This is funny... the statistics reflected here appear to be about the same that I hve heard from many providers & manufacturers (from my anonymous, unassuming position in the wireless telco industry). Most customers aware of downloadable content prefer not to take advantage of it; either that or they want a "regular ringtone." The experience I have from a consumer standpoint is that once you are able to download the content to your handset without price restriction, one of two things happen: you either become addicted or disenfranchised. Personally, I'm rather sick of listening to the same file(s) being played every time my phone rings; my coworker, however, has changed the ringer that he uses for me a whopping 10 times since the beginning of the year!... just an observation...
I was down in Houston last year around this time and the rocket is quite a sight to see. One thing that did strike me is how damaged it was.
I'm 3.5 hours from Houston and can go there at just about anytime I see fit. One thing that does strike me every time I go down there is how DIRTY it is. My point being, it really doesn't matter how much money they spend, placing the Saturn V that close to the industrial pollution of Texas City and the Port of Galveston seals its fate, along with that of anything made of metal that's meant to last over 10 years.
OK, this is one of the few reasons that multiple standards can be a good thing.
(I'll be honest, I just bought my 1st DVD writer a few days ago, so I may be preaching w/o a license here.)
The thing that I can see here, however, is that by not getting all the standardizations on board with the new Video Content Protection Scheme (VTCS), there will still be a number of "outlaw" machines (burners and players alike) that will be compatible with each other for years to come. This also goes without considering the possibility that someone is able to eventually disseminate the broadcast flag code and write a program that can interface with the copy-protection layer to disable it. (While I'm at it, I'll say "disabling it" does not have to refer to the newer systems, just "hacking" the content in order to be able to use the older burners,)
Then again, I've never really run into any problems with DRM on my music, so I may be wrong.
Of the six browsers directly stated to be affected by this vulnerability, the solution listed by Secunia for each was:
Solution:
Do not browse untrusted sites while browsing trusted sites.
This is a rather disturbing trend; I.E. a security company not really providing any security. I feel like Chicken Little just informed me the sky is falling.
Again.
FACT: With 86,400 seconds in one day, and 365.25 days in one year, there are 31,557,600 seconds in one year.
Under the supposition that a program were written that would allow one second to auto-load a URL into a browser, an average of 5 seconds to resolve and load a page on a standard ADSL connection, and one second to view the loaded page before repeating the process (7 seconds total), ~66,300,000 web pages could be viewed in 464,100,000 seconds.
Dividing these seconds by the seconds in one year indicates that it would take roughly 14.7 years to perform a check on every website.
Of course, this assumes that I Don't have to take roughly 31.3 seconds to close all the pop-up windows that the google toolbar missed, and that I have all the URLs.
Slashdot Mirror
I am SO sorry for this, but noone else seems to have done it.
I, for one, welcome our new colonial overlords.
This is not the theater you're looking for.....
...then get in contact with the representative that sponsored the bill in the first place. http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/email.php?dis t=61&rep=phil.king/
This is funny... the statistics reflected here appear to be about the same that I hve heard from many providers & manufacturers (from my anonymous, unassuming position in the wireless telco industry). Most customers aware of downloadable content prefer not to take advantage of it; either that or they want a "regular ringtone." The experience I have from a consumer standpoint is that once you are able to download the content to your handset without price restriction, one of two things happen: you either become addicted or disenfranchised. Personally, I'm rather sick of listening to the same file(s) being played every time my phone rings; my coworker, however, has changed the ringer that he uses for me a whopping 10 times since the beginning of the year! ... just an observation...
I don't even SURF the web. I have a "friend" post all my replies for me. MUHAHAHAHA...
I was kinda thinking Excitebike or Yar's Revenge...
(I'll be honest, I just bought my 1st DVD writer a few days ago, so I may be preaching w/o a license here.)
The thing that I can see here, however, is that by not getting all the standardizations on board with the new Video Content Protection Scheme (VTCS), there will still be a number of "outlaw" machines (burners and players alike) that will be compatible with each other for years to come. This also goes without considering the possibility that someone is able to eventually disseminate the broadcast flag code and write a program that can interface with the copy-protection layer to disable it. (While I'm at it, I'll say "disabling it" does not have to refer to the newer systems, just "hacking" the content in order to be able to use the older burners,)
Then again, I've never really run into any problems with DRM on my music, so I may be wrong.
'Cause when you're a Blu-Ray, you're a Blu-Ray for life!
This is a rather disturbing trend; I.E. a security company not really providing any security. I feel like Chicken Little just informed me the sky is falling.
Again.
Why do we need to argue over a paltry 7,000 seconds? CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG!?
That's equivalent to the amount of time I wasted watching Jersey Girl.
SO,
FACT: With 86,400 seconds in one day, and 365.25 days in one year, there are 31,557,600 seconds in one year.
Under the supposition that a program were written that would allow one second to auto-load a URL into a browser, an average of 5 seconds to resolve and load a page on a standard ADSL connection, and one second to view the loaded page before repeating the process (7 seconds total), ~66,300,000 web pages could be viewed in 464,100,000 seconds.
Dividing these seconds by the seconds in one year indicates that it would take roughly 14.7 years to perform a check on every website.
Of course, this assumes that I Don't have to take roughly 31.3 seconds to close all the pop-up windows that the google toolbar missed, and that I have all the URLs.
(My God, I have too much time on my hands.)
Well, my next post will be in 2019, I suppose. ;)