That would be great. Then I could turn off any camcorder by displaying the watermark somehow. Depending on how they implemented it, it could maybe be as easy as a printout of a particular frame of the movie. Then I could just wander around disney land and crashing weddings ruining peoples home videos.
unless the guy had child pornography as his wallpaper, the techs had to actively go looking for it
Not necessarily.
A: They need the driver for the dvd drive and open up his browser, go to google, type "S" to search for 'Sony DVD rom Driver' and the auto complete history pops up 100 variations on 'sex with kids'.
B: They want to test the DVD drive so they fire up Roxio Bloatware Creator and figure the easiest thing to do is to burn a picture dvd, since there may not be music or video but there are images on every computer. At this point they discover that My Pictures is full of 10 gigs of nasty.
Of course I will admit since these are probably high-school or college aged 'experts' just working for beer money, there is a possibility that they get bored and pore through every hard drive that crosses their workbench. You can't necessarily assume they were intentionally being nosey, though.
Isn't this the sort of thing that a google search appliance would be helpful for?
Then you don't need to know the exact filename, just some specific information that can identify the file.
This certainly solved my problem with having thousands of emails.
My opinion is suggesting someone work at McDonalds, which is virtually impossible for an american citizen, is about as cold hearted as suggesting someone work at a call center, which is virtually impossible for an american citizen, more or less for the same business reasons.
I've worked at both McDonalds and a call center, and I'm an American citizen.
I think your definition of "virtual impossibility" is similar to VAserve's definition of "virtual machine security".
Gas mileage not calculated over at least an entire tank isn't really useful.
My motorcycle (KLE650) gets around 55mpg average, but if I calculate the instantaneous MPG I get whilst pushing it down to the street in the morning I'd get a divide by zero error.
Mod parent up.
I think the slashdot crowd is so used to talking about monopolistic markets they've forgotten how most commodity markets with actual competition work.
I think that ratio alone isn't really any grounds for investigation.
2000/50 = 40
You can go to Radioshack and pay 30 bucks for a USB cable that cost $0.75 to shoot out of a machine.
30/.75 = 40 It's the fraud and coercion and other misdeeds mentioned here which should be raising the red flags at various federal and state law enforcement agencies.
Radioshack doesn't claim magical powers for their USB cables. They save that for the HDMI cables.
The singular possessive thing is a bit of a pain. Fortunately, some of us have at least solved the plural second-person problem, we're just waiting for the rest of y'all to catch up.
Some carriers in the US use GSM, and some use CDMA. The phones physically can't operate on all networks, except in a few rare and expensive cases.
I think all US carriers are crooks (with the slight exception of T-Mobile), but I'm more concerned with pricing and features than whether a network carrier to which I don't subscribe lets me connect to their network for free.
"should work on the iPhone but the bug couldn't (be) used twice in the competition."
So the iPhone should be quite vulnerable, but wasn't compromised because it wouldn't have been eligible for the award since it was the same exploit used against OS X in the first day.
Since we're getting into semantics, an AC unit actually removes moisture from the air. That's why it is called a Air Conditioner, not an Air Cooler. The cooling effect is just a byproduct of the moisture removal.
Not really... Not even remotely. An evaporative cooler (swamp cooler) works by adding moisture to the air which I guess is at least perpendicular to what you are saying, but an air conditioner really does cool one element on the inside and heat another element on the outside, both having air circulated over them.
I just don't understand what we are supposed to use when I see comments like yours about a new technology that is better then the current. Gotta start somewhere no?
(emphasis added) How can you say it is better than the current, if it all going into a junkyard or landfill 10 years from now?
Without knowing the answer to the GPs question, you can't.
We've already 'started somewhere', it would be smart to make sure the next step is an improvement and not a step in the wrong direction (not saying that this is, but just assuming $FAVORITEGREENPOWER is better without examining it is foolhardy).
More of a technical contradiction, although by the same virtue which makes any DRM a contradiction. If you give someone the lock, and the key, how do you keep them from unlocking it themselves?
People make it sound like they went out of their way to destroy Netscape. I don't think that was the case at all, because what would they gain from it? Windows was already dominant with no other competition in sight, and they didn't sell IE. The more likely answer is they went to make a better experience for their users, and Netscape being ruined was an unfortunate side effect that frankly, didn't matter one way or another to them
They don't sell IE, they sell IIS, and other web technology which is "Designed for Internet Explorer". Netscape sold their own web server. In the 90s Netscape was the dominant browser, and consequently sold a lot of webserver software as well. Then IE becomes an immovable object and netscape discovers that they are not an unstoppable force. Everyone who buys a new computer is using IE and companies that want their pages to display correctly dump netscape's web server and move to IIS and the whole microsoft stack, microsoft sells lots of NT servers, SQL servers, Visual Studio licenses, buys various yachts and congressmen, and here we are today.
The point is that MS doesn't use the ubiquity of notepad to push licenses of MS.TXT File Server or something like that. They don't break.txt file interoperability to shut out competitors.
They do do this sort of thing with IE.
I agree the solution of bundling different browsers doesn't make much sense. I think that a much better approach would be promoting standards compliant web pages and browsers. I'd like to see the EU and the US Feds requiring it for anything that gets any government funding.
Netbooks have been much more successful than tablets.
I believe that a significant part of the failure of Vista to gain widespread acceptance is due to the fact that it isn't offered on netbooks.
This wall wart won't kill servers any more than netbooks will kill Laptops, but they both offer a radically new approach in price and size. I think that's what tfsummary is trying to say.
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It's all optical, from 200 nm to 2000 nm.
Is the joke the fact that the probability of an H-D motor running is close to 0?
That would be great.
Then I could turn off any camcorder by displaying the watermark somehow. Depending on how they implemented it, it could maybe be as easy as a printout of a particular frame of the movie.
Then I could just wander around disney land and crashing weddings ruining peoples home videos.
unless the guy had child pornography as his wallpaper, the techs had to actively go looking for it
Not necessarily.
A: They need the driver for the dvd drive and open up his browser, go to google, type "S" to search for 'Sony DVD rom Driver' and the auto complete history pops up 100 variations on 'sex with kids'.
B: They want to test the DVD drive so they fire up Roxio Bloatware Creator and figure the easiest thing to do is to burn a picture dvd, since there may not be music or video but there are images on every computer. At this point they discover that My Pictures is full of 10 gigs of nasty.
Of course I will admit since these are probably high-school or college aged 'experts' just working for beer money, there is a possibility that they get bored and pore through every hard drive that crosses their workbench.
You can't necessarily assume they were intentionally being nosey, though.
Isn't this the sort of thing that a google search appliance would be helpful for? Then you don't need to know the exact filename, just some specific information that can identify the file. This certainly solved my problem with having thousands of emails.
My opinion is suggesting someone work at McDonalds, which is virtually impossible for an american citizen, is about as cold hearted as suggesting someone work at a call center, which is virtually impossible for an american citizen, more or less for the same business reasons.
I've worked at both McDonalds and a call center, and I'm an American citizen.
I think your definition of "virtual impossibility" is similar to VAserve's definition of "virtual machine security".
sudo mod parent up
My motorcycle (KLE650) gets around 55mpg average, but if I calculate the instantaneous MPG I get whilst pushing it down to the street in the morning I'd get a divide by zero error.
Mod parent up.
I think the slashdot crowd is so used to talking about monopolistic markets they've forgotten how most commodity markets with actual competition work.
Our current level of understanding and experience with neurobiology precludes brain transplants, which in turn precludes eye transplants.
This is backwards. You're saying that because we don't have the tools to replace the engine, we can't replace the spark plugs.
Car analogy to the rescue.
2000/50 = 40
You can go to Radioshack and pay 30 bucks for a USB cable that cost $0.75 to shoot out of a machine.
30/.75 = 40
It's the fraud and coercion and other misdeeds mentioned here which should be raising the red flags at various federal and state law enforcement agencies.
Radioshack doesn't claim magical powers for their USB cables.
They save that for the HDMI cables.
'Their' is plural.
It does sound better, though.
The singular possessive thing is a bit of a pain.
Fortunately, some of us have at least solved the plural second-person problem, we're just waiting for the rest of y'all to catch up.
Some carriers in the US use GSM, and some use CDMA.
The phones physically can't operate on all networks, except in a few rare and expensive cases.
I think all US carriers are crooks (with the slight exception of T-Mobile), but I'm more concerned with pricing and features than whether a network carrier to which I don't subscribe lets me connect to their network for free.
So do politicians.
A vote makes you a constituent, but a huge donation makes you a client.
"should work on the iPhone but the bug couldn't (be) used twice in the competition."
So the iPhone should be quite vulnerable, but wasn't compromised because it wouldn't have been eligible for the award since it was the same exploit used against OS X in the first day.
Since we're getting into semantics, an AC unit actually removes moisture from the air. That's why it is called a Air Conditioner, not an Air Cooler. The cooling effect is just a byproduct of the moisture removal.
Not really...
Not even remotely.
An evaporative cooler (swamp cooler) works by adding moisture to the air which I guess is at least perpendicular to what you are saying, but an air conditioner really does cool one element on the inside and heat another element on the outside, both having air circulated over them.
I just don't understand what we are supposed to use when I see comments like yours about a new technology that is better then the current. Gotta start somewhere no?
(emphasis added)
How can you say it is better than the current, if it all going into a junkyard or landfill 10 years from now?
Without knowing the answer to the GPs question, you can't.
We've already 'started somewhere', it would be smart to make sure the next step is an improvement and not a step in the wrong direction (not saying that this is, but just assuming $FAVORITEGREENPOWER is better without examining it is foolhardy).
I imagine there are still legacy applications for solaris but not compiled for x86 that would be made migrate-able by this.
Or the Power6 thing.
I wish you a better day.
See, now you're emasculating your own argument.
The proper closing is:
"I hope you die in a fire."
Skills.Suggestion.doTheSend()
Priceless. 'send()' would have been a boring name for that function.
First Hosea wins Top Chef instead of an actual chef, and now this.
I hate Colorado now.
I think the fact that you reopened it every time hints at the reason why...
More of a technical contradiction, although by the same virtue which makes any DRM a contradiction.
If you give someone the lock, and the key, how do you keep them from unlocking it themselves?
People make it sound like they went out of their way to destroy Netscape. I don't think that was the case at all, because what would they gain from it? Windows was already dominant with no other competition in sight, and they didn't sell IE. The more likely answer is they went to make a better experience for their users, and Netscape being ruined was an unfortunate side effect that frankly, didn't matter one way or another to them
They don't sell IE, they sell IIS, and other web technology which is "Designed for Internet Explorer".
Netscape sold their own web server. In the 90s Netscape was the dominant browser, and consequently sold a lot of webserver software as well.
Then IE becomes an immovable object and netscape discovers that they are not an unstoppable force.
Everyone who buys a new computer is using IE and companies that want their pages to display correctly dump netscape's web server and move to IIS and the whole microsoft stack, microsoft sells lots of NT servers, SQL servers, Visual Studio licenses, buys various yachts and congressmen, and here we are today.
They don't break
They do do this sort of thing with IE.
I agree the solution of bundling different browsers doesn't make much sense. I think that a much better approach would be promoting standards compliant web pages and browsers.
I'd like to see the EU and the US Feds requiring it for anything that gets any government funding.
I believe that a significant part of the failure of Vista to gain widespread acceptance is due to the fact that it isn't offered on netbooks.
This wall wart won't kill servers any more than netbooks will kill Laptops, but they both offer a radically new approach in price and size. I think that's what tfsummary is trying to say.