hz x 3Bps x 7ch = 1.923MB per second of audio.
2 hour post-production movie = ~2.2TB
Now add all the original source (which is much more than will make the final cut) and project files, consider that they are maybe using 8K @ 4:4:4 instead of 4:2:0 for mastering, that there are all the "extra" features to store also, and you are realistically looking at well over 10TB.
Seems like a lot to transfer to glass masters.
DVD's have a fraction of the resolution of the original digital video and have already undergone lossy compression (e.g. MPEG2 video, AC3 audio). HD DVD/Bluray is also lower resolution than the original, and the compression is still lossy. As some others have mentioned, you ideally want to store all the film's components (unedited footage, audio, etc.) at the highest quality possible for re-mastering to new formats in later years.
Beyond that, single-bit errors in encoded data streams (e.g. MPEG2, AVC, MP3, AC3) can lead to large distortions in the decoded data. You really have to store everything raw in order to reduce the chances of severe corruption and increase the chances of recovery.
The worst part about this all is that there are usually just about as many vulnerabilities affecting Apple's platform as there are vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft's platform for any period of time. I invite you to review a few pages and look at the volume by date range.
One day someone will actually do diligence before proclaiming the "Macs are more secure" line of propaganda/conventional wisdom. Or then again, maybe not. Maybe we'll just have to wait for the first occasion where someone actually cares to mass-exploit one of these vulnerabilities and Mac users everywhere suddenly realize that their systems are infected, that they have infected their friends systems, that they have no anti-virus, and that they have to take their computers back to the Apple store for repairs.
Really? How many vendors of proprietary applications have their source repositories sitting on the Internet with a visible public interface and developers who may never have even met each other logging in from all over the world?
I also like how you blanket-troll all vendors of proprietary applications as if none posses basic ethics.