The DOJ reaction? Slap a 50 years sentence on him.
Pro-Schwartz Propaganda.
- He faced 0-6 years if he went to trial. He could have ended up with probation if the judge felt like it. - Schwartz was offered a 4 month plea bargain.
If someone downloaded files off of my server without permission and then circumvented my clear efforts to block their access to my server I would ask for jail time too. I don't care if the data on MY SERVER is public access or not. If I had a yard sale and someone asked to use the bathroom and I gave them permission and then they snuck in later in the night through an open window and I threw them out and then the next day they did it again--I don't care if they just wanted to look at my non-copyrighted phone book or not it's still burglary.
Aaron Swartz broke the law. He very clearly accessed a computer that he had been explicitly banned from accessing. The defense "well he didn't use very sophisticated means to circumvent security" is bullshit. That's like a script kiddie saying "well sure I was clearly prohibited from accessing that file server, but the security loophole I used was really basic." Or the social engineering hacker who just calls and says they forgot their password.
Are you unhappy with the wording of the law? Great. Change it. Go to trial, get publicity, share the unjust nature of the law with the public and mobilize efforts to make it more just. By definition acts of civil disobedience break the law. You have to be ready to live with the consequences of that. Because if you're wrong and you are alone in thinking that it's an unjust law then you're just breaking the law.
The article was fuzzy on details. Is the source suggesting in-game chat will go through the skype network as well? How does skype work with 36 people in a server? Also I never have echo or other problems with Xbox Live I have terrible problems with Skype. Could easily be because everybody has headsets in Xbox Live.
BUT.. if you had a projector, why the fuck use the tv.
Because if you had an HD projector you probably wouldn't set its FOV to be covering most of your room, you would focus it onto a narrow screen. And if you did set it to a wide angle projection the center of the screen would be very low resolution.
This is a good use of a high pixel density display in the center of your view and a low pixel display for your peripheral view where your eyes aren't very focused anyway.
Definitely Halo. But it's telling that they only use the generic snow effect.
Why Open Source games? Obviously because they need a dual rendering path for the wide angle immersive projector's viewpoint as well as the high resolution HDTV viewpoint. Good luck getting Bungie to hand over the source code for Halo to work on a research lab project.
That's true of standard compression but we're using MPEG2 compression which is generally terrible. Compare that to RedRay http://www.red.com/products/redray which compresses 4k down to 15mbps and you're almost within within broadcast specs and less than bluray bitrates.
RedRay looks really really good. I've seen it projected in 4k.
It still applies. Just I think Google has refined it to be "Don't be evil to our customers". I think Google even said that, pre-IPO even.
Hint:You're most likely not Google's customer.
For those confused as to whether or not you're a customer ask yourself one question "Do I pay Google?" If the answer is no, you're not a customer, you're a product that Google pimps out to the highest bidder.
I like MPC Home Theater edition best but isn't it just a fork of VLC? So wouldn't this get MPC HT out sooner since it would give them a starting point to build from?
Using a touchscreen laptop has changed my mind about touchscreen laptops. It works amazingly well and I'm now desiring more metro apps.
In fact I'm using Slashdot right now on my surface with a touchpad which is essentially a laptop with a touchscreen. I find myself almost never using my old laptop now. I really want VLC though for RT since a lack of MKV support is my second biggest complaint after lack of photoshop.
Kind of. The Mississippi is great. But we do have trains, planes and automobiles.
From an agricultural standpoint yes it would be a problem but even then the Mississippi itself I don't think is responsible for too much of our food.
If it dried up prices would rise but not catastrophically. And in the case of petroleum products probably less than speculation and international demand drives up prices already.
It was plain and clear to the KKK that inter racial marriage was wrong. They would say you should expect some amount of vigilante action, even if you fundamentally believe in civilization too.
As much as I wish I could believe in the general decency of human beings unfortunately the inability of society to recognize the difference between right and wrong is not a great track record.
For instance you could argue as a homophobe that homosexuality is offensive and a gay pride campaign forces you to be exposed to 'wrongness' in which case you could use precedent to ban pride parades or other public displays.
However I would counter that obviously a funeral is a singular event, of no political consequence and since it's an event which cannot be avoided by reasonable expectation would be different from someone who could, knowing there was a pride parade, avoid 'exposure'.
So I certainly think with careful legislation you can make a case to avoid harassment on a limited scale while also protecting freedom of protest. If it's political in nature then you get little to no protection. If it's a private matter then I think it's ok to say that you should be able to expect the choice of someone harassing you or not. Tell the church where they can protest and then let parents know where to avoid.
Yeah IBM's Watson completely and thoroughly proved that increased computer power is pretty much useless. I mean why would we want a machine that can learn?
And Google's car... what a waste! Clearly improved machine vision algorithms will never drive a car!
You don't even have to sue. We had a 6+ month invoice, we just had our lawyer write up a "final notice" letter letting them know that our lawyer was prepared to sue and we were paid that week.
I think working less hours and getting paid more should be all of our goal. I'm not a member of a union but I'm quite thrilled with how successful I've been at that balance over the years.
The fact of the matter is that one employee today is doing twice as much as an employee 50 years ago but their wages don't reflect that.
Our goal should have been to work ourselves all into unemployment. We should be working at most 30 hour weeks on average and enjoying the fruits of our combined cultural accomplishment of becoming more and more efficient. Instead what has happened is the rich have taken it (the owners of Wal Mart own as much as 40% of the rest of the population) and we're working just as hard as ever for the same amount of money while creating significantly more wealth.
If you make a huge efficiency gain you should be able to reap the rewards by working less hours. Instead we're working more hours.
Automation offers the same promise: do the same amount of work but in half the time. In theory that means we should all be able to cut out after lunch and enjoy ourselves in the afternoon to pursue family and hobby/entrepreneurship. Instead the productivity gains get pocketed by the investors and everyone keeps working just as long. One of the great hoodwinks of this century when we look back will be the fact that somehow we were persuaded to happily slave away trashing our fellow oarsmen about being "lazy" while other profited from our productivity and efficiency.
Those are good questions. I've interviewed 'supervisors' as well in the past and mostly focused on organizational talents.
Ask them how they would handle a project falling behind schedule. Ask them about how they like to assign projects. Ask them about their philosophies on what to do when budgets are reduced. What their position is on overtime. Etc.
To the people who are responding "If it's not you quit" you clearly don't understand the role of a project manager--and how that's completely different from a development position. I've seen a lot of producers/PMs who made less than the people they supervised. Just because someone is in charge doesn't mean they're technically a more valuable or senior position.
A company that makes no products has no need to cross-license patents.
The *point* of this company is cross licensing. Nokia, Sony etc could establish a complicated network of cross licensing deals, or they can put it into one pool and then take out the rewards relative to their contribution to the coalition.
Apple can just pay the license fee, or contribute enough intellectual property to the pool such that it gets back a share equal to a share of the patent group.
This is how the MPEG group works. MPEG is a collection of dozens of patents from tons of people. If you have something that can make MPEG better you can simply sell your patent to the group and make a nice little royalty. Or you can get your royalty and buy MPEG licenses gaining you access to the rest of the patents.
This is how the patent system should work for complicated systems. You build a cell phone patent pool. Then if you want to create new OS you pay the license fee without having to negotiate with 50 different patent holders.
Before you would receive filtered results by default. If you didn't want any results filtered you could turn off the filter. If you wanted to be extra safe with your 12 year old daughter you could go into extra safe filtering mode.
Yeah, the problem though is that the headline of the press release doesn't do the paper justice.
In this case it's like taking a photo of a map and then turning that into a vector estimation of a raster. Seeing as they aren't obviously creating any information the uncompressed original has more resolution than the vector image. So it's still a degradation.
It also ignores the fact that for the most part "pixels" are already gone from high end codecs. Jp2k is wavelet based--which isn't really a pixel. DCT like in MPEG is essentially a collection of sin waves.
So.... where are these pixels getting replaced exactly?
We also already have raster -> vector programs like Genuine Fractals which create shrug worthy improvements over standard interpolations.
I'm curious at what point the Chinese leadership starts getting really antsy about an unstable, nuclear armed neighbor with missiles capable of reaching its own economic centers.
I suppose even North Korea realizes if it ever threatened China, China would simply Nuke it so hard that the glowing remains of South Korea would become an island.
They don't mention it, but I would imagine there is a lot of automatic optimization for maximizing yield per print across multiple orders. I bet there's some Tetris Master level packing that's augmented by some automatic order system.
You also need a front end as well as a hopefully automated back-end to detect model errors (holes etc). As well as some software to weed out models that can't print well.
These are still high-tech devices and I'm sure you would also need people who are trained in the numerous different printing techniques and materials to do one final verification of each print job.
So yeah, if you wanted to develop an e-commerce front end, build a community, put together a 3D printing verification and packing pipeline as well as round up the multi-million dollar seed money you too could be the (probably barely profitable) next Shapeways!
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The DOJ reaction? Slap a 50 years sentence on him.
Pro-Schwartz Propaganda.
- He faced 0-6 years if he went to trial. He could have ended up with probation if the judge felt like it.
- Schwartz was offered a 4 month plea bargain.
If someone downloaded files off of my server without permission and then circumvented my clear efforts to block their access to my server I would ask for jail time too. I don't care if the data on MY SERVER is public access or not. If I had a yard sale and someone asked to use the bathroom and I gave them permission and then they snuck in later in the night through an open window and I threw them out and then the next day they did it again--I don't care if they just wanted to look at my non-copyrighted phone book or not it's still burglary.
Aaron Swartz broke the law. He very clearly accessed a computer that he had been explicitly banned from accessing. The defense "well he didn't use very sophisticated means to circumvent security" is bullshit. That's like a script kiddie saying "well sure I was clearly prohibited from accessing that file server, but the security loophole I used was really basic." Or the social engineering hacker who just calls and says they forgot their password.
Are you unhappy with the wording of the law? Great. Change it. Go to trial, get publicity, share the unjust nature of the law with the public and mobilize efforts to make it more just. By definition acts of civil disobedience break the law. You have to be ready to live with the consequences of that. Because if you're wrong and you are alone in thinking that it's an unjust law then you're just breaking the law.
The article was fuzzy on details. Is the source suggesting in-game chat will go through the skype network as well? How does skype work with 36 people in a server? Also I never have echo or other problems with Xbox Live I have terrible problems with Skype. Could easily be because everybody has headsets in Xbox Live.
BUT.. if you had a projector, why the fuck use the tv.
Because if you had an HD projector you probably wouldn't set its FOV to be covering most of your room, you would focus it onto a narrow screen. And if you did set it to a wide angle projection the center of the screen would be very low resolution.
This is a good use of a high pixel density display in the center of your view and a low pixel display for your peripheral view where your eyes aren't very focused anyway.
Definitely Halo. But it's telling that they only use the generic snow effect.
Why Open Source games? Obviously because they need a dual rendering path for the wide angle immersive projector's viewpoint as well as the high resolution HDTV viewpoint. Good luck getting Bungie to hand over the source code for Halo to work on a research lab project.
That's true of standard compression but we're using MPEG2 compression which is generally terrible. Compare that to RedRay http://www.red.com/products/redray which compresses 4k down to 15mbps and you're almost within within broadcast specs and less than bluray bitrates.
RedRay looks really really good. I've seen it projected in 4k.
It still applies. Just I think Google has refined it to be "Don't be evil to our customers". I think Google even said that, pre-IPO even.
Hint:You're most likely not Google's customer.
For those confused as to whether or not you're a customer ask yourself one question "Do I pay Google?" If the answer is no, you're not a customer, you're a product that Google pimps out to the highest bidder.
I like MPC Home Theater edition best but isn't it just a fork of VLC? So wouldn't this get MPC HT out sooner since it would give them a starting point to build from?
Or the salary for 3-6 months for one to two senior developers, perhaps directing a team of volunteers.
It sounds like they want to be in beta by march which seems like a pretty quick timeline.
Using a touchscreen laptop has changed my mind about touchscreen laptops. It works amazingly well and I'm now desiring more metro apps.
In fact I'm using Slashdot right now on my surface with a touchpad which is essentially a laptop with a touchscreen. I find myself almost never using my old laptop now. I really want VLC though for RT since a lack of MKV support is my second biggest complaint after lack of photoshop.
Kind of. The Mississippi is great. But we do have trains, planes and automobiles.
From an agricultural standpoint yes it would be a problem but even then the Mississippi itself I don't think is responsible for too much of our food.
If it dried up prices would rise but not catastrophically. And in the case of petroleum products probably less than speculation and international demand drives up prices already.
It was plain and clear to the KKK that inter racial marriage was wrong. They would say you should expect some amount of vigilante action, even if you fundamentally believe in civilization too.
As much as I wish I could believe in the general decency of human beings unfortunately the inability of society to recognize the difference between right and wrong is not a great track record.
For instance you could argue as a homophobe that homosexuality is offensive and a gay pride campaign forces you to be exposed to 'wrongness' in which case you could use precedent to ban pride parades or other public displays.
However I would counter that obviously a funeral is a singular event, of no political consequence and since it's an event which cannot be avoided by reasonable expectation would be different from someone who could, knowing there was a pride parade, avoid 'exposure'.
So I certainly think with careful legislation you can make a case to avoid harassment on a limited scale while also protecting freedom of protest. If it's political in nature then you get little to no protection. If it's a private matter then I think it's ok to say that you should be able to expect the choice of someone harassing you or not. Tell the church where they can protest and then let parents know where to avoid.
Yeah IBM's Watson completely and thoroughly proved that increased computer power is pretty much useless. I mean why would we want a machine that can learn?
And Google's car... what a waste! Clearly improved machine vision algorithms will never drive a car!
You don't even have to sue. We had a 6+ month invoice, we just had our lawyer write up a "final notice" letter letting them know that our lawyer was prepared to sue and we were paid that week.
I think working less hours and getting paid more should be all of our goal. I'm not a member of a union but I'm quite thrilled with how successful I've been at that balance over the years.
The fact of the matter is that one employee today is doing twice as much as an employee 50 years ago but their wages don't reflect that.
Our goal should have been to work ourselves all into unemployment. We should be working at most 30 hour weeks on average and enjoying the fruits of our combined cultural accomplishment of becoming more and more efficient. Instead what has happened is the rich have taken it (the owners of Wal Mart own as much as 40% of the rest of the population) and we're working just as hard as ever for the same amount of money while creating significantly more wealth.
If you make a huge efficiency gain you should be able to reap the rewards by working less hours. Instead we're working more hours.
Automation offers the same promise: do the same amount of work but in half the time. In theory that means we should all be able to cut out after lunch and enjoy ourselves in the afternoon to pursue family and hobby/entrepreneurship. Instead the productivity gains get pocketed by the investors and everyone keeps working just as long. One of the great hoodwinks of this century when we look back will be the fact that somehow we were persuaded to happily slave away trashing our fellow oarsmen about being "lazy" while other profited from our productivity and efficiency.
Like the one that allows Oracle to turn off access to accounts in the event of a dispute or account violation.
OMG you mean they can disable my service if I violate their usage terms or fail to pay them? What an outrageous policy!
Today there was someone who stabbed 22 students in a school in China. He was apprehended and nobody died.
I would much rather be at a stabbing rampage than shooting spree.
Those are good questions. I've interviewed 'supervisors' as well in the past and mostly focused on organizational talents.
Ask them how they would handle a project falling behind schedule. Ask them about how they like to assign projects. Ask them about their philosophies on what to do when budgets are reduced. What their position is on overtime. Etc.
To the people who are responding "If it's not you quit" you clearly don't understand the role of a project manager--and how that's completely different from a development position. I've seen a lot of producers/PMs who made less than the people they supervised. Just because someone is in charge doesn't mean they're technically a more valuable or senior position.
I think it means providing a GUI button for hanging up. :P
A company that makes no products has no need to cross-license patents.
The *point* of this company is cross licensing. Nokia, Sony etc could establish a complicated network of cross licensing deals, or they can put it into one pool and then take out the rewards relative to their contribution to the coalition.
Apple can just pay the license fee, or contribute enough intellectual property to the pool such that it gets back a share equal to a share of the patent group.
This is how the MPEG group works. MPEG is a collection of dozens of patents from tons of people. If you have something that can make MPEG better you can simply sell your patent to the group and make a nice little royalty. Or you can get your royalty and buy MPEG licenses gaining you access to the rest of the patents.
This is how the patent system should work for complicated systems. You build a cell phone patent pool. Then if you want to create new OS you pay the license fee without having to negotiate with 50 different patent holders.
Then turn on filtering.
Before you would receive filtered results by default. If you didn't want any results filtered you could turn off the filter. If you wanted to be extra safe with your 12 year old daughter you could go into extra safe filtering mode.
What they did was remove the "off" option.
Yeah, the problem though is that the headline of the press release doesn't do the paper justice.
In this case it's like taking a photo of a map and then turning that into a vector estimation of a raster. Seeing as they aren't obviously creating any information the uncompressed original has more resolution than the vector image. So it's still a degradation.
It also ignores the fact that for the most part "pixels" are already gone from high end codecs. Jp2k is wavelet based--which isn't really a pixel. DCT like in MPEG is essentially a collection of sin waves.
So.... where are these pixels getting replaced exactly?
We also already have raster -> vector programs like Genuine Fractals which create shrug worthy improvements over standard interpolations.
Oh... and the fact that China would retaliate against anyone who attacks North Korea.
North Korea's greatest weapon isn't their nuclear arsenal or ballistic missiles--neither of which are an effective deterrent.
The only real concern at this point is the conventional artillery within range of Seoul.
I'm curious at what point the Chinese leadership starts getting really antsy about an unstable, nuclear armed neighbor with missiles capable of reaching its own economic centers.
I suppose even North Korea realizes if it ever threatened China, China would simply Nuke it so hard that the glowing remains of South Korea would become an island.
They don't mention it, but I would imagine there is a lot of automatic optimization for maximizing yield per print across multiple orders. I bet there's some Tetris Master level packing that's augmented by some automatic order system.
You also need a front end as well as a hopefully automated back-end to detect model errors (holes etc). As well as some software to weed out models that can't print well.
These are still high-tech devices and I'm sure you would also need people who are trained in the numerous different printing techniques and materials to do one final verification of each print job.
So yeah, if you wanted to develop an e-commerce front end, build a community, put together a 3D printing verification and packing pipeline as well as round up the multi-million dollar seed money you too could be the (probably barely profitable) next Shapeways!