Why should the latency between (taking the picture) and (adding the timestamp) matter as long as the time it takes to add a timestamp is the same for both photos? Suppose it takes 5 years to add a timestamp. If one picture's timestamp is five years after the incident and the second picture's timestamp is five years and 0.3 seconds after the incident, you know the car traveled for 0.3 seconds between the two pictures, even with terrible latency.
If the patents are about being able to recover previous versions of files, or previously deleted files, then it seems like they're getting a patent on what GoBack did years ago.
This isn't going to stop "id theft". It's going to help corporations identify people. And it will compel people to give money and information to corporations.
Their methods aren't perfect. For instance, my profile listed me as single and 30 years old. So I got a bunch of ads that asked if I'm in my 30's and lonely. I'm not in my 30's yet, although next year I will be. I have never had any interest in a dating site and no amount of clicking the "thumbs down" button would change the ads to something I might actually be interested in. I eventually had to change my relationship status to "in a relationship" just to get less annoying ads. In fact, rather than looking at my profile information, they would have built a better profile by trusting my thumbs downs.
There are three giant money-sucking programs that need drastic cuts if we want to do anything about the budget: Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, and Defense.
The few million dollars these sites cost to run is a drop in the bucket compared to those three programs.
At least Medicare and Social Security are doing something for American citizens.
The suggestion of installing a clean copy of Windows also assumes Microsoft isn't doing the same thing Samsung did. And suggesting Linux or Android assumes they're not doing the same thing.
Am I the only one who thinks it's ridiculous that a company that primarily makes software has no apps for it's operating system? What's stopping Microsoft from making its own apps? In fact, if they behave like they've done in the past, as soon as somebody makes a killer app for the Windows Phone OS, Microsoft will make a ripoff version of it and kill the original.
The problem with mobile phones and tablets is, the phone makers and phone companies don't like to update the operating system. They'd rather have you buy a new phone just to get the minor updates. That whole model, of selling crap with the promise of updating it later, won't work with mobile phones.
This seems relevant to Sony, who got bashed for removing the Emotion Engine. Maybe, depending on how many PS2 games were played versus PS3 games, they were actually saving us an insignificant amount of money by removing a rarely used bit of circuitry.
I suggest you encode the same music using CDex for mp3 and iTunes for aac, and see if they sound the same to you. I'm not talking about minor distortion. I'm talking about distortion that made me think my headphones were going bad. In fact, I can determine which songs on my iPod are in aac and which are in mp3 just by listening for distortion. I'm not basing my claims on technical details from a wikipedia page. I'm talking about what I hear when I play the music. Also, with variable bit rate, the mp3 files are smaller too.
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Why should the latency between (taking the picture) and (adding the timestamp) matter as long as the time it takes to add a timestamp is the same for both photos? Suppose it takes 5 years to add a timestamp. If one picture's timestamp is five years after the incident and the second picture's timestamp is five years and 0.3 seconds after the incident, you know the car traveled for 0.3 seconds between the two pictures, even with terrible latency.
GoBack could also restore just one file without restoring the whole drive.
If the patents are about being able to recover previous versions of files, or previously deleted files, then it seems like they're getting a patent on what GoBack did years ago.
This isn't going to stop "id theft". It's going to help corporations identify people. And it will compel people to give money and information to corporations.
How does Honeycomb get released on a Motorola Xoom if it's not released yet? If it is released, where is the source code?
Perhaps the settlement was big enough to make him sacrifice his cause. Or perhaps he's already done his job and might as well take the money too.
Their methods aren't perfect. For instance, my profile listed me as single and 30 years old. So I got a bunch of ads that asked if I'm in my 30's and lonely. I'm not in my 30's yet, although next year I will be. I have never had any interest in a dating site and no amount of clicking the "thumbs down" button would change the ads to something I might actually be interested in. I eventually had to change my relationship status to "in a relationship" just to get less annoying ads. In fact, rather than looking at my profile information, they would have built a better profile by trusting my thumbs downs.
With Honeycomb, doesn't Google have a history of saying things will be released as open source, and then not releasing the source?
Didn't a bunch of phone companies get away with illegal wiretapping on the grounds that the government told them to do it?
Fuck you.
I could have recorded the first watermarking in a Photoshop macro and run the macro on the other 399 files in less than 5 minutes.
There are three giant money-sucking programs that need drastic cuts if we want to do anything about the budget: Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, and Defense. The few million dollars these sites cost to run is a drop in the bucket compared to those three programs.
At least Medicare and Social Security are doing something for American citizens.
It's a little creepy how the securitylink page, linked to in the summary, asks you to give them your email address before you read the page...
What I mean is, why should (the car maker's claim the car is good) be considered any more trustworthy than (the show's claim the car is bad)?
The source of your Linux or Android installation.
What makes their information more trustworthy than the review?
The suggestion of installing a clean copy of Windows also assumes Microsoft isn't doing the same thing Samsung did. And suggesting Linux or Android assumes they're not doing the same thing.
Or just go back to the web browser that was working fine with everything else you have.
Well... why not. The Supreme Court already made it legal to bribe officials domestically.
I bet they got bribed to do it.
Nope.
Am I the only one who thinks it's ridiculous that a company that primarily makes software has no apps for it's operating system? What's stopping Microsoft from making its own apps? In fact, if they behave like they've done in the past, as soon as somebody makes a killer app for the Windows Phone OS, Microsoft will make a ripoff version of it and kill the original.
The problem with mobile phones and tablets is, the phone makers and phone companies don't like to update the operating system. They'd rather have you buy a new phone just to get the minor updates. That whole model, of selling crap with the promise of updating it later, won't work with mobile phones.
This seems relevant to Sony, who got bashed for removing the Emotion Engine. Maybe, depending on how many PS2 games were played versus PS3 games, they were actually saving us an insignificant amount of money by removing a rarely used bit of circuitry.
I suggest you encode the same music using CDex for mp3 and iTunes for aac, and see if they sound the same to you. I'm not talking about minor distortion. I'm talking about distortion that made me think my headphones were going bad. In fact, I can determine which songs on my iPod are in aac and which are in mp3 just by listening for distortion. I'm not basing my claims on technical details from a wikipedia page. I'm talking about what I hear when I play the music. Also, with variable bit rate, the mp3 files are smaller too.
Do these people have any idea how many people on Facebook post links to their favorite music videos? Of course they do.