EU Directive 2006/24/EC did require member states to retain the data. Some members complied, some didn't. But in the UK we already had Part 11 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, and this is the Act that the governent 'voluntarily' required ISPs and telecoms providers to comply with regarding data retention. Of course, it's not really 'voluntary' at all, since they'd get named and shamed (and probably wouldn't get their licences renewed) if they didn't comply.
That sounds like Australia is taking their lead from the United Kingdom:
ISPs and telecoms providers already store details of email, net phone calls and browsing history for 12 months.
RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000)) requires encryption keys to be handed over, or plaintext provided, on penalty of up to two years imprisonment.
I don't read anything in the article that says person-identifying data is hidden / kept in a separate, inaccessible list until a court orders such data be handed over.
...the National Security Agency has long been involved with the computer security research community in investigating a wide range of computer security topics including operating system security...
Unfortunately, existing mainstream operating systems lack the critical security feature required for enforcing separation...
The results of several previous research projects in this area have yielded a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture called Flask...
The architecture has been subsequently mainstreamed into Linux and ported to several other systems, including the Solaris operating system, the FreeBSD® operating system, and the Darwin kernel, spawning a wide range of related work.
PayPal are in the financial services sector, not the house bulldozering sector. PayPal are only refusing to provide a service in an area in which, by no means, they have a monopoly. Your analogy isn't even remotely analagous.
The nearest bulldozer analogy would be 'Would you support PayPal if they decided to refuse to lend you the money to bulldozer your own house'
The technology they're using, which can derive high resolution frames by comparing several successive frames, or analyzing the rolling shutter effect of CMOS cameras is actually already well established in film visual effects.
Visual effects technology company 'The Foundry' have done quite a lot of research into this area already.
Their Furnace F_SmartZoom tool uses motion estimation techniques to analyse successive film frames to derive single frames of higher resolution than any one of the moving frames. And their Rolling Shutter tool uses local motion estimation algorthithms to analyze the staggered frames output by CMOS cameras to reconstruct them into complete un-staggered frames.
It's very interesting that the scientists in Oxford are exploiting this side effect of CMOS cameras by combining both these technologies to derive high resolution, un-blurred frames from multiple CMOS images.
As a side-note, District 9 was shot on the Red camera (a CMOS camera that exhibits this rolling shutter efffect), and a lot of Image Engine's post-production work that film required this sort of analysis so that staggered frames could be reconstructed to enable 3-D motion tracking for the insertion of CG into live action plates.
Linux certainly does have a decent video editing solution: Autodesk Smoke running on Red Hat or CentOS.
Although most non-post production people have probably never heard of this software, in the industry it's considered far superior to Final Cut for short-form work, and the equal of Avid's high-end DS Nitris solution.
At between $50,000 to $100,000 for a turnkey workstation, Smoke isn't in the same price league as Final Cut, but Autodesk chose Linux precisely *because* Smoke is a high-end solution. Final Cut is still only a 32-bit application mainly due to the limitations of 32-bit quicktime. Smoke has been 64-bit for years.
Surely leaking this document is good practice? It's the opposite of 'security through obscurity'. Like peer-review, comments from the wider world would only help harden their leak-prevention methods.
In case people don't read that entire text, a salient point it makes is:
An adult top-level domain could have negative legal repercussions by endangering free expression......Privacy could be harmed by such a proposal. It would become easier for repressive governments and other institutions to track visits to sites in a domain labeled as adult and record personally-identifiable information about the visitor. Repressive governments would instantly have more power to monitor naive users and prosecute them for their activities.
At ground level the weather balloon is not completely filled to allow room for the gas to expand as the balloon rises in the atmosphere.
As the balloon rises, the air pressure outside the balloon decreases, and the balloon is stretched by the gas inside the balloon as the pressure attempts to equalize. But when the pressures are equal, the densities of the gases from the inside of the balloon to the outside are still different, so the balloon continues to rise... and the balloon continues to stretch.
At an altitude of around 100,000 feet, the balloon has stretched to become almost as big as a house. When the
balloon can no longer stretch, it ruptures and the payload falls to earth. Because the atmosphere is so rarefied at that height it requires that large volume to maintain buoyancy. Allowing gas to escape through a valve would reduce the volume of the balloon, and therefore reduce buoyancy.
Preseumably the poster wouldn't know whether they're genuine, but a Police Officer that finds comments attributed to him/her that s/he didn't make would know they weren't genuine and would raise a complaint.
That the Austin Police want the identities of people who post libellous statements or who claim to be police officers when they're not isn't contentious. You'd expect incidents where that happens to be investigated by the Police. But that's aside from any possibly nefarious reasons the Austin Police might have for wanting to uncover the identities of their critics.
Because there aren't commercial interests involved in its production, the production process is more transparent, and there's less chance of it being secretly messed around with by nefarious parties.
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but nothing beats my 10xROT13 cipher!
Except my 11xROT13 cipher.
It's, like, one louder.
EU Directive 2006/24/EC did require member states to retain the data. Some members complied, some didn't. But in the UK we already had Part 11 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, and this is the Act that the governent 'voluntarily' required ISPs and telecoms providers to comply with regarding data retention. Of course, it's not really 'voluntary' at all, since they'd get named and shamed (and probably wouldn't get their licences renewed) if they didn't comply.
That sounds like Australia is taking their lead from the United Kingdom:
ISPs and telecoms providers already store details of email, net phone calls and browsing history for 12 months.
RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000)) requires encryption keys to be handed over, or plaintext provided, on penalty of up to two years imprisonment.
I don't read anything in the article that says person-identifying data is hidden / kept in a separate, inaccessible list until a court orders such data be handed over.
ofcom's website says exactly this:
ISPs will have to record the number of notifications sent to their subscribers and maintain an anonymised list of alleged serial copyright infringers.
Copyright holders can then request information on this list and pursue a court order to identify serial infringers and take legal action against them.
you will HAVE to run Windows. Linux and OSX will be seen as security flaws
Err, actually the NSA see Windows ('Mainstream Operating Systems') as a security flaw:
...the National Security Agency has long been involved with the computer security research community in investigating a wide range of computer security topics including operating system security...
SELINUX
Unfortunately, existing mainstream operating systems lack the critical security feature required for enforcing separation...
The results of several previous research projects in this area have yielded a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture called Flask...
The architecture has been subsequently mainstreamed into Linux and ported to several other systems, including the Solaris operating system, the FreeBSD® operating system, and the Darwin kernel, spawning a wide range of related work.
'lost laptop' translates as 'executive perk'.
PayPal are in the financial services sector, not the house bulldozering sector. PayPal are only refusing to provide a service in an area in which, by no means, they have a monopoly. Your analogy isn't even remotely analagous.
The nearest bulldozer analogy would be 'Would you support PayPal if they decided to refuse to lend you the money to bulldozer your own house'
Once again, OP: I'd love to know what you're up to
It surely has to be for hard-drive disk wipe purposes, like low-level DBAN?
The technology they're using, which can derive high resolution frames by comparing several successive frames, or analyzing the rolling shutter effect of CMOS cameras is actually already well established in film visual effects.
Visual effects technology company 'The Foundry' have done quite a lot of research into this area already.
Their Furnace F_SmartZoom tool uses motion estimation techniques to analyse successive film frames to derive single frames of higher resolution than any one of the moving frames. And their Rolling Shutter tool uses local motion estimation algorthithms to analyze the staggered frames output by CMOS cameras to reconstruct them into complete un-staggered frames.
It's very interesting that the scientists in Oxford are exploiting this side effect of CMOS cameras by combining both these technologies to derive high resolution, un-blurred frames from multiple CMOS images.
As a side-note, District 9 was shot on the Red camera (a CMOS camera that exhibits this rolling shutter efffect), and a lot of Image Engine's post-production work that film required this sort of analysis so that staggered frames could be reconstructed to enable 3-D motion tracking for the insertion of CG into live action plates.
Linux certainly does have a decent video editing solution: Autodesk Smoke running on Red Hat or CentOS.
Although most non-post production people have probably never heard of this software, in the industry it's considered far superior to Final Cut for short-form work, and the equal of Avid's high-end DS Nitris solution.
At between $50,000 to $100,000 for a turnkey workstation, Smoke isn't in the same price league as Final Cut, but Autodesk chose Linux precisely *because* Smoke is a high-end solution. Final Cut is still only a 32-bit application mainly due to the limitations of 32-bit quicktime. Smoke has been 64-bit for years.
Instead, it is going to line the pockets of some already very rich folk who are probably going to spend it on blow and hookers
Ahem. Fruit and Flowers.
You mean black screen of death.
Fried
http://www.rapidshare.com/files/304543315/MICROSOFT.COMPUTER.ONLINE.FORENSIC.EVIDENCE.EXTRACTOR.V1.1.2-PHASE-bDk.rar
Demonoid, when it returns from the ashes.
It's one better.
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Surely leaking this document is good practice? It's the opposite of 'security through obscurity'. Like peer-review, comments from the wider world would only help harden their leak-prevention methods.
An adult top-level domain could have negative legal repercussions by endangering free expression... ...Privacy could be harmed by such a proposal. It would become easier for repressive governments and other institutions to track visits to sites in a domain labeled as adult and record personally-identifiable information about the visitor. Repressive governments would instantly have more power to monitor naive users and prosecute them for their activities.
At ground level the weather balloon is not completely filled to allow room for the gas to expand as the balloon rises in the atmosphere.
As the balloon rises, the air pressure outside the balloon decreases, and the balloon is stretched by the gas inside the balloon as the pressure attempts to equalize. But when the pressures are equal, the densities of the gases from the inside of the balloon to the outside are still different, so the balloon continues to rise... and the balloon continues to stretch.
At an altitude of around 100,000 feet, the balloon has stretched to become almost as big as a house. When the balloon can no longer stretch, it ruptures and the payload falls to earth. Because the atmosphere is so rarefied at that height it requires that large volume to maintain buoyancy. Allowing gas to escape through a valve would reduce the volume of the balloon, and therefore reduce buoyancy.
Preseumably the poster wouldn't know whether they're genuine, but a Police Officer that finds comments attributed to him/her that s/he didn't make would know they weren't genuine and would raise a complaint.
That the Austin Police want the identities of people who post libellous statements or who claim to be police officers when they're not isn't contentious. You'd expect incidents where that happens to be investigated by the Police. But that's aside from any possibly nefarious reasons the Austin Police might have for wanting to uncover the identities of their critics.
average english football field of 110 x 67.5 meters (74,250,000 sq cm)
1,000,000,000 memory sticks of 4cm x 1.5cm each (6,000,000,000 sq cm)
About 80 football fields.
by running C64 Skype
TFA didn't say .2% of earth mass, it said 0.2, which is 20%
Thing is, the 'Digital Britain' report says the BBC licence fee has to be shared with news rivals, for example ITN News.
Not sure what Murdoch's bleating about, his organisation should be in line for some of this money too.
Because there aren't commercial interests involved in its production, the production process is more transparent, and there's less chance of it being secretly messed around with by nefarious parties.