A lot of people will construe this as simply Apple trying to control media on the Iphone which although it does make sense that people would think this way, it's definitely not true.
Flash is optimized for windows. It has no where near the right optimization to run on OSX at full speed. Further compounding the issue is that the CPU must do all the decoding work where on a proper player the decoding could partially be offloaded to a GPU (in a full PC), or optimized CPU with support for certain optimized instruction sets.
where's the business plan? AOL is still a company. They gotta make money somehow...
I think they should do what Microsoft is doing and what Google is doing very well with their Google apps built in IM system which is to create a communications platform for businesses to allow for communication.
There's definitely a lot of room for profit but the first thing they gotta do is get some trust back. They lost quite a bit of it when they cashed out on their ISP customers.
(This is gonna go all over the place but bear with me.)
A big problem I see today is not a lack of students attempting to get into the industry but a lack of qualified teachers who know not only the topic but also how to convey the ideas and thinking required to push people to really understand what their being tought as opposed to simply studying for the test or doing the labs till they are done.
The biggest problem I see myself at the University I attend (Temple University, Philadelphia) is that the math while pretty important in a CS degree is pretty much useless in an IS&T degree, yet we are still required to take Calculus, Statistics, and Logic. Because of this inconsistency we have a high abandonment percentage from CS to IS&T. Further compounding the problem is a lack of teachers who can actually teach well. Many of them can't even speak English well enough for the majority of students to understand. Now I'm an immigrant to the US myself (came from Ukraine when I was 6 yrs old), I speak fluent Russian, but if my teacher is teaching in English and he can't speak well enough he should not be teaching.
An top of all of this, the technologies being tought resemble the tech industry in the late 90's, not the late 00's. Almost all of the faculty leans towards Linux but when it comes to the actual curriculum, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, Java, and MS-SQL. All tools in the programmer's toolbox have their place, including Microsoft ones but can we please have some diversity and common sense? Teach whatever is most in demand in the industry. Not simply what has always been in the curriculum. I'm glad to say that some of the faculty is listening and I'll be teaching a seminar on PHP & AJAX w/ Prototype in April.;)
What does all this essentially mean? I see the talented and smart professionals in our industry continually go out of school and move on giving nothing back to the educational community. This essentially means a brain drain in our universities being caused by talent simply being hired off and who teaches the next generation? The same old mid-range people.
Granted I'm talking about a pretty weak university in the grand scheme of things but it's the middle and bottom universities that form the bulk of the work industry in the world. Not the Harvards, MITs, and Stanfords.
On the flip side, by having mass warnings it will be easy to figure out which techniques are undetectable and which aren't. We're actually very close to a totally secure protocol from TPB & various researches.
The Internet is a tool, as you say. However the philosophy of using it as a physical object like a knife or a roadside bomb is fear mongering. The reason is because the Internet is only a means to connect computers together. For this reason as long as the "target" of the "attacker" has no physical means to an end then any attack done on you will be futile.
The kinds of attacks that people can do on others are, 1) Information Gathering (Top Secret Documents, Financial Information) [Effects negatively: Civil Government,Military,Business, and Industry] 2) Modification of Control Systems that Effect Infrastructure (Transportation,Power,Water,Gas,Internet Access) [Effects: Entire Country & Allied Nations]
It's amazing but those two things can be prevented by only one thing: Proper Security.
Just like... OMG DOORS & LOCKS!/sarcasm
Hehe, yes indeed the solution is simple but here's unfortunately the problem.
The Internet as a function is becoming like a separate meta society on the current "real world" society. Because of that security isn't 'obvious' to us. A few dozen thousand guys around the world know it but it's no where near the amount of people who find it "obvious" to lock their door at night. For this reason it's possible that certain governments have hacker groups with setup backdoors on infrastructure so if a war does occur they can first turn off those utilities then attack during the subsequent outages.
Imagine the entire country having no power during an invasion but it happens from inside out so we don't even see them coming. It's like a spy without the spy.
We basically just need to secure out top level networks and make it a priority of the government to create a Cybersecurity task force as a separate agency. The military doesn't know wtf it's doing. Especially not some general used to blowing shit up.
Personally, I learned PHP over the years by creating simple web applications for various tasks and eventually because the web applications required more and more as they got more complex I was able to slowly and methodically work my way into a private framework I coded myself.
This book, like many other skips over this whole learning process. To really teach a language, any language, you have to explain why you do things as well as the goals.
I also don't like the fact that many PHP books attempt to half ass the teaching of installing LAMP on a LAN server location (localhost or otherwise). They should simply recommend some good hosts and explain the PHP.INI settings that might be of interest as they come up in the programming itself.
I have read a lot of the comments here saying stuff akin to "Well he broke company policy so he deserved it" but that is not what he is arguing. In fact he doesn't care. The fact that he took his punishment and learned from it is a prime example of Civil Disobedience.
He elaborates in his well written blog post that the blogging community (which has only been around for maybe half a decade) is going to continue to grow on the internet and overtake the "major" news organizations. If you look at the road-to-entry for television and you compare it to blogging, you know this is true. You're not likely to ever create your own cable television channel but to setup a blog it takes little more then 10 minutes and it will automatically be indexed in search engines without you ever having to try.
The current major news outlets are only a combination of 5 stations. Blogs on the other hand are a combination of hundreds of thousands. Now that the entry fee into the media (all media) is little more then a browser with an internet connection.
This alone won't herald any kind of revolution. It will take decades for the internet to penetrate the masses the world over but if recent events with Wikileaks is any indication; the internet at least exposes the absolute truth. Unfortunately, for anyone that puts bread on the table with this industry; this might herald the end of the commercialization of news since keeping it free will be trivial.
Ten guys @ 120k a piece who are collectively computer experts in web design, web development, front end application development, linux, windows, mac, graphics, and networking will solve 100 times more problems 20 times faster for any organization compared to 100 4 year educated drones @ 60k.
Kurzweil's comments are based on not simply an observation of the field of AI. He basis everything on the exponential nature of our innovation. Every decade it takes a hundredth (or less) of the time to do a task it took 1 year to do 10 years ago.
The kids who started with the internet and are used to social networks and swarm-like style of learning and teaching are only now reaching adult hood. Expect some interesting stuff in the next two decades. The scientists of today got nothing on the next generation. The brain is just another machine. It just happens to have a lot of tiny parts. It's likely we'll know all of them within 15 years.
The FBI hacked into an email service which happened to have the emails of one person they were investigating. Since in this type of attack you would simply hack into a service rather then the one account specifically, it gave access to the network.
Since the code design is reused for every account it's not like they can ever control such a thing. While technically the internet is simply facilitating communication the run away effect of improvement of software should take place. This is happening but security is usually slower to catch up. Expect these stories to fade out as organizations get more and more secure.
We are after all talking about simply a hack job..... it's not always possible to hack a target. Many people forget this, unfortunately.
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They probably have an alternative means to an end..... YouTube can deliver the video in a different format.
A lot of people will construe this as simply Apple trying to control media on the Iphone which although it does make sense that people would think this way, it's definitely not true.
Flash is optimized for windows. It has no where near the right optimization to run on OSX at full speed. Further compounding the issue is that the CPU must do all the decoding work where on a proper player the decoding could partially be offloaded to a GPU (in a full PC), or optimized CPU with support for certain optimized instruction sets.
IE8 = All the features of FF2
:P
FF3 = Beta 3, Beta 4 coming out within 2 weeks. Release before summer.
IE8 = Beta 1.... won't be in RC till summer.
Get your facts right before talking next time.
where's the business plan? AOL is still a company. They gotta make money somehow...
I think they should do what Microsoft is doing and what Google is doing very well with their Google apps built in IM system which is to create a communications platform for businesses to allow for communication.
There's definitely a lot of room for profit but the first thing they gotta do is get some trust back. They lost quite a bit of it when they cashed out on their ISP customers.
(This is gonna go all over the place but bear with me.)
;)
A big problem I see today is not a lack of students attempting to get into the industry but a lack of qualified teachers who know not only the topic but also how to convey the ideas and thinking required to push people to really understand what their being tought as opposed to simply studying for the test or doing the labs till they are done.
The biggest problem I see myself at the University I attend (Temple University, Philadelphia) is that the math while pretty important in a CS degree is pretty much useless in an IS&T degree, yet we are still required to take Calculus, Statistics, and Logic. Because of this inconsistency we have a high abandonment percentage from CS to IS&T. Further compounding the problem is a lack of teachers who can actually teach well. Many of them can't even speak English well enough for the majority of students to understand. Now I'm an immigrant to the US myself (came from Ukraine when I was 6 yrs old), I speak fluent Russian, but if my teacher is teaching in English and he can't speak well enough he should not be teaching.
An top of all of this, the technologies being tought resemble the tech industry in the late 90's, not the late 00's. Almost all of the faculty leans towards Linux but when it comes to the actual curriculum, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, Java, and MS-SQL. All tools in the programmer's toolbox have their place, including Microsoft ones but can we please have some diversity and common sense? Teach whatever is most in demand in the industry. Not simply what has always been in the curriculum. I'm glad to say that some of the faculty is listening and I'll be teaching a seminar on PHP & AJAX w/ Prototype in April.
What does all this essentially mean?
I see the talented and smart professionals in our industry continually go out of school and move on giving nothing back to the educational community. This essentially means a brain drain in our universities being caused by talent simply being hired off and who teaches the next generation? The same old mid-range people.
Granted I'm talking about a pretty weak university in the grand scheme of things but it's the middle and bottom universities that form the bulk of the work industry in the world. Not the Harvards, MITs, and Stanfords.
By wasting their time on these so called "features" they are falling more and more behind Firefox.
Firefox 3 now supports Animated PNGs, CSS3, and AJAX File Uploads. IE8 is playing catch up to 2 years ago and still isn't making any headway.
They need to stop wasting time with useless features, hunker down, and start pushing out standards compliant code.
This is unacceptable and will continue to erode on their market share as user's reasons for staying with IE wither away as they continue to do so.
...welcome our modular satellite overlords.
Or I could use a bootdisk with a password hash file modifier...
Does TCP/IP even support a 30 minute latency?
On the flip side, by having mass warnings it will be easy to figure out which techniques are undetectable and which aren't. We're actually very close to a totally secure protocol from TPB & various researches.
See:
http://securep2p.net/index.php/Tracker_Design
http://securep2p.org/index.php?title=MultiSource
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/nsdi2007-set/
The Internet is a tool, as you say. However the philosophy of using it as a physical object like a knife or a roadside bomb is fear mongering. The reason is because the Internet is only a means to connect computers together. For this reason as long as the "target" of the "attacker" has no physical means to an end then any attack done on you will be futile.
/sarcasm
The kinds of attacks that people can do on others are,
1) Information Gathering (Top Secret Documents, Financial Information) [Effects negatively: Civil Government,Military,Business, and Industry]
2) Modification of Control Systems that Effect Infrastructure (Transportation,Power,Water,Gas,Internet Access) [Effects: Entire Country & Allied Nations]
It's amazing but those two things can be prevented by only one thing: Proper Security.
Just like... OMG DOORS & LOCKS!
Hehe, yes indeed the solution is simple but here's unfortunately the problem.
The Internet as a function is becoming like a separate meta society on the current "real world" society. Because of that security isn't 'obvious' to us. A few dozen thousand guys around the world know it but it's no where near the amount of people who find it "obvious" to lock their door at night. For this reason it's possible that certain governments have hacker groups with setup backdoors on infrastructure so if a war does occur they can first turn off those utilities then attack during the subsequent outages.
Imagine the entire country having no power during an invasion but it happens from inside out so we don't even see them coming. It's like a spy without the spy.
We basically just need to secure out top level networks and make it a priority of the government to create a Cybersecurity task force as a separate agency. The military doesn't know wtf it's doing. Especially not some general used to blowing shit up.
We can finally apply the lessons of an assembly line to satellites! It only took 50 years...
Adobe,
Please fix Flash uploads in Flash for *nix.
Actually, yes and it's happening! Just Google it, there's been a few stories on it already.
What makes you think all bots are Windows?
Not all Admins are you. Some of us actually know how to keep a Windows machine secure. Ignorance of the facts isn't an excuse.
Any machine Linux or Windows will be exploited and gang raped if it's not regularly updated and kept clean with the permissions system.
Yea cause bots can't invite themselves.... lol
sha1( (md5(string) + md5(5 char random salt)) ) That's all you will ever need ;)
Personally, I learned PHP over the years by creating simple web applications for various tasks and eventually because the web applications required more and more as they got more complex I was able to slowly and methodically work my way into a private framework I coded myself.
This book, like many other skips over this whole learning process. To really teach a language, any language, you have to explain why you do things as well as the goals.
I also don't like the fact that many PHP books attempt to half ass the teaching of installing LAMP on a LAN server location (localhost or otherwise). They should simply recommend some good hosts and explain the PHP.INI settings that might be of interest as they come up in the programming itself.
The beginning of the end for ISPs.
The internet will eventually become a self propagating mesh network. (Case and point: One laptop per child)
I have read a lot of the comments here saying stuff akin to "Well he broke company policy so he deserved it" but that is not what he is arguing. In fact he doesn't care. The fact that he took his punishment and learned from it is a prime example of Civil Disobedience.
He elaborates in his well written blog post that the blogging community (which has only been around for maybe half a decade) is going to continue to grow on the internet and overtake the "major" news organizations. If you look at the road-to-entry for television and you compare it to blogging, you know this is true. You're not likely to ever create your own cable television channel but to setup a blog it takes little more then 10 minutes and it will automatically be indexed in search engines without you ever having to try.
The current major news outlets are only a combination of 5 stations. Blogs on the other hand are a combination of hundreds of thousands. Now that the entry fee into the media (all media) is little more then a browser with an internet connection.
This alone won't herald any kind of revolution. It will take decades for the internet to penetrate the masses the world over but if recent events with Wikileaks is any indication; the internet at least exposes the absolute truth. Unfortunately, for anyone that puts bread on the table with this industry; this might herald the end of the commercialization of news since keeping it free will be trivial.
Honestly guys..... perception of price? You're retarded.
Flamebait? K, just know this.
When you make something intuitively easier to use for most of the ways people wanna use a computer, they will come, they will come in droves.
Stop talking, get to coding. It's open source, right?
The Linux community needs to: STEP UP!
You guys bitch and moan but the majority of you don't attempt to fix the problem because you give up before the fight starts!
Ten guys @ 120k a piece who are collectively computer experts in web design, web development, front end application development, linux, windows, mac, graphics, and networking will solve 100 times more problems 20 times faster for any organization compared to 100 4 year educated drones @ 60k.
;)
Truth....hurts.
Kurzweil's comments are based on not simply an observation of the field of AI. He basis everything on the exponential nature of our innovation. Every decade it takes a hundredth (or less) of the time to do a task it took 1 year to do 10 years ago.
The kids who started with the internet and are used to social networks and swarm-like style of learning and teaching are only now reaching adult hood. Expect some interesting stuff in the next two decades. The scientists of today got nothing on the next generation. The brain is just another machine. It just happens to have a lot of tiny parts. It's likely we'll know all of them within 15 years.
Proof of possibility: you.
Brain works on electricity. We know this. We can of course emulate that behavior.
The FBI hacked into an email service which happened to have the emails of one person they were investigating. Since in this type of attack you would simply hack into a service rather then the one account specifically, it gave access to the network.
Since the code design is reused for every account it's not like they can ever control such a thing. While technically the internet is simply facilitating communication the run away effect of improvement of software should take place. This is happening but security is usually slower to catch up. Expect these stories to fade out as organizations get more and more secure.
We are after all talking about simply a hack job..... it's not always possible to hack a target. Many people forget this, unfortunately.